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
Pink Floyd releases its best-selling album “The Wall”; Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Dick Clark are born; World Trade Organization’s meeting met by 40-thousand protesters.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I’m looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I’m doing.
Breakfast News
Repeat outbreaks pressure produce industry to step up safety
Mystery ballot could sway control of Alaska state government
Flooding hits Northern California area scarred by wildfire
Lawmakers press for fingerprinting of detention camp staff
County liable for jailing woman 96 days without seeing judge
New York hospitals to repay victims charged for rape kits
Suicide, at 50-year peak, pushes down US life expectancy
May won’t rule out no-deal Brexit; bank says firms not ready
Warnings grow over unsanitary conditions in Tijuana shelter
China halts work by team on gene-edited babies
British diplomat says Yemen talks on next week in Stockholm
Ukraine urges NATO to deploy ships in dispute with Russia
Breakfast Blogs
Christmas Is for Coincidences Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Cohen’s Testimony Implicates Trump and His Spawn emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
California lets people vote. Paul Ryan finds that suspicious. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Only mostly dead Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Yes, Collusion: The Legal Significance of the New Mueller Revelations Bob Bauer and Ryan Goodman, Just Security
The Legal Perils That Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea Poses for Donald Trump Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
And I said to myself: This is the business we’ve chosen Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
No Puppet No Puppet Department Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Note to News Networks: Stop Having Climate Change Denialists on the Air The Rude Pundit, at his blog
NO ONE IS EVER SUPPOSED TO BE PUNISHED FOR BEING WRONG FROM THE RIGHT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog