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
British surrender at Yorktown decides American Revolution; Stock market crash hits Wall Street in late 1980s; Napoleon’s forces begin retreat from Moscow; Concorde makes first landing in New York.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Breakfast News
US News
Parents protest California COVID vaccine mandate for kids 2 hours ago
Why COVID boosters weren’t tweaked to better match variants
Navajo Nation: No COVID-related deaths, 13th time in 19 days
Federal judge rejects bid to block Oregon vaccine mandate
Chicago police lag in reporting vaccine status in city fight
Michigan business groups urge Biden to reconsider mandate
Bourbon producer signals intent to hire replacement workers
Nazi-looted Van Gogh painting could fetch $30 million
US Politics
Colin Powell dies, trailblazing general stained by Iraq
EPA unveils strategy to regulate toxic ‘forever chemicals’
Biden team asks Supreme Court to pause Texas abortion law
Harris argues for Biden climate agenda at sinking Lake Mead
Biden’s dilemma: Satisfying Manchin risks losing other Dems
Supreme Court sides with police officers in two qualified immunity cases
Lawmakers give Amazon ‘final chance’ to clear up testimony
Oregon illegal pot grows: More calls to send National Guard
DC suspends most of its Metro trains over safety issue
Trump files lawsuit to keep Jan. 6 documents from Congress
International News
Russia suspends its mission at NATO, shuts alliance’s office
Strikers protest Haiti’s lack of security after kidnappings
Myanmar leader says ASEAN blind to opposition’s violence
EU commissioner on climate action: ‘Leave no one behind’
South Korea says North Korea fired projectile to sea
China calls missile launch ‘routine test’ of new technology
Colombia is putting its ‘cocaine hippos’ on birth control
Sports
Washington State coach Rolovich fired for refusing vaccine
Gonzaga is No. 1 in preseason AP Top 25; UCLA, Kansas next
Flyers spoil Hakstol’s return in 6-1 win over Kraken
Panarin, Shesterkin lead Rangers over Maple Leafs 2-1 in OT
Breakfast Blogs
Colin Powell Had the Chance to Be a Great Man in a Crucial Moment. He Chose to Be a Loyal Apparatchik. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Double or Nothing Betty Cracker, Balloon Juice
Republicans Really Are in Disarray digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
“Now is the time of monsters” Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
New Research Shows Social Media Doesn’t Turn People Into Assholes (They Already Were), And Everyone’s Wrong About Echo Chambers Mike Masnick, Techdirt
LAPD Sees Your Reform Efforts, Raises You $20 Million In Bullets, Snacks, And Surveillance Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Striking in the Tight Labor Market Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Dennis Prager successfully acquires COVID in order to protect himself from COVID Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
REPUBLICAN VOTERS MIGHT SIT OUT FUTURE ELECTIONS, THANKS TO TRUMP? IF ONLY. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump Threatens To Tank GOP In Midterms If Party Fails To Pucker Up And Kiss His Ass Liz Dye, Wonkette
Adam Kinzinger Isn’t Your BFF, And Chuck Todd Still Sucks Michael Mora, Wonkette
Concerned Parents Lose, Students Win, Metalhead Principal Gets To Stay Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
GOP Donors’ Favorite Dem Kyrsten Sinema Spent Last Week In Europe For Some Important Reason. Stephen Robinson, Wonkette