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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump pick for IRS Commissioner Billy Long, has already promised to screw over Trump’s own voters.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Department of Justice investigation found that the Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, the mentally impaired and children; Michigan Democrats moved to protect reproductive health data before the MAGA GOP takes control of the state House of Representatives; and, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook a large area of Northern California and Southern Oregon, prompting a brief tsunami warning for 5.3 million people along the US West Coast.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union ordered TikTok to preserve data related to the Romanian election after declassified intelligence revealed Moscow arranged an online campaign to support a far right candidate who emerged as a surprise front-runner; and, Germany handed over Australian ancestral remains held by museums for over a hundred years.

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

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― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"




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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a town in ‘Murder’ Taylor Greene’s Georgia district that voted overwhelming for Trump, is freaking out after realizing he will destroy their economy.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Wells Fargo announced it will lay off seven hundred of its Oregon employees in 2025; Jeff Bezos said he really wants to help cut regulations from a made-up cabinet position, too; and, a federal judge in Texas blocked the nationwide enforcement of the federal anti-money laundering law.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belgian authorities opened a money laundering investigation into the just-departed former European Union chief justice; and, the United Kingdom dismantled a series of massive money laundering operations tied to Russian oligarchs, Gorky Park organized crime groups, FSB cybercriminals and Moscow drug dealers.







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- The Daily Picayune, 
New Orleans, March 5, 1851











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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats officially won a huge House race and flipping a key seat.

Then, on the rest of the menu, for a second time, a Delaware judge has nullified a pay package that Tesla had awarded to Elon Musk, that once was valued at $56 billion; the founder of failed crypto lending platform Celsius Network plead guilty to fraud charges; and, Ohio’s top elections official has rejected a Republican challenge over the legal residency of one of the state’s Democratic members of Congress.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea’s opposition parties submitted a motion to impeach President Yoon over his sudden call for martial law; and, tens of thousands of demonstrators in the Georgian capital converged on parliament again on Tuesday, venting outrage against the governing party’s decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union.

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

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“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.”

- Eliza Acton 
‘Modern Cookery for Private Families’ (1845)







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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Even Bill Ackman begging could not stop the markets from freaking out after Trump’s late night trade war tirade.

Then, on the rest of the menu, bird flu is racing through poultry, dairy and swine farms, but Northwest states are rarely testing its workers; Mississippi voters will decide winners for one seat on the state Supreme Court and one on the state Court of Appeals in a runoff election today; and, experts are expressing grave concern that the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee has declined to investigate any abortion ban death.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police in Turkey detained scores of demonstrators seeking more protection for women against violence after more than four hundred women have been murdered this year; and, Britain sanctioned thirty ships in Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, that have been skirting restrictions to transport billions of dollars of petroleum.


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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump takes aim at Jack Smith, Biden-appointed judges and individual federal workers by name.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Louisiana GOP lawmakers want to make it easier to try juveniles as adults; Fox attorneys seek to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit over reporting of Dominion vote rigging allegations in 2020; and, the last meatpackers in New York City’s Meatpacking District are getting ready to say goodbye.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus has granted asylum to a fugitive Polish judge wanted on allegations of spying for Russia; and, Romania is in shock after a far-right, pro-Russia populist, funded by a secret trove of foreign cash and who no one had heard of before the  October 1 filing for president, is leading after the first round of voting.

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, while Durbin and Schumer caved to MAGA, President Biden continues to quietly lay the roadblocks to protect America from Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Georgia’s top health official dismissed all members of a state committee that investigates pregnancy-related maternal deaths after their investigation revealed that scores of women were dying from the state’s abortion ban; the executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections wants a powerful MAGA legislator to retract a comment suggesting ballot results were being manipulated, saying it is already leading to threats against local election workers; and, Texas-based oil company Phillips 66 has been federally indicted in connection with severe violations of the Clean Water Act in California.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British and French authorities have opened a probe into France-based defense group Thales for bribery and corruption; and, US intelligence officials warned American defense companies to increase security precautions following several acts of sabotage in Europe by Russia.

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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump attorney and Deputy AG nominee, Todd Blanche, tried to claim in a New York court that "the Presidential Transition Act of 1963" mandates dismissal of Trump’s guilty verdicts, except, it doesn’t.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a convicted January 6 insurrectionist was found guilty in a separate criminal case for his plan to murder federal law enforcement agents who investigated his role in the Capitol attack; Oklahoma State Superintendent for Schools, Ryan Walters, insisted he would "absolutely" penalize schools that don't show a video of him praying for Trump; and, a Florida man was arrested and charged with a plot to plant a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech Defense Ministry said it plans to buy 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks from Germany in a $167 million deal; and, hundreds of people in Belarus who have shown solidarity with Ukraine have been arrested in a sweeping crackdown.ement of European Parliament funds.







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-- The Daily Picayune,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats went on cutthroat offense at a House of Representatives Hearing called by the MAGA GOP.

Then, on the rest of the menu, segregation academies across the South are getting millions of taxpayer dollars from school voucher programs; the US Senate approved a stalled federal judicial nominee in Oregon; and, lame duck North Carolina Republicans advanced extensive legislation that would weaken the powers of the incoming Democratic governor, attorney general and schools superintendent, elected two weeks ago.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Danish Navy sailing close and keeping tabs on a Chinese-flagged ship that left a Russian seaport after data cables were severed in the Baltic Sea; and, NATO’s newest members, Finland and Sweden, have updated their civil preparedness guides with instructions on how to survive in war.

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“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.”

- Eliza Acton 
‘Modern Cookery for Private Families’ (1845)







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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s Cabinet pick scandals are drawing Fox into the dumpster fire.

 Then, on the rest of the menu, a MAGA federal trifecta could reshape abortion access in a deep blue state like Oregon; a state judge struck down Wyoming’s abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy; and, New Jersey Democratic US Representative Mikie Sherrill announced she is running for governor.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Vlad is hella mad that the US is allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weapons; and, the acclaimed Russian ballet dancer and Ukraine war critic, Vladimir Shklyarov, has died after one of those convenient© falls from the fifth floor of a building that Putin has been fond of for almost two decades.

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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s pathetic behavior over the weekend is discussed.

Then, on the rest of the menu, dozens are sickened across more than a dozen states with one person dead after eating California carrots contaminated with E. coli; the Library of Congress notified lawmakers of a criminal “cyber breach” of its IT system by a foreign adversary: and, less than a month after the largest dam removal project in US history, salmon are once more returning to spawn in the cool creeks of the Northwest that have been cut off to them for generations.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union Executive Commission reported Trump’s protectionism could undermine the modest growth forecast for the eurozone; and, coming to an America near you, Belarus arrested scores of relatives of dissidents and opposition candidates ahead of the presidential vote.

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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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