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
President Harry Truman wins re-election in an upset; South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem killed after coup; Howard Hughes flies his ‘Spruce Goose’; Game show scandal rocks early TV; Singer k.d. lang born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.
Breakfast News
Pre-election virus spike creates concerns for polling places
Supreme Court changes fuel moves to protect abortion access
Walmart reverses decision to remove guns and ammo from store shelves
More US patients to have easy, free access to doctor’s notes
10-foot python removed from under car hood in Florida
The Latest: Mexico mourns doctors on Day of the Dead
70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 75
UK says 4-week coronavirus lockdown may have to last longer
French Muslims, stigmatized by attacks, feel under pressure
Thousands protest in Belarus amid continued crackdown
Algeria votes on new constitution amid opposition boycott
Poland sees Day 11 of abortion, anti-government protests
Powerful typhoon lashes Philippines, killing at least 10
Breakfast Blogs
I Walked the Two Miles to City Hall to Vote, and Then I Walked the Two Miles Home Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Child Rapist George Nader Introduced Dick Cheney and Ahmad Chalabi emptywheel akak Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The strategy in plain sight digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Rallies led to 30K COVID cases, 700 deaths. Make Trump pay for holding them Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo
It comes down to us Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Punishment Conservatives Batocchio, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Texas Supreme Court Rejects GOP Petition to Toss Drive-Thru Votes from Dem-Majority County, But Fight Continues Alberto Luperon, Law & Crime
Texas Republicans go full fash Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
When the Electoral College Nearly Died
The ComaCons ™ driftglass, at his blog
Goodbye Principled What? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
BIDEN APPARENTLY HAS TO WIN TWO ELECTIONS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog