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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Rudy Giuliani's "My Cousin Vinnie shtick" is a “reminder of the lawlessness of this administration.”

On the rest of the menu, that anti-immigrant vigilante militia that kidnapped over 5600 asylum seekers over a two month period at the border for ICE, was also plotting to assassinate Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and other leftists to be named later; Trump’s lawsuit to block congressional oversight subpoenas reads a lot like his tweets; and, Elizabeth Warren’s student loan debt cancellation plan is both politically progressive and literally progressive.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where protesters continue to press for democratic change in the country, five of Algeria’s richest billionaires are arrested in an anti-graft investigation; and, rescuers race to find survivors after a 6.1 quake on the Philippine’s largest island collapsed several buildings and killed scores of people.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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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/2019/4/23/1852394/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after scouring the Mueller Report, analysts are left wondering if Trump isn’t impeachable, who is?

On the rest of the menu, Republicans across the country are pushing back against vaccine bills; a Washington GOP state representative discussed committing violent attacks and surveillance on his political enemies with right wing extremists; and, Trump’s ideal lawyer was such a vile figure in US politics, that the name Roy Cohn, lives in infamy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump prepares an end to the Iran sanctions waivers which will trigger oil price spikes; and, after first lifting its curfew, Sri Lanka has imposed emergency powers after bomb attacks killed 290 and wounded over 500 has been linked to international groups.

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/2019/4/22/1852066/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris says Mueller should testify before congress.

Then, on the rest of the menu, GOP ‘Gang of Eight’ senator Richard Burr leaked all five major Trump-linked targets of the Mueller probe to the White House after FBI briefings; New York courts moved to prohibit ICE from making arrests inside its courthouses; and, armed right wing vigilantes have kidnapped hundreds of asylum seekers near the Mexican border.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Erik Prince's testimony to congress about his contact with a Russian banker, differs markedly from the Mueller report; and, three world-class climbers are missing and presumed dead from an avalanche in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

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/2019/4/19/1851447/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Congress flouts Trump's 'Red Line' and subpoenas his financial records.

Then, on the rest of the menu, GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas smeared a 9/11 firefighter who dared to criticize him; GOP senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin wants to change the law to jail immigrant kids even longer in ice box baby gulags; and, Attorneys general in Michigan and New Mexico pledge to not prosecute women or providers if Roe v Wade is overturned.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the House Oversight committee wants White House aide Stephen Miller to testify on family separation and other anti-immigrant policies; and, Yale scientists restoring basic cellular activity in pigs’ brains hours after their deaths, is not as porcine Frankenstein-ish as it sounds.

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/2019/4/18/1851165/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the brand new Interior Secretary went four whole days without an ethics investigation.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Congress is investigating voter suppression and the GOP is livid; Trump's path to re-election is all about shoveling racism down the throats of seniors; and a federal judge doubts Attorney General Bill Barr can be trusted with the Mueller report.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the White House will not turn over documents to Congress on whether Trump sought to intervene in the AT&T-Time Warner merger; and, the Brazil Supreme Court drew condemnation for silencing its critics with a confidential criminal case targeting the press, pundits on social media and even a retired Army general.

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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in 1989, Barr refused to release a DOJ legal opinion, choosing instead to release a summary report that mischaracterized parts of the opinion.

On the rest of the menu, a majority of Republicans think white evangelical Christians are more discriminated against than women, the elderly, the disabled, Muslims, and black, Latinx, and LGBTQ people; a California Congresswoman exposed Trump's disgusting, 'unhealthy' tent city holding hundreds of asylum seekers; and, Stephen Miller is mad that immigrant legal residents aren’t being denied benefits fast enough.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ecuador says hacking attempts on its government institutions doubled after it ended Assange’s asylum; and, two House panels issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions in the Trump probe.

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/2019/4/16/1850616/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats need to quit giving the White House more time on Trump's taxes and start holding people like Steve Mnuchin in contempt.

On the rest of the menu, in another move to establish his white nationalist credibility with the international community, Trump blocked the US from nominating anyone to UN racism committee; Trump has lost more Cabinet members than any president in over 25 years; and, Mitch McConnell is living in fear he will cross Trump and it will cost him re-election to the Senate.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump's re-election campaign raised more than $30 million in the first-quarter of 2019; and, while Trump continues to defy the law in contesting the House Ways and Means demand for his taxes, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris released 15 years of her tax returns.

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/2019/4/15/1850348/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Bill Barr is parroting Sean Hannity, why is Hannity parroting Qanon?

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s corruption is elevating being a grifter into an ‘honorable profession’; Devin Nunes said the quiet part out loud about his defamation lawsuit targeting journalists; and, Stephen Miller advised Trump to weaponize ICE against Democrats, but the ICE legal department shut that whole thing down.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump says he doesn’t know anything about Wikileaks, in fact, he heard Wikileaks could have been one of those coffee boys; and, as US businesses grapple with trade delays, Customs and Border Protection will send about 100 agents to the Mexico border to speed up crossing times.

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/2019/4/12/1849695/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the sitting Attorney General conveniently didn’t know the difference between spying and authorized surveillance.

Then, on the rest of the menu, federal prosecutors brought charges against tele-medicine executives and doctors in a sprawling $1.2 billion orthopedic braces Medicare fraud scheme; 190 House Republicans voted against the bill to reinstate ‘net neutrality’ internet protections; and, the acting director of ICE resigned, after being slighted by the Trump administration.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where New Zealand police expect tens of thousands of firearms to be surrendered in a massive guns buy-back scheme after parliament passed tough new firearm laws; and, Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley isn’t even used to blacks playing at the Master’s Golf Tournament, now they’re trying to ram a women’s Master’s down his throat.

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/2019/4/11/1849422/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, AG Barr is utterly unfit to play any role in overhauling any aspect of health care in this country.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan conservatives lose the fight to remove the word 'democracy' from the statewide school curriculum; Americans are getting $6 billion less in tax refunds thanks to the GOP; and, consumer group Public Citizen sued Betsy DeVos for censoring its website.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mnuchin said Treasury lawyers consulted with the White House on Trump’s tax returns; and, volunteer firefighters barricaded themselves in their rural southern California fire station, and refuse to leave after being disbanded.

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/2019/4/10/1849113/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays