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