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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Fox News was not a propaganda outfit lying to America, they would have fact-checked Tucker Carlson’s claims about January 6.

Then, on the rest of the menu, anti-government militant and Idaho Republican gubernatorial candidate Ammon Bundy claimed America is under attack from an "invasive species"; a trial over whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage, instead of $1 a day to immigration detainees, has ended with a hung jury; and, the Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by health insurance companies to seek a full reimbursement from the federal government under a provision of the Affordable Care Act.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US joined Britain, Canada and the European Union in imposing sanctions on Belarus for human rights abuses; and, Russia banned New York’s liberal arts institution Bard College as “undesirable”, and will arrest any current or former students, faculty and administrators.


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/2021/6/22/2036441/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the co-founder of Critical Race Theory broke down the GOP gaslighting about the academic study.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Capitol rioter used his charity to promote violence; official reports list a series of events where Republican monitors illegally swarmed elderly Georgia election volunteers counting votes in the presidential election audit; and, the editor of Maryland’s Capital Gazette, the paper that suffered a 2018 newsroom massacre, is leaving now that hedge fund Alden Global Capital bought the venerated daily from Tribune Publishing.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Marine Le Pen’s far-right party stumbled badly in the first round of France’s regional elections; and, a South African 'diamond rush' has unearthed only quartz crystals of little to no value.

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/2021/6/21/2036188/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The GOP squashed the Manchin Compromise into a thousand pieces of Stacey Abrams dog-whistles.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a GOP lawmaker used campaign funds to fight ethics allegations he misused campaign funds; the EPA administrator has reinstated a science advisory board he dismantled earlier this year; and, the GOP promised it will keep fighting to end health care for millions after a third SCOTUS loss.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where aboriginal groups rejected a bill to protect their cultural heritage at a Western Australia mining state; and, Scotch whisky makers welcome the suspension of costly US tariffs.

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/2021/6/18/2035869/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, twenty-one Law and Order, Back the Blue Republicans voted against awarding the Capitol Police the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting them on January 6.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration is reviewing a judge's order to resume drilling auctions on federal lands; a Brennan Center for Justice survey found one in three US election officials feels unsafe on the job, with one in six reported being threatened by unhinged Trump supporters; and, the Justice Department warned Missouri officials that the state cannot void federal gun rules.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK will require COVID-19 shots for nursing home workers; and, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily newsroom was raided by five hundred national security police.

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/2021/6/17/2035705/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there are two New York prosecutors who scare Trump more than Mueller ever did.

On the rest of the menu, Kamala Harris announced the administration will disburse $1.25 billion to help small businesses; the Southern Baptist Convention stopped a push from its extreme right wing to make an issue of critical race theory, by electing a new president who has worked to bridge racial divides in the church; and, the Senate passed a bill that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where election results for a “New Algeria” showed the country’s oldest party won the most votes; and, a French court ordered Ikea to pay $1.3 million in fines and damages over a campaign to spy on union representatives, employees and some unhappy customers across France.

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/2021/6/16/2035515/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the FBI warned lawmakers that online QAnon conspiracy theorists may carry out more acts of violence in the real world.

Then, on the rest of the menu, doctors at Arizona and Nevada burn centers are warning of injuries from contact with super-heated asphalt roadways during the first extreme heat wave of the year; two more groups sued Florida over its new restrictive elections laws; and, the US will give Native Hawaiians surplus land as compensation for acres that were meant for homesteading, but used instead by the federal government.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain and Australia agreed on a free trade deal, the first for Britain since it left the European Union; and, NATO leaders expanded the use of their all-for-one, one-for-all, mutual defense clause to include a collective response to attacks in space.

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/2021/6/15/2035324/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s DOJ spied on… everyone.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by employees of a Houston hospital system over its requirement that all of its staff be vaccinated against COVID-19; the FDA asked Johnson & Johnson to discard millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses from a troubled manufacturer; and, the AMA will hold its annual meeting as a group of white southern doctors fight to keep the group from dismantling centuries-old racism and bias in all realms of the medical establishment.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Nicaraguan police arrested and jailed five prominent opponents of President Daniel Ortega, including one-time rebel allies who denounced the detentions as an assault on democracy; and, with a GDP about where Italy is, Joe Biden suggested 'autocrat' Putin's Russia might be weaker than it seems.

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/2021/6/14/2035102/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump/ Barr Department of Justice spied on the Democratic members of the Intelligence Committee, their families and staff.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the GOP is misleading on why homicides are up; the Oregon House of Representatives expelled a Republican member who let violent, far-right insurgents into the state Capitol last December; and, two neo-Nazi group members who were secretly recorded by the FBI plotting a terrorist attack, pleaded guilty to federal gun charges and obstruction of justice.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pakistani police arrested a cleric over threats to Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai; and, Russia fined Facebook and Telegram for banned content, but it wasn’t immediately clear what type of content the platforms failed to take down.

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/2021/6/11/2034716/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP is repeating voter suppression history, while attacking the teaching of it.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked Missouri from enforcing a sweeping state abortion law that bans the procedures before a woman knows she’s pregnant; the Texas bar association is investigating whether state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct; and, reporters traveling to the United Kingdom for President Joe Biden’s first overseas trip, were delayed seven hours after their chartered plane was overrun by cicadas.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Emmanuel Macron slapped by a twenty-eight year-old Royalist puts French ultra-rightist groups in sharp focus; and, President Joe Biden will lay out his vaccination donation plans at the G-7, while urging other countries to join in on the global fight.

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/2021/6/10/2034524/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, for nearly three years, an encrypted app used by criminals was covertly monitored by the FBI and Australia's Federal Police.

On the rest of the menu, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill to boost the US tech industry to counter overseas rivals; the Biden Family Reunification Task Force says it's found 'nearly all' the children separated under Trump’s cruel border policy; and, after four years of self dealing, catering to the fossil fuel industry and moving its headquarters from DC to Grand Junction, Colorado in the dead of the night, Republicans are irate Biden’s extremely partisan nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management was a long time Democratic aide who volunteered for a clean water group once.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Security Council gave its unanimous backing to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a second term; and, the “Butcher of Bosnia” lost his final legal battle when UN judges rejected his appeals and affirmed his life sentence.

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/2021/6/9/2034329/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays