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. gives speech before assasination; Bruno Richard Hauptmann electrocuted for kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son; President Harry Truman signs Marshall plan; Jesse James shot to death; Pony Express begins service; Actor Marlon Brando born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
Navy fires captain who sought help for virus-stricken ship
States demand ventilators as feds ration limited supply
Central Park houses hospital ward as NY races to add beds
Ships with coronavirus patients dock in Florida
Judge won’t delay Wisconsin election but extends voting
US eases blood donation limits for gay men due to shortage
Record jobless claims but Dems, GOP divide over rescue bill
Fire officials save cold kitten that was stuck on a roof
In Ecuador, families wait with their dead as bodies pile up
Economic fallout mounts, worldwide cases top 1 million
Agonizing decisions being made in Spain’s virus hot spots
Extremists see global chaos from virus as an opportunity
Spanish hospital personnel must improvise in a makeshift ICU
Pakistan court overturns conviction in death of Daniel Pearl
Russia’s Putin orders non-working month to curb coronavirus
Music never dies: “Bolero” busts out of coronavirus lockdown
Breakfast Blogs
It’s Probably a Bad Sign If Your Political Success Depends on People Not Voting Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
If New York Got a Late Start, Then Trump Hasn’t Even Started Yet emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump And Southern Governors Team Up To Kill Republican Voters Jim White, emptywheel
Trump’s military has been thoroughly corrupted digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Intentional blindness kills Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The World’s Landmine Challenge Demands Presidential Action Tommy Ross, Just Security
Failson of every portfolio Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Wall Street Journal publishes op-ed on COVID-19 by climate denialists Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
For the Record: A note on passion and politics Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
NO, WE ARE NOT ALL RESTRICTIONISTS NOW Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Bush-Appointed-Judge Tells ICE: LET MY PEOPLE GO Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Nancy Pelosi Creating Committee To Watchdog Trump’s Coronavirus F*ckups, And Fox News Is MAD Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Jared Kushner’s Magical MBA Knows New York Whiners Don’t Need Thousands Of Vents Liz Dye, Wonkette
Donald Trump Would Never Tell Businesses What To Do, Except All The Time Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
How’s Your Kid’s Online Schooling Going? Well, You’re Reading This So You Have Internet Stephen Robinson, Wonkette