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 FDA approves the first birth control pill; FCC chief Newton Minow condemns TV programming; Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole; Journalist Mike Wallace and singer Billy Joel born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
House Democrats ask 5 companies to return coronavirus aid
Arkansas venue plans concert despite state’s virus limits
Focus on nursing home workers amid continued virus outbreaks
Lawyers: Investigators recommend whistleblower is reinstated
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
What’s that behind you? On virus-era TV, home backdrops star
Program that collects devices for COVID-19 patients expands
Malawi’s Supreme Court rules new presidential polls in July
Milan mayor lashes out at revelers breaking virus rules
Swiss plan to ask diners for contacts dropped over privacy
Amid pandemic, the world’s working poor hustle to survive
Virus could ‘smolder’ in Africa, cause many deaths, says WHO
Czech-Russian relations plunge amid differences over history
Asia Today: SKorea advises clubs to close, may delay schools
Veterans left in limbo as virus hits Nazi defeat anniversary
Volunteers put faces to names of Americans in WWII cemetery
Breakfast Blogs
I Miss Being a Citizen of an Actual Representative Democracy Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Judge Sullivan Has Already Rejected Most of Timothy Shea’s DOJ Flynn Pardon emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Damning New Details from Mary McCord and Sally Yates emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Cops didn’t enforce law on anti-lockdown protesters, COVID-19 spread Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo
With liberty and justice for some Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Emergency Powers in the Time of Coronavirus…and Beyond Oren Gross, Just Security
The Justice Department’s Faulty Arguments in the Flynn Case Robert S. Litt, Lawfare
COVID-19 and the Racial Contract Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I needed money ’cause I had none Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Pelosi and Automatic Stabilizers Steven Attwell, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Guardian Gets It Right and Wrong and Backwards driftglass, at his blog
Out Like Flynn Revisited Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
HE’S GOING TO TEST POSITIVE, ISN’T HE? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Sorry, Bill Barr, We Will Never Not Think Of Michael Flynn As A Twice-Confessed Criminal. Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Jim Bakker Had A Stroke (Allegedly) And It’s YOUR FAULT (Allegedly) Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Dennis Prager So Mad Minorities Rejected All The VERY NICE NAMES White People Gave Them Steven Robinson, Wonkette
US Unemployment Now Nearly As Bad As GOP Said It Was Under Obama Doktor Zoom, Wonkette