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
Funeral of Jordan’s King Hussein; Premiere of ‘The Birth of a Nation’; a South Carolina civil rights protest turns deadly; the Boy Scouts of America is incorporated; actor James Dean born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Breakfast News
Kansas GOP lawmakers fail in anti-abortion amendment effort
NY to sue US over its ouster from trusted traveler programs
Guatemalan family seeking asylum reunited after suing feds
Georgia Senate panel approves new dam regulations
Texas lawmakers are drafting a hair discrimination bill
Judge upholds Maryland ban on pet stores’ sale of cats, dogs
Administration ends antitrust probe of 4 automakers, Calif.
High water wreaks havoc on Great Lakes, swamping communities
Doctor’s death unleashes mourning, fury at Chinese officials
Shrinking country: Serbia struggles with population decline
India arrests top Kashmiri leaders under controversial law
France seeks lead post-Brexit role in EU nuclear strategy
Ireland’s two-party system shaken by Sinn Fein surge
Antarctica appears to have broken a heat record
Breakfast Blogs
Not That You’d Know It, But Elizabeth Warren Was In Iowa, Too Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Real News in Bill Barr’s Announcement: He’s Vetoing Campaign Finance Investigations, Too emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Short Posts 2/7/20: Ripping Nancy Pelosi, International Day To End FGM And Funny Songs Echidne, at her blog
The next election meltdown digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabalooo
Lying Our Way to the Brink of War tritero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Book burning party Nov. 6th Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Never Mind “America First” — Trump’s Newly Expanded Immigration Ban Puts Americans Last Doug Rand, Just Security
How Many Hidden Thresholds of Soft Authoritarianism have we Already Crossed? Chris Koski, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Everybody calm down right now or else Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Superposition Candidacy of Donald Trump Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Fascist Architecture, Then and Now Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Who Stand Your Ground is not intended to protect Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Left Was Right All Along, Part Infinity driftglass, at his blog
Cleverly Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Mitt Romney Is Fucked and So Are the Rest of Us The Rude Pundit, at his blog
WARNING: THIS ONE IS ABOUT DAVID BROOKS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Bill Barr’s New Civil Rights Focus: Sometimes People Hurt Cops’ Feelings 🙁 Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
f Ukraine Won’t Do Fake Biden Investigations, Senate Republicans Will DO ‘EM THEIRSELF! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Nice Time: Virginia Secedes From Anti-Gay Union, Passes LGBTQ Nondiscrimination Bill Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Internal Fox News Memo Shows They Knowingly Broadcast Ukraine Dezinformatzya Liz Dye, Wonkette
There Are Known Unknowns And Elizabeth Warren Knows Them Doktor Zoom, Wonkette