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
The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor, bringing America closer to war with Spain; The Soviet Union’s last troops leave Afghanistan; Astronomer Galileo and suffragist Susan B. Anthony born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Breakfast News
Federal court strikes down Trump administration’s Medicaid work requirements
Florida ‘red flag’ gun law used 3,500 times since Parkland
Groups challenge Louisiana permits for plastics plant
Salvage firm asks US judge to halt removal of capsized ship
US prosecutors end old terror case against California man
Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits US kids
Esper defends shifting defense funds for Trump’s border wall
China reports major drop in new virus cases; 143 new deaths
Freezing weather compounds crisis for displaced in Syria
Transgender woman poised to make Argentine soccer history
Breakfast Blogs
It Would Be God’s Own Joke If Britain Bungled Its Way to a 32-County Irish Republic Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Bill Barr Trying to Dig Sidney Powell out of the Hole She Dug for Mike Flynn emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
McCabe off the hook. Will a new “investigation of the investigators” soothe him? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Banana republic peel trips Bill Barr Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The Soul of the Justice Department: Who Must Stand Up For It Now Lisa Monaco, Just Security
Is Michael Avenatti Guilty of More Than Extortion? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Noney
The Vermin on the Mount driftglass, at his blog
Brooks Explains Education Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Rush Limbaugh Is Dying For His Own Sins The Rude Pundit, at his blog
PROFITEERING OFF THE PRESIDENCY WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER REASON TO IMPEACH THAN UKRAINE Stgve M., No More Mister Nice Blog