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
Militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seize its occupants; Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated; Soviet troops move in to crush the Hungarian Revolution in Eastern Europe; Baseball hall-of-famer Cy Young dies; Rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs is born. ek hornbeck died.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
This is the internet. Get a thicker skin or find another hobby.
ek horbeck
, 11/4/2020
Breakfast News
US News
Navajo Nation reports 80 new COVID-19 cases, but no deaths
Roll up your sleeves: Kids’ turn arrives for COVID-19 shots
Portland, Oregon, mayor proposes increasing police budget
FBI releases declassified documents on Sept. 11 attacks
After 196 years, college grants tenure to a Black professor
Regulators reduce rates for Arizona’s largest power company
US Politics
High court seems ready to strike down New York gun law
Senate Dems push new voting bill, and again hit GOP wall
Activists keep police reform push despite Minneapolis loss
Phil Murphy narrowly reelected governor in New Jersey
Paid leave, immigration, tax changes added to Biden bill
International News
Globe bounces back to nearly 2019 carbon pollution levels
Ash from erupting volcano forces Spanish islanders indoors
Sports
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers in COVID-19 protocol, out Sunday
Medvedev advances, Tsitsipas retires at Paris Masters
Breakfast Blogs
The Voters of the Mequon-Thiensville School District Can See What’s Going On. Can the National Media? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
January 6 Defendants Succeed in Proving They Were Treated Better than Other DC Detainees emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
About Last Night… Betty Cracker, Balloon Juice
Round and Round the Wurlitzer Goes, Where It Stops Nobody Knows John Cole, Balloon Juice
Yet Another Moral Stain digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullaballoo
FEC failed, so Giffords sues NRA directly Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Change of strategy? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Appeals Court Doesn’t Seem To Like Much About A Criminal Defamation Law Police Used To Arrest A Critic Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Justice Alito Asks Why Law-Abiding Citizens Can’t Be Armed on NYC Subways as SCOTUS Hears Major Second Amendment Case Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Aaron Rodgers lied about being vaxxed then violated COVID protocols Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sam Alito: “There are not enough guns on subways and in schools today. Please add many more. I am not a crackpot.” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Wu Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Random Lessons from the Virginia Reaming The Rude Pundit, at his blog
New York Times: Why Do These GOP Activists Keep Sucking My C*ck? Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
WaPo: Trump Claims Executive Privilege Over Meetings His Campaign Paid For Liz Dye, Wonkette
Ron DeSantis Brandons Himself Evan Hurst, Wonkette