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
Germany’s Reichstag burns, giving the Nazis under Adolf Hitler a pretext to seize absolute power; A cease-fire ends the Persian Gulf War; Actress Elizabeth Taylor born; Children’s TV host Fred Rogers dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way… to get in the way.
Breakfast News
US News
US advisers endorse single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from J&J
Biden surveys Texas weather damage, encourages virus shots
Could pandemic further erode the New England town meeting?
White House climate czar to AP: Texas storm ‘a wake-up call’
California to spend $28M to help arriving asylum-seekers
4 men convicted in 1993 WTC bombing have had sentences cut
Andrew Yang helps photographer facing attack on ferry
US Army crowdsources ideas to combat sexual assault crisis
FAA seeks $27,500 from passenger it says hit air attendant
Pythons, iguanas: Florida restricts some exotic reptiles
NYC steakhouse stunt: A wax Don Draper hanging at the bar
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
US Politics
US implicates Saudi crown prince in Khashoggi’s killing
With House voting on relief bill, Dems mull wage plan rescue
Durham remains special counsel overseeing Trump-Russia probe
Oath Keeper charged in Capitol riot renounces militia group
International News
Canadian regulator authorizes AstraZeneca vaccine
US urges Tanzania to embrace COVID-19 vaccines, share data
Biden: Strikes in Syria sent warning to Iran to ‘be careful’
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction
Myanmar’s UN envoy dramatically opposes coup in his country
Officials: 400 escape, 25 dead after Haiti prison breakout
Sports
WNBA approves Montgomery’s role in new Dream ownership group
Virus sidelines Raptors coaches, Siakam for Rockets game
AP interview: Silver lays out reasons for NBA All-Star Game
5-inning games, 2-out innings? Odd MLB spring look on deck
Back after 12 years, Sorenstam gets 2 more days on LPGA Tour
Mickelson in contention in Champions event after mud birdie
Breakfast Blogs
This Year’s CPAC Is Approaching the Wingnut Singularity Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Government Refuses to Let Steve Bannon Sneak Away from His Federal Fraud Indictment emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Democrats have to do it all digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Fight for 15: Next round Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Fifth Circuit Says Tasing A Person Soaked In Gasoline And Setting Them On Fire Isn’t An Unreasonable Use Of Force Tim Cushing, Techdirt
John Durham Resigns as U.S. Attorney, But His Investigation of the Russia Investigation Will Continue on Matt Naham, Law & Crime
‘Absolute Control’: Long-Awaited Intelligence Report Assesses Saudi Crown Prince ‘Approved’ Operation to ‘Capture or Kill’ Jamal Khashoggi Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Here’s the Legal Justification Biden Admin Gave for Airstrikes in Syria Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh May Have Caused Alabama to Rethink Its Death Penalty Protocol Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Crackpot Trump judges trying to make Gilded Age Great Again Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The end of the COVID-19 pandemic Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Don’t Let Republicans Off the Hook on COVID Relief and the Minimum Wage The Rude Pundit, at his blog
“Market Egalitarianism”. No, Really. Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
RUNNING AGAINST THE DEMOCRATS WHILE IGNORING WHAT THEY’RE DOING Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Cash Bail Is Really F*cked Up. Illinois Just Did Something About It. Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Oh Nothing, Trump-Loving Mob Just Wants To Blow Up Capitol During Biden’s First SOTU Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Bigot Coalition Targeting Equality Act With Tactics They’ve Been Using Since At Least 1977 Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Joe Biden Cancel Cultures A Bunch More Dumb Trump Garbage Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
ared Kushner’s Saudi BFF Having Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week Liz Dye, Wonkette