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
Abraham Lincoln wins four-way race for President as American Civil War nears; March music ‘king’ John Phillip Sousa born; Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies; Director Mike Nichols born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Breakfast News
US News
Pfizer says COVID-19 pill cut hospital, death risk by 90%
More vaccines, fewer mask rules as US keeps fighting COVID
Vaccine refusals in intelligence agencies raise GOP concerns
Report: US cancels vaccine maker’s multimillion dollar deal
Lawsuits over workplace vaccine rule focus on states’ rights
Washington state senators to need COVID test to attend votes
COVID-19 forces closure of rural Lincoln County courthouse
US employers shrugged off virus and stepped up hiring
Arizona National Guard helps with Maricopa jail vaccinations
After long COVID battle, Iowa man decides to wed in hospital
Denver Zoo reports world’s first coronavirus cases in hyenas
Southern California enacts new smog rules on refineries
Oil spill cleanup improves, fisheries to stay closed longer
University changes course; professors may testify in lawsuit
Black women at Pierce sheriff’s dept. allege discrimination
Game on: 9-foot video game joystick on record as largest
Florida considers ousting mockingbird from honorary perch
Rare leopard cub makes debut at Santa Barbara Zoo
End of daylight saving time means winter is on the horizon
US Politics
Dems end deadlock, House sends Biden infrastructure bill
House Dems near truce, approach infrastructure win for Biden
What’s in, and what’s out, as House nears vote on Biden bill
Former Justice Dept. lawyer cuts Jan. 6 deposition short
Virginia Dems concede defeat, say Republicans control House
In Richmond, Youngkin to face ‘the Senate Democratic Alamo’
International News
Japan to ease border controls Monday as coronavirus slows
UN Security Council calls for end to Ethiopia hostilities
Sports
NASCAR denounces ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ conservative rally cry
Breakfast Blogs
This Is Rope-a-Dope With Actual Dopes Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Igor Danchenko Indictment: Structure emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, empywheel
Bullshit Brigade: Now with More NYT Bullshit [Action Item Included] Rayne, emptywheel
Shameless digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
If the climate don’t gitcha…. Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Austin Homeowners Association Pitches In To Help Cops Kill A Guy Over Uncut Grass Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Suspended From Practicing Law In New York Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Pretending the war on Critical Race Theory (sic) isn’t a cynical moral panic Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Innumeracy 101 Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 948 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and MOney
Farce/Off, Starring Adam Kinzinger and Matthew Dowd driftglass, at hi blog
The Fuck, Joe Manchin? The Rude Pundit, at his blog
THE MEDIA: REPUBLICANS CAN WIN BY NOT SEEMING EXTREMIST! EXTREMISTS: NOT SO FAST! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Did James O’Keefe Spy Thugs Burgle Ashley Biden’s Diary? Because That’s F*cking Gross Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette
October Jobs Report Out And Great News, Unless You Are Fox Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
How Is Gabby Giffords Being A Hero Today? Liz Dye, Wonkette
What’s Better Than One Manhattan Grand Jury Investigating Trump Org? Another One! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
NYT’s Nate Cohn Thinks Glenn Youngkin’s A Postracial Dreamboat Almost Like That Obama Guy Stephen Robinson, Wonkette