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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the rhetoric in the Trump echo chamber about protests and violence in the US is “blatant racism.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration is seeking to fast track environmental reviews of dozens of major drilling, mining and other hazardous projects during the COVID-19 pandemic; police unions and other law enforcement organizations went into overdrive to defeat a California bill on removing problem cops; and, Bill Barr tightened the rules on surveillance of political candidates caught in counterintelligence investigations of hostile foreign powers compromising political candidates like Trump.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Austria filed charges against a Turkish spy; and, the Norwegian parliament suffered a “significant” cyber attack.

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/2020/9/2/1974311/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Rod Rosenstein is either working for Vlad, or he’s a Vichy Collaborator for making the counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia disappear.

Then, on the rest of the menu, in a setback to Trump’s immigration policies, a federal judge blocked Border Protection Agents from screening Asylum seekers; Georgia was ordered by a federal judge to extend its deadline to accept mail in ballots for the November General Election; and, Bill Barr’s COVID-19 nursing home inquiry is nakedly corrupt.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Voice of America journalists protest moves by the outlet’s new chief that endangers their reporters at home and abroad; and, the heads of Hungary's top arts university have quit amid the imposition of a state-controlled board that undermines the school’s autonomy.

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/2020/9/1/1974007/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, with Biden’s polling numbers up, and Trump’s down, expect more Trump-inspired violence, obstruction of Congress and some really crazy ass tweeting.

Then, on the rest of the menu, key air monitors remain offline after Laura hit the Louisiana oil and gas hub; wildfires again threaten California’s wine country; and, worries about coronavirus forces election officials to get creative.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police forcibly rebuffed far-right extremists who stormed the German parliament following a protest against the country’s pandemic restrictions; and, a French military officer is held on suspicion of spying for Russia’s GRU.

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/2020/8/31/1973654/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays?_=2020-08-31T07:50:34.592-07:00

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, slain police officer David Dorn’s daughters said that their father would not have wanted his name to be politicized at the RNC to help Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House says it's building a 'very large' file against a Washington Post reporter investigating self dealing and the Trump Organization; a state judge agreed with the Trump campaign and voided fifty thousand absentee ballot applications in one Iowa county alone, with more under the knife in other counties; and, several voting rights’ groups petitioned a federal judge to force Ohio to expand the number of ballot drop boxes in the upcoming presidential election.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Singapore is battling a record dengue fever outbreak with millions of neutered mosquitoes; and the United States filed a court order to seize two hundred-eighty cryptocurrency accounts tied to North Korean hacks.

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/2020/8/28/1972964/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the third night of the RNC was filled with both egregious dishonesty and careless inaccuracy.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Arizona State University sued Facebook for its lack of cooperation in stopping a “covid party” Instagram account run by the Russian military; according to unsealed documents in a consumer fraud case, Google engineers were troubled by the company’s secret location tracking tactics; and, US intelligence officials see no evidence of foreign meddling with mail-in ballots because mail-in ballots can’t be hacked.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece plans to extend the western limit of its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea to 12 twelve miles; and, Russia doesn’t want the poisoning of Alexi Navalny to affect it’s deteriorating relations with the West.

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/2020/8/27/1972642/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a QAnon Angel Mom was abruptly pulled from speaking at the RNC for tweeting antisemitic conspiracies, but no one told Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, propaganda chop shop Project Veritas filed suit in federal court to overturn an Oregon law against secretly recording others without their knowledge and then chopping up the tape to make it look like the target said something they never did; Trump will nominate Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf nine months after his illegal appointment; and, the fate of California condors is unknown as their eighty acre sanctuary near Big Sur was destroyed by the Dolen Wildfire.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Afghanistan policewoman turned prominent filmmaker was wounded in a gun attack in Kabul; and, a Swiss team performed the first free fall parachute jump from a solar plane.

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/2020/8/26/1972363/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the first night of the Republican National Convention was a “parade of dishonesty.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, an ex-Miami lawmaker under federal investigation for a $50 million lobbying contract with Venezuela’s socialist government, was elected to the Miami GOP executive committee; after pushing hard to reopen schools during a pandemic, GOP congressman Doug Collins is now selling “Back to School” masks at $15 a pop; and, armed maskless spectators pushed their way past State police at the Idaho state house, breaking glass and disrupting special session covid hearings, no federal paramilitaries were called, not arrests were made.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tunisia’s prime minister-designate announced a cabinet of independent technocrats without parties; and, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russia to investigate the poisoning of Alexei Navalny after doctors found indications of a toxic substance in his body.

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/2020/8/25/1972061/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s silence on Navalny emboldens Putin, just like all the other silences.

Then, on the rest of the menu, deaths from “excitable delirium” after Ketamine injections during arrests is drawing new scrutiny; a Trump-appointed federal judge put the brakes on Trump’s challenge of mail ballot drop boxes in Pennsylvania; and, the Census Watchdog warns the Bureau is still not ready for the 2020 count.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazilian President Bolsonaro wants to punch a reporter in the face for asking about mysterious bank deposits made in First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro’s account; and, nearly a hundred thousand Belarusian protesters defied the army and flooded into Minsk.

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/2020/8/24/1971734/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even more questions swirl after Bannon’s arrest.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Homeland Security won't talk about its endorsement of Bannon’s fraudulent wall scheme; Montana Governor Steve Bullock asked a federal judge to take swift action to remove the Trump administration’s chief steward of public lands; and, Facebook first stirred resentment, and then anger as it abandoned drilling equipment under the Oregon seabed.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where human rights monitors sounded the alarm over a recent spike in assassinations targeting civil rights activists in Iraq; and, prosecutors in Belarus opened a criminal investigation against opposition activists who set up a council to negotiate a democratic transition of power.

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/2020/8/21/1971054/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, while Obama gave a grave speech on the health of Democracy at the Democratic National Convention, Trump sent out a slew of hate tweets.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House Press Secretary insisted that not allowing MAGA hats at Goodyear is like racism; a “satanist, neo-nazi” ex-soldier was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison in a bomb plot to start a race war; and, thousands of chicks have been arriving dead to Maine farmers since Trump ordered DeJoy to make the Postal Service disappear.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former state energy official directly accused former Mexican President Nieto of directing a scheme of kickbacks and embezzlement directly from the president’s office; and, after speaking with reporters how the events in Belarus could be replicated in Russia, prominent anti-corruption activist and leading critic of Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny was conveniently™ “poisoned with a toxin” and rushed unconscious to hospital.

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/2020/8/20/1970784/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays