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
A tsunami kills more than 200-thousand people is Southeast Asia; Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten to death; Winston Churchill addresses joint session of Congress; Presidents Truman and Ford die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
Breakfast News
US says 2nd Guatemalan child dies in immigration custody
ACLU sues government to learn about NSA call records program
7-year-old who spoke to Trump about Santa still believes
Vermont community attempts to make world’s largest s’more
NYPD officer rescues hawk trapped in Penn Station
Protests in Tunisia after journalist sets himself on fire
Japan says it will leave IWC to resume commercial whaling
Thailand legislature legalizes medical marijuana and kratom
Breakfast Blogs
Kirstjen Nielsen Is Responsible for Whatever Happens to These Kids Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Significance of the James Wolfe Sentence for Mike Flynn, Leak Investigations, and the Signal Application emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The BEST way to get rid of your Christmas tree. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Christmas Nativities 2018: Horror Mice Will Steal Your Soul The Rude Pundit, at his blog
An Irony of Unimaginable Proportions Yatreblyansky, Rectification of Names