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
Pres. Woodrow Wilson is born; John C. Calhoun becomes first US vice president to resign; Alexander Solzhenitsyn ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is published; Actor Denzel Washington & comic book creator Stan Lee are born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
Breakfast News
US News
US officials recommend shorter COVID isolation, quarantine
Omicron, storms disrupt air travel for 4th consecutive day
Alabama seeing rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations
Florida adds 39,000 new COVID cases from Christmas weekend
Flu is making a comeback in US after an unusual year off
Snow blasts California and freezes Pacific Northwest
Snow turns to frigid temperatures in the Pacific Northwest
Extreme staffing shortage at ski area leads to long lines
Mama bear, cubs spotted napping in tree in Va. neighborhood
US Politics
Fauci: US should consider vaccine mandate for US air travel
Biden signs $768.2 billion defense spending bill into law
In abortion rights debate, Biden doesn’t often use the word
A full deck of cards: Ohio House signs on to aide’s ambition
International News
Omicron spreads global gloom over New Year’s celebrations
Record COVID case numbers reported in 2 Australia states
Iran presses on oil exports as nuclear talks resume
North Korea holds key meeting as Kim marks 10 years in power
Sports
Boise State pulls out of Arizona Bowl due to COVID-19 issues
Diamond Head game canceled over Stanford COVID-19 issues
2 more games postponed for No. 5 UCLA amid COVID-19 outbreak
South Carolina, Stanford still Nos. 1-2 in women’s AP Top 25
No. 19 LSU women win 11th straight, 83-47 over Samford
No. 7 Tennessee routs Chattanooga 91-41
Baylor stays No. 1 in AP Top 25, Michigan State up to No. 10
Texas A&M scores 100-plus for 1st time since 2017
Syracuse plays for 1st time since Dec. 11, routs Brown 93-62
DeRozan, LaVine, Vucevic power Bulls past Hawks 130-118
Breakfast Blogs
The Trump to Willard War Room to Militia Connection emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Vaxxes are the name of the game digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Whither democracy? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Dissent Takes Aim at Fifth Circuit’s ‘Impermissible Delay’ in Review of ‘Mutinous’ Abortion Law Marisa Sarnoff, Law & Crime
Omicron follies Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 984 Erik Loomis, Lawyers,Guns and Money
For the Record: God Rest You Merry Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
The Miseducation Of Chuck Todd Michael Mora, Wonkette
Conservatives Inadvertently Encourage Teen Reading With Swath Of Book Bans Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Atlantic Writer Pretty Sure Liberals Made Anti-Vaxxers Too Stupid To Live Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Nevada GOP Candidate Says Mark Milley Should Be Hanged Live On C-SPAN. Totally Normal. Liz Dye, Wonkette
‘The View’ Having Tough Time Finding Somebody Idiot Enough To Fill Meghan McCain’s Shoes Evan Hurst, Wonkette