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
The ‘day the music died’ during early rock ‘n roll; the Luna 9 probe lands on the Moon; the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle; painter Norman Rockwell and composer Felix Mendelssohn born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Breakfast News
US News
Things to Know: Vaccine shipments coming to US pharmacies
Vaccinations resume as not-quite-historic snowstorm fades
Political storms swirl around California’s Newsom amid virus
Biden boosting vaccine allotments, financing for virus costs
Pressure builds on schools to reopen during pandemic
Activists wary of broader law enforcement after Capitol riot
Washington state eyes ‘billionaire tax’ on the ultra rich
West Virginia GOP fractured by political appointment feud
Long-detained immigrant families could soon face deportation
Appeals court refuses to stop construction of oil pipeline
Puerto Rico to get billions for storm aid, reconstruction
Florida lawmakers challenge Silicon Valley over ‘censorship’
Lawsuit alleges rodent infestation at New Mexico prison
Firings of officers after students pulled from car reversed
‘We are facing extinction’: Black farmers in steep decline
A gloomy Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil says more winter
US Politics
Capitol Police officer who died after riot lies in honor
Biden, Yellen say GOP virus aid too small, Democrats push on
Biden signs immigration orders as Congress awaits more
Pentagon chief purges defense boards; Trump loyalists out
House Dems make case for conviction; Trump denies charges
Georgia Senate GOP introduce bills to limit mail voting
Senate confirms Mayorkas as Biden’s homeland security chief
Nevada jockeys to be first on presidential primary calendar
International News
The Latest: S Korea curbing travel, gatherings for holiday
WHO team visits Wuhan research lab at center of speculation
Flower farms see their Lunar New Year sales wilted by virus
Moscow court orders Kremlin foe Navalny to prison
People in Myanmar honk horns, bang on pots to protest coup
Rohingya refugees fear returning to Myanmar after coup
Wildfire in west Australia burns more homes in dry wind
Common pots prepared by neighbors feeding thousands in Peru
Sports
Resilient Pierre-Paul excited to be back in Super Bowl
No. 2 Baylor stays unbeaten, tops No. 6 Texas 83-69
Irving scores 39, Nets cool off Clippers with 124-120 win
VanVleet sets Raptors mark with 54 in 123-108 win at Orlando
Arenado embraces playing for perennial contender in Cards
Angels suspend Mickey Callaway after behavior allegations
Breakfast Blogs
There Are Two Words at the Heart of the Case Against Donald Trump Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump’s Impeachment Defense Is Silent about His Unconstitutional Demand of Mike Pence emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Mob Party Ed Walker, emptywheel
Penny pinching on vaccines digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Things go better Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
After Years Of Ignoring Abuse At A Women’s Prison, Department Of Corrections Suspends Nearly Three Dozen Employees Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Professional Assholes Equate Consequences With ‘Cancel Culture’ To Obscure That They’re Finally Being Held Accountable Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Congress Now Has More Power to Shed Light on Trump’s Abuses of Power Molly Claflin and Dan McGrath, Just Security
House Impeachment Managers Filed Their Trump Senate Trial Brief — Here’s Everything You Need to Know Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Anatomy of a sedition Scott Lemieux, lawyers, Guns and Money
Sure, my client incited a seditious riot that got people killed Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 777 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
So What’s Up With Bolshi Freedom Troll Glenn Greenwald These Days? driftglass, at his blog
WHAT’S THE POINT OF LINDSEY GRAHAM’S “WEIRD THREAT”? I’LL EXPLAIN — AGAIN. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Cut The Crap. Impeachment Means Whatever 67 Senators Say It Means. Liz Dye, Wonkette
Jen Psaki Is Finished With You Now Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Isn’t Going To Shut Up About How You Almost Got Her Killed Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Congratulations, Puerto Rico! Looks Like You’ll Finally Get That Hurricane Maria Aid! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette