The Breakfast Club (Don’t Be Afraid)

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 dictator Adolf Hitler born; Gunfire erupts at Columbine High; Cubans in the Mariel boatlift arrive in the U.S.; Ted Williams makes his baseball debut; Singer Luther Vandross born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.

George Takei

Breakfast News

Judge overturns ban on abortions in Tennessee during Covid-19 crisis

Judge doubts Kansas COVID-19 rule, blocks it for 2 churches

Liquor store closures drive drinkers to seek booze options

For meat plant workers, virus makes a hard job perilous

Amid virus gloom, glimpses of human decency and good works

N.Y., N.J., Connecticut reopen marinas amid calls to kick-start economies

Cat Interrupts Meteorologist Working From Home And Wins A New Job

Canada And US Agree To Extend Border Closures For Another Month

‘Cartels are scrambling’: Virus snarls global drug trade

13 killed in Canada shooting rampage, deadliest in 30 years

Child sex abuse in Pakistan’s religious schools is endemic

Breakfast Blogs

We’re Going to Need a Bigger Handbasket Charles P. Pierce,, Esquire Politics

Rural COVID-19: The Tyson Food Clusters emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

On Mountains, Mountain Climbing, and COVID-19 Peterr, emptywheel

Sanity vs Insanity
digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

All of the power, none of the responsibility Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

The Rush to Austerity Begins Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Hot Takes! Get Your Fake Leftist Hot Takes Here! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Andrew Cuomo Finally Gets Rid of His Last Fuck The Rude Pundit, at his blog

Cure, maybe, but not proof that capitalism will solve all your problems Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS — TOWARD CONSERVATIVES Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog