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
War of the Worlds’ spooks Americans on Halloween Eve; A deadly mudslide hits Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch; Muhammad Ali beats George Foreman in the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’; Comedian Steve Allen dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Breakfast News
US News
FDA paves way for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations in young kids
Supreme Court declines to block Maine vaccine mandate
NYC braces for fewer cops, more trash as vax deadline looms
Judge denies Chicago workers’ bid to halt vaccine mandate
Firefighters lash out at lawmaker over NYC’s vaccine rule
Vaccine mandates compared to Holocaust in Kansas hearing
US intel doesn’t expect to determine origins of COVID-19
As COVID cases fall, Halloween brings more fun and less fear
Doctors question sedative dose used in Oklahoma execution
Ex-Maryland man who joined al-Qaida sentenced at Guantanamo
Oregon’s biggest city has ‘long way to go’ repairing its rep
US wages jump by the most in records dating back 20 years
US to gauge climate damage from federal oil and gas sales
Giant Eagle settles pharmacy lawsuits with Ohio counties
Judge rules Vegas owes builder $34M in golf course dispute
Chinese firm to pay $91M over dangerous dehumidifiers
Colonial Williamsburg restoring school for Black children
Study finds California condors can have “virgin births”
Asian spider takes hold in Georgia, sends humans scurrying
Return to Sender? Stolen Elvis bust is back in Illinois bar
US Politics
Big, messy, complicated: Biden’s plan churns in Congress
Democratic women in Virginia frustrated by paid leave flop
High court adds climate change, immigration cases to docket
US Democratic governors to participate in U.N. climate talks
Letitia James announces she will run for New York governor
GOP Trump critic Rep. Adam Kinzinger won’t seek reelection
Arpaio legal tab hits $100M as taxpayers foot his last bills
Biden: Pope told me that I should ‘keep receiving Communion’
International News
UN aid chief urges G20: prevent mass starving in Afghanistan
UK’s Johnson gives G-20 stark warning on climate change
Protesters slam London banks on climate, fossil fuel support
‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks
A look at the top issues for this year’s UN climate summit
Newson suddenly pulls out of trip to UN climate conference
Biden tells Macron US ‘clumsy’ in Australia submarine deal
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain expel Lebanese ambassadors
Brazil scientists test frozen jaguar semen to help species
Queen Elizabeth II, 95, is advised to rest for 2 weeks
Breakfast Blogs
It’s Getting Harder for Oil Companies to Keep Up This Lie Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
After Describing DOJ’s January 6 Language as “Schizophrenic,” Judge Beryl Howell Imposes a Sound Baseline Sentence emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Bullshit Brigade – Book Burner Edition Rayne, emptywheel
Build Back Quicker digby aka Heather Digy Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
We have met the enemy…. Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
NY Times Continues Its Inability To Report Accurately On Section 230 And Content Moderation Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Tired Of Federal Apathy, Oakland Moves To Ban Anticompetitive Broadband Landlord Deals Kkarl Bode, Techdirt
Cruel and Unusual Scott Lemeiux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
FDA authorizes EUA for COVID vaccine for children ages 5 through 11 Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Birthday Fundraiser Day Two — Clap For The Wolfman. driftglass, at his blog
SIX DEGREES OF VIKTOR ORBAN Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Texas Hero Will Save Texas Kids From Library Books About ‘Sex,’ ‘Gay,’ ‘HIV,’ ‘Feminism,’ Or ‘Racism Exists’ Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Kyrsten Sinema So Happy She Could Help Seniors Pay Too Much For Their Medications Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
October 29, 1889, In Labor History: The Hawaiian Island Lynching Of Katsu Goto Erik Loomis, Wonkette
WSJ Had To Publish Trump’s Letter Of Lies Because, Ummm, Russia Hoax Liz Dye, Wonkette
Who Wanna Hear St. Louis Gun Douche’s Opinions About Abortion? Evan Hurst, Wonkette