The Breakfast Club (Friends Like Me)

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

US launches 2003 attack on Baghdad; Televangelist Jim Bakker quits ministry due to scandal; Nevada legalizes casino gambling; Bob Dylan’s debut album is released.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.

Earl Warren

Breakfast News

What’s Happening: Trump taps powers, auto factories closing

Freddie, Fannie suspend some evictions and foreclosures

USDA to appeal ruling, seeks food stamp change amid pandemic

US Census Bureau suspends field operations on virus concerns

Stocks tumble, investors dash for cash amid recession fears

Coronavirus layoffs spark surge in state jobless claims

Endangered gray wolf population on the rise in southwest US

The show will go on. Just from their living rooms.

The Latest: Wuhan reports no new cases of virus infection

Africa should ‘prepare for the worst’ with virus, WHO says

Lack of clean water for India’s poor spawns virus concerns

Ravaged by war, Middle Eastern countries face a new scourge

Balkans fights virus amid lack of doctors, medical supplies

Best strategies against virus: Track, isolate, communicate

Canada announces massive aid package amid pandemic

Breakfast Blogs

The Push to Send Everyone a Check Is the Final Triumph of the Blog’s First Rule of Economics Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

On Ronna McDaniel’s (Still Undisclosed) Test Results emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Highlights of today’s atrocity digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Wrong man, wrong place, wrong time Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

The Hospital Deluge Is Coming. Washington Has Done Almost Nothing to Prepare. Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine

What would a rational harm reduction strategy for coronavirus look like? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Can you own the libs when the libs have already owned you? ScottLemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Dream Piece Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

DO DEMOCRATS HAVE A PLAN FOR WINNING IN NOVEMBER IF VOTERS DON’T WANT TO GO TO THE POLLS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Good Lord, Is He Going To Crash The Market Every Day With These Batsh*t Pressers? Liz Dye, Wonkette

Ding Dong, Dan Lipinski Is Gone! Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette

Right-Wing Economic Assholes Need To Self-Quarantine Their Mouths Until Pandemic Ends Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

GOP Congressman Pretty Sure God Hates Fags More Than He Hates Coronavirus Evan Hurst, Wonkette

Trump Should Watch This February Video Of Him Saying Damn Right He Fired The Pandemic Response Team Doktor Zoom, Wonkette