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
Germans dance on top of Berlin Wall as communism crumbles in Eastern Europe; Nazis target Jews during ‘Kristallnacht’; A massive blackout hits the Northeast; Poet Dylan Thomas and Actor Art Carney die. (
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Breakfast News
The Latest: Global coronavirus case total tops 50 million
Nursing home COVID-19 cases rise four-fold in surge states
Convention centers, museums become classrooms amid pandemic
Eta expected to be hurricane and strike Florida Keys
Earthquake felt across southern New England
World leaders hope for fresh start after Biden win
Firecrackers and prayers as Indians celebrate Harris’ win
Mexico, Brazil leaders silent as world congratulates Biden
Germany slams Leipzig virus protesters for endangering all
Iran’s president calls on Biden to return to nuclear deal
Japan emperor’s brother proclaimed 1st in line to throne
UK honors war dead in scaled-back Remembrance Sunday service
Breakfast Blogs
Joe Biden Offered Us the Chance to Heal. Are We Willing to Take It? Charles P.. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Distraction and Disinformation: The Stakes of Lessons Not Learned emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Let’s talk about Georgia digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Winning is persuasive Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
They’re really going to do this apparently Paul Campos, Lawyer, Guns and Money
Neither Progressives nor Moderates Deserve Blame for 2020 Disappointments Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 718 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sunday Morning Comin’ Down driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Mr. Vice President, Say a Few Words Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
CONCEDE? I DON’T THINK TRUMP WILL DARE. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog