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
Patricia Hearst gets prison time; Author F. Scott Fitzgerald born; ’60 Minutes’ premieres; Baseball’s Dodgers play last Brooklyn game; Muppets creator Jim Henson born; Children’s author Dr. Seuss dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
Breakfast News
Police officers not charged for killing Breonna Taylor
The Latest: Biden urges Louisville protesters to be peaceful
Virus shutdown took a toll on routine health care for kids
US experts vow ‘no cutting corners’ as vaccine tests expand
State Supreme Court upholds ruling on Green Party candidates
Lawsuit asks court to force Facebook to ban militia posts
California is ready to pull the plug on gas vehicles
Gale Sayers, Bears Hall of Fame running back, dies at 77
Long lines of mourners pay respects to Ginsburg at court
The Latest: New Mexico adds 3 states to ‘quarantine’ list
World leaders criticize haphazard response to pandemic
Madrid wants military help, more doctors to fight virus wave
Finland deploys coronavirus-sniffing dogs at main airport
French defense chief misled nation on troops’ virus safety
Lebanon asks world’s help ‘trying to rise from its rubble’
Belarus president sworn in at unannounced inaugural ceremony
EU proposes new asylum system to help frontline nations
France wants to require fathers to take parental leave
First stone laid at Dutch Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam
Breakfast Blogs
Breonna Taylor’s Life Mattered More Than This Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
“A Digital Pearl Harbor:” The Ways in Which the Vault 7 Leak Could Have Compromised US and British Assets’ Identities emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Do you think he won’t do it? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
They hate you. They really hate you. Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
‘Going Full Jim Crow’: Attorneys Hammer Florida AG for Criminally Investigating Bloomberg’s Payment of Ex-Felons’ Fines Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Making Jim Crow Again Scott Lenieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Plan Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Grassley Misleading Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
A FEW QUESTIONS FOR TRUMP’S SUPREME COURT NOMINEE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Rachel Maddow Finds CDC Director Sh*tting Bed, And Floor, Some Walls, The Ceiling Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Ron Johnson, Walking Simpson’s ‘You Tried’ Gif, Releases Biden Ukraine Report Liz Dye, Wonkette
Who Wants To Watch Dr. Fauci Sh*t On Rand Paul And Call Him A Bad Doctor? Evan Hurst, Wonkette