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
Rodney King beaten in Los Angeles; Inventor Alexander Graham Bell born; ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ becomes the U.S. national anthem; ‘Time’ first hits newsstands; Steve Fossett’s non-stop global flight
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Vernon Jordan (August 15, 1935 – March 1, 2021)
What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
Breakfast News
US News
Biden vows enough vaccine for all US adults by end of May
Texas and other states ease COVID-19 rules despite warnings
San Francisco leaders cheer reopening as COVID-19 cases fall
More contagious Brazilian virus variant emerges in Oregon
‘Vaccine, vaccine’: Dolly sings ‘Jolene’ rewrite before shot
Fauci presents his personal virus model to Smithsonian
Yard sale find turns out to be artifact worth up to $500,000
US Politics
Biden urges Senate Dems to rally behind $1.9T virus bill
Budget nominee Tanden withdraws nomination amid opposition
FBI chief warns violent ‘domestic terrorism’ growing in US
Biden’s Cabinet half-empty after slow start in confirmations
Senate confirms Raimondo as Biden commerce secretary
Cuomo avoids public amid outcry over harassment allegations
International News
The Latest: Ontario seniors won’t get AstraZeneca vaccine
Virus variant races through Italy, especially among children
US sanctions Russian officials over nerve-agent attack
Myanmar authorities charge Associated Press journalist
Mexico Senate passes energy bill favoring state, fossil fuel
Jihadis attack town, humanitarian posts in northeast Nigeria
Farmers in Fukushima plant indigo to rebuild devastated town
Sports
No. 3 Baylor clinches B12 title in OT, 94-89 over No. 6 WVU
Intense No. 4 Illinois makes statement, drubs No. 2 Michigan
NBA reveals All-Star skills, 3-point, dunk participants
Kapanen scores twice; Pens welcome back fans with 5-2 win
Cardinals all-out recruiting pitch brings Watt to the desert
Breakfast Blogs
Elena Kagan Dismantled a Republican Lawyer and Might Have Saved Voting Rights Act in the Process Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Looks like we’re going to need a BIG audit digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2021/03/whoops-msm-spots-ok-qrf-near-dc-ao/ Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
A Bit of Historical Perspective On the Responses By Republicans In Congress To FBI Director Wray’s Testimony On the 6th January Insurrection Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
Federal Court Affirms Travelers Have A First Amendment Right To Record TSA Screeners Tim Cushing, Techdirt
‘He Knows Close to Everything’: New York Prosecutors Zero in on Trump Organization’s CFO Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
There’s No Evidence of Fake Trump Supporters or Antifa Among Capitol Rioters, FBI Director Tells Senate Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Whither the Trump Financial Documents Cases? Quinta Jurecic and Bryce Klehm, Lawfare
Eighth Circuit Strikes Down Arkansas’s Anti-BDS Law Elliot Setzer, Lawfare
Principled bipartisan coalition saves civil discourse in America Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Political Compromises and the Coup Attempt Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Genre of “Republicans Shocked That The Republican Party is Full of Republicans” Continues To Pay Very Well driftglass, at his blog
“Fuck Those Dr. Seuss Books” and Other Proper Responses to the Fake “Cancel Culture” Bullshit The Rude Pundit, at his blog
REPUBLICAN AREN’T ACTING AS IF THEY’RE DOOMED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
If Trump Econ Loon Peter Navarro Was Ever Right About Something, We Have Yet To Discover It Liz Dye, Wonkette
Manhattan DA Getting Closer And Closer To Trump, Like Chompy ‘Jaws’ Shark! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Shiny Normal Thing! Actual Educator Miquel Cardona Confirmed As Education Secretary Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Biden Says Deported Parents Of Separated Kids Can Come Back, Does Not SEEM To Be A Trap Doktor Zoom, Wonkette