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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the El Paso killer echoed the incendiary words of conservative media stars.

On the rest of the menu, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue mocked struggling farmers for 'whining' about Trump's trade war; Oregon joined a multi-state lawsuit to block the T-Mobile/ Sprint merger; and, the State Department is slammed by its Inspector General for the lengthy hiring freeze that has compromised the safety of Americans at home and abroad.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where criminally indicted GOP representative Duncan Hunter struggled to explain his ties to a white supremacist; and, Brazilian federal prosecutors filed a court injunction to bar Bolsonaro's son as ambassador to the United States.

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/2019/8/13/1878691/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism professor Jeff Jarvis blasted the media for acting as stenographers for Trump.

On the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice has moved to decertify the outspoken union of immigration judges; the Trump administration moved to limit state powers to block pipelines and fossil fuel terminals; and, a battle to give African Americans political power is playing out in Mississippi’s courts.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia orders Google not to advertise 'illegal mass events’ after the largest political protests in almost a decade; and, with years of links to Russia, the Texas secessionist movement’s flag is now flying in Moscow.

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/2019/8/12/1878367/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a former FBI official unpacked the details of Andrew McCabe's lawsuit against the Department of Justice.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump campaign promoted a QAnon conspiracy theory a week after the FBI called it a threat of domestic terror; watchdog groups sound the gerrymandering alarm on ALEC’s ‘redistricting’ workshops; and, a new Defense Department report found US allies 'struggle to contain' ISIS after Trump declared '100%' victory.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump accused French President Macron of sending 'mixed signals' to Iran on possible talks; and, Canada's NAFTA renegotiation point man in Washington, and a key Trudeau advisor, has unexpectedly resigned.

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/2019/8/9/1877790/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, While it might be comforting to think of white supremacists as lone wolves, white supremacy is actually a “widely held belief” in America.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Mick Mulvaney admitted to illegally relocating federal employees to get them to quit their jobs; Trump’s war with California could cost the US economy $400 billion by the middle of the century; and, by continuing to test its missiles, North Korea is ‘playing Trump for a fool.’

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mississippi food processors paid $3.5 million to settle sexual harassment suits, so US immigration agents arrested over 700 workers at their facilities; and, three Congolese doctors were arrested for an attack that killed a senior World Health Organization epidemiologist involved in the Ebola response.

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/2019/8/8/1877569/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the FBI announced a domestic terror investigation into the Gilroy, California shooting, as the Feds debate how to treat and prevent domestic cases as seriously as foreign threats of terror when Trump threatens their jobs and pensions if they do.

Then, on the rest of the menu, McConnell dismisses calls to pass popular gun safety legislation as 'theatrics;’ a White House spokesman claimed Obama’s condemnations of racism ‘take us to a dark place;’ and, the Nebraska GOP demanded that the lone Republican who condemned white supremacy leave the party.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where House Democrats are demanding Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s records during his service in the White House under George W Bush; and, Brazil’s Supreme Court refused to extradite an opponent of Turkish President Erdogan, saying there was no guarantee he would get a fair trial in Turkey.

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/2019/8/7/1877305/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Obama urged Americans to reject "language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders" that "normalizes racist sentiments."

On the rest of the menu, Steve Scalise spent Monday ignoring the weekend’s mass shootings to smear Democrats with ugly lies about supporting murder; a bipartisan group of twenty-eight lawmakers are redoubling their efforts to stop Trump from going to war with Iran; and, Putin is threatening to develop new nuclear weapons if the US does it first, oh wait… we already have.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea has funded its weapons programs with over $2 billion in hacked and laundered monies from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges; and, China threatened severe countermeasures if the United States deploys intermediate-range, ground-based missiles on its “doorstep.”

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/2019/8/6/1877066/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mitch McConnell wanted to mock Obama and praise Trump for Making America Great Again at the Fancy Farm Picnic in rural Graves County, Kentucky, but a crowd chanting “Moscow Mitch” wouldn’t let him get away with it.

On the rest of the menu, Brett Kavanaugh wants to make it even easier for shooters of mass destruction to obtain assault rifles; Republican-led voter purges erased at least 17 million voters in the last two years; and, more Afghan civilians have been killed by US and Afghan forces than by the Taliban this year.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico is considering drawing up extradition papers on terrorism charges over the shooting of Mexicans in El Paso, Texas; and, Russia’s anti-Putin opposition groups announced a nationwide protest this coming weekend, despite over one thousand arrests.

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/2019/8/5/1876719/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee described Kelly Knight Craft as having "neither the experience nor the skill set to represent US interests or challenge the world's most seasoned diplomats on the global stage," but Republicans confirmed her as our new Ambassador to the United Nations, anyway.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the inspector general of the intelligence community has denied a review of Ivanka’s security clearance unless Trump approves; unsealed federal search warrants show how the New Zealand far-right terrorist inspired the copycat in Poway, California; and, a group of doctors seek investigations of 'entirely preventable' viral outbreaks that are killing kids in Trump’s ice box baby gulags.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain’s pro-EU Liberal Democrats cut the governing Conservatives’ majority to one parliamentary seat, in a major blow to Boris Johnson; and, the CEO of Overstock claimed he had a sexual relationship with convicted Russian agent Maria Butina, and the FBI encouraged him to spy on her.

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/2019/8/2/1876094/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s not hyperbole, McConnell has earned the moniker, “Moscow Mitch.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the North Carolina Republican operative already charged in a ballot fraud scheme, was just charged with ballot-rigging in another race; while overall crime in America has declined, violent crimes by white supremacists hit a decade-high under Trump; and, the acting-Border Patrol Chief testified at a Senate hearing that reports on immigrants suffering in Trump’s gulags is 'demoralizing' for his staff.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the thirty-two year old landmark INF arms treaty is set to implode on Friday as the Pentagon eyes building new and better intermediate missiles of mass destruction; and, you’re not getting your money from Equifax because the government never really wanted you to.

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/2019/8/1/1875831/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res fact-checked Trump's 9/11 claim that he 'was down there' at Ground Zero spending 'a lot of time down there.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court gave Chase a license to break the law and screw its credit card holders next week, but there is a way out; Joni Ernst denied McConnell is blocking election security and called it 'misinformation;' and, a federal contractor hired to provide oversight on ICE facilities has been caught lying about detainee conditions.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France slammed Trump's 'absurd' threats and insults about their wine; and, Trump will visit Poland to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion in World War II.

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/2019/7/31/1875551/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays