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
Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public; U.N. Tribunal indicts Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; the British Navy sinks Nazi Germany’s battleship Bismarck; Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Breakfast News
US News
The Latest: Las Vegas schools drop mask rule for vaccinated
Clark County School District adjusts mask guidelines
In NY, vaccinated teens can enter raffle for free college
Indiana attorney general attacks IU’s COVID-19 vaccine order
Colorado children hospital declares mental health emergency
Texas missing chance to avert deadly blackouts, experts say
Forecast: 40% chance Earth to be hotter than Paris goal soon
At least 2 Exxon board members lose seats in climate fight
PG&E to ante up $150M for botched outages, recent wildfires
Ford: Electric vehicles to be 40% of global sales by 2030
New wolf killing laws trigger push to revive US protections
Car-free San Francisco streets: Residents debate reopening
Family of boy killed by officer plans home for at-risk teens
Howard names College of Fine Arts for Chadwick Boseman
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano stops erupting after months of lava
US Politics
Biden orders more intel investigation of COVID-19 origin
Many wait uneasily as Biden unwinds key Trump asylum policy
AP source: Biden picks LA mayor, envoy for ambassador posts
Colorado bill would give free contraceptives to immigrants
Environmentalists want NC governor to halt pellet plants
International News
Vaccine inequality in India sends many falling through gaps
Australian children lose bid to block coal mine expansion
Ambassador denied access to trial of Australian in China
Mali’s transitional president resigns while in detention
Sports
Ward’s 3-run homer, 5 RBIs lead Angels over Rangers 9-8
Margot hits RBI single in 10th, Rays beat Royals 2-1
Trevor Williams pitches Cubs past Pirates 4-1
Goodrum doubles, scores in 8th as Tigers beat Indians 1-0
Edman hits 2 HRs, Cards beat White Sox 4-0 to avoid sweep
Rose, Randle rally Knicks past Hawks to tie series at 1-1
Ole Miss overwhelms Oklahoma State to claim NCAA title
West Virginia transgender athlete law challenged in court
Wyoming plans return to full capacity for football season
Breakfast Blogs
Senator Professor Warren Took Jamie Dimon to the Woodshed Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
RICO Comes to the January 6 Investigation — But Not the Way You Think emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What’s next? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
It’s people with vaccinations, see? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
DC Court Says Recordings Of Capitol Rioters Must Be Made Public, But Only On A Case-By-Case Basis Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Babies & Bathwater: WSJ OpEd Suggests Banning Cryptocurrency Entirely To Stop Ransomware Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Mueller enabled Barr Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
What follows from the fact that the unchallenged leader of one of the USA’s two major political parties is a criminal sociopath? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 852 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Republicans Are the Extremists, and They Want to Blow Up the Joint The Rude Pundits, at his blog
Zek Your Privilege Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THE LAB-LEAK THEORY: NETANYAHU’S REVENGE? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Jesus, Pennsylvania Republicans, What Freaking Year Is This Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Congratulations, Kristen Clarke! May Your Every Day At DOJ Make Tucker Carlson’s Ass Itch. Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Convenes Grand Jury To Chitchat About President Crime Spree Liz Dye, Wonkette
GOP Cowards Just Wetting Their Beds Daily In Fear Of Their Unhinged Voters Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Politico Science Experiments: Will This GOP Lie Work? What If We Help It Along, Will It Work Then? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette