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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Representative Daniel Goldman confronted plainclothes ICE agents who stormed his district office.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the New England Patriots were threatened with a MAGA boycott for a Pride flag display during Pride Month; Tulsa’s new Black mayor proposed a $100 million dollar trust to ‘repair’ the impact of the 1921 Race Massacre by a white mob; and, Trump fast-tracked a Utah uranium mine, but an industry revival may wait for higher prices.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the election of a Trump ally in Poland could alter European Union/Ukraine policies; and, Ukrainian spies hid the drones in woodsheds and hired unwitting Russian truck drivers to transport the weapons deep in the country that crippled Russian defenses and nuclear capabilities.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after a failed attempt to takeover the North Carolina State Supreme Court, the MAGA US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to purge voters from the state registration rolls.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas cops searched license plate cameras across the United States to find a woman who had an abortion; a controversial wage theft bill that MAGA hates passed the Oregon House; and, the TACO administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for thirty-four offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a US tanker in the North Sea pleaded not guilty to manslaughter at a UK court hearing; and, a global rally for stocks lost steam amid questions about what the administration and courts will do to the TACO Tariffs.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is called out for his “brutal and ugly attacks” that have caused a spike of threats against federal judges.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States is storing migrant children’s DNA in a future crimes criminal database; Oregon's chances to implement stricter vehicle emission regulations could be derailed by the MAGA federal government; and, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has caused industry leaders to cancel or delay more than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the US just this year.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where California avocado growers say Mexican imports have helped their sales; and, the Canadian province of Manitoba declared a state of emergency over wildfires and imposed the largest evacuation in the province’s history.







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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the anti-voting section of the Trump Department of Justice filed an anti-voter lawsuit in North Carolina.Then, on the rest of the menu, NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit in federal court against Trump’s illegal, retaliatory executive order; Trump’s Border Gestapo Chief Tom Homan has been cashing checks from one of the private prison giants profiting from the immigration crackdown he’s overseeing; and, the Trump State Department stopped scheduling visa interviews for foreign students while it expands vetting their social media so they can be thrown in a gulag somewhere.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, law firm Paul Weiss capitulated to Trump, now it has lost its top partners.

Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK, Jr’s FDA head warned doctors to “stop throwing insulin at diabetics,” or else; the state Trump won by just one percent faces an ugly three hundred fourteen million dollar loss in vital aid in the “Big Beautiful Bill;” and, former US Representative Charles Rangel, who spent nearly fifty years representing New York, has died at age ninety-four.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tesla sales across Europe plunged by half last month, even as growth in the electric car market picked up pace; and, Russia-backed far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who upended the Romanian presidential race, has withdrawn from politics.

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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, the Supreme Court blocked the nation’s first religious charter school in a surprise rebuke, with Amy Coney Barrett recusing.

Then, on the rest of the menu, American refugees are fleeing across state lines to escape hostile forces under Trump; Kentucky’s bitcoin boom has gone bust; and, a just-passed Louisiana law threatens residents with one million dollar fines for sharing warnings about bad air quality.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian hackers are targeting Western firms shipping aid to Ukraine; and, Trump’s early morning rage tweet tariff threats on the European Union and Apple, have sent US futures and global markets on a sharp death spiral.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a fed up Supreme Court schooled the Trump administration on the basics of Constitutional law.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is 'deeply underwater' on his Wall Street skyscraper as a massive debt deadline looms; a fire at the historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set; and, the two Israeli Embassy staffers murdered near the White House by a “Free Palestine” activist, had just left the Young Diplomats Reception for multinational aid to Gaza.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s Constitutional Court unanimously validated the results of Romania’s presidential election rerun, shortly after rejecting a request to annul the results by the hard-right Moscow-backed candidate; and, Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Yingluck has been ordered to pay for losses from a money-losing rice subsidy program.







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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's budget bill has created a 'legislative suicide pact' for the MAGA House.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pacific Northwest braces for a tsunami and typhoon monitoring blackout from Trump’s agency shutdown; a bombshell email leak has exposed a Gabbard goon secretly ordering intel changes so it couldn’t be ‘used against’ Trump; and, the hacker who breached the Signal chats used by Waltz and Hegseth, intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police broke up a right-wing extremist group that aimed to destabilize the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents; and, the mother of the arrested Salvadoran lawyer who represented Trump’

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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, and Trump gave up in a humiliating surrender before the world.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge just struck down DOGE’s attempt to seize the $500 million dollar building owned by the US Institute of Peace; a Black neighborhood fights back as an Elon Musk supercomputer factory belches toxic pollutants into the air; and, Pacific Northwest hydroelectric power risks a major shutdown as agencies lose hundreds of on-the-ground employees because of Trump’s cutbacks.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Honda pulls back on its EV strategy and will now push hybrid sales; and, at a South Africa agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff at Trump’s allegations of white genocide.

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, the Supreme court ripped Trump and his cabinet to shreds.

Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly three-quarters of the attorneys working for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have resigned in protest of Trump's “perversion” of the department’s mission; libraries across the country are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle the small Institute of Museum and Library Services; and, Trump set up a tip line for federal employees to snitch on colleagues working on DEI initiatives, and not one of the fifteen thousand employees at the EPA used it.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania’s presidential election; and, Putin outlawed Amnesty International in his latest crackdown on dissent and activists.

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

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