The Breakfast Club (Upside Down)

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

Soviet hard-liners mount a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev; Nazi Germany ratifies Adolf Hitler’s powers; U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted by Soviet tribunal; Comedian Groucho Marx dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

William J. Clinton

Breakfast News

Ballot drop boxes seen as a way to bypass the post office

Postal Service halts some changes amid outcry, lawsuits

Rule allowing LNG rail shipments in US challenged in court

Sandy Hook families: Gun maker trying to wipe out lawsuit

Virus-induced spending spurs sales at Home Depot, Walmart

How can Wall Street be so healthy when Main Street isn’t?

Appeals court: On 2nd thought, tax bikini latex clubs

Goat ignored since birth is given 4 new legs and a new life

The Latest: Australia announces coronavirus vaccine deal

Belarus president remains defiant as protest strikes grow

Amazon continues to burn in 2020 despite promises to save it

Artists, academics defend LGBT rights in Poland

More eggs harvested from last 2 northern white rhinos

Snowing cocoa? Chocolate factory glitch dusts Swiss town

Breakfast Blogs

You Can Drive a Full-Size Minivan Through the Loopholes in Louis DeJoy’s Statement Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Trump Tried to Claim Privilege Over a Document Flynn Claimed to Not Remember emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Work In Progress: Saving the USPS Rayne, emptywheel

Democracy dies in broad daylight digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

“The average guy is important to him” Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Republican Senators Misrepresent Their Own Russia Report Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare

This is fine Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

“Did I say elect? I meant ratfuck.” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Sounds Eerily Like… driftglass, at his blog

Rashomon Salad Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

Michelle Obama Scared the Hell Out of Us (For Good Reasons) The Rude Pundit, No More Mister Blog

I’M SURE YOU’LL BE ASTONISHED TO LEARN THAT EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS ABOUT THE SWINE FLU PANDEMIC IS WRONG Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Virginia Cops Charge Black Lady Senate President With Murdering Up Confederate Monument She Never Touched Liz Dye, Wonkette

Rudy Giuliani Imagines Political Cat Fight Starring Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Trump Keeps Jabbering About H1N1 And How Joe Biden Failed To Kill People With It Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

Meet Miles Taylor. Donald Trump Is VERY MAD AT MILES RIGHT NOW GRRR ARGH! Evan Taylor, Wonkette