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
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Gov. John Connally is seriously wounded during a motorcade in Dallas. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes America’s 36th president.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Breakfast News
Pennsylvanians to get more time on sex abuse charges, suits
Massachusetts OKs ban on flavored vaping, tobacco products
California court invalidates law requiring Trump tax returns
Governor vetoes bill outlawing abortions over Down syndrome
Snow-like hail in Phoenix-area desert caps days of storms
Police to guard polls for vote in protest-wracked Hong Kong
In Ukraine’s bleak east, US aid saves lives, raises morale
Israel’s Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges
Iran net outage first to effectively isolate a whole nation
Breakfast Blogs
Pro-Life Groups Propose Death Penalty Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Will Hurd’s Sparkle Pony Approach to the Solemn Duty of Upholding the Constitution emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Impeachable Acts: What GOP Spin Can’t Change Rayne, emptywheel
The president is destroying the US MIlitary digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
US requires Ukraine to keep Javelin missiles 100’s of miles from battlefield Spocko, Hullabaloo
Devin Nunes is committed Tim Sullivan, Hullabaloo
About Those Constitutional Norms, Mr. Attorney General Deborah Pearlstein, Just Security
New Homeland Security Asylum Rule Allows Removal to Central American Countries That Have Signed Agreements With the U.S. Peter Marguiles, Lawfare
News Deserts Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Radical Republicans, then and now Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 587 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Watching Glenn Greenwald’s Spectacular Nose-Dive From Hero of the Credulous Left… driftglass, at his blog
REPUBLICANS STRUGGLE TO DETERMINE WHICH KIND OF SENATE TRIAL WILL OWN LIBS THE HARDEST Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Who’s Colluding Whom??? Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette