The Breakfast Club (Friendship)

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

George Washington, America’s first president, is born; Iraqi insurgents destroy a Shiite shrine’s golden dome; the ‘Miracle on Ice’ during the 1980 Winter Olympics; Pop artist Andy Warhol dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

Breakfast News

US News

Explosion at huge Louisiana refinery; 6 minor injuries

Sewage spill shuts down beaches in Southern California

Beekeepers turn to anti-theft technology as hive thefts rise

Massachusetts man tries to enter zoo’s tiger cage, arrested

Mississippi HBCU gets $10M from Netflix CEO and wife

Huge Tahoe bear breaks into homes as it eludes capture

US Politics

Whisper campaigns grow as Biden nears choice for high court

New Census director has faith in quality of 2020 numbers

US Fed governor opens door to half-point rate hike in March

House panel OKs revised ban on videotaping police

Arizona Senate waives school spending cap, averts crisis

International News

Protester drives at New Zealand police as cordon tightens

War fears grow as Putin orders troops to eastern Ukraine

Colombia’s highest court legalizes abortion up to 24 weeks

Canada lawmakers extend emergency powers for truck protests

UN alarmed at increasing reports of Greek migrant pushbacks

Danish police seek info on apparent escaped kangaroo

Sports

South Carolina tops women’s AP Top 25; Mulkey, LSU in top 10

Gonzaga unanimous No. 1 in AP Top 25; Arizona up to 2

Breakfast Blogs

This CNN Report on Hillary Clinton Manages to Find a New Wrong Way to Cover Her Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Judge Mehta’s Ruling that Donald Trump May Have Aided and Abetted Assaults on Cops Is More Important Than His Conspiracy Decision emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

They’re coming for contraception digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

It’s in the culture Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hulabaloo

SCOTUS Set to Hear Oral Arguments in Two Cases About Native American Tribal Sovereignty Elura Nanos. Law & Crime

Anti-mandate arguments are just anti-vaxx arguments Scott Lemieux, Lawyers,Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,027 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

When The Zone is Already Flooded: Part II driftglass, at his blog

Democrats in Disarray Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

IT’S THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY, STUPID Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Trump Pocketed Classified Docs, Insists The People WILL NOT Stand For Reporters Revealing That Liz Dye, Wonkette

Dean Baquet Has No Regrets About How Much New York Times F*cked Up 2016 Election Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Ted Cruz Weeps For Racism Joe Biden Doing To White Judges Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette