The Breakfast Club (All True Knowledge)

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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