The Breakfast Club (Get Up)

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

ACold War prisoner exchange; boxer Mike Tyson convicted of rape; Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ opens on Broadway; Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are a Changin” released.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Bob Marley

Breakfast News

US News

3 million plaintiffs seek $1.2B from California health firm

Oregon bill tackles megaquake ‘nightmare’: Fuel storage site

Facing project delays, county pushes for concrete strike end

Hospital to pay $3.8 million to resolve kickback claims

Fatal fires in St. Louis, Baltimore expose vacant home risks

CDC proposes softer guidance on opioid prescriptions

Snowbird kitty: Lost cat heads home to Maine — from Florida

US Politics

Under pressure to ease up, Biden weighs new virus response

Biden puts focus on drug prices as he tries to revive agenda

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro

Minority leader opposes US attorney nominee for Minnesota

House panel probes Trump presidential records found in Fla.

Report: Archives asks Justice to probe Trump record handling

International News

Japan OKs Pfizer COVID-19 oral pills amid surging infections

Zimbabwe’s teachers strike amid pandemic and high inflation

COVID-19 truck blockade in Canada shuts down Ford plant

Kerry calls for keeping power markets open in Mexico

Sri Lanka approves law implementing anti-land mine treaty

Americans hope appeal yields ‘truth’ of officer’s Rome death

Indonesia frees croc from tire stuck on its neck for 6 years

Sports

Chen’s near-perfect skate wins long-sought Olympic gold

Not perfect, still golden for Chloe Kim in Olympic halfpipe

Germany wins Olympic relay, sweeps luge gold medals

Schouten wins 2nd Olympic gold, completes distance sweep

Breakfast Blogs

This Is the Kind of History They Want to Pass Laws Against Teaching Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Four Versions of the Mueller Report emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

And In The Timeline To Which The Trickster God Has Confined Us… Tom Levenson, Balloon Juice

Just another insult to all of us digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Freedom means never having to be responsible Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD’s Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision Tim Cushing, Techdirt

National Archives Asks DOJ to Investigate Trump’s Handling of White House Records: Reports Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime

The hammer of fascism Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Taking Facts for Granted Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money

White Guys In Science – E. O. Wilson Cheryl Rofer, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Young Americans have collectively lost more years of life because of the pandemic than old Americans Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,015 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money