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
President Lyndon Johnson announces that he isn’t running for re-election; Flag first unfurled on top of Eiffel Tower; Terry Schiavo dies; Oklahoma debuts on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
Breakfast News
Judges slow abortion bans in Texas, Ohio, Alabama amid virus
New Trump mileage standards to gut Obama climate effort
Florida officials seek arrest for pastor that violated rules
Liberty University: We’re complying with virus-related ban
Trump administration rules gun shops ‘essential’ amid virus
Yellowstone slaughters wild bison to shrink park’s herds
NCAA to give spring sport athletes extra year of eligibility
Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine
China state media reports 19 people killed in forest fire
Moscow goes into lockdown, rest of Russia braces for same
Fearing Gaza virus spread, Hamas preps for mass quarantines
North Korea says US clearly doesn’t want nuclear talks
Van Gogh painting stolen from Dutch museum closed by virus
Breakfast Blogs
Why Does This Administration* Have Its Grubby Fingerprints on a Casino Controversy in Massachusetts? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
On Trump’s Assertion That Masks Are Stolen In Hospitals. The Games He Plays. Echidne, at her blog
They cut the budget for the national stockpile. THIS FEBRUARY. digby asa Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Getting it right Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Media’s taboo topic: Why’s Trump doing this? Eric Boelert, Press Run
A plague of libertarians Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Budapest Dreams Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Rick Wilson is a Man of Many Opinions driftglass, at his blog
Plague Eating Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
ANOTHER POLL HAS GOOD APPROVAL NUMBERS FOR TRUMP AND TERRIBLE REELECTION NUMBERS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Even These Trump Admin Folks Wanted To Prosecute Walmart For Knowingly Filling Pill Mill Scrips Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Ron Johnson Will Lick This Pandemic With Prodigious Googling, Whataboutism, And Midwestern CAN DO! Liz Dye, Wonkette
Fox News Idiots Not Sure People Even In Hospital With Coronavirus, SAYS WHO? Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Instacart Workers On Strike EVEN THOUGH Company Agreed To Give Them … Hand Sanitizer Robyn Penacchia, Wonkette
Oops, Some Folks Got Left Out Of The Stimulus! Don’t Worry, They Aren’t Airlines Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Nice Time (ON OPPOSITE DAY) Coronavirus Quick Bites For March 30, 2020 Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker