The Breakfast Club (Words And Ideas)

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

An aborted mission to free American hostages in Iran ends in disaster; Ireland’s ‘Easter Rising’ begins; Armenians face mass deportation during World War I; Singer Barbra Streisand born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

Breakfast News

What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

Congress meets pandemic with masked faces, heavy emotions

Virus pushes US unemployment toward highest since Depression

$310B for small business loans likely spoken for, banks say

New House panel created to track aid dollars, virus response

Stopping virus a huge challenge at crowded US meat plants

NCAA moves toward allowing athletes to be paid sponsors

NASCAR teams OK to work in N.C. shops, a key step in return

Supreme Court says Clean Water Act applies to some groundwater pollution

DC’s high school ‘makers’ fire up 3D printers to create PPE

Britain launches COVID-19 vaccine study, latest in race

Judges in MH17 trial allowed to consider anonymous testimony

Merkel calls for international cooperation against virus

EU agrees budget, recovery plan needed to beat virus impact

Greenland ready to take US aid but won’t accept conditions

Breakfast Blogs

The Evidence This Administration* Is Playing Patronage Games With Medical Supplies Is Growing Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

John Durham’s Eternal Crossfire HurriFlame emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

How Old Are Mass Killers? Echidne, at her blog

What’s keeping Trump up at night? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

“Texas on Everything” revisited Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Trump’s Coronavirus Immigration Order Is a Restriction in Search of a Rationale Peter Marguiles, Lawfare

A failed state Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Sam Alito, Anti-Anti Racist Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Socialized Risk for the Wealthy Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money

HOW ANOTHER GROUP OF CORONAVIRUS ASTROTURFERS HOPES TO DESTROY AMERICA Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Nikki Haley Showing Her Ass Again, Bless Her Heart Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Ammon Bundy Harassing Cops At Home Now, For Freedom And Coronavirus Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

Trump Administration Settles On HHS Sec Alex Azar As This Week’s Human Sacrifice Liz Dye, Wonkette

Trump Econ Adviser Stephen Moore Says ‘Space Outfits,’ F*ck It, Why Not. Evan Hurst, Wonkette