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
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke and lapses into a coma; Louis Braille, the inventor of braille, is born; Jesse Ventura sworn in as Minnesota’s governor, poet T.S. Eliot dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
Breakfast News
Methodists propose split in gay marriage, clergy impasse
Pipeline company fined $30M but can resume construction
Delta workers sue manufacturer Lands’ End over uniforms
US men’s soccer team cancels plan to train in Qatar
Volcano briefly erupts on Alaska island, sends up ash cloud
AP Exclusive: Sierra skeleton ID’d as ‘ghost of Manzanar’
Thousands in Baghdad mourn Iranian general killed by US
‘Not safe to move’: Fire threats intensify in Australia
‘A more dangerous world’: US killing triggers global alarm
Austria’s Greens clear final hurdle for government with Kurz
60 dead in landslides, flash floods in Indonesia’s capital
Russia halts oil supplies to Belarus in push for closer ties
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s Order to Assassinate Qasem Soleimani Has Kicked Over the Hornet’s Nest Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
How Paul Manafort Lied to Mueller to Protect Jared Kushner emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Did they goad him with “Real Men Go To Tehran?” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Would they like you? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Missing Assistant Secretary of Defense and the Soleimani Strike Luke Hartig, Just Security
The Soleimani Strike: One Person Decides Jack Goldsmith, Lawfare
Never Give Known Liars the Benefit of the Doubt Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Statistical curiosities of extreme aging Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 608 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today in Chuck Todd News: In the End, Darth Credulous Proved to Be… driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Soleimani Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
DID DONALD TRUMP JUST END TUCKER CARLSON’S CAREER? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
WTF? Are We About To Go To War With Iran? Lix Dye, Wonkette
GOP Lawmakers’ New Year’s Resolution: Ban Abortion Today, Ban Abortion Tomorrow, Ban Abortion Forever Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Sorry, Trump Probably Isn’t Smart Enough To ‘Wag The Dog’ But He Sure Could Try! Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Other Than That, Rod Blagojevich, How Did You Like Trump’s Impeachment? Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Wingnuts Wish Donald Trump A Happy New War Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
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