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 hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg explodes and crashes; Psychologist Sigmund Freud and actor-director Orson Welles born; Roger Bannister is the first athlete to run a mile in fewer than four minutes.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
US infection rate rising outside New York as states open up
Whistleblower: US failed to prepare, sought quick virus fix
Judge restores NY Democratic presidential primary on June 23
Texas eases underground oil storage rules, raising concerns
Facebook removes accounts linked to QAnon conspiracy theory
States with few virus cases get big share of relief aid
Where’s the beef? Production shutdown leads to shortages
Why has toilet paper run out during the pandemic?
Giant cinnamon rolls raise money, feed ‘bellies and souls’
Northeastern Brazil city is nation’s first to enter lockdown
Social distancing long routine in areas run by armed groups
UK overtakes Italy with most official virus deaths in Europe
Leading TV network goes off air under Philippine gov’t order
France’s Macron makes mask-wearing an act of national pride
Virus deaths hit hard in Spain’s shrinking rural villages
French doctors: First virus case may have been in December
Breakfast Blogs
Dr. Rick Bright’s Whistleblower Complaint Documents All Camp Runamuck’s Mal- and Non-Feasance Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
John Ratcliffe Demonstrates How He’ll Politicize Intelligence by Claiming Trump Has Been Honest about COVID-19 emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
After Years of Squealing about “FISA Abuse,” Trump’s DNI Nominee Won’t Rule Out Warrantless Wiretapping emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
“We could find ourselves very rapidly in a situation where we’re looking at severe epidemics …” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The Question All Voters Should Ask Themselves tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Read ’em and weep Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The American Way of Death Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Party is the Problem Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
More on Kushner Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
GUESS WHAT WORD IS MISSING FROM THIS OP-ED ABOUT HOW “WE” ARE RESPONDING TO THE PANDEMIC Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
What If The Supreme Court Held Arguments And Nobody Came? Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Trump Disbanding Coronavirus Task Force To Spend More Time Piling Up Corpses Evan Hurst, Wonkette
An Open Letter To Those Who Think COVID-19 Is A Nefarious Plot To Turn The US Into A Socialist Nation Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
White House Economist Predicts ZERO Deaths Next Week. So Get Back To Work, Slackers Liz Dye, Wonkette
Trump Intel Pick Ratcliffe Probably Just Following QAnon Twitter Because He’s JFK Jr Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
No One Asked These Mediocre White Guys What They Thought Of Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Pulitzer Prize Stephen Robinson, Wonkette