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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you can’t have a three-ring MAGA clown show without a couple of MAGA clowns up for Senate confirmation and another MAGA clown complaining about Low-T.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ignored Congress as he poured concrete for a black granite helipad over the White House lawn without permits; MAGA AG Ken Paxton meddled in an explosive college football betting scandal one day after a big donation from the school’s Board of Regents Chair; and, Secret Service agents are now in Kash Patel’s crosshairs into how security vulnerabilities of Trump’s Qatar-grifted Air Force One jet leaked to The New York Times.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Trump against interfering in German elections after a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe was announced; and, Hong Kong authorities raided two independent bookstores and arrested five people on suspicion of selling seditious publications that threatened China’s national security.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, all evidence points to Trump trying to steal the 2026 midterms.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Signal Pete Hegseth has made sure for the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty women Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year; law firms that cut deals with Trump to stop executive orders to shut down their businesses, are now fighting a secret courtroom battle against the Department of MAGA Justice; and, a GOP election rigging scheme was thwarted when a Democratic governor selected a new judge to a key state court.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungary’s parliament voted to remove Orban puppet Tamas Sulyok from his Presidential post; and, the reason so many are rooting against the Land of Messi is because Argentina soccer fans, players and sports journalists, have a racist problem.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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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)Justice Putnam


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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump consigliere Todd Blanche sweats as one judge finds he’s a fraudster, another wants to hold him in contempt and his advocate to shepherd his nomination hearing died of a heart attack after a phone call with Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, senior ICE officials are blaming Trump for the recent wave of deadly shootings by ICE death squads; as its lawyers flee in droves, Trump’s embattled Department of Justice has imposed new quotas on its prosecutors; and, Louden County, Virginia officials found almost one hundred health violations at the restaurant for the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC, in Potomac Falls, Virginia.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two suspects have been arrested in connection with setting fire to the Fontainebleau forest near Paris that forced the evacuation of one thousand people; and, European troops, warplanes and around thirty leaders joined the Paris Bastille Day parade in a show of unity for Ukraine.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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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, Trump’s own judge dressed him down for supporting white nationalist, paramilitary groups.

Then, on the rest of the menu, an Illinois teacher targeted by vicious right-wing hate over critical posts about Charlie Kirk, is now hailed for ‘saving lives’; Trump justified all the grift, graft and insider trade fraud as president with a slew of inaccurate claims; and, with the resurgence of polio under MAHA, Martha Lillard, the last US polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma.


After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Nicaragua’s husband-and-wife co-presidents stripped masses of lawyers of their licenses to practice in an ongoing crackdown on dissent; and, the European Union imposed sanctions on Russian military intelligence officers, hackers and private companies, denouncing a years-long cyberespionage campaign to undermine the bloc.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia Child

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump suddenly and suspiciously canceled all his events for the next three days after his disastrous NATO summit meeting.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is trying to imprison Americans for joining internet chats he doesn’t like; Steve Bannon was a secret operative helping Trump extort nearly $1 billion from the nation’s top law firms; and, Trump’s continuing attempts to squirm out of paying writer E Jean Carroll the $5 million plus interest he owes her, has set off a civil war at the law firm representing him in the case.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland sentenced a Russian exile to seven years in prison for spying for Moscow; and, Mexico will request criminal charges over seventeen Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration.

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“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, did Trump order Blanche to hide key documents?

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump suffered another humiliating courtroom defeat after a federal appeals court affirmed he illegally added his name to the Kennedy Center; Trump’s plan for his triumphal arch is getting another review from another Trump-packed federal commission; and, Wyoming officials traced a rare wastewater bacteria back to a massive Meta data center under construction.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol; and, the Italian region of Calabria defies US pressure to end its Cuban doctors program.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851 Justice Putnam


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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump judge ruled in a twenty-eight page opinion that the DOJ had no right to obtain the identity, email address and phone numbers for all the Fulton County Georgia election workers who worked the 2020 election.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s latest ‘vengeful spectacle’ alarms experts as his war on America’s doctors intensifies; an appellate court struck down parts of a Florida law that restricted the teaching of race, sexism and unconscious bias in college classrooms; and, a lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration has been illegally sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she’ll run for the French presidency next year despite promising not to if forced to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor; and, EU lawmakers call for an investigation of FIFA boss Infantino over Trump’s phone call before the US-Belgium match.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851


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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after losing in the Supreme Court, Trump appointed his E Jean Carroll attorney to the federal bench, so now his new E Jean Carroll attorney needs some time to get up to speed delaying E Jean Carroll her court-ordered money.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Texas Observer revealed four businesses with ties the Neo-Nazi Patriot Front operating in North Texas; three Colorado election deniers’ lower court win is overturned by the Tenth Circuit who ordered a new trial for armed voter intimidation; and, the DOJ was caught redacting bank fraud alerts from its Epstein files about a Jeffrey Epstein-owned company that kept moving millions after his death.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French prosecutors are investigating racist insults against midfielder Mbappé by a Paraguay senator after her nation lost to France in the World Cup: and, the woman suspected of the bomb attack ⁠on a businessman and his family in ​Monaco last week, has been found shot dead in Ukraine.

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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”Justice Putnam


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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Patriot Front and Trump tried to ruin the Fourth of July weekend.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Neo Confederate MAGA White House branded the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution as radical leftists who cannot be trusted; Trump will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool but will “use the same company, because they did a fantastic job;” and, a decline in PH.D. admissions could imperil “a generation of new talent.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Belgian diamond group that won tariff relief, gifted Trump a lavishly encrusted ring that would be illegal in any other administration; and, Australia and Fiji signed a new bilateral defense alliance against Chinese influence in the South Pacific.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia Child Justice Putnam


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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, indictments coming out of the weaponized Boxed Wine DOJ, are “monumentally flawed.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has been indicted on sixteen criminal charges by a grand jury in New Orleans; the blistering heat wave forced Trump goons to change his National Mall July 4th plans at the last minute; and, the top FBI agent in Chicago is abruptly leaving his post after being pushed by Patel to retire.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Gisèle Pelicot case might be the tip of the iceberg as a ‘truly international’ network of drug-facilitated rape is uncovered by the UK National Crime Agency; and, Dallas police tried to rough up some Egyptian World Cup players and coaches at their hotel who were taking photos with fans.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”

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