The Breakfast Club (Dialogue)

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

Martin Luther King Jr. gives speech before assasination; Bruno Richard Hauptmann electrocuted for kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son; President Harry Truman signs Marshall plan; Jesse James shot to death; Pony Express begins service; Actor Marlon Brando born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Jane Goodall

Breakfast News

US News

Many still hesitate to get vaccine, but reluctance is easing

California OKs indoor sports, concerts as COVID cases plunge

Man rams car into 2 Capitol police; 1 officer, driver killed

University of California victim of nationwide hack attack

Lieutenant: Kneeling on Floyd’s neck ‘totally unnecessary’

7 Texas officers fired following death of Black jail inmate

US judge tosses claims by Chinese-born professor over arrest

April, the giraffe that became an online star, dies

Piece of SpaceX rocket debris lands at Washington state farm

Estimated 25 million to see boost in federal food benefits

Even with pretax profits, many big companies pay zero US tax

March hiring accelerated to 916K, yet many jobs remain lost

Unique 4/3/21 date draws lines for Vegas wedding licenses

US Politics

The Latest: Flags at half-staff after Capitol officer killed

Pressure mounts on corporations to denounce GOP voting bills

Biden lifts Trump sanctions on international court officials

Few in GOP rush to defend Gaetz amid sex trafficking probe

International News

The Latest: Germany faces ‘crisis of trust’ amid pandemic

UK regulator reports 30 clot cases linked to AstraZeneca jab

Christians mark Good Friday, Holy Week under virus woes

Young professionals cut ahead of older Italians for vaccine

‘First step:’ US, Iran to begin indirect nuclear-limit talks

Taiwan prosecutors seek arrest in deadly train crash

Myanmar death toll mounts amid protests, military crackdown

Authors of UK racism report hit back at ‘misrepresentation’

Sports

Arizona reaches NCAA title game with 69-59 win over UConn

Stanford tops South Carolina 66-65 to reach title game

Stanford and Arizona meet in all Pac-12 NCAA title game

‘Crisis management’: Nats’ COVID outbreak scraps Mets series

Mercedes gets 1st 5 career hits, White Sox beat Angels 12-8

MLB All-Star Game yanked from Georgia over voting law

Raptors rout Warriors 130-77 for 2nd win in last 15 games

Breakfast Blogs

Our Capacity for Shock Is Finally Coming Back to Us Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

So they wanted back the 1950s? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Georgia Republicans Try To Punish Delta For CEO’s Statement About Voting Rights Law Mike Masnick, Techdirt

California Supreme Court Says Keeping People Locked Up Just Because They Can’t Make Bail Is Unconstitutional Tim Cushing, Techdirt

Citing Watergate, Prosecutors Tell Judge D.C. Isn’t Too Liberal to Give Capitol-Storming Texas Florist a Fair Trial Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime

Everyone hates Ted Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Alabama, you’ve got the rest of the Union to help you along Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

What Student Loan Debt Really Means Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Think of a Household! Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

LINDSEY GRAHAM’S NEW ALPHA IS A GUN Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Oh, No, Please Don’t Make Us Run Against The Senate’s Dumbest Republican Again! Liz Dye, Wonkette

Tucker Carlson Fears Canada’s COVID Gulags May Come To America! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

Cop Supervisor Says Derek Chauvin Should Have Stopped Killing George Floyd When Floyd Stopped Moving Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

Jen Psaki’s Got Your ‘Tone’ Right Here, Buddy Evan Hurst, Wonkette