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
Highlights of this day in history: Uprising topples Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu; Richard Reid tries to light explosives in his shoes on Miami flight; French army officer Alfred Dreyfus convicted of treason; Pop star Madonna marries Guy Ritchie.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’ Abigail Adams
Breakfast News
Planned Parenthood asks Supreme Court to review abortion law
Spooky skull-shaped asteroid will haunt Earth in 2018
Confederate statues removed after Memphis sells public parks
Bundys looking to clear charges, not start next land fight
Nestle warned it lacks rights to some California water
All significant California wildfire evacuation orders lifted
Catalan separatists regain majority in regional election
In India, some fear lawmakers are stoking anti-Muslim fervor
South Sudan warring sides sign cease-fire for Christmas Eve
Raul Castro confirms he will stay Cuba’s president to April
Peru’s president makes forceful plea against impeachment
After nearly 25 years, Yugoslav court to close its doors
Snowy owl numbers far lower than once thought
Breakfast Blogs
The Republican Party Has Bowed, Completely, to the Mad King Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Fake Russian Metadata that Will Do Nothing to Prevent Nuclear War emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler,emptywheel
A Thousand Days of Hell in Yemen Produce a Million Cases of Cholera Ed White, emptywheel
The best thing I’ve heard in weeks! Steve Bannon is thinking of running for President in 2020. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Banks of the Ohio revisited Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Republicans Refuse to Fund CHIP
Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Symbolic Politics of China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 178 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Rip Van Brokaw Bestirs Himself driftglass, at his blog
MASSIVE FAT-CAT SPENDING WILL CAUSE AMERICA TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE TAX BILL (NO, IT WONT) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Canadian Government Looking To Step Up Domestic Surveillance, Scale Back Intelligence Oversight Tim Cushing, Techdirt