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
Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini killed; Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein born; Muhammad Ali refuses military induction during the Vietnam War; The first space tourist; ‘Tonight Show’ host Jay Leno born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
5 things to know today – that aren’t about the virus
Barr to prosecutors: Look for unconstitutional virus rules
As fewer people fly, rate of guns found in bags by TSA jumps
Virus leads New York to nix Democratic presidential primary
Supreme Court dodges N.Y. firearms case in defeat for gun rights advocates
Supreme Court rules Congress must pay Obamacare insurers
Federal trial opens over Florida’s felon voting law
Small business loan program restarts, runs into snags
As NY COVID-19 deaths drop, Cuomo outlines regional restarts
Masks, temperature checks mark ‘new normal’ at restaurants
Back to the pool: USA Swimming unveils tentative schedule
Firefighters, police join huge birthday parade for young boy
Brazil edges toward being next big coronavirus hot spot
Mosque’s makeshift morgue shows virus toll on UK minorities
Questions over Kim’s health highlight intelligence limits
Netanyahu ‘confident’ US will support West Bank annexation
UK says it won’t extend EU talks despite virus upheaval
Erdogan backs cleric who claims homosexuality brings disease
Notre Dame Cathedral worksite refitted for virus safety
No orange crush: Dutch celebrate King’s Day at home
Asia Today: Surfers back in the water in New Zealand, Bondi
Breakfast Blogs
Mike Pompeo May Get the U.S. Back in the Iran Deal Just to Destroy It Completely Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Mitch McConnell Just Helped Trump Take Kentucky’s Cops and Teachers Hostage emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Shi Zhengli Provides Proof SARS CoV-2 Was Not An Accidental Release From Wuhan Institute of Virology Jim White, emptywheel
The President And The Pandemic Echidne, at her blog
A wartime president digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Who makes the life or death supply decisions for your state? Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Death in excess Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Trump and the Personalization of the Congressional Spending Power Samuel Rebo, Lawfare
Trump the quitter Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
New York’s Disastrous Failure of Governance Scott Lemeiux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Ongoing Adventures of the Club to Which You Do Not Belong driftglass, at his blog
President on Drugs: Update Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
EVEN IN HIS OWN SELF-INTEREST, TRUMP WON’T ACKNOWLEDGE ELDER VOTERS’ HEALTH FEARS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
State Department Brain Trust Wants To Enforce Iran Deal It Tore Up Two Years Ago Liz Dye, Wonkette
Trump Knows What To Bleach Out Of Coronavirus Briefings, And It Is All The Science Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Conspiracy Jerks Ruin Random Lady’s Life After Declaring Her Patient Zero Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Ron DeSantis Managed Not To COVID-19 Everyone To Death In Florida, So That’s Something Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
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