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
Nazi Germany invades Poland, start of World War II; Beslan hostage crisis begins in Russia; Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky for world chess crown; Boxer Rocky Marciano and singer Gloria Estefan born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It’s important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know about. Don’t raise your voice just to raise your voice if you have nothing behind it and don’t know what you’re talking about.
Breakfast News
US News
Oxygen supplies grow precarious amid COVID surge
Hanford orders new COVID-19 requirements for 11,000 workers
Texas school system closes after 2 teachers die of COVID-19
Mormon vaccine push ratchets up, dividing faith’s members
Number of Arkansas COVID patients on ventilators climbing
COVID recession pushed Social Security insolvency up a year
Ida’s sweltering aftermath: No power, no water, no gasoline
Small Louisiana communities bear brunt of Hurricane Ida
High winds threaten to whip up flames approaching Lake Tahoe
Judge tosses Trump rollback of clean water safeguards
Brit charged in terror beheadings scheduled to plead guilty
Former Navy officer pleads guilty in wide-spanning scandal
Years later, California voters still wait on water projects
US Politics
Biden defends departure from ‘forever war,’ praises airlift
Texas Legislature sends sweeping GOP voting bill to governor
5 candidates for Boston mayor talk schools, housing at forum
Illinois Dems set to OK new legislative maps over criticism
Alaska House calls for $1,100 dividend; dispute over funds
International News
Victorious Taliban focus on governing after US withdrawal
US commits to $60 million in aid to Ukraine before WH visit
Sports
Double thumbs up: Baez caps rally in opener, Mets win twice
High jumper Sam Grewe wins gold, heads to medical school
Bathroom stall: Tennis toilet break talk swirls in Flush-ing
“Cressy!” chants break out as American pulls US Open stunner
Breakfast Blogs
The Dog Ate My Conflict — Car Accident — Ventilator — Disconnected Phones: Miscellany from the January 6 Investigation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Lessons Unlearned digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
No mystery Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Man Who Was Ejected From The United States After Appearing In A Film Critical Of ICE Asks Court To Roll Back Removal Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Facebook Promises To Inform Users If Their Content Was Removed Due To Community Standards Takedown Demands From Governments Mike Masnick, Techdirt
War is an extraordinarily inefficient vehicle for humanitarianism Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Surrealistic MyPillow Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Ed Asner Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Afghanistan Done (Part 2 of A Country on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Neoconservative Denial Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
NEVER GUILTY, NEVER FREE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog