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
Columbus lands in Americas; USS Cole bombed in Yemen; Soviet leader Khrushchev bangs shoe at UN; Blast rips Bali nightclub; Opera’s Luciano Pavarotti born; Singer John Denver dies in plane crash.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
Breakfast News
COVID-19 coverage safety net has plenty of holes in US
Amid COVID, many businesses in precarious spot as 2020 ends
GOP governors in spiking states strain for silver linings
Judge throws out Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania lawsuit
Maine postal workers reassemble high-speed sorting machine
California wildfires ravage dozens of family-run wineries
Forestry officials warn to ‘social distance’ from hairy-looking caterpillars
The Latest: Brazil’s virus death toll surpasses 150,000
India cases cross 7 million as experts warn of complacency
Lesson not learned: Europe unprepared as 2nd virus wave hits
England to have 3-tier lockdown system amid ‘tipping point’
Soaring virus infection puts more French cities on alert
Lithuanians to choose new parliament amid virus tensions
Armenia, Azerbaijan say Nagorno-Karabakh truce violated
Leftist, hard-liner in Turkish Cypriot leadership runoff
WFP chief seeks million from donors, billionaires for food
Breakfast Blogs
Don’t Ignore Amy Coney Barrett’s Fealty to Money Power and the Corporate Class Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Frothy Right Embraces CIA’s Unmasking the Identities of Political Candidates emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
She is not a nice person digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
A tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Federal Judge Halts Restrictions on Texas Ballot Drop-Off Boxes: ‘The State’s Proffered Reason of Ballot Security is a Pretext’ Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Still waiting Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Nice Woman? I don’t give a shit. Good mother? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 692 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
This Lincoln Project Ad Would Be a Lot More Charming To Me driftglass, at his blog
Negative Thereness Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
ROSS DOUTHAT FAILS TO REASSURE ME Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog