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
President Woodrow Wilson is born; John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign; Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” is published; Actor Denzel Washington and comic book creator Stan Lee are born
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.
Breakfast News
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner indicted in Argentina corruption case
White House races to save Middle East peace process before Trump takes office
Russian officials admit to ‘institutional conspiracy’ of doping Olympic athletes
Corbyn hits back after Obama suggests Labour is disintegrating
Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbor in what Barack Obama calls ‘historic gesture’
SEIU, one of the largest US unions, plans 30% budget cuts in wake of Trump win
Trump Foundation cannot dissolve amid investigation into charity spending
Cheetah ‘more vulnerable to extinction than previously thought’
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Breakfast Blogs
We Can Now Measure Exactly What Scott Walker’s Done to Wisconsin Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Putting “Jeanie” back in the bottle digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
From the Witch’s Bedtable Necate, at her blog
Remember William Tecumseh Sherman’s Famous “Let’s Go Figure out What White Rural Voters Really Want” March to the Sea? driftglass, at his blog
Jon Swift Memorial Yastreblyansky. No More Mister Nice Blog
Obama Pulls Cybercommand Control From NSA; Changes To Take Effect Whenever Tim Cushing, Techdirt