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
U.S. Supreme Court upholds the relocation and detention of Japanese-Americans during World War Two; U.S. begins 12 days of heavy bombing of North Vietnamese targets; Steven Spielberg is born; Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ – publicly premieres in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Breakfast News
US senator proposes money, oversight to boost dam safety
US proposes new rules to increase organ transplants
Bill to raise tobacco age has unlikely allies: Altria, Juul
Montana tribe’s long recognition struggle clears Congress
Washington state sues over courthouse immigration arrests
In reversal, border agents allow sick 7-year-old to enter US
Volunteers battle health crisis of asylum seekers in Mexico
India’s Supreme Court delays hearing citizenship law pleas
France on strike: Power cuts, schools shut, no Eiffel Tower
Pakistan sentences former dictator to death in treason case
Brazil’s Amazon mega-dam: broken promises for distant power
Finland offers crash course in artificial intelligence to EU
Breakfast Blogs
Yeah, the Letter. But Today’s Biggest Trump News Came Out of a Court Room in New York. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
A Biased FBI Agent Was Running an Informant on an Oppo-Research Predicated Investigation–into Hillary–in 2016 emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Macron’s Christmas: Grabbing the Third Rail of French Politics Quinn Norton, emptywheel
The Funeral Of Feminist Blogs Echidne, at her blog
“The literal image of the power behind the throne” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullaba
Cheer up! More incriminating evidence about Trump’s crimes is on the way! Spocko, Hullabaloo
Well, do ya, punks? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
A National Security Impeachment Harold Hongju Koh, Just Security
Judge William Webster’s New York Times Op-Ed John Bellinger, Lawfare
Elections have consequences Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 596Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today in Both Sides Do It: Heresy in the Time of Ptolemy, Blasphemy in the Time of Brooks driftglass, at his blog
Random Observations on Trump’s Completely Bugnuts Insane “Letter” on Impeachment Eve The Rude Pundit, at his blog
THE VERDICT OF HISTORY (RED AMERICA VERSION) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Rudy Giuliani: I DID CRIMES! TRUMP KNEW ABOUT IT! WHAT YEAR IS IT? ARE YOU A REAL POLICEMAN? Evan Hurst, Wonkette
How Sorry Is Michael Flynn That He Hired This Nutbag Lawyer? Liz Dye, Wonkette
Erdogan Threatens To Recognize US Genocide Of Native Americans, Oh No, Not THE TRUTH!1! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
New York Times Now ‘Both Sides’-ing Measles, Whooping Cough, The Plague… Stephen Robinson, Wonkette