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
Allies celebrate the end of World War Two; Indians holding the hamlet of Wounded Knee surrender; Coca-Cola invented.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
Justice Department dropping Flynn’s Trump-Russia case
Trump administration buries detailed CDC advice on reopening
Governors disregarding White House guidelines on reopening
Arrests made in shooting death of black man after outcry
Hundreds evacuated as wildfires rage in Florida Panhandle
Malaria drug shows no benefit in another coronavirus study
Smoky Mountains National Park to reopen over weekend
Fears grow as coronavirus bears down on Mexico City
Brazil virus despair stretches from Rio to Amazon
Chemical leak at LG plant in India kills 11, about 1,000 ill
Set for new term, Netanyahu eyes risky West Bank annexation
At least 65 killed in flooding, landslides in Rwanda
French teens, Normandy vets swap stories of life in lockdown
Leningrad siege survivor supplies needy amid pandemic
Breakfast Blogs
This Michael Flynn Business Stinks Like a Mackerel in the Sun Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
To Justify Dismissing Mike Flynn’s Prosecution, Timothy Shea Claims Information DOJ Has Always Had Is “New” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump Pride and DOJ Prejudice: The Flynn Volume bmaz, emptywheel
The CDC guidelines “will never see the light of day” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Stay home. Stay safe. Vote by mail. Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hhullabaloo
Barr Ignores Settled Justice Department Policies in Run-Up to 2020 Elections Fred Wertheimer, Just Security
An Ugly Day for the Justice Department Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
Try to find someone who loves you as much as Republicans love to stop black people from voting Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Mitigation and chaos Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Why We Are “Reopening” Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A PREVIEW OF VACCINE DISTRIBUTION IF TRUMP IS REELECTED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Wake Up And Smell The ‘Pro-Life’ Bullsh*t Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
HHS Sec Alex Azar Gonna Call Cops On Dirty Workers For Bringing Disease Into Immaculate Slaughterhouses Liz Dye, Wonkette
Bill Barr Drops Case Against Michael Flynn, Just In Time For Trump/Russia No-Collusion-Palooza 2020! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Yeah, We Should Sue To Death Businesses Who Kill Us With Their COVID-19 Song Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman In Phone Recordin’ On A Criminal Fuc*in’ Conspiracy? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette