The Breakfast Club (Caring)

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 10:30am (ET) 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.

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This Day in History

Sen. Joseph McCarthy is censured; Scientists demonstrate the world’s first artificially-created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction; Enron files for Chapter 11 protection; Colombian drug lord is shot and killed.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

From caring comes courage.

Lao Tzu

Breakfast News

As Rule 41 Quietly Passes, Trump to Inherit Expanded Hacking Powers

Death toll in Tennessee wildfires rises to 10

Senators call for declassification of files on Russia’s role in US election

New California attorney general Xavier Becerra to lead state’s Trump pushback

Organizers Assure Protesters, Women’s March Against Trump Still On

François Hollande will not seek re-election as president of France

Russians talk with Syrian rebels as eastern Aleppo runs out of food

Unmanned Russian spacecraft crashes to Earth in Siberia

Breakfast Blogs

What Do You Do Without Water? What Does Anyone Do? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

CYBERCOM versus NSA: On Fighting Isis or Spying on Them emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Why GOPs Will Beg Dems To Help Kill Obamacare and Medicare Josh Marshall, TPM EdBlog

It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble driftglass, at his blog

What Trump Is Giving To His Angry Working-Class Voters This Christmas Echidne, at her blog

Hell in a handbasket digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

I Wonder How Long Those Carrier Jobs Will Stay In America Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Border Patrol Stops Journalist From Heading To Dakota Pipeline Protests, Searches All Of His Electronic Devices Tim Cushing, Techdirt

Trump Appoints Third Anti-Net Neutrality Advisor To Telecom Transition Team Karl Bode, Techdirt