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
Nazi Germany’s capital Berlin falls in World War II; Artist Leonardo da Vinci dies; Civil War Gen. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson killed; Nelson Mandela claims victory in South Africa vote; Singer Bing Crosby born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Breakfast News
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US allows use of 1st drug shown to help virus recovery
NY nursing home reports 98 deaths linked to coronavirus
N. Carolina court: Middle finger didn’t warrant traffic stop
Black robes or bathrobes? Virus alters high court traditions
Anheuser-Busch wins latest round of beer wars against Molson
Women’s soccer claim of unequal pay tossed, can argue travel
NCAA’s top doctor: Testing crucial to having sports in fall
Canada bans assault-style weapons after shooting rampage
South Africa eases one of world’s strictest lockdowns
Easing of lockdown begs the question: Who’s family in Italy?
Virus surge in Brazil brings a coffin shortage, morgue chaos
Forbidden City, parks in Chinese capital reopen to public
China-Australia rift deepens over calls for virus inquiry
N Korea’s Kim Jong Un appears in public amid health rumors
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
AP PHOTOS: Global May Day celebrations muted amid lockdowns
AP PHOTOS: Virus-era glimpses of a world without humans
Breakfast Blogs
The Wildness Beneath American Politics Is Close to the Surface Once Again Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Roger Stone Prosecution Was One Step in an Ongoing Investigation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The US vs Trumplandia digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
VA to Trump, “Sir, we need more body bags.” Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Trumpian carnage Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Flynn Redux: What Those FBI Documents Really Show Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
Why the Postal Service Is Critical to National Security Geoffrey Block, Lawfare
One Last Job Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Never again is what you swore the time before Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
May 1 David Brooks And The Amazing Disappearing Republican Party: Part 1,001 driftglass, at his blog
And the grift goes on… Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
REPUBLICANISM: STILL INVISIBLE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Is This Post About Kayleigh McEnany’s Briefing, Or About Alex Jones Gonna EAT YOUR ASS? Click For Surprise! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
More Armed ‘Boogaloo’ Terrorists To Storm North Carolina Capitol Because Haircuts And Civil War Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Black Folks In Illinois Shouldn’t Flirt With COVID-19 By ‘Tipping’ Their Masks Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Jerome Corsi Emails Corona Fraud Prosecutor Instead Of Hydroxy Doc, Don’t You Hate When That Happens? Liz Dye, Wonkette
Only 3.8 Million More Americans Filed For Unemployment, So Things Are Getting A Lot Better Now Doktor Zoom, Wonkette