The Breakfast Club (Hopeless Confusion)

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

Elian Gonzales decision; First female U.S. governor inaugurated; Sonny Bono dies; Pete Rose admits to betting on baseball; Bruce Springsteen’s first album debuts.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Walter F. Mondale

Breakfast News

Supreme Court will hear partisan gerrymandering cases in March

Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports

ERs ‘flooded’ with mentally ill patients with no place else to turn

Michigan’s new attorney general seeks review of Flint cases

California utility assessing finances amid wildfire links

American officials due in Beijing for talks on trade battle

China begins first surface exploration of moon’s far side

Bluefin sold for $3 million in 1st 2019 sale at Tokyo market

WFP calls on Yemen’s rebels to bring aid theft to an end

Tropical storm’s rain, surging seas strike Thai beaches

Breakfast Blogs

We Gave These Clowns Way Too Much Leash for Far Too Long Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

The William Barr Case for Impeaching Donald Trump: From Whom Did Trump Suborn False Statements? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Who Needs Government Anyway? Hecate Demeter, at her blog

QOTD: Orange Julius Caesar digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

… in Russia Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Ruminations on RICO and Asset Forfeiture in the Trump Business Empire Martin J. Sheil, Just Security

How the New Congress Can Restore Its Constitutional Role Margaret Taylor, Lawfare

More of This Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

“Extremism” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

In Which They Pull Me Back In driftglass, at his blog

Indignation Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

We Are the Real Americans, Too The Rude Pundit, at his blog

TRUMP HAS NO MOTIVATION TO REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT, AND MAY NEVER HAVE ANY MOTIVATION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog