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
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes; Sir Francis Drake dies; José Martí born; Vince Lombardi is named head coach.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Breakfast News
Trump rollbacks for fossil fuel industries carry steep cost
12 immigrant workers at Trump golf course fired, lawyer says
End of shutdown still leaves contract workers hanging
Transgender military personnel in limbo over Trump plan
Heavy snow to push across Upper Midwest, bitter cold follows
Military recruits getting Made-in-the-USA athletic trainers
‘Black Panther’ wins top honor at SAG Awards
Rivals Maduro and Guaido vie for Venezuelan military backing
France: ‘Yellow vest’ violence prompts ‘red scarves’ rally
Some 70,000 Brussels protesters demand action on climate
Greek president, jeered by name deal foes, denounces Nazism
Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust
Breakfast Blogs
Joe Biden Should Run, Just to Represent the Kind of Politics Democrats Must Abandon Chalres P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Two Details That Many Are Missing in/about the Stone Indictment emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
How To Write About Politics In The Era Of Chaos Echidne, at her blog
People are begging him to stop losing. But he doesn’t know how. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A tricky bit of magic Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
How Did Roger Stone Know What the President Told Mueller? Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Roger Stone’s Arrest Was Appropriate, Not Heavy-Handed Chuck Rosenberg, Lawfare
Border Patrol Agents Asked to Retroactively Substantiate Racist Trump Conspiracy Theories Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Is Clarence Thomas retiring soon? Is Howard Schultz running for president? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Your Timely Reminder That Bill Maher Has Been Pimping Ann Coulter’s Career For 20 Years driftglass, at his blog
Stone Crazy Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
DUCT-TAPED WOMEN: ARE THEY FOOLING TRUMP WITH STOCK FOOTAGE? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog