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.
There are five and a half days left until the Inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris.
This Day in History
Martin Luther King, Junior born; Richard Nixon suspends U.S. offensive in Vietnam; Queen Elizabeth the First crowned; Work completed on Pentagon; first Super Bowl takes place.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Breakfast News
US News
Expanded vaccine rollout in US spawns a new set of problems
Instacart, others push incentives to get workers vaccinated
Oregon reaches daily coronavirus vaccine goal
FBI tracking ‘extensive’ online chatter about armed protests
Stun guns, ‘stinger whips’ and a crossbow: What police found on the Capitol protesters
Most major US airlines ban guns in luggage for DC flights
Unions: Passenger rails need better security, no-ride list
NY attorney general sues NYPD over Floyd protest response
Flint water probe brings charges against ex-governor, others
Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature record
RIP: Mars digger bites the dust after 2 years on red planet
Groups ask court to restore protections for US gray wolves
US Politics
Biden unveils $1.9T plan to stem virus and steady economy
Trump impeachment trial to focus on his attacks on election
National Guard troops flooding in as Washington locks down
The Latest: Prosecutors: Man seen on Senate floor arrested
International News
Oxygen shortage in Amazon city forces mass patient transfer
UK bans travel from South America over Brazil variant fears
Tunisia marks revolution’s 10th anniversary in lockdown
N Korea holds huge military parade as Kim vows nuclear might
Poland: 3 on trial over LGBT sign on posters of revered icon
‘The world is watching’: Ugandans vote in tense election
Mexican president mounts campaign against social media bans
Cuba tweaks socialist model to encourage work amid crisis
Sports
Jared Goff to start for Rams in Green Bay; Wolford inactive
Saints’ Brees sees playoff clash with Brady’s Bucs as fate
Celtics plan to play Friday, another Suns game called by NBA
Breakfast Blogs
This Entire Country Is Out of Its Freaking Mind Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Three Things: Good, Better, Best News Rayne, emptywheel
It can’t get any dumber digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Legends in their own minds Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Jack Dorsey Explains The Difficult Decision To Ban Donald Trump; Reiterates Support For Turning Twitter Into A Decentralized Protocol Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Dominion Voting Systems Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Former Trump Lawyer, Sidney Powell Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Legal Expert: QAnon Republican Rep. Boebert Should Not Be Allowed Into the U.S. Capitol With a Gun Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
With Real Lawyers Steering Clear, Trump May Have to Settle For Rep. Jim Jordan as Impeachment ‘Attorney’ Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
No Bail for QAnon Believer Who Texted ‘War Time’ and Threatened to Kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Adam Klasfed, Law & Crime
Felony Murder and the Storming of the Capitol Carissa Byrne Hessick, Lawfare
America’s most ridiculous senator Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
And it’s a beautiful day Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 765 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Ann Coulter, Resistance Hero driftglass, at his blog
We Could Have Dealt With This Shit Years Ago If Republicans Hadn’t Been Dicks About Their Extremists The Rude Pundit, at his blog
MORE EXCELLENT PHILOSOPHIZING FROM THE COOL KIDS’ PHILOSOPHER Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
We Need 20,000 National Guard Troops For Trump’s ‘Peaceful’ Transfer Of Power Doktor Zoom. Wonkette
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, On Break From Punching Antifa Cars, Cries That Impeachment Will Cause Division Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Lindsey Graham Only Supports Impeachment For Seditious Blow Jobs, Not Violent Insurrections Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Gippers Whine About Metal Detectors, But Pelosi Grabs ‘Em By The Wallet Liz Dye, Wonkette
Shame Terrorists Attacked The Capitol Because Sarah Huckabee Sanders Never Got Her Chicken Dinner Evan Hurst, Wonkette