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
Virginia Tech shooting kills 32 students and faculty; Country’s deadliest industrial accident in Texas; Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia after years of exile; Charlie Chaplin born; Prince Andrew and Duchess of York announce divorce; Rolling Stone release debut album; Michael Jordan plays last NBA game.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
US economic data reveals damage; job losses hit Trump resort
New York to require face coverings in busy public places
Navy hospital ship in Los Angeles might scale back mission
Navajo Nation extends weekend lockdowns as virus cases rise
US judge cancels permit for Keystone XL pipeline from Canada
More states finally paying $600 extra in unemployment aid
California to give cash payments to immigrants hurt by virus
China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days
France urging top powers to endorse UN virus cease-fire call
Virus choking off supply of what Africa needs most: Food
Guatemala expands testing of deportees arriving from US
Germany plans cautious 1st steps to restart public life
A year after blaze, Notre Dame restoration halted by virus
Breakfast Blogs
Will the Supreme Court’s Federalist Society Five Abandon Their Devotion to…Federalism? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
WaPo Should Go to Columbus To Find Out How Economy Will Reopen, Not Perpetuate Trump’s Myths about It emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Research Misinfo/Disinfo: Off-Label COVID-19 Therapy Has No Proof Rayne, emptywheel
Why Is The Battelle N95 Mask Sterilization Contract So Expensive? Jim White, emptywheel
The inevitable wingnut tantrum arrives digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor COVID’s bite Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
An Abuse of Presidential Authority and American Power: Halting U.S. Funding for the World Health Organization David Fidler, Just Security
The State Department Should Designate the Russian Imperial Movement as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Jon Lewis and Mary B. McCord, Lawfare
“Opening Up” Public Accommodations Nobody Wants to Use Can’t Save the Economy Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
WHO could’ve known? Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Comes Now The Chicken Farmers… driftglass, at his blog
How Socialists Vote Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
NO COMPETENCE, PLEASE, WE’RE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE Steve M., No Mister Nice Blog
Blue States Hide PPE Shipments So Trump Thugs Won’t Steal … Err, CONFISCATE Them For National Stockpile Liz Dye, Wonkette
Black GA Dem Endorses Donald Trump From Alternate Reality Where That Makes Sense Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Trump Announces Plan To Give Coronavirus To WAY MORE Non-US-Americans! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Convicted Felon Jim Bakker’s Magic Silver Drink Cured Him Of Being Able To Take Credit Card Payments Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Trump’s Name Going On Stimulus Checks. Now Put It On Ventilators, Body Bags. Doktor Zoom, Wonkette