The Breakfast Club (Longer Shelf Life)

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

Pilgrims land in Plymouth Massachusetts; Pan Am flight 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland; Apollo 8 lifts off on first manned mission to the Moon; Actress Jane Fonda is born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa

Breakfast News

US News

VIRUS TODAY: 2nd vaccine authorized in US shipped

Panel: People over 75, essential workers next for vaccines

Mostly virus-free Kauai hit by pandemic after travel resumes

Congress seals agreement on $900 billion COVID relief bill

US airport traffic rising despite holiday travel warnings

Arizona migrant border deaths on track for record amid heat

US Politics

Biden’s team vows action against hack as US threats persist

Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results

International News

More EU nations ban travel from UK, fearing virus variant

Concern among Muslims over halal status of COVID-19 vaccine

EU-UK trade talks floundering over fish as cutoff day nears

Mexico’s president says army to run Maya train project

Sports

Murray, Hopkins lead Cardinals past Eagles 33-26

Mahomes’ theatrics highlight Chiefs’ 32-29 win over Saints

Erase that 0!: Jets edge Rams 23-20, avoid winless season

Seahawks hold on to beat Washington, clinch playoff spot

Dolphins eliminate Patriots from playoff race with 22-12 win

CFP: Alabama-Notre Dame, Clemson-Ohio St as Aggies left out

Breakfast Blogs

History Walks With Deb Haaland to the Department of the Interior Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Boiling Frog Journalism: The Collective Yawn as Trump’s Pardoned Foreign Agent Plots a Coup emptyweel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

It takes a Republican digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

St. Nick of time? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Properly Framing the Recently Acknowledged Russian Hacking of the US Government and Private Sector Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice

I Don’t Believe You (He Acts Like We Don’t Have a Death Plague)Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D. Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 751 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Another One For The “They Should’ve Stopped Hitler at Munich” File drftglass, at his blog

Honey, I Shrunk the Emperor Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

HOW CAN TRUMP JUST LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE PEACEFULLY ON JANUARY 20? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog