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
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan; Charles Darwin sets out on round-the-world voyage; Radio City Music Hall opens in New York; James Barrie’s play “Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” opens in London
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.
Breakfast News
Pennsylvania dioceses offer $84M to 564 clergy abuse victims
Wrongful conviction case headed to Missouri Supreme Court
Court: Airline’s workers can’t sue as class in pay dispute
Calif law will force small businesses to rethink staffing
California jails use kinder approach to solitary confinement
West Coast fishery rebounds in rare conservation ‘home run
Officer shows compassion after citing woman for taking food
Indonesia, Thailand mark 15th anniversary of massive tsunami
Israel’s embattled Netanyahu wins landslide in primary
Russian authorities raid opposition leader Navalny’s offices
Pro-Serbs rally in Montenegro against religious law
Christmas typhoon leaves 28 dead, 12 missing in Philippines
Court rules Turkey violated freedoms by banning Wikipedia
Sudan’s Christians enjoy holiday amid hope for new freedoms
Breakfast Blogs
Democracy Is Not for Cowards. We Used to Know That. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Merry Boxing Day. More on Gaslighting. Echidne, et her blog
The MSM belatedly discovers their own role in the right-wing political propaganda machine digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The perverse logic of win-win-ism Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Thoughts on the Horowitz Report, Part I: An Introduction Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
The ladder of law has a top and a bottom Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Ten Years Gone Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 603 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Christmas Nativities 2019: Now with Zombies (Because Sure, Why Not?) The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Mess the Press Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Chuck Todd Yanks Pants Up, Demands To Know Who Sh*t On The Floor Liz Dye, Wonkette
The Red Pill Ladies Auxiliary Had A ‘Submissive And Feminine’ Holiday This Year Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Donald Trump: What Has Two Thumbs And Kills More Birds Than Wind Power? THIS GUY! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
NY Cop Gets Stinging Wrist-Slap After Terrorizing Black Nashville Family. Still Has NY Cop Job. Stephen Robinson, Wonkette