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
My Lai Massacre in Vietnam; Terry Anderson abducted; First successful liquid-fuel rocket launch; Jerry Lewis born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Breakfast News
US moves nearer to shutdown amid coronavirus fears
Stock futures sink after rate cut, new virus restrictions
Business Fallout: Walmart limits hours, airlines cut flying
Hospitals fear any surge of virus cases, supply shortages
New York City schools to close Monday to fight coronavirus
Illinois shuts down bars, restaurants due to coronavirus
Norwegian musher takes lead in Iditarod as finish nears
Happy 200th birthday to Maine, but virus zaps the party
Daily life near a standstill as nations try to halt pandemic
Virus voting: France holds local elections despite fears
UK eyes plan to have over-70s isolate from virus for months
Israel takes step toward monitoring phones of virus patients
Netanyahu rival Gantz chosen to form new Israeli government
Syrian war, rumbling into 10th year, still has global impact
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s Coronavirus Presser Was an In-Kind Contribution to Joe Biden’s Campaign Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump’s Customs And Border Protection Just Created Hundreds Of New COVID-19 Superspreaders Jim White, emptywheel
Meanwhile, Over at Foggy Bottom Peterr, emptywheel
Trouble with the curve digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Life in lockdown Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Highlights of Expert Panel on COVID-19 from Harvard, MIT, Mass General Hospital Dr. Melissa Bender, Just Security
Right-Wing Extremists’ New Weapon Eric Woods, Lawfare
What Does the Republican Death Cult Learn from Mass Death? How to Cause More Mass Death! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
From all this you’d imagine that there must be something learned Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Epitaph for America: “I’ll Do What I Want” Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump Vs. the Virus Is Really Trump Vs. Us The Rude Pundits, at his blog
Literary Corner: Disquieting Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
“NEVER APOLOGIZE, NEVER EXPLAIN” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog