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
ACold War prisoner exchange; boxer Mike Tyson convicted of rape; Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ opens on Broadway; Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are a Changin” released.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
Breakfast News
US News
3 million plaintiffs seek $1.2B from California health firm
Oregon bill tackles megaquake ‘nightmare’: Fuel storage site
Facing project delays, county pushes for concrete strike end
Hospital to pay $3.8 million to resolve kickback claims
Fatal fires in St. Louis, Baltimore expose vacant home risks
CDC proposes softer guidance on opioid prescriptions
Snowbird kitty: Lost cat heads home to Maine — from Florida
US Politics
Under pressure to ease up, Biden weighs new virus response
Biden puts focus on drug prices as he tries to revive agenda
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro
Minority leader opposes US attorney nominee for Minnesota
House panel probes Trump presidential records found in Fla.
Report: Archives asks Justice to probe Trump record handling
International News
Japan OKs Pfizer COVID-19 oral pills amid surging infections
Zimbabwe’s teachers strike amid pandemic and high inflation
COVID-19 truck blockade in Canada shuts down Ford plant
Kerry calls for keeping power markets open in Mexico
Sri Lanka approves law implementing anti-land mine treaty
Americans hope appeal yields ‘truth’ of officer’s Rome death
Indonesia frees croc from tire stuck on its neck for 6 years
Sports
Chen’s near-perfect skate wins long-sought Olympic gold
Not perfect, still golden for Chloe Kim in Olympic halfpipe
Germany wins Olympic relay, sweeps luge gold medals
Schouten wins 2nd Olympic gold, completes distance sweep
Breakfast Blogs
This Is the Kind of History They Want to Pass Laws Against Teaching Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Four Versions of the Mueller Report emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
And In The Timeline To Which The Trickster God Has Confined Us… Tom Levenson, Balloon Juice
Just another insult to all of us digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Freedom means never having to be responsible Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD’s Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision Tim Cushing, Techdirt
National Archives Asks DOJ to Investigate Trump’s Handling of White House Records: Reports Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
The hammer of fascism Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Taking Facts for Granted Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
White Guys In Science – E. O. Wilson Cheryl Rofer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Young Americans have collectively lost more years of life because of the pandemic than old Americans Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,015 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money