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: Saddam Hussein executed; Chicago fire kills 600; Vladimir Lenin proclaims establishment of the Soviet Union; United Auto Workers union stage first “sit-down” strike; Musician Bo Diddley is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Breakfast News
U.S. military to accept transgender recruits on Monday: Pentagon
How a South Texas bureaucrat became a multimillionaire amid the rush to build a border fence
Numbing cold wave grips U.S., heralding a frigid New Year’s Eve
California set for New Year’s buzz with recreational marijuana sales
Exclusive: Russian tankers fueled North Korea via transfers at sea – sources
Special Report: In a hospital ward in Yemen, the collapse of a nation
Myanmar frees journalists working for Turkish broadcaster
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s New York Times Interview Is a Portrait of a Man in Cognitive Decline Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Today In Review. Or Echidne’s End-of-Year Post. Echidne, at her blog
QOTD: who else? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The weariness factor Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Recy Taylor and the Courage of Testimony Simon Balto, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Song of Dershowitz Yastreblyansky, No More Mister nice Blog
New Year’s Message: Keep On Believing Mike Masnick, Techdirt