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
Iran-held hostages released, Charles Manson and followers convicted, Jackson settles molestation claims, Alicia Keys is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Breakfast News
California OKs highly questioned LA County voting system
Tennessee governor signs anti-LGBT adoption bill
US fines Delta $50,000 for booting off 3 Muslim passengers
Protesters fear rising costs if firm buys dot-org universe
‘Shut it down,’ protesters chant about Mississippi prison
New Orleans: Protesters demand action on damaged hotel
Convicted NYC bomber gets life term for New Jersey shootout
NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis
Outbreak casts pall over China new year as deaths surpass 40
Iraqis rally against US troops, demanding they leave
At least 18 dead, hundreds hurt as quake hits eastern Turkey
Legal chaos in Poland deepens, posing major challenge for EU
Muslim women occupy streets in India against citizenship law
Breakfast Blogs
The President*’s Defenders Have 2 Strategies Left: The Super Bowl and the Smoke Machine Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Mike Pompeo Can Find Proof that Obama Addressed Ukrainian Corruption in Trump’s Joint Defense Agreement emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emotywheel
The Pottery Barn Solution To Rape: You Break It, You Bought It. Echidne, at her blog
Juicy digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Schiff tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Picking clean democracy’s bones Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Constitutional Crabgrass: President Trump’s Defenders Distort the Impeachment Clause Frank O. Bowman III, Just Security
Would Biden return to the politics of the Grand Bargain? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
History and Environmental Justice: Stories Told and Stories Untold Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Can I Get a Witness? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
LAMAR ALEXANDER WILL NOT SAVE US Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
https://www.wonkette.com/st-louis-top-prosecutor-kimberly-gardner-suing-everyone-for-balls-out-racism Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Nancy Drew And The Mystery Of Why Some Dude Writer Thought It Would Be A Good Idea To Kill Her Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Trump Big, Peach Small! How He Will Fit Into This Roundup? Liz Dye, Wonkette
Immigrant Teens Not Yet Being Waterboarded, So Why All The Fuss? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Black Guy Stuck In Racism Infinity Loop When Bank Won’t Deposit His Discrimination Settlement Checks Stephen Robinson, Wonkette