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
George Washington crosses the Delaware River; Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns; Ousted Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife are executed; James Brown dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rod_serling_392330
Breakfast News
US News
Airlines cancel flights due to COVID staffing shortages
Many US churches canceling in-person Christmas services
Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers
Hochul takes on COVID critics, cuts health worker quarantine
New Orleans university delays return amid new COVID-19 wave
US Navy warship sidelined with COVID-19 outbreak
Judge upholds ruling against NYT over Project Veritas memos
Feds seek jail for Capitol riot suspect found with rifle
Holiday gifts taken from luggage, replaced with dog food
Northwest prepares for frigid temperatures, snow
Extinct shark named after LSU museum official as she retires
TSA officer saves infant who stopped breathing at airport
Satu, orangutan at the San Diego Zoo, dies at 26
Sweet repeat: Brothers regift same hard candy for decades
Marines on snowmobiles help Santa in Alaska’s remote Arctic
US Politics
COVID-19 makes Biden’s 1st White House Christmas less merry
International News
In omicron-free New Zealand, Christmas without restrictions
Daily COVID cases in Australia’s New South Wales top 6,000
Paris’ Notre Dame rector offers hope to virus-hit worshipers
COVID puts a damper on Christmas Eve again around the world
Massive ferry fire kills at least 39 in southern Bangladesh
Greece: 13 dead, others missing in new migrant boat accident
SKorea ex-President Park, jailed for corruption, is pardoned
Kremlin expects US answer on security guarantees next month
Sports
NHL postpones 14 games; won’t resume play until Tuesday
Christmas boost: NBA continues quest for more shots in arms
Garoppolo’s mistakes plague 49ers in 20-17 loss to Titans
After a one-year absence, Sydney to Hobart race set to sail
Breakfast Blogs
For Christmas, We Received a Hopeful Week Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Chekhov’s Riot Shield: How Proud Boy Matthew Greene’s Cooperation Helps Prove the Conspiracy emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Happy Holidays From The Emptywheel Blog: A Year To Remember, A Year To Forget And An Open Forum For Cooking, Trash And Other Talk bmaz, emptywheel
J6C to SCOTUS: Hurry Up! Betty Cracker, Balloon Juice
The Gift That Keeps On Giving digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Unconscionable Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Another Illinois Appeals Court Handles Compelled Password Production, Says There’s No Fifth Amendment Issue Here Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Emission Theory Politics: In Which Mighty Beams of Higher Political Awareness Shoot From Their Eyes driftglass, at his blog
The Rude Pundit’s Annual Nativity-palooza, Now Including Weird-Ass Glass and Metal Ones The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Conservatives in Caves Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Jan. 6 Committee Invites Coup- Curious Congressman Jim Jordan In For A Chat Liz Dye, Wonkette
Former Cop Guilty Of Manslaughter In Killing Of Daunte Wright Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Naomi Wolf Says Biden Military Doctors Coming To Take You Away (Ha Ha) Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette
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