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
Elian Gonzales decision; First female U.S. governor inaugurated; Sonny Bono dies; Pete Rose admits to betting on baseball; Bruce Springsteen’s first album debuts.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Breakfast News
Supreme Court will hear partisan gerrymandering cases in March
Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports
ERs ‘flooded’ with mentally ill patients with no place else to turn
Michigan’s new attorney general seeks review of Flint cases
California utility assessing finances amid wildfire links
American officials due in Beijing for talks on trade battle
China begins first surface exploration of moon’s far side
Bluefin sold for $3 million in 1st 2019 sale at Tokyo market
WFP calls on Yemen’s rebels to bring aid theft to an end
Tropical storm’s rain, surging seas strike Thai beaches
Breakfast Blogs
We Gave These Clowns Way Too Much Leash for Far Too Long Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The William Barr Case for Impeaching Donald Trump: From Whom Did Trump Suborn False Statements? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Who Needs Government Anyway? Hecate Demeter, at her blog
QOTD: Orange Julius Caesar digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
… in Russia Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Ruminations on RICO and Asset Forfeiture in the Trump Business Empire Martin J. Sheil, Just Security
How the New Congress Can Restore Its Constitutional Role Margaret Taylor, Lawfare
More of This Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
“Extremism” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
In Which They Pull Me Back In driftglass, at his blog
Indignation Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
We Are the Real Americans, Too The Rude Pundit, at his blog
TRUMP HAS NO MOTIVATION TO REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT, AND MAY NEVER HAVE ANY MOTIVATION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog