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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Sarah Huckabee Sanders refuses to affirm that the press is not the enemy of the people, because of the violent threats the press have lodged against Trump, ICE and her personally.

Then, on the rest of the menu, while everyone was obsessed with his Twitter rants, Trump quietly gutted two major Obama achievements; a new letter from two dozen attorneys general calls on the US to end anonymous shell companies; and, Trump gets smacked down by the ghost of Justice Antonin Scalia.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in a flailing attempt to reassure the public about the 2018 election, John Bolton was forced to quote Putin on what Trump said at their Russia summit; and, with apologies to Elon Musk, it is now clear that colonizing Mars is unlikely, and a bad idea.

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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/2018/8/3/1785506/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Sarah Huckabee Sanders shrugging off the hate and aggression shown towards the media and Jim Acosta at Trump’s Hours of Hate rally was, “vile.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, newly released documents reveal the Memphis police have been illegally spying on Black Lives Matter activists; Trump’s voter suppression guru, Kris Kobach, made big bucks by ripping off small towns; and, for almost eighteen years, a Tokyo medical school altered admission test scores to keep women out.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Congress passed a bill forcing tech companies to disclose foreign software probes; and, who says collusion is a crime? Why, the Department of Justice does, of course.

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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/2018/8/2/1785243/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an HHS official warned the administration that separating families could harm children, but they laughed in his face and did it anyway.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Midwestern restaurant chain told Hawaiians to stop using 'Aloha' on their business signage, igniting a heated debate about cultural appropriation; a Safeway grocery store in Sunnyvale, California, called the cops on a black mother for giving food to the homeless, because they thought she was a shoplifter; and, the Houston Astros defy their own ‘zero tolerance’ policy, because trading for a wife-beating closer is more important than retaining a back-talking fringe bullpen ace.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a judge orders the Trump administration to stop giving psychotropic drugs to migrant children without the consent of a parent or guardian; and, Trump has no clue how people buy groceries.

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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/2018/8/1/1784995/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Koch Network flack tries to recruit Democrats on CNN with Wolf Blitzer as the straight man.

On the rest of the menu, a 2012 ruling by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, made sure Trump was able to screw over his own casino workers; a Koch-backed study finds ‘Medicare for All’ would save the US trillions of dollars; and, Trump's tariffs on aluminum and steel will add a $350 million dollar ‘tax’ on your beer.

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After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where there will be a steep price to pay in the near future for white evangelicals who embrace Donald Trump; and, British police were ordered to tell journalists the death of a Russian whistleblower was, a ‘non-issue.’

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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/2018/7/31/1784746/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, US election security is hindered by a lack of leadership at the top from Donald Trump, maybe on purpose.

On the rest of the menu, the Trump health office lies to millions with fake reports and data in the continuing effort to undermine Obamacare; the Agriculture secretary admits Trump’s farm bailouts won’t cover the losses from Trump’s trade war; and, Trump tells the American military to ‘surrender’ large swaths of Afghanistan, as the US negotiates directly with the Taliban.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a corporate media sports columnist argues that a college football player picking class over media day interviews, sets a "dangerous precedent;” and, in a move that experts call “unprecedented,” Russia sold off almost all of its US holdings before the Helsinki meeting with Trump.

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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/2018/7/30/1784449/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Oregon GOP Commissioner, Lori Stegmann switches parties, citing family separations as the ‘final straw.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, the trial against the head of the Michigan state health department for felony and involuntary manslaughter charges related to the Flint water crisis, has been delayed, just as a new report finds ten times more people died than was officially reported; Trump’s trade spat with Mexico speeds the US decline as the global wheat supplier; and, security guards at the Rubens Museum in Belgium steered visitors away from the gallery’s nudes, in a jab at Facebook censorship.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where there is a glaring problem with Trump’s Art of the EU Soybean Deal; and, Einstein is right again, as astronomers confirm another key theory.

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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/2018/7/27/1783859/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, snarky Pompeo’s snarky defense of Trump’s sneaky meeting with Putin, was torn to shreds in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Wells Fargo tellers in Florida call the cops on an elderly black bank manager as she attempts to cash a check; US attorneys have been ordered by Trump's Justice Department to use a racist term to describe immigrants; and, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, is once again going to bat on behalf of for-profit colleges that swindle students.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Republican representative Marsha Blackburn dodges questions about whether she met with the key Russian operative handling Russian agent Maria Butina; and, the first lake of liquid water has been discovered on Mars.

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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/2018/7/26/1783529/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays#comment_70864708

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you don’t need a secret clearance to count the ways Trump has monetized public service.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Karl Rove-linked dark money group smears Democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp, while praising Republican senator Dean Heller, for casting the exact same vote; an ICE-contracted private prison company made an illegal donation to GOP Governor Rick Scott’s Superpac; and, the altered Pentagon climate change report spurs unusual bipartisan action from Congress.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where GOP senator Richard Burr confirms Devin Nunes’ FISA conspiracy theory isn’t based in reality; and, Trump has claimed six times in the last year alone, that the F-35 stealth plane is literally invisible to the human eye, and he won’t stop.

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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/2018/7/25/1783298/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump releases an enemies list of retired senior intel officials and Sarah Sanders suggests even Obama’s security clearance could be yanked if he doesn’t STFU.

On the rest of the menu, accidentally-released documents show the Interior Department cravenly prioritized industry over public lands; Republicans hope midterm voters forget all about ‘repeal and replace Obamacare;’ and, half of the New York Daily News staff were just laid off in Tronc’s ongoing effort to destroy all local news.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian spies have always loved infiltrating American universities; and, rather than Mussolini, Trump’s most apt parallel is the English monarch who secretly colluded with a foreign enemy in 1670.

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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/2018/7/24/1783013/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, immigrant children are being physically and mentally abused by the federal government.

On the rest of the menu, a neighbor calls the cops on a black businessman opening a new lemonade and beverage store in San Francisco; a Russian soccer club canceled the contract of a black teen-aged phenom after protests by racist Russian fans; and, white supremacists’ disturbing outreach to ‘Russian friends,’ shows why Trump’s fondness for Putin is even darker than it seems.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian spy Maria Butina, took meetings with top US Treasury officials; and, a congressional statute that is several years old, may just prevent a Trump-Putin agreement on military cooperation.

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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/2018/7/23/1782725/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays