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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, National Security Adviser John Bolton threatened our allies with sanctions if they don’t get on board with increasing the bottom lines of Russia and China over the Iran Nuke deal violations.

On the rest of the menu, the Feds blocked government archaeologists from speaking at a major science conference; the State Department’s top nuclear expert abruptly resigned following Trump’s decision to kill the Iran deal; and, we could mourn the passing of the Trans-Atlantic Alliance, a partnership with America that had a long and fruitful life, but Europe is already starting over.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where we discover the real reason why tech billionaires are prepping for doomsday; and, a psychologist explains the thinking error at the root of science denial.

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/2018/5/14/1764093/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there is real danger in democrats caving to GOP bullies and abandoning Nancy Pelosi.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Michigan town is sued for barring non-Christians from living within its limits; Interior Secretary Zinke is busted lying at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing about his political favor to Florida; and, Paul Ryan says he’s been for term limits since the day he got to Congress, 19 years ago.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s Treaty of Versailles precedent is a reminder that the last time America withdrew from its own international security agreement, it led to the most devastating war in history; and, the Department of Homeland Security might hold its opinions in high regard, but it is not entitled to its own alternative facts.

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/2018/5/11/1763511/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Gina Haspel is well trained in the dark arts of torturous stonewalling.

Then, on the rest of the menu, senior FBI and intelligence officials warn that Devin Nunes' demand for documents related to the Russia probe endangers the lives of confidential sources; more questions come out about the company that paid off Michael Cohen and why it registered websites aimed at young white supremacists; and, it might be time to dust off the War Crimes Act for an American ex-solider now in command of the United Arab Emirates military forces.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a group of U.S. Senate Democrats said they would oppose Trump’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s criminal division, over his ties to a Russian bank allied with the Kremlin; and, cracks in the core of a Scottish nuclear reactor signal that Britain’s aging plants will not be able to supply the country with its much needed power for as long as predicted.

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/2018/5/10/1763248/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, very large payments made to Michael Cohen's fake shell corporation by a Russian oligarch, AT&T and Novartis, suggests something more sinister than a pay to play scheme.

Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon ‘constitutional’ sheriff compared the state’s proposed AR-15 ban to ‘Nazi Germany’ and ‘Stalin’s Russia,’ when it’s really more like Wyatt Earp’s Dodge City; the GOP front-runner challenging Dianne Feinstein for her California Senate seat this fall, hates Jews, loves Hitler, and wants to destroy the US; and, Senate investigators say previously concealed information reveals Russian hackers could have altered or deleted voter registration data before the 2016 election.


After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where minutes after breaking the Iran deal, Trump issued a bizarre threat against Germany; and, one scientist has spent over thirty years trying to get under Mars’ skin.

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/2018/5/9/1763002/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Eric Schneiderman found out not everyone can be the Governor of Missouri.

On the rest of the menu, a woman will interview for an NBA head coaching job for the first time; Jeff Sessions is determined to separate children from their parents at the border; and, Mueller says no to Trump’s request for an easy way out.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a free school lunch might be a favorite conservative punching bag, but it actually means healthier students; and, don’t expect professors to get fired when they say something you don’t like.

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/2018/5/8/1762744/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump couldn’t get his own spy agencies to spy on American citizens, so he hired a foreign spy agency to spy on American citizens, but where did he get the money to pay a foreign spy agency to spy on American citizens?

On the rest of the menu, a twenty-year old, black National Hockey League prospect, had to be given a police escort after racist threats from opposing fans; actors were paid between $60 and $200 to attend New Orleans city council meetings in support of a proposed power plant; and, the California grocery chain, Albertson’s, is sued over barring Hispanic employees from speaking Spanish on the job, while on their breaks, or even when assisting Spanish-speaking customers.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Scott Pruitt’s political appointees at the EPA are clamping down on public records requests related to Scott Pruitt; and, the man who will supervise Mueller if Trump fires Rosenstein, “always says yes to the Federalist Society."

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/2018/5/7/1762488/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alyson Camerota and Anna Navarro slamming Jason Miller's sycophantic attacks, was like "watching two women kick a stuttering gopher."

Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI reports that a female college student was attacked in Missouri on ‘punish a Muslim day;’ there is no disguising the racial redlining in Michigan’s Medicaid work requirements; and, with its annual convention slated for tonight, the NRA is refusing to answer questions about its financial ties to Russia.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where messages and chat logs from a confidential chat room, as well as interviews with a former member, reveal the notorious ‘Atomwaffen’ neo-Nazi group has infiltrated the active-duty military; and, former CIA director Michael Hayden says Russian bots amplified the Jade Helm conspiracies, and it wasn't just bots, either.

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/2018/5/4/1761881/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s legal team has been a Confederacy of Dunces, but buying “Flood” insurance at this late date could be too little, too late.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a threatening letter to Panama’s leader reopens Trump’s Panama Hotel debacle; a new pro-Trump SuperPAC ad presents Trump’s smears of Jon Tester as actual sources; and, Trump’s climate censorship prevents the CDC from preparing the public for insect-borne illnesses.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the stunning ouster of the first female chancellor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville gets ugly, and feels like political payback; and, Kris Kobach is making sure Kansas taxpayers will stay on the hook for all his contempt of court fees.

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/2018/5/3/1761605/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former CIA chief Mike Hayden insists, “we never said the election wasn’t affected,” and then Trump went right out and said they did.

Then, on the rest of the menu, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at peaceful May Day protesters in Puerto Rico; fake antifa posts tricked police into the massive show of force for the neo-Nazi rally in Newnan, Georgia; and, Trump’s big mouth just undercut his own administration’s defense of his Muslim Ban.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the deputy Attorney General defiantly insists the DOJ will not be extorted; and, a new study reveals university lower division science textbooks are woefully under-representing climate change.

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:

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, authoritarian regime expert Sarah Kendzior’s last name is pronounced, KEN-zee-or. It's Polish for "bullshit detector."

On the rest of the menu, new emails reveal Homeland Security and Tennessee law enforcement targeted counter-protestors at the recent Neo-nazi rally there; the Koch Foundation had a say in the hiring and firing of George Mason University professors; and, a second Green Party candidate is discovered to secretly be a Republican.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a bank that was under federal investigation for money laundering and fraud until charges were mysteriously dropped last summer, now appears in multiple Kushner deals; and, a small art museum’s collection in the south of France is mostly fake, but is it the only one?

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/2018/5/1/1761079/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays