The Breakfast Club (Walk Alone)

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

First human heart transplant performed; Industrial accident kills thousands in Bhopal, India; Hundreds of students arrested at the University of California at Berkeley; “A Streetcar Named Desire” opens on Broadway; Snger Ozzy Osbourne is born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Breakfast News

Missouri first to adopt fairness test against gerrymandering

Next Minnesota House speaker will dump master mute button

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Number of missing after California fire dwindles to 49

Some evacuation orders lifted for California wildfire area

Rare December tornadoes reported in central US, killing 1

Duke removes Confederate veteran’s name from building

Coal question looms large as climate talks begin in Poland

Ukraine urges German naval presence in Black Sea

Paris assesses injuries, damage after worst riot in decade

Border village grinds to a halt amid Ukraine-Russia tensions

UK’s Labour will try to topple May if Brexit deal rejected

Damaging police report looms over Netanyahu re-election bid

Breakfast Blogs

George H.W. Bush Couldn’t Fight His Own Ambition Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

If SSCI Was Referring All This Perjury to Mueller about GRU Funding Trump, Why Did Richard Burr Claim It Had Found No “Collusion”? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Unpredictable superpowers are not safe for anyone, including themselves digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Truth, justice, and the un-American way Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

You Can’t Expect Someone Responsible For As Many As 800 Words A Week To Come Up With New Ideas Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Party’s Over driftglass, at his blog

Yes They Did Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names

THE MEDIA’S PRAISE FOR POPPY BUSH SHOWS US WHAT POST-TRUMP MAINSTREAM JOURNALISM WILL BE LIKE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog