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
Thomas Edison says he’s invented the phonograph; Gap revealed on Nixon White House tape; Final victim dies in America’s anthrax scare; Jonathan Pollard arrested; ‘Anything Goes’ opens on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Breakfast News
The Latest: Texas tops 8,000 hospitalized virus patients
Pfizer, BioNTech seek emergency use of COVID-19 shots in US
Study: Motorcycle rally sparked COVID-19 cases in next state
Some governors ignore CDC advice on Thanksgiving gatherings
1st drug for rare rapid-aging disease extends kids’ lives
Court: Tennessee can enforce Down syndrome abortion ban
Land conservation plan stirs fight over Trump restrictions
Lawyers: Children detained at border facing COVID exposure
Lieutenant gov’s flags fly in the face of some PA lawmakers
White House Rose Garden adds Japanese American’s sculpture
Dylan papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $495K
Rachel Maddow returns to air, describes partner’s virus bout
Asia Today: South Korea, Japan mull steps as new cases rise
Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so
India virus cases pass 9M; capital’s hospitals under strain
In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder
Azerbaijani leader hails handover of region ceded by Armenia
UN prepares for up to 200,000 Ethiopian refugees in Sudan
Bosnia marks 25 years since inking of US-brokered peace deal
Breakfast Blogs
They’re All in on This, Top to Bottom Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Rudy the Dripper: The Vicious Cycle of Dead-Ender Propagandists Feeding Bullshit to Tribalist Republicans emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Three Things: About Emily W. Murphy, GSA Administrator Rayne, emptywheel
Soft coup-coup digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
We’ve adapted to the velocity of COVID-19 deaths. That needs to stop. Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo
“Desperate endgame” Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The Coming Apocalypse Tom Levenson, Balloon Juice
Federal Judge Strikes DOJ from the Docket in E. Jean Carroll’s Case Against Donald Trump Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
In Praise of Chris Krebs Susan Hennessey, Rohini Kurup, Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
Another winner from Trump’s crack legal team Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Donald Trump and his enablers are going to murder several hundred thousand Americans over the next few months Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The History of Policing is an Argument Against Reform Simon Balto, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 728 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Rudy Giuliani Is Sweating His Hair Color Off for America The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Literary Corner: Rudolfo’s Solliloquy Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
MAYBE WE’RE DOING MORE DAMAGE BY NOT STOOPING TO THEIR LEVEL Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Let’s Read Devin Nunes’s Latest Libelslander Complaint! Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Shiny Normal Thing! Cory Booker & Friends Will Fix Decades Of Discrimination Against Black Farmers Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Another Day, Another Dick-Kicking Or Three For Trump’s Legal Team Liz Dye, Wonkette
Appeals Court Protects First Amendment Right Of Therapists To Torture LGBTQ Children Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette