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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Brian Kemp has a long history of suppressing minority voters in Georgia.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida PTA dad is running against a Republican state senator who earned thousands from the charter school industry; white secessionist Ammon Bundy, will headline a gathering of anti-government, anti-Native American extremists in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s hometown of Whitefish, Montana; and, Trump hints that he plans to seriously obstruct justice after the midterms.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump just nominated 13 more judges to lifetime appointments on the federal bench, and none of them are women; and, British Petroleum’s defense attorney for the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout, is confirmed by the Senate to become the nation’s top environmental lawyer.

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/2018/10/12/1803802/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen actually tried to convince Senator Kamala Harris that the agency does not illegally “detain” immigrant and refugee children, but that it merely “cares for them” in facilities where they are not allowed to leave.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Veterans Affairs refuses to hand over documents to Congress that shows undue influence Trump associates have over agency policy; white supremacist, anti-immigrant posters pop up in Queens; and, Russian Dossier author, Christopher Steele, breaks his silence, and condemns Trump in an email to Vanity Fair.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where all of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, except Rand Paul, signed the letter that triggers the investigation into missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi; and, Chief Justice John Roberts referred judicial misconduct complaints about Brett Kavanaugh to the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, right when they won’t be able to do anything about it.

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/2018/10/11/1803562/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, what if they gave an election and no one from UC Irvine eating In and Out burgers cared to vote?

Then, on the rest of the menu, the House GOP smears military veterans as anti-American in its new attack ads; ICE released hundreds of asylum seekers on the US border with nowhere to go; and, the Ford Motor Company is set to lay off 24,000 workers as a result of Trump’s trade war.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Supreme Court just imperiled Heidi Heitkamp’s reelection bid in North Dakota by making it even more difficult to vote; and, the main office of the Russian troll factory responsible for the pro-Trump 2016 election meddling, is torched by an arsonist.

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/2018/10/10/1803276/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Texas #MeToo activist explains why she and others blocked the Lamar Bridge in Austin, Texas yesterday.

On the rest of the menu, University of Washington College Republicans flipped out and threatened to sue a local bar for refusing to host their pro-Kavanaugh kegger; a Montana Tea party leader is charged with distributing explosives, possessing illegal machine gun parts and other weapons; and, the DeVos company is implicated in the new report on fishy communications between the Trump Organization server and the Russian Alpha Bank.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the GOP is losing women in the battleground districts it needs the most; and, more than 130 kids are still separated from their parents, 74 days past the court-ordered deadline.

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/2018/10/9/1802937/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is incapable of being a moral leader in the world.

On the rest of the menu, Bulgarian investigative journalist, Viktoria Marinova, was brutally raped and murdered in the northern town of Ruse; Saudi Arabia murdered Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi inside its consulate in Turkey; and, Interpol chief Meng Hongwei is detained in China, as concerns for his safety grow.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where flipping the Colorado Senate could mean great things for Colorado voters; and, Trump’s failing Scottish golf resort lost $43 million in the last four years.

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/2018/10/8/1802634/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mika Brzezinski dares Kellyanne Conway to try being the Faberge Egg and see what it’s like for once.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Devin Nunes sent a glossy forty-page mailer, fashioned to look like a magazine, to attack his hometown paper for printing fake news; Russian spies are accused of targeting the chemical weapons watchdog; and, by wholeheartedly embracing his role as “the gravedigger of democracy,” Mitch McConnell is America’s own little Paul von Hindenburg.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Trump White House was caught hiding facts about children’s health; and, following last week’s massive hack, Facebook’s fortunes go from bad to worse.

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/2018/10/5/1801685/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republican senators speak on SCOTUS nominations, then and now.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s pick to run the Social Security Administration impersonated a police officer in 2012 to avoid a trespassing charge; Georgia is sued for purging minority voters ahead of the midterm elections; and, twenty-one House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee voted just last month to keep Trump’s sketchy tax practices hidden from the public.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Devin Nunes is slammed for backing Trump on his anti-immigrant rampage, while his family uses undocumented immigrant labor; and, lies don’t get more brazen than the one Dana Rohrabacher is telling his constituents about health care.

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/2018/10/4/1801360/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lindsey Graham demands that Amy Klobuchar apologize to Brett Kavanaugh, and calls all of the accusers liars.

Then, on the rest of the menu, House Republicans’ attempts to brand US environmental groups as foreign agents, ensnares one of the nation’s preeminent environmental law firms; a suspected ricin-laced snail-mail is sent to US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis; and, the first woman to win a Physics Nobel in over fifty years, Donna Strickland, was recently denied a Wikipedia page because her references and scientific work did not meet Wikipedia’s high standards to, “qualify for an article.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a surprise inspection at an ICE gulag in Adelanto, California found numerous safety and health risks, along with over a dozen nooses that the guards ignored; and, yet another company in Rick Scott’s ‘blind trust’ conveniently made millions off of Florida state contracts.

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/2018/10/3/1801058/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, this last Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" really is the best serious argument for why Kavanaugh has got to go.

On the rest of the menu, Rachel Mitchell was spotted ‘laughing and tossing back beers’ with Grassley staff after the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing; Trump Cabinet secretary Elaine Chao logged 290 hours of mysterious ‘private’ time in her first 14 months heading the Transportation Department; and, the GOP cuts off funding for another House incumbent in a deep red state.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Eric Reid gave NFL reporters a lesson on 400 years of systemic oppression; and, weeks after a series of violent far-right rallies rocked the city of Chemnitz, German authorities have uncovered a neo-Nazi terrorist cell targeting foreigners and politicians.

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/2018/10/2/1800693/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jose Antonia Vargas discusses life as an “Undocumented Citizen.”

On the rest of the menu, Lindsey Graham wants to investigate the Senate Democrats on the Judiciary committee, instead of Kavanaugh’s perjury; a black lawmaker quits the Vermont legislature citing online racial abuse; and, the White House is fighting to prevent the deposition of Wilbur Ross over the census citizenship question.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Lindsey Graham’s tone deafness to rape victims is nothing new, he has consistently voted against the Violence Against Women Act; and, while you were not looking, the Trump administration has quietly moved hundreds of migrant kids to tent gulags along the border.

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/2018/10/1/1800341/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays