The Breakfast Club (Die, Winter, Die)

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.

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This Day in History

Albert Einstein born; Eli Whitney receives patent for cotton gin; First US Astronaut in space on Russian rocket; Michael Caine and Quincy Jones born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Breakfast News

Turkey bans Dutch ambassador as diplomatic crisis escalates

Geert Wilders seeks expulsion of Turkey’s ambassador

Russian whistleblower might have been poisoned, court hears

UK Parliament gives government power to begin EU exit

Scotland seeks new independence referendum amid Brexit spat

Pentagon wants to declare more parts of world as temporary battlefields

US interest rate rise to deepen debt crisis in developing world

Canada’s Girl Guides cancel all US travel as Trump rules spark fears at border

Staring down the barrel of nor’easter, region preps for snow

Breakfast Blogs

If It Stays in Congress, There Will Never Be a Credible Russia Investigation Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Meanwhile, the war machine cranks up digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Dear Professor Stanger tristero, Hullabaloo

On Nude Photos of Women, Name Swapping at Work, Women’s Repro Rights Endangered by Religions And Race Wars, and Female Power Echidne, at her blog

Sunday Morning Party Line driftglass, at his blog

TrumpCare is a Human Rights Atrocity Scott Lemieux, Laywers, Guns and Money

THE PROBLEM ISN’T STEVE KING — IT’S THE NUMBER OF VOTERS WHO AGREE WITH HIM Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Officers Cite Nonexistent Law In Attempt To Prevent Citizen From Filming Them During A Traffic Stop Tim Cushing, Techdirt