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
President Woodrow Wilson is born; John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign; Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” is published; Actor Denzel Washington and comic book creator Stan Lee are born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.
Breakfast News
Kentucky state workers sue investment firms over pension shortfall
Erie, Pennsylvania pummeled by record 5 feet of snow
Brrr! After record snow, bitter cold ahead for northern US
Ex-lawyer for ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli convicted of aiding fraud scheme
Jailed hacker claims Kremlin intelligence official wanted by FBI ordered the cyber attack on DNC
‘Something did survive’ California wildfires: Goldfish
Putin critic Navalny calls election boycott rallies
Chechen leader banned from Facebook as part of US sanctions
South Korea’s Moon says 2015 ‘comfort women’ agreement flawed, urges follow-up measures
Syrian Kurds say Russia has promised they can attend Sochi talks
Reuters journalists in Myanmar appear in court, remanded for another 14 days
Chinese Human Rights Activist Wu Gan Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison
Man’s ‘Christmas Vacation’ Homage Has Neighbors Calling 911
Breakfast Blogs
Trumpian Philosophy: Any Regulation Is Bad, Even If It Protects Sick Old People Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Narrow Scope of the Flynn Denials emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Post-Christmas Trump Thoughts Echidne, at her blog
Don’t falter Democrats. This could be the last chance. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Starving the beast cuts both ways Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
There Will Be No Republican Pivot Against Trump (While He’s In Office) Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A year in Trumpland Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Jon Swift Roundup 2017 Batocchio, Vagabond Scholar
Profane and Rambunctious Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog
Diego Gomez Is Safe, But His Legal Battle Demonstrates How Copyright Policy Creates Dangers To Research Elliot Harmon, Techdirt