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
Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death; Bandleader Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel; The Bill of Rights takes effect; Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull killed; Walt Disney dies at age 65.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Breakfast News
US News
VIRUS TODAY: US begins biggest vaccination effort in history
Vaccine comes too late for the 300,000 US dead
‘Healing is coming’: US health workers start getting vaccine
California subpoenas Amazon over worker safety in pandemic
Agency homing in on social media companies’ data collection
US, states crack down on scams bilking desperate Americans
US agencies, companies secure networks after huge hack
San Francisco’s iconic Cliff House restaurant to close
It’s close but 2020 likely to end up hottest year on record
US Politics
Electoral College makes it official: Biden won, Trump lost
Trump says Barr resigning, will leave before Christmas
Democrats squeezed as COVID-19 relief talks continue
In a first, leading Republicans call Biden president-elect
International News
South Africa closes beaches to fight resurgence of COVID-19
France’s Macron wants to add climate goals in constitution
Azerbaijan, Armenia exchange prisoners as part of peace deal
Daytime darkness: Total solar eclipse wows in Latin America
UK homeowner delays sale of home after Banksy mural appears
Sports
Women’s NCAA Tournament to played at one site, eyes on Texas
U.S. rowers aiming to make 2021 Olympic team stick together
Harper carries No. 19 Rutgers past Maryland 74-60 in Big Ten
Washington pulls out of Pac-12 title game, replaced by Ducks
Florida’s Johnson ‘following simple commands’ after collapse
Hurts to start again for Eagles next Sunday at Arizona
AP Interview: Indians owner says name won’t change in 2021
Mets’ new GM excited by Cohen’s title expectations
Breakfast Blogs
That Bizarre Georgia Ad Isn’t the Worst Dan Crenshaw News of the Week Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
After Trump Spent Four Years Inviting Russia to Hack the US, Russia Allegedly Did Just That emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Bye bye Billy Barr digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Will Democrats fight? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Two Studies Show Giving Military Gear To Cops Doesn’t Result In Lower Crime Rates Tim Cushing, Techdirt
District Court Rejects CDT’s Challenge Of Trump’s Ridiculous Executive Order On Section 230 Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Federal Judge Won’t Let Kris Kobach Get His Hands on ‘We Build the Wall’ Money Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Even with Three Trump-Appointed Justices on the Bench, SCOTUS Declines to Roll Back Marriage Equality Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Days After Rejecting Absurd Texas Lawsuit, the Supreme Court Decided a Real Original Jurisdiction Case Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
The SolarWinds Breach: Why Your Work Computers Are Down Today Nicholas Weaver, Lawfare
Inside the right wing bubble Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Barr was corrupt until the end Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Identity Politics and Biden Appointees Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Literary Corner: Theater of the Intellectual Dark Web Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
WILL THEY TRY TO PRE-STEAL THE NEXT ELECTION? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump’s Legal Clown Car Runs Out Of Road Liz Dye, Wonkette
Democrats Need To Start Treating Republicans Like Gangsters They Are Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
New York Post Now Doxxing Random Cam Girls For No Reason Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette