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
Julius Caesar assassinated in Rome; Johnson urges passage of Voting Rights Act; Worldcom CEO Bernard Ebbers convicted of fraud; Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton; “My Fair Lady” debuts on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Breakfast News
US News
‘Big burden’ for schools trying to give kids internet access
Survivors struggle as scientists race to solve COVID mystery
Pandemic redefines ‘public’ access to government meetings
Governments delay access to public records during pandemic
Governors evade sunshine laws to keep records from public
Portland police: Detained protesters had bear spray, hammers
US female firefighters fight discrimination with lawsuits
North Carolina police find suspicious devices near church
Immigrant victims of crime hope Congress eases visa hurdles
Winter storm closes roads in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska
US Politics
Pelosi pledges swift work on major infrastructure package
Biden declines to call for Cuomo to resign, awaits probe
Democrats bank on relief aid to win back wary working class
With Cuomo under fire, No. 2 Kathy Hochul treads carefully
International News
Ireland suspends AstraZeneca vaccine amid blood clot reports
Israel police to probe sex abuse claims against rescue chief
Merkel’s party suffers defeats in 2 German state elections
London police chief says she won’t quit after vigil clashes
Kosovo opens embassy to Israel in Jerusalem
Martial law imposed in parts of Myanmar city as deaths rise
Australians rally at Parliament to demand justice for women
Dutch police break up anti-govt protest on eve of election
Spain: Police bust major drug distribution network in Madrid
Africans rethink big, bountiful weddings as pandemic bites
Watching the watchers: Who’s at helm of EU’s border agency?
Brazil wonders about whereabouts of vaccine mascot
Sports
Record-setting Saints QB Brees announces retirement at 42
Life on the bubble: Brackets set for return of March Madness
No. 3 Illinois beats No. 9 Ohio State to take Big Ten title
No. 6 Alabama adds another SEC title, edges LSU at tourney
Amazin’ at-bat: Mets’ Guillorme draws 22-pitch walk vs Hicks
Thomas lives on edge and rallies to win Players Championship
Martin Truex Jr. wins NASCAR Cup race at Phoenix Raceway
Breakfast Blogs
Those of Us Unaccustomed to Seeing Progressives With Their Act Together Are Getting a Little Dizzy Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
“I Started the Fire:” DOJ Reveals Another Missed Advance Warning about January 6 emptywheelaka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Finding The Public In A Complex Society Ed Walker, emptywheel
Funeral For A Friend And Get Your Shot bmaz, emptywheel
About the Filibuster digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Meeting Americans’ needs from urban to rural Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
D.C. Siege Defendant Had Company to Get Law Enforcement-Grade Weapons to ‘Take Back Our Country’: Prosecutors alberto Luperon, Law & Crime
Punishing children because of the unemployment of their parents is senseless Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Biden and the Spotted Owl Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Vaccine Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
RIGHT-WINGERS: NOT ONLY ARE YOU LIBS HATING CUOMO WRONG, YOU’RE FORCING HIM OUT OF OFFICE WRONG Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog