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
The Christmas poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” is first published; Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo is executed; Mormon religion founder Joseph Smith, Jr. Is born; North Korea releases the 82 U.S. Seamen;
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Breakfast News
Registry used to track Arabs and Muslims dismantled by Obama administration
Lockheed F-35 fighter project in doubt after Trump tweet encourages rival Boeing
Two ‘deadliest’ police departments in US to be investigated in California
Philippines leader Duterte faces investigation over killings claim
Group allegedly behind DNC hack targeted Ukraine, report finds
Final evacuees leave eastern Aleppo as Assad regime takes control
World’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence
World’s first solar panel road opens in Normandy village
Breakfast Blogs
One of the Great Casualties of 2016 Is the State of North Carolina Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
How HPSCI’s Staffers Used Miscitations to Turn Edward Snowden into a Lying Flunkie emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump’s Knowledge Of Labor Market Discrimination: Nonexistent Echidne, at her blog
This takes the cake (the pumpkin cake) digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Things Have Changed driftglass, at his blog
Focus On The Policies, Not On The Financial Paperwork Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Butterball Sues Australian Wine Company Over Its ‘Butterball’ Chardonnay Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
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