The Breakfast Club (Twelfth Night)

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 10:30am (ET) 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.

Joan of Arc is born; Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph to the public; Commercial airplane completes first round-the-world flight; Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked; Dizzy Gillespie and Rudolf Nureyev die.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Sam Rayburn

U.S. spy chief ‘resolute’ on Russia cyber attack, differs with Trump

Four Yemeni detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia

U.S. arrests Brazilian in fraud probe, seizes $20 million under mattress

Syrian army, allies press assault to secure capital’s water supply

Obama administration places sanctions on bin Laden’s son, citing terror risk

Democrats demand probe of Trump health nominee

U.S. Army eases rules on beards, turbans for Muslim, Sikh troops

Yellowstone fish deaths point to huge toll of human activity on rivers

Colorado skier dangling by neck rescued by high-wire artist

I Remember When These States Used to Be SaneEsquire Politics

Wither Shadow Brokers in Discussions of Foreign Hacks of America? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Build That Wall! And Let American Suckers Pay For It! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Wrecking crew Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Against Defeatism Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Dread and Circuses with President-elect Bait-and-Switch driftglass, >at his blog

So I Guess All The GOP’s Pious “Subsidiarity” Talk Is A Load Of Hooey Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Ex-MI6 Boss: When It Comes To Voting, Pencil And Paper Are ‘Much More Secure’ Than Electronic Systems Glyn Moody, Techdirt