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
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan; Charles Darwin sets out on round-the-world voyage; Radio City Music Hall opens in New York; James Barrie’s play “Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” opens in London.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
Breakfast News
Deaths of 2 children raise doubts about US border agency
AP Exclusive: Migrant teen tent city staying open into 2019
2 Michigan regulators take plea deals in Flint water case
As ball drops, minimum-wage workers in NYC will see pay rise
American man first to solo across Antarctica unaided
Quake from Mount Etna volcano jolts Sicily, sparks panic
Israeli official confirms Syria airstrikes as Russia objects
Congo delays Sunday’s election for months in Ebola zone
At new Museum of Black Civilizations, a call to come home
Koreas break ground on railways but sanctions block project
Breakfast Blogs
Tit-for-Tat: What Mike Flynn’s 302 Reveals about the Lies He Told emptywheel aka Marcy Wheel, emptywheel
Little Prince Bone Spurs digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The gift I got from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Spocko, Hullabaloo
What’s to Be Done About Conservatives? Batocchio, Hullabaloo
Money for nothing Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
e Could U.S. Withdrawal from Syria Lead to War Between Russia and Turkey? Alexander Bick, Just Security
Yes, Bill Barr’s Memo Really is Wrong About Obstruction of Justice Daniel J. Hemel and Eric a. Posner, Lawfare
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 380 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Things That Eased the Pain in 2018 The Rude Pundit, at his blog
House of Cards Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names