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.
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