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
Washington’s army routs the British in the Battle of New Jersey; Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. forces; Jack Ruby dies; Author J.R.R. Tolkien is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Breakfast News
US starts sending asylum seekers across Arizona border
As Jewish enclaves spring up around NYC, so does intolerance
NC will appeal ruling that blocked voter photo ID law
Blackface again mars Philadelphia’s troubled New Year parade
Deal will let more companies make an overdose antidote spray
U-Haul International to stop hiring smokers in 21 states
Cuomo: Rebuilding of church lost in 9/11 attacks to resume
Bye-bye buoy: Large beacon removed from Florida beach
December storms gave California a promising snowpack
‘On the Farm Again’ Woman makes hay replica of Willie NelsonIran’s Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport
‘Millions of sparks’: Weather raises Australia’s fire danger
A milestone for French rail strikes: 29th day of walkouts
Turkish lawmakers authorize sending troops to fight in Libya
Breakfast Blogs
The Chemical That Made Erin Brockovich Famous Just Popped Up in Michigan Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Deza: Oleg Deripaska’s Double Game emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Schoolyard tactics but no strategy digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
You children, don’t put your lips on that! Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Exclusive: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon’s Legal Concerns Kate Brannen. Just Security
The Law and Consequences of the Recent Airstrikes in Iraq Scott R. Anderson, Lawfare
The Democratic Party Needs To Be 100% More Shirley Chisholm… driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Threats Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
I DON’T THINK TRUMP IS “AN EXOGENOUS SHOCK” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Look At This F*cking Hitler Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
These Magic Redaction Bars Make Trump Ukraine Crimes DISAPPEAR Liz Dye, Wonkette
Nice Time: Elijah Cummings Left A Gift For Maryland Youth Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Julian Castro Could’ve Been The President We Didn’t Deserve Stephen Robinson, Wonkette