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
Accord reached in Vietnam; North Korea seizes the U.S.S. Pueblo; Roots airs; Bob Keeshan dies; Johnny Carson dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Breakfast News
High court lets military implement transgender restrictions
Judge declares Iowa fetal heartbeat law unconstitutional
Panel votes down Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia
Judge rejects GOP victory claim in disputed N. Carolina race
Lawyers: Immigrant kids’ detention is prolonged, unexplained
Tentative deal reached to end Los Angeles teachers strike
Brazilian leader at odds with Davos focus on environment
US aid cuts hit Palestinians, further dimming hope for peace
Doping agency forgives Russia, but says more work needed
Russia, Japan make no visible progress on territorial spat
Breakfast Blogs
Turns Out It’s Pretty Cheap to Buy the Government Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Rudy Is Relying on Tapes to Claim Buzzfeed Is Phony: But There Aren’t Tapes of Everything emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
America’s shooting gallery digby aka Hullabaloo
Clinton? Trump? What’s the Diff, Really? tristero, Hullabaloo
All your base (are) belong to us Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Western Covert Action and Russian Active Measures: Hypocrisy or Divergent Values? John Sipher, Just Security
Can the President Cut Support for Congressional Foreign Travel During the Shutdown? Ryan Scoville, Lawfare
The billionaire next door Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
What Makes This From Glenn Greenwald Noteworthy Is Not… driftglass, at his blog
News from Satyagraha Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Random Observations on Some Racist Dipshit Kids and All of Us The Rude Pundits, at his blog
ADD ELECTORAL FRAUD TO THE CHARGES BEING LEVELED AT KAMALA HARRIS BY THE RIGHT (updated) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog