The Breakfast Club (Measure of Honesty)

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

Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death; Bandleader Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel; The Bill of Rights takes effect; Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull killed; Walt Disney dies at age 65.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

Breakfast News

US News

VIRUS TODAY: US begins biggest vaccination effort in history

Vaccine comes too late for the 300,000 US dead

‘Healing is coming’: US health workers start getting vaccine

California subpoenas Amazon over worker safety in pandemic

Agency homing in on social media companies’ data collection

US, states crack down on scams bilking desperate Americans

US agencies, companies secure networks after huge hack

San Francisco’s iconic Cliff House restaurant to close

It’s close but 2020 likely to end up hottest year on record

US Politics

Electoral College makes it official: Biden won, Trump lost

Trump says Barr resigning, will leave before Christmas

Democrats squeezed as COVID-19 relief talks continue

In a first, leading Republicans call Biden president-elect

International News

South Africa closes beaches to fight resurgence of COVID-19

France’s Macron wants to add climate goals in constitution

Azerbaijan, Armenia exchange prisoners as part of peace deal

Daytime darkness: Total solar eclipse wows in Latin America

UK homeowner delays sale of home after Banksy mural appears

Sports

Women’s NCAA Tournament to played at one site, eyes on Texas

U.S. rowers aiming to make 2021 Olympic team stick together

Harper carries No. 19 Rutgers past Maryland 74-60 in Big Ten

Washington pulls out of Pac-12 title game, replaced by Ducks

Florida’s Johnson ‘following simple commands’ after collapse

Hurts to start again for Eagles next Sunday at Arizona

AP Interview: Indians owner says name won’t change in 2021

Mets’ new GM excited by Cohen’s title expectations

Breakfast Blogs

That Bizarre Georgia Ad Isn’t the Worst Dan Crenshaw News of the Week Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

After Trump Spent Four Years Inviting Russia to Hack the US, Russia Allegedly Did Just That emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Bye bye Billy Barr digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Will Democrats fight? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Two Studies Show Giving Military Gear To Cops Doesn’t Result In Lower Crime Rates Tim Cushing, Techdirt

District Court Rejects CDT’s Challenge Of Trump’s Ridiculous Executive Order On Section 230 Mike Masnick, Techdirt

Federal Judge Won’t Let Kris Kobach Get His Hands on ‘We Build the Wall’ Money Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime

Even with Three Trump-Appointed Justices on the Bench, SCOTUS Declines to Roll Back Marriage Equality Elura Nanos, Law & Crime

Days After Rejecting Absurd Texas Lawsuit, the Supreme Court Decided a Real Original Jurisdiction Case Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime

The SolarWinds Breach: Why Your Work Computers Are Down Today Nicholas Weaver, Lawfare

Inside the right wing bubble Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Barr was corrupt until the end Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Identity Politics and Biden Appointees Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Literary Corner: Theater of the Intellectual Dark Web Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

WILL THEY TRY TO PRE-STEAL THE NEXT ELECTION? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Trump’s Legal Clown Car Runs Out Of Road Liz Dye, Wonkette

Democrats Need To Start Treating Republicans Like Gangsters They Are Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

New York Post Now Doxxing Random Cam Girls For No Reason Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette