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 Christmas poem ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ is first published; Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo is executed; Mormon religion founder Joseph Smith, Jr. is born; North Korea releases the 82 U.S. Seamen.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Breakfast News
Appeals court: Trump exceeded authority with travel ban
Second court rejects Trump bid to stop transgender military recruits
Alabama to certify Democrat Jones winner of Senate election despite Roy Moore protests
Texas Attorney General Says It’s Fine To Carry Loaded Guns Into Churches
More than 4 in 5 enrolled in ‘Obamacare’ are in Trump states
Joy to the weed! Marijuana legalization comes bearing gifts
UN Security Council imposes new sanctions on North Korea
Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign
Peru president avoids impeachment, now faces criminal probe
Spain’s crisis re-ignited as Catalan separatists win vote
Will Yellowstone erupt? Geologists look for supervolcano’s heat source
Study suggests climate change may increase volcanic eruptions
NASA is building a rover to search for water on the Moon
Scientists disprove major assumption about the brain
Here’s why an early American Christian would be offended if you wished them a ‘Merry Christmas’
Breakfast Blogs
I Stand With Scrooge’s Nephew Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
On Jim Baker’s Non-Prosecution for Leaking emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Culture of Institutional Silence and Sexual Abuse Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Soother: Christmas penguins! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Envy is as envy does Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Great Moments In Murc’s Law Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today in American Ethnic Cleansing Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Red Skull Comes To The Heart Of Blue Chicago driftglass, at his blog
THE TRUMPERS ARE REALLY TERRIBLE AT STAYING ON MESSAGE Stece M., No More Mister Nice Blog