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
Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated; President William Henry Harrison dies; Hank Aaron hits 714th career home run; Maya Angelou is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
A bleak US jobs report likely portends even deeper losses
Governor to seize ventilators for NYC’s overtaxed hospitals
Cleanup of US nuclear waste takes back seat as virus spreads
Wisconsin GOP says election should go on as scheduled
Zion is latest national park to close amid virus spread
Feeding the front lines, one duck confit at a time
The daily terrors: Improvising in a makeshift ICU in Spain
Vendors return in Wuhan as China prepares virus memorial
Cuban docs fighting coronavirus around world, defying US
Scramble for virus supplies strains global solidarity
Russia detains activists trying to help hospital amid virus
Poles divided over holding presidential vote during pandemic
Mosques stay open in Pakistan even as virus death toll rises
After ignoring warnings, Israeli ultra-Orthodox hit by virus
The show can’t go on: Virus halts circus in Netherlands
Breakfast Blogs
Robert Kraft Did a Good Thing. Now What Happens to Other States Without an NFL Team? Charlse P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Michigan Is Using More a Pessimistic Model than the White House emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Oh Henny Penny, Heavens to Betsy, the sky actually is falling digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Task Force FUBAR Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Outflanked 3: the Healthcare Outflankening Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today’s Science Lesson: New Tone’s Three Laws of Misdirection driftglass, at his blog
Not necessarily doing something nefarious, but how would you know? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Fuck Jared Kushner The Rude Pundit, at his blog
PRESIDENT WHO CARES ABOUT POPULARITY MORE THAN COMPETENCE TURNS TO SOMEONE WHO OFFERS HIM NEITHER Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Jobless Floridians Will Starve Because Rick Scott Spent $77 Million On A Crappy Unemployment Website Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Jared Kushner MBAsplains Coronavirus To America’s Governors. Guess We’re All Gonna Die. Liz Dye, Wonkette
‘Transformed Wife’ Hopes Coronavirus Will Make Ladies Stay Home And Bake Bread FOREVER Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Navy Captain Booted For Caring More About 4,000 Sailors’ Lives Than About Trump’s Sad F*cking Ego Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Ammon Bundy Doesn’t Find Any ‘Rona In HIS US Constitution Doktor Zoom. Wonkette