The Breakfast Club (Make An Effort)

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 Tonkin Gulf incident sparks U.S. escalation of the Vietnam War; Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invades Kuwait; JFK’s PT-109 boat sunk; President Warren G. Harding dies; ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok killed in Deadwood.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Jerry Garcia

Breakfast Blogs

Republicans Are Nominating More Fringe than Victorian Drapery Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

More than Twenty Transcripts: The January 6 Committee’s Investigation into Fake Electors emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Mapping the Scenes of the Crimes Rayne, emptywheel

Ron DeSantis isn’t a dirtbag. That’s exactly why he won’t beat Donald Trump Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Mike Pence is a walking piece of Wonderbread toast digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Originalism — A Blast From the Past tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo

To hell with conventional wisdom Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

How California’s ‘Transparency’ Bills Will Only Make It Impossible To Deal With Bad Actors: Propagandists, Disinfo Peddlers, Rejoice Mike Masnick, Techdirt

Michigan Supreme Court Says Photographing, Fingerprinting People Without Probable Cause Is Unconstitutional Tim Cushing, Techdirt

Appeals Court Rejects Qualified Immunity for Special Ed Teacher Who Allegedly ‘Forcibly Stripped’ Away Boy’s Clothes, ‘Pushed’ Another Boy into a Pool Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime

10th Circuit Refuses to Revive Antitrust Lawsuit Against EpiPen Distributor Elura Nanos, Law & Crime

Sen. Lindsey Graham Moves Fulton County DA Subpoena Fight to Georgia, Hires Trump’s Former White House Counsel Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime

Panels of Death Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns & Money

Dynamic intoxication and the GOP Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,165 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns & Money

CONVENTION OF STATES: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! (ACTUALLY, IT ISN’T.) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Will Secret Service Go To Email Jail Over Missing Jan. 6 Texts? GOP Strangely Silent On This One! Liz Dye, Wonkette

A Very PACT Sunday Show Rundown Featuring Jon Stewart Michael Mora, Wonkette

Who Does Arizona’s Wendy Rogers Love More? Literal Nazis Or Kyrsten Sinema? Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

Can Wisconsin Upgrade From Dumbest Republican In Senate To Dreamiest Democrat? Stephen Robinson, Wonkette