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
Elian Gonzales decision; First female U.S. governor inaugurated; Sonny Bono dies; Pete Rose admits to betting on baseball; Bruce Springsteen’s first album debuts.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Breakfast News
Blizzard rolls up the East Coast, with cold blast to follow
Roy Moore accuser files defamation lawsuit against him
Luck of the draw helps Republicans hold Virginia House
Civil rights probe of black man’s police shooting is closed
Trump moves to vastly expand offshore drilling off US coasts
Iran blames CIA for week of protests; US denies any role
US suspends security assistance to Pakistan
Aid group projects 48,000 births in crowded Rohingya camps
Ethiopia to release imprisoned politicians, close camp
Iceland requires companies to prove equal pay for women
Spanish court reviews custody of ex-Catalan vice president
Fowl weather friends: Arkansas students print 3-D duck leg
Breakfast Blogs
All of Trump’s Problems Seem to Perpetually Come Down to Money Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
More Trump Gifts To His Base: A Lump of Coal For Christmas Echidne, at her blog
Senators do have power. They just refuse to use it to stop Trump. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The circus on Pennsylvania Avenue Tim Sullivan, Hullabaloo
It’s Good For Presidential Nominees to be Good at Politics Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How the Republican fake scandal machine works Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Gas Station Attendants and the Working Class Economy Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Bad Day At Galt’s Gulch drifglass. at his blog
THINK ANYONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE KNOWS WHAT JOAN DIDION SAID ABOUT WRITERS? (OR KNOWS WHO DIDION IS?) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Could It Be? Congress Actually Wants To Do The Right Thing On Electronic Voting! Mike Masnick, Techdirt