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
Start of Operation Desert Storm; Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off; Prohibition takes effect; Shah of Iran flees into exile; musical “Hello Dolly” opens.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Breakfast News
Virginia vote sets up fight over women’s rights constitutional amendment
Warning of ‘serious threats’ Virginia governor bans weapons at gun-rights rally
Judge halts Trump’s order allowing states to block refugees
Aviation experts puzzled after airliner dumps fuel over city
Lawyer says prosecutors intentionally scuttled Bundy case
US lobster industry hopes new deal renews trade with China
Researchers tie massive Pacific seabird die-off to heat wave
Putin engineers shake-up that could keep him in power longer
UN court to rule next week in Rohingya genocide case
Smelly Rio de Janeiro water supply has residents on edge
100s of migrants advance to Guatemala from Honduras
Environmental issues top worries for those heading to Davos
Grrrrr! Angry herders secure bear ban from France’s Macron
‘Amazing’: New embryo made of nearly extinct rhino species
Breakfast Blogs
Nancy Pelosi Savaged House Republicans While Sending Off the Articles of Impeachment Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Parnas Files Raise the Import of DOJ’s Failure to Connect-the-Dots on the Whistleblower Complaint emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Charlottesville Redux? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Goon squad Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The President, His Relationship with Intelligence, and the Soleimani Strike Douglas London, Just Security
Testimony and Executive Privilege in the Senate Impeachment Trial Jonathan Shaub, Lawfare
A Radical Idea Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 612 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Reminder: If You Defend Trump, You’re Not Just Defending a Criminal. You’re Enabling an Idiot. The Rude Pundit, at his blog
WTF Do The Parnas Texts Show, And Can We Splain Them You? YES! Liz Dye, Wonkette
Michael Flynn Not Guilty, YOU ARE THE GUILTY! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
DNC’s Perez Very Proud Of All His Diverse White Folks Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Puerto Rico Finally Getting Its Damn Disaster Aid Doktor Zooom, Wonkette