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

Bon Appetit!

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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

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Poppy Harlow of CNN was unsuccessful trying to make democratic representative Ted Deutsch admit Trump is tougher on Putin than Obama.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Supreme Court orders the proposal to split up the state be removed from the November ballot; Sinclair Broadcasting was denied because the company ‘did not fully disclose facts’ to the FCC on its intended Tribune merger; and, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue dismisses US farmers facing huge losses from Trump’s trade war as ‘collateral damage.’

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Oklahoma health department official sent threats to herself and blamed it on angry pot smokers; and, Britain has identified the Russians suspected of the Sergei Skripal nerve agent attack.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/7/20/1782114/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump even considering handing over a former US Ambassador to Russia is “aiding and abetting the enemy.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, states that limit property tax increases hurt low-income families; more than half of US school districts are not testing for lead in their drinking water; and, Trump’s Supreme Court pick is the least popular nominee in the history of Gallup polling.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union fines Google a record-breaking $5 billion dollars; and, gene-editing damages DNA more than previously thought.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/7/19/1781786/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, all Trump had to do was add a double negative and everything is okay.

Then, on the rest of the menu, legal groups intervene in Republican Mo Brook’s lawsuit over counting the undocumented in the census; Trump FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai, kills the deal for a huge Trump propaganda push across the US; and, liberals have ruined football so irrevocably, that the NFL just recorded their most profitable year ever.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump and Sessions seem to be unaware that Republican policies are behind the explosive growth of violent prison gangs; and, Russian spy Maria Butina was far better at shooting than the standard NRA gun enthusiast.

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

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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/2018/7/18/1781468/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when asked why do so many of Putin’s opponents wind up dead, Vlad smirked and mumbled something about JFK.

On the rest of the menu, security experts left radioactive materials in their rented SUV, so of course thieves broke a window and stole them; the Alabama sheriff who pocketed prisoners’ state-issued food funds, is accused of throwing wild sex parties with teen girls; and, an investigation uncovers a stunning rate of bigoted assault and harassment in New York.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin enemy Bill Browder, compares Trump to the man who once appeased Hitler; and, if Kavanaugh is confirmed, you can kiss the right to vote goodbye.

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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/2018/7/17/1781069/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-TREASON-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the scariest part of the Mueller indictments is what we don’t know.

On the rest of the menu, the Kushner family faces a lawsuit for forcing tenants out of a rent-controlled Brooklyn building; two black Atlanta students were harassed by police following a 911 complaint over handing out political flyers; and, state opposition to pipeline construction angers Trump’s supporters in Washington.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British police uncover crucial new evidence about the Novichok poisoning; and, Trump calls the European Union a worse ‘foe’ than China and Russia.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/7/16/1780733/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after trying to stop him answering his questions by using partisan theatrics, Peter Strzok let Trey Gowdy have it with both barrels.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump shows off his unrestrained bigotry to a British newspaper as he hides from protesters; Walmart patents a ‘Big Brother-style’ surveillance technology to spy on workers' conversations; and, the federal government is spending $1 billion to keep immigrant kids detained.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where oil giant, Exxon, is the latest to join a corporate exodus from the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council; and, scientists have discovered a new source of neutrinos in space, opening up another window into the universe.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/7/13/1780122/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tomi Lahren says Democrats should not be ‘allowed’ to protest.

Then, on the rest of the menu, HHS Secretary Azar boasted that separating immigrant families is ‘one of the great acts of American generosity;’ an ICE agent taunted a refugee mom with, ‘Happy Mother’s Day,’ as he snatched her seven year-old daughter away; and, law enforcement agencies across America are canceling contracts with ICE over Trump’s family separation policies.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table the real story behind Trump’s pardon of the white militia Oregon ranchers, is to cover up his campaign to hand over wilderness areas to mining companies; and, in US Senate elections, people of color count as three-fourths of a person.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/7/12/1779847/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump playing a “high stakes game of chicken” over the Mueller interview is a “fast track to tyranny.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, black farmers in the Mid-South region surrounding Memphis, Tennessee were sold fake seeds, in a craven scheme to steal their land; the eight Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee can’t get their stories straight as they downplay election interference by the Kremlin after their Russia visit on the Fourth of July they hoped no one would notice; and, the Trump administration says it tore apart a family that “might be” US citizens, but it’s okay, they’re brown and don’t matter much.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italy refuses to allow an Italian-flagged ship to dock, because it’s carrying migrants rescued under maritime law; and, xenophobia runs so deep among the far right in the Trump Era, that being monolingual is a badge of honor, but speaking any language other than English can get you killed.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/7/11/1779517/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the media is being played by covering Trump rallies, because the rallies manipulate the coverage of everything else.

On the rest of the menu, a black woman in hospice care died after the utility company cut off the power to her oxygen tank; Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, connects the ouster of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, to Russia meddling in America; and, records show the psychiatrist prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children, has practiced without board certification to treat children and adolescents for nearly a decade.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia takes the advice of far-right ‘strong borders’ advocate, Lauren Southern, and kicks her out; and, today’s World Cup semi-final between France and Belgium, shows off the success of European immigration.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/7/10/1779322/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays