The Breakfast Club (That Time Of Year)

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

Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death; Bandleader Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel; The Bill of Rights takes effect; Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull killed; Walt Disney dies at age 65.

Breakfast Tunes

Nancy Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018)

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Sitting Bull (1831 – December 15, 1890

Breakfast News

Federal Judge In Texas Rules Against Obamacare

California alleges utility falsified pipeline safety records

Evidentiary hearing on 9th District issues rescheduled

California is first state to mandate zero-emission bus fleet

UNC system rejects $5M plan to house Confederate statue

Judge orders Idaho to give transgender inmate gender surgery

Alaska groups sue EPA to enforce clean air laws in Fairbanks

Cow steals spotlight at student’s graduation photo shoot

NASA moves liquid hydrogen tank to Huntsville for testing

China suspends tariff hikes on US cars, auto parts

Serbia talks up armed intervention as Kosovo OKs new army

Climate talks extended as island nations demand action

Macron urges calm, Paris police prepare for more violence

May aims to rescue Brexit plan; EU says ball’s in UK’s court

Australia recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Breakfast Blogs

We Are Governed By Monsters Now Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Did Jared Kushner Try to Preemptively Undercut Mike Flynn at the Enquirer? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

What All New Right-Wing Authoritarian Movements Share: The Wish To Cancel Feminist Gains. Echidne, at her blog

Your wingnut uncle Mikie Flynn digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

North Carolina happens Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

The Senate Strikes Back: Checking Trump’s Foreign Policy Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen, Just Security

The Steele Dossier: A Retrospective Sarah Grant and Chuck Rosenberg, Lawfare

Sondra Locke Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The first black president Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

I GUESS RUDY NO LONGER BELIEVES IN “BROKEN WINDOWS” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog