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
The Civil War’s Battle of Fort Donelson; the Georgia crematory case; John Demjanjuk goes on trial; America’s first 911 call; and the NHL scraps the rest of its season.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Breakfast News
Payless ShoeSource to shutter all of its remaining US stores
California may sue Trump over emergency wall declaration
Alabama Confederate statue law to stay in effect amid appeal
Attorney: Process behind census question ‘rotten’
9/11 fund running out of money for those with illnesses
Snow too thick to plow keeps skiers from California resorts
Nigeria delays election until Feb. 23 over ‘challenges’
High-speed tunnel project divides Italy’s ruling populists
Europeans fire back at criticism from US over Iran
Haiti to unveil economic measures to quell violent protests
French ambassador returns to Italy following dramatic spat
Spain to get 3rd gov’t in 4 years amid fragmenting politics
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s Rose Garden Fiasco Was a Commercial for the 25th Amendment Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Dan Coats Still Refusing to Provide the Evidence that Russia Didn’t Affect the Election emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The wall was never the issue Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Does the Data President Trump Cited at His Emergency Announcement Even Exist? Scott R. Anderson and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
NFL Capitulates in Kapernick/Reid Collusion Suit Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Get out of the boat Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Battle in the Democratic Party is More About Ideas than Ideology Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
There Goes The Neighborhood. driftglass, at his blog
Breakup Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
EMERGENCY DECLARATION: THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ABOUT A SENATE VOTE IS RIDICULOUS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog