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.
This Day in History
Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean; British prime minister Margaret Thatcher resigns; Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is beaten to death; The Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut; Comedian Jon Stewart born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
Breakfast News
Standing Rock protesters will not follow official directive to leave camps
Dakota Access pipeline: sheriff will not ‘allow people to become unlawful’
Genocide threats prompt call for police protection of mosques
Hundreds of churches offer sanctuary to undocumented migrants after election
Delay to treatment of Hamid Kehazaei before he died revealed in leaked files
UK commander in Iraq calls for patience over retaking Mosul from Isis
Concentration camp ice dance by wife of Putin official causes uproar
Sinkhole swallows part of bus after flooding in south London
Breakfast Blogs
How Much Racism Is Mathematically Baked Into The Electoral College? Quite A Bit. MaxMarginal, Crooks and Liars
Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’ Yves Smith, naked capitalism
New Trump Adviser: Homophobe, Paranoid, Electoral Felon? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Post Turkey Trash Talk bmaz, emptywheel
Trump Targets digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Only in America Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Fucking Politics, How Does It Work? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
These Three Keen Websites Will Improve Your Language Skills! Lambert Strether of Corrente, Naked Capitalism