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
Joan of Arc is born; Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph to the public; Commercial airplane completes first round-the-world flight; Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked; Dizzy Gillespie and Rudolf Nureyev die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Breakfast News
US News
US hospitals seeing different kind of COVID surge this time
US urges COVID boosters starting at age 12 to fight omicron
California to extend indoor mask mandate until mid-February
No deal, no school: Chicago cancels classes for a 2nd day
Dogs to visit 3 school districts to sniff out COVID-19
California adopts water restrictions as drought drags on
Texas day care gets reprieve after drilling plan is rejected
Blood test may one day predict severe pregnancy complication
Climate change, new construction mean more ruinous fires
Virginia officials defend response to snowy gridlock on I-95
‘Follow me’: Dog finds help, leads cops to owner’s car crash
‘River Dave’ arrested after returning to live at cabin site
Treasure hunters sue for records on FBI’s Civil War gold dig
US Politics
A year after Jan. 6, Congress more deeply divided than ever
Garland vows accountability for anyone responsible for 1/6
Man whose arrest led to ‘separate but equal’ is pardoned
Hannity, Fox face ethical issues over Trump text revelations
Former Books-A-Million CEO to run against Alabama governor
US prisons director resigning after crises-filled tenure
Big GOP gubernatorial field crowds onto stage for 1st time
International News
With salty language, Macron berates France’s unvaccinated
Australia’s COVID numbers surge amid Djokovic fallout
In Israel, omicron drives records, zigzag policy, 4th shots
US, Germany say Russia poses ‘urgent’ challenge to stability
German watchdog puts Google under closer antitrust scrutiny
Toxic gas leak from industrial tanker kills 6 in India
Salvador court re-opens probe into 1989 killing of 6 priests
Sports
Laszewski helps lift Notre Dame over North Carolina 78-73
No. 18 Tennessee tops Ole Miss 66-60 in overtime
Moore, Samuels lead No. 19 Villanova to rout of Creighton
No. 10 Michigan State beats Nebraska 79-67 for 8th straight
Doncic, Mavs beat Curry, Warriors 99-82 on Nowitzki’s night
Kyrie Irving returns to help Nets beat Pacers 129-121
Siakam scores 33 points, Raptors beat short-handed Bucks
Crosby, Rodrigues rally Penguins to 5-3 win over Blues
Maple Leafs send Oilers to 11th loss in 13 games, 4-2
Novak Djokovic denied entry to Australia, has visa canceled
US figure skating championships move forward with fans
Breakfast Blogs
Merrick Garland Made a Lethally Important Point About His January 6 Investigation Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
“I’m Just There to Open the Envelopes:” The Select Committee and DOJ Investigations Converge at Mike Pence emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
James Taylor, King Herod, and January 6th Petrr, emptywheel
Insurrection normalization digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Next time, it will be worse Tm Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
It’s Great That Winnie The Pooh Is In The Public Domain; But He Should Have Been Free In 1982 (Or Earlier) Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Appeals Court Denies Immunity To Bored Cop Who Decided To Turn A Natural Death Into A Murder Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Mississippi Zoning Board That Warned ‘If You Let Them Build It, They Will Come’ Is Ordered to Allow Construction of Mosque Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Another Capitol Police Officer, a 10-Year Veteran, Sues Donald Trump Under Ku Klux Klan Act for Jan. 6 ‘Call to Arms’ Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
How anti-democratic mechanisms beget further attacks on democracy Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Right wing brain worms are a real thing Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 991 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Don’t Mention The War! driftglass, at his blog
Whoa, If True Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TRUMPIST WRITER DOESN’T WANT AN AMICABLE “NATIONAL DIVORCE,” BECAUSE THEN WE WON’T BE CRUSHED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Meatball McPeenerToilet Didn’t Like Merrick Garland’s Speech, So There’s One Yelp Review Evan Hurst, Wonkette
We Saw JD Vance And WaPo In A Closet Making Babies Liz Dye, Wonkette
Washington Bible Mom Lady Running For Congress On Platform Of ‘Libraries Are Evil’ Doktor Zoom, Wonkette