The Breakfast Club (Ethics)

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

Accord reached in Vietnam; North Korea seizes the U.S.S. Pueblo; Roots airs; Bob Keeshan dies; Johnny Carson dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Potter Stewart

Breakfast News

High court lets military implement transgender restrictions

Judge declares Iowa fetal heartbeat law unconstitutional

Panel votes down Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia

Judge rejects GOP victory claim in disputed N. Carolina race

Lawyers: Immigrant kids’ detention is prolonged, unexplained

Tentative deal reached to end Los Angeles teachers strike

Brazilian leader at odds with Davos focus on environment

US aid cuts hit Palestinians, further dimming hope for peace

Doping agency forgives Russia, but says more work needed

Russia, Japan make no visible progress on territorial spat

Breakfast Blogs

Turns Out It’s Pretty Cheap to Buy the Government Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Rudy Is Relying on Tapes to Claim Buzzfeed Is Phony: But There Aren’t Tapes of Everything emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

America’s shooting gallery digby aka Hullabaloo

Clinton? Trump? What’s the Diff, Really? tristero, Hullabaloo

All your base (are) belong to us Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Western Covert Action and Russian Active Measures: Hypocrisy or Divergent Values? John Sipher, Just Security

Can the President Cut Support for Congressional Foreign Travel During the Shutdown? Ryan Scoville, Lawfare

The billionaire next door Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

What Makes This From Glenn Greenwald Noteworthy Is Not… driftglass, at his blog

News from Satyagraha Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

Random Observations on Some Racist Dipshit Kids and All of Us The Rude Pundits, at his blog

ADD ELECTORAL FRAUD TO THE CHARGES BEING LEVELED AT KAMALA HARRIS BY THE RIGHT (updated) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog