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
Pilgrims land in Plymouth Massachusetts; Pan Am flight 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland; Apollo 8 lifts off on first manned mission to the Moon; Actress Jane Fonda is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Breakfast News
California fire crews, homeowners brace for return of winds
Mistrial in Nevada standoff is latest defeat for prosecutors
Memphis parks with Confederate statues sold, removal begins
U.S. lawmakers seek temporarily extension to internet spying program
PM May forces her own deputy to resign after pornography scandal
Mexican governor requests leave to run for president
Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 strikes near Iran’s capital
Britain’s May will allow Brexit delay in exceptional circumstances
North Korean soldier defects to the South: South Korean defense official
Catalonia votes in election pivotal for independence campaign
Myanmar’s Human Rights Crackdown Continues As It Denies Entry To UN Investigator
Charlottesville Street Renamed In Honor Of Heather Heyer
What Winter Solstice means around the world
Breakfast Blogs
This Administration Is a Plague, and It Might Just Release One Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Bankrupt Attribution of WannaCryemptywheel
The Proper Court Etiquette in the Trump White House. Follow the Example of Mike Pence. Echidne, at her blog
Working digits no longer necessary digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A Rare Actual Example of IDENTITY POLITICS in the Pejorative Sense Scot Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Republican Blitzkrieg on Workers Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Everybody Knows driftglass, at his blog
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL? NO, NOT FOR MOST PEOPLE. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Congress Backs Down From Terrible Surveillance Bill; Running Out Of Time Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Right On Cue, Marsha Blackburn Introduces A Fake Net Neutrality Bill To Make The FCC’s Idiotic Decision Permanent Karl Bode, Techdirt