The Breakfast Club (Apple)

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

Japan apologizes; Douglas Wilder of Virginia is sworn in; “J’accuse” published; Composer Stephen Fost dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bernard Baruch

Breakfast News

Suit over Border Patrol detention conditions goes to trial

Redistricting power at stake in 2020 legislative elections

Report: Feds to bill fire victims if utility doesn’t pay $4B

Not on form, but brawl over citizenship question continues

labama county to preserve jail remnant where MLK was held

Oklahoma program offers rescue for horses, other equine

Hong Kong denies entry to Human Rights Watch director

Australia turns from defense to offense in wildfire battle

Libya truce holds amid reports of violations by both sides

Defying police, Iranians protest over plane shootdown

Lava gushes from Philippine volcano as ash spreads to Manila

Breakfast Blogs

The Great Clinton Ratf*cking Comes to a Predictable Conclusion Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Revelations about FISA Bureaucracy in FBI’s FISA Fix Filing emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Idle Thoughts, 1/11/20. On Humpty Dumpty And Reality Twisting In American Politics Echidne, at her blog

Digby has a new web site

No evidence, but if Dear Leader says it, it must be so. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Old Music for a New Site tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo

They can save the world Tom Sullivan, Digby’s hullabaloo

Incels: America’s Newest Domestic Terrorism Threat Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, Lawfare

Nothingburgers all the way down Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 611 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

For the Record: In the Bank Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

IF YOU THINK WE LIVE IN TWO SEPARATE COUNTRIES NOW, WAIT TILL TRUMP IS IN THE HISTORY TEXTBOOKS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog