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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans just can’t quit Donald Trump.


Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon has appointed the first Laotian judge in the United States; the mayor of Reno, Nevada filed suit after finding a tracking device on her vehicle; and, the Iowa Democratic Party chair will step down in the wake of a vote by the national party to put the South Carolina primary ahead of the Iowa caucuses.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova suspended six TV channels over broadcasting misinformation from Russian media; and, the Transportation Security Agency has been discovering a record number of guns on passengers at airline checkpoints.


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

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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, based on Meadows’ texts, reporters are ‘alarmed at the intelligence level of some of our elected representatives.’

On the rest of the menu, California has lowered incentives for rooftop solar panels; federal regulators ordered a review of power-grid security after attacks across the country; and, an intel analyst tried to prevent the January 6 attack, but DHS repeatedly ignored his warnings.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese firms averted delisting as the US audit watchdog gets full inspection access; and, a leftist bloc of Latin American countries closed ranks behind the deposed Peruvian president.


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

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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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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller's law group says it's fighting 'racism against White people.'Then, on the rest of the menu, Congress passed a bipartisan bill to fund police de-escalation training; the US government has finally sued Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and the state for trespassing on federal lands over the placement of shipping containers on the border with Mexico; and, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled on new penalties for companies that illegally fire workers who unionize.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Turkish court sentenced an Erdogan rival to two years in prison for insulting public officials; and, activists have filed a lawsuit against Facebook/Meta over a murdered Ethiopian professor.



All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!
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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, recent subpoenas issued by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith reveals he has expanded the Trump investigation.

Then, on the rest of the menu, outgoing Democratic governor Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all seventeen people on Oregon’s death row to life without possibility of parole; a bench trial has started to determine if an Alaskan Oath Keeper lawmaker is unfit for office because of his participation to overthrow the US government; and, the Department of Justice and Homeland Security were urged to investigate a multi-state conspiracy by Trump groups to copy voting software and circulate it “in the wild.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian FSB officer was charged by US prosecutors with smuggling sensitive electronic components to help Russia’s military effort; and, a key figure in a massive German tax evasion case was convicted of three counts of tax evasion and sentenced to eight years in prison.

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

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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “we’re lurching into an era where violence will be preferred to voting.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court is restoring the pre-pandemic tradition of announcing decisions in a public session in the courtroom; an Iowa judge blocked an effort to ban most abortions in the state; and, the Biden White House has formed a new interagency group to develop a national strategy to combat antisemitism.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an independent investigation uncovered widespread racism at the Dutch foreign ministry; and, the European Parliament moved quickly to strip one of its members of her role as vice president after she and others faced criminal charges over the Qatar graft probe.

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

Bon Appétit!

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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/2022/12/13/2141581/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Marjorie Taylor Greene told the New York Young Republicans Club that Jan 6 protesters 'would've been armed' if she and Steve Bannon had been in charge of organizing it.

Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon lawsuit puts a spotlight on the destruction of Black neighborhoods by urban improvement projects and construction of the nation’s highways; as Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey prepares to leave office, he has hired crews to erect hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s eastern boundary with Mexico; and, one of New Hampshire’s teachers’ unions is suing to stop public dollars from being spent to fund private schools through the Education Freedom Account program.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian court sentenced a Putin war critic to eight years for spreading ‘fake news;’ and, Germany plans to tighten its gun laws in the wake of a plot by the far-right "Reichsbürger” group to violently overthrow the government.

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

Bon Appétit!

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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/2022/12/12/2141370/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump didn’t give a damn about Paul Whelan when he was in office.

On the rest of the menu, the Virginia Supreme Court overruled a Republican judge who booted a progressive prosecutor off a case; Maxwell Frost of Florida, the first member of the Gen Z generation elected to Congress, was denied a DC apartment over bad credit; and, the Government Accountability Office is urging the Department of Agriculture to include more seafood in school lunch programs.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a judge ordered a Guatemalan newspaper chief to stand trial amid criticism that his arrest was politically motivated; and, after less than a year on the job, the German soccer league is replacing its first female CEO with two men.

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

Bon Appétit!

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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/2022/12/9/2140871/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, more stolen classified documents have been discovered, this time at a Trump storage unit in Florida.

Then, on the rest of the menu, for the first time in over forty years, hundreds of New York Times journalists and workers walked off the job; the first-ever US auction of leases to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms in the waters off the West Coast, attracted $757 million in winning bids; and, the Pentagon will split its $9 billion cloud contract among four companies.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea widened its back-to-work orders on striking truckers; and, Greece slammed Turkey’s ‘repeated threats of war.’

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

Bon Appétit!

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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/2022/12/8/2140668/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, according to Ron DeSantis’ own definition, most of the country is “woke.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, farmers of color sued the government for promised federal aid; a federal judge ordered a nationwide slaughterhouse cleaning company not to hire minors; and, the House ethics panel fined Madison Cawthorn over $15,000 for promoting cryptocurrency.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group are accused of using violence to corner the African diamond trade; and, thousands of police carried out a series of raids across Germany against far-right extremists who sought to overthrow the state by force, with a little help from Putin.

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

Bon Appétit!

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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/2022/12/7/2140467/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Right Wing extremists have a history of attacking electric-power substations.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a former Republican Miami congressman, with deep ties to Marco Rubio, was arrested on charges of money laundering and not registering as a foreign agent; federal prosecutors told a judge that a life prison sentence would be justified for the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer; and, California could become the first state to fine big oil companies for price gouging.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the governor of Germany’s state of Lower Saxony said he is quitting Twitter because the site is being used to spread “hatred and incitement;” and, Indonesia’s Parliament passed a revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex for citizens and visiting foreigners alike.

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

Bon Appétit!

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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/2022/12/6/2140263/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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