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
Joan of Arc is born; Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph to the public; Commercial airplane completes first round-the-world flight; Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked; Dizzy Gillespie and Rudolf Nureyev die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Breakfast News
U.S. spy chief ‘resolute’ on Russia cyber attack, differs with Trump
Four Yemeni detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia
U.S. arrests Brazilian in fraud probe, seizes $20 million under mattress
Syrian army, allies press assault to secure capital’s water supply
Obama administration places sanctions on bin Laden’s son, citing terror risk
Democrats demand probe of Trump health nominee
U.S. Army eases rules on beards, turbans for Muslim, Sikh troops
Yellowstone fish deaths point to huge toll of human activity on rivers
Colorado skier dangling by neck rescued by high-wire artist
Breakfast Blogs
I Remember When These States Used to Be SaneEsquire Politics
Wither Shadow Brokers in Discussions of Foreign Hacks of America? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Build That Wall! And Let American Suckers Pay For It! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Wrecking crew Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Against Defeatism Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Dread and Circuses with President-elect Bait-and-Switch driftglass, >at his blog
So I Guess All The GOP’s Pious “Subsidiarity” Talk Is A Load Of Hooey Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Ex-MI6 Boss: When It Comes To Voting, Pencil And Paper Are ‘Much More Secure’ Than Electronic Systems Glyn Moody, Techdirt
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