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
Wright brothers conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. U.S. test-fires the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile; Simon Bolivar dies in Colombia; television’s Tiny Tim marries his fiancee, Miss Vicky.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Breakfast News
US News
Health officials track safety as COVID-19 vaccines roll out
Vaccinations reach nursing homes as California faces crisis
US angling to secure more of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine
Twitter to start removing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
Justice Department sues Vermont medical center over abortion
Senate report: Opioid industry has paid advocacy groups $65M
Little-known SolarWinds gets scrutiny over hack, stock sales
New lab director expects more work on next wave of reactors
Court: Ohio must allow gender changes on birth certificates
‘If not one thing, it’s another’: Storm rolls into Northeast
The Latest: CT bans semitrailers on some roads for 12 hours
$2K reward offered in Wyoming grizzly bear killing case
Florida’s new python-sniffing dogs have 1st success
US Politics
Close but not yet: Deal near on COVID-19 economic aid bill
Senate hearing elevates baseless claims of election fraud
Rules eased for water from showerheads, a Trump pet peeve
Stay away: Thumbs down on inauguration crowds for Biden
International News
Asia Today: S. Korea marks deadliest day, over 1,000 cases
Nigerians anxious after 330 boys kidnapped by extremists
Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks
Sports
No. 21 Duke wins 75-65 at Notre Dame in ACC opener
Williams, Hunter lead Purdue past No. 20 Ohio State 67-60
Bama, Ohio St add 5-stars while preparing for champ games
NFL owners delay decision on 17-game regular season
MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league
Breakfast Blogs
Dodge City Dealt With Old West Disputes More Calmly Than It Has the Pandemic in 2020 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Poltiics
Making a list, checking it twice digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabalooo
Ready Player None Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Security Researcher Reveals Solarwinds’ Update Server Was ‘Secured’ With The Password ‘solarwinds123’ Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Lindsey Graham’s Latest Attack On Section 230: Reform It By 2023, Or We Take It Away Mike Masnick, Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201216/11480945903/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-signs-law-banning-sale-confederate-flags-that-will-absolutely-get-nullified.shtml Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
A Roadmap for Reform: How the Biden Administration Can Revitalize the Office of Legal Counsel Annie Owens, Just Security
h‘Kraken’ Concerned About ‘Elementh Amendment’ Lands on SCOTUS Docket, Asks Court: Do What the ‘Ghosts’ on Other Side of Potomac Would Have Wanted Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cases That Could Loosen NCAA’s Grip on College Athletes Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
“We want them infected” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Fuse Pal Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Political Action in December 2020 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Haunts of the Very Republican driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Really Sad! Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Now Donald Trump Is Suing a State He Lost Bigly The Rude Pundit, at his blog
THESE PEOPLE ARE HILARIOUS BUMPKINS, UNTIL THEY AREN’T Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
SCOTUS Does Good By Doing Nothing Again! Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Woman Who Works For Joe Biden Said A Mean Cuss And Now We’ll Never Get Along! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
The Krakhead Cometh Liz Dye, Wonkette
Chicago Cops Terrorize Naked Woman In Her Home For Crime Of Watching ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Past Season 10 Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Look, Shiny Normal Thing! Here’s Biden’s Green Team! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette