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
First victim dies in post-Sept. 11th anthrax scare; VP candidates spar over JFK; The Beatles release ‘Love Me Do’; ‘Monty Python’ premieres; Baseball’s Barry Bonds tops single-season runs record
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Breakfast News
Purdue opioid deal blasted as records show $13B to Sacklers
US government opens California land to oil, gas drilling
Western governors: States not consulted on nuclear waste
udge declines to block fake-meat law; appeal is filed
Ban may stop cutting of Capitol Christmas tree in New Mexico
Yellow cedar rejected for threatened species listing
Army veteran deported after drug conviction now a US citizen
Hong Kong suspends trains, appeals to public after rioting
Violence escalates in Iraq even after top cleric urges calm
For Hong Kong protesters, masks shield against Big Brother
Ukraine reviews cases on owner of firm that hired Biden son
Breakfast Blogs
If Ron Johnson Keeps This Up, Trump Could Be in Leavenworth by Christmas Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Specifically Ensured Republicans Wouldn’t Know about His Extortion emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Hitting the Fan: Volker’s Text Messages Released Rayne, emptywheel
Mike Pence goes down with the ship digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The deliverable Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Breaking News: Ukraine Prosecutor General Announces Audit of Cases Including Firm Linked to Hunter Biden Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Recent Ukrainian Perspectives on the Trump-Ukraine Scandal Masha Simonova, Lawfare
Elizabeth Warren began in Two Thousand Sixteen, (which was rather late for her), between the end of the Sanders campaign and Brittany Howard’s first solo LP Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
My Conversation with a Trump Supporter Vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How the American Gestapo Operates Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Peak David Brooks driftglass, at his blog
Ukraine Puzzle Piece Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
IN 2020, WILL JOHN ROBERTS DO MORE OUTREACH TO MODERATES ON TRUMP’S BEHALF THAN TRUMP DOES? Steve M., No More Mister nice Blog
Oh NOW You Want To Hear About The Treasury Whistleblower? Well OK! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Quid Pro Qu-OOOOLY SH*T! Let’s Read Some State Department Texts About Trump’s Ukraine Crimes! Evan Hurst, Wonkette