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
Martin Luther King, Junior accepts Nobel Peace Prize; Women get the right to vote in Wyoming Territory; America’s first domestic passenger jet flight takes off; Soul singer Otis Redding, General Augusto Pinochet die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
Barack Obama orders ‘full review’ of possible Russian hacking in US election Russian state doped more than 1,000 athletes and corrupted London 2012 Abducted US journalist faces fifth Christmas in Syrian captivity Solomon Islands shaken by second earthquake in two days Samsung Is Making Remaining Galaxy Note 7 Phones Useless Giraffes Could Face ‘Silent Extinction,’ Conservationists Warn Winter Weather Wallops Northwest While Icy Cold Freezes Plains, Midwest Buzz Aldrin Leaves New Zealand Hospital After South Pole Scare
Breakfast Blogs
Saturday Is Bob Dylan Day, from Hibbing to Stockholm Charles Pierce, Esquire Blog
As Bad As It Is, the Electoral College Could Get Even Worse Scott Lemieux, Lawyres, Guns and Money
Donald Trump’s Intelligence Briefings and Ellsberg’s Limits of Knowledge emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Andy Puzder for the Secretary of Labor: Up Is Down And Down Is Up Echidne, at her blog
Trump’s eugenics digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Donald in Wonderland Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Media Assisted Suicide Watch Continues driftglass, at his blog
Giuliani Out: Another Defeat For Bannon And Victory For Priebus Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
US Government Gives $11,000 Back To College Student Three Years After The DEA Took It From Him Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Pirates Trying To Form New Icelandic Government Mike Masnick, Techdirt