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
Journalist Edward R. Murrow takes on Senator Joe McCarthy’s anti communist campaign; Commedian George Burns dies in 1996.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Breakfast News
Judge rules against NCAA in federal antitrust lawsuit
Judge extends authority to more families separated at border
GOP state lawmakers approve ‘heartbeat’ abortion bans
Wrongful-death lawsuit filed on behalf of aborted embryo
CDC: Unvaccinated Oregon boy almost dies of tetanus
US regulators clear path for genetically modified salmon
Rain brings 2nd California super bloom in 2 years
Venezuela buckles under massive power, communications outage
Popular support for militants complicates Pakistan crackdown
Ex-Venezuelan vice president accused of aiding drug dealers
In Russia, gender equality still a long way off
Turkish police use tear gas to disperse women’s march
UK leader warns Brexit may never happen unless deal approved
Breakfast Blogs
Of Course Trump Took a Selfie With the Owner of Tokyo Day Spas Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Mueller Has More Discovery on Roger Stone Alone than the Entire Trump Campaign Turned Over emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Hallmark Cards Version of the International Women’s Day Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Still a rich, white man’s world Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
President Trump’s Cronyism and Excesses Should Prompt Security Clearance Reform Kell McClanahan, Just Security
What Does North Macedonia’s Name Change Have to Do with NATO? Todd Carney, Lawfare
Blameless Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
They Will Always Find Women to Hate The Rude Pundit, at his blog
November 2020 Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
OUR ELITE PUNDITS ARE AWFULLY SLOW ON THE UPTAKE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog