The Breakfast Club (WTF 2020)

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

Wright brothers conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. U.S. test-fires the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile; Simon Bolivar dies in Colombia; television’s Tiny Tim marries his fiancee, Miss Vicky.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

Breakfast News

US News

Health officials track safety as COVID-19 vaccines roll out

Vaccinations reach nursing homes as California faces crisis

US angling to secure more of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine

Twitter to start removing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

Justice Department sues Vermont medical center over abortion

Senate report: Opioid industry has paid advocacy groups $65M

Little-known SolarWinds gets scrutiny over hack, stock sales

New lab director expects more work on next wave of reactors

Court: Ohio must allow gender changes on birth certificates

‘If not one thing, it’s another’: Storm rolls into Northeast

The Latest: CT bans semitrailers on some roads for 12 hours

$2K reward offered in Wyoming grizzly bear killing case

Florida’s new python-sniffing dogs have 1st success

US Politics

Close but not yet: Deal near on COVID-19 economic aid bill

Senate hearing elevates baseless claims of election fraud

Rules eased for water from showerheads, a Trump pet peeve

Stay away: Thumbs down on inauguration crowds for Biden

International News

Asia Today: S. Korea marks deadliest day, over 1,000 cases

Nigerians anxious after 330 boys kidnapped by extremists

Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks

Sports

No. 21 Duke wins 75-65 at Notre Dame in ACC opener

Williams, Hunter lead Purdue past No. 20 Ohio State 67-60

Bama, Ohio St add 5-stars while preparing for champ games

NFL owners delay decision on 17-game regular season

MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league

Breakfast Blogs

Dodge City Dealt With Old West Disputes More Calmly Than It Has the Pandemic in 2020 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Poltiics

A Modest Proposal: Include Lindsey Graham’s Threats against Brad Raffensperger in any Special Counsel Mandate

Making a list, checking it twice digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabalooo

Ready Player None Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Security Researcher Reveals Solarwinds’ Update Server Was ‘Secured’ With The Password ‘solarwinds123’ Tim Cushing, Techdirt

Lindsey Graham’s Latest Attack On Section 230: Reform It By 2023, Or We Take It Away Mike Masnick, Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201216/11480945903/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-signs-law-banning-sale-confederate-flags-that-will-absolutely-get-nullified.shtml Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

A Roadmap for Reform: How the Biden Administration Can Revitalize the Office of Legal Counsel Annie Owens, Just Security

h‘Kraken’ Concerned About ‘Elementh Amendment’ Lands on SCOTUS Docket, Asks Court: Do What the ‘Ghosts’ on Other Side of Potomac Would Have Wanted Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cases That Could Loosen NCAA’s Grip on College Athletes Elura Nanos, Law & Crime

“We want them infected” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Fuse Pal Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Political Action in December 2020 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Haunts of the Very Republican driftglass, at his blog

Literary Corner: Really Sad! Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

Now Donald Trump Is Suing a State He Lost Bigly The Rude Pundit, at his blog

THESE PEOPLE ARE HILARIOUS BUMPKINS, UNTIL THEY AREN’T Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

SCOTUS Does Good By Doing Nothing Again! Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette

Woman Who Works For Joe Biden Said A Mean Cuss And Now We’ll Never Get Along! Evan Hurst, Wonkette

The Krakhead Cometh Liz Dye, Wonkette

Chicago Cops Terrorize Naked Woman In Her Home For Crime Of Watching ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Past Season 10 Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Look, Shiny Normal Thing! Here’s Biden’s Green Team! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette