Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. 146 people were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York. Aretha Franklin, Elton John born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
Charities face growing need in pandemic without volunteers
‘A bullet train’: Virus peak may come soon, swamp hospitals
Potential coronavirus treatment granted rare disease status
Virus outbreak halts damaged Wisconsin refinery rebuilding
‘Imaginary clock’: Governors reject Trump’s virus timeline
Mayor: Liberty U. ‘reckless’ to let students back amid virus
Parks officials answer crowding with closures to fight virus
Olympics delayed as US nears a deal on $2 trillion in relief
Key medical glove factories cutting staff 50% amid virus
India’s prime minister decrees 21-day lockdown to curb virus
UK clamps down to fight virus, but confusion still reigns
Africa cases over 2,000 as South Africa rushes into lockdown
Breakfast Blogs
The Image of Mitt Romney Scarfing Ramen Noodles in His Sweatsuit Lightened My Whole Afternoon Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Can’t Turn the Economy Back on Without Overriding Executive Orders of 15 Governors emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Donald Trump Just Killed A Man. Now He Wants To Kill A Million Americans. Jim White, emptywheel
Doctors hoarding drugs based on Trump’s “feelings” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Real Christians Are Immune tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Trump’s Easter Opening Will Mean Death, Not Resurrection Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Onward, Randian soldiers Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
What the UN Security Council Can Do on Coronavirus: A Global Goods Coordination Mechanism Rob Berschinski, Just Security
Can the Federal Government Override State Government Rules on Social Distancing to Promote the Economy? Robert Chesney, Lawfare
Life begins at conception and ends at birth Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Is there any defense for Bernie Sanders’s decision to continue to campaign? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The ONE Time You Would Hope a Segregation Academy Would Actually Keep People Apart… driftglass, at his blog
TRUMP IS TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE’S WINNING Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Would You Let This Man Suspend Habeas Corpus? Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
No, The Cure Is Not Worse Than The Disease. The Disease Is Really Bad And We Don’t Have Enough Ventilators. Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Trump Will Put Americans Back To Work Over Their Nanas’ Dead Bodies Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Trump May Not Believe Doctors, But He Believes The Stupidest Man On The Internet Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Hero Trump Gets Underwear Companies To Make Masks Out Of THREE LAYERS Of Underwear! Liz Dye, Wonkette
Easter Bunny Trump Gonna Put Surprise In America’s Easter Basket! (It Is Coronavirus) Evan Hurst, Wonkette