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
:Accord reached in Vietnam; North Korea seizes the U.S.S. Pueblo; Roots airs; Bob Keeshan dies; Johnny Carson dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Hank Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)
The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Breakfast News
US News
The Latest: Arizona COVID-19 cases down despite high rate
With limited vaccine, Idaho faces priority group confusion
Supply issues hinder Alabama COVID-19 vaccination efforts
Language barriers, wariness make vaccinating immigrants hard
Nearly 2,000 vaccine doses spoiled at Boston hospital
Nevada church presses US Supreme Court on COVID-19 limits
Columbus, Ohio, to spend $4.5M to improve police bodycams
Man accused of beating officer with flagpole ordered held
ICE frees potential witnesses in Georgia medical abuse case
Loathed New York City bus terminal is bound for an upgrade
Arizona, 15th state with legal pot, sees recreational sales
Judge orders plan for releasing more red wolves into wild
Oklahoma lawmaker proposes ‘Bigfoot’ hunting season
US Politics
Schumer: Trump impeachment trial to begin week of Feb. 8
Biden’s early approach to virus: Underpromise, overdeliver
Biden’s choice on econ aid: Deal with GOP or go for it all
Austin wins Senate confirmation as 1st Black Pentagon chief
Jill Biden thanks Guard members with chocolate chip cookies
International News
UK chief scientist says new virus variant may be more deadly
Thousands of Hong Kongers locked down to contain coronavirus
Top Lebanese hospitals fight exhausting battle against virus
Venezuela power struggle impedes delivery of COVID vaccine
Wuhan returns to normal as world still battling pandemic
Spain’s jab rollout dogged by delays, elitist queue-jumpers
Pfizer to supply 40M COVID-19 shots for poor countries
Sports
Hank Aaron, baseball’s one-time home run king, dies at 86
Chiefs’ Mahomes cleared to play in AFC championship
Big offenses, overlooked defenses in AFC title game
NFL giving free Super Bowl tickets to 7,500 health workers
Speculation over Tokyo Olympics: 2021, 2032 or not at aRadio Yerevan on Blue-Collar Ted Yastrr
No. 7 Michigan uses strong defense to rout Purdue 70-53
Breakfast Blogs
Baseball Gave Henry Aaron His Due, But Not Before He Saw Some Terrible Things Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
“Stand Back and Stand By:” The Proud Boys Node of the January 6 Attack emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Woe is Q Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Biden Fires Steve Bannon Protege, Who Tried To Turn Voice Of America Into A New Breitbart Mike Masnick, Techdirt
EFF Tells Louisiana Court Satire Is Still Protected Speech Even If The Government Doesn’t Get The Joke Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Texas Supreme Court Silently Denies Alex Jones All Forms of Relief: Sandy Hook Families and Others Can Now Sue Conspiracy Theorist and InfoWars into the Ground Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Lawyer for ‘Guy with the Horns and the Fur’ Claims His Client Finally Realizes He’s Been ‘Duped’ by Trump Aaron Keller, Law & Crime
A solution to the Trump impeachment dilemma Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Old Both Siderists Never Die driftglass at his bllog
YRadio Yerevan on Blue-Collar Ted Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
COULD TRUMP’S SULKING KILL QANON? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
BIG BIDEN IMPEACHMENT NEWS! (Also The Guy Before Him Impeachment News, Him Too.) Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Fox News All ‘Shut Up, CNN! Trump Had SH*TTY Covid Vax Plan, Not NO Covid Vax Plan!’ Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Look Which Birther-Dentist-Lawyer-Clownshow Has Crawled Out Of Woodwork For Trump Impeachment Suit! Liz Dye, Wonkette
David Brooks Has Starbursts For Biden, Will Kill Filibuster For Him And Jodie Foster Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
It’s The 48th Anniversary Of Roe V. Wade And States CAN’T WAIT To Get Up In Your Uterus! Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette