The Breakfast Club (Howling Reproach)

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

Funeral of Jordan’s King Hussein; Premiere of ‘The Birth of a Nation’; a South Carolina civil rights protest turns deadly; the Boy Scouts of America is incorporated; actor James Dean born

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

Ted Koppel

Breakfast News

US News

Governors in 4 states plan for end to school mask mandates

California votes to require paid sick leave for virus cases

California will lift mask mandate as omicron cases fall

Lamont recommends ending mask mandate for schools, day care

Justice Dept. signals it may allow safe injection sites

Amir Locke protesters seek acting police chief’s resignation

Judge awards millions to lawyers in Flint water settlement

Groups sue over Maui resort lights that disorient seabirds

Power still out to 60K customers, days after Memphis storm

Air Force ordered to pay more than $230M in church shooting

Jury building to help Houston court system deal with backlog

US Politics

Supreme Court sides with GOP in Alabama election map case

House prepares short-term bill keeping government open

White House considers expanding limits on ‘no-knock’ warrant

What does Ivanka Trump know about Jan. 6? Congress is asking

White House: Top scientist resigns over treatment of staff

IRS to end use of facial recognition to identify taxpayers

Spending bill has $403M for leaky Hawaii fuel tank facility

International News

Canada pushes back against GOP support for COVID protests

Omicron forces S. Korea to end GPS monitoring, some checkups

Australia to open borders to vaccinated travelers on Feb. 21

Biden threatens: No gas pipeline if Russia invades Ukraine

Experts to visit Fukushima plant to check water release plan

US approves support deal with Taiwan for Patriot missiles

Iran nuclear talks to resume in Vienna on Tuesday

Boris Johnson reboots office in bid to move past ‘partygate’

Sports

Florida enters AP women’s hoops poll; South Carolina No. 1

No. 5 NC State cruises past No. 11 Georgia Tech 59-48 in ACC

Pointer, Aifuwa lead No. 14 LSU women past Mississippi 68-64

Auburn, Gonzaga stay 1-2 in AP Top 25; Texas Tech up to 9th

Beekman 3 gives Virginia stunning 69-68 win over No. 7 Duke

Aluma leads Virginia Tech to a 74-47 rout of Pittsburgh

Adebayo, Butler lead Heat to 121-100 win over Wizards

Siakam, Raptors beat Hornets 116-101 for 6th straight win

Murray stops 32 shots to help Senators beat Devils 4-1

Parrot’s cancer comeback leads to Olympic snowboard gold

US-born freeskier Gu wins Olympic big air gold for China

The doctor is in (the Olympics): Desmond makes Irish history

Breakfast Blogs

We Sent Some American Crazy Up to Canada. You Better Believe It’s Going to Rebound. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Why to Delay a Mark Meadows Indictment: Bannon Is Using His Contempt Prosecution to Monitor the Ongoing January 6 Investigation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler,emptywheel

Gaslighting of the Obstructive Kind Rayne, emptywheel

The Fed Prepares To Screw Working People Again Ed Walker, emptywheel

Bossie Moving On Up digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Staggering political weakness Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Hypocrisy Rules As Companies Try To Smear New FTC Nomination Alvaro Bedoya Karl Bode, Techdirt

IRS Says It Will Move Away From Requiring ID.me Facial Recognition Mike Masnick, Techdirt

Court Grants Qualified Immunity To Officer Who Told Couple To Take Down Facebook Post About Off-Duty Cop Who Shot Their Dog Tim Cushing, Techdirt

Justices Kavanaugh and Alito Unite Against ‘Worn-Out Rhetoric’ About ‘Shadow Docket’ as SCOTUS Allows Alabama GOP Maps That a Court Found Were a Racial Gerrymander for Midterm Elections Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime

Sidney Powell, ‘Kraken’ Lawyers Ask Appeals Court to Reverse ‘Intemperate’ Sanctions Order: We’re Not ‘Overwrought, Dangerous Lunatics’ Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime

No Safe Haven Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

A little night music Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,013 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

February 7, 2022: Today in Shelter Culture ™ driftglass, at his blog

A Game of Thrones Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

ANDREW CUOMO IS PROBABLY TOO MUCH OF AN EGOMANIAC TO DO THE DAMAGE HE COULD DO Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Profiles In GOP Cowardice: Your Sunday Shows! Michael Mora, Wonkette

Media Whiffs Coverage Of January 6 Committee, Vows To Go Forth And Whiff Again Liz Dye, Wonkette

Police Really Need To Stop Breaking Into Black People’s Homes And Killing Them Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Right-Wingers No Longer Being Shy About Wanting To Defund Public Schools Entirely Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

POP QUIZ: Who’s This So-Called Chancellor Of Germany Standing Next To Joe Biden? Evan Hurst, Wonkette