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
Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba; Abraham Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation; Ellis Island opens; Hank Williams Senior dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Breakfast News
Intrepid revelers flock to frigid Times Square for New Year’s Eve
Chief justice orders review of sexual harassment standards in U.S. judiciary
Erica Garner, activist daughter of New York chokehold victim, dies at 27
Iran protesters rally again despite warning of crackdown
Jordan royal palace denies rumors about dismissal of princes
France’s Macron vows to keep up pace of reforms
Italian president calls for ‘realistic’ proposals ahead of election
Breakfast Blogs
Somehow, Scott Pruitt’s EPA Continues to Amaze Even the Most Cynical Among Us Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
What Explains Trump’s Focus on Manafort? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Your New Years Eve factoids digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Political Survivor Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/12/new-years-with-ella-fitzgerald Christa Blackmon. Lawyers, Guns and Money
Dumbkirk driftglass, at his blog
MAYBE THAT ISN’T DEMENTIA Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog