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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, David Frum explained why Trump-Russia “Wasn’t a Hoax.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans slammed the new Twitter CEO for a 2010 tweet joking about white racists; right wing extremists have built a “big wave” of misinformation targeting Latinos; and, Congress hopes to avoid a government shutdown with a vote this week.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon aims for an independence referendum in 2023; and, Portugal has created the North Atlantic’s largest marine sanctuary.


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

Bon Appétit!

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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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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066727/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The GOP is ramping up the distractions as the midterms draw near.

Then, on the rest of the menu, religious organizations in support of abortion rights fight for access; some states are dropping “dehumanizing” terms for immigrants; and, Montgomery, Alabama faces fines and a state lawsuit for changing the name of an avenue after confederate traitor Jefferson Davis, to honor civil rights lawyer, Fred D Gray.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dutch military police arrested a married couple who fled the country’s mandated COVID quarantine restrictions; and, France will not be held hostage to London's domestic politics on migration.

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

Bon Appétit!

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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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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/29/2066568/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Manhattan prosecutors have informed Trump Organization executive Matthew Calamari that they do not intend to charge him with any crimes, for now.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after working for the company for 26 years, when the plant closed in 2018, Ernest Ray applied for and got unemployment benefits, now Virginia wants him to pay it all back; new electoral maps spark debate over majority-minority districts; and, Target will keep its stores closed on Thanksgiving for good.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South African scientists have detected a new and deadly virus variant amid a spike of infections; and, 1,600 migrants have been lost at sea in Mediterranean this year.

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

Bon Appétit!

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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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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/26/2066251/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6 Committee is getting closer to the Commander of Insurrection.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice directed US attorneys across the country to swiftly prioritize prosecution of federal crimes that happen on commercial air flights; two women of color are President Joe Biden’s picks to lead the White House budget office; and, a $9 billion highway widening project in Houston has sparked a debate over racial inequity with infrastructure projects in the US.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico’s president nominated the first woman to serve as governor of the country’s central bank; and, three Mexican women who volunteered to investigate the 2011 massacre of 193 people later found out that they themselves had been placed under investigation by prosecutors.

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

Bon Appétit!

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”

-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/25/2066165/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thanksgiving-Day-Thursday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, defense attorney Kevin Gough was pressed why he made it so “intensely personal” about dirtying up the victim, Ahmaud Arbery?

On the rest of the menu, many environmentalists back Biden’s move to tap the US oil reserve; the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to block a major US sugar manufacturer from acquiring its rival, arguing the deal would harm competition; and, a federal jury has held that CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia intends to add the far-right extremist group The Base, and the entirety of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, to its list of outlawed terrorist organizations; and, Belarus banned the nation’s oldest newspaper as extremist.

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

Bon Appétit!

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"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”

-- Shauna Niequist
"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/24/2066009/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Roger Stone and Alex Jones “subpoenas make clear that a significant number of public figures in Trump’s orbit were at the very least aware that something was going to happen after that January 6 rally by Donald Trump. The question is: what?”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration is investing $1.5 billion in a healthcare workforce; the New York Times urged a judge to restore its constitutionally-protected freedom to cover the conservative dirty tricks group Project Veritas; and, Mississippi lost its Supreme Court water fight with Tennessee.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two journalists have been released from custody after being arrested while covering police brutality against First Nation pipeline protesters in northern British Columbia; and, the upcoming Interpol election, that includes authoritarian candidates, raises human rights concerns about fair policing.


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

Bon Appétit!

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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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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/23/2065836/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, America’s growing threat of Right Wing vigilantism is in the spotlight.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the GOP embraces practicing medicine without a license as a substitute for vaccines; workers and families with private health insurance would reap big savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in Biden’s social agenda bill; and, the US Rhodes scholars for 2022 include a record number of women.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK will probe racial bias in medical devices after Black and Asian people died disproportionately from COVID-19; and, the US seeks a balanced approach as fears grow Russia may invade Ukraine.

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

Bon Appétit!

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Oxford-trained confederate dunce Senator John Kennedy insisted Biden’s pick for Comptroller of the Currency has communist sympathies because she escaped Soviet-controlled Kazakhstan.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Fox News pushes to defund PBS after 'Sesame Street' added an Asian American puppet; Biden aims to limit turnover among federal contract workers; and, white supremacist prison guards work with impunity in Florida.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Indian Prime Minister Modi has decided to repeal three controversial farm laws against which farmers have protested for more than a year; and, Australia calls for global action to fight online and state-backed disinformation.

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

Bon Appétit!

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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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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/19/2065144/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the QAnon-adjacent Mesa County, Colorado Clerk, who compromised election equipment, had her home searched by the FBI, along with the home of Lauren Boebert's campaign manager.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Iran-backed hackers are accused of targeting critical US sectors; Native American tribes welcomed an infusion of money in the massive infrastructure bill; and, Oklahoma is challenging the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate for the National Guard.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Israeli couple has been released by Turkey after being detained on suspicion of espionage for photographing Erdogan’s residence; and, over twenty thousand people marched peacefully through Athens to mark the anniversary of the bloody anti-dictatorship uprising of 1973.

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

Bon Appétit!

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”

-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/18/2064957/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, co-editor Nikole Hannah-Jones discussed her new work, “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.”

On the rest of the menu, Cancun Ted Cruz introduced a bill that would add $28 billion to the national debt; Iowa’s GOP Governor Kim Reynolds is accused of misusing COVID relief funds, again; and, a GOP-majority court has been chosen to deny Biden’s vaccine mandate.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia has pledged to invest $73 million in quantum science as critical technology; and, a Philippines group is seeking to bar Marcos Jr from the presidential race because of a conviction for tax evasion.

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

Bon Appétit!

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"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”

-- Shauna Niequist "
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/17/2064744/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays