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.
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