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
First human heart transplant performed; Industrial accident kills thousands in Bhopal, India; Hundreds of students arrested at the University of California at Berkeley; “A Streetcar Named Desire” opens on Broadway; Snger Ozzy Osbourne is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Breakfast News
Missouri first to adopt fairness test against gerrymandering
Next Minnesota House speaker will dump master mute button
https://apnews.com/c929c259eb984c979071b657d0b7c837
Number of missing after California fire dwindles to 49
Some evacuation orders lifted for California wildfire area
Rare December tornadoes reported in central US, killing 1
Duke removes Confederate veteran’s name from building
Coal question looms large as climate talks begin in Poland
Ukraine urges German naval presence in Black Sea
Paris assesses injuries, damage after worst riot in decade
Border village grinds to a halt amid Ukraine-Russia tensions
UK’s Labour will try to topple May if Brexit deal rejected
Damaging police report looms over Netanyahu re-election bid
Breakfast Blogs
George H.W. Bush Couldn’t Fight His Own Ambition Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
If SSCI Was Referring All This Perjury to Mueller about GRU Funding Trump, Why Did Richard Burr Claim It Had Found No “Collusion”? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Unpredictable superpowers are not safe for anyone, including themselves digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Truth, justice, and the un-American way Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
You Can’t Expect Someone Responsible For As Many As 800 Words A Week To Come Up With New Ideas Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Party’s Over driftglass, at his blog
Yes They Did Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
THE MEDIA’S PRAISE FOR POPPY BUSH SHOWS US WHAT POST-TRUMP MAINSTREAM JOURNALISM WILL BE LIKE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog