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.
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.
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
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