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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump administration’s lies to citizens, public officials and corporations about migrant kids they are disappearing, are echos of “authoritarian, fascistic mechanisms.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the tiny North Dakota town of Leith has set a vote to dissolve rather than allow white supremacists to take it over; a racist vigilante blocks a black doctor from entering the gated community she has lived in for over eight years, and then calls the cops on her when she doesn’t comply; and, unconstitutional citizenship checkpoints are terrifying drivers all over the country under the Trump administration.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Justice Anthony Kennedy just gave Steve Bannon a reason to smile that his dream of “deconstructing the Administrative State,” will finally become a reality; and, in a bombshell report, Trump’s campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, had Hillary’s stolen emails a month before Wikileaks published them.

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/2018/6/22/1774353/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it's about time that someone making money at the Fox Entertainment division has finally said enough to Fox over their racist Trump servitude at Fox News.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge explodes over missing immigrant kids; immigrant children were forcibly drugged with ‘powerful’ psychotropics at a Texas ‘treatment center;’ and, the National Park Service approved the application for a ‘white civil rights’ rally one year after Charlottesville, in DC, at a park just outside the White House.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump ‘threw’ Starburst candies at German Chancellor Merkel during the G7 summit; and, a new report highlights just how frequently Oleg Deripaska's man in Washington visited Julian Assange, but nobody knows why.

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/2018/6/21/1774042/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the most clear example of the evil of a Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, is to juxtapose their words, with the results of their actions.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House Bible Study group that influenced Trump’s family separation policy teaches that the will of a child must be broken by beating them; a federal judge ordered Trump’s anti-voting guru, Kris Kobach, to attend legal classes for violating basic legal concepts; and the General Court of the European Union ruled that Marine Le Pen must repay 300,000 euros to the European Parliament.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s history of racism leaves black World Cup players fearing the worst; and, new documents reveal how Russian and American Right Wing Christian fundamentalists first began their collaboration in 1995.

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/2018/6/20/1773607/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, DHS Secretary Nielsen had no real answers to serious questions about government sanctioned child abuse.

On the rest of the menu, Mississippi’s Republican governor is ensnared in a post-Brexit lawsuit; photos displayed in the West Wing of Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, have been replaced with gold-framed photos of Kim Jong-un; and, Trump is busted lying about Germany, and his unpopularity there only helps Angela Merkel.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an independent global research project found Americans own nearly half the world’s guns that are in civilian hands; and, countering terrorism in Saudi Arabia becomes a chimera for rights abuses.

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/2018/6/19/1773146/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Rick Santorum says people who disagree with ripping away immigrant children from their parents should be doxxed, while Anna Navarro reminded him it was Sunday before Mass.

On the rest of the menu, the number of Trump cronies who secretly met with Russians just hit eleven; Trump uses his weekly address to lie to the public about immigrants; and, after the right-wing Italian government called them “fake refugees” and set them adrift, six hundred and thirty children, pregnant women and elderly in need of medical care, are finally welcomed in Spain.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s consumer watchdog pick to replace Mick Mulvaney, draws criticism from the left, and the right; and, nobody is protecting India’s bravest journalists, nobody.

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/2018/6/18/1772758/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Rod Rosenstein has had it with Devin Nunes leaking to Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan adopts the strictest lead water rules in the United States; the NRA opposes gun laws that saved two senators’ lives; and, a tour of the Texas children’s detention center revealed a Trump mural with images reminiscent of a ‘banana republic,’ just not as artistic.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where dozens of skilled immigrant teachers are to be deported thanks to Trump’s crackdown on H-1B visas; and, a new exposé reveals that subjects of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment admit they were only acting.

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/2018/6/15/1772085/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kellyanne Conway tells Fox and Friends, who cares if we made a propaganda film everybody thought came from North Korea, instead.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Ajit Pai’s FCC plans a rule change before the courts can upend the Sinclair bid for Time Warner; Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III made a legal argument so stupid that even Mitch McConnell won't embrace it; and, in an unusual move, the EPA has started referring reporters to Scott Pruitt’s outside legal counsel, when inquiring about his numerous scandals.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where US Catholic bishops rebuke Trump’s child separation policy, by suggesting ‘canonical penalties’ that range from denial of the sacraments, to excommunication; and, scientists are still decoding the mysterious knotted strings the Incas used to record complex information.

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/2018/6/14/1771822/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Pentagon says it will obey Trump’s Korea orders as soon as they figure out what the hell he's talking about.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Colorado woman faces jail time for writing, “stop putting kids in cages,” in chalk outside the Castle Rock office of Rep. Ken Buck; a Wall Street Journal puff piece from January 2018 reveals Trump’s idea to stop ‘war games’ around North Korea came from Putin; and, Devin Nunes is about to find out the hard way that his calls to investigate the investigators are not a one-way street.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Democrat prevails in the Wisconsin state special election that three separate judges ordered Scott Walker to call; and, Mueller’s team fears sensitive information and investigative techniques used in its prosecution of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, could wind up in the hands of Russian intelligence.

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/2018/6/13/1771546/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump apologist Rep. Markwayne Mullin joined Ali Velshi and mixed up facts with fiction, but Velshi was not impressed.

On the rest of the menu, California fire investigators conclude the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, caused 12 wildfires that burned over 300,000 acres and killed scores of people; Neil Gorsuch just wrote an opinion so radical that even Clarence Thomas wouldn’t join it; and, the only thing scarier to Jeff Sessions than MS-13, are the rape victims of MS-13.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where petty tyrant Mick Mulvaney threatens the Associated Press to change its style manual from calling the department, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection; and, Trump won’t fund a veterans bill he just made a big deal about signing.

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/2018/6/12/1771214/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro attack the media for reporting that Hannity was pushing people to destroy evidence in the Mueller case.

On the rest of the menu, the lawyer who brought NRA and Russian officials together, also helped lead Marsha Blackburn’s re-election campaigns; an ultra-right Texas think tank wields extraordinary power over Trump’s environmental and energy policy; and, the White House has to employ an entire department that is ordered to tape papers back together after Trump illegally rips them up.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where for the second time in less than two years, officials at the US Department of Education say no to a for-profit accreditor, but it might not matter; and, after they were barred from entering the UK, far-right darlings Lauren Southern and Pizza-Gate truther Brittany Pettibone, decided to head to Russia and meet with neo-fascist Alexander Dugin, instead.

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/2018/6/11/1770883/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays