The Breakfast Club (Secret Lore)

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

President Harry Truman wins re-election in an upset; South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem killed after coup; Howard Hughes flies his ‘Spruce Goose’; Game show scandal rocks early TV; Singer k.d. lang born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H. P. Lovecraft

Breakfast News

US News

COVID vaccine for younger kids already being packed, shipped

A look at what’s in Tennessee’s far-reaching COVID-19 bill

Mayor: 9 in 10 NYC workers vaccinated as deadline nears

US prisons face staff shortages as officers quit amid COVID

Military weighs penalties for those who refuse COVID vaccine

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade returns to pre-pandemic shape

Trial starts over quality of health care in Arizona prisons

Jon Bon Jovi tests positive for COVID-19, cancels concert

Judge starts Rittenhouse trial with trivia and lectures

Oklahoma panel recommends governor spare Julius Jones’ life

Police: Chicago-area Halloween party shooting gang-related

Fed to start reining in economic aid as inflation risk rises

Illinois governor calls gun violence a public health crisis

California man charged in alleged flight attendant assault

Radio host gets 3 life prison terms for bilking listeners

Judge: No new trial for Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed

Jesse Jackson hospitalized after fall at Howard University

US Politics

Supreme Court questions controversial Texas abortion law

Tight Virginia race becomes referendum on Biden presidency

Manchin wavers on Biden’s plan, Democrats vow to push ahead

Murphy, Ciattarelli touring NJ as campaign coming to close

Biden backs Ohio Rep. Allison Russo in race for US House

Texas governor adopts lawmaker’s probe of books in schools

NC governor vetoes another bill reining in emergency powers

International News

COVID-19′s global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years

Ugandan kids lose hope in long school closure amid pandemic

Leaders dial up doomsday warning to kick-start climate talks

Australia prime minister attacks French leader’s credibility

New Zealand strait crossed for first time by electric plane

Haitian revelers honor the dead in Vodou festival

Sports

Anunoby has career-best 36, Raptors beat Knicks 113-104

Seth Curry’s 23 helps short-handed 76ers over Trail Blazers

Morant scored 26, Jones 17 to lead Grizzlies past Nuggets

DeRozan scores 37 as Bulls beat Celtics 128-114 to reach 6-1

Anthony’s 31 leads Magic to 115-97 win against Timberwolves

Cavaliers hold off Hornets’ 4th-quarter rally, win 113-110

Young, Capela help Hawks end Wizards’ 3-game winning streak By GEORGE HENRY20 minutes ago

Kane gets hat trick as Blackhawks beat Senators for 1st win

Lightning win 3-2, ending Capitals’ 8-game point streak

Mexican officers fire on pickup carrying migrants, killing 1

Breakfast Blogs

“>The Supreme Court May Execute Steve Bannon’s Plan to Destroy the Administrative State Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Donald Trump Would Withhold Evidence about Whether Enrique Tarrio Really Did Visit the White House Last December emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The January 6th committee is going to need a bigger boat… Betty Cracker, Balloon Juice

Hi My Name Is John And I Am From West Virginia And No I Don’t Know What the Fuck Manchin Is Thinking John Cole, Balloon Juice

The Big Lie Wins One Way or the Other digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Declare victory (some more) Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Hawaii School, Police Department On The Verge Of Being Sued For Arresting A Ten-Year-Old Girl Over A Drawing Tim Cushing, Techdirt

Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor Bristle at SCOTUS Refusal to Take Up Case on Secrecy of U.S. Surveillance Court: ‘If These Matters Are Not Worthy of Our Time, What Is?’ Elura Nanos, Law & Crime

Justice Sotomayor Dissents as Conservative Majority, Against the Government’s Wishes, Denies Death Row Inmate a Chance to Prove His Intellectual Disability Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime

Majority of Supreme Court Justices Appears Highly Skeptical of Texas Abortion Law That Enables Private Lawsuits Against Abortion Providers Aaron Keller, Law & Crime

Strangers in a strange land Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Unions and the Buffalo Mayoral Race erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Art of the Impossible Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

THE NUMBER OF BAD REPUBLICANS IS MUCH GREATER THAN ONE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Kyle Rittenhouse Getting Such Fair Trial You’re Gonna Get Sick Of Fairness Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette

John Eastman Has A Lot More Coup-Related Lunacy To Answer For Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Florida Cancel Cultures College Profs For Criticizing Gov. Ron DeSantis Liz Dye, Wokette

Why Is Biden At UN’s COP26 Climate Summit When Kamala Is The Cop? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette