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
President and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant born; Explorer Ferdinand Magellan killed; U.S. Marines attack North Africa during the First Barbary War; Ailing baseball star Babe Ruth honored.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Breakfast News
Census delay could put off new voting districts, primaries
Pandemic complicates counting of refugees in census
Cuomo: Virus deaths drop below 400 for 1st time this month
Average US gas price drops 9 cents over 2 weeks to $1.93
Florida authorities warn of road rage among mating gators
Hospital ship offloads few remaining patients before NY exit
Mayor imposes curfew, then entertains fellow bored residents
The Latest: South Korea mulls reopening schools
Boris Johnson returns to face growing virus divisions in UK
Virus lockdown raises tensions in France’s poorest areas
“Green light! Ants!” Spain’s kids get freedom from lockdown
US church faces neglect allegations after Haiti child deaths
Thousands demonstrate against Israeli coalition deal
Belarus holds day of civic labor despite rising virus cases By YURAS KARMANAUApril 25, 2020
Dutch students complete Atlantic crossing forced by virus
Breakfast Blogs
We’re Back in The Jungle Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Poltics
Judge Sullivan Already Ruled that Mike Flynn’s David Ignatius Story Doesn’t Help Him emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Digging Through The Science—And The Noise—On What Is Known About The Origin Of SARS CoV-2 Jim White, emptywheel
Research Misinfo/Disinfo: Ain’t No Sunshine Kill COVID-19 Gone Rayne, emptywheel
Irrelevant America digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Solve one problem. Then the next. Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Remembering the Montgomery Ward Seizure: FDR and War Production Powers Matthew Waxman and Samuel Weitzman, Lawfare
Unchallenged Scott Lemieux. Lawyers, Guns and Money
How Your Disaster Capitalism Fueled Union Busting Sausage Gets Made Efik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
That Big, Box-Turtle Ben Domenech/Bret Bug Stephens Convergence… driftglass, at his blog
With the Happiness Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
YOUR RIGHT-WING RELATIVES HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE MEASURE FLU DEATHS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Arizona Race For Senate Still A Few Months From Full Batsh*t Status Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Bret Stephens Bravely Speaks For The Forgotten Man Who’s In A Hurry To Catch COVID-19 Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Right-Wing ‘Boogaloo Boys’ Spend Pandemic On Facebook, Plotting To Kill Us All In A Civil War Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette