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
Thomas Edison demonstrates light bulb; The United States winds down the Marshall Plan; Actor Anthony Hopkins, composer Jule Styne and musician Donna Summer are born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Violence is like a weed – it does not die even in the greatest drought.
Breakfast News
Feds: No evidence hackers disrupted North Carolina voting
GOP lawmakers in 2 states seek anti-red flag laws on guns
Judge temporarily blocks California’s forced arbitration law
Powerful winter storm lingers in Upper Midwest
Police, victims warn against firing guns on New Year’s Eve
NYPD: Times Square safest place on Earth for New Year’s Eve
Fallen WWII soldier’s dog tags return home after 75 years
North Korean leader calls for ‘military countermeasures’
Russia warns Iran nuclear deal in danger of ‘falling apart’
Raging wildfires trap 4,000 at Australian town’s waterfront
Mexico’s Zapatistas host “Women Who Fight” gathering
Germany’s Merkel urges climate action in New Year message
Russia, Ukraine finalize deals for gas transit to Europe
Breakfast Blogs
Mick Mulvaney Is Getting Fed to the Wolves on Ukraine Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Inspector General Report on Carter Page Fails to Meet the Standard It Applies to the FBI emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Anal Analyst. On Teen Vogue. Echidne, at her blog
The swamp extends all the way to Venezuela digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Forest for the trees Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The end of white Christian America? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Doesn’t talk, it swears Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
On Rick Wilson’s “O Tempora! O Mores!” Lamentations driftglass, at his blog
Haiku Review of 2019 (Part 2): The Haiku Awakens The Rude Pundit, at his blog
CONSERVATIVES WOULD RATHER HAVE A LIMITED BODY COUNT THAN NONE AT ALL Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Stacey Abrams’s Org Loses One ‘Fair Fight’ Against Voter Purge Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Rudy Giuliani Takes Break From Secret Ukraine Back Channel For New VENEZUELAN Back Channel Liz Dye, Wonkette
New York Times Sorry About Bret Stephens White Supremacist Oopsie, Definitely Won’t Let It Happen Again* Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Fox & Friends Know Who Real Victims Of Hannukah Attacks Are, SURPRISE It Is Christians Stephen Robinson, Wonkette