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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is in a full-blown panic as his war in Iran continues to escalate despite his attempt to leave and falsely pretend the war was won.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump plans to move the Forest Service headquarters from DC to Utah and shutter research sites in thirty-one states; an appeals court panel suspended the federal court order for Voice of America employees to return to work; and, the National Football League dared the Florida MAGA attorney general to sue the league over its diversity hiring policy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Danish intelligence services accused members of Trump’s inner circle of running a “covert” operation in Greenland; and, thieves brazenly stole paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from a private museum in Italy.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is preparing to leave Iran with Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz and the United States facing the most humiliating military defeat in the US history.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety uncovered rare KKK artifacts in one of its offices; a Democratic electrician with no Nazi tattoos nabbed a state senate seat in MAGA Red Florida; and, the MAGA California sheriff running for governor and who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots, has paused the probe into election fraud allegations, citing mounting legal challenges.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia expelled a British diplomat over spying allegations; and, international observers at a local election in European Union candidate Serbia, said they witnessed violence and irregularities during the vote.


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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 blockade against Cuba collapsed after he permitted Putin to send a Russian oil tanker to Havana.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump issued another crazed early Monday morning war threat designed to juice the markets, again; Trump melted down at “dumb judges” ahead of Supreme Court arguments on the MAGA birthright citizenship policy critics have branded as outright racism; and, Trump is such a master businessman and military planner, the rising price of war oil is making at least one nation rich, and they speak Farsi.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war; and, French authorities are investigating after thwarting an Iranian bomb attack outside a Bank of America in Paris over the weekend.



























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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, the Iranian regime saw a wartime president fixated on cognitive tests, presidential pens and Sharpies, while nodding off during a Cabinet meeting about the war.

Then, on the rest of the menu, “all white men all the time”-Pete Hegseth pulled some racism and misogyny out of his Christo-Fascist pocket and ordered two Black and two women officers removed from the one-star promotion list; the MAGA sheriff running for California governor ignored the state’s Attorney General and illegally seized even more ballots from the 2025 special election; and, nine more people have been sickened by raw milk from a MAGA raw milk dairy, and the MAGA FDA refuses to recall the product.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK banned crypto donations to political parties in a bid to curb foreign influence; and, a Gulf of Mexico oil spill that you don’t know about, has spread hundreds of miles, killed wildlife and polluted Mexican reserves.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s DOJ smear tactic backfired and revealed Smith caught Trump red-handed selling top secrets out of Mar a Lago.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Plantation Coach Tommy Tuberville was sued as the heated Alabama governor race gets ugly; Balls and Strikes Chief Justice John Roberts is cracking down on the Court’s three liberal justices for not letting the men speak enough; and, Whiskey Pete loves his enemies to death so much, he hosted the first Pentagon Christian worship service since the Iran war began and prayed for “overwhelming violence.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Europeans vowed to get tougher on Russia’s shadow fleet as a Euro sea drone hit one of its oil tankers approaching the Black Sea entrance to the Bosporus Strait; and, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum defied Trump and said Mexico will continue to have Cuban doctors work in the country at a time when other nations across the Americas have ditched their agreements under intense MAGA pressure.


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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after the fall of princes, prime ministers and captains of industry, the UK government has demanded the full un-redacted Epstein files from Pam Bondi.Then, on the rest of the menu, three weeks after Trump fired her, ICE Barbie Noem has a new boss and she is not going to like it; a federal prosecutor privately conceded under questioning by a skeptical judge that the Justice Department’s investigation of a $2.5 billion renovation project at the Federal Reserve didn’t find any evidence of a crime; and, the FDA flagged misleading claims for a cancer drug by biotech billionaire and Los Angeles Times owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump described his “imagined negotiations with Iran” to reporters with “the goofy insecurity of the man who knows he stands accused of always chickening out.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas MAGA have moved to ensure that a Democratic lawmaker elected in a shock special election upset earlier this year will effectively have no power; after raging that voting by mail is cheating, Trump voted by mail at Mar a Lago for a Florida special election; and, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s top enforcement official, who left abruptly last week, clashed with agency leaders over investigating Trump and his family for market manipulation and insider trading.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Orbán’s top opponent says Hungary’s Russian backchannel ‘treason’ will be investigated; and, Italian voters rejected judicial reform in a major setback for Premier Giorgia Meloni ahead of next year’s national elections.






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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, two Florida public universities, two Republican student organizations, two racism and antisemitism scandals in the same month.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s EPA is paving the way for the return of smog to national parks; an Oath Keeper MAGA sheriff running for California Governor seized 650,000 Riverside County ballots from the recent redistricting election; and, it’s not just vaccines, MAGA parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Prime Minister Tusk says Poland has long suspected Orban’s Hungary shared EU Council details with Russia; and, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Prague against the new government of Czech prime minister and Putin-puppet Babiš.



























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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious Vets unloaded on Trump over his scheme to profit off the bodies of fallen troops.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration has launched investigations into thirteen states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion; two dozen  states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the EPA over the repeal of the ‘endangerment’ finding central to the climate fight; and, two former FBI agents are suing bureau director Ka$h Patel and AG Pam Bondi, claiming they were fired for having investigated Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French navy intercepted and boarded a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea linked to Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet; and, Israel blasted Tehran with airstrikes on the Persian New Year Nowruz, as the war jolts worldwide energy markets.

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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, a federal judge blocked RFK Jr’s anti-vax policies, allowing children and babies to go without Hepatitis, meningitis, COVID19, influenza, and Rotavirus vaccines based on the policy set by a band of anti-vaxxers RFK Jr. brought in.

Then, on the rest of the menu, national parks employees say SFGATE/SFChronicle has been blacklisted by the Interior Department; Pam Bondi defied the courts and gave an ousted interim US attorney a new title to allow him to keep his job in Wisconsin; and, rapper Afroman won his lawsuit against police over mocking their 2022 raid in viral music videos using home security video showing the deputies thirsting over his lemon pound cake.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two men appeared in a London court accused of carrying out “hostile” surveillance of the UK’s Jewish community on behalf of Iran; and, the MAGA State Department says it is adding twelve countries to an expanding list of nations whose citizens must post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply for US visas.

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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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