The Breakfast Club (Snake Oil)

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

The San Francisco earthquake; What becomes known as ‘Paul Revere’s ride’; A suicide bomb hits the U.S. embassy in Lebanon; Physicist Albert Einstein dies; Wayne Gretzky plays his last NHL game.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow/blockquote>

Breakfast News

What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

Layoffs and pay cuts are now striking more white collar jobs

Tribes sue over distribution of coronavirus relief funding

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Gives Some Beaches Green Light To Reopen

Detained Migrant Too Weak To Talk Forced To Call In To Court Hearing

TX Judge Forces Prison To Provide Sanitary Supplies In ‘Very Significant Win’ For Inmates

Judge Issues Restraining Order To ‘Church’ Selling Bleach As COVID-19 Cure

New wave of infections threatens to collapse Japan hospitals

Venezuela’s go-to test for fighting virus raising questions

Smoke from wildfires near Chernobyl engulfs Ukraine capital

Africa could see 300,000 coronavirus deaths this year

France finds more than 1,000 virus cases on aircraft carrier

Aid group MSF splits with partner over migrant rescues

Breakfast Blogs

The Keystone Pipeline Just Caught a Beating From a Fascinating Fish Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Liberate All Trump’s Criminals to Sustain the Lockdown emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Roger Gets Stoned by Amy Berman Jackson bmaz, emptywheel

And More Plague Thoughts. Or On The Politics of The Current Pandemic.Echidne, at her blog

Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

A glimmer Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

There is No Public Health Rationale for a Categorical Ban on Asylum Seekers Joanna Naples-Mitchell, Just Security

Election Modifications to Avoid During the COVID-19 Pandemic Michael Morley, Lawfare

A Woman to Blame Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

What will happen to big time college sports during the pandemic? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2020/04/david-brooks-return-of-crepes-of-wrath.html driftglass, at his blog

If identity politics exists it’s probably not that bad. Explain your disagreement in detail. Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

TREATMENTS COULD RE-ELECT TRUMP (BUT I’LL TAKE THEM ANYWAY) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Kelly Loeffler Knows What Socialism Is, And It Is ‘Opposing Insider Trading’ Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

Trump Loves Cops So Much Until It Is Time To Pay Them Liz Dye, Wonkette

Trump Announces Plan To Reopen America, SPOILER! There Is No F*cking Plan Evan Hurst, Wonkette

Stimulus Normal, All Fuqqed Up Doktor Zoom, Wonkette