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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after the first violent insurrection to overturn an election in America’s history, it’s always good to remember how Roberts used “raw judicial activism” to gut the Voting Rights Act.

On the rest of the menu, the Senate GOP blocked a bill to let people give food and water to voters waiting in line; Americans can begin applying for fifty dollars off their monthly internet bill as part of the pandemic-relief package; and, the nation’s largest doctors group released a comprehensive plan aimed at dismantling structural racism inside its own ranks, and within the US medical establishment itself.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a top World Health Organization official strongly denied making false statements to Italian prosecutors about a spiked UN report into Italy’s coronavirus response; and, UNESCO is working on a new global system for sharing scientific knowledge that would outlast the current pandemic.

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/2021/5/12/2030075/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Rudy goes full Nixon by claiming, “I am not a crook.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Mitch McConnell is so determined to destroy Democracy, he will personally argue against the Voting Rights Bill in a committee hearing; the Vatican issued a stern rebuke to Bishops threatening to withhold communion from the Biden’s; and, the NASA robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex, with rubble from the asteroid Bennu stored inside, fired its engines to begin its two year return back to Earth.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three reporters and two activists fleeing the military junta in Myanmar, are facing deportation after being arrested in Thailand for illegal entry; and, a French court threw out a lawsuit for Agent Orange health damages during the Vietnam War.

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/2021/5/11/2029916/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Florida representative Charlie Crist said the state’s new voter suppression law “doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, experts warn that private companies contracted for Oregon’s post-wildfire logging are taking trees that may never be hazards; Asian American business leaders are launching their largest philanthropic commitment in history behind fighting hate; and, critics of the 1619 Project will be mad, but Maryland’s governor posthumously pardoned thirty-four victims of racial lynching dating between 1854 and 1933, saying they were denied legal due process.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Italian judge slain by the Mafia in Sicily has been put on the path to sainthood; and, Germany commemorated the icon of Nazi resistance on what would have been Sophie Scholl’s one hundredth birthday.

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/2021/5/10/2029728/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, some GOP insiders criticized the party’s steep slide into Nazism as “dumb, stupid tribalism.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon church that sued the state over Covid restrictions, suffered an outbreak with seventy-four severely sickened by the virus; a GOP county party affiliate in Texas has officially backed a state house resolution to secede from the United States; and, Florida is already being sued over its new voter suppression law.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the speaker of parliament in the Maldives, former President Mohamed Nasheed, is being treated for shrapnel wounds after a bomb blast outside his family home; and, as public concerns mount over holding the Games in a pandemic, an anti-Olympics campaign gains traction in Japan.

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/2021/5/7/2029346/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if he hasn’t already, Bill Barr should immediately retain legal counsel.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Florida Governor DeSantis is slammed for partisan gamesmanship in holding the late Alcee Hastings’ seat unfilled until January of 2022; amid a lack of lethal injection drugs, South Carolina voted to add the firing squad to its list of execution methods; and, the Umatilla tribes in Oregon have released an online dictionary of their fading language.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Brazil court suspended the probe into an Indigenous leader who criticized Bolsonaro; and, the US Space Command is tracking the large Chinese Long March 5B rocket for an uncontrolled re-entry from orbit this weekend.

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/2021/5/6/2029168/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bill Barr falsified documents and lied to a federal judge about the Russia investigation, and she’s not happy about it.

On the rest of the menu, after calling the 1619 Project revisionist history, Tennessee Republicans claimed counting Blacks as three-fifths of a person “was a praiseworthy achievement”; the GOP attacked Biden's comprehensive immigration plan after complaining he ignores immigration; and, the US birth rate has fallen to its lowest point in more than a century.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Berlin police arrested a 53-year-old neo-Nazi, as German officials noted a disturbing increase in far right extremism; and, Benjamin Netanyahu's deadline for forming a new Israeli government expired, with no guarantee parties outside his caretaker government could bridge their differences and unseat him.

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"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/5/2029012/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP Insurgency says Liz Cheney’s distractions about the election not being stolen have sparked new calls to force her out.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Nazi swastikas were scrawled across the Oregon Holocaust Memorial as Jewish American Heritage Month begins; the airlines have referred one thousand three hundred unruly passenger reports to the Federal Aviation Administration; and, MI6 spy Christopher Steele 'produced a second raw data file on Donald Trump for the FBI' during Trump’s time in office.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a UN rights committee expressed concerns about police-related racial violence in Belgium; and, a Pakistani journalists’ group vows to fight for press freedom.

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/2021/5/4/2028846/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, federal investigators are looking into whether Rudy Giuliani was involved in any efforts to oust the former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.

Then, on the rest of the menu, California Democrats have sharpened their anti-recall messaging; Missouri is the latest state to thwart voter-approved policies; and, Homeland Security will begin repairing the damage caused by Trump’s border wall.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a senior Foreign Ministry official alleged that Biden “made a big blunder” in his recent speech by calling North Korea a security threat; and, the G7 is looking to build a rapid response mechanism to counter Russian "propaganda" and disinformation.

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/2021/5/3/2028682/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the courts are sending in actual elections experts to Arizona as Trump and the GOP fixate on the cockamamie scheme to overturn the previous election.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump-appointed Border Patrol chief is mad that he can't use slurs to describe immigrants anymore; Labor Secretary Marty Walsh supports classifying gig workers as employees; and, the Senate Finance Committee wants to examine the Caterpillar tax probe under former AG Bill Barr’s office.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands of Czechs rallied against their pro-Russian president while accusing him of treason; and, an Australian mining magnate lost his copyright battle with Twisted Sister.

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/2021/4/30/2028284/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, many former prosecutors and US attorneys don’t think this is the first search warrant the SDNY has obtained in the Giuliani case.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Texas GOP official suing Biden over aid to Black farmers has a history of hateful comments; the first woman of color to lead the US securities watchdog's enforcement division resigned after only five days on the job due to potential conflicts of interest; and, the US Labor Board said a retail union's evidence in this months Amazon vote in Alabama 'could be grounds for overturning the vote'.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where several former members of the Italian Red Brigades were arrested in France; and, a Greek extreme-right lawmaker who fled a thirteen year prison sentence, is being held in Brussels while awaiting an extradition ruling.

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/2021/4/29/2028128/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays