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 John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington; New details emerge about Iran-Contra affair; British forces leave New York; Elian Gonzalez rescued off Florida coast; Baseball’s Joe DiMaggio born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
To hunger is to be alive and to hope.
Breakfast News
US News
The Latest: Tennessee won’t mandate vaccines in its schools
VIRUS TODAY: Holiday party defiance, mask wearing in 2021
Keep the mask: A vaccine won’t end the US crisis right away
Restaurant workers out of work again as virus surges anew
California official: just say ‘no’ to family Thanksgiving
Pandemic leaves opening week of college hoops in disarray
The Latest: Biden says split Congress affects Cabinet picks
Fox News, family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich settle suit
2 detained for speaking Spanish settle border patrol lawsuit
Toy safety group releases annual list of top 10 ‘worst’ toys
Left for dead, twice, RadioShack gets another shot online
Mysterious shiny monolith found in otherworldly Utah desert
Bruce, the last ‘Jaws’ shark, docks at the Academy Museum
International News
UK eases restrictions so families can gather over Christmas
Spain’s mortuary workers endure the daily march of death
Drones to the rescue: Berlin lab seeks quicker virus tests
Macron outlines France’s baby steps out of lockdown
Russian virus vaccine to cost less than $10 per dose abroad
Germany warns of anti-Semitism among lockdown protests
Belgium approves more money for care homes hit by pandemic
International flyers may soon need to get virus vaccinations
Paris police under fire for forcing migrants from tent camp
EU, other donors step up with funds to help Afghanistan
Thai police revive royal defamation law ahead of protest
With Ethiopia on brink of escalation, diplomacy in doubt
Darwin notebooks reported stolen from Cambridge library
Breakfast Blogs
Janet Yellen Is Probably the Best Treasury Secretary We Could Expect from a Biden Presidency Charlse P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Roger Stone Takes Georgia, and the Senate, Hostage emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The cult will not concede digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The inscrutable Joe Biden voter Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Why a Self-Pardon Is Not Constitutional Frank O. Bowman III, Just Security
Judge Emmet Sullivan Will Oversee Voting Rights Act Case Accusing Trump of Anti-Black Campaign to Overturn Election Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Pennsylvania Urges Third Circuit to Put Trump Campaign’s ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster’ Lawsuit Out of Its Misery Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Democrats Compare Trump’s Legal Team to Monty Python Sketch in Response to Pennsylvania Appeal Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Presidential impunity has repeatedly failed Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A mathematical demonstration of the insanity of the Electoral College Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 732 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Nov 24 How Can You Know For Sure That Joe Scarborough Is a 1000%, Authentic, Rock-Ribbed, Dyed-in-the-Wool Republican? driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: In Defense of Haberman Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Getting Through the Next Two Months of Hope and Dread The Rude Pundit, at his blog
OVERTON WINDOW WATCH: “THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN BUT THE THIEVES WON’T BE CAUGHT” IS NOW THE MODERATE GOP POSITION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Emily Murphy To Let Joe Biden Have His Precious Transition If You’re All Going To Be SO MEAN ABOUT IT Liz Dye, Wonkette
Wonkette Thankful For Creationist Bible Scientists Answering Difficult Questions Like ‘Why Is Nose?’ Evan Hurst, Wonkette
May You Smile As Brightly As Trump Smiles When He Sh*ts On Santa Claus To A Seven-Year-Old Girl Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette
Don’t Be A Jive Turkey This Thanksgiving. Stay Home. Stephen Robinsom, Wonkette