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
Nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler born; Gunfire erupts at Columbine High; Cubans in the Mariel boatlift arrive in the U.S.; Ted Williams makes his baseball debut; Singer Luther Vandross born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Walter Frederick “Fritz” Mondale (January 5, 1928 – April 19, 2021)
Breakfast News
US News
A jab on the job: Companies, unions offer COVID-19 vaccines
Pandemic good Samaritan faces hefty tax bill for his efforts
Murder case against ex-cop in Floyd’s death goes to the jury
Feds weighing how to respond after verdict in Chauvin trial
Prosecutor: FedEx shooter didn’t have ‘red flag’ hearing
San Diego transit agency settles death lawsuit for $5.5M
Scrutiny of Tesla crash a sign that regulation may be coming
Judge keeps supervision of union for Disney performers
US West prepares for possible 1st water shortage declaration
NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
Mass fossil site may prove tyrannosaurs lived in packs
What? What? City bans use of loud, gas-powered leaf blowers
US Politics
US warns against travel to 80% of world due to coronavirus
AP source: Guantanamo prisoners now getting COVID-19 vaccine
Biden feels heat on emissions goal as climate summit nears
Repeated Guard missions in DC trigger frustration, denials
Medical ruling: Capitol cop Sicknick died of natural causes
Gaetz, Greene flaunt new paths to power, testing GOP leaders
Miners’ union backs shift from coal in exchange for jobs
International News
The Latest: Schools reopen in Mexico’s Campeche state
India’s capital to lock down amid explosive virus surge
EU warns “spark” could set off escalation at Ukraine borders
Czech, Russian envoys fly home amid depot explosion dispute
Rwanda report blames France for ‘enabling’ the 1994 genocide
Cuba’s Communist Party chooses Miguel Díaz-Canel as leader
Greens bid for German chancellery as Merkel’s bloc squabbles
Putin foe Navalny sent to prison hospital amid hunger strike
Sudan repeals Israel boycott law amid normalization efforts
Fire on Cape Town’s Table Mountain under control, smoldering
Sports
Curry hits 10 3s, scores 49 in Warriors’ win in Philly
Rockets say Sterling Brown was attacked, injured in Miami
5-10 start has Yankees restless; Cashman vows to stay course
NFL offseason programs begin with mixed player involvement
Sharks’ Marleau breaks Howe’s NHL games played record
Breakfast Blogs
This Is Years of Starving Government and Deregulating Industry at Work Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Why DOJ Isn’t Making Plea Deals: The Delayed Obstruction and Even More Delayed Assault Charge against Patrick Montgomery emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
For Our Readers In the Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul Area: Be Prepared, Be Alert Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
Marjorie Taylor Greene makes the Freedom Caucus MOR digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Prehistory of posturing Tom Sullivan, Esquire Politics
Judge Has Some Fun Denying Injunction Requested By One Brewery For Another Over Trademark Suit Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Josh Hawley: We Must Break Up Companies Whose Politics I Disagree With For Discriminating Against People Whose Politics I Agree With Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Sotomayor Was the Only Justice Who Questioned a Jail’s Warrantless Search of a Woman’s Vagina and Anus Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
‘This Wasn’t Policing’: 6 Key Elements in Closing Arguments of Derek Chauvin Trial in George Floyd’s Death Alberto Luperon, Law & Crime
First Amendment Lawyers Fight in Supreme Court for Public Access to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Rulings Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
SCOTUS Skeptical About Siding with Native American Tribes on Question of CARES Act Funding Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Mythical devil of the ever-present laws Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Fossil Fuel Scam Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Chauvin verdict Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Breaking: No Political Party is Ever Responsible For Anything driftglass, at his blog
Tea and Psychopathy Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THEY THINK WE’RE OUTVOTING THEM, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY THINK WE OUTNUMBER THEM Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Illuminati Can’t Stop Lin Wood From Accusing People Of Child Sex Trafficking Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Ted Cruz Being Incorrect A-Hole About Civil Rights History Again Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
OAN Employees Real Sorry About Poisoning Your Nana’s Brain, Please Stop Calling Them ‘Nazis’ Now? Liz Dye, Wonkette
John Boehner’s Magical Historical Revisionism Book Tour! Michael Mora, Wonkette