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
The 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center; President Ronald Reagan rebuked over Iran-Contra; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte escapes exile on Elba; Singers Fats Domino and Johnny Cash born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
Breakfast News
US News
Biden marks 50M vaccine doses in first 5 weeks in office
New coronavirus variant in New York spurs caution, concern
As hospital numbers fall, fatigued staff get relief at last
BLM launches Survival Fund amid federal COVID-19 relief wait
Biden directive expands jobless aid to more unemployed
Southern exposure: Cold wreaks havoc on aging waterworks
‘Who is at fault?’ Investigation into Texas blackout begins
Defense head Austin weighs warship needs in Pacific, Mideast
Amendment would ban ‘servitude’ by California prison inmates
Costco to raise starting hourly wage to $16; end hazard pay
AT&T spinning off DirecTV after losing millions of customers
Game on, again: GameStop surges and no one truly knows why
NY Times says it needs culture change, better inclusion
Mr. Potato Head drops the mister, sort of
Cat that vanished 15 years ago reunited with owner
US Politics
Parliamentarian: COVID-19 bill must lose minimum wage hike
House votes to expand legal safeguards for LGBTQ people
Chief: Police heeded Capitol attack warnings but overwhelmed
Democrats launch sweeping bid to overhaul US election laws
International News
The Latest: Brazils signs vaccine deal with Indian company
Brazil death toll tops 250,000, virus still running rampant
Medical oxygen scarce in Africa, Latin America amid virus
S. Korea injects first shots in public vaccination campaign
EU vows to speed vaccine roll out, presses drug makers
New US envoy starts challenge to restore US on world stage
8 dead, including prison director, after Haiti jail break
Kremlin critic Navalny sent to prison outside Moscow
Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds
Sports
NCAA reveals COVID-19 contingency plans for hoops tourneys
No. 1 UConn wins Big East regular-season title with rout
No. 2 NC State women get hot from outside, beat Pitt 83-53
Texas A&M wins ninth straight, beats Alabama 73-67
No. 8 Maryland routs Purdue for seventh straight win
Wright lifts SIU-Edwardsville over UT Martin 66-53
Take note: At 26-6, Utah Jazz are the NBA’s best team so far
NBA suspends Wolves’ Beasley 12 games for felony gun threat
Simpson, Fitzpatrick lead WGC; Johnson, DeChambeau struggle
Mickelson eyeing record 3rd straight PGA Tour Champions win
Breakfast Blogs
The Texas Power Chief Said the System Worked as Intended, Just Not ‘For People’s Lives’ Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Dewey’s Functional Description Of Democracy Ed Walker, emptywheel
No Lucy, not this time digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
What next for voting rights? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Supreme Court Rolls Back Another Horrible Qualified Immunity Decision By The Fifth Circuit Tim Cushing, Techdirt
ederal Prosecutors Oppose Dismissing Steve Bannon’s Indictment Despite Trump Pardon — Here’s Why Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Officials in Cities Formerly Known as ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions’ Rip Trump After President Biden Revokes ‘Nonsense’ Memo Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
‘The Time Has Come’: Civil Society Groups Praise House for Passing Historic LGBTQ Protections; Pelosi Says Senate Must Pass Equality Act Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
The Yugest Evidence Win Ever? Manhattan DA Finally Obtains ‘Millions of Pages’ of Trump Documents, Tax Filings Matt Naham, Law & Crime
Wisconsin Republicans Get Ratioed After Proposing Bill to Force Sporting Events to Play the National Anthem Aaron Keller, Law & Crime
Please come back so we can kick you around some more Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Working from seven to eleven every night Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Bylines Like Mardi Gras Beads driftglass, at his blog
Rectification of Names: Socialism, Yastreblansky, The Rectification of Names
OF COURSE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WANTS TO LEGISLATE (IN HER FASHION)! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
PA GOP Doesn’t Like John Fetterman’s Regular-Sized Trans And Weed Flags? WHAT ABOUT BIG HUGE ONES? Evan hurst, Wonkette
National Review Knows Who Is Doing Abortions, And It Is Planned Parenthood! Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Wingnuts Prepare To Draw Genitals All Over Gender-Neutral Plastic Potato Toys Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Biden Has One Weird Trick To Mail Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Straight To GTFO-Ville Liz Dye, Wonkette
Gather ‘Round For The Dumbest Arguments Yet For Not Increasing The Minimum Wage Stephen Robinsosn, Wonkette
This Day In Labor History: Home Healthcare Workers Unionize, February 25, 1999 Erik Loomis, Wonkette
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