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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Special Counsel Jack Smith demanded that any hearing involving him take place on live television, in front of the world, so that Trump and MAGA can’t lie about what he said.

Then, on the rest of the menu, under orders from Trump, the FBI has started visiting the homes of innocent No Kings protesters; a federal judge threw out MAGA Rep Ronny Jackson’s lawsuit against Gavin Newsom aimed at blocking California’s redistricting pushback; and, man who was detained by DC police for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone, sued the District of Columbia.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada on the first day of the World Series between Toronto and Los Angeles, over Ronald Reagan anti-tariff TV ads; and, International Criminal Court judges rejected a jurisdiction challenge in the case of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is accused in dozens of extra-judicial killings when in office.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, underreported by major US media, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a powerful speech at the University of Ottawa, where he showed how Canada can fight back against Trump and win.

Then, on the rest of the menu, despite cratering profits, Musk begged Tesla investors to give him his $1 trillion pay package, assuring them he can be fired if he goes “insane;” after Democratic Senators seized the floor, Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon spoke for more than twenty-two hours to protest Trump’s illegal power grab; and, two leading institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the decimated CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British counterterrorism police arrested three men in London of spying for Russia; and, Japan says it plans to tell Trump they will obey him and build up its military, no matter what they signed on the instrument of surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri all those forgetful years ago.







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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s approval is crashing to new lows while he literally bulldozes the White House to the ground.

Then, on the rest of the menu, DeSantis officials have been scrubbing evidence that US citizens have been nabbed in Trump’s deportation blitz; more than four-hundred-twenty conspiracy-theory anti-science bills attacking public health protections built up over a century, have hit statehouses this year; and, the Wyoming Capitol, including the governor’s office, was evacuated after an explosive device in front of the building was brought inside.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Secretary-General defended science and weather forecasting as Trump threatens both; and, Putin has directed drills of Russian nuclear forces as his “Yo Mama” summit with Trump is put on hold.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you don’t appoint an incompetent, inexperienced lawyer as your Top Prosecutor in the DOJ to go after your political enemies, because she may just end up screwing her own prosecution by leaking information accidentally to a reporter on Signal.

Then, on the rest of the menu a Trump judicial pick is on hold over criminal links to DeSantis; Trump ordered Treasury employees not to share photos of his brazen and illegal White House demolition; and, federal judges caught the Trump Department of Justice with providing false information in over thirty-five court cases.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Myanmar military shut down a major cybercrime center and detained over two-thousand people; and, Japan’s first woman Prime Minister is an ultraconservative star from a male-dominated party.






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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -- Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Did Trump just steal $400 million dollars from a Miami college in order to build his Trump Presidential Library with DeSantis' help?

Then, on the rest of the menu, good thing Newsom closed the freeway to the public during the massive No Kings rallies because JD Vance's motorcade was hit with shrapnel after an artillery shell blew up over Interstate 5 from the Trump-ordered live fire celebration; Indiana University fired the student newspaper faculty adviser who refused to block news stories critical of Trump; and, Marco Rubio secured a secret a deal for Trump with El Salvador, even though it meant betraying US informants.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where London police are probing whether Prince Andrew asked an officer assigned to him as a bodyguard to dig up dirt on sexual assault accuser Virginia Giuffre; and, the Louvre remained closed, a day after historic jewels were stolen from the world’s most-visited museum in a brazen daylight heist.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump may have immunity, but his ‘corrupt sycophants’ do not.

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the top four star Navy Admiral in Latin America announced his resignation due to Trump’s war crimes of blowing up fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela and murdering at least twenty-one people.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s Albert Speer architectural obsession is not ending anytime soon; attorneys general of more than a dozen states sued Trump over the termination of $7 billion in funding intended for affordable solar energy projects across the US; and, Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of National Public Radio and the first woman to host a national news program, has died at age eighty-seven.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italy’s anti-mafia police are investigating the car bombing of a renowned news anchor on the eighth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia; and, three neo-Nazis who styled themselves after the SS, have been sentenced to between eight and eleven years for plotting attacks against UK mosques and synagogues.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is planning to use Navy warships to strike inside California at the same time the No Kings Protest is taking place on Saturday.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after finding forever chemicals in its drinking water, the Eastern Oregon city of Hermiston was so concerned about the safety of its residents, it stopped testing for them; Brown University is the latest academic institution to tell Trump to eat rocks over his protection money threat; and, dozens of reporters turned in their access badges and exited the Pentagon, rather than agree to being propaganda shops for the government.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leading bishop among Armenian clerics has been arrested as the government escalates its crackdown on the church; and, if Trump blithely discloses to the world the CIA is conducting covert operations inside Venezuela, are they really covert?







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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA SCOTUS hears oral arguments to eliminate Black and Brown people from Congress.

Then, on the rest of the menu, federal stormtroopers threatened to shoot an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital; Jim Jordan’s attempt to question Jack Smith hits a major snag; and, a federal judge threw the book at Trump’s presidential library plot.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump threatened to pull support for Argentina if its politics don’t align with his interests; and, Trump declared himself King of the World Cup and of the Olympics.

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“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” - Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families’ (1845)

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump DOJ is in a full-blown panic as James Comey's defense team mounts a powerful challenge to Trump's politically motivated prosecution.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the New York Times, Associated Press and even the extreme right wing Newsmax, are among scores of news outlets who say they won’t sign Whiskey Pete Hegseth’s new Pentagon rules; ICE use of full-body straitjacket restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment; and, the Supreme Court rejected Alex Jones’ appeal of his $1.4 billion defamation judgment in the Sandy Hook shooting.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China sanctioned five US units of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean over a probe by Washington into China’s maritime construction dominance; and, China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as Trump sabotages American EV manufacturing.





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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -- Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lyin’ JD Vance was kicked off a Sunday show interview for lyin’ JD Vance-ing.

Then, on the rest of the menu, gaslighting right-wing influencers shape Trump’s understanding of the Portland protests; the MAGA attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act designed to protect racial minorities, comes to the MAGA Supreme Court this week; and, Barack Obama trashed businesses and universities that have caved to Trump and the policies “cooked up” by Stephen Miller in Marc Maron’s last interview.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the truce fizzles out as trade tensions between the United States and China return to a full boil; and, the Dutch government has taken control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia over “corporate governance shortcomings.”

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