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
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense; London’s Underground opens; The Beatles first album released in US hits store shelves; Rod Stewart born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. George Washington Carver
Read more at: Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Breakfast News
Texas landowners dig in to fight Trump’s border wall
Routine food inspections halted by US government shutdown
Federal judge strikes down Iowa law on undercover ag workers
Fetal heartbeat: New abortion-related fight in Kentucky
US officials declare end to outbreak from romaine lettuce
Judge dismisses opioid crisis lawsuits against drugmakers
Iran says it holds US Navy veteran, 1st arrest of Trump era
UK lawmakers rebuff May as she tries to salvage Brexit deal
Malta allows migrants off rescue ships in 8-nation EU deal
UN says some 30,000 people flee new Nigeria fighting
Australia considering resettlement for fleeing Saudi woman
Austrian train workers rescue wild goat buried in snowdrift
Breakfast Blogs
Yeah, Sure, This Is What 2020 Needs Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Manafort Claims He Can’t Be a Witness to Trump’s Conspiracy with Russia because He Managed the Campaign emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Fergawdsakes digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The anti-Washington Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
When the Pardon Furthers the Conspiracy: Limits to the Pardon Power Sam Berger, Just Security
Special Snowflake Triggered By Proxy, Needs Safe Space Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Boycotting white supremacists Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 392, Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Fake Internet Tough-Guy vs. His Red-Headed Stepchildren driftglass, at his blog
Citizens Agenda Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
There Are Crises in This Country, But the Border Isn’t One of the Them The Rude Pundit, at his blog
TRUMP IS AN ASSHOLE, NOT A TYRANT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog