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 Lusitania sunk in World War I; Nazi Germany signs surrender in World War II; Vietnam’s Battle of Dien Bien Phu; Composer Peter Illych Tchaikovsky born; Glenn Miller records ‘Chattanooga Choo-Choo.’
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
Supreme Court says Justice Ginsburg out of hospital
Justices wary of ‘Obamacare’ birth control coverage changes
New campus sexual assault rules bolster rights of accused
Agency finds private border wall violates Rio Grande treaty
US sees 1st detained immigrant death from coronavirus
Frontier criticized for fee to ensure more space on planes
`If this thing boomerangs’: Second wave of infections feared
Alaska faces more summer cruise ship cancellations
Israeli Supreme Court: Netanyahu may form government
3 Russian doctors fall from hospital windows during pandemic
Virus outbreak in India market could cause cases to snowball
Virus could set back tuberculosis fight by several years
Polish ruling coalition postpones Sunday presidential vote
Germany relaxes more virus rules, but with fallback clause
EU aims to reassure Balkans with virus aid, economic support
Spain averts political crisis, extends virus lockdown
Italy nursing home ravaged by virus discloses 300 dead
Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth, hints of more
Liberian girl’s song about COVID-19 being played on radio
Breakfast Blogs
Two Former Republican Consultants Jumped Into the Medical-Supply Game With Predictable Results Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Lindsey Graham and Ric Grenell Release a Document Suggesting Flynn Didn’t Fully Disclose His Foreign Contacts emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Jail Couldn’t Silence The Music Of Albany In 1961 And A Voluntary Lockdown Won’t Silence Them Now Jim White, emptywheel
The Pandemic And The Deconstruction Of The Administrative State. Or Did Stephen Bannon Get His Way? Echidne, at her blog
Looks like Trump cultists are going to be the only customers for the big “re-opening” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Trump’s disaster of a disaster Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The Republic of Facebook David Kaye, Just Security
Immigration Update: Ninth Circuit Rules Against Trump Ban on Uninsured Peter Margulies, Lawfare
There’s that moderating influence again Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Unnatural Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Blast from the Past Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Republican Lifeboat Factory Never Closes driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Elegy For the War Dead Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Directions to Damnation: Donald Trump’s Deranged Interview with ABC The Rude Pundit, at his blog
SURELY IT’S UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT TRUMP TO DO HIS JOB! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump Calls Dead Americans A Blue State Scam To Get Government Cheese Liz Dye, Wonkette
Jim Bakker Claims Not Letting Him Sell Silver Poison Violates His Religious Freedom Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Dr. Rick Bright’s Whistleblower Complaint On Trump’s F*cked HHS Coronavirus Response Will Leave You SHOOK Evan Hurst, Wonkette
They Lynched Ahmaud Arbery In Georgia. A Prosecutor Convicted *Him*. Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Florida Makes Early Coronavirus Data Disappear Right Before Our Very Eyes Doktor Zoom, Wonkette