The Breakfast Club (The Same House)

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

Funeral of Jordan’s King Hussein; Premiere of ‘The Birth of a Nation’; a South Carolina civil rights protest turns deadly; the Boy Scouts of America is incorporated; actor James Dean born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just… do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.

John Lewis

Breakfast News

US News

VIRUS TODAY: In COVID-19 era, Americans choose dying at home

Chicago mayor touts deal with union to reopen schools

Some California churches hold indoor services after ruling

Weary postal workers hope Biden will bring new tone, change

Next stop Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession

Pelican named Arvy survives frostbite, sent to sanctuary

Stephen King helps kids publish pandemic-inspired book

US Politics

Big challenge: Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty

Analysis: Trump’s Senate trial matters regardless of outcome

Senate Republicans back Trump as impeachment trial nears

Yellen: Biden’s plan could restore full employment by 2022

Biden: China should expect `extreme competition’ from US

Cheney says she won’t quit the House after Wyoming censure

International News

The Latest: China’s northeast outbreaks appear under control

UK vaccine gambles paid off, while EU caution slowed it down

South Africa suspends AstraZeneca vaccine drive

Congo working to stop new Ebola outbreak in country’s east

US moves to rejoin UN rights council, reversing Trump anew

Iran: US must lift sanctions before it lives up to nuke deal

Week after military coup, protests swell rapidly in Myanmar

Internet access restored as Myanmar coup protests grow

US warns Yemen’s Houthi rebels after terrorism delisting

UN Yemen envoy makes first visit to Iran to push for peace

Haiti’s president alleges coup conspiracy, says 20 arrested

Three Saudi youths get prison sentence instead of death

140 are missing after glacier breaks in India’s Himalayas

Boat with 422 migrants, some with COVID-19, heads to Sicily

Work resumes on disputed Russian-German undersea pipeline

Sports

Buccaneers batter Mahomes in 31-9 Super Bowl rout of Chiefs

The biggest win: In 2020, NFL found ways to play every game

Healthy again, Koepka eagles 17, rallies to win Phoenix Open

Breakfast Blogs

Kamala Harris Is Going to Be Doing a Lot of This for the Next Two Years Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Another Violent Foot Soldier Radicalized by Donald Trump emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Feature not bug digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Inciting a mob to invade the Capitol is not free speech Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Killing the kill switch Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Proud Boys Spent Weeks Planning the U.S. Capitol Siege; Leader Ethan Nordean Poses a ‘Serious Risk of Flight’: Prosecutors Aaron Keller, Law & Crime

Would-Be YouTube Prankster Was Shot and Killed While Wielding Butcher Knife in Fake Robbery: Police Alberto Lueron, Law & Crime

Former Trump Campaign Aide and Staunch Pro-Life Advocate Charged With Receiving, Distributing, and Possessing Child Pornography Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime

There is no reasonable defense for permitting indoor dining under COVID, and there is no reasonable defense for dining indoors under COVID Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

How Popular Epidemiology is Both Necessary and Has Significantly Damaged Our COVID Response Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Never Trumpers In Disarray! driftglass, at his blog

Dream Piece Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

NATIONAL REVIEW: PREVENTING REPUBLICANS FROM BURNING EVERYTHING TO THE GROUND IS THE DEMOCRATS’ RESPONSIBILITY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog