The Breakfast Club (Too Great A Burden)

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.

Coretta Scott King

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

Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy’s LombardyMany failures combined to unleash death on Italy’s Lombardy

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