The Breakfast Club (True Equality)

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

Julius Caesar assassinated in Rome; Johnson urges passage of Voting Rights Act; Worldcom CEO Bernard Ebbers convicted of fraud; Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton; “My Fair Lady” debuts on Broadway.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Breakfast News

US News

‘Big burden’ for schools trying to give kids internet access

Survivors struggle as scientists race to solve COVID mystery

Pandemic redefines ‘public’ access to government meetings

Governments delay access to public records during pandemic

Governors evade sunshine laws to keep records from public

Portland police: Detained protesters had bear spray, hammers

US female firefighters fight discrimination with lawsuits

North Carolina police find suspicious devices near church

Immigrant victims of crime hope Congress eases visa hurdles

Winter storm closes roads in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska

US Politics

Pelosi pledges swift work on major infrastructure package

Biden declines to call for Cuomo to resign, awaits probe

Democrats bank on relief aid to win back wary working class

With Cuomo under fire, No. 2 Kathy Hochul treads carefully

International News

Ireland suspends AstraZeneca vaccine amid blood clot reports

Israel police to probe sex abuse claims against rescue chief

Merkel’s party suffers defeats in 2 German state elections

London police chief says she won’t quit after vigil clashes

Kosovo opens embassy to Israel in Jerusalem

Martial law imposed in parts of Myanmar city as deaths rise

Australians rally at Parliament to demand justice for women

Dutch police break up anti-govt protest on eve of election

Spain: Police bust major drug distribution network in Madrid

Africans rethink big, bountiful weddings as pandemic bites

Watching the watchers: Who’s at helm of EU’s border agency?

Brazil wonders about whereabouts of vaccine mascot

Sports

Record-setting Saints QB Brees announces retirement at 42

Life on the bubble: Brackets set for return of March Madness

No. 3 Illinois beats No. 9 Ohio State to take Big Ten title

No. 6 Alabama adds another SEC title, edges LSU at tourney

Amazin’ at-bat: Mets’ Guillorme draws 22-pitch walk vs Hicks

Thomas lives on edge and rallies to win Players Championship

Martin Truex Jr. wins NASCAR Cup race at Phoenix Raceway

Breakfast Blogs

Those of Us Unaccustomed to Seeing Progressives With Their Act Together Are Getting a Little Dizzy Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

“I Started the Fire:” DOJ Reveals Another Missed Advance Warning about January 6 emptywheelaka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Finding The Public In A Complex Society Ed Walker, emptywheel

Funeral For A Friend And Get Your Shot bmaz, emptywheel

About the Filibuster digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Meeting Americans’ needs from urban to rural Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

D.C. Siege Defendant Had Company to Get Law Enforcement-Grade Weapons to ‘Take Back Our Country’: Prosecutors alberto Luperon, Law & Crime

Punishing children because of the unemployment of their parents is senseless Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Biden and the Spotted Owl Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Vaccine Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

RIGHT-WINGERS: NOT ONLY ARE YOU LIBS HATING CUOMO WRONG, YOU’RE FORCING HIM OUT OF OFFICE WRONG Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog