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
Britain enacts the Stamp Act on its American colonies; The ‘Garbage Barge’; Skater Tara Lipinski reaches the record books; The Beatles release ‘Please Please Me’; Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That’s the definition of political sarcasm.
Breakfast News
US News
NYC may lift rules requiring face masks for children under 5
Biden warns US companies of potential Russian cyberattacks
Part of Seattle tenant protection law struck down by court
Powerful storm system wallops Texas; tornado watch issued
DNR: More groundwater released by pipeline aquifer ruptures
Detroit schools aim to catch up, and then some, with US aid
EV battery maker LG will add up to 1,200 jobs in Michigan
Fungus-ravaged bat proposed for endangered species listing
US Politics
COVID budget impasse halts aid to test and treat uninsured
Jackson pushes back on GOP critics, defends record
New corporate climate change disclosures proposed by SEC
Businesses challenge Oregon’s new climate program
Don’t blame bail reform for higher crime, NYC watchdog says
Beshear accuses lawmakers of ‘cruel’ votes on veto overrides
SEC claims authority to subpoena Elon Musk about tweets
International News
Live updates: Ukrainian photojournalist missing near Kyiv
Ukraine retakes key Kyiv suburb; battle for Mariupol rages
US, Ukraine quietly try to pierce Putin’s propaganda bubble
Polish leader compares Russian attacks to Nazi war crimes
Ukraine war imperils wheat, but farmers in no rush to pivot
Russia court bans Facebook, Instagram on ‘extremism’ charges
Putin foe Navalny gets 9 more years in Russian prison
Kuwait, among world’s hottest places, lags on climate action
Breakfast Blogs
The Senatorial Speeches at the Beginning of Supreme Court Nomination Hearings Should Be Sh*tcanned Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Three Things: The Well-Qualified K. B. J. Rayne, emptywheel
War for Ukraine 27: The Latest From Mariupol, Zelenskyy Delineates His Terms, & Other Updates Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
Get ready for the oldest political attack in the book digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Putin’s Rovian move Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The Skeevy, Racist, Unrepentant, Third-Cousin Of The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Putin Is Not a Leftist, part 5,412 Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
BETTER DEAD THAN DEMOCRAT! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog