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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a British Parliament Member called Trump ‘a dangerous and corrupt gangster.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Oregon ruled that a state law requiring insurance plans to cover abortions and contraception violates the Constitutional rights of the virulent anti abortion group, Oregon Right to Life; the Trump-packed DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Judge Boasberg must end his “intrusive” contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador; and, an Austin district Judge temporarily allows women and minority-owned businesses to qualify for the Texas Historically Underutilized Business program again.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after rekindling a 1960s romance is being detained at an immigration enforcement center in Louisiana; and, 


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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, world leaders are forming new global alliances and banning Trump from joining them. 

Then, on the rest of the menu, a worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale, Oregon warehouse last week, employees were told to look away and keep working; a Georgia Republican running for Congress is facing explosive allegations he forged a Major League Baseball star's signature to lure investors into a land deal and sent a trove of racist and antisemitic text messages; and, one of the largest stakeholders in the Trump family's crypto venture accused the company of bilking investors.


After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations for US MAGA; and, a Brazilian senator said that the country’s former intelligence agency chief has been arrested by ICE in Florida. 

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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, a lot of people are thirsting for what Hungary is having.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump family deal spree could open the door for future presidents to profit from office; commercial salmon fishing is set to open in California for the first time since 2022 as the population rebounds; and, “diversity, equity and inclusion are not foreign values, they’re American values.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Peruvian election results are delayed after thousands get a one-day voting extension; and, Hungary’s new prime minister wants to take over as early as May 5.









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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, hours after getting the keys to the sex jet, Melania went out and put the Epstein Files back in the news.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ordered the Pentagon to rewrite a report that labeled China a 'security threat'; a federal judge ordered the Trump DOJ to fork over the records on the ICE officer who killed Renee Goode; and, the White House was forced to warn staff not to bet on the war hours after suspicious, lucrative trades.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain and Norway conducted a weekslong military operation to deter Russian spy submarines near undersea cables in the North Atlantic; and, after JD’s endorsement resulted in a double-digit deficit, Hungary’s election could end Orbán’s journey from liberal firebrand to far-right leader and Putin suck up.

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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious world leaders are ghosting Trump and want nothing to do with him as his fraudulent ceasefire quickly unravels.

Then, on the rest of the menu, immigration arrests in the Northwest have dropped significantly, but people without criminal records are still vulnerable; Keystone Ka$h and Whiskey Pete are gloating over the arrest of a US Army veteran who exposed drug trafficking, corruption and murder in the elite Delta Force; and, the Trump Era of political violence means higher costs for candidate security.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea says its latest weapons tests included missiles with cluster-bomb warheads; and, Australia moves to shore up fuel supplies as it prepares for extended disruptions caused by Trump’s imperialist war.

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their 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, did JD Vance betray Trump with his own 25th Amendment plan?

Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE is forcing the newlywed wife of a US soldier they apprehended on base, to wear an ankle bracelet on her release; the board of Wisconsin’s public university system voted to fire President Jay O Rothman for capitulating to MAGA; and, a US judge ruled a customs officer cancelling the visa of a Harvard scholar charged with frog embryo smuggling, was arbitrary and capricious.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Donnie Junior criticized the European Union during a visit to boost Bosnia’s extreme right wing separatist movement; and, Australia’s most decorated living veteran will remain behind bars on Afghan war crime charges.

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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 was sundowning while divulging secret military operations at last night’s press conference alongside his partners in war crimes.

Then, on the rest of the menu, without Elon Musk skipping around in a foam cheesehead hat, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race goes quiet; the MAGA Supreme Court pulled a Roland Freisler by clearing the way to dismiss Steve Bannon’s Jan 6 contempt of congress conviction; and, Trump threatened to jail journalists who first reported that a second US airman was missing after Iran shot down a fighter jet last week.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles-rubella vaccinations to contain an outbreak that has killed more than 100 children in less than a month; and, the UN is set to vote on a resolution to open the Strait of Hormuz that has been watered down by Russia and China.

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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, the Vichy Press revels in sane washing Easter Sunday F Bombs and Blasphemy for fun and profit.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions are not considering race in admissions; the DOJ lied to a judge about how it’s using voter roll data; and, the congregants of the tiny Methodist church on the cover of JD Vance’s new book say they don’t know him.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European ministers call for profit caps on energy companies as the Iran war drives a massive price surge; and, outspoken Iranians overseas say their loved ones are being detained back home.










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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s top aides are finally confessing to him that the United States is losing the war and the economy is taking a massive hit as a result of his catastrophic invasion.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a racist MAGA hopeful for Florida governor is threatened with the 'wrath of the court' as he's ordered to fork over financial documents; Hegseth wants more mass killings of US soldiers on US military bases by disgruntled US military recruits; and, Amazon is slapping a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge on third-party sellers because of Trump’s illegal war driving up costs.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Moscow court sentenced a German artist in abstentia to over eight years in a Siberian gulag for his Düsseldorf Carnival parade floats mocking Putin; and, Sweden’s Coast Guard boarded a sanctioned “Shadow Fleet” tanker suspected of causing a Baltic oil spill after leaving the Russian port of Primorsk.

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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump failed to explain his “little journey to Iran.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the death of the nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, whose body was found on a Buffalo street five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop during a blizzard, has been ruled a homicide; Amazon will pay a $20.5 million settlement over northeast Oregon groundwater nitrate pollution; and RFK, Jr ordered his CDC to Make America Healthy Again by halting its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox, Epstein-Barr virus, the varicella zoster virus behind chickenpox and shingles, and over two dozen other infectious diseases.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK accepted Trump’s surrender and gathers more than forty countries to plot ways of reopening the Strait of Hormuz; and, a Danish warship sunk by Nelson’s British fleet has been discovered after 225 years.

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

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