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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as states lift more restrictions and more Americans go out to socialize or protest, twenty-two US states are seeing higher rates of new coronavirus cases.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Pompeo and Barr refuse to answer to Congress, and the Senate GOP is letting them get away with it; the US Women’s Soccer team wants the the US Soccer Federation to repeal its National Anthem policy and issue apologies to the league’s black players; and, New York is poised to open police disciplinary files that have been off limits since the early 70’s.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where international viewers refute the myth that black US movies and television are poor exports; and, troop reductions in Germany threatens both NATO and US security.

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/2020/6/9/1951667/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, with Trump’s disastrous responses to the pandemic and protests against racism, a majority of the country feels the nation is spinning out of control.

Then, on the rest of the menu, over seventy Zuckerberg-funded scientists and researchers wrote the Facebook CEO that Trump should not use the social media platform to “spread both misinformation and incendiary statements;” a majority of the Minneapolis City Council supports disbanding the city’s police department; and, Trump, Bill Barr and other officials were personally sued as protesters who were gassed seek damages for injuries.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil removed months of COVID-19 data to cover up its soaring death toll; and, the French Foreign Affairs Minister said violence against peaceful protesters and journalists is unacceptable.

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/2020/6/8/1951340/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, vast majorities disapprove of Trump’s handling of the pandemic and his response to the George Floyd protests.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon is kicking out all the cops in all of the city’s schools; the ACLU filed suit against the Trump administration for forcibly removing protesters for his bible photo op; and, with the jobs report cooked by the Labor Department, in the real world, JC Penny is closing one hundred and fifty-four stores.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where coronavirus is spreading fast among Brazil’s indigenous tribes with a five-fold jump in deaths in the last month; and, the GAVI vaccines alliance raised $8.8 billion for immunization plans through 2025 for poor countries.

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/2020/6/5/1950619/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in strong rebukes of Trump, both Obama and Mattis spoke out in favor of the protesters.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is so much like Churchill that everybody remembers Winston using his Tommy Boys to bludgeon mothers, children, the elderly and the clergy out of London bomb shelters so he could hold up a self-autographed copy of his Boer War history; Trump used his White House address to register to vote in Florida, so you can imagine what he’s done with his Russian addresses; and, US Park Police are investigating two officers after video showed two Australian journalists being attacked during the protests in Washington, DC.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israeli parliament sessions have been suspended after a lawmaker contracted Covid, while schools shutter over fresh outbreaks; and, the head of Brazil’s top electoral court will hear cases next week seeking to invalidate Bolsonaro’s 2018 election.

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/2020/6/4/1950309/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, heavy criticism continues over Trump’s hazy idea to use the military on US soil.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate told gun owners they should be ready to shoot anti fascist protesters; White House operatives have begun viciously attacking religious leaders who criticized Trump’s tear gaslighting photo op; and, Minneapolis police face a civil rights probe over George Floyd’s death and decades of systemic racism.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union warned Trump he can’t unilaterally change the rules to allow Russia back in the G7; and, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Americas urged the US to keep helping countries fight the novel coronavirus, even as the Trump administration leaves the UN agency.

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/2020/6/3/1949998/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, pundits and enlightened politicians are “more worried than ever before about the future of this Democracy.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the judge in the Mike Flynn case is no “mere rubber stamp” for the whims of Donald Trump; McConnell hopes for a quick passage of the House coronavirus small business bill in the Senate; and, Bill Barr is concocting new lies about mail in ballots so more people vote on Parscale-hackable voting machines Ivanka probably has copyrights to anyway.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the World Health Organization and a range of other scientists report there is no evidence the novel coronavirus has been losing potency; and, Israeli researchers discovered ancient Israelites used cannabis to get high as part of their religious ritual at a three thousand year old temple.

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/2020/6/2/1949629/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump ignored White House advise to address and calm the nation, but instead decided to tweet conspiracy theories and incitements to riot from the White House bunker in the dark.

Then, on the rest of the menu, coronavirus cases have more than quadrupled in the month since Trump told meat packer employees to get back to work; Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and police Police Chief Erika Shields fired two Atlanta cops for excessive force on Spellman students returning to their dorms after the protests; and, photographer, author and friend of Netroots Radio, Linda Tirado, is permanently blind in her left eye after suffering a less than-lethal police round while covering the demonstrations in Minneapolis.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where covid infections and deaths continue to skyrocket in the Amazon nation, Trump sent Brazil 2 million doses of hydroxychloroquine because he’s a freaking idiot and so is Bolsonaro; and, Trump wants to unilaterally add Russia to the G-7 and have Vlad visit right here in the US right before the election, because he thinks that will help everybody forget how he was installed in the White House in the first place.

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/2020/6/1/1949270/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, CNN Correspondent Omar Jimenez described how he and his camera crew were arrested by Minnesota State Police for reporting while being black on live television.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump-appointed Texas US Attorney who spent years pursuing Walmart for fanning the opioid pandemic, only to be stymied when Barr stepped in, abruptly resigned with no explanation given; Trump's fossil fuel agenda has suffered a string of rebukes from federal judges across the country; and, at least ten major league franchises will continue to provide $400 per week allowances to minor leaguers after the 31 May expiration of the MLB policy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Twitter flagged a fact check on a post by a Chinese government spokesman about the novel coronavirus, no word yet if China will shut down the platform over it; and, Brazil reported a daily record of 26,417 new coronavirus cases, bringing its total to 438,238, second only to the United States’ 1.76 million in confirmed cases.

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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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/29/1948418/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, with over one hundred thousand dead, states reopening and a second wave of infections in only a few months, the highest risk communities need to be tested.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump bragged about lowering drug costs after vowing to veto the bill that would lower drug costs; unable to get the money back from Big Coal operator Hallador Energy and EVO Transportation, Trump is going after Planned Parenthood to return its Paycheck pandemic loans; and, Bill Barr is making sure his investigation into the Russia investigation carries political consequences for anyone caught protecting America from a hostile foreign power.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where EU governments moved to ban Trump’s malaria drug for COVID-19, as a second global trial was halted over growing safety fears; and, Venezuela has reached a deal with the UN to buy food and medicine with gold held in Bank of England accounts.

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/2020/5/28/1948138/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as US pandemic deaths top one hundred thousand, Trump praised himself and then he praised himself some more.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Big Oil lost its appeal and now the climate suits go to the California courts; the acting Inspector General who found severe hospital shortages during the pandemic is unfazed by Trump’s constant withering criticism; and, if you ask the White House, Trump is the real victim of the false murder accusations he made.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the spread of coronavirus has caused a spike in corruption across Latin America; and, Asia stocks are mixed on uncertainty over the mainland China-imposed Hong Kong security law.

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/2020/5/27/1947887/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays