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
A tsunami kills more than 200-thousand people is Southeast Asia; Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten to death; Winston Churchill addresses joint session of Congress; Presidents Truman and Ford die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
Breakfast News
Russian officials bar Navalny from running for president
Peru’s president grants medical pardon for jailed Fujimori
Venezuela’s opposition reinvents itself with soup kitchens
Christmas brings Northeast blizzard, bitter cold in Midwest
US says it negotiated $285M cut in United Nations budget
Winds of worry: US fishermen fear forests of power turbines
Big labor sees growth potential in California pot workers
Winds scuttle Washington’s crossing despite kids’ efforts
Cities, volunteers clash over feeding homeless in public
Study: Distance restrictions on orcas haven’t hurt tourism
Breakfast Blogs
Trump Managed to Sneak One More World Stage Embarrassment in Before the Buzzer Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
In August 2016, Rinat Akhmetshin Suggested Russian Adoptions Would Resume Under Trump emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Christmas Day Soother: Baby Elephants! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Sounds like fun Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
That’s super Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Now that we’re busy driving away our friends, we can’t afford enemies any more. You can thank Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. The New York Crank, No More Mister Nice Blog