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
The Beatles arrive in America; Ramzi Yousef arrested for the 1993 blast at New York’s World Trade Center; Jordan’s King Hussein dies; Author Charles Dickens and Country music star Garth Brooks are born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A man is only as faithful as his options.
Breakfast News
US News
Illinois judge blocks school mask mandate, state to appeal
Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint
Winter storm blows out to sea, but some areas without power
US military faces crisis in Hawaii after leak poisons water
Mystery smell in city is likened to sewage, animal corpses
Florida man steals car; train sends it crashing into house
Florida home to be sold in novel non-fungible token deal
US Politics
State AG races become litmus test for GOP election claims
Crossing lines, Manchin endorses Murkowski’s Senate campaign
Jackson, in high court mix, traces law interest to preschool
Trump tirade on ‘racist’ DAs echoes other racist tropes
Split Colorado school board fires superintendent
Ruling could decide whether towns must maintain roads
International News
Ottawa declares state of emergency over COVID-19 protests
Russia hits new COVID-19 record; 10x more than a month ago
Schools in Nepal demand reopening as virus cases decline
Top Biden aide says Ukraine invasion could come ‘any day’
U.S. airborne infantry troops arrive in Poland amid tensions
Tunisian leader seeks to dissolve nation’s top judiciary
German leader’s stance on Russia looms over 1st visit to US
No clear presidential frontrunner as Costa Ricans cast votes
Sports
Fudd scores 25, helps No. 10 UConn top No. 7 Tennessee 75-56
Cardaño-Hillary, No. 5 Indiana women beat Purdue 64-57
Smith, No. 9 Baylor women rally past No. 13 Texas 63-55
Florida State women beat No. 20 Notre Dame for first time
Dixon has 18, No. 4 Louisville overwhelms Syracuse 100-64
Broughton sparks Florida women past No. 14 Georgia 54-51
Delaire, Ingram, Keefe lead Stanford past Washington 87-69
Jokic’s triple-double leads Nuggets over Nets 124-104
Towns scores 24 points, Timberwolves beat Pistons 118-105
Herbert, Crosby send AFC to 41-35 win in Pro Bowl’s return
What a finish! Van der Poel gives Sweden speedskating gold
Alexander Bolshunov wins Olympic gold in 30K skiathlon
Snowboarding shines, New Zealand gets 1st Winter Games win
Breakfast Blogs
You Might Call Neil Gorsuch’s Federalist Society Chat ‘Ideological Payola’ Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
When Lawyers’ Lawyers Need Lawyers: The Import of Robert Costello’s Toll Records — for Bannon, for Rudy, and for Donald Trump emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Clyburn’s Count Betty Cracker, Balloon Juice
No Sh*t Sherlock! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Democrats build. Republicans break. Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Could Ukraine Have Retained Soviet Nuclear Weapons? Cheryl Rofer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,012 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
For the Record: Gunga Dinesh Holds Forth on the Demonstrations in Ottawa Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THE CANADIAN TRUCK BLOCKADE IS COMING TO AMERICA IN LESS THAN A MONTH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog