The Breakfast Club (Just A Bill)

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

Washington’s army routs the British in the Battle of New Jersey; Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. forces; Jack Ruby dies; Author J.R.R. Tolkien is born.

Breakfast Tunes

Jack Sheldon November 30, 1931 – December 27, 2019

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Breakfast News

US starts sending asylum seekers across Arizona border

As Jewish enclaves spring up around NYC, so does intolerance

NC will appeal ruling that blocked voter photo ID law

Blackface again mars Philadelphia’s troubled New Year parade

Deal will let more companies make an overdose antidote spray

U-Haul International to stop hiring smokers in 21 states

Cuomo: Rebuilding of church lost in 9/11 attacks to resume

Bye-bye buoy: Large beacon removed from Florida beach

December storms gave California a promising snowpack

‘On the Farm Again’ Woman makes hay replica of Willie NelsonIran’s Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport

‘Millions of sparks’: Weather raises Australia’s fire danger

A milestone for French rail strikes: 29th day of walkouts

Turkish lawmakers authorize sending troops to fight in Libya

Breakfast Blogs

The Chemical That Made Erin Brockovich Famous Just Popped Up in Michigan Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Deza: Oleg Deripaska’s Double Game emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Schoolyard tactics but no strategy digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

You children, don’t put your lips on that! Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Exclusive: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon’s Legal Concerns Kate Brannen. Just Security

The Law and Consequences of the Recent Airstrikes in Iraq Scott R. Anderson, Lawfare

The Democratic Party Needs To Be 100% More Shirley Chisholm… driftglass, at his blog

Literary Corner: Threats Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

I DON’T THINK TRUMP IS “AN EXOGENOUS SHOCK” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Look At This F*cking Hitler Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette

These Magic Redaction Bars Make Trump Ukraine Crimes DISAPPEAR Liz Dye, Wonkette

Nice Time: Elijah Cummings Left A Gift For Maryland Youth Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

Julian Castro Could’ve Been The President We Didn’t Deserve Stephen Robinson, Wonkette