The Breakfast Club (Hands Of Times)

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

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes; Sir Francis Drake dies; José Martí born; Vince Lombardi is named head coach.

Breakfast Tunes

Michel Legrand (24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019]

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Alan Alda

Breakfast News

Trump rollbacks for fossil fuel industries carry steep cost

12 immigrant workers at Trump golf course fired, lawyer says

End of shutdown still leaves contract workers hanging

Transgender military personnel in limbo over Trump plan

Heavy snow to push across Upper Midwest, bitter cold follows

Military recruits getting Made-in-the-USA athletic trainers

‘Black Panther’ wins top honor at SAG Awards

Rivals Maduro and Guaido vie for Venezuelan military backing

France: ‘Yellow vest’ violence prompts ‘red scarves’ rally

Some 70,000 Brussels protesters demand action on climate

Greek president, jeered by name deal foes, denounces Nazism

Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust

Breakfast Blogs

Joe Biden Should Run, Just to Represent the Kind of Politics Democrats Must Abandon Chalres P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Two Details That Many Are Missing in/about the Stone Indictment emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

How To Write About Politics In The Era Of Chaos Echidne, at her blog

People are begging him to stop losing. But he doesn’t know how. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

A tricky bit of magic Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

How Did Roger Stone Know What the President Told Mueller? Ryan Goodman, Just Security

Roger Stone’s Arrest Was Appropriate, Not Heavy-Handed Chuck Rosenberg, Lawfare

Border Patrol Agents Asked to Retroactively Substantiate Racist Trump Conspiracy Theories Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Is Clarence Thomas retiring soon? Is Howard Schultz running for president? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Your Timely Reminder That Bill Maher Has Been Pimping Ann Coulter’s Career For 20 Years driftglass, at his blog

Stone Crazy Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

DUCT-TAPED WOMEN: ARE THEY FOOLING TRUMP WITH STOCK FOOTAGE? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog