The Breakfast Club (Ohio)

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

Deadly shootings at Kent State during the Vietnam War; Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s prime minister; Chicago’s Haymarket Riot; ‘Freedom Riders’ head South; Birth of the outfit behind the Oscars.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Breakfast News

What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

Faced with 20,000 dead, care homes seek shield from lawsuits

NRA cutting staff and salaries amid coronavirus pandemic

Americans without bank accounts must wait for federal checks

San Francisco police chief bans ‘thin blue line’ face masks

NY joining six states to buy vital coronavirus gear in bulk

As lockdowns ease, some countries report new infection peaks

Asia Today: No new cases in N Zealand; Malaysia reopens some

Israeli high court could determine Netanyahu’s future

Cycle power: Bikes emerge as a post-lockdown commuter option

Hairstylist gives free haircuts to Thai health frontliners

Breakfast Blogs

It’s Not Unfair to Point Out Republicans Have an Acquired Partial Immunity to This Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Roger Stone Assistant Andrew Miller Fought His Subpoena Far More Aggressively than His Former Boss emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Michigan’s Militia-Like Morons Can’t Math Rayne, emptywheel

How We Talk about The Pandemic: A Slightly Different Slant Echidne, at her blog

A little dose of reality digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hhullabaloo

Feeding bodies into the furnaces Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

COVID and Cooperation: The Latest Canary in the Coal Mine Rebecca J. Wolfe and Hillary Matfess, Lawfare

Fortunate sons Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Burnishing Bush Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Theory: Pandemic and economic depression are bad for the incumbent party Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Things to Keep in Mind About the Tara Reade Allegations The Rude Pundit, at his blog

More on Kushner Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

REAGANISM: IT’S STILL NOT DEAD Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog