The Breakfast Club (Basic Questions)

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.

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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?

Sarah Vowell

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