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
Benjamin Franklin born; Soviet and Polish forces liberate Warsaw; Eisenhower farewell address; Japan earthquake; Al Capone is born;Muhammad Ali born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
Breakfast News
Consumer watchdog considering repeal of payday lending rule
Washington state town wary of slow-moving landslide
Trump administration appeals ruling on young immigrants
Winter storm hits South with more snow, frigid temperatures
Arkansas legislative panel backs proposal to ban herbicide
New Jersey confirms nation’s first Sikh attorney general
North Dakota oil output cut back to meet gas capture rules
2 Koreas talk about Olympic cooperation ahead of IOC meeting
Macron visits Calais to preview toughened migrant policies
Serb leader’s death in Kosovo raises Balkan region tensions
Nigerian army releases 244 suspects who denounced Boko Haram
Bangladesh, Myanmar aim to finish Rohingya return in 2 years
German linguists: ‘Alternative facts’ the non-word of 2017
Breakfast Blogs
Does President* Trump Have Your Back? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The 702 Capitulations: a Real Measure of the “Deep State” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Listen up, racist Trump voters: you personally need immigration digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Clarifying our values Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Great Moments In Murc’s Law Eric Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: John Stuart Mill — A Land of Contrasts driftglass, at his blog
DID IMMIGRATION HARDLINERS IN THE THURSDAY MEETING DELIBERATELY PLAY ON THE PRESIDENT’S RACISM? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
After Basically No Debate, And No Opportunity For Amendments, Senate Votes To Expand NSA Surveillance Mike Masnick, Techdirt