The Breakfast Club (Monster Mash)

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.

John Adams

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