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.
This Day in History
Ceremonies in New Orleans formally mark the completion of the Louisiana Purchase; South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union; Vermont’s Supreme Court rules in favor of homosexual couples; “It’s A Wonderful Life” premieres in New York.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Breakfast News
Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara art gallery
Gunman wounds three in Zurich mosque rampage, motive unclear
Berlin Breitscheidplatz: Lorry kills 12 at Christmas market
Christine Lagarde avoids jail, keeps job after guilty verdict in negligence trial
New Orleans reaches settlements for police shootings after Hurricane Katrina
Ohio judge stays three executions amid challenge over lethal injection drugs
White supremacist gets 30 years prison for his plot to kill Muslims and Obama
Arctic ice melt ‘already affecting weather patterns where you live right now’
Breakfast Blogs
Donald Trump Is President Because We Cannot Face the Truth Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
6 Words: “The British government has learned that Vladimir Putin recently sought significant quantities of votes for Trump” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
In The Republican Health Care Plan Parents Are To Be The Diagnosticians! Echidne, at her blog
Sunday Morning Comin’ Down: The Fight For The Future driftglass, at his blog
No pivot! No pivot! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Under Trump, Will America Turn Into Poland? Nahhh – America Will Be Worse Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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