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
The Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland; President Abraham Lincoln dies; Jackie Robinson becomes first African American player in Major League Baseball; US launches air raid against Libya; Cambodian Communist revolutionary Pol Pot dies;
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Breakfast News
US News
Pfizer to seek COVID booster for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds
FDA authorizes 1st breath test for COVID-19 infection
California delays coronavirus vaccine mandate for schools
Georgia moves to weekly COVID-19 data reporting
Family seeks charges, officer’s ID in Patrick Lyoya’s death
Subway shooting heightens NYC mayor’s focus on rising crime
Homeschooling surge continues despite schools reopening
US jobless claims rise but remain near a half-century low
Expanding drought leaves western US scrambling for water
Battle over carbon capture as tool to fight climate change
Company settles dog-leasing allegations for more than $900K
Hungry javelina gets stuck in car, goes for ride in Arizona
US Politics
Kentucky legislature overrides governor’s veto of sweeping abortion bill
Stacey Abrams loses bid to use same Georgia fundraising law that benefits Gov. Brian Kemp
Maine House advances plan to give state tribes sovereignty
Texas moves to ease border gridlock over ‘sense of urgency’
County moves to ban for-profit displays of human remains
State lawyer alleges Newsom interfered in Activision lawsuit
GOP leaders in Ohio try to block Trump endorsement of Vance
International News
Russia’s damaged Black Sea flagship sinks in latest setback
WHO: COVID cases, deaths in Africa drop to lowest levels yet
Anti-virus shutdowns in China spread as infections rise
UK plan to fly asylum-seekers to Rwanda draws outrage
In Rio, rescue dogs watch out for their rescuers
In Cuba, crabs embark on perilous migration to Bay of Pigs
Sports
Woodruff returns to form as Brewers defeat Cardinals 5-1
Breakfast Blogs
Getting Banned From the Library for Writing a Poem Seems Like Cancel Culture Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Tom Barrack Appears to Claim Trump Knew Barrack Was Catering US Foreign Policy to the Emirates emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Two Possible End Games in Ukraine Peterr, emptywheel
War for Ukraine Update 50: The Russian Reinvasion of Ukraine Has Reached Its 50th Day Adam L. Silverman, Wonkette
Trump 2.0 signs bill to force little girls to give birth to their father’s child digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabvaloo
“A little aneurysm of reality” Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
It’s Still Stupidly, Ridiculously Difficult To Buy A ‘Dumb’ TV Karl Bode, Techdirt
National Archive Wants To Know Why CBP Is Using Messaging Services That Auto-Delete Messages Tim Cushing, Techdirt
How The SMART Copyright Act Will Help Cops Avoid Accountability Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Police shootings and the logic of authoritarianism Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,070 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Five Points On Greg Abbot’s Border Blockade And National Power Grab Josh Kovensky, Talking Points Memo
Who Built The Pyramids? Bill Buckley Built The Pyramids! Everybody Knows That! driftglass, at his blog
C’est la faute à Rousseau Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THE NRA FLUNKS CIVICS Steve M., No More Mister nice Blog
Wheel Of Ohio GOP Senate Hopefuls Now Includes Guy Who Just Called Entire Middle Class A Freeloader Liz Dye, Wonkette
Tennessee GOP Idiot Tells Homeless To Chin Up And Think Of Hitler Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Elon Musk Can Buy Twitter And Turn It Into A Troll Site, But He Can’t Force Anyone To Stay Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
House Republicans Activate Super-Racist Powers, Kill Own Bill Honoring Black Florida Judge Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Poll Shows Dem Senate Majority Might Crap Out In Nevada Stephen Robinson, Wonkette