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
Pres. Woodrow Wilson is born; John C. Calhoun becomes first US vice president to resign; Alexander Solzhenitsyn ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is published; Actor Denzel Washington and comic book creator Stan Lee are born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
Breakfast News
Court upholds creation of national monument in Atlantic
Judge orders government to make changes to terror watchlist
Age limit now 21 across US for cigarettes, tobacco products
USDA OKs hemp plans for Louisiana, Ohio, New Jersey
Federal judge to halt latest North Carolina voter ID mandate
Federal judge won’t undo Georgia voter purge
Mississippi asks appeals court to reconsider abortion ruling
Judge blocks California’s alligator ban after Louisiana sues
New Russian weapon can travel 27 times the speed of sound
Israel’s Netanyahu shores up base but obstacles remain
France summons Iran’s ambassador over detained researchers
UN condemns human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya
French oil refineries blocked as pension strike hits day 23
India clamps down on marches, internet after deadly protests
Turkey sentences critical journalists to prison
Breakfast Blogs
Make No Mistake. Edward Gallagher Will Be a Star of the Republican Presidential Campaign. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Watch your step Trumpie. That gender gap is a chasm. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Blue vs. gray? Meet blue vs. red. Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Thoughts on the Horowitz Report, Part II: What the Inspector General Did Not Find Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
On Trump’s Beloved War Criminal Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 605 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Thank Goodness for Karl Rove driftglass, at his blog
Mess the Press: A Matter of Faith Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Things That Didn’t Suck in 2019 The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Handlers Keep Trump From Tweeting Out Whistleblower’s Name, PLEASE CLAP Liz Dye, Wonkette
Trump Administration To Make ACA Enrollees Pay $1 Billion In Order To Bill Abortion Separately Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Hey, Remember When Nancy Pelosi Killed 45,000 Americans By Passing Obamacare? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette