The Breakfast Club (Great Leaders)

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

President John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington; New details emerge about Iran-Contra affair; British forces leave New York; Elian Gonzalez rescued off Florida coast; Baseball’s Joe DiMaggio born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

Breakfast News

Vaccination required after mumps found at Arkansas school

Survivors fear smaller payouts from PG&E with each fire

California boosts pot taxes, shocking unsteady industry

Fire continues to burn at North Carolina’s Cold Mountain

Diversity marks latest class of US Rhodes Scholars

Pro-democracy camp looks to have won big in Hong Kong vote

Mass surveillance system flags Uighurs for detention camps

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis wins 2nd term in runoff

UK’s Boris Johnson has one thing on his mind: Brexit now

Breakfast Blogs

Friday’s World-Historical News Dump Is Proof the Impeachment Probe Must Continue Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Paul Manafort Is the Linchpin in Russia’s Effort to Recorrupt Ukraine emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Echidne Thoughts, 11/23/19. On the Online World, Misogyny, Choking And Other Stuff Echidne, at her blog

Another useful GOP idiot with Fox News brain rot digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Questions Some Reporter Should Ask Trump tristero, Hullabaloo

Lowest common perpetrator Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Republicans: The First Amendment Means Whatever is Necessary to Give Employers Power over Unions Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Shocking report suggests that FBI was not conspiring against Donald Trump in 2016 Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Racket, Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog