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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new book reveals even more of the depravity of the Trump Administration family separation policy.

Then, on the rest of the menu, extremist white evangelical churches received almost twenty million dollars in PPP loans for being small minded businesses; the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Arizona has now surpassed one hundred thousand and younger people, not the elderly, have comprised more than half of them; and, a former conservative operative caught in a honey trap with convicted Russian agent, Maria Butina, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain imposed sanctions on twenty-five Russians and twenty Saudis aimed at stopping the laundering of “blood money;” and, a Russian journalist was convicted in Moscow on charges of condoning terrorism and ordered to pay a fine in a case that has been widely criticized as an attack on freedom of speech.

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/2020/7/7/1958718/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump leaned into cancelling public education, racial justice, equal protection and due process in his Fourth of July diatribe.

Then, on the rest of the menu, experts say the Black Lives Matter protests aren't causing coronavirus to spread, but it sure has raised fascist tendencies to a fever pitch; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse warned of political pressure by Trump and Barr to thwart an investigation of a private espionage firm hired to go after US green groups; and, seven men were arrested after they taunted a black family by yelling racial slurs, using Nazi salutes and threatening to fight police during a Fourth of July incident in an Oregon beach town.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police probe a political motive as the sixth Chechen Russian is conveniently™ shot dead in Europe this past year; and, Israel says it is 'not necessarily' behind every mysterious Iran nuclear site incident.

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/2020/7/6/1958461/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former CIA director John Brennan says “Trump is unfit for this high-esteemed office.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, a black operations project manager has filed a racial discrimination complaint against Facebook; a federal appellate court blocked the restoration of voting rights to 774,000 people in Florida just in time for the election; and, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has confirmed service members mobilized to Washington, DC were issued bayonets to use against US citizens constitutionally redressing their government.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the popular protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” is now illegal under China’s new Security Law; and, Malaysia is the first country to suspend Pakistani pilots after a massive license fraud scandal was revealed in Karachi.

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/2020/7/3/1957935/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “you want a confederate monument,” black bodies “are confederate monuments.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Los Angeles cut funding for the LAPD by $150 million and reduced the number of officers to a level not seen in more than a decade; a federal judge dealt a setback to a key Trump policy limiting asylum; and, Novartis is ordered to pay $678 million to settle a lawsuit over a sham speaker program that bribed doctors to prescribe its products.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Khashoggi's fiancee hopes the Turkish trial of 20 Saudi officials opening on Friday will reveal fresh evidence on his brutal death; and, Mexican labor attorney and independent union leader Susana Prieto was released from jail, hours after the July 1 start of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade deal.

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/2020/7/2/1957655/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the White House and top National Security Council officials learned about the Russian bounties in early 2019, and Trump has still not publicly condemned Putin.

Then, on the rest of the menu, having never missed a season since the Professional Baseball League’s founding in 1901, the minor leagues have canceled the 2020 season; the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled a permit for an oil refinery next to muckraker Theodore Roosevelt National Park is just bully; and, trailblazing architect Paul Revere Williams, was not just the greatest black architect of his time, but perhaps one of the greatest of the twentieth century.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a once exiled Iranian journalist, who fueled the 2017 economic protests, has been sentenced to death; and, Latvia banned the state-controlled Russian television channel RT, because it is headed by a media figure on the EU sanctions list.

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/2020/7/1/1957347/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, nothing says Vichy Collaborators better than all the GOP representatives boycotting House Intelligence briefings on Russian bounties.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Federalist Society three-judge appeals court panel ruled the GOP can restrict the vote to their heart’s content; Google removed ads that charged large fees for free voter information and then harvested user data; and, GOP-controlled states reverse their openings and are now requiring masks in public, and their GOP public doesn’t like it.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his wife were found guilty of fraud; and, Interpol rejected an Iranian arrest warrant for Donald Trump.

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/2020/6/30/1957073/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “there are only two sides in this,” the GOP can choose the side of Vladimir Putin, or they can choose the side of US troops, “there is no gray zone.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, powerhouse fracking pioneer Chesapeake Energy filed for bankruptcy protection; Kansas State football players will boycott all team activities over a racist tweet by the founder of the school’s pro-Trump America First group; and, a North Dakota Army National Guard unit that operates a squadron of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters has been told to muster for active duty later this year in Washington DC.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Israeli court ordered the release of a former Air Force general and leading critic of Netanyahu from jail; and, the Rolling Stones are getting in line to threaten Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies, despite several cease-and-desist orders.

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/2020/6/29/1956762/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Barr’s micromanaging of the DOJ might be out of proportion, but his micromanaging of all Trump-tied cases is totally off the hook.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump wants federal hiring to focus on skills rather than degrees since he only went to an education-themed school himself; the Trump administration wants to end Congressional review of arms sales because of the horrible way Congress acted when the Sauds dismembered Jamal Khashoggi; and, a world leading virus expert ousted from his job battling Covid-19, has alleged the Trump administration intensified its campaign to punish him for revealing shortcomings in the US response.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia quit a UN arrangement to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries from being hit by warring parties, after the UN busted Russia and Syria for bombing hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries; and, a graft probe of the Brazilian president's son was moved to a special court, opening the door to dump evidence uncovered so far.

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/2020/6/26/1956048/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Facebook faces growing pressure to counteract Right Wing hate speech on its platform, but routinely suspends liberals for purely political speech, claiming they violated rules on harassment and nudity, when there is none.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Detroit police are challenged over flaws and racial bias in its facial recognition technology; Twitter banned a pro-Trump meme maker for repeated copyright violations; and, a leading Democratic Super Pac has joined a lawsuit with a Wisconsin TV station sued by the Trump campaign for running an ad critical of Trump’s handling of the pandemic.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where newborn Mexican triplets have coronavirus, but the parents do not; and, a war crimes prosecutor indicted Kosovo President Hashim Thaci for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including nearly 100 murders.

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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Dr Fauci wasn’t kidding when he gave a fiery answer to a GOP question about masks.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Iowa regulators found no violations at the Tyson plant that suffered a deadly outbreak of covid that killed five workers because of a lack of safety measures; Charleston voted to remove the statue of slaver John C Calhoun; and, a federal judge denied the American women’s soccer player’s immediate appeal of his decision to throw out their claim of unequal pay against the US Soccer Federation.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty may be illegal; and, member states of the International Criminal Court defended the world’s only permanent war crimes tribunal against a threat of US sanctions.

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/2020/6/24/1955501/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays