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
‘War of the Worlds’ spooks Americans on Halloween Eve; A deadly mudslide hits Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch; Muhammad Ali beats George Foreman in the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’; Comedian Steve Allen dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Breakfast News
NCAA board approves athlete compensation for image, likeness
Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California
Amazon hopes $1.5 mil elects pro-business Seattle leaders
Missouri agency tracked Planned Parenthood patients’ periods
Hackles rise as Chicago teachers strike drags into day 9
US finalizing rule to allow farmers to legally grow hemp
Judge tosses Pittsburgh gun laws passed after massacre
Immigration official says US-Mexico border crisis not over
Brexit ballot: UK lawmakers back December 12 election
Lebanese prime minister quits amid anti-government protests
Chileans reject president’s concessions, plan new protests
French panel: Seize guns to reduce domestic violence
Jordan recalls ambassador to Israel to protest detentions
French Senate debates Muslim headscarf bill
Ukraine, separatists both pull back heavy weapons from east
Putin hosts Cuban leader for talks on expanding ties
Breakfast Blogs
Kevin McCarthy Is Totally Incapable of Keeping Order in the Wild Kingdom Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Emmet Sullivan Just Learning of Sidney Powell’s Bait-and-Switch emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Alexander Vindman Proves That Working Within System Works Even While Derek Harvey Works To Destroy It Jim White, emptywheel
Men Are Waffles, Women Pancakes. From The Series: “Stories From The Essentialist World”. Echidne, at her blog
If you want to change the country, this must happen digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Mark Meadows, we’ll meet again Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Female Genital Mutilation and the Treaty Power: What Congress Can Do Daniel Rice, Just Security
NCAA to destroy noble ideals of amateurism Scott Lemieux. Lawyers, Guns and Money
Strikes Work! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Letter to a Colleague driftglass, at his blog
YOU SAY “PATRIOT AND WOUNDED VETERAN” AS IF THAT’S A GOOD THING! Steve M., No More Mister Nice blog
Trump Is Obsessed With Adam Schiff’s Parody of His Phone Call with Zelensky The Rude Pundit, at his blog