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 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails; Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered in Mexico; Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion; U.S. flag gets 50th star; Count Basie and singer Kenny Rogers born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.
Breakfast News
US News
The Latest: SF requires full vaccination for indoor activity
Federal team sent to hospital ‘crushed’ with virus patients
Demand for COVID antibody drugs soars in hard-hit states
GOP governors, school districts battle over mask mandates
Florida mayor urges water limits because of COVID-19 surge
‘Bracing for the worst’ in Florida’s COVID-19 hot zone
Florida orders school boards to relax mask rules or risk pay
Parental consent for COVID-19 vaccine now law in N. Carolina
San Francisco’s new rule: Proof of vaccine or no dining in
US appeals court refuses to end CDC’s eviction moratorium
Explosive California wildfires could burn into December
Governor tours flood area as Arizona sees 4 deaths in a week
New England preps for 1st hurricane in 30 years with Henri
Killer whale dies suddenly at SeaWorld San Diego
Clean needles depend on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs
Imagination, Skittles help boy, 5, conquer Appalachian Trail
US Politics
Texas GOP voting bill on fast track after standstill ends
Senators question DOJ funding for AI-powered policing tech
International News
WHO issues call for experts to help with COVID origins probe
Biden vows to evacuate all Americans — and Afghan helpers
Taliban killings fuel fear, drive more chaos outside airport
Haitian quake victims rush aid sites, take food and supplies
Sources: Brazil’s Bolsonaro vexed by central bank autonomy
US imposes limited sanctions over Russian gas pipeline
Brazil city district slipping into sea after river diverted
Hurricane Grace strengthens heading for 2nd hit on Mexico
Soccer-loving Pope Francis gets a new toy: a foosball table
Sports
Soccer officials trying to evacuate players from Afghanistan
Column: Sports should require fans be vaxxed – or stay home
Oregon to require proof vaccination to attend football games
Virus surge means no fans allowed at home Hawaii games
Loyd, Stewart lead Storm to 99-83 rout of Liberty
Canada beats Finland 5-3 in women’s world hockey opener
Breakfast Blogs
We’ve Lost Two People With the Great Gift of Seeing the World Clearly Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Joseph Hackett’s Detention Argument: Guns, Operational Security, and Involvement in Kelly Meggs’ Plans for Nancy Pelosi emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
President Biden Just Presented the Clearest and Most Concise Strategic Assessment of the US, Its Actions in Afghanistan, and American Interests In Regard to Afghanistan Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
Friday night soother digby aka Heather Digyb Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
People who can’t make decisions Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Edvard Eriksen Estate Goes After Another Danish City For Having A Mermaid Statue Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
OnlyPrudes: OnlyFans, The Platform For Sexually Explicit Content, Says No More Sexually Explicit Content (Except For Nudes) Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Chinese Government Censors Back On Their Karoake Song Banlist Bullshit Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Federal Appeals Court Reverses Its Own Ruling on ‘Dismemberment’ Abortion, Upholds Texas Statute Banning Procedure Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Federal Appeals Court Panel Unanimously Declines to Block Biden Administration’s Eviction Moratorium Extension Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Petraeus: we should keep doing what has massively failed forever Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The seductions of war Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 901 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Note to Anti-Maskers: You’re Not Revolutionaries. You’re Just Assholes. The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Cheap Shots Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Name
WHO CARES IF THE ANALOGY IS INEXACT AS LONG AS DEMOCRATS ARE BASHED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Badass Judge Strikes Down Immigration Law *Just Because It’s Racist* Jamie Lynn Crofts. Wonkette
Mo Brooks Finds Another Terrorist To Sympathize With Evan Hurst, Wonkette
TX Lt Gov Dan Patrick Found The Real Origin Of COVID, And It Is Black People Liz Dye, Wonkette
Nice Time! Damn Near Every Adult In Georgia Is Registered To Vote Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Anti-Maskers Continue Making School Board Meetings Weird, Violent Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
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