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
President Harry Truman wins re-election in an upset; South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem killed after coup; Howard Hughes flies his ‘Spruce Goose’; Game show scandal rocks early TV; Singer k.d. lang born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
Breakfast News
US News
COVID vaccine for younger kids already being packed, shipped
A look at what’s in Tennessee’s far-reaching COVID-19 bill
Mayor: 9 in 10 NYC workers vaccinated as deadline nears
US prisons face staff shortages as officers quit amid COVID
Military weighs penalties for those who refuse COVID vaccine
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade returns to pre-pandemic shape
Trial starts over quality of health care in Arizona prisons
Jon Bon Jovi tests positive for COVID-19, cancels concert
Judge starts Rittenhouse trial with trivia and lectures
Oklahoma panel recommends governor spare Julius Jones’ life
Police: Chicago-area Halloween party shooting gang-related
Fed to start reining in economic aid as inflation risk rises
Illinois governor calls gun violence a public health crisis
California man charged in alleged flight attendant assault
Radio host gets 3 life prison terms for bilking listeners
Judge: No new trial for Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed
Jesse Jackson hospitalized after fall at Howard University
US Politics
Supreme Court questions controversial Texas abortion law
Tight Virginia race becomes referendum on Biden presidency
Manchin wavers on Biden’s plan, Democrats vow to push ahead
Murphy, Ciattarelli touring NJ as campaign coming to close
Biden backs Ohio Rep. Allison Russo in race for US House
Texas governor adopts lawmaker’s probe of books in schools
NC governor vetoes another bill reining in emergency powers
International News
COVID-19′s global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years
Ugandan kids lose hope in long school closure amid pandemic
Leaders dial up doomsday warning to kick-start climate talks
Australia prime minister attacks French leader’s credibility
New Zealand strait crossed for first time by electric plane
Haitian revelers honor the dead in Vodou festival
Sports
Anunoby has career-best 36, Raptors beat Knicks 113-104
Seth Curry’s 23 helps short-handed 76ers over Trail Blazers
Morant scored 26, Jones 17 to lead Grizzlies past Nuggets
DeRozan scores 37 as Bulls beat Celtics 128-114 to reach 6-1
Anthony’s 31 leads Magic to 115-97 win against Timberwolves
Cavaliers hold off Hornets’ 4th-quarter rally, win 113-110
Young, Capela help Hawks end Wizards’ 3-game winning streak By GEORGE HENRY20 minutes ago
Kane gets hat trick as Blackhawks beat Senators for 1st win
Lightning win 3-2, ending Capitals’ 8-game point streak
Mexican officers fire on pickup carrying migrants, killing 1
“>The Supreme Court May Execute Steve Bannon’s Plan to Destroy the Administrative State Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Donald Trump Would Withhold Evidence about Whether Enrique Tarrio Really Did Visit the White House Last December emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The January 6th committee is going to need a bigger boat… Betty Cracker, Balloon Juice
Hi My Name Is John And I Am From West Virginia And No I Don’t Know What the Fuck Manchin Is Thinking John Cole, Balloon Juice
The Big Lie Wins One Way or the Other digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Declare victory (some more) Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Hawaii School, Police Department On The Verge Of Being Sued For Arresting A Ten-Year-Old Girl Over A Drawing Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor Bristle at SCOTUS Refusal to Take Up Case on Secrecy of U.S. Surveillance Court: ‘If These Matters Are Not Worthy of Our Time, What Is?’ Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Justice Sotomayor Dissents as Conservative Majority, Against the Government’s Wishes, Denies Death Row Inmate a Chance to Prove His Intellectual Disability Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Majority of Supreme Court Justices Appears Highly Skeptical of Texas Abortion Law That Enables Private Lawsuits Against Abortion Providers Aaron Keller, Law & Crime
Strangers in a strange land Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Unions and the Buffalo Mayoral Race erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Art of the Impossible Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THE NUMBER OF BAD REPUBLICANS IS MUCH GREATER THAN ONE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Kyle Rittenhouse Getting Such Fair Trial You’re Gonna Get Sick Of Fairness Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
John Eastman Has A Lot More Coup-Related Lunacy To Answer For Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Florida Cancel Cultures College Profs For Criticizing Gov. Ron DeSantis Liz Dye, Wokette
Why Is Biden At UN’s COP26 Climate Summit When Kamala Is The Cop? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette