The Breakfast Club (High Sounding Words)

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.

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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.

Abigail Adams

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