The Breakfast Club (Salad)

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 10:30am (ET) 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.

AP’s Today in History for April 29th

Rioting hits Los Angeles after four white officers are acquitted of most charges in beating of Rodney King; Dachau concentration camp liberated.

Breakfast Tune Banana Banjo

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

• The CIA Can’t Keep Gina Haspel’s Torture Record Secret
  Brian Tashman

• The sadism of white men Why America must atone for its lynchings
  Ed Pilkington

• 2020 Democratic Contenders Are Making the “Cheap Gesture” of Swearing Off Corporate PAC Money, but Big Checks Are Still Flying
  Zaid Jilani

• “Rubber-Stamping” Trump’s War Cabinet, 6 Democrats Just Voted With GOP to Confirm Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State
  Jake Johnson

• The return of The Negro Motorist Green Book
  Sam Fulwood III

• Bring Back May Day
  Saurav Sarkar

• Data Workers of the World, Unite!
  Eric Posner, Glen Weyl

• New York Candidate Backed by National Democrats Boasted of “Pro-Life Advocacy” In Private Facebook Posts
  Aída Chávez, Ryan Grim

• Exonerating Bad Economic Policy for Trump’s Win
  Dean Baker

• How Arizona’s $5 Billion in Corporate Tax Handouts Decimated Public Education
  Tom Cahill

• The bizarre right-wing campaign to discredit striking Arizona teachers
  Alexia Fernández Campbell

• Beyond Trump: How the US Went Off the Rails
  John Atcheson

• Monument Remembers 4,400 U.S. Lynching Victims
  TicToc by Bloomberg

Something to think about over coffee prozac

Airline passenger fined after keeping free airline apple

DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has fined a woman $500 for not declaring she was bringing a free apple into the U.S. that she received on her Delta Air Lines flight from Paris.

Crystal Tadlock tells KDVR-TV in Denver that flight attendants had passed out the apples and she placed it in her carry-on to save for her flight from Minneapolis to Denver. Her bag was randomly searched by Customs.

Tadlock says the agent asked her if her trip to France was expensive and when she said yes he told her it was about to get more expensive after charging her $500.

Delta says it recommends all passengers comply with Customs regulations.

Customs declaration forms ask passengers if they are bringing any fruits or vegetables into the country.