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
The Boston Tea Party takes place; World War Two’s Battle of the Bulge begins; Ludwig van Beethoven is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward
Breakfast News
Judge temporarily blocks new Trump rules on birth control
Inquiry launched into harassment allegations against U.S. appeals judge
U.S. regulators ditch net neutrality rules as legal battles loom
SpaceX 1st: Recycled rocket soars with recycled capsule
Sometimes Santa needs a lift. This time, to remote Alaska
Manhattan prosecutor returns 3 ancient sculptures to Lebanon
Putin looks for quick win, but voter apathy worries Kremlin
Peru congress launches process for president’s ouster
Coalition govt reached in Austria signals shift to right
Earthquake rattles Indonesia’s Java island, 2 dead
Breakfast Blogs
The Republican Tax Bill is a Sham and a Con Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Many Gaps and Inconsistencies in Natalia Veselnitskaya’s Story, Starting with Ike emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Pay Now and Pay Later: What Losing CHIP means to America Quinn Norton, emptywheel
Purely For Fun Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Sootherdigby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/this-is-your-government-on-trump-by.html Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
It’s Here, It Will Pass, and It’s Horrible Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Forbidden Words Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
As a Liberal, Just About the Most Transgressive Thing You Can Do… driftglass, at his blog
THE RICH ARE GETTING THEIR WINDFALL AND THE WHITE WORKING CLASS STILL DOESN’T GET IT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
New Documents And Testimony Shows Officers Lied About Their Role In An Arrested Teen’s Death Tim Cushing, Techdirt
DOJ Wants Protesters & Reporter Convicted For ‘Hiding Behind The First Amendment’ Mike Masniock