The Breakfast Club (Fear And Hate)

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.

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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
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George Washington Carver

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