The Breakfast Club (Mutton Tail)

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 May 26th

Allied troops begin their evacuation from Dunkirk, France; President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial ends with his acquittal; Actor John Wayne; Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie marry.

Breakfast Tune Old Jimmy Sutton · Wade Ward

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

 
CONNECTICUT’S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR IS STONEWALLING A BILL THAT WOULD MAKE PHONE CALLS FROM PRISON FREE
Rachel M. Cohen, The Intercept

CONNECTICUT GOV. NED LAMONT, a Democrat who grew his personal fortune through the telecommunications industry, is stonewalling a bill that would establish Connecticut as the first state in the nation to make phone calls from prison free for incarcerated people and their families.

Securus Technologies, the national prison telecommunications corporation that Connecticut has contracted with since 2012, has been quietly lobbying against the legislation for weeks, though it reversed course on Wednesday. Under pressure from Platinum Equity LLC — the private equity firm that owns the company — Securus announced in a letter that it was formally withdrawing its opposition to the bill.

But Securus’s reversal leaves the bill’s supporters with little time: With just two weeks left in the legislative session, they see Friday as the last day to advance the bill out of the House if it is to stand a shot of passing the Senate before the summer recess. Lamont, meanwhile, has yet to express support for the bill — which would require his signature — with his office citing vague objections over potential cost. Without his blessing, the bill’s backers say, it stands little shot of moving forward.

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• Where the ‘Democratic Left’ Goes to Die: Staten Island NYC and the Forgotten Primaries
  DANIEL FALCONE

• ‘Medicare for All’ backers find biggest foe in their own backyard
  ADAM CANCRYN and RACHEL ROUBEIN

• Nancy Pelosi Plans To Go Easy On Big Pharma
  Zach Carter and Daniel Marans

• The U.S. Media Is in the Crosshairs of the New Assange Indictment
  Jack Goldsmith

• When Socialists Swept Milwaukee
  Lindsey Anderson

• Senator Sanders and Representative Lee Propose to Make Wall Street Pay
  Dean Baker

• What and Who Gave Us Trump?
  RALPH NADER

• OPCW Syria Report Cripples Western “Chemical Weapons” Narrative
  Tony Cartalucci

• New Syria Chemical Attack Blamed on Government. Reports Fostered Divisions Among U.S. Allies
  Firas Samuri

Something to think about over coffee prozac

 
Man Weirded Out That Someone Broke Into His Home Just To Clean It

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Whoever broke into a Massachusetts man’s home last week didn’t take a thing. They did, however, leave the house spotless.

Nate Roman tells The Boston Globe that when he returned to his Marlborough home from work May 15, he could tell a stranger had been there.

Nothing was missing, but the 44-year-old Roman noticed the beds were made, the rugs vacuumed and the toilets scrubbed. They even crafted origami roses on the toilet paper rolls.

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