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
Martin Luther King, Junior accepts Nobel Peace Prize; Women get the right to vote in Wyoming Territory; America’s first domestic passenger jet flight takes off; Soul singer Otis Redding, General Augusto Pinochet die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Breakfast News
Pensacola gunman got around a ban on foreigners buying guns
California fines CVS $3.6 million for failing to recycle
Virginia gun rights activists vow to fight new restrictions
Report: US misled public on progress in Afghanistan war
Federal appeals court rules against political ad law
Feds agree to review grizzly protections in contiguous US
World trade without rules? US shuts down WTO appeals court
Russia, Ukraine to revive peace process amid little progress
Pension strikes cripple Paris, more travel woes ahead
Up to 13 feared dead in volcanic eruption off New Zealand
North Korea calls Trump ‘erratic’ old man over tweets
Breakfast Blogs
This Highly Organized Right-Wing Militia Is an Ominous Portent Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Special Envoy for Ukraine Was Working on Paul Manafort’s Defense emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Will Rogers Was Right About The Democrats bmaz, emptywheel
Afghanistan: A Trillion Dollars’ Worth Of Lies Jim White, emptywheel
Some Things That are True About France Quinn Norton, emptywheel
Some more highlights digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires tristero, Hullabaloo
Hot spit take Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Seven Outright Falsehoods in GOP Staff Report on Impeachment Susan Simpson, Just Security
The Inspector General’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Report: A Quick and Dirty Analysis Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
The worst and the dullest Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
BREAKING! Professional Compensated For Her Expert Services Scott Lemisux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Never Trust a Never Trumper — The Saga Continues driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: We’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
WHY WOULD TRUMP NEED TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION TO PARDON HIS ASSOCIATES? No More Mister Nice Blog
Shocking! Liz Warren Earned Millions Of Dollars Over Millions Of Years Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
HUD Withholding Hurricane Aid To Puerto Rico Until It Investigates Joe Biden Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Alan Keyes Wants YOU To Drink Bleach (Do Not Do That, You Will Die!) Robyn Penacchia, Wonkette