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
Washington’s army routs the British in the Battle of New Jersey; Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. forces; Jack Ruby dies; Author J.R.R. Tolkien is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
Breakfast News
Suit over N Carolina legislative maps stays in state court
Commission OKs recommendation to arm teachers in Florida
New St. Louis County prosecutor fires some staff
Young immigrants seeking refuge from abuse face denials
Snow on saguaros: Desert cities in US Southwest see freeze
NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman
Toot! Toot! New riverboat to ride Mississippi in New Orleans
Border clash was at least 2nd use of tear gas since November
Peru’s attorney general reverses course on corruption probe
Brazil’s Bolsonaro targets minorities on 1st day in office
Fighting among rebels in northern Syria kills dozens
In India, Catholic priests have preyed on nuns for decades
Mexico finds Flayed god temple; priests wore skins of dead
Uffizi urges Germany to return painting stolen by Nazis
Breakfast Blogs
Elizabeth Warren Knows It’s Not Just About Trumpism. It’s About Completely Rebuilding Our Politics. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Hal Martin Manages to Obtain a Better Legal Outcome than Reality Winner, But It Likely Doesn’t Matter emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
But Her DNA! Hecate Demeter, at her blog
The Global Gender Gap Report, 2018 Echidne, at her blog
The West Coast offers another candidate digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Lord of the pit toilet flies Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Fascist War on Native People Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks 2019: The Year of Mr. Wolf driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Makes Sense to Me! Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Haiku Review of 2018, Part 3: Haiku and Change The Rude Pundit, at his blog
DO REPUBLICANS HATE DEMOCRACY — EVEN FOR REPUBLICANS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog