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
NATO launches airstrikes over Yugoslavia; Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska; Elvis Presley inducted into US Army; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
Breakfast News
Testing blunders crippled US response as coronavirus spread
PG&E to plead guilty to lethal crimes in 2018 wildfires
Governors urge feds for more funding, testing, equipment
Online posts falsely claim census response will lead to cash
Texas moves to ban most abortions due to virus outbreak
Mormons chided for airport welcoming of missionaries
West Virginia governor rambles, mixes messages on virus
Boeing to suspend production in Seattle because of virus
Rhode Island pushes April presidential primary to June
Virus fuels calls for sanctions relief on Iran, Venezuela
Ontario and Quebec to close all non-essential businesses
‘Stay at home’: UK’s Johnson ramps up response to virus
South Africa to go into nationwide lockdown from Thursday
US slashes aid to Afghanistan after Pompeo visit to Kabul
Italy records smaller increase in virus cases for 2nd day
Breakfast Blogs
Maybe Don’t Give William Barr the Power to Take a Chainsaw to Habeas Corpus During a Pandemic Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Considers Getting Hospitals Ventilators Nationalization But a Bailout for Him and His Rich Buddies Necessity emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
They are talking about killing millions digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Making “nothing” personal Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Chairman of House Rules Committee Issues Report on Remote Voting Margaret Taylor, Lawfare
If COVID-19 is our first taste of international cooperation after American hegemony, we’re in real trouble Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
President Big Baby is getting very cranky Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Radical Outliers Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
If you want to feel some people have a worse grasp on this than you, ask a libertarian Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
A MASS MORAL FAILING, REPORTED AS GOSSIP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Republicans Add Opportunistic Infection To Coronavirus Relief Bill Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Please Don’t Stick a Hairdryer up Your Nose, And Other Things That Should Go Without Saying Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
President Crankypants Getting His Coronavirus Briefings From Fox News Again Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Rita Wilson Is The Mack Daddy Momma Mack We Need Right Now Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Get Well Soon, Rand Paul, You Unmitigated Dick! Liz Dye, Wonkette