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
Richard Nixon dies, Elian Gonzalez is seized by federal agents, the Oklahoma land rush begins and actor Jack Nicholson is born in Neptune, New Jersey.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
5 things to know today – that aren’t about the virus
Georgia businesses hesitant to embrace Kemp’s call to reopen
Trump bars new immigration green cards, not temporary visas
More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study
Virus misinformation flourishes in online protest groups
2 types of testing look for COVID-19 infections new and old
Nebraska dam had history of ice woes before fatal failure
Hospital reinstates suspended nurses who demanded masks
Hospitals, volunteers combine to ease isolation of sick kids
Virus cancels world events; divided opinions on reopening
After denial, Indonesia sees mounting coronavirus deaths
Israel’s Netanyahu notches key wins in a deal with his rival
UN food agency chief: World on brink of `a hunger pandemic’
South Africa announces $26 billion to help struggling nation
Lebanese protests, politics resume with a new, virus twist
Pandemic is dealing European tourism ‘staggering’ blow
Dutch court approves euthanasia in advanced dementia cases
Police battle uptick of unrest in locked-down Paris
Breakfast Blogs
William Barr Has Become the Hacko di Tutti Hacki of Attorneys General Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The COVID Delay Should Give Reggie Walton First Pass at the Roger Stone Unsealing emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Arrrr Matey, There Be A New Bucco In The Bay bmaz, emptywheel
Why Trump Temporarily Stopped Immigration Echidne, at her blog
The cynical play digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
American Ragnarok Tom Sullivan, Digby’s hullabaloo
The Limits of the World Health Organization Eric A. Posner, Lawfare
A Smarter Left Electoral Politics Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Old Man and the Internet Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
All Your Base Are Belong To Him driftglass, at his blog
Tweedict Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Yes Trump, Sometimes The Cure IS Worse Than The Disease! Liz Dye, Wonkette
After Mass Shooting, Canadian Government Might Ban Assault Weapons Like A Competent Government Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Senate Intel Committee Says Surprise! Russia Still Guilty As F*ck! Guess Bill Barr Will Investigate Senate Now. Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Weird How All These People Who Believe COVID-19 Is A Hoax Keep Dying Of It Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Let’s Meet Trump’s COVID-19 Testing Czar, Who Doesn’t Play Well With Others Doktor Zoom, Wonkette