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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans will react to the growing power of Black Democratic voters, and Donald Trump vote fraud lies, to justify new vote suppression tactics.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration has embarked on an eleventh-hour bid to drastically weaken civil rights; ignoring a court order from August, the Trump administration finalized changes to how the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act is enforced; and, in a rebuke to Trump, the top national security agencies confirmed that Russia is responsible for the ongoing massive hack of US government departments and corporations.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an American lawyer was arrested by Hong Kong police in a national security crackdown; and, Ethiopian police released a Reuters cameraman after detaining him for twelve days without charge.

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/2021/1/6/2006211/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Florida Governor Ron Desantis totally went off on a reporter when asked about the chaotic vaccine rollout that left tens of thousands of senior citizens waiting in line overnight.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump Administration wants to give grazing rights to the Oregon ranchers who triggered the armed takeover of the Malheur federal wildlife refuge by right-wing extremists; Northwest states and twenty-nine tribes sued the Trump Administration from selling the National Archives building in Seattle and relocating millions of Northwest historical records to Missouri; and, Trump's EPA finalizes last minute limits on science and research used in rule making.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkish police clashed with students protesting the Erdogan-appointed university head; and, a US judge blocked Trump sanctions that targeted human rights lawyers working for the war crimes tribunal.

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/2021/1/5/2005971/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump caught on tape trying to steal the election exposed the depth of his corruption and makes his Republican Capitol Hill allies complicit.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Nashville suicide bomber sent materials which espoused his viewpoints to several acquaintances throughout the country; California funeral homes have run out of space as the pandemic rages on; and, US cities left behind in virus aid look for a lifeline in the Biden era.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Pope accepted the resignation of the Belarus archbishop who spent time in exile after angering Lukashenko; and, several hundred police shut down raves defying COVID-19 curbs in France and Spain.

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 Y Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/4/2005688/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, California's overwhelmed health system is under more pressure with news of a more contagious UK Variant.

Then, on the rest of the menu, New Hampshire’s Republican governor cancelled his outdoor inauguration ceremony because armed anti-maskers determine what is polite conversation now; the Census Bureau will miss the year-end deadline for apportionment numbers, jeopardizing Trump’s plan to under-count immigrants; and, cities are helping renters get their right to a lawyer in housing court.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN human rights working group said Trump’s pardon of the Blackwater Iraq war criminals violated international law; and, a little saber-rattling is par for the course during the transition, as two US warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait, drawing a severe rebuke from Beijing.

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/2020/12/31/2005028/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the UK-approved Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is a ‘ray of hope.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge stopped Georgia officials from blocking four thousand people from voting; the railroad industry has installed an automatic braking system on nearly fifty-eight thousand miles of track ahead of a year-end deadline; and, the Federal Aviation Administration will allow small drones to fly over people and at night.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Singapore arrested one of their citizens who spied for China in the United States; and, Spanish police found a warehouse full of Nazi memorabilia as they arrested three leaders of an international arms ring.

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/2020/12/30/2004832/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alexander Vindman has no regrets about how things worked out following his testimony and his decision to retire from military service.

Then, on the rest of the menu, one of the Tyson Foods managers fired for betting on how many workers would contract COVID-19, said the office pool was “a morale boost” and just spontaneous fun; Oregon’s Kurt Schrader is one of two House Dems to vote against the $2,000 checks for COVID relief; and, a Phoenix police office is under investigation for threatening to assassinate the mayor.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Swiss will hand over the remaining $150 million to the US from the massive Robert Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme; and, Putin issued a court order for opposition leader Alexei Navalny to return to Russia so he can get poisoned again.

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/2020/12/29/2004625/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, fourteen million people’s lives were on the line, but that was the last thing on Trump’s mind when he begrudgingly signed the funding bills to keep government open.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Girl Scouts rebuked the Boy Scouts in an escalating recruitment war; tribes across the nation are working to protect elder members and their knowledge from succumbing to the pandemic; and, Barry Lopez, an award-winning writer who revealed the character between people, place and landscapes he saw in fifty years of travel, has died at age seventy-five.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a close associate of Putin opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from detention late Sunday, after being arrested on Christmas Day; and, Jared’s enlightened bone saw regime sentenced women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison, for campaigning to allow women to drive.

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/2020/12/28/2004440/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there is really no argument, “Trump is the worst president ever, period.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Massachusetts ended a controversial license plate surveillance system after discovering a glitch that caused inaccurate data to be recorded for more than five years; online store Printify has stopped selling merchandise supporting KKKyle Rittenhouse; and, a statue of white supremacist Edward Douglass White, Jr has been removed from the front steps of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized to parliament for lying his ass off about a political funding scandal; and, with the Paris choir in hard hats, the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral rang in Christmas morning.

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/2020/12/25/2004026/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Christmas-Day-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's conspiracies forced him into hiding, now he's fighting back and suing Rudy, the Kraken Lady and the Trump campaign itself.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Arkansas blocked the state’s drastic attacks on women's health, for now; a coalition of Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists filed suit challenging Trump's lifting of the ‘roadless rule’ in the Tongass National Forest; and, the US Cybersecurity Agency cryptically announced the Russian hackers behind the SolarWinds attack are “impacting” state and local governments.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United Nations’ human rights office harshly criticized Trump’s pardons of the four Blackwater war criminals; and, a Turkish court convicted the former editor of the opposition newspaper on espionage and terrorism 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/2020/12/24/2003858/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is creating a very bad situation by not signing the covid relief bill and pardoning a ton of his allies.

Then, on the rest of the menu, in a rebuke to Trump, a federal court extended the tenure of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan; white supremacists plotted an attack on the US power grid because of the Trump re-election loss; and, a judge ruled the Arizona Republican Party may face legal sanctions for filing a Trump election lawsuit that was already contradicted by the state audit.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in a show of increasingly close military ties, Russian and Chinese bombers flew a joint patrol mission over the Western Pacific; and, the pandemic has finally reached the last untouched continent on Earth as Chilean authorities announced that at least 58 people tested positive on Antarctica.

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/2020/12/23/2003659/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays