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
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.
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