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
America enters World War Two; Former Beatle John Lennon is shot to death in New York.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
US launches airstrike on Mosul hospital used by Isis, military says Ratko Mladić must get life sentence, say war crimes prosecutors Malta becomes first European country to ban ‘gay cure’ therapy Conservationists declare victory for wildlife as EU saves nature directives Paris bans cars for second day running as pollution chokes city Lawyer condemns Julian Assange over statement on rape case Ohio legislators pass restrictive abortion bill, citing Trump victory US Border Patrol uses desert as ‘weapon’ to kill thousands of migrants, report says Two charged with starting Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people US Senate passes $6.2bn health bill to expedite approval for drugs
Breakfast Blogs
Stop Whining About the ‘Person of the Year’ and Call Your Congressman Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Bible Still Outperforms Facebook in Delivering Fake News emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Gender and the 2016 Elections. Part II: Did Sexism Affect The Results? Echidne, at her blog
False equivalency FTW digby aka heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Forward together now Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Into the Obamacare Repeal Charnel House Josh Marshall, TMP EdBlog
Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Seem Particularly Worried About Obamacare Repeal Consequences Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Cops Who Repeatedly Treated Refusal As Consent Watch Their Seized Evidence Vanish Tim Cushing, Techdirt
T-Mobile Applauds Likely Death Of Net Neutrality Under Trump Karl Bode, Techdirt