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 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) 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
Jack Ruby fatally shoots Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; Charles Darwin publishes theory of evolution; Hijacker known as D.B. Cooper parachutes out of plane with ransom money; Queen’s Freddie Mercury dies
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Breakfast News
Possible explosion detected near Argentine sub’s last-known location
Irish government on verge of collapse ahead of EU Brexit summit
Syrian opposition to form delegation to take part in U.N. talks
Fair elections in Poland at risk from ruling party bill, opposition says
Backlash among German MPs against parliamentary Twitter b
Polar bears crowd on Russian island in sign of Arctic change
After DNA test, California man freed from prison in 1978 double-murder
Bodyguard to armed Oregon occupation leader sentenced to probation
US Supreme Court to rule on wedding cake that split America
Hazmat unit dispatched after mishap with a turkey fryer improperly attached to a propane tank
Newfoundland flight passengers turn delayed flight into huge sing-a-long At Toronto airport
Breakfast Blogs
The Great Chinese Climate Hoax Is Getting Very Convincing Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/23/does-the-fusion-ledger-explain-why-theyve-pled-the-fifth/ emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Roy Moore Defended. A Religious Explanation Echidne, at her blog
Loose lips sink ships and other disasters digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Mixed messages Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Worst American Journalism Has to Offer Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The misogyny is coming from inside the newsroom! Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Moeey
Thanksgiving Cheap Shots: And Farewell to Mark Halperin Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog