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
Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death; Bandleader Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel; The Bill of Rights takes effect; Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull killed; Walt Disney dies at age 65.
Breakfast Tunes
Nancy Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018)
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Breakfast News
Federal Judge In Texas Rules Against Obamacare
California alleges utility falsified pipeline safety records
Evidentiary hearing on 9th District issues rescheduled
California is first state to mandate zero-emission bus fleet
UNC system rejects $5M plan to house Confederate statue
Judge orders Idaho to give transgender inmate gender surgery
Alaska groups sue EPA to enforce clean air laws in Fairbanks
Cow steals spotlight at student’s graduation photo shoot
NASA moves liquid hydrogen tank to Huntsville for testing
China suspends tariff hikes on US cars, auto parts
Serbia talks up armed intervention as Kosovo OKs new army
Climate talks extended as island nations demand action
Macron urges calm, Paris police prepare for more violence
May aims to rescue Brexit plan; EU says ball’s in UK’s court
Australia recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
Breakfast Blogs
We Are Governed By Monsters Now Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Did Jared Kushner Try to Preemptively Undercut Mike Flynn at the Enquirer? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What All New Right-Wing Authoritarian Movements Share: The Wish To Cancel Feminist Gains. Echidne, at her blog
Your wingnut uncle Mikie Flynn digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
North Carolina happens Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Senate Strikes Back: Checking Trump’s Foreign Policy Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen, Just Security
The Steele Dossier: A Retrospective Sarah Grant and Chuck Rosenberg, Lawfare
Sondra Locke Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The first black president Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I GUESS RUDY NO LONGER BELIEVES IN “BROKEN WINDOWS” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog