The Breakfast Club (Day One 2020)

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

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

E. M. Forster

Breakfast News

“Sordid history” cited as judge blocks NC’s voter ID law

Illinois governor clears thousands of marijuana convictions

Judge orders Alex Jones to pay $100,000 in Sandy Hook case

Famed golfer pays off 50 students’ lunch debt

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019

Overnight clashes extend Hong Kong protests into new year

Australia sending aid by sea to towns cut off by wildfires

Heterosexual couples form 1st civil partnerships in England

Breakfast Blogs

As 2019 Ends, I Have to Wonder Whether Everything I’ve Learned Is Wrong Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Some “alternative facts” are going to kill us digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Burning with optimism’s flame: A New Year’s Eve mixtape Dennis Hartley, Hullabaloo

Where this is headed Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

I Was Going to Write a New Years End-Of-The-Decade Thing… driftglass, at his blog

More Power to Dr. Krugman! Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

Haiku Review of 2019 (Part 3): The Rise of Haiku The Rude Pundit, at his blog

WOULD BIDEN RUN WITH A REPUBLICAN IF HE COULD TURN BACK TIME? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog