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
Four black girls killed in a church blast in Alabama; President George W. Bush vows massive rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina; Nazi Germany adopts Nuremberg laws; Agatha Christie and Oliver Stone born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Breakfast News
US News
Census: Relief programs staved off hardship in COVID crash
COVID-19 cases climbing, wiping out months of progress
State workers seek exemptions to Washington vaccine mandate
Arkansas: 36 new COVID deaths and 1,544 new COVID-19 cases
COVID surge pushes much of Idaho toward medical rationing
Push for Native American curriculum in schools makes gains
Nicholas, now a tropical depression, still douses Gulf Coast
Boy Scouts settlement reached with primary insurer
Former professor charged with sending equipment to Iran
Feds: Los Angeles bomb technicians caused major explosion
Official: North Dakota’s costliest leased space mostly used
Judge tosses lawsuit against Mormon church use of donations
Missouri cave with ancient Native American drawings sold
US Politics
Democrats try delicate tax maneuvers for $3.5 trillion bill
3 former US officials charged in UAE hacking scheme
Book: Top US officer feared Trump could order China strike
Indiana redistricting plan secures suburban district for GOP
International News
Putin in self-isolation due to COVID cases in inner circle
WHO, partners aim to get Africa 30% of needed doses by Feb
Third shot: UK to offer COVID booster jabs to over 50s
Blinken defense of Afghan policy clouded by al-Qaida warning
Haiti prosecutor seeks to charge PM in killing, is replaced
US military aid to Egypt released despite rights concerns
AP Interview: UN refugee chief says Afghan stability needed
Fukushima plant failed to probe cause of faulty filters
Mexico to give away ‘El Chapo’ safehouse in lottery
Beijing court rules against woman in China #MeToo case
Chinese ambassador to UK barred from Parliament
Egypt opens ancient tomb of King Djoser after restoration
Egypt team identifies fossil of land-roaming whale species
Breakfast Blogs
I’d Like to Hear Christopher Wray Explain Why the FBI Used This Memo to Avoid Investigating Brett Kavanaugh Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
DOJ Put Someone Who Enabled Sidney Powell’s Lies — Jocelyn Ballantine — in Charge of Prosecuting the Proud Boys emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
A popular mandate digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Even “pro-business” was a lie Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Commentator Insists That Fact Checking Is An Attack On Free Speech Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Biden ‘Competition Council’ Urges Biden FCC To Do Things It Can’t Do Because Biden Hasn’t Fully Staffed It Yet Karl Bode, Techdirt
DOJ Says Federal Agents Will Start Wearing Body Cameras Tim Cusaing, Techdirt
Federal Judge: Iowa’s Law Banning Mask Mandates in Public Schools Violates the Constitution and ADA Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Now We Know When ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Will Face Trial That Could Lead to Pharmaceutical Industry Ban Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Will Republicans and their fellow travelers make whooping cough great again? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The murder of Daniel and Davy Macias by the cowards Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Norm Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Literary Corner: Vulnerable to the Reliability Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
YOU KNOW THAT ALL THE WINGNUTS IN AMERICA THINK THEIR WORST SUSPICIONS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED, RIGHT? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Why’s Everybody Pickin’ On The Poor Right-Wing Hacks Of The Supreme Court? Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Did You Forget How Crazy Trump Was? Bob Woodward Will Remind You. Liz Dye, Wonkette
Joe Manchin Gonna Find 10 Unicorn Republicans Who’ll Support Voting Rights. Honest! Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
If *Joe Scarborough* Thinks Dem Plan Doesn’t Tax Rich Enough, That Plan Could Use Some Fixin’ Doktor Zoom, Wonkette