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
France’s King Louis XVI executed; Vladimir Lenin dies; Alger Hiss found guilty of lying to grand jury; President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam draft evaders; Concorde begins service.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
Breakfast News
US News
The Latest: Panasonic works on special vaccine storage boxes
VIRUS TODAY: US states report COVID-19 vaccine shortage
States report vaccine shortages and cancel appointments
New CDC director takes over beleaguered agency amid crisis
Keystone XL pipeline halted as Biden revokes permit
Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge
Man charged with pinning officer during US Capitol attack
US Politics
Biden takes the helm, appeals for unity to take on crises
On Day One, Biden targets Trump policies on climate, virus
Senate confirms Biden 1st Cabinet pick as Democrats control
International News
Delay in Pfizer vaccine shipments frustrate Europe, Canada
Portugal sets records in one of world’s worst virus surges
Dutch propose curfew to rein in virus; will ban more flights
EU sighs with relief as Biden readies to enter White House
Netanyahu courts Arab voters in election-year turnabout
Report: Witness implicates Mexico’s army in abduction of 43
Sports
Packers realize how much Rodgers has at stake this weekend
Brady, talented Buccaneers playmakers developing chemistry
Chiefs’ Mahomes practices, remains in concussion protocol
Grizzlies-Blazers called off; Wizards worry about readiness
Breakfast Blogs
There Were Barbs Beneath Joe Biden’s Message of Unity, and They Were Meant for Ted Cruz Charles P.Pierce, Esquire Politics
Bannon Turned Out to Be the Irreplaceable One emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Amanda Gorman Made Silvester Beaman Sad, Joe Biden Happy, and John Lewis Dance Peterr, emptywheel
Down To Business digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Back to normal abnormal Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Reform Works: For The First Time EVER, Newark Cops Go An Entire Year Without Firing Their Guns, Being Sued Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Gaps in Trump’s Pardons: How the Biden Administration Can Still Pursue Justice Andrew Weissmann, Just Security
Biden Immediately Gets First Judicial Vacancy to Fill — And Many More Are Likely to Follow Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
New York Attorney General Urges Judge Not to Let NRA’s Bankruptcy Filing Put a Stop to Dissolution of Organization Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
The Great Awankening Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Transitional Rot Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 768 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Boom Times Are Coming to the Indulgence Factory: UPDATE driftglass, at hisblog
Literary Corner: My Favorite Crimes Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
STICK WITH PURE RAGE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
On Four Straight Years Of Never Calling That Hot Garbage ‘President Trump’ Evan Hurst, Wonkette
One Last Grift On His Way Out The Door Liz Dye, Wonkette
Biden Just Deleted The Stupid Ahistorical Bullsh*ts Of T—p’s ‘1776 Commission Report’ Doktor Zoom, Wonkette