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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, political and national security experts agree that the United States has entered a “neo-fascist era in American politics.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Census takers worry that apartment renters were undercounted; after stripping federal protections in the waning days of his administration, Trump unleashed an “outright slaughter” of wolves in Wisconsin; and, far-right extremist militias like the Three Percenters have infiltrated local governments, and the locals are not happy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Honduran mastermind behind the 2016 killing of prize-winning environmental and Indigenous rights defender Berta Cáceres has finally been convicted; and, renowned winemaker Moet-Hennessy is suspending champagne shipments to Russia after a law was adopted that allows the term to be used only for “Russian champagne.”


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/2021/7/6/2038549/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, It’s good to know after we just celebrated Independence Day that the state of our Democracy depends on the filibuster.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after pressure from environmentalists, a company canceled plans to build an oil pipeline over an aquifer in southwest Tennessee that provides drinking water to over one million people; Des Moines, Iowa faces extreme measures to find clean water after decades of farm fertilizer runoff; and, discarded shells from American restaurants are helping to establish new oyster colonies in the nation’s waterways.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where details are emerging about how a Russia-linked gang conducted the single biggest global ransomware attack on record this holiday weekend; and, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice authorized a criminal investigation into Bolsonaro’s potential corruption involving the nation’s shady vaccine deal.

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/2021/7/5/2038379/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kevin McCarthy threatening his own members for sitting on the January 6 Select Committee is the “cherry on top of this hypocrisy sundae.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, a handful of States brace for the possibility that most of the country will lose access to abortion; Republicans are mad the latest infrastructure plan funds a tax-cheat crackdown on the wealthy; and, after a surge of Native American votes helped Biden win in the Southwest, the Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights act will severely hinder tribe’s access to the ballot.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US State Department added Turkey to its list of countries implicated in use of child soldiers; and, the UN Secretary-General urged Myanmar's military to release Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, now.

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/2021/7/2/2038021/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Frederick Douglas famously wrote about being nearly tortured to death there, so Donald Rumsfeld bought the “Mount Misery” plantation as his private getaway home.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a mostly white California High School was stripped of its basketball division title and its coach fired, after a racist tortilla throwing incident; as wildfires rage, Biden is temporarily raising pay for federal firefighters to ensure that no one fighting wild land fires is making less than $15 per hour; and, San Jose, California passed the first law in the nation that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey formally quit the international treaty to prevent violence against women; and, Vladimir Putin said Russia could have sunk the UK warship HMS Defender in the Black Sea without starting World War Three.

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/2021/7/1/2037847/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6 Committee should subpoena Kevin McCarthy.

On the rest of the menu, voting machines compromised by the Arizona audit could cost the state millions of dollars to replace; over half of QAnon followers believe Jews are plotting to take over the world; and, Fox News was fined $1 million for sexual harassment and job retaliation.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Dutch defense minister said 'irresponsible' Russian jets harassed one of its frigates in the Black Sea; and, Amnesty International reports that the Hong Kong security law is 'a human rights emergency.'

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/2021/6/30/2037713/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is in big trouble because the crimes were “orchestrated by Donald.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the shooter who rammed a stolen truck into a house and then killed two Black bystanders in Massachusetts, was a white supremacist; included in the bipartisan infrastructure deal is a plan to eliminate the country’s remaining lead pipes; and, California banned state-funded travel to Florida and four other states.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a growing number of crypto asset firms are abandoning attempts to register with Britain's financial regulator as scrutiny of the sector intensifies; and, Greek police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, both stolen from Greece's National Gallery in 2012.


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/2021/6/29/2037553/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a structural engineer explains what he discovered in the film footage and earlier reports of the Surfside condo collapse.

Then, on the rest of the menu, background checks blocked a record high three hundred thousand gun sales last year; discontent over how Black students, faculty and staff have been treated for decades at the University of North Carolina is reemerging after the school refused to offer tenure to “1619 Project” investigative journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones; and, with record high temperatures and a historic drought, officials in the west are raising caution over Fourth of July fireworks.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a trove of classified UK defense papers were found at bus stop in Kent, southeast of London; and, a migrant farm worker’s death in Southern Italy has spurred officials to ban farm work during the region’s most torrid days, through August.

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/2021/6/28/2037372/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump-allied Republicans are getting help from FOX News with their attacks on General Mark Milley.

Then, on the rest of the menu, St. Charles County agreed to pay $280,000 to three journalists who were tear-gassed in Ferguson, Missouri by the county SWAT team after Michael Brown’s death in 2014; Amherst, Massachusetts has created a fund to pay reparations to Black residents; and, Wendy Davis, Biden staffers and volunteers filed a pair of lawsuits against “Trump Train” members and Texas police over an attempted “pit maneuver” on the Biden bus last October.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Ukrainian member of the notorious FIN7 cybercrime gang has been sentenced to seven years in a United States federal prison; and, European Union countries bordering Russia rejected a Franco-German plan to resume official meetings with Vladimir Putin.

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/2021/6/25/2036990/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there are disturbing parallels to the days leading up to the January 6 Capitol insurrection as anticipation grows around the end of the fraudulent Arizona election audit.

Then, on the rest of the menu, law-breaking gun dealers are targeted in the Biden anti-crime plan; Biden ousted Trump’s housing finance chief after the Supreme Court ruled the FHFA's structure was unconstitutional under the separation of powers doctrine; and, because Trump went on an execution killing spree in the waning months of his presidency, Merrick Garland will review the Justice Department's federal death penalty policies.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Brazil Supreme Court confirmed its earlier ruling that a lower court judge was biased against left-wing leader Lula; and, an Australian court ruled that a Chilean woman accused of kidnapping seven people during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, must be extradited to face the charges.

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/2021/6/24/2036819/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP had to vote down even discussing the Voting Rights Bill because it was “written in Hell by the Devil.”

On the rest of the menu, deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by thirty-two percent last year, with two devastating spikes eight months apart; fifteen GOP governors urged the the immediate release of Census redistricting data, saying further delays would hurt their efforts to redraw congressional and legislative districts in their favor before the next election; and, the US government will review its own dark history of Native American boarding schools.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the New York Times reported that the Saudis who killed Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, received their paramilitary training in US; and, Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters spy agency installed a giant multicolored artwork to celebrate codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing.

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/2021/6/23/2036643/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays