The Breakfast Club (Idiots)

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

Pink Floyd releases its best-selling album “The Wall”; Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Dick Clark are born; World Trade Organization’s meeting met by 40-thousand protesters.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Breakfast News

Belated bill to help solve indigenous cold cases gains steam

Powerful storm disrupts nation’s busiest travel weekend

PG&E says blackouts limited fires despite 1 likely failure

Georgia city considers lawsuit to block removal of dam

River watchers already wary about 2020 spring flooding

Johnson seeks to focus UK election on Brexit, not his flaws

Italy’s ‘Sardines’ movement threatens Salvini’s dominance

Iraqi prime minister to resign in wake of deadly protests

Peru’s Keiko Fujimori leaves prison after top court ruling

France summons Turkish envoy over Erdogan jab at Macron

Brazil’s president criticizes DiCaprio over Amazon fires

Black Friday frenzy goes global – and not everyone’s happy

Breakfast Blogs

Making Betsy DeVos Irrelevant to Education Policy Should Be Every Sensible Human’s Goal Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Origin of the Sharpie Quid Pro Quo Denial: An Effort to Craft a Cover Story on the Pages of the WSJ emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Meanwhile in Gilead digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

#Fail That Must Not Be Named Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Here’s the Proof that Trump’s “No Quid Pro Quo” Call Never Happened Susan Simpson, Just Security

Trump/Johnson Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Brooks on Gut Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

DO DEMOCRATIC VOTERS SUDDENLY FIND WARREN LESS APPEALING, OR DO THEY ASSUME OTHER PEOPLE DO? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog