The Breakfast Club (Hold On)

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

Sherman begins ‘March to the Sea’ in American Civil War; Zebulon Pike spots namesake mountaintop; Anti-Vietnam War protesters gather in DC; Joey Buttafuoco gets jail time; Actor Sam Waterston born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Bill Richardson

Breakfast News

Court rules Trump EPA unlawfully ignored dangerous chemicals

Nation’s largest utility in long-term deals to sell power

After 20 years, Washington tribe hopes to hunt whales again

California faces fraught path out of wildfire, power crisis

RNC to hold winter meetings at Trump National Doral

Beshear set for ‘next chapter’ as Bevin concedes in Kentucky

Contract approved to start $450 million Superdome overhaul

11 more endangered whooping cranes in southwest Louisiana

Italy declares state of emergency in Venice after high tides

Brexit Party fails to clinch voting pact with Conservatives

Powerful hard-liner: Iran should stop honoring nuclear deal

EU takes legal action against UK over commissioner dispute

Bolivian interim leader says Morales can’t run in new vote

EU bank to stop funding fossil fuel projects in 2 years

International court judges authorize Rohingya investigation

Somalia struggles after worst flooding in recent history

Schools closed in New Delhi as air quality dips for 3rd day

Santa Claus back at work in Germany answering Christmas mail

Breakfast Blogs

Ohio Republicans Are Trying to Push Through All Their Crazy Before the Roof Caves In Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

BREAKING: The First Amendment Is Part of Something Called the Constitution emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Trumpers have been purging the state department from the beginning digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

“An administration taking the 5th” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

The Trump impeachment is going to be Murc’s Law: Electric Boogaloo Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

“Profiles in Thinking About Courage” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 585 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Method to Madness Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

OF ALL THE TERRIBLE IDEAS FOR TRYING TO GET OF TRUMP, THIS ONE MIGHT BE THE LEAST TERRIBLE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Somehow Guy Suing Imaginary Cow Not Most Embarrassing Republican At Impeachment Hearing Evan Hurst, Wonkette

We Gonna Get Some Equal Rights Amendment Up In This B*tch? Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette

GOP Lawyer Steve Castor’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette

Turkish President Visits White House, Doesn’t Even Kick One Protester In The Face Doktor Zoom, Wonkette