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Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam serves up a cornucopia of abundance in The Bistro Cafe with "All The News That's Fit To Read" and "In This Reporter's Opinion," a lively, humorous and astute analyses on the issues of the day, along with spirited discussions at the "Chef's Table" with politicians, pundits, celebrities, musicians, authors, filmmakers, academics and leaders of the New Media.
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First a road manager and occasional back-up singer for the rock group, Cottonmouth in the mid-70's, Justice Putnam then re-emerged with the Laguna Beach Free Poets briefly, part of the Los Angeles Art/ Performance/ Poetry/ Dance/ Punk movement during the early 80's. He then performed solo shows, as a member of Meta-4 and later with Chris Watkins of Hoi Poloi and also Preacher Boy & The Natural Blues, as well as with Jimmy McAllister of Rabbit Choir at such venues as Gorky's in Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque in Santa Monica, Cafe du Nord and Biscuits and Blues in San Francisco, Freight and Salvage and The Bison Brewing Company in Berkeley, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, and also at music festivals in France, Belgium, Germany, California and Oregon. His poetry and prose has been published in Elektrum Magazine, Vol. No. Magazine, American Poetry Anthology, Literatus World Review, Berkeley Daily Planet and other academic, small press, print and online journals.
A scholar-athlete in his youth, Justice Putnam worked as an orderly, an emergency room technician, a Roustabout and a Production Operator at an oil refinery. He taught History and English in private schools briefly, while coaching football and track. He was a fruit and vegetable inspector for the California State Department of Agriculture and a stone mason building free standing moss stone walls in Marin and Sonoma Counties. He has been a theater light designer, an actor, a surfer, deep-sea fisherman and a Grinder on a racing yacht. He was the co-host with the chanson francaise impresario, Simon Dray, on his "Fm/French Connection Bistro Radio" broadcast from KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco for over a decade.
Justice has also traveled around the world, living for short times in France, Italy, Japan and Mexico.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump closed down the White House all day today after Iran won’t let him surrender.
Then, on the rest of the menu, two impeachments and thirty-four criminal convictions didn’t work, so top lawyers are working on a stratagem to haul Trump out of office in an under-the-radar law; pogrom detainees allege torture as Trump’s for-profit death camps deploy ‘involuntary medical procedures;’ and, just like the Central Park Five who were found innocent, Trump still wants to execute the former Olympian who did nothing to his botched blue pool project.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former Thai lawmaker was arrested after killing the head of a government administrative organization outside his offices; and, a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia and neighboring Ecuador today, forcing people to evacuate homes and buildings.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the nation’s top generals and admirals are working to get Hegseth fired and block Trump from further escalating his catastrophic war.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-backed MAGA candidate has been caught living a luxury out-of-state lifestyle despite his ‘farmer’ image; an ICE policy says the agency will only release body camera footage that depicts its officers in the best possible light; and, Lake Tahoe’s exclusive Incline Village is aghast after another stand of mature trees were “criminally poisoned” for the third time this year.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania rushed to sink four barges in the record-low Danube to keep a nuclear power plant’s second reactor running; and, a Spanish-led police raid smashed a vast Mediterranean smuggling network, arresting seventy-eight suspects.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is trying to avoid turning over two years of every scrap of financial and tax data held by his 400 companies to justify what he now admits is a phony ten billion dollar damage claim against the BBC, for defaming him by using his own words.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-appointed judge’s ‘weird’ corporate side-hustle stuns insiders; Zuckerberg’s AI went rogue and hacked another company; and, a probe of ICE agents criminally charged reveals a pattern of domestic violence, sex offenses against children, abuses of authority and corruption while carrying out the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where ousted Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina says she will return from exile in December; and, two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia in March, have been granted citizenship.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge has gained access to the full, un-redacted Epstein files.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a decorated US Army veteran is taking legal action against the Idaho National Guard and the Defense Department after troops detained her without a warrant on her front patio in a violent confrontation; the Kennedy Center scrapped public tours after a New York Times report on Trump’s ‘”gutting of the iconic cultural institution;” and, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced she is cancelling the sale of a state-owned property in Salem where developers have plans to build a data center.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the MAGA State Department used a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent; and, ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump missed a critical court deadline, so the judge ordered all of Trump’s private tax and business records from “January 1, 2023 to present,” to be immediately turned over to the BBC.Then, on the rest of the menu, the legality of Trump’s ballroom is still being contested; Elon Musk sued Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning his artificial intelligence ‘nudification’ technology; and, an Urban League report reveals the Trump administration is harming Black Americans’ chances at the American Dream.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Courts in Myanmar have sentenced nine activists up to thirty-seven years in prison for a protest calling to boycott the elections last December; and, a French student plead guilty and was fined for a straw-licking stunt in Singapore.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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, “don’t just burn your MAGA hats, torch them.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge threw out a defamation suit filed by Ka$h Patel because he really is a “googly-eyed Kremlin Bit*h”; the Arizona Department of Education wants answers to why the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind violated federal disability law when it restricted placement options for students and predetermined where they should attend; and, a labor union and two women prison employees filed a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for unlawfully halting their sexual harassment cases as part of wider order to suspend proceedings in all federal-sector class claims.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where gunmen killed a high-ranking Taliban official in Afghanistan in a rare targeted attack; and, France served pro-Russian propagandist Xenia Fedorova, with an order to leave the country, after accusations that she was churning out Kremlin propaganda on French television and radio.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Barron is now suffering a “world of hell” because of Big Daddy.
Then, on the rest of the menu, contracted armed MAGA goons descend on USPS facilities as Trump’s war on mail-in voting ratchets up; butt-crack plumber Mark Wayne Mullin sure loves his “gas station heroin” investments; and, Elena Kagan’s dissent of the 6-3 Temporary Protected Status case ruling, shocks with a blistering attack on Trump lawyers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where US diplomats walked out of a UN meeting as ally France criticized the Trump administration’s human rights record; and, as surely as Stephan Miller pulled the trigger himself, a Missouri couple deported to Guatemala have been found shot dead in a sugar cane field with their 14-month old daughter crying and dehydrated beside their mutilated bodies.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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 international Epstein investigation is catching up with Blanche, Trump and several major corporations.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the guy who said the Continental Army “took over the airports” during the American Revolutionary War, now wants to put up warning signs about the Smithsonian’s “fake history” exhibits; as Trump boosts nuclear power, the MAGA Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeks to eliminate a fifty year foundational radiation safety practice; and, a US appeals court upheld an injunction that blocks Trump’s order to create a federal voter list.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania scrambled its F-16 jets on Sunday and downed the third Russian drone in three days; and, Brazil’s Foreign Ministry denied visas to two US State Department officials who wanted to cast doubt on the South American nation’s upcoming October elections.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Gym Jordan needs a shower after going to the mats seeking a criminal referral for Jack Smith.
Then, on the rest of the menu, FBI agents scrambled to draw up a list of the most “salacious” Jeffrey Epstein-related allegations against Trump, just days after it announced the pedophile had left no client list; nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary because the USPS erroneously postmarked them after election day; and, two North Carolina women who were arrested by federal immigration agents for honking their car horn to alert others to the officers’ presence are suing the government for $2.5 million.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the BBC wants Trump to explain his “executive privilege” response to every request in Jack Smith’s January 6 report in their ongoing defamation case; and, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reshuffled his government’s top posts in a bid to counter advances made by the Neo-Nazi far right.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “if you can’t be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Shasta County, California MAGA father and son held two women biologists studying frogs in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in 15-hour hostage ordeal; the Oregon Secretary of State slammed Trump’s new election threats and urged Oregonians to turn their ballots in at dropboxes if they live more than fifty miles from the Portland area; and, the MAGA White House admitted it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new stockholder lawsuit is filed in Delaware to try to block the Ellison’s acquisition of CNN and other Warner assets based on charges of fraud and bribery involving Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, with a history of of getting paid to promote Russian propaganda as part of a years-long crusade to dismiss the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 US election as a “hoax,” Kash Patel’s planned secret trip to Moscow was just leaked; Trump’s IRS chief snooped on colleagues’ and rivals’ emails while working at JPMorgan; and, the MAGA federal government took a major step toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio’s only national forest to “fracking.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where disturbing details were revealed in the UK charges against Barron Trump’s rapey pals; and, LIV Golf suffers another major setback with the Asian Tour joining a new alliance with the European and PGA tours.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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 delusional “broken election system” speech was a bunch of explosive diarrhea.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Mississippi teachers say the new state-mandated process for buying classroom supplies has been made more difficult; Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid and denying Democratic states more frequently; and, in what surely must be ICE job requirements, the ICE officer who murdered an innocent man in Maine, has a history of domestic violence and serious mental health issues since childhood.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where ICE arrested a human rights lawyer who fled the China crackdown on human rights lawyers, for deportation back to Beijing; and, Japan’s parliament ruled only paternal-lineage men can become emperor, sparking concern that the measure could doom the already shrinking imperial family.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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, you can’t have a three-ring MAGA clown show without a couple of MAGA clowns up for Senate confirmation and another MAGA clown complaining about Low-T.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ignored Congress as he poured concrete for a black granite helipad over the White House lawn without permits; MAGA AG Ken Paxton meddled in an explosive college football betting scandal one day after a big donation from the school’s Board of Regents Chair; and, Secret Service agents are now in Kash Patel’s crosshairs into how security vulnerabilities of Trump’s Qatar-grifted Air Force One jet leaked to The New York Times.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Trump against interfering in German elections after a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe was announced; and, Hong Kong authorities raided two independent bookstores and arrested five people on suspicion of selling seditious publications that threatened China’s national security.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, all evidence points to Trump trying to steal the 2026 midterms.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Signal Pete Hegseth has made sure for the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty women Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year; law firms that cut deals with Trump to stop executive orders to shut down their businesses, are now fighting a secret courtroom battle against the Department of MAGA Justice; and, a GOP election rigging scheme was thwarted when a Democratic governor selected a new judge to a key state court.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungary’s parliament voted to remove Orban puppet Tamas Sulyok from his Presidential post; and, the reason so many are rooting against the Land of Messi is because Argentina soccer fans, players and sports journalists, have a racist problem.
All thatand 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)Justice Putnam
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump consigliere Todd Blanche sweats as one judge finds he’s a fraudster, another wants to hold him in contempt and his advocate to shepherd his nomination hearing died of a heart attack after a phone call with Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, senior ICE officials are blaming Trump for the recent wave of deadly shootings by ICE death squads; as its lawyers flee in droves, Trump’s embattled Department of Justice has imposed new quotas on its prosecutors; and, Louden County, Virginia officials found almost one hundred health violations at the restaurant for the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC, in Potomac Falls, Virginia.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two suspects have been arrested in connection with setting fire to the Fontainebleau forest near Paris that forced the evacuation of one thousand people; and, European troops, warplanes and around thirty leaders joined the Paris Bastille Day parade in a show of unity for Ukraine.
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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 own judge dressed him down for supporting white nationalist, paramilitary groups.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Illinois teacher targeted by vicious right-wing hate over critical posts about Charlie Kirk, is now hailed for ‘saving lives’; Trump justified all the grift, graft and insider trade fraud as president with a slew of inaccurate claims; and, with the resurgence of polio under MAHA, Martha Lillard, the last US polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Nicaragua’s husband-and-wife co-presidents stripped masses of lawyers of their licenses to practice in an ongoing crackdown on dissent; and, the European Union imposed sanctions on Russian military intelligence officers, hackers and private companies, denouncing a years-long cyberespionage campaign to undermine the bloc.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump suddenly and suspiciously canceled all his events for the next three days after his disastrous NATO summit meeting.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is trying to imprison Americans for joining internet chats he doesn’t like; Steve Bannon was a secret operative helping Trump extort nearly $1 billion from the nation’s top law firms; and, Trump’s continuing attempts to squirm out of paying writer E Jean Carroll the $5 million plus interest he owes her, has set off a civil war at the law firm representing him in the case.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland sentenced a Russian exile to seven years in prison for spying for Moscow; and, Mexico will request criminal charges over seventeen Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration.
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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, did Trump order Blanche to hide key documents?
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump suffered another humiliating courtroom defeat after a federal appeals court affirmed he illegally added his name to the Kennedy Center; Trump’s plan for his triumphal arch is getting another review from another Trump-packed federal commission; and, Wyoming officials traced a rare wastewater bacteria back to a massive Meta data center under construction.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol; and, the Italian region of Calabria defies US pressure to end its Cuban doctors program.
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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 Justice Putnam
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump judge ruled in a twenty-eight page opinion that the DOJ had no right to obtain the identity, email address and phone numbers for all the Fulton County Georgia election workers who worked the 2020 election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s latest ‘vengeful spectacle’ alarms experts as his war on America’s doctors intensifies; an appellate court struck down parts of a Florida law that restricted the teaching of race, sexism and unconscious bias in college classrooms; and, a lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration has been illegally sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she’ll run for the French presidency next year despite promising not to if forced to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor; and, EU lawmakers call for an investigation of FIFA boss Infantino over Trump’s phone call before the US-Belgium match.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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, after losing in the Supreme Court, Trump appointed his E Jean Carroll attorney to the federal bench, so now his new E Jean Carroll attorney needs some time to get up to speed delaying E Jean Carroll her court-ordered money.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Texas Observer revealed four businesses with ties the Neo-Nazi Patriot Front operating in North Texas; three Colorado election deniers’ lower court win is overturned by the Tenth Circuit who ordered a new trial for armed voter intimidation; and, the DOJ was caught redacting bank fraud alerts from its Epstein files about a Jeffrey Epstein-owned company that kept moving millions after his death.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French prosecutors are investigating racist insults against midfielder Mbappé by a Paraguay senator after her nation lost to France in the World Cup: and, the woman suspected of the bomb attack on a businessman and his family in Monaco last week, has been found shot dead in Ukraine.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Patriot Front and Trump tried to ruin the Fourth of July weekend.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Neo Confederate MAGA White House branded the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution as radical leftists who cannot be trusted; Trump will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool but will “use the same company, because they did a fantastic job;” and, a decline in PH.D. admissions could imperil “a generation of new talent.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Belgian diamond group that won tariff relief, gifted Trump a lavishly encrusted ring that would be illegal in any other administration; and, Australia and Fiji signed a new bilateral defense alliance against Chinese influence in the South Pacific.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, indictments coming out of the weaponized Boxed Wine DOJ, are “monumentally flawed.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has been indicted on sixteen criminal charges by a grand jury in New Orleans; the blistering heat wave forced Trump goons to change his National Mall July 4th plans at the last minute; and, the top FBI agent in Chicago is abruptly leaving his post after being pushed by Patel to retire.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Gisèle Pelicot case might be the tip of the iceberg as a ‘truly international’ network of drug-facilitated rape is uncovered by the UK National Crime Agency; and, Dallas police tried to rough up some Egyptian World Cup players and coaches at their hotel who were taking photos with fans.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the dissenting MAGA justices to the birthright citizen case brought “a political and racial ideology in search of a history that’s not there.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s National Park Service has recommended that people wear N95 masks when outdoors and “remain indoors as much as possible during and after” the massive fireworks show at the National Mall on July 4th; Trump secretly ordered a surge in immigration arrests that has seen more than 10,000 people detained in just five days; and, twenty-five states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration over its onerous Medicaid work requirements.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an explosion in Monaco wounded a Ukrainian tycoon with ties to Russia; and, a Federal audit found Puerto Rico is still awaiting billions of dollars nearly a decade after the deadly Hurricane Maria razed the US island territory.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller and Trump’s argument against birthright citizenship is “unhinged and racist.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the East Wing has been demolished, so the ominous new scaffolding erected at the north portico of the Trump White House is raising questions about what his next demo job is; the deaths of three US government firefighters in the Colorado wildfire over the weekend are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s revival of a previously discredited policy; and, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to temporarily halt its requirement that New York Times journalists be accompanied by an official escort.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui was sentenced to thirty years in a US prison for a massive worldwide financial fraud; and, hospitals in Europe are gearing up for the next heat wave armed with lessons from this one.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s first briefing on the Iran MOU immediately went sideways as Rubio and Witkoff refused to answer questions and started screaming at congress members.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Catholic nun was released from immigration custody after she was arrested walking to Mass in her habit in South Texas; newspaper publishers across the country are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their websites to train their flagship artificial intelligence models; and, giving Trump access to a secret list of Russians being targeted for recruitment or tracked by US intelligence would be a colossal mistake and a threat to US security, but that’s what he wants.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a MAGA-curious ex-UK lawmaker plead guilty to cheating in an election betting scandal; and, Albania’s ‘Flamingo Revolution’ is trying to torpedo the Kushner coastal resort development on the Narta Lagoon Wildlife Reserve and in the process, may bring down the corrupt government.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the walls are closing in on corrupt Judge Aileen Cannon in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Fox News was forced to make a rare on-air apology after a Shark Tank panelist mouthed off; Trump stole the public golf course in DC so he can make beaucoup bucks turning it into an exclusive resort for the rich; and, NASA is racing to save the aging Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia will double potential fines for Facebook over child social media accounts; and, after claiming to have taken a chainsaw to woke Argentinian corruption, Milei’s top aide and Cabinet chief has resigned over a spiraling corruption scandal.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike Johnson just shut down Congress and canceled all votes as Trump is prohibiting all discussions on his MOU with Iran.
Then, on the rest of the menu, former National Park rangers are organizing a national pushback against Trump’s order that stripped dozens of historical exhibits from federal land; California will vote on a “one-time” Billionaire’s Tax this November and the Billionaires are not happy; and, a federal judge blocked part of a Trump plan that would limit loans for students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, public health and other professional fields.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Venezuelans in the US rush to send aid to earthquake victims, but Caracas airport is closed; and, those dreamy Paris zinc rooftops have become a heat-trapping nightmare.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a MAGA DOJ nominee was caught by the Senate deleting over three hundred offensive social media posts.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s DHS is accused of retaliating against ICE observers by stripping away their domestic and international travel rights; a federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp covering where Trump’s name once stood on the Kennedy Center’s façade; and, a Republican New York City Council candidate has been charged with forgery over AI-generated fake endorsements and news articles.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iranian agents lived in Australia before directing attacks on Jewish targets in Sydney and Melbourne; and, Brazil detained a Spanish citizen in the latest detention of a foreigner for racism.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Four Star General Chris Donahue suddenly resigned as Hegseth and Trump continue to destroy the military.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the USPS cancelled appearing just hours before a hearing with a Washington state House panel on Trump’s onerous mail-in voter rules; Surrender Monkey Pete Hegseth was forced into a humiliating u-turn after his recent military anti-vax rules caused a flu outbreak at an Air Force base that has sickened hundreds, hospitalized scores and caused the deaths of several recruits; and, the billionaire MAGA-friendly owner of the LA Times is struggling to pay his bills.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German authorities carried out raids in a probe investigating Russian sabotage to disrupt the country’s gas supply; and, the Lithuanian government stepped down after a coalition reshuffle that has pledged to pursue a more pragmatic relationship with China after years of strained ties.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had his regular 12:01am meltdown that lasted for several hours.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump DOJ’s plot to imprison ICE protesters for life was hit by a last-minute blow; Stephen Miller is in peril as uncovered FBI docs put his secret deeds in a judge’s crosshairs; and, the Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas that forced reporters from the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post to appear before a federal grand jury in Virginia.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s political crisis deepened as lawmakers rejected a new government; and, Guinness crowned the Canberra, Australia town crier as the world’s loudest person at 122.4 decibels.
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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 turned the Reflecting Pool into a toxic sludge that is killing wildlife and pet dogs, so he’s arresting members of Algaetifa for vandalizing the monument.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a secretive MAGA PAC finally comes clean after getting busted ‘meddling’ in Democratic primary elections in several states; the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center says it isn’t required to reschedule shows after a federal judge blocked its two-year closure; and, Utah marks a year of battling measles, with no clear end in sight.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former South Korean justice minister was sentenced to 25 years in prison after a court found him guilty of helping carry out the brief declaration of martial law in 2024; and, Australia and Canada signed a $1.75 billion export agreement to build an Australian-designed long-range radar system in Canada.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, three federal judges, in three separate cases, are evaluating evidentiary filings to appoint a special prosecutor against Todd Blanche and the MAGA DOJ for prosecutorial misconduct and defrauding the court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a fourth postal worker since 2024 has died at the flagship Georgia USPS facility that has no phones; a South Dakota man whose life sentence was commuted by Kristi Noem is now implicated in his niece’s death; and, a MAGA appeals court ruled Trump can disappear the George Washington House slavery exhibit in Philadelphia because it “inappropriately disparaged” white slave owners, “past or living.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pete Hegseth’s insulting and critical “job” review is out of step with what NATO allies are already doing; and, diplomatic hell is unleashed as Italy’s Prime Minister Meloni went ballistic over a “completely fabricated” Trump story at the G7.
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tarting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had a 12:15am meltdown on Air Force One after partying at Versailles like it was 1919.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Tommy Tuberville’s own words could get him disqualified from the Alabama governor’s race; the Florida Attorneys General celebrated an appeals court panel lifting the forty-year ban on concealed carry for eighteen to twenty-year-olds; and, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers said the Trump administration removal of ocean observatories is a ‘direct threat’ to the Oregon coast.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil’s top court convicted son of ousted President Bolsonaro for coercion; and, a British yacht owner who was fired on by a Russian warship in the English Channel, criticized the UK government for downplaying the incident.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA feds charged fifteen Minnesotans for being part of an Antifa conspiracy to impede ICE officers from violating constitutional protections.
Then, on the rest of the menu, evidence buried deep in the Epstein files named Trump Tower as a sex recruiter hunting ground for the guy in the penthouse; a federal judge ruled that transgender people won’t face criminal charges for using Idaho public restrooms that match their gender identities; and, MAGA senators blocked a War Powers Resolution, again.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Polish Prime Minister Tusk said the killing of a Russian artist who was critical of Vladimir Putin, has the hallmarks of a political assassination; and, a chilling Romanian exhibition replays videotaped secret police interrogations from 1989.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump DOJ was very chatty when putting the spin on killing US citizens in the street, but clammed up when confronted on the Newsom prosecution.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court declined to revive the Carter Page lawsuit against James Comey; Trump is now blaming Obama for the massive algae bloom that erupted days after refilling his $14 million dollar American Flag Blue paint job; and, in far West Texas, the continuing threat of land seizures for Trump’s border wall has families on edge.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the man who set fire to homes linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in jail, but his Russian-speaking handler slipped away; and, the online portal used to send US deliveries to Cuba’s most vulnerable has stopped taking orders, as Trump turns the screws tighter on the Cuban government.
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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 ghost of Pam Bondi continues to scar the proud reputation of the US Attorney Office’s around the the US.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that halts the Trump administration’s effort to erase historical and scientific facts on signs in national parks; Eric Trump faced withering criticism after he fiercely denied accusations he had contacted an Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator about whether any of the fights at the White House event were “rigged;” and, a group of bipartisan lawmakers fight to stop Trump dismantling a $386M ocean observatory project.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Haitian aslyum seeker’s hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide; and, Swiss voters rejected the right-wing’s bid to cap the nation’s population at ten million.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike Johnson shut down the House of Representatives for two weeks as nineteen MAGA Members revolted.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge smacked MAGA Jeanine Pirro with a second beat down over one of Trump’s vindictive criminal cases; a MAGA DOJ agency claims it has no records of Trump’s shady IRS settlement; and, an Arizona MAGA county attorney, who endorsed Trump for president, begged the court to stop Stephen Miller’s group from an election ‘power grab.’
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in a gift for Vlad, Trump wants to pull a third of the fighter jets and war ships the US provides to NATO; and, Italian prosecutors are investigating charges foreign workers were paid less than two dollars an hour by an Alabama construction firm to build a new US Consulate in Milan.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Biden was the cause of all the inflation, why does Trump suddenly “love the inflation?”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pentagon’s deputy secretary of defense worked closely with the CIA agent found with $40 million worth of gold bars; the Southern Baptist Convention moved to strengthen its prohibition on women as preachers; and, one day after filling Trump’s dark blue reflecting pool, large swaths of algae blooms appeared along the water’s edge, just as they were warned.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the MAGA administration ordered two women who fled execution in Iran be deported to a Central African country; and, Haiti is still being punished for its 1803 slave revolt, so FIFA ordered their national flag and a badge honoring the Battle of Vertières removed from their jerseys before their World Cup matches begin.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is likely waiving his immunity by traps he set for himself in cases he filed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s $10 Billion dollar BBC lawsuit is about to backfire spectacularly; mismanagement at a massive ICE facility in Texas contributed to detainee deaths even as millions of wasted tax dollars enriched contractors; and, police are investigating a large burning cross at a Chicago park.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after the troubled lead-in to the World Cup, the UN human rights chief urges a ‘rethink’ of US immigration policy; and, adding more turmoil to a chaotic World Cup buildup for Iran, FIFA is accused of revoking the ticket allocation for fans at the team’s three group-stage games in the United States.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Arizona attorney general is filing criminal charges against Trump’s lawyers over his 2020 election fraud scheme.
Then, on the rest of the menu, plantation coach and Alabama governor candidate Tommy Tuberville has threatened to sue a publication after it revealed details of his tax returns, which he had sent to them by mistake; the Trump Justice Department will not seek the death penalty for the man who assassinated Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman; and, a high-risk pregnancy doctor is suing Idaho, saying the state’s abortion ban is unconstitutional.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a crackdown by Afghan authorities on a protest against the arrest and detention of more than a dozen women over dress code violations, left at least three people injured; and, China’s exports jumped almost twenty percent in May from a year earlier, boosted by demand for tariff-free autos and tech goods.
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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 New York Knicks watch party outside Madison Square Garden has been cancelled for Trump’s staged assassination attempt, but you can watch it at home.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA DOJ has quietly wiped out election security safeguards in a ‘scary’ move to steal elections; the CIA employee who was caught with $40 million of gold bars in his house had created a secret intelligence program to funnel millions of dollars from the federal government to himself; and, Trump has been ordered to remove his name from the Kennedy Center and abandon plans to close it for two years, but critics are concerned he may try to sabotage the iconic arts institution in retaliation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Armenians voted in a general election Sunday under Russian pressure aimed at preventing a drift toward the West; and, Iran’s World Cup players, banned from staying in the US while competing in the World Cup, arrived in Mexico wearing pins honoring the school girls and teachers blown to bits on the first day of Trump’s war.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s California election denialism makes as much sense as his claim of a giant California water valve.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a New Jersey police sergeant was charged with stealing a journalist’s camera bag at the Delaney Hall protests; secret donors pumped millions of dollars into the MAGA groups behind the gutting of Black voting rights; and, no bank in the United States is willing to lend money to the Trump family, so how did a startup in North Carolina, financially backed by Junior, obtain a $620 million loan from the Department of Defense and a $50 million investment from the Department of Commerce?
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia is flooding Armenia with disinformation ahead of the EU-leaning nation’s parliamentary election; and, the brutal killing of a 14-year-old girl gives new energy to Argentina’s massive femicide protests.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Van Hollen trapped Markwayne Mullin into agreeing to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, exactly what Trump does not want his DOJ to do.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly sixty people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks; Texas braces for a ‘full-blown disaster’ as flesh-eating ‘flying piranha’ arrives, after DOGE cut the monitoring program last year for being ‘woke;’ and,
Todd Blanche’s DOJ rewrote its Southern Poverty Law Center indictment to fix a problem, and exposed an even bigger one.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British lawmaker is suing Elon Musk for invasion of privacy after fake Grok bikini images of her were posted online; and, acclaimed Iranian-French artist, graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women’s rights, has died at age fifty-six.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, corrupt Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche crumbled under cross-examination at yesterday’s House hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s budget would eliminate the agency investigating the Longview, Washington paper mill chemical disaster that killed nine workers; the artist whose mural in Dallas of whales was painted over last month ahead of the World Cup, filed a lawsuit against FIFA that seeks $25 million in damages; and, the Justice Department’s number three official briefly admitted on social media that the agency was moving to revive the controversial “slush fund” to compensate January 6 defendants, then deleted the post today.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a performance artist sought to display a thin red thread in downtown Hong Kong to remember the victims of Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, but he was quickly stopped by police; and, fear shadows Peru’s runoff vote as extortion and killings surge nationwide.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kash Patel’s girlfriend filed an “insane” defamation suit against two MSNOW reporters.
Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA world revolts as Trump’s ex-national security adviser Mike Flynn is exposed as an agent for a close Putin ally; DUI hire Hegseth is breaking Pentagon rules and lying about purging women and Black soldiers from the military; and, the Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago because it monitors the climate.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where protests exploded after Jared Kushner’s luxury coastal resort project in Albania came under investigation by the country’s anti-corruption prosecutors; and, Mette Frederiksen starts her third term as Danish prime minister thanks to her firm position on Greenland.
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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 Supreme Court and the Treasury Department are both working overtime to cover up for the fact that Justice Sam Alito’s lawyer son is secretly working as a senior attorney in the Treasury Department.
Then, on the rest of the menu, America’s most powerful TV networks have been handing out coveted congressional press credentials to people Congress has strictly barred from eligibility; Trump ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every American child by half; and, Trump branded the federal judge who blocked his renovation of the Kennedy Center as “an anti Trump Hater” and predicted that the nation’s premier performing arts center will “soon be closed, probably never to open again.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Iran war has forced farmers to seek organic alternatives away from chemical fertilizers; and, South Africa’s mostly Black World Cup squad will leave for the tournament today after problems with US travel visas delayed their departure.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump refiled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal and wants Ghislaine Maxwell to help cover up his dark past.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Memphis residents are the latest to sue over MAGA federal agents’ arrest tactics; California sued genetic testing company 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect user data in a 2023 breach; and, local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the MAGA Federal Communications Commission for launching an “unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional” early review of their broadcast licenses.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a criminal court in Thailand acquitted the popular leader of a progressive political movement on charges of defaming the king; and, a Greek national appears in a British court today on charges that he helped the Iranian intelligence service target a journalist working in London.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge ordered Trump to immediately turn over government documents about his plan to intimidate voters with ICE and other armed federal agents in Blue States.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Samuel Alito is hit by a new scandal as his son is found secretly working for Trump’s Treasury; a MAGA federal judge declined to halt Trump’s executive order creating a federal voter list and limiting mail-in voting; and, Musk’s SpaceX Starship launches are grounded pending an investigation into last week’s test flight where a first stage booster crashed and narrowly missed several ranch houses in the Texas farmland.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where reversing the decision by the previous administration of Orban, Hungary’s parliament voted to remain a member of the International Criminal Court; and, with no help from the United States, aid supplies have finally reached the heart of Congo’s Ebola outbreak.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Nazi and Klan-hunting Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks dismissal of the ‘vindictive’ MAGA Justice Department indictment.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal three-judge panel in Alabama told the MAGA SCOTUS to ‘do your dirty work yourself;’ the Trump administration wants federal workers to sign NDAs because running government like a business is not a democracy, it’s a dictatorship; and, billionaire Tom Steyer’s record-breaking California governor’s race ad spending hopes to get Californians to forget who Tom Steyer is.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Roman Catholic Philippine bishop and an ex-ICC judge lead a new inquiry into thousands of Duterte-era killings; and, the director of the British communications intelligence agency, warned that Moscow is “relentlessly targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust” in Britain and Europe.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump delivered a disaster of a Memorial Day speech in Arlington, Virginia, where he disrespected fallen troops, made jokes and stumbled over his words.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump demanded action on Iran’s “nuclear dust” from an agency that ceased to exist more than 50 years ago; the MAGA federal government is moving ahead with plans to spray the controversial herbicide glyphosate on thousands of acres in the Lake Tahoe Basin; and, a homesteading Montana mother of six is taking on Big Tech.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she has “no issue” with her country hosting Iran’s World Cup team after its training base was moved from the United States to Mexico; and, the head of an inquiry into antisemitism in Australia issued a condemnation after Jewish witnesses who appeared before it are facing online harassment and bigotry.
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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 federal judge dismissed the charges against the “Broadview 6” protestors in Chicago after discovering perverse DOJ misconduct, leading her to signal that she will sanction the office and refer the lawyers for bar discipline.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a key government agency is dismantling efforts to regulate online betting markets and crypto while Trump and his family make big bucks from the booming industries; Trump’s MAGA Justice Department scrubbed its website of news releases about his January 6 goons; and, after evacuating over 50,000 people, Southern California officials scramble to prevent a massive chemical tank explosion that could endanger a few million folks in the neighborhood.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Lithuania suspects Russian involvement in a data leak of over 600,000 national register entries; and, Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans called Trump’s almost $8 billion dollar slush fund a “Payout Pot for Punks,” then they shut down the Senate.
Then, on the rest of the menu, one of the San Diego mosque shooter’s obsession with mass killings and Nazism so alarmed authorities in 2025, police confiscated dozens of his father’s guns; a rat invasion in Boise is testing the limit of Idaho’s small government rules; and, reality show villain Spencer Pratt’s Los Angeles mayoral merch may be ‘straight-up’ trademark infringement.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO allies are bewildered by Trump’s announcement that he would send 5,000 US troops to Poland, just weeks after he ordered 5,000 US troops pulled out of Poland; and, after the Supreme Court chief justice called them “cockroaches,” millions of Indian youth are flocking to the Cockroach political party.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, rogue Republicans, along with lame duck legislators who ran afoul of Trump and lost primaries because of him, now have the rest of their term to exact payback as members of the “Yolo Caucus.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a former Department of Justice prosecutor faces twenty-five years in a MAGA prison for emailing Jack Smith’s Vol II report to herself; after shooting a Black man multiple times, some see a white livestreamer’s freedom of speech claims as cover for race-baiting; and, a lawsuit charges an Arkansas real estate development group rejected a woman’s land purchase due to her Jewish ancestry, Black husband and biracial children.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Australian judge fined Musk’s social media platform $465,000 for online safety breaches after a 3-year court battle; and, Taiwan’s president says he’d tell Trump he hopes to continue arms purchases from the US, if given a chance.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jamie Raskin explained plans on blocking Trump’s $1.7 billion dollar slush fund.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Tuberville/Jones rematch is set for the Alabama governor race; a former Tennessee police officer who was jailed over his anti-Charlie Kirk posts won an $835,000 court settlement; and, Democratic-led states challenge the Trump administration’s new caps on federal student loans.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korean Samsung faces a strike after pay talks with its union fell apart; and, Argentine investigators hunting for the source of the hantavirus outbreak trap rats in the country’s southernmost city.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is causing an Arctic Cold War as he initiates credible threats against the sovereignty of Greenland and Canada following his failed trip to China.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s own handpicked lawyer quit his Treasury Department general counsel position in disgust at the mad man’s massive $1.776 billion dollar grift; a federal judge banned most arrests by federal agents in immigration courts in New York; and, the New York Times sued the Pentagon a second time over Hegseth’s media restrictions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia banned a neo-Nazi network under a new law that criminalizes hate groups; and, a Spanish court is investigating former Prime Minister Zapatero for influence peddling and other crimes tied to a government airline bailout.
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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ka$h Patel has failed to take the sobriety test he promised under oath.
Then, on the rest of the menu, former reality TV star and now the MAGA-favorite Los Angeles mayoral candidate, Spencer Pratt, vowed to leave LA if he loses the election; Trump cashed in big time one day after handing AI tech firm CoreWeave a major government deal; and, the Texas Supreme Court refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state in 2025 to block a vote on new congressional maps pushed by Trump had, vacated their office.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s Pentagon quietly shut down the legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military; and, Trump’s Pentagon has halted deployments to Poland and Germany to cut troop numbers in Europe to make it easier for Vlad to be Vlad.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, world leaders set a fatal trap that Trump walked right into while he was in China.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Jackson County welcomes Oregon’s first floating solar project; a man who livestreams himself saying racially derogatory statements to Black people in public settings was arrested and charged with attempted murder after a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse; and, Todd Blanche accused the DC Bar of acting as a “blatantly partisan arm of leftist causes” for sanctions against Jeff Clark and “Eagle” Ed Martin.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese security officials refused to allow a US Secret Service agent into an historic Beijing temple compound in a tense Trump showdown, because he was carrying a gun; and, an EU commissioner warned of long term jet fuel shortages because of Trump’s “little excursion.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ka$h Patel committed a federal crime at the televised committee hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, while Melania is slumbering elsewhere, Trump is not alone during his sleepless, social media rage-fueled nights; the DHS inspector general has launched an investigation of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem over the controversial $38 billion program that converted commercial warehouses into immigration detention centers; and, in an overnight ‘power grab,’ the Louisiana MAGA voted at 4 AM to nix the next to last Dem seat in the state.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union imposed sanctions on sixteen Russian officials accused of helping Vlad abduct tens of thousands of children from Ukraine; and, Japanese snack packages are turning black-and-white as the Iran war depletes the worldwide ink supply.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it doesn’t matter if the cameras are rolling, Trump always blinks first.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Eugene, Oregon police officer was forced to resign in the wake of his bodycam footage full of racist remarks during the January anti-ICE protests; the Trump administration was hit with a federal lawsuit after diverting $100 Million dollars in taxpayer funds without approval for his 250th anniversary “celebration of America like no other;” and, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Pentagon for refusing to “follow the law” when it comes to briefing members of Congress.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Venezuela’s acting president rejected Trump’s 51st state demands; and, an Alberta Pro-Trump separatist group illegally seized voter data in the Canadian province the Mad King has targeted as the next 51st state.
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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, gut the VRA, get Jim Crow 2.0.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump unveiled an ominous midterm plot he wants to use in ‘every single state;’ the general counsel for the Oregon State Bar said fabricated cases and citations have become more common among lawyers and people representing themselves; and, a Georgia data center drained 30 million gallons of water unnoticed until residents complained about low water pressure.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Starmer pledges to bring Britain closer to the EU as he faces calls to step down; and, Venezuela warns of ‘serious’ environmental impact from an oil spill in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, John Roberts is a lying, whiny baby.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Sam Alito used deceptive DOJ data to gut voting rights; a federal judge ruled Trump administration’s DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional; and, the Trump-appointed FEMA Review Council proposes sweeping changes to federal disaster support.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a UK border official and a former Hong Kong police officer were convicted of spying for China in Britain; and, French prosecutors seek criminal charges against Elon Musk for child sexual abuse images on his social media platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by his artificial intelligence system, Grok.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump ran away from the cameras as his claim he ended the war on Iran was exposed as yet another lie.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s wild ‘Unite the Right’ claim collides with legal fact-checks; a former MAGA insider confirmed that rumors of secret GOP payments to MAGA influencers is true; and, a California immigration judge sued the Trump Department of Justice, alleging she was fired because of her political beliefs and fluency in Spanish.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sweden detained a sanctioned oil tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet; and, three Australian women returning from Syria have been arrested on suspicion of slavery and terrorism offenses.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA VA investigated VA employees who attended vigils for VA employee Alex Pretti.
Then, on the rest of the menu, public schools in Florida will now require teaching a history course that calls slavery a ‘necessary evil;’ a promotional video for the FBI posted by Kash Patel used AI to generate clips nearly identical to those in the Beastie Boys’ iconic 1994 classic music video “Sabotage;” and, a federal judge is referring a Trump administration lawyer to face an investigation into misconduct charges for withholding key information from her about a case.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian punk group Pussy Riot and Ukrainian feminist organization FEMEN protested at the Venice Biennale against the opening of the Russian pavilion; and, Poland’s internal security service said Russia is shifting from individual recruits to ‘professional’ sabotage cells across Europe.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA leaders shut down Congress to secretly help Trump personal enrich himself as his war in Iran collapses.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump agency is accused of ‘very stalker-like’ targeting of VA employees who mourned Alex Pretti; a federal judge ripped into the Trump administration for putting her safety and that of the American public at risk with a “patently false” public smear about an immigration ruling; and, Neo-Confederate MAGA Sam Alito raged that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “insulting criticism” over the Louisiana shadow docket rule that ignored Purcell, is uppity.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former Trump advisor working for Russian propaganda outlet RT to spread Russian propaganda, filed suit from his home in Moscow to have his Biden-era charges dropped as a violation of his first amendment right to spread Russian propaganda to destroy representative democracy; and, Armenia hosts a historic European Union summit as the country charts a course away from Russia.
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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, Iran issued a dire warning after Trump’s unhinged, late night social media posts.
Then, on the rest of the menu, ultra right-winger Leonard Leo is linked to $50M funneled through a beloved Catholic charity to fund his extreme agenda; the MAGA GOP is bashed after Trump lawyers expose private data; and, a federal judge demands answers as Trump shuts down the beloved 124-year-old East Potomac Golf Links golf course.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Austria expelled three Russian Embassy staff over antenna spying in Vienna; and, European leaders see Trump’s petulant troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone.
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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, “in the history of American war quagmires, from Vietnam onwards, no president before Donald Trump has ever been so lost that they did not even know who the enemy was in that war.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Congress approved a short-term extension of the divisive FISA program hours before expiration; Ohio lets counties ban solar, but in Richland, it’s now on the ballot; and, Trump’s approval rating has fallen so sharply that it has broken the scale of a pollster’s graph.
After the break, Russia will hold its Victory Day parade without military equipment for the first time in nearly two decades; and, Argentine workers mark May Day with protests over Milei’s labor-law overhaul.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, additional shocking red flags surface in the WHCD incident.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Janet Mills has bowed out of the Maine senate race; DHS used a clip of an agent defiling Renee Good’s memorial in a twisted PR stunt; and, the celebration over SCOTUS handing MAGA a win in the Louisiana gerrymander case is getting way ahead of the math.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British prosecutor charged three men who were offered payment by a Russian contact to set fire to two houses and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer; and, London police say the stabbing of two Jewish men is an act of terror.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is blowing up at his Generals and Admirals as they leak he is frozen and has no clue what he’s doing in Iran.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a New Hampshire Republican tried to stack a local Holocaust remembrance board with a Nazi apologist who has been convicted of public lewdness at a children’s playground; Washington state says Geo Group refuses to let its health inspectors into their for-profit detention facility; and, a Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the MAGA Department of Justice lawsuit against Arizona seeking access to the state’s detailed voter records.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the daughter of the former Uzbek president is on trial in Switzerland over money laundering charges; and, a South Korean appeals court extended the prison sentence on corruption charges for the wife of its ousted president, who was sentenced to life for leading the rebellion.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s meeting with King Charles is off to a bad start.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Federal appeals court granted agent’s unrestricted use of poison gasses on the neighborhoods around the Portland, Oregon ICE building; Trump pursues new import taxes to replace the tariffs the Supreme Court rejected; and, the National Trust says it won’t drop its suit against Trump’s $400M White House ballroom after a DOJ request following the incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Philippine officials say two Americans are among suspected communist rebels killed in a clash with federal troops; the United Arab Emirates says it will leave OPEC effective May 1.
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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 is instantly exposed after the WHCD shooting.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Congress is not on board with Trump’s budget that guts local libraries and museums; cheap airlines want a fortune from Trump to stay in the air; and, technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court in a high-stakes showdown over AI.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German government accused Russia over a series of phishing attacks on Signal targeting high-ranking politicians; and, dozens of international civil and human rights groups issued a “World Cup travel advisory”, warning tournament visitors of “rising authoritarianism and increasing violence” in the United States.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The Dems are going all scorched Earth on Trump and we like it.Then, on the rest of the menu, “ICE Barbie” Kristi Noem is still occupying the waterfront home of the Coast Guard commandant on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in DC; an assault charge for an immigration officer in Colorado could test the overly broad immunity provisions for federal agents; and, a Michigan utility approved a 12-month ban on supplying water for data centers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the health data of 500,000 volunteers of a UK medical study is being offered for sale online in China; and, Giorgia Meloni’s government ruled out Italy replacing Iran at World Cup.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike Johnson is trying to cancel all hearings in order to avoid subpoenas and accountability.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon woman lost her job after she raised concerns about her company’s contracts with ICE; Kalshi has fined and suspended three political candidates for betting on their races; and, even though Trump Media has pivoted to crypto, financial services and nuclear fusion, its stock keeps falling.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Lufthansa has cut 20,000 flights as Trump’s illegal war squeezes worldwide fuel prices and supplies; and, the International Criminal Court confirmed crimes against humanity charges against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte for his deadly, anti-drugs crackdowns.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kash Patel can’t even remember basic allegations from his own complaint filed against the Atlantic.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the parent company of Truth Social has replaced its chief executive Devin Nunes after years of mounting losses and a stock collapse that erased billions in investor wealth; a lawsuit was filed against the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior for authorizing gold mining operations within Mojave National Preserve, one of the country’s largest national park sites; and, the MAGA Nazi Department of Justice has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with illegally infiltrating neo Nazi groups in an effort to shut down their operations.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Wall Street moved cautiously higher in obvious insider, premarket trading just before Trump extended another fragile ceasefire with Iran; and, the gunman who opened fire on tourists at Mexico’s iconic Teotihuacan pyramids, carried materials related to the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had another late night freakout, this time over Obama’s leadership of the “vote yes” position in Virginia could lead to Trump’s impeachment.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the House ethics panel defended its handling of sexual misconduct allegations; the DHS is making smart glasses to spy on migrants and protesters; and, the Southern Poverty Law Center announced it faces a MAGA Justice Department criminal probe over paid informants who infiltrated violent, right wing groups.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico’s Sheinbaum demands an explanation after US officials died following a clandestine operation in Chihuahua; and, Taiwan’s president postponed a visit to Africa this week when three countries withdrew permission for him to fly over their territories after pressure from 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, Ka$h Patel made some bombshell threats ahead of "imminent arrests" of the Democratic January 6 "conspirators" against Trump. Then, on the rest of the menu, wildfire survivors who lost their homes could face another blow from taxes on settlement payouts; book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs; and, businesses can claim refunds starting today for Trump tariffs that were declared unconstitutional.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where countries across Central Europe have pulled baby food off the shelves after rat poison was discovered in the product; and, while Trump lashed out at Spain, US Democrats joined world leaders in Barcelona to galvanize forces and defend a rules-based world order.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s getting so bad for John Eastman, he can’t even expatriate to Hungary, now.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida Sheriff’s Office criminalized a 12-year-old rape survivor for “lying” and left her abuser free to assault her again, so she recorded the attack, ten years later, a federal judge has ruled she can sue over it; CBS boss Bari Weiss is handpicking the guest list for the ritzy suck up dinner honoring Trump; and, an informant paid millions to travel the world partying with rogue DEA agents, will avoid jail after not paying taxes on the income.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where EU officials in Hungary discuss unlocking billions of euros held while Orbán was in charge; and, the Philippine president says the key suspect in the massive government corruption scandal has been arrested in Prague.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump knows he’s losing the midterms, his war on Iran, and his new war with the pope.
Then, on the rest of the menu, police will pay $3.15M for tasing a San Anselmo, California man as he was suffering a grad mal seizure; Clarence Thomas went on an unhinged, televised rant against “intellectuals;” and, California MAGA attorney John Eastman, who aided Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, has lost his license to practice in the state.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after criticizing the pope, Trump turned his ire on Italy’s Meloni over her lack of support for his illegal Iran war; and, Sweden blamed a pro-Russian group for cyberattacks on its energy infrastructure.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is in a full-blown panic as his war in Iran continues to escalate despite his attempt to leave and falsely pretend the war was won.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump plans to move the Forest Service headquarters from DC to Utah and shutter research sites in thirty-one states; an appeals court panel suspended the federal court order for Voice of America employees to return to work; and, the National Football League dared the Florida MAGA attorney general to sue the league over its diversity hiring policy.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Danish intelligence services accused members of Trump’s inner circle of running a “covert” operation in Greenland; and, thieves brazenly stole paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from a private museum in Italy.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is preparing to leave Iran with Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz and the United States facing the most humiliating military defeat in the US history.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety uncovered rare KKK artifacts in one of its offices; a Democratic electrician with no Nazi tattoos nabbed a state senate seat in MAGA Red Florida; and, the MAGA California sheriff running for governor and who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots, has paused the probe into election fraud allegations, citing mounting legal challenges.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia expelled a British diplomat over spying allegations; and, international observers at a local election in European Union candidate Serbia, said they witnessed violence and irregularities during the vote.
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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 blockade against Cuba collapsed after he permitted Putin to send a Russian oil tanker to Havana.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump issued another crazed early Monday morning war threat designed to juice the markets, again; Trump melted down at “dumb judges” ahead of Supreme Court arguments on the MAGA birthright citizenship policy critics have branded as outright racism; and, Trump is such a master businessman and military planner, the rising price of war oil is making at least one nation rich, and they speak Farsi.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war; and, French authorities are investigating after thwarting an Iranian bomb attack outside a Bank of America in Paris over the weekend.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Iranian regime saw a wartime president fixated on cognitive tests, presidential pens and Sharpies, while nodding off during a Cabinet meeting about the war.
Then, on the rest of the menu, “all white men all the time”-Pete Hegseth pulled some racism and misogyny out of his Christo-Fascist pocket and ordered two Black and two women officers removed from the one-star promotion list; the MAGA sheriff running for California governor ignored the state’s Attorney General and illegally seized even more ballots from the 2025 special election; and, nine more people have been sickened by raw milk from a MAGA raw milk dairy, and the MAGA FDA refuses to recall the product.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK banned crypto donations to political parties in a bid to curb foreign influence; and, a Gulf of Mexico oil spill that you don’t know about, has spread hundreds of miles, killed wildlife and polluted Mexican reserves.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s DOJ smear tactic backfired and revealed Smith caught Trump red-handed selling top secrets out of Mar a Lago.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Plantation Coach Tommy Tuberville was sued as the heated Alabama governor race gets ugly; Balls and Strikes Chief Justice John Roberts is cracking down on the Court’s three liberal justices for not letting the men speak enough; and, Whiskey Pete loves his enemies to death so much, he hosted the first Pentagon Christian worship service since the Iran war began and prayed for “overwhelming violence.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Europeans vowed to get tougher on Russia’s shadow fleet as a Euro sea drone hit one of its oil tankers approaching the Black Sea entrance to the Bosporus Strait; and, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum defied Trump and said Mexico will continue to have Cuban doctors work in the country at a time when other nations across the Americas have ditched their agreements under intense MAGA pressure.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after the fall of princes, prime ministers and captains of industry, the UK government has demanded the full un-redacted Epstein files from Pam Bondi.Then, on the rest of the menu, three weeks after Trump fired her, ICE Barbie Noem has a new boss and she is not going to like it; a federal prosecutor privately conceded under questioning by a skeptical judge that the Justice Department’s investigation of a $2.5 billion renovation project at the Federal Reserve didn’t find any evidence of a crime; and, the FDA flagged misleading claims for a cancer drug by biotech billionaire and Los Angeles Times owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump described his “imagined negotiations with Iran” to reporters with “the goofy insecurity of the man who knows he stands accused of always chickening out.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas MAGA have moved to ensure that a Democratic lawmaker elected in a shock special election upset earlier this year will effectively have no power; after raging that voting by mail is cheating, Trump voted by mail at Mar a Lago for a Florida special election; and, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s top enforcement official, who left abruptly last week, clashed with agency leaders over investigating Trump and his family for market manipulation and insider trading.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Orbán’s top opponent says Hungary’s Russian backchannel ‘treason’ will be investigated; and, Italian voters rejected judicial reform in a major setback for Premier Giorgia Meloni ahead of next year’s national elections.
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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, two Florida public universities, two Republican student organizations, two racism and antisemitism scandals in the same month.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s EPA is paving the way for the return of smog to national parks; an Oath Keeper MAGA sheriff running for California Governor seized 650,000 Riverside County ballots from the recent redistricting election; and, it’s not just vaccines, MAGA parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Prime Minister Tusk says Poland has long suspected Orban’s Hungary shared EU Council details with Russia; and, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Prague against the new government of Czech prime minister and Putin-puppet Babiš.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious Vets unloaded on Trump over his scheme to profit off the bodies of fallen troops.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration has launched investigations into thirteen states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion; two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the EPA over the repeal of the ‘endangerment’ finding central to the climate fight; and, two former FBI agents are suing bureau director Ka$h Patel and AG Pam Bondi, claiming they were fired for having investigated Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French navy intercepted and boarded a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea linked to Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet; and, Israel blasted Tehran with airstrikes on the Persian New Year Nowruz, as the war jolts worldwide energy markets.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge blocked RFK Jr’s anti-vax policies, allowing children and babies to go without Hepatitis, meningitis, COVID19, influenza, and Rotavirus vaccines based on the policy set by a band of anti-vaxxers RFK Jr. brought in.
Then, on the rest of the menu, national parks employees say SFGATE/SFChronicle has been blacklisted by the Interior Department; Pam Bondi defied the courts and gave an ousted interim US attorney a new title to allow him to keep his job in Wisconsin; and, rapper Afroman won his lawsuit against police over mocking their 2022 raid in viral music videos using home security video showing the deputies thirsting over his lemon pound cake.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two men appeared in a London court accused of carrying out “hostile” surveillance of the UK’s Jewish community on behalf of Iran; and, the MAGA State Department says it is adding twelve countries to an expanding list of nations whose citizens must post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply for US visas.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the “Coalition of the Unwilling” is expanding because the ‘Psychopath in Chief’ just won’t shut up.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge struck down the Arkansas law mandating schools display the Ten Commandments; Sam Alito was shamed as an 'absolute embarrassment' for not recusing from a case involving his close billionaire pal; and, the Canadian billionaire just given $314 million of taxpayers’ money to build and operate a new ICE mega-jail, was accused of making death threats against his employees and their families.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a military live fire demonstration for Vance and Hegseth meant to intimidate California during the ICE invasion there, did rain shrapnel onto Interstate-5 from a premature artillery shell explosion; and, former Germany coach Joachim Löw said Canada is secure, but raised concerns about safety at the World Cup being played in the United States and Mexico.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is fundraising off the deaths of fallen troops.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California launched a probe after video showed petition gatherers offering money for signatures for tech backed ballot measures; the Energy Secretary ordered a Texas firm facing criminal charges for the worst oil spill off the California coast, to restore oil drilling at the same site; and, an offshore wind project targeted by the Trump administration has begun sending power to New England’s electric grid.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil revoked the visa of a US diplomat who sought to visit Bolsonaro in prison; and, a bomb blast at a Jewish School in Amsterdam was the second antisemitic attack in two days.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had a 12:30am meltdown as the nightmare of war scares the living shi* out of him.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Live Nation employees pulled an Enron by mocking customers as ‘so stupid’ in internal messages released in the multi-state antitrust court case; the Trump administration sued California over the state’s nation-leading vehicle-emission rules; and, Montana halted permitting on all weekend rallies at the Capitol in a brazen move to thwart the massive upcoming ‘No Kings’ event.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dutch police are investigating an arson attack after a fire broke out at a Rotterdam synagogue; and, an Australian jury convicted a Sydney business consultant over deals with Chinese spies.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is furious Republicans are killing his election-grabbing scheme.Then, on the rest of the menu, YouTube banned Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings’ podcast after the AI monitor flagged his debunking of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was hate speech; the Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower complaint into the misuse of data by an ex-DOGE employee; and, a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education institutions to collect data showing they are following the government’s racist orders to be racist as MAGA is.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Africa summoned new ambassador Brent Bozell to explain his demand the nation reverse its anti-Apartheid laws; and, white South African “refugees” are returning home rather than live in Trump’s racist police state.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alina Habba is mean and stupid, so of course MAGA will go to the mats for her.
Then, on the rest of the menu, judges across the nation are losing it over ICE's brazen and 'unremorseful' defiance of court orders; Energy Secretary Chris Wright's ”accidental” post about Navy tanker escorts in the Strait of Hormuz cost petroleum traders $84 million in mere minutes; and, the Democratic candidate came out on top in the race for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in a shocking election twist.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tokyo and Berlin said they planned to release oil from their strategic reserves to address supply disruptions from Trump’s Middle East war; and, Italy stunned the US, beating the Dream Team 8-6 in the World Baseball Classic.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the War Criminal in Chief is learning war increases gas prices.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Oregon limited federal officers’ use of tear gas at Portland ICE building protests; a federal jury awarded $667,000 in damages to a group of Muslim men in Missouri who were pepper-sprayed by state correctional officers while praying; and, the Pentagon was busted for purchasing over $2 million dollars on Alaskan King Crab, a $98 thousand dollar Steinway piano and over $6 billion dollars from foreign governments in its record-breaking spending binge.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan is preparing to deploy its first batch of domestically developed long-range missiles; and, Australia granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s soccer team after Trump thrust the world into war.
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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 is refusing to acknowledge the rising death toll of US troops in his Iran war or the severity he has done to the United States economy and to the economies of countries across the world.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ford has recalled 1.74 million of its cars over rearview display issues; a second NTSB member was fired without explanation by the Trump administration; and, California US Rep Darrell Issa retiring raises the stakes for the GOP holding House control.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump said to fuhgeddaboudit it when asked whether Russia was sharing intel with Iran to kill US soldiers; and, European countries are on high alert after bomb blasts near a Belgian synagogue and outside the US Embassy in Oslo over the weekend.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, twenty states have rushed to court to put a stop to Trump's nasty habit of stealing American's money through a new illegal tax scheme on international goods.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon lawmakers approved a measure to prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks; US Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into whether Gregory Bovino made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith of the US attorney for Minnesota; and, House Republicans have formally asked for criminal charges against key Jan 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson, in another attempt to gaslight what the whole world saw live on television.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Gulf allies complain the US did not notify them of the Iran attacks and ignored their warnings; and, Sri Lanka began transferring more than 200 sailors from an Iranian vessel to shore after the ship sought assistance in the wake of the US sinking an unarmed Iranian ship returning home from an exhibition in India.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “the Trump family's flawless record of avoiding military service would be unremarkable if Donald Trump never started a war”
Then, on the rest of the menu, as other Americans stuck in the Middle East were told they’re on their own, Trump leapt into action to help a group of well-connected MAGA influencers flee the war he started; a federal judge ruled Florida’s move to declare one of the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy and civil rights groups, a foreign terrorist organization was unconstitutional; and, families are turning to the states for civil rights support as Trump dismantles the Department of Education.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Iranian warship sunk by the US was sailing home in international waters after taking part in an exhibition hosted by India; and, millions are left without power after a major blackout hits Cuba’s western region.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has engulfed the entire world in war from Ecuador to Iran and from Venezuela to Bahrain.
Then, on the rest of the menu, over seventy Democratic lawmakers demanded a probe into DHS warrantless location tracking; California peach farmers are expected to take a multimillion-dollar financial hit and lose vast quantities of crops after 139-year-old Del Monte Foods’ plan to permanently close two massive state plants; and, prosecutors began presenting never-before-seen video depositions of Meta executives at a trial in New Mexico.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian businessman was conveniently found dead after being named in the Epstein Files; and, with 100 days to go until the World Cup, the Iran war has added a new layer of complexity to the tournament co-hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump lost a major redistricting case in a devastating blow to his efforts to sabotage the midterms.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho considers an ‘apocalyptic’ choice for disabled people and their families; the Trump administration eliminated health care positions left vacant after a wave of resignations and retirements at the VA last year; and, Minnesota launched an investigation that could bring charges against federal immigration officers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump urged stranded US citizens in more than a dozen countries to leave, but he’s not sending any planes or ships to help after major airlines suspended flights; and, Sweden intercepted a Russian drone that violated its airspace during a visit by the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle.
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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, Kash Patel's misuse of FBI resources is even deeper than the fun run to Italy's Olympic games.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the chief federal judge for Minnesota warned the state’s top prosecutor and ICE, ‘Obey court orders or face contempt;’ thousands of corrections continue being issued for Texas’ Bible-infused curriculum; and, Anthropic refuses to bend to the Pentagon and make its killer robot kill more people on its own.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a renowned German human-rights group that helps women victims of online attacks, is barred from the US after the Trump administration accused the founders of being part of a “global censorship-industrial complex;” and, the Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation said eight members of Cuba’s delegation were denied visas to the United States for the World Baseball Classic.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, some people think a woo woo Surgeon General should be vaccinated if they are going to be blasted out of their brains on shrooms.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in just one year, ICE’s spending on weapons, ammunition, and accessories to wage war on Americans surged over 360 percent; Kash Patel went on a revenge-fueled firing spree, terminating at least 10 employees who investigated Trump for stealing top secret nuke docs for sale; and, an ICE operation in Newark, New Jersey caused a multi-vehicle crash with injuries to several children.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Speaker of the UK's House of Commons said he was the one who tipped off police that Epstein conspirator and former ambassador to the US, was a flight risk; and, Trump’s Border Czar said he will use his extensive Catholic grade school training to “educate” the Pope on Church teachings.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even more of Trump’s dark past surfaces at the worst possible time for the decaying monarch.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans cannot sue the US Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver the mail; a judge barred the government from a ‘wholesale’ search of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s seized devices; and, Whiskey Pete Hegseth is appealing a judge’s order that blocks him from punishing former Navy fighter pilot, astronaut and now US Senator, Mark Kelly, for reminding the troops to follow the law.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US and South Korean militaries will have joint drills in March as tensions with North Korea escalate; and, Japan demands the swift release of a Japanese national detained in Iran.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Aileen Cannon is still trying really hard to erase Jack Smith’s espionage report on Trump, by any means necessary.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a new federal lawsuit alleges DHS illegally tracks and intimidates observers; FedEx wants its money back after Trump’s tariffs are ruled illegal; and, you can tell Trump is racist because when faced with charges of racism, Trump always claims some of his best friends are Black.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former UK ambassador Mandelson has been released on bail after his arrest for passing secret government documents to convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein; and, former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland has been hospitalized after a “suicide attempt” amid his Epstein-linked corruption and sex probe.
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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 is coming under attack from all sides, including from his own armed supporters.
Then, on the rest of the menu, five days after Epstein’s arrest in the summer of 2019, Trump’s protection racket “directed” the New York Police Department to “stand down” its investigations related to the sex trafficker; Trump finally approved emergency assistance to Washington, D.C., to help the city with a sewage system leak that dumped at least two-hundred-fifty million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River; and, at least thirty-five times since August, federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France summoned Jared Kushner’s dad, Ambassador Charles Kushner, to protest comments by the Trump administration over the beating death of a far-right activist; and, flights have been cancelled, tourists are warned to shelter in place and twenty-five Mexican National Guard troops were left dead in six separate retaliatory attacks after an operation that killed cartel leader ‘El Mencho.’
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious world leaders are banning Trump military bases across the world as he plans his invasion against Iran.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump DHS was hit with a blistering court order over its illegal 'terror' and 'violence;' the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional; and, scientists decry the Trump order to drop the rule to keep nuclear workers’ radiation exposure “as low as reasonably possible.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US was the only major destination to see a decline in international travelers last year, falling eleven million short of Biden’s last year in office; and, the navies of El Salvador and Mexico announced seizing ten tons of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean this week, while Trump blew up another eleven people to tiny bits for driving speed boats in Latin American waters.
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s DOJ blows it bad in a blistering loss.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump DOJ attorney was held in contempt for refusing to return an ICE detainee's paperwork; Kathy Ruemmler could be called a spy for sharing secret details with Epstein about a probe into a 2012 prostitution scandal that engulfed the Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel; and, Trump’s executive order to boost production of RoundUp weed killer, makes it illegal to warn the public of pesticide and herbicide dangers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the former South Korean president received a life sentence for imposing martial law while leading his failed 2024 insurrection; and, a nationwide union strike in Argentina tests Milei’s flagship labor law overhaul.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump DOJ lawyers are quitting and posting about leaving their jobs on LinkedIn as the mass exodus continues.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify for the first time in front of a jury in a watershed social media trial; Minnesota and federal authorities are separately investigating what caused the eight skull fractures that landed a Mexican citizen in the intensive care unit of a Minneapolis hospital; and, Warren Buffett’s company invests in The New York Times six years after he sold all his newspapers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Peru’s Congress voted to remove interim President José Jerí from office as he faces corruption allegations; and, Paris prosecutors opened two new investigations into sex abuse crimes and financial wrongdoings linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump was busted in a major affidavit scheme to trick judges and grand juries to grant them relief.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Kristi Noem verbally ordered a C-130 pulled in the middle of a search and rescue mission for an overboard seaman to ferry immigrants from California to Trump’s Texas gulags; a bombshell Epstein file reveals the FBI interviewed a victim Trump sexually abused when she was still a teenager; and, a monument honoring Eugene, Oregon’s first Black families was revealed over the weekend.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belgium summoned the US ambassador over his social media post accusing the kingdom of antisemitism; and, Elon Musk has been hit by a 'large-scale' EU child porn probe just weeks after being fined $139M.
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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 and Judge Aileen Cannon were caught and called out in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for a scheme to delete incriminating files.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the NAACP and other organizations are asking a judge to protect personal voter information that was seized by the FBI from an elections warehouse just outside Atlanta; LA Olympics leader Casey Wasserman will sell his talent agency in the wake of the Epstein emails discovery; and, a lawsuit by local golfers seeks to stop well-known golf cheat Trump’s overhaul of a 100-year-old public golf course in Washington, DC.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Orbán says the EU and not Russia is Hungary’s real threat ahead of its April vote, so of course Rubio stood up Zalenskyy and met with Orban, instead; and, Europeans pushed back at the US over the racist claim they face ‘civilizational erasure.’
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Whiskey Pete Kegseth loses again.
Then, on the rest of the menu, The MAGA Christo-Fascist purge of National park history and science continues in Glacier National Park; ICE is seizing people’s phones, documents, cash and furniture, even without charges; and, tens of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies spanning decades calculate climate change is a health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam.’
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a DEA supervisor has been arrested as the US shutters the Dominican Republic office during a wide-ranging visa-fraud probe involving confidential informants; and, EU leaders ready countermeasures to the increasing threats from Russia, China and Trump.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump was rebuked on the House Floor as his own Republican party joined with Democrats to vote against his tariffs on Canada.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Bam-Bam Pam Bondi unmasked an undercover FBI agent in her newest Epstein files blunder; an Oregon congresswoman questioned the legitimacy of a Gresham, Oregon family’s detention; and, Trump says everybody can attend and denied he had ever tried to exclude Democrats from the annual Governor’s meeting, even though only Republican governors had received invitations for the confab.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea’s spy agency believes the teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is close to being designated as the country’s future leader; and, the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United faced criticism by both political leaders and fans after he said it was the UK that had been “colonized’’ by immigrants.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA in the DHS, ICE and even the White House, commit more crimes than immigrants detained in the gulags.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump threatened to block the opening of the Canada-built Gordie Howe Bridge after a phone call between billionaire Commerce Secretary Lutnick and the billionaire owners of the nearby privately-owned Ambassador Bridge; immigrant rights groups seek to dismiss a Republican lawsuit to exclude noncitizens from the US census; and, the Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all flights to and from the airport.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Armenians blasted “coward” JD Vance for scrubbing “genocide” from a social media post after visiting the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan; and, the father of a US-based activist wanted by Hong Kong authorities, was convicted for attempting to deal with his daughter’s financial assets in the city.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ghislaine Maxwell continues to shake down the Trump administration.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Moscow Tulsi Gabbard warned the attorney for an anonymous government employee not to directly share a top-secret complaint about Gabbard’s handling of classified material with members of Congress; the Hawai’i Department of Education has failed to provide lawmakers with clear records on how it spent almost four million dollars on more than eight thousand trips in 2025; and, a group of Buddhist monks reached Washington, DC, on foot earlier today, walking single file across a bridge over the Potomac River to cap a fifteen-week trek from Texas that has captivated the country.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where King Charles III will support police investigating former Prince Andrew’s Epstein links; and, a prominent Norwegian ambassador resigned as she faces scrutiny over her contacts with Epstein.
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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 Trump appointed federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia ordered the Trump Administration and the FBI to return all and not use any of the over seven hundred boxes of voting material and data seized in a raid under a criminal warrant.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the top FBI agent investigating Melissa Hortman’s assassination was pulled off the case to file criminal charges against ICE shooting victims; Bad Bunny had a Puerto Rican history scholar on staff for the halftime show; and, Trump’s legal team was busted for using a 'false' Law & Order plot to smear E Jean Carroll.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British police are investigating allegations that former Prince Andrew sent confidential trade reports to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; and, Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison on top of the thirteen years she was already charged, after she began a hunger strike.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious world leaders are standing up against Trump and his despicable Ambassadors and not taking the disrespectful bullying any more.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon, Washington and Native tribes head back to court after Trump pulls out of the landmark deal to recover imperiled salmon; newly obtained emails undermine RFK Jr's testimony under oath about his 2019 Samoa trip before the measles outbreak there killed almost a hundred kids; and, just before Trump posted the racist meme about the Obama’s, he ordered it illegal to call the klansman who murdered Medgar Evers a racist at the Evers Memorial.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ugandan minister Steven Tendo, who was brutally torture abroad, has been detained by ICE in Vermont and set for deportation back to be executed; and, with Trump threatening war against our allies, Queen Máxima starts training to become a Dutch army reservist.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Melania’s email to Ghislaine Maxwell has Trump shivering.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Texas A&M professor fired over a gender identity lesson is suing the university for violating her free speech and due process rights to appease political critics; Nike faces a federal probe over allegations of ‘DEI-related’ discrimination against white workers; and, Brad Karp, the Capitulating Executive Officer of the first white shoe law firm to bend the knee to the Mad King, has resigned after being exposed as an Epstein pedo partier.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where historians accused the Trump administration of trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign policy decisions toward Latin America; and, Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization has complicated vaccination efforts as measles cases surge across the Americas, just in time for the World Cup.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious world leaders blasted Trump for his links between Epstein and Putin, and have launched an investigation to uncover Putin’s Epstein involvement and impact on international security.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ordered the removal of Native American signage at Big Horn National Park that honors tribal sacrifices and reflections on the historic battle known as Custer's Last Stand; A MAHA mom killed her newborn with listeria from raw milk in New Mexico; and, an FBI decimated by Ka$h Patel, is having trouble finding Savanah Guthrie’s kidnapped mom.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Jeff Bezos can afford to destroy the Washington Post for the Pedo in Chief, that’s why he just cut the paper’s coverage and reporters by a third ; and, Vietnam is taking steps to prepare for a possible American “war of aggression” and considers the United States a “belligerent” power.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Beauty Queen MAGA Lindsey Halligan is hit with a new Bar complaint.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the DHS “smeared” the two Venezuelans they shot in a Portland, Oregon hospital parking lot by claiming they were involved in “gang activity,” records show they had no criminal records, but were instead, victims of gang violence; the trial of ex-FirstEnergy executives charged in a $60M Ohio bribery scheme that involved prominent GOP leaders is set to begin; and, the Trump administration cut the number of sites for testing the 2030 census from six to two.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French prosecutors raided the offices of Musk’s social media platform to investigate a range of offenses, including the spread of child sexual abuse images and deepfakes; and, an Irish activist operating from the Netherlands, is utilizing the same technology ICE uses against Americans to expose thousands of federal agents, and the MAGA Congress can’t do a damn thing about it.
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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 dark secrets of Putin and Trump are revealed all over the Epstein Files.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Bari Weiss’ newest CBS News MAHA hire wanted to party with Jefferey Epstein while ignoring his wife’s pleas to hurry to the hospital where their dying, infant son was being treated; the ACLU of Oregon and other lawyers issued legal filings against ICE after families with children and elderly Portland residents were tear-gassed without warning over the weekend; and, an explosive whistleblower claim against the Russia-adjacent DNI Tulsi Gabbard, has been 'locked in a safe' by the Trump administration.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany detained five men accused of illegally exporting goods to Russian defense companies; and, China is pissed after the Dalai Lama won a Grammy.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is panicking over the worst midterm poll in the history of “state regime media, Fox News.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma fought a book ban, now she may never teach again; a Uline employee says she can no longer work for people who helped ‘America descend into fascism;’ and, the Trump DOJ is nearly shut out by judges over cases that 'turn your stomach.'
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where secret meetings with Trump officials and a right wing militant group plotting to overthrow Canada was exposed; and, US coach Mauricio Pochettino dismissed criticism of the $8,680 World Cup ticket price by American winger Tim Weah.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had a psychotic melt down all night, posting behaviors on social media that the 25th Amendment was created to address by removing people with his deranged mental state.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in the Age of MAHA, officials confirm a tuberculosis outbreak at a San Francisco private school; the Trump administration overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, but keeping the new rules secret from the public; and, Russian Asset Gabbard was spotted at Keystone Ka$h’s bonkers ballot raid in Atlanta.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s finance minister demanded tech firm Capgemini explain its ICE contract; and, German investigators searched Deutsche Bank offices in a money laundering probe.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Chief Judge of Minnesota, an arch-conservative, exonerated journalist Don Lemon from any criminal charges for covering a Church protest.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Alabama Neo-Nazis arrested on weapons charges planned to strike 'high value targets’; Trump’s acting cyber chief mistakenly uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT that triggered a DHS-level damage assessment; and, in a recent habeas petition, Ghislaine Maxwell dropped a bombshell claim that four potential "co-conspirators" and "25 men" scored "secret settlements" tied to Epstein's abuse, without facing any indictment.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union opened a formal investigation into Musk’s social media platform after his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok spewed nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images; and, the wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to 20 months in prison for corruption.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in sworn filings to a Federal Judge, the Trump DOJ not only opposes the Judge’s order for them not to destroy evidence, but most of the agents refused to tell the court whether they had not already destroyed it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Democratic Representative was punched in the face by a MAGA “racist” at the Sundance Film Festival; Trump goon Todd Blanche said Alex Pretti’s family are commie liars just like Walz and Frey; and, a virulent Shasta County, California MAGA election monitor was arrested after discovery of a hundred-foot long tunnel, a bunker, a huge cache of military weapons and over ten thousand rounds of ammunition.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Interpol arrested more than 3,700 suspects and freed over 4,400 victims in a global human trafficking crackdown Trump refused to join; and, Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala loudly criticized ICE running security for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, referring to the US agency as a “militia that kills.”
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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, Officer Fanone had some choice words for the MAGA “Retribution Czar” who threatened to rape his daughters, and a few pointed gestures at the lying MAGA stooges on the Committee, at the Jack Smith Hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Kash Patel purged more FBI agents connected to investigating Trump hours after the volatile Jack Smith hearing; the Trump administration is doubling down and laughing after it was caught red-handed deep-faking a photograph of a Minnesota anti-ICE protester; and, a US District Judge questioned the federal government’s claim that Trump had the authority to demolish the East Wing and construct a $400-million ballroom without obtaining congressional approval.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s brazen lie about NATO’s Afghanistan involvement provoked outrage and distress in the UK; and, Trump scrapped all the multimillion-dollar solar projects in Puerto Rico as the island struggles with chronic power outages and a crumbling electric grid.
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a bombshell ICE whistleblower report just dropped.
Then, on the rest of the menu, SF Giants star Jung Hoo Lee was detained by ICE at LAX as he returned from South Korea for a team event; a “hostage standoff” between MAGA Bari Weiss and the 60 Minutes correspondent of the CECOT expose is revealed; and, Pipsqueak Bovino gassed himself after trying to throw chemical munitions at neighbors upset over ICE kidnapping and disappearing little kids.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where “Axis Sally” Karoline Leavitt was blasted by Belgium and scores of other countries over the fake claim it joined Trump’s UN-alternative, Board of Peace; and, after a firehose of DHS lies about his death, an autopsy on a Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas, revealed he died after guards strangled him to death.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is falling into a perfectly laid trap by Congressmen Massie and Khanna to expose his dark past.
Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA racists filed a federal lawsuit against a Los Angeles school policy it claims discriminates against white students; after substantial pressure from MAGA cattlemen, the MAGA Bureau of Land Management revoked American Prairie’s Montana bison grazing leases; and, with a workforce reduced by twenty-six percent and days from the beginning of “tax season,” the head of the IRS shockingly announced a personnel and operational shake-up by appointing Hunter Biden investigators and “whistleblowers” to key positions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German authorities arrested a woman accused of supplying sensitive military information to a Russian intelligence agent; and, South Korea’s former prime minister escaped the death penalty after a Seoul court sentenced him to 23 years in prison for illegally imposing martial law in an act of rebellion.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Aliya Rahman speaks out for the first time after being dragged from her car by ICE agents in Minneapolis while trying to get to a doctor’s appointment.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Democratic Indiana state court judge and his wife are in stable condition as authorities continued to search for the suspects who shot the couple at their Lafayette home; California defied Trump and made admission free for over two hundred parks on MLK Day; and, ICE has been shooting priests in the face with pepperballs, dragging people out of churches by their hair and throwing them in the gulags, for a year, but the DOJ now vows to press charges after neighbors disrupted a church service on Sunday where a Minnesota ICE official is the pastor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump slammed the UK deal to hand over the Chagos Islands as “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY,” which he vigorously backed during his first term; and, Trump is screenshotting and posting private messages from heads of state like a jilted boyfriend.
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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, our NATO allies, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, released a joint statement blasting Trump’s 25th Amendment-level tariff threats over Greenland.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a former Oregon Republican ousted for supporting abortion rights and trans care is running as an Independent; a Trump aide ditched his Daily Beast lawsuit because discovery threatened to reveal administration insiders' secrets; and, MAGA defends the state murder of white woman if they are AWFUL.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where five men face trial in Peru in a rare prosecution over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader; and, hackers targeted Iran state TV’s satellite transmission to broadcast two clips of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, world leaders from France to Canada to China are ganging up to outmaneuver Trump and put him in his place.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the US citizen videotaped being violently dragged out of her car by a dozen ICE goons at a Minneapolis intersection, was on her way to a routine appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center a half block away; neo-Nazis are building a secret business empire in MAGA red Texas; and, the small Minneapolis charter school where Renee Good’s 6-year-old son is enrolled, has switched to online learning from an avalanche of violent threats after MAGA news outlets doxxed the school.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where propaganda experts call out Trump's propaganda shops for "taking a page from ISIS;" and, “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk believes schoolteachers should be “imprisoned” for accurately teaching US History.
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new viral video is making even MAGA turn against ICE.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the website dedicated to naming ICE and Border Patrol goons is coming under a “prolonged and sophisticated” cyberattack from Russia; after being threatened by the MAGA Feds, Indiana University in Indianapolis went Vichy and canceled the annual dinner in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., first convened in 1969; and, faculty at the University of Pennsylvania condemned Trump’s demand for ‘lists of Jews.’
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump is holding millions of dollars from a deal made for seized Venezuelan oil in personal offshore accounts in Qatar, but the MAGA Congress doesn’t care; and, the UK government is ‘not going to back down' from a US administration official's threat over a probe into Elon Musk and X.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, two US citizen observers, who were violently taken by ICE and illegally held for over eight hours in Minneapolis, described the torture and intimidation at the hands of racist, homophobic, bigoted, federally paid goons.
Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors seek to sentence a former MAGA South Carolina legislator to twenty years in prison for sending child porn across the country on social media as he advocated for laws meant to protect kids; an ICE prosecutor in Dallas who was previously exposed for running a white-supremacist Twitter/X account praising Hitler and calling America a “White nation,” is quietly back working in immigration court; and, the MAGA KA$H FBI executed a search warrant at a Washington Post reporter’s home for top secret, classified material, not national security or classified military information, she’s been reporting about Trump dismantling the federal workforce.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France banned far-right British anti-migration activists targeting migrant boats; and, a South Korean prosecutor seeks the death sentence for ex-leader Yoon, convicted over his illegal martial law decree.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Minnesotan faith leaders, military veterans, civic leaders and common citizens describe the paramilitary MAGA Klan invasion of the state.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI is investigating Renee Good’s ties to local non-violent anti-ICE religious groups, instead of sharing evidence with Minnesota; at least four senior officials have resigned from the Department of Justice in protest over their frustration that Civil Rights Asst AG Harmeet Dhillon decided not to investigate the ICE officer's killing of 37-year-old Renee Good; and, Trump warned Minnesota’s “day of reckoning and retribution” is coming as he doubles down on the state’s lack of respect over his murderous MAGA Klan invasion.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former Navy sailor was sentenced to sixteen years for selling technical and operating systems information about ships to Chinese intelligence; and, the BBC seeks to dismiss Trump’s “bad faith” ten billion dollar defamation lawsuit in a Florida court.
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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 has ordered his DOJ to go totally dark into the release of information about his dark past as the entire DOJ is now complicit in the violation of federal law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an officer with the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau has been reassigned after he was captured on film agreeing that he would shoot Renee Good in the face, no questions asked; a suspect has been arrested on suspicion of arson after fire damages the historic Mississippi synagogue that was bombed by the KKK for its civil rights work; and, Trump ordered references to his two impeachments removed from the display of his Smithsonian photo portrait.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany sharply rejected quack RFK Jr.'s lies that it prosecutes doctors for vaccine exemptions; and, Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok over sexualized AI images.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump lost it overnight as the GOP revolted against him in Congress.
Then, on the rest of the menu, five states sued the Trump administration for withholding billions in social safety net funds; Austin Peay State University reinstated the professor fired for accurately quoting a Charlie Kirk post and settled for $500k; and, it only took five years, but at least the Senate unanimously voted to display the January 6 plaque MAGA Mike says violates the law.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil’s President vetoed a bill to reduce the 27-year prison sentence of Bolsonaro for the far-right leader’s failed 2023 coup attempt; and, a winter storm slammed the UK and France, disrupting travel and leaving tens of thousands without power.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is losing it as mass protests are forming after his ICE Gestapo murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon’s attorney general sued three insulin manufacturers and the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers alleging they colluded together to inflate the price of insulin; while ICE goons prevented EMT’s from attending to Renee Good, Bovino’s brownshirts invaded a nearby high school, tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders, city schools are now closed indefinitely; and, Mike Pence sounded off against the White House's new "offensive, revisionist history" display mocking Capitol police officers who responded to the insurrection on January 6, 2021.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where clashes between a Saudi/US-backed gold mining company leaves four dead in Afghanistan; and, Trump is withdrawing the United States from sixty-six international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and the rule of law.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge appointed by Trump is moving close to recommending the revocation of Lindsey Halligan’s law license, who is falsely claiming to be the United States Attorney in Virginia.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Northwest conservative think tank is suing Oregon over a new law that makes it illegal to impersonate a union representative; a town in North Carolina is returning land to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; and, Warner Bros again rejected a hostile takeover bid from Ellison-run Paramount and told shareholders to stick with a rival offer from Netflix.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Trump administration thanked the Vichy media for keeping quiet before the strike that captured Maduro; and, while Pedo-Trump’s America remains silent, Musk’s is facing a backlash from governments around the world over Grok-generated sexualized images of women and children.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and his team are facing instant sanctions after defaming a criminal defendant and threatening the judge in a major high profile matter.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a twenty-two year old pre-school teacher was arrested during a live tv news interview after criticizing Trump’s illegal Venezuela invasion; an election-denying former Arizona lawmaker will be sentenced for using forged signatures in a bid to qualify for a 2024 primary election; and, medical quack RFK, Jr took the unprecedented step of dropping the childhood vaccine schedule so more kids will die brutal deaths from the flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningitis or RSV.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump widely shared fabricated and misrepresented images online after his illegal invasion of Venezuela; and, Trump expanded the list of countries whose citizens must pay up to $15,000 bonds to apply for visas.
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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 psychotic plan to cover up the Epstein files is to invade every single country in the Western Hemisphere in order to steal its oil and resources.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the children of slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman want Trump to stop pushing the baseless conspiracy about her murder, and apologize; the MAGA activists on a 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals tribunal ruled the California law prohibiting open carry of firearms in heavily populated counties is unconstitutional; and, tech companies looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers are losing fights in communities where people don’t want to live next to them, or even near them.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland’s battle against fake news starts in preschool classrooms; and, a Paris court found ten people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is having a psychotic meltdown at Perv-A-Lago after going radio silent on social media for forty-eight hours.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Pam Bondi shared and then deleted a graph showing a steep drop in drug overdose deaths after she was busted trying to give the Trump administration credit for progress made under Joe Biden; California has delayed revoking seventeen thousand commercial driver’s licenses until March after legal immigrants sued; and a judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama woman who was sentenced to eighteen years in prison following a stillbirth.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finnish authorities seized a vessel from the Russian Shadow Fleet after damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland; and, Pakistan’s polio cases fell by half in 2025 despite death squad attacks on vaccination teams.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and Cannon are at the center of a massive new corruption scandal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge has thrown out criminal charges against a social media figure shot by ICE goons, after finding the government violated his constitutional rights before his case ever reached a jury; Trump's border czar Tom Homan skipped his background check, so his bribery probe went unnoticed; and, Trump rushes to demolish thirteen more historic DC buildings as preservations fight back.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling tens of millions of Russian money to MAGA pundits like Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin, Trump’s State Department and the FBI scored visas for Tenet's founders back into the US in time for the midterms; and, Trump’s racist removal of a display honoring Black World War II soldiers at a military cemetery in the Netherlands, has angered Dutch officials, the families of US soldiers and the local residents who honor the American sacrifice by caring for the graves.
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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 DOJ was caught spying on the top Epstein investigative journalist before the pedo sex trafficker’s death.
Then, on the rest of the menu, first they decided to strip nursing of its “professional” designation, now Trump and RFK, Jr are removing the requirement that ensured nursing homes receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding had an RN available 24/7; Virginia offshore wind developers sued Trump’s executive order halting renewable energy projects; and, the biggest mystery in Georgia politics right now is who is paying for the attacks on Republican Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones?
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Serbia’s protesting university students collected signatures throughout the country for an early parliamentary election they hope would oust the autocratic government of President Vucic; and, calling Brigitte Bardot a “complicated sex symbol” is a nice way of saying she was a five-time convicted racist who carried on a thirty-year romance with the French neo-Nazis.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ghislaine Maxwell is caught plotting with Trump as the cover-up continues to be exposed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, The American Academy of Pediatrics sued the MAGA HHS for cutting funds for children’s health programs; the MAGA DOJ sued Illinois Governor Pritzker over state laws protecting immigrants at courthouses and hospitals; and, a federal judge blocked Trump’s effort to strip the security clearance from a prominent attorney who represented whistleblowers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an independent counsel demanded a 10-year prison term for South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol in the first of seven criminal cases over his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law in 2024; and, Somalis vote in the first one-person, one-vote local election since 1969.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kavanaugh joined the 6-3 Supreme Court decision that denies Trump the ability to take over each Blue State's national guard, but found time to troll the American people about January 6 and bolster Trump's claims of unlimited power.
Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-one Democratic-led states sued the MAGA White House over consumer protection bureau funding; the city of Newport, Oregon is suing Trump to stop federal officials from building a new immigration gulag there; and, voters sued to suspend Missouri’s new MAGA-congressional map until a referendum can be held in November.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US barred five Europeans it says were the “masterminds” behind the EU’s Digital Services Act that censors online hate; and, a pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted France’s national postal service just days before Christmas.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Americans have to watch a bootlegged international version of a news program because it was censored here in our country to protect a criminal president.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an environmental nonprofit recently purchased a historic Sonoma County, California ranch, complete with a trout-filled creek and a 13-foot-wide, 1,000-year-old redwood tree; the Trump administration was just hit with a $54 million tariff lawsuit from a major shoe company; and, the DHS War on Christmas is replete with a deranged video of Santa as a steroid-addled ICE goon dragging people to the gulag.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump removed nearly thirty career diplomats from ambassadorial positions so he can replace them with MAGA imperialists; and, Trump warned Maduro against playing ‘tough’ as the US escalates its pressure campaign on Venezuela so Trump can look tough.
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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, Pam Bondi’s DOJ ‘deceived the Court’ to hide Trump lawyer Todd Blanche’s hand from the Abrego case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s top goon failed a lie-detector test required to view sensitive spy materials, then blamed his subordinates and suspended them; CBS News was 'torched' over Bari Weiss’ last-minute cancellation of a 60 Minutes report on Trump's 'concentration camp;' and, Trump’s misnamed “War Department” claims five large offshore wind programs that were just suspended, “create radar interference" and are threats to national security.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Denmark and Greenland vow that the US won’t take over Greenland after Trump appointed a special envoy in the run up to the invasion of the semi-autonomous Denmark territory; and, a suspected Ukraine-planted car bomb killed a Russian general in southern Moscow, the third such killing of a senior military officer this year.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans abandoned Trump in DC as they shut down Congress on the day Trump feared the most when the Epstein files are required to be released by law. Except it won’t, as required by the King.
Then, on the rest of the menu, CBS News staffers were spared an end-of-the-year all-hands meeting with MAGA Bari Weiss, after the much-hyped town hall with Merry Widow Erika Kirk produced poor ratings and criticism from conservative news outlets; an unvetted ICE leader has been locked up in the same jail where he’d sent ICE prisoners after attempting to strangle his girlfriend earlier this month; and, the head of the US agency for enforcing workplace civil rights urged white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the British government said it is investigating a “cyber incident” following news reports that hackers linked to China have gained access to thousands of confidential documents held by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and, Brazil’s lower house removed Bolsonaro’s son and a former intelligence agency head from their seats.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's political crash test dummy and head of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, imploded under sworn testimony.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Amazon has been conning school districts out of millions of dollars; the Trump-caused national penny shortage has one Washington state local government seeking a federal fix; and, days after an MIT nuclear plasma physicist was murdered, Trump Media is set to merge with a nuclear fusion company in an all-stock deal valued at more than $6 billion, coincidence?
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German prosecutors charged eight members of a right-wing extremist group with attempted murder; and, with Opus Dei-adjacent Dolan stepping down, Pope Leo named fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as the new archbishop of New York.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, polls show Trump’s popularity is 'in the toilet.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, five Oregon farmworkers were released after their ICE detentions were deemed unlawful; the head of California’s Department of Motor Vehicles said that if the carmaker does not correct its “misleading” branding of “Autopilot,” Tesla will be blocked from selling cars in the state; and, absences at a Texas school system soared to almost sixty percent when a measles outbreak hit.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain launched a review into foreign financial interference after a British former member of the European Parliament was jailed for taking Russian bribes; and, a Brazilian cardinal ordered a popular Catholic priest to go offline following right-wing attacks.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Judge Kollar-Kotelly issued a late night order excoriating the Trump DOJ for gaming the system and filing late arguments at the last minute to avoid complying with her order concerning the capricious prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California has hired ex-CDC leaders who were purged under Trump; a Trump Media deal with a crypto firm exposes his major conflicts of interest; and, Trump says the White House ballroom construction is a matter of undisclosed national security and the lawsuit by the National Trust for Historic Preservation has no standing.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US judge ordered the release of an Iranian bodybuilder after nearly five months in ICE detention; and, a Dominican judge ordered prison for seven officials accused in a $250 million government corruption scheme.
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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 federal judge ordered the Trump Administration to explain by 5pm ET today, how it can demolish the East Wing and build a 90,000 square foot golden ballroom in its place, without obtaining any public comments, Congressional approval or approval from four different boards.
Then, on the rest of the menu, US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases; Affordable Care Act enrollees say expiring subsidies will hit them hard; and, Utah repealed the ban on collective bargaining for teachers, firefighters and police unions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Serbia organized crime prosecutors charged a minister and others in connection with a Kushner-linked project; and, a Russian court declared the punk protest group Pussy Riot is an ‘extremist organization.’All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “we are ALL Abrego Garcia and this is a fight over due process and the power of a federal judge to provide a remedy for constitutional injuries.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s plot to put an image of his favorite president on National Park passes turns ugly; the Oregon Nurses Association alleges ICE is allowed to dictate patient care at Portland’s Legacy Emanuel Hospital; and, a small school district in Vermont was hit with racist death threats after a Somali flag was put up in response to Trump referring to Minnesota’s Somali community as “ garbage.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese whistleblower now living in the US is being hunted by Beijing with help from US tech; and, cut off by their banks and even iced out by Alexa, International Criminal Court staffers sanctioned by Trump remain resolute.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Canada is building an army reserve force of 300,000 to protect its homeland as Trump’s threats accelerate.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a DHS order prohibiting "unusual noise" near a government building in Eugene, Oregon; Open AI and Microsoft face a lawsuit over ChatGPT’s role in a Connecticut murder-suicide; and, Trump has purged so many government statisticians, informed decisions about everything from the nation’s economy to its demographics is at risk.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Zelenskyy will hold urgent talks with 30 countries as Trump pushes for an unconditional surrender with Russia; and, a strike called by Portugal’s two main trade unions has severely disrupted travel, forcing the cancellation of medical appointments, school classes along with government and municipal services, including trash collection.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump gave a terrible speech in front of a tiny crowd at a casino ballroom in Pennsylvania.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge vacated Trump’s January 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful; Trump got a participation award from FIFA and then his MAGA DOJ decided to abandon a soccer TV rights corruption case; and, a Wisconsin judge refused to step aside as requested by Trump’s former attorney who faces a felony election forgery charge from the fake electors scheme in the battleground state.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cuba sentenced a former economy minister to life in prison for espionage; and, Google faces a new antitrust probe in Europe over content it uses for Artificial Intelligence.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, military pilots go public with warnings about “Whiskey” Pete Hegseth.
Then, on the rest of the menu, officials are investigating after students at a San Jose, California high school formed a “human swastika” on the campus’ football field; an immigration judge ordered the release of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s ex-sister-in-law; and free speech groups blasted the MAGA Supreme Court declining to hear the appeal to the Texas book bans.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Trump’s new pro-Putin national security strategy shows the need for more European security independence; and, a UN investigation found more than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists have reported violence online, with over forty percent saying they have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse.
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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 MAGA Supreme Court agreed to decide on giving Trump the ultimate gift, allow him to destroy birthright citizenship and rip out of the 14th Amendment with a stroke of a pen on an Executive Order.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a self-described ”ruthless neo-Nazi terrorist” from Shasta County, California is grooming new attackers from inside the jail at Nevada City; the detained mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew is shutting down the press secretary’s smears while inside an ICE gulag; and, venture capitalist and co-founder of ‘Big Brother’ data company Palantir, Joe Lonsdale, is calling for the return of public lynchings to restore “masculine leadership” to the US.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Vancouver, Washington Police Department is investigating after an ICE truck ran over a man’s legs while he was detained; and, tens of thousands of women in cities across Brazil rallied against gender-based violence as a record number of women victims and a series of recent high-profile cases have shocked the country.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ukraine President Zelenskyy blasted Trump’s “ultimate betrayal” after avoiding an assassination attempt ordered by Putin over Ireland.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan issued a fiery dissent to the Court’s decision to allow MAGA-friendly voting maps in Texas for next year’s midterms; a new National Parks change replaces days honoring Black people with Trump’s birthday; and, California students with disabilities face ‘terrifying’ special ed cuts after Trump’s capricious orders.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s new national security strategy looks like a Stephen Miller wet dream painting European allies as weak and reasserting America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere; and, Turkish prosecutors issued arrest warrants for dozens of soccer players and officials over a massive sports betting scandal.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after calling Trump out at a stop in New York, California Governor Gavin Newsom is going to Washington DC to confront the Nod Father to his sleepy face.
Then, on the rest of the menu, babies in nearly two dozen states have been sickened in a botulism outbreak tied to contaminated formula; the Justice Department seeks to dismiss Maurene Comey’s lawsuit on procedural grounds they violated; and, the New York Times is suing the Pentagon over Whiskey Pete Hegseth’s new press rules.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where WhatsApp faces a European antitrust investigation over its artificial intelligence policy; and, Indonesian authorities named a Chinese executive of a metal smelting company as a suspect in the cesium-137 contamination case that resulted in the recall of radioactive shrimp sent to the United States.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a panicked Trump ordered his MAGA Department of Justice to file notices with Judge Aileen Cannon "warning" her not to release Special Counsel Jack Smith's Mar a Lago final report.T
hen, on the rest of the menu, on the heels of the devastating Dragon Bravo Fire on the park’s North Rim, which destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge, all hotels on Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim have closed indefinitely; Salem, Oregon declared an emergency over increased ICE activity and unlawful arrests; and, a new notice on Target’s website offers a potential hint to the widely varying costs for eggs, “this price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Babson College has offered support to the student deported while trying to fly home for a Thanksgiving surprise; and, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has been removed from the prime crew of SpaceX’s Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station after he was caught spying for Russia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after watching an interview with former Attorney General Eric Holder, Trump went off on social media with four hundred bizarre and deranged posts right at midnight and over the course of an hour.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a MAGA senator's proposal to overhaul US citizenship could force Trump's alien wife and youngest son into a tight spot; at least eleven Indiana Republicans were targeted with threats or swatting attacks after Trump’s gerrymander order; and, donating $6.25 Billion to jump start the dubious “Trump Account” scam is just further proof Michael and Susan Dell will do anything to keep from paying more in taxes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the world’s biggest weapons-producing companies saw a 5.9% increase in revenue from sales of arms and military services last year; and, Canada has joined a major European Union defense fund as the country looks to diversify its military spending away from the United States.
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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, Ice Barbie Kristi Noem has landed in legal jeopardy after admitting on live TV of brazenly defying a judge’s order.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Portland, Oregon man with previous stalking convictions has been arraigned for harassing the parent of a Sandy Hook victim; in nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, “the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras;” and, Northwestern is the latest institution to go Vichy after agreeing to pay $75 million in a Faustian deal with Trump to restore federal funding.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Wall Street is poised to give back some of last week’s gains with oil prices surging and anything related to cryptocurrency tanking; and, the president of the International Criminal Court said that it will not bow to pressure from the United States and Russia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s personal lawyer and now an appellate judge, Emil Bove, could be hauled into court for criminal contempt and somebody could go to jail for lying to the judge back in March.
Then, on the rest of the menu, it sure looks like Karoline Leavett’s brother set up his ex-wife and mother of his child to be apprehended by ICE for deportation; in the latest sign that a suspected effort to build an immigrant detention center in Newport, Oregon has not gone away, a federal defense contractor has been inquiring about reserving hundreds of hotel rooms on the Oregon coast for a year; and, a federal appeals court upheld a $1 million penalty against Trump and Alina Habba for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s top court upheld Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction and prison sentence for illegal campaign financing of his 2012 reelection bid; and, Kremlin Steve Witkoff is teaching a master class to Russian officials on how to get Trump to sabotage Ukraine and NATO.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bondi ran away after being confronted over the collapse of the criminal indictments against Comey and Leticia James.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump fumed after Pam Bondi was hit with a lawsuit from a senior DOJ official fired over an O’Keefe-led honeypot sting; Oregon’s governor declared a state of emergency to ensure the state gets enough fuel ahead of Thanksgiving holiday travel because of the Olympic Pipeline leak; and, imagine a world without nurses, Trump does.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a hard-right British politician was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for accepting bribes to make favorable statements about Russia in the European Parliament; and, after claiming over the weekend he would see him soon, Trump was shocked and hurt Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld former President Bolsonaro’s incarceration after he admitted to trying to break his ankle monitor while under house arrest.
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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, Pam Bondi’s secret Epstein scheme is revealed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump family fortune has plummeted by over a billion dollars in just a few months due to losses in the volatile cryptocurrency market tied to the King’s approval numbers; a Texas A&M committee ruled a professor’s firing over gender identity lessons was unjustified; and, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine now regrets signing the law that legalized sports betting in his state.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where authorities arrested seven bodyguards suspected of being involved in the assassination earlier this month of a popular mayor in west-central Mexico; and, Jimmy Cliff, the singer and actor whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died at age 81.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike Johnson paces around the halls of the Capitol Building as the Republican Party loses all support from the American people.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Bovino’s jackboots in Rhode Island threatened to smash a judge’s car window to illegally apprehend a high school intern they misidentified; citing due process violations, a federal judge ordered the release of sixteen people detained by Bovino’s jackboots during a raid at a rural Idaho racetrack last month; and, Bovino’s jackboots are monitoring US drivers and detaining US citizens with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Hungarian service of Radio Free Europe ceased operations after Trump capriciously cut off funds for the pro-democracy news outlet; and, a Russian hacking suspect wanted by the FBI was arrested on a Thai resort island.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe,Trump was left reeling this morning as Judge Boesberg announced he will reopen the criminal contempt charges against the self-appointed King and his courtiers.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Bobby at the Wheel blindsided experts at the CDC with an update to the language linking vaccinations to autism; details of “a shocking and disturbing” phone call emerged after Trump defended the Bone Saw crown prince over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi; and, Trump has been sued over his ‘big white blob’ Eisenhower Building renovation that would ‘irreversibly damage’ the 137-year-old building.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples that may contain evidence of life to bring home, now Trump wants to cancel the return portion of the endeavor; and, French authorities are investigating Musk and his Grok chatbot for going full Holocaust-denial, again.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is in a full-blown panic after another Miller bizarre on-air meltdown this time revealed more Epstein secrets.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ordered the removal of a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered native Americans, calling it DEI content; a twice-convicted fraudster who had his lengthy sentence commuted by Trump, was ordered to serve thirty-seven years in prison for a new fraud conviction; and, US Senators from Oregon and California called on a top federal election official who falsely claimed Democrats need “illegal citizens” to vote to win elections and publicly mused about committing voter fraud herself, to rescind those statements or resign immediately.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the British defense secretary warned Russia that it was ready to deal with any incursions into its territory after a spy ship was detected on the edge of UK waters north of Scotland; and, for years the US has warned others to avoid loans from Chinese state banks, but under Trump, it’s the biggest recipient of all.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s Judge Cannon scheme gets blown wide open.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's choice to lead federal prosecutions in the Southern District of Florida flunked out of an entry-level job in that same office several years ago; Kash Patel was accused of 'clear abuse' as an elite FBI swat team is assigned to protect his middling country music star girlfriend; and, there’s so many good people on both sides, Charlotte, North Carolina went from Dapper Nazis surrounding a synagogue to a full blown Nazi blitzkrieg.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK Twitter hacker who breached Obama's account has been ordered by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service to repay $5.4 million in Bitcoin; and, a special tribunal sentenced Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on charges of crimes against humanity for her student crackdown that killed hundreds of people and led to the toppling of her 15-year rule.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a furious federal judge tore into the Trump DOJ over hours of missing grand jury transcript.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Bay Area nature writer’s book has been banned from Yosemite following Trump’s order to remove and revise “negative” information relating to American history; Trump’s Border Patrol Gestapo goon vowed retaliation after a judge suggested over six hundred wrongly held detainees be released; and, Newport, Oregon residents expressed outrage about the relocation of a US Coast Guard rescue helicopter facility, and the federal immigration enforcement gulag that could take its place.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in retaliation for Charlie Kirk’s killing, Trump designated four left-wing European networks that had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk’s killing, as terrorist organizations ; and, British billionaire Joe Lewis is pardoned by Trump for insider trading and conspiracy crimes in New York.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump abruptly ended his press conference on the Continuing Resolution being signed into law over questions about the Epstein emails that were released.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a former speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives was charged with felony theft in connection with a missing thirteen hundred year old piece of historic cypress that had been on display at the State Capitol; Trump did not move the thirteen hundred pound Resolute Desk to Mar a Lago, but he does have a lightweight replica on display there; and, an obscure new Montana law lead to the trashing of tens of thousands of votes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UK economic growth slowed to a near standstill after a cyberattack halted production at the country’s biggest automaker; and, the G7 diplomats publicly showed support for Ukraine but avoided contentious issues like US extrajudicial killings on the high seas and the Trump trade war.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump spiraled out of control on live television during an Oval Office press conference where he kissed merry widow Erika Kirk and attacked Marjorie Taylor Greene for her recent comments on affordability.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Fullerton, California police let a woman go who was held at gunpoint in her car by an ICE agent because “no crime had occurred;” Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice has lost thousands of experienced staff and attorneys, and it has been unable to bring in enough new talent to make up for its losses; and, Trump has withdrawn more nominees since his return to office than any other president in a single year over the last four decades.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where deadly air pollution levels surged in India’s capital of New Delhi; and, Dutch officials vowed to erect a permanent memorial to Black American soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands from the Nazis, after the Heritage Foundation complained the American Battle Monuments Commission of defying Trump’s purge on racial diversity programs.
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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 was booed mercilessly at the Washington Commanders/Detroit Lions matchup, which means ‘centrist’ Democratic Senators will cross the aisle and vote to name the stadium after the convicted felon.
Then, on the rest of the menu, after massive election wins across the country repudiating Trump’s MAGA America, eight Democratic Senators picked a weird time to capitulate and go full Vichy on the shutdown; Ghislaine Maxwell has been pampered so much her prison warden has been accused of corruption in anticipation of Trump commuting the sentence for the convicted pedophile; and, to make matters worse, Trump pardoned dozens of his allies, fake GOP electors and insurrection co-conspirators involved in overthrowing the 2020 election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United Kingdom is outraged the BBC went Vichy and culled its top bosses because of Trump’s criticisms about their January 6 edits; and, British intelligence officials were left “incredulous” as “Crazy-Eyes” Patel compromised the “Five-Eyes” intelligence-sharing agreement between the two countries that had held strong since 1938.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Eleventh Circuit smacked down Judge Aileen Cannon for her coverup of the Trump espionage report.
Then, on the rest of the menu, OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide even when they had no prior mental health issues; Dozy Don and Crash Duffy have cancelled hundreds of air flights nationwide, leaving travelers scrambling for last second, alternate travel plans; and, Trump pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Honda’s profit slips as Trump’s tariffs take their toll on Japanese automakers; and, Serbian lawmakers passed a special law clearing the way for a real estate project financed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, despite widespread public opposition and legal hurdles.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court’s decision about whether Trump's trillion dollar Tariff scheme is unconstitutional or illegal, all comes down to which way Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett flip.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Senate committee hearing devolved into a “stalking” shouting match after a Republican member admitted to tracking Democratic Senator’s cars and spying on them; a Republican-appointed federal judge blasted ICE’s “fictional” attempt to jail an innocent man to twenty years over their own goon’s self-inflicted injury; and, eleven states sued the Trump administration over “unlawful terms” placed on FEMA grants.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States arrested five men in California at Germany's request in an international probe of online fraud involving German payment providers; and, dozens of swastikas painted in human blood were smeared on dozens of cars, hundreds of mailboxes and scores of building facades in the central German town of Hanau, infamous for the racist mass killing of immigrants in 2020.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Fox State Regime Media lost it on live television over the massive election rejection of Trump and MAGA.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ousted the Inspector General of the US housing regulator involved in the Pulte-led mortgage probes of his foes; Trump’s top immigration goon has been accused of inventing a rock attack to justify the use of tear gas, then lying about it in court; and, Oregon is suing the Trump administration over $17.9 million in grant funding the state uses for emergency preparations and domestic security.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has pressed charges against a drunk man who harassed her in the street near Mexico’s seat of government, saying it was an assault on all women; and, Pope Leo called for ‘deep reflection’ about the treatment of detained migrants in the United States.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lindsey Halligan is accused of destroying documents, as a Federal Judge demands to see just what exactly Lindsey did in the Grand Jury rooms to get those indictments against Trump's critics.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration is making unprecedented admission demands of colleges in the Northwest and across the country; MAGA lawyers flipped an anti-KKK law and used it to rip scholarships from Black students; and, Spelman College received a $38 million ‘unrestricted’ gift from Bezos-ex, MacKenzie Scott.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum ruled out changes to security policies after the assassination of a mayor in the violent state of Michoacan; and, an Australian spy chief accused Chinese security services of widespread intellectual property theft and political meddling.
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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 Justice Department admitted to lying to a federal appeals court about deploying US troops on American soil in Portland.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the top Trump-appointed drug regulator at the FDA resigned after federal officials probe ‘serious concerns’ about his conduct; somebody should sue CBS and 60 Minutes for deceptively editing Trump losing his cool over his cryptocurrency pardon he claims he knows nothing about; and, Trump’s classified docs scandal was 'far worse' than reported.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO member Romania signed an agreement with German defense company Rheinmetall to build a gunpowder factory in central Romania; and, Trump’s efforts to help the US coal industry at home are being undermined by falling sales abroad amid his trade war with China.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is spiraling out of control and calling for the nuclear option to deal with his Big Beautiful government shutdown.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Whisky Pete Hegseth ordered the military to detail dozens of JAG attorneys to the Justice Department to act as special assistant US attorneys; a judge ripped apart the Trump administration’s argument against her ruling this week by quoting their top goon’s own words directly from a Fox News interview; and, drugmakers recalled a blood pressure medicine tainted with a cancer-causing chemical over a month ago, but Trump’s FDA is only letting us know now.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Radio Free Asia says it is halting its news operations due to funding troubles caused by Trump’s shutdown; and, Trump is limiting refugee admissions to the worst Boers in the world.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got a very rude awakening at the end of his meeting with Xi Jinping as Russian bombs rained down on Ukraine.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s pick for a top post at the US Export-Import Bank withdrew his nomination after facing scrutiny over his ties to Russian companies and the Kremlin; patients are going without needed treatment after the government shutdown disrupted an important telehealth program; and, after whining about Black sports figures caught in the sports betting scandal, Trump announced an online betting platform that allows bettors to place wagers on the outcomes of elections, sports games, and other events he’s involved in or controls.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders’ far-right party and the centrist D66 are tied in the Dutch general election in an unprecedented neck-and-neck race to run the government; and, five more people were arrested overnight in the Louvre crown-jewels heist, signaling an accelerating dragnet across the French capital and its suburbs.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, another Trump lawyer is in an ethical jam over a new filing ordered by the King.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon’s Black elected officials and faith leaders described the city of Portland, the state and nation as being at a ‘crossroad’ with authoritarianism; children's books are once again at the center of the city council “MAGA-nificent Seven’s” fury in MAGA Huntington Beach, California; and, a 67-year-old US citizen returning home from a team jogging practice, suffered six broken ribs and internal bleeding when he was dragged from his car by federal goons in an immigration sweep as terrified neighbor children in Halloween costumes were crying nearby.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s decision to send the world’s largest aircraft carrier to South America as Vlad escalates tensions, will leave the Mideast and Europe with no US aircraft carriers; and, as the United States is set to starve its own children and elderly, Germany will give more than $1 billion for Holocaust survivors’ home care in 2026.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s DOJ refuses to charge rightwingers who threaten Dems with assassination, but they’ll charge terrorism if you wear an inflatable frog suit in front of an ICE Gulag.
Then, on the rest of the menu Trump made an 'emergency' Supreme Court power grab after an AI plot by his tech pals to take over the Copyright office was thwarted; after a court order to stop its use, ICE illegally deployed tear gas in a quiet Chicago neighborhood as parents and their costumed children headed to a Halloween parade; and, the chairwoman of the Hardin County, Kentucky Republican Party is facing major backlash after her social media posts depicting the Obamas as apes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazilian farmers are beefing up soybean production as China halts its massive business with the US during Trump’s trade wars; and, ten people face trial for cyberbullying the French president’s wife, Brigitte Macron.
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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 trip to Asia got ruined as he learned that Democrats have a plan to stop his attempt to rig the midterm elections and there is not much he can do to stop it now.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a ‘suspicious’ fire erupted overnight at the home of a Black Portland, Oregon city councilor; air flights to Los Angeles International Airport were halted due to the Crash Duffy-caused air traffic controller shortage; and, Hegseth’s Navy lost two aircraft from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes of each other in the South China Sea.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan successfully launched a new cargo spacecraft to deliver supplies to the International Space Station; and, two men in their 30’s have been arrested in the brazen Louvre crown jewels heist.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Special Counsel Jack Smith demanded that any hearing involving him take place on live television, in front of the world, so that Trump and MAGA can’t lie about what he said.
Then, on the rest of the menu, under orders from Trump, the FBI has started visiting the homes of innocent No Kings protesters; a federal judge threw out MAGA Rep Ronny Jackson’s lawsuit against Gavin Newsom aimed at blocking California’s redistricting pushback; and, man who was detained by DC police for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone, sued the District of Columbia.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada on the first day of the World Series between Toronto and Los Angeles, over Ronald Reagan anti-tariff TV ads; and, International Criminal Court judges rejected a jurisdiction challenge in the case of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is accused in dozens of extra-judicial killings when in office.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, underreported by major US media, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a powerful speech at the University of Ottawa, where he showed how Canada can fight back against Trump and win.
Then, on the rest of the menu, despite cratering profits, Musk begged Tesla investors to give him his $1 trillion pay package, assuring them he can be fired if he goes “insane;” after Democratic Senators seized the floor, Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon spoke for more than twenty-two hours to protest Trump’s illegal power grab; and, two leading institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the decimated CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British counterterrorism police arrested three men in London of spying for Russia; and, Japan says it plans to tell Trump they will obey him and build up its military, no matter what they signed on the instrument of surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri all those forgetful years ago.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s approval is crashing to new lows while he literally bulldozes the White House to the ground.
Then, on the rest of the menu, DeSantis officials have been scrubbing evidence that US citizens have been nabbed in Trump’s deportation blitz; more than four-hundred-twenty conspiracy-theory anti-science bills attacking public health protections built up over a century, have hit statehouses this year; and, the Wyoming Capitol, including the governor’s office, was evacuated after an explosive device in front of the building was brought inside.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Secretary-General defended science and weather forecasting as Trump threatens both; and, Putin has directed drills of Russian nuclear forces as his “Yo Mama” summit with Trump is put on hold.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you don’t appoint an incompetent, inexperienced lawyer as your Top Prosecutor in the DOJ to go after your political enemies, because she may just end up screwing her own prosecution by leaking information accidentally to a reporter on Signal.
Then, on the rest of the menu a Trump judicial pick is on hold over criminal links to DeSantis; Trump ordered Treasury employees not to share photos of his brazen and illegal White House demolition; and, federal judges caught the Trump Department of Justice with providing false information in over thirty-five court cases.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Myanmar military shut down a major cybercrime center and detained over two-thousand people; and, Japan’s first woman Prime Minister is an ultraconservative star from a male-dominated party.
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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, Did Trump just steal $400 million dollars from a Miami college in order to build his Trump Presidential Library with DeSantis' help?
Then, on the rest of the menu, good thing Newsom closed the freeway to the public during the massive No Kings rallies because JD Vance's motorcade was hit with shrapnel after an artillery shell blew up over Interstate 5 from the Trump-ordered live fire celebration; Indiana University fired the student newspaper faculty adviser who refused to block news stories critical of Trump; and, Marco Rubio secured a secret a deal for Trump with El Salvador, even though it meant betraying US informants.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where London police are probing whether Prince Andrew asked an officer assigned to him as a bodyguard to dig up dirt on sexual assault accuser Virginia Giuffre; and, the Louvre remained closed, a day after historic jewels were stolen from the world’s most-visited museum in a brazen daylight heist.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump may have immunity, but his ‘corrupt sycophants’ do not.
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the top four star Navy Admiral in Latin America announced his resignation due to Trump’s war crimes of blowing up fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela and murdering at least twenty-one people.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s Albert Speer architectural obsession is not ending anytime soon; attorneys general of more than a dozen states sued Trump over the termination of $7 billion in funding intended for affordable solar energy projects across the US; and, Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of National Public Radio and the first woman to host a national news program, has died at age eighty-seven.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italy’s anti-mafia police are investigating the car bombing of a renowned news anchor on the eighth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia; and, three neo-Nazis who styled themselves after the SS, have been sentenced to between eight and eleven years for plotting attacks against UK mosques and synagogues.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is planning to use Navy warships to strike inside California at the same time the No Kings Protest is taking place on Saturday.
Then, on the rest of the menu, after finding forever chemicals in its drinking water, the Eastern Oregon city of Hermiston was so concerned about the safety of its residents, it stopped testing for them; Brown University is the latest academic institution to tell Trump to eat rocks over his protection money threat; and, dozens of reporters turned in their access badges and exited the Pentagon, rather than agree to being propaganda shops for the government.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leading bishop among Armenian clerics has been arrested as the government escalates its crackdown on the church; and, if Trump blithely discloses to the world the CIA is conducting covert operations inside Venezuela, are they really covert?
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA SCOTUS hears oral arguments to eliminate Black and Brown people from Congress.
Then, on the rest of the menu, federal stormtroopers threatened to shoot an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital; Jim Jordan’s attempt to question Jack Smith hits a major snag; and, a federal judge threw the book at Trump’s presidential library plot.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump threatened to pull support for Argentina if its politics don’t align with his interests; and, Trump declared himself King of the World Cup and of the Olympics.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump DOJ is in a full-blown panic as James Comey's defense team mounts a powerful challenge to Trump's politically motivated prosecution.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the New York Times, Associated Press and even the extreme right wing Newsmax, are among scores of news outlets who say they won’t sign Whiskey Pete Hegseth’s new Pentagon rules; ICE use of full-body straitjacket restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment; and, the Supreme Court rejected Alex Jones’ appeal of his $1.4 billion defamation judgment in the Sandy Hook shooting.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China sanctioned five US units of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean over a probe by Washington into China’s maritime construction dominance; and, China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as Trump sabotages American EV manufacturing.
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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, Lyin’ JD Vance was kicked off a Sunday show interview for lyin’ JD Vance-ing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, gaslighting right-wing influencers shape Trump’s understanding of the Portland protests; the MAGA attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act designed to protect racial minorities, comes to the MAGA Supreme Court this week; and, Barack Obama trashed businesses and universities that have caved to Trump and the policies “cooked up” by Stephen Miller in Marc Maron’s last interview.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the truce fizzles out as trade tensions between the United States and China return to a full boil; and, the Dutch government has taken control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia over “corporate governance shortcomings.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump may have immunity, but his ‘corrupt sycophants’ do not.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a dentist shortage in Maine has some pediatricians working overtime to prevent tooth decay; Dominion Voting Systems quickly sought to finalize the remaining settlements to their lawsuits so they could sell the company to a Trump election denier; and, Trump has weakened the US Chemical Safety Board so severely it is unclear who is investigating the mysterious California refinery fires.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belgian police detained three men over a plot to attack politicians with drones; and, the Venezuelan woman championing representative democracy and free elections won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Florida guy blowing random boats out of the water, killing innocent civilians aboard from Venezuela and then bragging about it, did not.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the only humiliation in court during Comey’s arraignment was on the Trump side.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas cops were caught lying about why they used an AI tool to track a woman who had an abortion; two right-wing social media accounts beloved by MAGA and Musk are run by a Macedonian man who has never visited the United States; and, Trump picked another GOP loser from Oregon for a labor department role.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where EU President Ursula van der Leyen warned Russia is waging a “targeted gray zone campaign” against Europe, including airspace violations, sabotage and cyberattacks; and, a Wisconsin man was sentenced to a year in prison for smuggling lab equipment to sanctioned Russian companies.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Pam Bondi’s Senate Hearing testimony was ‘brazen,’ ‘shameless’ and ‘verifiably false.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, the feds grant ICE building access to conservative media and influencers while ignoring and lying about the local Portland, Oregon press; a law firm representing another firm targeted by Trump with a punitive executive order, was just hit with a massive cyberattack by China; and; a federal judge blocked a Trump effort to change teen pregnancy prevention programs.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where trial of two British men accused of spying for Beijing collapsed because the UK government refused to brand China a threat to national security; and, the top UN rights body ordered probes into human rights in Afghanistan, with a focus on women and girls.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is just out loud lying and feigning amnesia about his close relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Border Patrol agent tried to murder an anti-ICE protester by shooting her five times in her car at a Chicago intersection, and DHS lied to cover for him; MAGA social media accounts bombarded the South Carolina judge with death threats before her house was firebombed; and, the Associated Press disputed Trump’s false characterization of its legal fight over access and reporting.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the newly elected liberal mayor of a town in western Germany was found with life-threatening knife wounds earlier this morning; and, fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after Trump’s illegal and deadly Predator Drone strikes in the Caribbean.
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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 was instantly put in his place after he tried to use the California National Guard troops to conduct a military invasion of Portland, Oregon.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the police chief of Omaha, Nebraska acknowledged that police nationwide are more likely to pull Black people out of their cars at gunpoint after champion boxer Terence “Bud” Crawford was ordered out of his car at gunpoint only hours after the city held a downtown celebration in his honor; Stephen Miller was called out for the violent threats that caused the firebombing of a judge’s home; and, Paramount bought The Free Press website and installed its MAGA Grifter founder Bari Weiss, as CBS News editor-in-chief.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police are investigating what they called a hate crime after a mosque was set on fire Saturday in an English coastal town; and, police in Western Australia seized guns from dozens of owners linked to sovereign citizen ideologies, MAGA White Christian Nationalism and other views that reject government authority.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, posting racist fake videos while refusing to negotiate with Democrats to end the shutdown reveals the madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Tim Apple capitulated to demands from Nazi Barbie Bondi and removed the ICEBlock app that allowed users to track ICE goons; a fundraiser for the family of the MAGA gunman who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze, has raised over $275,000, no word on any fundraisers for the four dead and eight seriously injured; and, ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where major Japanese beverage producer Asahi has been hit by a cyberattack that left its operations disrupted for the fifth day today; and, Europe has hardened its position on Russia as drone incidents, cyber-attacks and infrastructure sabotage mount.
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, how many flashes of insanity from a president should we tolerate?
Then, on the rest of the menu, Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools; the racist Gestapo DHS called a lawsuit filed after a US citizen’s repeated arrests at workplace raids, “race-baiting opportunism;” and, environmentalists, politicians, celebrities and more recall the life and influence of primatologist Jane Goodall.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the captain of an oil tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet will face trial in France; and, Trump was reminded that FIFA, not any government, ultimately decides which cities will host the 2026 World Cup games.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Canada is outmaneuvering Trump after his latest threats before American military generals and admirals.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights dropped a key tool used to investigate workplace discrimination; Trump Border Czar Tom Homan’s own ICE agent set up his FBI sting; and, another federal judge ruled yet another Trump-appointed federal prosecutor was unlawfully installed.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former top aide to a German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been convicted of spying for China; and, the Munich Oktoberfest fairgrounds have closed after a bomb threat following an earlier, deadly explosion in northern Munich.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s newly-installed, inexperienced US Attorney, whose claim to fame is not only competing in Trump beauty pageants, but also insisting there are too many exhibits about slavery in the US African-American museum, encountered a fed up judge fed up with MAGA legal incompetence.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri governor signed a Trump-backed gerrymander aimed at helping Republicans win another US House seat; a 79-year-old US citizen injured in a Los Angeles immigration raid at his car wash business filed a $50 million claim; and, intense and intentional training is helping Democratic women gain state lawmaking seats.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Rory McIlroy called out the ‘unacceptable and abusive behavior’ from MAGAfied golf fans at the Ryder Cup; and, Moldova’s pro-EU party defeated several extreme right wing, pro-Russian groups and won a clear parliamentary majority.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA National Archives illegally released the entire unredacted military file of Mikie Sherrill to her three-time loser MAGA opponent for New Jersey governor, who then “shopped it to the press” when told not to.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon firefighter who was arrested by immigration agents while battling the largest wildfire on the West Coast last month has finally been released; Whiskey Pete Hegseth literally whitewashed the Massacre at Wounded Knee; and, a federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors whose books were illegally pirated to train chatbots.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a senior minister revealed Russia is tracking two Intelsat satellites used by the German military; and, an analysis of leaked Russian documents by a UK-based defense and security forum revealed Russia is helping China prepare an invasion of Taiwan.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had an overnight meltdown as United States fighter jets scrambled over Alaska while Russian aircraft encroached into Alaska air space.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a Black Michigan elementary school student is speaking out after her son was expelled for one year after taking a gun away from a white classmate on campus; Oregon handed over the sensitive Medicaid personal data of every Oregonian in the system demanded by the MAGA government to avoid losing federal funding; and, donors to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s PAC received one billion dollars in state contracts.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Danish officials say the “systematic” drone flyovers at four airports overnight, is “hybrid warfare” by a foreign “professional actor” meant to sow fear and division; and, an Australian judge fined telecommunications giant Optus $66 million dollars for unconscionable conduct selling services to vulnerable customers.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had another late night meltdown as he says he will sue ABC and Jimmy Kimmel while pushing the United States government closer to a shutdown.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump goon Ed Martin threatened Sandy Hook hero FBI Special Agent William Aldenberg for being part of the Alex Jones suit; Black church leaders reject Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom and point to his race rhetoric; and, a former Tennessee House speaker was sentenced to three years in prison over a legislative mail scheme.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Paris court is set to rule on Sarkozy’s illegal campaign financing by Libya’s Ghadafi government; and, Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warned that Russia is spending hundreds of millions of euros to “take power” in a pivotal parliamentary election.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Big Daddy” Gavin Newsom made the Trump administration cry in public.
Then, on the rest of the menu, attorneys press for the release of an Oregon wildland firefighter detained by federal immigration officials while on the fire line of the largest wildfire on the West Coast; the guy who was kicked out of Italy for being too corrupt and too fascist for the corrupt Italian fascists, says American teachers are terrorists; and, Trump just ended hunger in America by shutting down the government’s annual report on hunger in America.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German and Swedish fighter jets tracked a Russian reconnaissance plane flying over the Baltic Sea; and, airport cyberattacks linked to Russian intelligence disrupts more flights across Europe.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, decorated federal prosecutor Maurene Comey is fighting back against Trump over her illegal firing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a city’s ban on no-knock warrants; the MAGA Senate confirmed forty-eight of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the rules; and, a late-night Instagram post from a San Francisco 49ers star led to the unraveling of a massive Charlie Kirk sports news scam targeting NFL players and teams.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one hundred twenty land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared in Latin America last year; and, history has been made, America’s first Pope refuses to meet with the self-appointed King of the Unified States of MAGA Land.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump wants us to talk about Jimmy Kimmel, so we'll talk about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, instead.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon will issue a land use violation notice to the city’s ICE building for breaching detention limits; experts have independently resurrected the Census Bureau advisory committee that was axed by Trump; and, a federal judge ordered Alabama’s largest county to redraw its illegal racially gerrymandered districts.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland is drawing on Ukraine’s expertise in battle-tested drone warfare, just over a week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace; and, British, Lithuanian and Latvian authorities have detained over a dozen people for arson and spying for Russia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats finally go on the offense and call out MAGA Congress Members and witnesses at an important hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration sued Oregon to force it to turn over the full information about every state voter; ICE Barbie Noem lobbed false homicide claims at a grieving mom who had a stillbirth while in ICE custody; and, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice has quietly deleted a study showing that far-right attacks outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violence extremism.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British politicians condemned the “dangerous” comments Elon Musk told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must fight or die; and, British Royalty is indulging the “King Trump” fantasy for him like an over-eager courtesan.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA Supreme Court was “bench slapped” in open court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City; the privately- funded National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta expanding at a critical moment in US history is not immediately subject to King Krasnov’s whims; and one of the GOP’s most prominent foreign affairs hawks is so concerned about WWIII after Russia’s escalation, that he announced his retirement.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ukrainian drones struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries; and, Brazil’s Lula pushed back against Trump’s tariff threat, telling the mumbling authoritarian the country’s democracy ‘is not on the table.’
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as Trump musters his illegal Federal shock troops to invade and occupy major Democratic Sanctuary cities and states, leaders of those Cities and States have unleashed an unexpected push back.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Senate’s top three Democrats, and two of the state’s only Black lawmakers, received bomb threats at their homes over the Charlie Kirk killing; historically Black colleges across the United States issued lockdown orders and canceled classes after receiving threats over the Charlie Kirk killing; and, the two people who were detained, publicly named and later released following the killing of Charlie Kirk, continue to face an onslaught of death threats and stalking, even after police said they were not suspects.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands in Slovakia gathered in an escalation of previous protests against the pro-Russian policies of Prime Minister Fico; and, while Trump shuffles and mumbles, France deployed fighter jets and the UK announced fresh sanctions against Russia over its drone attack over Poland.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s FBI is in total shambles as Kirk’s killer escapes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas dropped its lawsuit against a doctor accused of “illegally” providing care to transgender youth; the Oregon couple who are members of a Christian anti-medicine cult and let their newborn baby die while waiting for a miracle, will serve only thirty days in jail; and, Trump cut grants for minority-serving colleges, declaring them unconstitutional and discriminatory against white men.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German parliament lifted the immunity of a prominent far-right lawmaker who was recently accused of being a spy; and, a New Zealand court rejected the latest bid by internet racketeer Kim Dotcom to halt his deportation to the United States.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, will Trump's attorney face sanctions for lying about the Epstein letter?
Then, on the rest of the menu, Intel’s most senior woman leader has been forced out; former school board member Jennifer Jenkins who defeated a Mom’s for Liberty co-founder, challenges MAGA-extremist Ashley Moody for a US Senate seat in Florida; and, a Georgia judge will toss the landmark racketeering charges against sixty-one ‘Cop City’ protesters.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a spy network being built across Europe by Belarus was broken up by the intelligence services from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania; and, NATO held Article 4 consultations after Polish and Dutch jet fighters shot down Russian drones in Poland airspace.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller's wife is losing it over Gavin Newsom's mockery.
Then, on the rest of the menu, while DHS continues to post propaganda about the arrests on the fire line in Washington State, wildfire veterans say the operation was nearly unprecedented and a breach in longstanding protocol that federal agents don’t disrupt emergency responders to check immigration status; a drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trump has been found guilty of violating terms of his release after a spate of recent crimes; and, Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee want the Trump administration to give its reasons for revoking the security clearances of thirty-seven current and former national security officials.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova’s president accused Russia of conducting a ‘hybrid war’ ahead of the nation’s key elections; and, US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in 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, MAGA Republicans pulled an “insane” last minute scheme in court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Intel said DEI was ‘instrumental’ to innovation, then suddenly stopped talking about it when Trump confiscated part of the company; Trump ordered a Peace Vigil that has stood in Lafayette Park for over forty years dismantled for being a “hazard to those visiting the White House and the surrounding areas;” and, a MAGA Marines' shocking ties to pro-Russian neo-Nazis has been exposed after Raw Story sued the Trump-led Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea leaders feel betrayed over the detainment of hundreds of workers at the Hyundai plant raid in Georgia; and, undersea cables cut in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in Asia and the Mideast.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the most dangerous nepo baby in American history was not put under oath by the MAGA Chairman from Idaho when he repeatedly lied in the Senate Health Department hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, five-time draft-dodger Trump really wants to rebrand the Department of Defense to the Department of War; Brett Kavanaugh is doing his best to rebrand the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” by another name; and, US employers adding just 22,000 jobs last month means Trump will fire whoever at the Labor Department released the report.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea expressed ‘concern and regret’ over a US immigration raid at Hyundai’s Georgia plant that apprehended over four-hundred-fifty South Koreans, including the executives; and, prosecutors in Argentina charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official with trying to hide a stolen 18th-century painting from authorities.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tulsi Gabbard’s reckless outing of a CIA officer has exposed the staggering incompetence of this administration, again.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon, Washington and California are forming a new public health partnership aimed at preserving access to vaccines; the Navy reversed its demotion of drunk quack MAGA Ronny Jackson; and, Trump's surge of federal law enforcement into Washington, DC, is exposing the FBI's fleet of unmarked cars, risking its ability to do its most sensitive national security and surveillance work.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Nepal blocked Facebook, Xitter, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government; and, China’s military parade revealed new hypersonic missiles, drone submarines and ICBMs.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA leaders in Congress instantly folded during a contentious cross examination at a heated hearing about Trump’s cover up of his dark past.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the just-resigned director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, accused Robert F Kennedy Jr of promoting eugenics; concerns about possible deportation are at the top of the mind as Oregon’s roughly half million students return to their classrooms; and, Trump is moving the Space Command from its fortified base buried deep in the Rocky Mountains, to an area out in the open in the Redneck Riviera of Alabama.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO is working to thwart Russian jamming of civilian flights, two days after a jet carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was targeted; and, the shooting death of an Indonesian diplomat in Peru is being investigated as a contract killing.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, world leaders are furious at Trump after Russia’s attempt to assassinate European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a GPS jamming operation that forced her plane to land in Bulgaria.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s authoritarian policies sparked protests in multiple US cities on Labor Day; a Democrat and a Republican will team up to try to ban masked law enforcement in Oregon; and, the MAGA Supreme Court is poised to rip a new hole in the Constitution.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where African media grilled FIFA’s Infantino about fans and players being safe from MAGA thugs and officials at the 2026 World Cup in the United States; and, German authorities warned people against becoming ‘disposable agents’ for Russia.
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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 is headed for a major disaster in court over his attempt to fire Lisa Cook.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Hegseth is purging everything Black from the military, but he restored the giant painting at West Point of turncoat Robert E Lee wearing his gray Confederate uniform and accompanied by a slave guiding his horse; the Bum from Queens and Ice Barbie put a target on her back as they revoked Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris ahead of her book tour; and, Native American firefighters were detained and arrested by ICE while fighting the largest wildfire in Washington State.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tesla sales plunged again in Europe as anger at Musk keeps buyers away for the seventh month in a row; and, President Milei of Argentina defended his influential sister against claims that she and other close associates profited from a bribery scheme within the country’s disability agency.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith and his lawyers are coming out swinging as he shoves back against MAGA’s “imaginary and unfounded” phony “whistleblower” complaint against him.
Then, on the rest of the menu, mystery surrounds a $1.2 billion Army contract to build a huge tent concentration camp in the Texas desert; the MAGA-led Air Force will provide full military funeral honors to traitor Ashli Babbitt; and, Army is the last service academy to finally sell alcoholic drinks at football games.
(No Chef’s Table today, had to get Gunner to his Vet appointment earlier than planned. The links to the reportage do work.) After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where defense ministers from Japan and Britain hailed their “deep strategic alignment” as a Royal Navy aircraft carrier made a historic port call in Tokyo; and, Australia, Canada and the Philippines staged air defense drills off the disputed shoal guarded by China.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got a rude awakening with major protests chasing his goons from swank DC neighborhoods.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin Lutheran pastor tested the new IRS endorsement rule by backing AOC and lost his church; ICE Barbie says the entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it; and, a federal judge ruled the Mississippi Supreme Court gerrymander map violates the Voting Rights Act.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US appeals court puts the brakes on the contested land transfer for an Arizona copper mine to a pair of international companies; and, Paris residents fight the ‘Disneyfication’ of their beloved Montmartre neighborhood.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller melted down on live television over Trump's latest scandal as Newsom mocked him mercilessly.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump threatened retaliation for countries that tax or regulate US tech companies; the leading license plate camera company has halted cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security over concern how its investigations are used; and, in its efforts to ethnically cleanse America, the Trump MAGA administration charged George Mason University’s efforts to diversify its workforce violates a civil rights law intended to end segregation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Indonesia launched a measles vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak that has killed seventeen; and, Australia accused Iran of organizing antisemitic attacks across the country and has expelled its ambassador.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her MAGA colleagues for playing “Calvin Ball.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, thousands of homes in the Northern California wine country and central Oregon are under evacuation orders and warnings; Trump halted work on a massive New England offshore wind project that’s almost ninety percent complete; and, all of the major railroad companies refuse to join a voluntary safety program to reduce derailments two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an American accused of offering sensitive information on the US military to China has been indicted in Germany; and, European postal services have suspended the shipment of packages to the US over Trump’s tariffs.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the only thing MAGA hates more than fair and free elections, is Gavin Newsom.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Alina Habba is ‘unlawfully appointed’ and has been 'disqualified' as a US attorney by a Republican judge; former Trump advisor John Bolton was the subject of an early morning Night of the Long Knives raid conducted by the FBI; and, Trump’s death penalty push faces setbacks as judges block attempts to reverse prior decisions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Michigan couple held for thirty-two days in a maximum-security Mexican prison without trial over a dispute with a luxury timeshare firm, has filed a lawsuit against the company; and, lawyers asked a judge to order ICE to free a Spanish-language journalist from immigration detention.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the more Trump’s DOJ talks, the more they give a gift of evidence undermining their own prosecutions of Democrats.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal district court accepted a settlement mandating Montana provide education to students with disabilities up to age twenty-two; parents of kids swept away in the Texas floods begged lawmakers to protect future campers while lawmakers devoted all their attention to their illegal gerrymander, instead; and, stocks are falling again on Wall Street after a weaker-than-expected profit report from Walmart.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China races to build the world’s largest solar farm in its efforts to meet emissions targets; and, New Zealand will buy a fleet of US helicopters in a $1.6B military aircraft spending package.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got a rude awakening with major protests chasing his goons from swank DC neighborhoods.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin Lutheran pastor tested the new IRS endorsement rule by backing AOC and lost his church; ICE Barbie says the entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it; and, a federal judge ruled the Mississippi Supreme Court gerrymander map violates the Voting Rights Act.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US appeals court puts the brakes on the contested land transfer for an Arizona copper mine to a pair of international companies; and, Paris residents fight the ‘Disneyfication’ of their beloved Montmartre neighborhood.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump debuted his illegal executive order to eliminate mail-in ballots.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Yosemite National Park employees are furious over the firing of a research scientist for making Trump mad; a federal judge issued an injunction preventing Trump’s FTC from investigating watchdog Media Matters; and, twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Justice to stop immigration requirements on victim funds.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a New Zealand soldier with ties to right wing hate groups admitted to attempted espionage in the country’s first spying conviction; and, the Burkina Faso junta declared the UN coordinator persona non grata over her devastating child rights report.
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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 fatal betrayal of the United States alliances and our democracy is all backfiring in his face.
Then, on the rest of the menu, DHS says its speech writer has a first amendment right to post explicitly racist conspiracy theories on social media; three MAGA-led states are sending their National Guard to DC in service to the King; and, the FDA’s new expert panels are rife with financial conflicts and fringe views.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Swiss watchmaker Swatch apologized for an ad showing a racist gesture against Asians; and, Europe is pushing back against Trump moving to end the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump hated the Jobs Report so much, wait until he finds out about the Producer Price Index. Who’s left to fire?
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge struck down Trump administration orders against DEI programs at the nation’s schools and colleges; a federal judge ordered RFK, Jr to stop giving deportation officials access to the personal information, including home addresses, of all seventy-nine million Medicaid enrollees; and, a federal judge struck down key parts of the Florida law that led to the removal of books from school libraries.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkish authorities detained the mayor of a key Istanbul district along with over forty other officials; and, a senior lawyer in Australia apologized to the Victoria State Supreme Court for AI-generated errors in a murder case.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s Posse Comitatus trial wraps up.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Kari Lake is under investigation for criminal violations of the law related to her leadership at the Voice of America; nine people in Texas pled not guilty in a Ken Paxton-driven elections probe involving ‘vote harvesting;’ and, a federal judge ordered Trump to restore millions of dollars in National Science Foundation grants withheld from UCLA, and in violation of her previous ruling.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico says the twenty-six cartel capos sent to the US were requested by the Trump administration, and not part of tariff talks; and, Brazil President Lula announced five and a half billion dollars in credits for exporters hit by Trump’s fifty-percent tariffs.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the guy who had his wife he was cheating on drive the getaway car to avoid being served a court subpoena, wants to jail Beto O’Rourke for raising funds for elected legislators fighting the MAGA power grab.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a deputy commanding general testified the National Guard rehearsed the show of force against Los Angeles immigration raid protesters; Trump’s rhetoric about DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime; and, TACO now says the Intel CEO has an ‘amazing story’ just days after calling for his resignation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China imposed sanctions on two Lithuanian banks in retaliation for the European Union including two Chinese financial institutions in its sanctions against Russia; and, the United States deployed two warships to a disputed South China Sea shoal after Chinese military vessels collided with a smaller Philippine ship.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s plans of taking over Washington DC is already backfiring in his face as mass protests break out.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a small Oregon county reckons with the fallout from an Amazon data center scandal; dozens of heavily armed feds swarmed a minor DC fender-bender as Trump’s militarized crackdown creates chaos; and, officials are investigating the cause of a Pennsylvania steel plant explosion that killed two and injured over a dozen.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Republicans and Democrats alike exhort Trump to keep the security pact with Australia and the UK alive; and, FIFA moved ahead with a new human rights strategy for the World Cup games, but advocates are skeptical about MAGA America allowing it.
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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 judge assigned to the Epstein FOIA lawsuit is Trump’s worst nightmare.
Then, on the rest of the menu, commercial fishing in a vast Pacific nature area is halted after a judge blocks a Trump order; the trial on whether deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles violated federal law is set to begin this week; and, a Florida farm has been identified as the source of raw milk that sickened dozens.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Europe says the US-Russia summit this week cannot decide on Ukraine land swaps; and, Finnish authorities have charged the captain and two senior officers of a Russia-linked vessel that damaged undersea cables last year between Finland and Estonia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a furious Canada is throwing punches that are landing hard against a weak and incompetent Trump administration.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Stanford University student newspaper sued the Trump administration for violating its first and fifth amendment constitutional rights; Oregon’s only US congressman massively outspent every other US House member on Trump’s inauguration weekend; and, nearly forty percent of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down, quadruple the rate of rejections from a year earlier.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan deployed its first F-35B fighter jets to bolster its defenses in the region; and, Japanese warships visited New Zealand’s capital for the first time in almost ninety years.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Texas MAGA totally melt down after Dems derail Trump’s power grab plans.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump thinks he can change when and how the Census is taken because he’s the King and kings can do anything they want, or else; unable to recruit enough unqualified goons for their ethnic purge, DHS has lowered the age limit for ICE applicants so teens can carry guns and kick down doors, too; and, JD Vance made quite the splash when he ordered the Army Corps Engineers to raise the water level of an Ohio river for his kayak vacay.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Toyota’s profit plunged thirty-seven percent with the auto giant cutting its full year earnings forecasts because of Trump’s tariffs; and, Indian authorities continue their brutal crackdown on dissent in Kashmir by banning over two dozen books by eminent authors and scholars.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, US Representative Jasmine Crockett breaks down Gerrymandering, Gaslighting, and Ghislaine.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Southeastern Louisiana University scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation; anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy, Jr axed five hundred million dollars from vaccine development that has saved millions of lives; and, a Michigan museum preserves Civil Rights artifacts amid federal MAGA efforts to disappear Black history.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s crackdown on foreign students and higher education has resulted in a sharp rise in university applications outside the United States; and, Afghan women turn to online courses as the Taliban bans education for women beyond primary school.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s plan to unlawfully gerrymander Texas has instantly backfired as Republicans are terrified now that Democratic governors and leaders are actually fighting back.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon is leading the legal fight against Trump’s cuts to humanities funding; a MAGA lawsuit challenging California affordable housing programs has been filed after a Supreme Court ruling on another California housing issue; and, a federal judge ordered Florida and federal officials to produce ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ agreements showing which government agency or private contractor has legal authority to detain people.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia says it no longer will abide by its self-imposed moratorium on intermediate-range missiles; and, Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency and later a successful thriller writer, has died at age 90.
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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 Supreme Court weighs the nuclear option on the Voting Rights Act about a week before the sixty year anniversary of the law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration told NASA to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that scientists and farmers rely on that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; the Oregon Jewish Museum was vandalized with painted swastikas; and, Trump told Schumer to “go to hell.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a lawyer says he’s not been allowed to see the five immigrants secretly deported last week by the US to solitary confinement in a prison in Eswatini; and, Brazil’s Supreme Court is standing firm on the Bolsonaro trial despite foreign pressure coming mostly from Trump.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump attorney Jeffrey Clark has been referred for disbarment.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Portland, Oregon mayor ordered the city to go Vichy and change its equity policies to comply with the King’s anti-DEI mandate; the MAGA House is trying to defund a beloved national monument in Utah; and, two Colorado deputies have been disciplined for violating state law by helping federal agents make immigration arrests.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where TACO Trump injected a new dose of uncertainty in tariffs as he pushed the start date back to August 7; and, the Pakistani independent human rights group demanded the withdrawal of terror charges against a 7-year-old boy for sharing an anti-government speech by a rights activist on social media.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, what makes America great is Trump after getting instantly called out and bullied by his pissed off political rivals.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Georgia MAGA PAC tied to a Ponzi scheme illegally sought to influence elections in the state; the MAGA Senate confirmed a white nationalist, neo-Nazi who failed twice running for office, as Trump’s counterterrorism chief; and, the MAGA administration was ordered by a federal judge to explain why his order to restore Voice of America wasn’t followed, and who pocketed the damn money congress appropriated.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where eighteen countries applied for billions of EU funds as Europe seeks to provide for its own security without the renegade United States; and, an Australian court rejected an appeal by the Musk social media outfit in a child safety case and was ordered to pay legal costs.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump goes on the attack against the chief judge of the DC federal district court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK Jr is under investigation after his 'dangerous and unprecedented' purge of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; Pete Hegseth is about to see “Signalgate” enter the group chat once again; and, a Wisconsin man plead guilty to smuggling lab equipment to Russian companies.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump moved to lift visa restrictions for Argentina in a boost to his right-wing ally; and, former Colombian President Uribe is found guilty in a bribery and witness tampering trial that threatens the strongman’s legacy.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch is blowing up in his face.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ratcliffe’s CIA dumped the 'best officer of his generation' over a 'nightmare' warning about Trump; the Trump Justice Department has been forced to drop scores of cases against protesters in Los Angeles because of false claims made by federal immigration agents; and, MAGA states have “kicked a hornet’s nest” by repealing voter-approved laws.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland has detained thirty-two people for coordinating with Russia to engage in acts of sabotage; and, the EU admits it doesn’t have the power to guarantee the $600 Billion Dollar promise to Trump, only hours after he brayed about it.
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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, DOJ officials who enter into a corrupt bargain with Maxwell to protect Trump, can be charged with criminal conspiracy.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump was caught on camera cheating at golf in Scotland; authorities will file terrorism and assault charges against the suspect in the Michigan Walmart knife attack; and, more than 3,400 Boeing fighter jet workers in the St Louis area rejected a contract offer and are expected to strike.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Union regulators accused Temu of failing to prevent the sale of illegal products; and, as Dubai cracks down on crowded, illegal apartments, migrant workers have nowhere else to go.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ghislaine Maxwell never testified in her own criminal trial, so “what did Todd Blanche offer her to make her suddenly decide she was safe” with him?
Then, on the rest of the menu, a virtual meeting of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission was interrupted by a “Zoom bomb” of pornographic, racist and antisemitic images and audio; Oregon-based Columbia Sportswear is suing New York Columbia University over a trademark dispute; and, an exhibit at the Muir Woods National Monument in California has become the first casualty in Trump’s order to erase history.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Russian parliament approved a bill punishing online searches for information deemed ‘extremist;’ and, a French court will decide if Assad can be stripped of immunity and tried for the Syrian chemical attacks against his own people.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Japan outplayed Trump in his big beautiful trade war.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump EPA is torched for a move that will 'decimate' home gardens; the Trump Forest Service claims it has reached 99% of its firefighting hiring goal, but internal data shows that characterization is dangerously misleading; and, Trump’s gulag guards banned Bibles at Alligator Alcatraz, saying there's "no right to religion" there.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spanish airline Vueling denies reports that passengers were removed from a plane because they are Jewish; and, small Brazilian coffee producers fear for the future after Trump’s 50% tariff.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it may be purely a coincidence, but Epstein’s former lawyer suddenly died and then total chaos consumed the White House on all fronts.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration wants Oregon to hand over personal food stamp data by tomorrow; the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the New Jersey law banning immigration detention contracts; and, Texas lawmakers finally begin a review of catastrophic floods that killed at least one hundred thirty-five children and adults.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey, lacking any logic whatsoever, has banned elective C-sections at private medical centers because Erdogan thinks it will increase birthrates; and, in response to Trump disrupting the United States economy, over a dozen companies pledged to invest more than seven hundred billion dollars in Germany over the next three years.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the “most transparent administration in history” keeps exposing their Epstein cover up for the world to see.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s Labor Department proposes more than sixty rule changes to deregulate workplaces; Trump administration officials sold stocks days before key tariff announcements; and, MAGA Blondie Bondi is taking revenge on the family of the man who created the Anti-ICE app.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a fugitive Moldovan oligarch implicated in a one billion dollar bank fraud has been detained in Greece; and, a British man who dreamed of being like James Bond was convicted of attempting to spy for Russia.
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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 panicked all night over his ever-consuming scandals.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled Mississippi’s social media age verification law can go into effect; Trump threatened to hold up a stadium deal if the Washington Commanders don’t switch back to their legacy of racism; and, Crash Duffy imposed new restrictions on flights from Mexico.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Kenyan pro-democracy activist Boniface Mwangi was charged with possession of ammunition; and, Musk’s social media platform denied accusations from French prosecutors of data tampering and fraud, calling them politically motivated.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike panicked live on television as Trump’s plan backfired in his face.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Louisiana canceled its $3 billion repair of disappearing Gulf coastline that was funded by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement; a second Neo-Nazi has been charged for assault in the 2024 Nashville antisemitic attack; and, the wife of the embattled Louisiana police chief charged in an immigration visa fraud scheme has also been arrested.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British spies and special forces identities were exposed in the Afghan data leak; and, El Salvador’s top human rights organization announced it is leaving the country because of mounting harassment and legal threats by the government of President Bukele.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Maurene Comey, a career federal prosecutor in Manhattan, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, as well as the lead in the Epstein and Sean Diddy prosecutions, has been fired from her job in the Southern District of New York by the Trump/Bondi Justice Department for reasons unknown, so don’t talk about it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA John Roberts secretly praised Trump during crisis talks with judges who ruled against him; the Urban League declared a ‘state of emergency’ for civil rights in the US; and, only one in four US adults say Trump’s policies have helped them.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Europol-coordinated global operation took down a pro-Russian cybercrime network; and, the UK and Germany are set to sign a treaty on defense, trade and migration.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Justice Department refused to intervene in Ghislaine Maxwell’s case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Native American radio stations are at risk as the MAGA Congress looks to cut $1Billion in public broadcasting funding; “Crypto Week” in the MAGA House is not going as planned; and, a federal MAGA judge in Texas reversed a Biden-era rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Turkish court sentenced Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to Erdogan, to almost two years in prison for insulting and threatening a public official; and, a Chinese court sentenced a Japanese man to more than three years in prison on espionage charges.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA SCOTUS looks dead set on gutting the Voting Rights Act again, this time with a North Dakota case especially teed up to be issued from the MAGA Shadow Docket.
Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-four states sued the Trump administration to unfreeze more than $6 billion in education grants; the Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change reports on the NASA website as promised; and, for the first time in over seventy-five years, Native American teens were able to kayak the whole length of the Klamath River in celebration of the removal of four decayed dams and the return of long-lost salmon.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where turncoat Daniel Martindale, the US citizen who helped the Kremlin target and kill thousands of Ukrainian troops while he resided in the embattled country, has been granted Russian citizenship as “a sign of respect and a sign of gratitude for what Daniel has done;” and, an Irish tourist who overstayed his visa by three days because he was sick in the hospital, says "nobody is safe” after being held by ICE for over a hundred days in squalid and brutal conditions.
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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, attorney Marc Elias predicts the actual reason for Trump’s bizarre Epstein rant.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas governor Abbott won't release his emails with Elon Musk because they are of a “private nature, not of public interest and potentially embarrassing;” chasing bizarre theories becomes a major White House time suck; and, Trump refused to leave the stage after presenting Chelsea with the FIFA Club World Cup trophy, baffling the London team.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Union trade ministers meet to forge a strategy after Trump’s surprise 30% tariffs on America’s largest trade partner; and, the largest-ever war-fighting drills in Australia are underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spy ships.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Japan is furious at Trump and they made a powerful statement rejecting his disgraceful conduct.
Then, on the rest of the menu, DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent; DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data, so now it can cut off billions to farmers; and, federal officials charged a prominent Georgia Republican with running a $140 million Ponzi scheme.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China; and, Cambodian lawmakers passed a constitutional amendment allowing the government to revoke citizenship
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious world leaders like Lula from Brazil, Modi of India, Zelenskky of Ukraine, the foreign minister in Mexico and President Sheinbaum, are taking decisive action to checkmate Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the ‘oppressive’ Florida State University revenue-sharing deals show continued exploitation of college football players; an “anti-government militia” announced that it is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars for manipulating the weather, days after an individual vandalized a news station’s radar; and, the Trump administration sued California, arguing animal cruelty laws are the real cause of high egg prices.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European court ruled that Russia committed widespread human rights violations in Ukraine and was behind the downing of Flight MH17; and, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen comfortably survived a ‘no confidence’ vote.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the American public knows Donald Trump is lying about tariffs and they’ve figured it out without any help from the White House press corps who continue to accept his lies as answers.
Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK Jr.’s vaccine policy sparks a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics; Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts; and, Trump blocked a ‘click-to-cancel’ rule, intended to make cancelling subscriptions easier, just before it was to go in effect.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Turkish court ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok for offensive content; and, French police raided the far-right National Rally headquarters in a new finance probe.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it was a sight to behold Fox News panicking on live tv over Trump’s major failures, and trying to desperately flip the script.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is opening new coal sales from public lands in Montana and Wyoming; a Georgia appeals court upheld a ruling that election officials must certify results according to deadlines set in law; and, ICE Barbie Kristi Noem shrugged off oversight as detainee deaths surge.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British jury convicted three men of an arson attack organized by Russian intelligence; and, Trump’s director of personnel, Sergio Gor, was born in the Soviet Union and secretly visited Moscow just last year.
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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, Fox issued an apology in anticipation of a defamation suit by Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the anti-climate change MAGA candidate who claimed no one was killed in the Texas 'fake flood,' ramped up a $175M Texas 'land grab' conspiracy; the guy who said he only wants little Jews wearing yarmulkes counting his casino money, claims he never knew ‘shylock’ is an antisemitic term; and, the quick action by one Texas summer camp lead to timely evacuations ahead of the deadly flash flood no one was warned about.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China retaliated against the EU with a ban on European medical devices; and, China used embassies to undermine the sales of France’s flagship Rafale fighter jet.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, King Krasnov gave an Independence Day speech for the ages at the Iowa State Fair.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is the one responsible for halting aid to Ukraine, blindsiding the State Department; Alina Habba has been under professional investigation for a year in a hush money scheme for Trump; and, the Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group filed a lawsuit against a state park for breaking state law by planning an exhibit on slavery, segregation and white supremacy.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hours after US anti missile shipments were halted to Ukraine, Russia hammered Kyiv in the largest missile and drone barrage since the war began; and, a strike by air traffic controllers is disrupting travel to, from and over France.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a whiny-ass House MAGA whined on the Capitol steps, “we are not a bunch of little bitches!”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA dropped a legal case against major Trump donor GEO Group over its misuse of a harmful disinfectant in an ICE facility; with anti-vax loon RFK, Jr at the helm, the United States is seeing the largest measles outbreak since the infectious disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago; and, National Guard pilot Jo Ellis is suing a right-wing influencer for falsely blaming her for the DC crash that killed sixty-seven people.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s foreign minister denounced spy charges being used to hold two French nationals in Iran for more than three years; and, a US federal appeals court ordered the reinstatement of the convictions of a former Fox executive and a South American sports media/ marketing company in the FIFA bribery investigation.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s mid-decade “census recount" plan is obviously illegal to anyone who cares.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a MAGA TV outlet was forced to change its name because it 'confused' Trump; Zuckerberg’s ‘Bizzaro World’ cameo at a top secret military conference with Trump left military leaders and officials in attendance “mystified and a bit unnerved;” and, a bombshell report revealed a 'massive stockpile' of cash Trump has built since the election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the first American ‘scientific refugees’ have begun arriving in France; and, Azerbaijan detained seven people linked to Kremlin media outlet Sputnik over the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis held in Russian custody.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump rushed off to the Florida Everglades concentration camp for alligator feeding time.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is appealing the judicial order striking down his EO that targeted law firm Perkins Coie; Texas data shows after Abbott outlawed abortion, near death first trimester miscarriages soared to over fifty-four percent; and, Iran, if you’re listening, if you could release the tens of thousands of hacked emails from Tump’s inner circle of Susie Wiles, Lindsey Halligan and Roger Stone, our media will reward you, mightily.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s lavish ex-deputy defense minister was handed a thirteen-year prison sentence on corruption charges; and, coming to an America near you, Turkey’s Erdogan has just detained over one hundred-twenty opposition figures, including a former mayor.
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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 Trump lawyer just got some brutal disbarment news.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the suspected gunman who fatally ambushed firefighters in MAGA Land Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, has been found dead; a second intelligence leak has undermined Trump’s claim that the Iranian nuclear program has been “totally obliterated;” and, while serving as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem secretly took a 'disturbing' $80K payment from a mystery donor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chilean communist scored a surprise win in the primary vote as the larger battle with the far-right looms; and, women can be drafted into the Danish military as Russian aggression and military investment grows.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans have lost so much control at their hearings, even Melania got roasted by witnesses on live television.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Big Balls never left, he’s now embedded in the biggest agency Musk wants to break; Oregon’s only congressional Republican has joined the chorus against federal land sales; and, Louisiana is latest state to redefine planet-warming natural gas, as green energy.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Apple revamped its EU App Store terms to avert more fines; and, Brazil’s outspoken first lady is coming under fire, but she refuses to stop speaking out.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, well-known draft dodger Bone Spurs Krasnov says he’s a warrior for watching bombs drop, and he’ll disappear any reporter who reports he’s not more of a warrior than Eisenhower, that guy on PT-109 and all the those dead losers on battlefields through all of time.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s Big Beautiful $20 Billion Dollar War with CBS will have to knock off three zeros; rumors about armed militia threatening teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forced a medical unit to flee hurricane-hit North Carolina; and, a federal judge ordered the Labor Department to keep Job Corps running during its lawsuit to purge the Great Society from American life.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where reeling from the erratic firehose of Trump rebukes, Europe weighs deeper ties with China; and, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her administration is investigating contamination from a SpaceX rocket explosion that landed in its territory.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an exploding “F*** You!” Trump whistleblower bomb has exposed a lawless DOJ plot.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Stephen Miller’s push to have the FBI assist in the Trump administration’s ethnic cleansing has been put on ice; in response to a habeas ruling by the bench, MAGA Pam Bondi is demanding the entire federal district court in Maryland recuse itself; and, acting-US attorney Alina Habba was slapped with a new ethics complaint over her pursuit of New Jersey Democrats.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a federal judge ordered Trump to release billions of dollars in funding for electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states; and, after musing whether he abides by Article 5 of the NATO treaty “depends on your definition,” TACO said about twenty-four hours later that he stood with that promise.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a key provision of the MAGA budget bill that sought to limit judicial power is dead.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s lawyers are trying to claim in court he doesn’t use a computer; home sales just posted their slowest May in sixteen years; and, a jury ordered a J6’er to pay five hundred thousand dollars to the widow of a DC police officer who killed himself after the insurrection.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where pro-Russian hackers launched a series of denial-of-service attacks on several municipalities and organizations linked to the NATO summit; and, the fighting between Iran and Israel raises questions about Russia’s influence in the Middle East.
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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 was dealt a stinging rebuke by the judge in the latest Garcia hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE detained a Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby; oil prices flip-flop and US stocks drift as Wall Street waits for Iran’s reaction to Trump’s ‘Good Vibrations’ bombing attacks; and, Elon Musk announced plans to completely rewrite human knowledge itself after his AI chatbot Grok keeps clashing with his far-right worldview.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian prosecutors asked for a 14.5-year prison sentence for a former deputy defense minister jailed on bribery charges; and, 639 employees of Voice of America, including employees at VOA’s Persian-language service, were issued layoff notices just before Trump’s Big Beautiful Bombing of Iran.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, New Jersey governor candidate and former Navy lieutenant Mikie Sherrill, critiqued Trump’s military deployments to US cities.
Then, on the rest of the menu, first the states cut civics classes, now the Mississippi education board has axed the US history test for high schoolers to graduate; Virginia Democrats have a big fundraising advantage in the race for governor this year; and, he didn’t complain about it on Columbus Day, but Trump had to rail about federal holidays on Juneteenth.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s new president nominated a center-right former mayor as prime minister; and, Europe and Iran will try diplomacy as Trump weighs nuking cofeve in two weeks.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Hegseth insists on “Peace Through Strength,” but several strong women senators tore him to pieces.
Then, on the rest of the menu, tech companies don’t want you to know how much energy AI uses; the MAGA Justice Department says the Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos for her cancer research brought in illegal ‘biological materials;’ and, Redemption Bank becomes the first bank owned by a Black-led investment group in the Western US.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland’s lawmakers voted to leave the international land mine treaty as the Nordic country boosts its defenses against Russia; and, Russia’s economy minister says the country is on the brink of recession.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Tina Smith confronted Christo-Nationalist MAGA Mike Lee for mocking the Minnesota assassination victims, who were also her personal friends.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Colorado shut down a state campaign finance site after the Minnesota assassination; Oregon state lawmakers recently passed a bill blocking their personal addresses; and, Trump called Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “slick,” “whacked out” and said, “I’m not calling him” after the targeted shootings of two state lawmakers because it would “waste time” he doesn’t waste on losers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech coalition government faces a parliamentary no-confidence vote over a bitcoin scandal; and, the remaining leaders at the G7 will have no problem completing their summit after Trump’s early exit.
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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 cognitive issues continue being exposed as he is bullied into submission for his failures.
Then, on the rest of the menu, voters rebuked the MAGA-led Huntington Beach City Council effort to ban books; Noem’s not-so-secret boyfriend Lewandoski was spotted at the detention of Senator Alex Padilla; and, the Louisiana AG is investigating CVS for sending mass text messages lobbying against legislation that would have closed down the corporation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US-backed Israeli company’s spyware was used to target European journalists; and, with daily threats from DHS, ICE and the White House, fans don’t appear to be snatching up tickets to the Club World Cup.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the rightwing Georgia Supreme Court ruled against MAGA Republicans.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the former head of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs filed a federal lawsuit accusing Governor Kay Ivey of wrongful termination and defamation; a former worker who leaked information about plans by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration to build golf courses and hotels in Florida state parks has filed a whistleblower lawsuit; and, seven Arkansas families filed suit challenging the state law that requires the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Polish security services have detained three men who were planning an attack inspired by Neo-Nazi perpetrators of mass killings; and, the European court ruled Italy is not liable for the actions of the Libyan Coast Guard in a fatal 2017 migrant boat sinking.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Pam Bondi's brother was dealt a stunning defeat in the DC Bar election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin lawsuit seeks to ban Elon Musk from ever again offering $1 million checks to voters for their votes; Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill targeting out-of-state doctors who prescribe and mail abortion pills; and, a federal appeals court in New York is set to hear arguments in Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Netanyahu’s government faces a possible collapse as the opposition seeks to dissolve it; and, three far-right lawmakers in Greece were expelled from parliament due to ties with a Neo-Nazi politician convicted of leading a criminal organization.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, over three hundred National Institute of Health employees have published the ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration health policies.
Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK Jr’s top aide attacks the US health system while running a company that promotes untested wellness alternatives; Trump got a public rebuke as the Smithsonian refused to kowtow to his illegal orders; and, the Mad King decreed we are all going to get coal, and we better like it or else.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech president appointed a new justice minister amid a bitcoin scandal; and, the US-China trade talks in London entered their second day.
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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, Gavin Newsom criticized Trump as “a stone-cold liar” after his call about the ICE invasion.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Washington state farmworkers fear retaliation and deportation for reporting sexual harassment to a key federal agency under Trump; a reporter from Australian Channel 9 News was shot with rubber bullets live on air in Los Angeles as she was covering the ICE blitzkrieg; and, you can tell MAGA propaganda works because MAGA state houses are filing bills to outlaw chem trails.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Czech court sentenced a Colombian national to eight years in prison for an arson attack tied to Russia; and, NATO chief Rutte called for a 400% increase in the alliance’s air and missile defenses to counter the threat from Russia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump lost four court cases within hours of each other.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s surgeon general pick criticizes others’ conflicts but profits from wellness product sales that puts money in her own pocket; a jury awarded a California prosecutor $3 million after she was forced out of her position; and, seventy law professors, attorneys and former Florida Supreme Court justices filed a Florida Bar complaint accusing Pam Bondi of ‘misconduct’ as US Attorney General.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China issued warrants for Taiwanese hackers and banned a business for pro-independence links; and, the private lunar lander from Japan crashed into the moon in a failed mission.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a legal scholar schooled Josh Hawley during a Senate hearing on all these “commie judges ruling against Trump.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, instead of being gone in one hundred and thirty days, ‘Big Balls’ and other core DOGE brownshirts are now full time government employees; a MAGA political consultant behind AI-generated robocall deepfakes of Joe Biden, goes on trial in New Hampshire; and, surgeons say the MAGA MAHA report wrongly dismisses tonsil and ear tube surgeries as harmful, ignoring evidence that the procedures greatly improve sleep, hearing, and behavior in children.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the outgoing head of Europe’s drug agency warned of a surge of violence from the extreme right wing stimulant trade; and Trump’s travel ban has an exemption for Olympic and World Cup athletes and coaches, but not for their families and fans.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike was torn to shreds by his own party.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s DOGE goons left the US Institute of Peace they illegally tried to take over, full of cockroaches and pot; a Tennessee appeals court upheld the law from Republican legislators to punish blue Nashville’s council for refusing the Republican National Convention in the Music City; and, the FBI discovered a cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding a home in Washington state.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pete Hegseth is too busy purging women, gays and non-whites from the US military to show up at an important NATO meeting, the first time a Pentagon chief has blown off the fifty-nation meeting since the group’s inception; and, Cologne, Germany has begun its biggest evacuation since 1945 to defuse three unexploded US WWII bombs unearthed early on Monday.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the New York Bar Council is addressing a complaint about top Trump official Emil Bove by kicking it back to Trump’s DOJ.
Then, on the rest of the menu, ex-Homeland Security official Miles Taylor is fighting back against Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ investigation order; NOAA says it will hire ‘mission-critical’ weather service positions that were cut because ketamine-addled, apartheid-loving South African Boers said they know better; and, OAN’s ‘MAGA Girl’ Pentagon reporter learned the limits of expressing her own opinion.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Dutch Prime Minister said his coalition government will become a caretaker administration after far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders pulled his ministers out of the Cabinet; and, the Liberal candidate is forecast to win South Korea’s snap presidential election.
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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, Representative Daniel Goldman confronted plainclothes ICE agents who stormed his district office.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the New England Patriots were threatened with a MAGA boycott for a Pride flag display during Pride Month; Tulsa’s new Black mayor proposed a $100 million dollar trust to ‘repair’ the impact of the 1921 Race Massacre by a white mob; and, Trump fast-tracked a Utah uranium mine, but an industry revival may wait for higher prices.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the election of a Trump ally in Poland could alter European Union/Ukraine policies; and, Ukrainian spies hid the drones in woodsheds and hired unwitting Russian truck drivers to transport the weapons deep in the country that crippled Russian defenses and nuclear capabilities.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after a failed attempt to takeover the North Carolina State Supreme Court, the MAGA US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to purge voters from the state registration rolls.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas cops searched license plate cameras across the United States to find a woman who had an abortion; a controversial wage theft bill that MAGA hates passed the Oregon House; and, the TACO administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for thirty-four offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a US tanker in the North Sea pleaded not guilty to manslaughter at a UK court hearing; and, a global rally for stocks lost steam amid questions about what the administration and courts will do to the TACO Tariffs.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is called out for his “brutal and ugly attacks” that have caused a spike of threats against federal judges.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States is storing migrant children’s DNA in a future crimes criminal database; Oregon's chances to implement stricter vehicle emission regulations could be derailed by the MAGA federal government; and, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has caused industry leaders to cancel or delay more than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the US just this year.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where California avocado growers say Mexican imports have helped their sales; and, the Canadian province of Manitoba declared a state of emergency over wildfires and imposed the largest evacuation in the province’s history.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the anti-voting section of the Trump Department of Justice filed an anti-voter lawsuit in North Carolina.Then, on the rest of the menu, NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit in federal court against Trump’s illegal, retaliatory executive order; Trump’s Border Gestapo Chief Tom Homan has been cashing checks from one of the private prison giants profiting from the immigration crackdown he’s overseeing; and, the Trump State Department stopped scheduling visa interviews for foreign students while it expands vetting their social media so they can be thrown in a gulag somewhere.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, law firm Paul Weiss capitulated to Trump, now it has lost its top partners.
Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK, Jr’s FDA head warned doctors to “stop throwing insulin at diabetics,” or else; the state Trump won by just one percent faces an ugly three hundred fourteen million dollar loss in vital aid in the “Big Beautiful Bill;” and, former US Representative Charles Rangel, who spent nearly fifty years representing New York, has died at age ninety-four.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tesla sales across Europe plunged by half last month, even as growth in the electric car market picked up pace; and, Russia-backed far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who upended the Romanian presidential race, has withdrawn from politics.
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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 Supreme Court blocked the nation’s first religious charter school in a surprise rebuke, with Amy Coney Barrett recusing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, American refugees are fleeing across state lines to escape hostile forces under Trump; Kentucky’s bitcoin boom has gone bust; and, a just-passed Louisiana law threatens residents with one million dollar fines for sharing warnings about bad air quality.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian hackers are targeting Western firms shipping aid to Ukraine; and, Trump’s early morning rage tweet tariff threats on the European Union and Apple, have sent US futures and global markets on a sharp death spiral.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a fed up Supreme Court schooled the Trump administration on the basics of Constitutional law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is 'deeply underwater' on his Wall Street skyscraper as a massive debt deadline looms; a fire at the historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set; and, the two Israeli Embassy staffers murdered near the White House by a “Free Palestine” activist, had just left the Young Diplomats Reception for multinational aid to Gaza.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s Constitutional Court unanimously validated the results of Romania’s presidential election rerun, shortly after rejecting a request to annul the results by the hard-right Moscow-backed candidate; and, Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Yingluck has been ordered to pay for losses from a money-losing rice subsidy program.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's budget bill has created a 'legislative suicide pact' for the MAGA House.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pacific Northwest braces for a tsunami and typhoon monitoring blackout from Trump’s agency shutdown; a bombshell email leak has exposed a Gabbard goon secretly ordering intel changes so it couldn’t be ‘used against’ Trump; and, the hacker who breached the Signal chats used by Waltz and Hegseth, intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police broke up a right-wing extremist group that aimed to destabilize the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents; and, the mother of the arrested Salvadoran lawyer who represented Trump’
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, and Trump gave up in a humiliating surrender before the world.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge just struck down DOGE’s attempt to seize the $500 million dollar building owned by the US Institute of Peace; a Black neighborhood fights back as an Elon Musk supercomputer factory belches toxic pollutants into the air; and, Pacific Northwest hydroelectric power risks a major shutdown as agencies lose hundreds of on-the-ground employees because of Trump’s cutbacks.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Honda pulls back on its EV strategy and will now push hybrid sales; and, at a South Africa agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff at Trump’s allegations of white genocide.
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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 Supreme court ripped Trump and his cabinet to shreds.
Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly three-quarters of the attorneys working for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have resigned in protest of Trump's “perversion” of the department’s mission; libraries across the country are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle the small Institute of Museum and Library Services; and, Trump set up a tip line for federal employees to snitch on colleagues working on DEI initiatives, and not one of the fifteen thousand employees at the EPA used it.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania’s presidential election; and, Putin outlawed Amnesty International in his latest crackdown on dissent and activists.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Democratic Party hit record recruitment numbers for 2026.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Multnomah County health officials have confirmed one case of active tuberculosis at a middle school in Southeast Portland, Oregon; Trump has suspended the asylum system, leaving immigrants to face an uncertain future; and, the US lost a major percentage of business travelers in April as economic anxiety and border detentions have cooled demand.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Estonia warned that Russia is using military force to defend its shadow fleet of aging tankers violating international sanctions; and, Vietnam approved the Trump Organization’s $1.5 billion golf and real estate project to avoid Donnie Two Doll’s 46% tariff.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a major update on arrested judge Dugan is discussed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a new law bans Oregon employers from asking for an applicants’ age; a federal judge ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for West Virginia coal miners; and, a Texas prosecutor sued to compel Border Patrol testimony in the criminal trial of the Uvalde school police chief.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three Russian-backed Ukrainian nationals have been arrested in Germany and Switzerland for plans to send explosive parcels to Kyiv; and, the Mexican security chief confirmed seventeen Chapo cartel family members entered the US in a green card deal with the Trump administration, and nobody cares.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the “most corrupt president,” has been telling Americans to live in austerity because of his tariffs, while he wants “the most expensive private plane in the world” as a gift.
Then, on the rest of the menu, White House correspondents protested the lack of wire reporters on Air Force One traveling to the Middle East; staff rebuffed two Trump appointees from entering the Copyright office; and, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission moved to fire a judge who is fighting Trump directives.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four men arrested in West Africa for an extortion scheme are linked to a California teen’s suicide; and, in a development sure to anger Trump and MAGA, Germany banned the largest anti-Democracy ‘Reich citizen’ group in the country and arrested four of its leaders.
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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, Stephen Miller insists Trump has to suspend habeas corpus because the Supreme Court doesn’t understand the law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a probation officer in Oregon was fired for using a Nazi salute at work but an arbitrator restored his job; Trump fired the chief of the US Copyright Office days after she prevented Musk from using copyrighted work without permission as fair use for his artificial intelligence network; and, Elizabeth Holmes may be the face of one of the 21st century’s most famous fraud cases, but that isn’t stopping her partner from doing something incredibly brazen.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Krakow, citing an arson attack blamed on Moscow; and, the Supreme Court of Argentina has discovered archives linked to Hitler’s Nazi regime.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s Ponzi scheme presidency continues to be the least popular in American and World history.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a famed New York law firm’s $100-million pro bono deal with Trump is backfiring as employees jump ship in anger; the Washington State Supreme Court upheld a ban on large ammo magazines; and, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, David H Souter, died peacefully yesterday at home in New Hampshire at age eighty-five.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where prosecutors say Romanian treasures stolen from a Dutch museum could still be intact; and, the Stockholm, Sweden City Council rejected the US Embassy’s demands that it comply with the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Republican Jefferson Griffin’s long effort to steal the North Carolina Supreme Court race has finally failed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, more older Americans worry Social Security won’t be there for them after the massive Trump/Musk sabotage of the agency; GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump’s tax breaks bill; and, the guy who granted Trump ‘absolute immunity,’ now says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Denmark says it will summon the top US diplomat in the country for an explanation about intelligence gathering on Greenland; and, the EU published a US product hit list as it prepares for World Trade Organization action against Trump’s tariffs.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democratic Congress members brutally cross-examined Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oklahoma schools have been ordered to teach Trump's 2020 election lies in the state’s new MAGA curriculum; the Black vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board is unexpectedly removed from his position because of DEI; and, a federal appeals court upheld the racketeering convictions of former MAGA Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and an ex-lobbyist in a $60 million bribery scandal.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the top two US trade officials will meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland in the first major talks since Trump sparked his impertinent trade war; and, Friedrich Merz won lawmakers’ approval to become the next German chancellor in a second vote in parliament, hours after an embarrassing and unprecedented defeat in the first round.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal court has blocked GOP efforts to overturn the North Carolina supreme court election and ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice plans to investigate the prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county for using racial disparities in plea deals; a coalition of seventeen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Trump’s attempt to stop approved wind energy development around the country; and, Trump’s federal government is targeting its disabled workers for mass firings.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain’s government approved a bill that reduces the workweek from forty to thirty-seven and half hours; and, most of the one hundred rhinos killed in South Africa this year were poached from national parks.
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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, MAGA Nazi courtier Stephen Miller sued Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in a bid to control the courts.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA Nazis ruling MAGA Nazi Shasta County, California have caused an uproar after appointing an out of state election denier as the county’s top election official; Texas MAGA want to ‘financially handcuff’ cities that don’t play by their rules; and, Stephen Miller rolled out the MAGA plan to indoctrinate your kids.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump blasted Mexico’s Sheinbaum for rejecting his offer to send US troops into Mexico to fight the cartels; and, Europe launched a drive to attract scientists and researchers after Trump summarily dismissed them.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, another Trump-appointed judge ruled against him in court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an intern at the Harris County, Texas DA’s Office uncovered possible charging errors in up to 300 cases, prompting a full audit, so they fired the intern for misconduct; the White House opened an inquiry into a Chicago school program aimed at helping Black students because it is DEI; and, calling desegregation a “historical wrong,” the Justice Department is making segregated Louisiana schools great again.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Greek court is set to hear the case of a man accused of spying on NATO operations for Russia; and, the German domestic intelligence service has classified the Musk-supported Alternative for Germany party as a “right-wing extremist” organization.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kamala Harris used a high-profile speech Wednesday to sharply criticize Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK, Jr doesn’t believe in the cornerstone of health science, Germ Theory, so he shut down the labs researching infectious diseases like Ebola; budget airline Avelo faces backlash for signing up to fly deportation flights for ICE; and, voting machine company Smartmatic revealed new death threats from Fox viewers over their defamation suit against the lying propaganda shop.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan’s imperial palace fired an employee for stealing cash from the household for over a year; and, the former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago swept the polls to take power again.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, victims of Trump's irresponsible anti-immigrant crusade include American citizens born in the country to natural born American citizen parents.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the South African MAGA billionaire who now owns the Los Angeles Times lost the paper over $50 million dollars in the last year and another twenty-five thousand subscribers in just the last month; the attorneys general from Oregon and Washington are joining a coalition of states in a lawsuit challenging Trump’s attempts to dismantle AmeriCorps; and, the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended the judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico issued a US travel alert because of the growing measles outbreak in MAGA Land along the border; and, a former aide to a far-right German EU lawmaker has been charged with spying for China.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, powerful Republican judges are standing up against Trump in a recent series of scathing rulings.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the new principal of a private catholic school called the cops on a prominent Black Portland, Oregon family and expelled their son after he reported being called racial slurs; a Texas judge enjoined Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi from rearresting an immigrant couple he ordered released, but they have refused to release them; and, a federal appeals court panel changed its mind and reinstated a lower court order once again blocking Trump from carrying out a mass purge of banking regulators.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the cause of Spain and Portugal’s widespread blackouts remain a mystery; and, large fires are burning on the slopes of South Africa’s famous Table Mountain.All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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 and his MAGA minions in Congress are getting booed at more town halls including the recent town hall held by MAGA Republican Mike Lawler in New York’s 17th Congressional District.
Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE agreements that were ended under the Obama administration following abuses like racial profiling of Latinos, are back under Trump; a raging Trump demanded criminal probes into reports of his bad poll numbers; and, Trump says Columbus Day will now just be Columbus Day.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romanians confront a deluge of online disinformation ahead of a presidential election rerun that was necessitated by direct Russian interference; and, Canadians vote today in an election dominated by Trump’s trade war and bluster.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge went off on Trump in court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge is accused of helping an immigrant defendant hide from ICE when they tried to arrest him in her courtroom without presenting a warrant; the Department of Labor informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business; and, Barnard College staff are alarmed by a Federal survey asking if they are Jewish.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Canadians put off by Trump’s bluster and border arrests are booking far fewer US visits; and, Trump’s trip to Pope Francis’ funeral puts a sharper focus on their clashes over the years.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump woke up to disastrous news as his approval plummets based on his horrible policies and massive public failures.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the State Bar of California disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence; the State Bar of Texas rescinded a speaking invitation to the NAACP’s president after the civil rights group challenged the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Education Department; and, the Oregon attorney general is leading a coalition of twelve states suing Trump over the Trump Tariffs.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the president of Ghana suspended the chief justice of the country’s top court in a surprise move; and, Brazilian police probe a pension fraud scheme that stole over one billion dollars from retirees.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as the Trump regime continues its assault on the Constitution, the defense of democracy will increasingly depend on Governors willing to fight back.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the ACLU is suing the Trump government to get access to DOGE records; the white MAGA congresswoman who called Texas Representative Al Green “boy,” brazenly refuses to apologize; and, Trump ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel the more than three decade long Women’s Health Initiative whose findings have had a major influence on health care.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices unanimously accepted criminal charges against six more key allies of Bolsonaro over their coup plot to illegally keep him in office; and, European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta seven hundred million euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is plunging the stock market to its “Make America 1932 Again” moment.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Oregon ordered the US government to restore the visa status of two international students and stop their deportation; private security guards have been charged after a woman was dragged out of that chaotic Idaho town hall meeting in February; and, Colorado is fighting the Trump administration’s bid to help imprisoned loyalist and ballot box saboteur Tina Peters.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UN researchers warn that Asian scam operations are spreading across the rest of the world; and, the Puerto Rican government demanded answers from private energy company Luma after another island-wide blackout.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the protracted North Carolina Supreme Court race takes a turn in the Democrats’ favor.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s $239 million dollar inauguration haul is officially the biggest presidential suck up in history; Trump has reversed long-held guidance on ‘road diets’ for traffic safety that saved lives in small town America; and, strollers and other baby products will get more expensive, and harder to find with Trump’s tariffs.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s tough talk might help liberal Mark Carney win a full term as Canada’s prime minister; and, Russian attacks during the 30-hour Easter ceasefire unilaterally declared by Putin over the weekend killed three people in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is throwing all of his DOJ lawyers under the bus after two brutal court rulings where one ruling involved a finding a probable cause of criminal contempt.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an international student at Oregon State University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after it revoked his legal status; Idaho gave families $50M for private schools and scrapped $30M used for public education to do it; and, anti-vaxxers with close ties to RFK, Jr are falsely claiming that the deadly measles outbreak in Texas is caused by a “bioweapon.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump; and, the European Central Bank cut interest rates for the seventh time as global trade tensions escalate.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump-appointed judge ruled the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by banning Associated Press reporters.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas, then she voted in Hawaii; the Justice Department will not allow employees to participate in American Bar Association events because of the association’s “improper ideology;” and Central Oregon's Latino Fest and Juneteenth events have been canceled over fears of violence against Black, Latino and Asian people.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a paranoid Trump is conducting polygraph tests across all departments to find the dozens of leakers exposing his crimes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s federal housing director is calling for a criminal referral at the DOJ against Leticia James over mortgage fraud allegations conjured out of thin air; a Trump-appointed Texas judge threw out the Biden-era rule that would have capped credit card late fees because usury is legal now; and, fresh from a courtroom loss over The Associated Press’ access to the presidency, Trump is now banning all international wire services from the White House press pool.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Hong Kong post office will stop shipping parcels to the US after Trump slapped a 120% tariff on them starting May 2; and, China is pursuing three Trump-NSA operatives for carrying out cyberattacks against the nation’s infrastructure during the Asian Games in February.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Harvard ripped Trump a new one in a brutal rejection of his unlawful threats.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the men behind developing a Christian Nationalist community in rural Tennessee insist 'this country belongs to Jesus,' not the Jews; in a televised interview, Trump’s interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, blamed the "crazy Black ladies" for his firing from CNN several years ago; and, department officials say ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s DHS cosplaying has interfered with agency operations.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungary passed a constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events; and, Swedish authorities did not find any evidence that a Chinese-flagged ship in the Baltic Sea intentionally damaged two undersea cables last year.
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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, Canada is taking the lead to show the world how to destroy Donald Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the man tapped by RFK Jr to run the clinical trial to tie vaccines to autism was previously convicted with practicing medicine without a license, had given autistic children a dangerous drug not approved for use in the US and improperly prescribed puberty blockers; previously charged with misrepresenting its involvement in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and lying about its role in the deportation system set up by Trump, Peter Thiel’s Palantir is helping DOGE with a massive IRS data project; and, the community is fighting back after a Florida teacher was fired for calling a trans student by their name.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Irish privacy watchdog is investigating Musk’s use of personal data to train the Grok AI chatbot; and, Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained, or worse.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump gets some bad news on the exploding insider trading scandal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the commander in charge of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland has been fired after she pushed back against Vance‘s claims that Denmark was failing to protect the island from Russia and China; the Trump administration moved for the release of the ex-FBI informant who fabricated the bribery story about the Bidens; and, Oregon will refuse to comply with Trump’s DEI order on public schools.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hackers breached Morocco’s social security database in an unprecedented cyberattack; and, European countries vowed to sends billions of dollars in further funding to help Ukraine keep fighting Russia’s invasion.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump-appointed judge ruled the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by banning Associated Press reporters.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas, then she voted in Hawaii; the Justice Department will not allow employees to participate in American Bar Association events because of the association’s “improper ideology;” and Central Oregon's Latino Fest and Juneteenth events have been canceled over fears of violence against Black, Latino and Asian people.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania is leading NATO naval drills as Europe scrambles to boost defense spending; and, Mexico and Brazil agreed to strengthen trade ties in the wake of Trump’s tariff turmoil.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Musk claims Navarro is a 'moron,' what does Musk think of Trump who follows Navarro’s advice?
Then, on the rest of the menu, a former Facebook employee will testify before Congress that Meta executives undermined US national security and briefed Chinese officials on emerging technologies; more than half the families who applied for Alabama’s new school voucher program already have children attending a private school; and, Democratic-led cities and states are pushing back on threats to cut US school funding over DEI.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan says it wants to join a NATO command for the support of Ukraine; and, what if a Signal chat exposed a military operation in Yemen and nobody cares that the US continues to pound the country, killing eight people near a Red Sea port and another ninety elsewhere in the latest airstrikes?
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court’s shocking move on deporting anyone the Trump administration wants has captured world attention.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ford’s outstanding Maverick Hybrid AWD Pickup has driven into the Trump tariff trap; Bezos and Musk got their fat, billion dollar federal contracts after sucking up to Trump; and, Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression, but History says different.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a French anti-racism group filed a complaint over far-right flyers distributed near a Le Pen rally calling for violence against foreigners; and, Brussels police arrested Rubio’s security detail supervisor after fighting with hotel staff and responding police.
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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, it’s almost like Trump is destroying the United States from within, tanking the economy and ruining so many lives, on purpose.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the chemical and consumer products industries have deployed an army of lawyers to keep the states from banning “forever chemicals;” a federal judge in Washington state warned Trump’s rhetoric breeds ‘unprecedented’ threats of violence; and, a Duke basketball star is on Trump’s deportation list after a brutal loss in the NCAA Tournament.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey’s main opposition party reelected its chairman, two weeks after the arrest of Erdogan’s main rival; and, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that his centrist political party was the target of a Russian cyberattack ahead of Poland’s presidential election next month.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Senate hearing devolved into chaos after Cancun Ted Cruz repeatedly spoke over Amy Klobuchar and then walked out as the pair exchanged barbs over nationwide injunctions inhibiting Trump’s agenda.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Georgia MAGA pushed a last minute bill to limit public access to lawmaker and police records; Trump says things are ‘going very well’ after the worst stock market drop in almost sixty years over his delusion about tariffs; and, nineteen states filed a lawsuit against Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the US, calling it an unconstitutional invasion of the states’ clear authority to run their own elections.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Yoon Suk Yeol has been removed as South Korea’s president over his short-lived martial law coup; and, Denmark’s prime minister told the US that “you cannot annex another country,” even with the argument that international security is at stake.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Christo-Fascist Hegseth had displays of the contributions of American Jewish women during World War II removed before his visit to the Naval Academy.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Idaho Republican state representative has accused her own party of weaponizing federal immigration authorities against her after she publicly criticized Trump’s immigration policies; Georgia MAGA lawmakers pushed through a religious freedom bill despite its clear discrimination against non-Christians; and, North Dakota voters banned lawmakers from seeking term limit changes, but MAGA did it anyway.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkish police detained eleven people for supporting a shopping boycott as part of the protests against the imprisonment of Erdogan’s main rival; and, Hungary plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court as Netanyahu arrives for talks with Orban, despite an international arrest warrant against Bibi.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s psychotic behavior explodes as his arbitrary and self-imposed tariff deadline hits.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Boston judge held an ICE agent on obstruction of justice and contempt charges after a suspect was detained and renditioned mid-trial; an appeals court affirmed the convictions of two men accused of leading a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer in 2020 and start a civil war; and, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore legal aid to tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where anger over the Trump’s tariffs and rhetoric is already causing international travel to the US to fall even further than expected this year; and, Germany’s chief diplomat described Trump’s efforts to secure a truce in the three-year war between Russia and Ukraine as deadlocked.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a very angry Canada is ripping Trump to shreds in front of the entire world.
Then, on the rest of the menu, top career officials at the Department of the Interior were placed on administrative leave after denying DOGE access to the federal payroll systems; Florida Republicans face off today against well-funded Democratic candidates in US House special elections; and, Louisiana voters soundly rejected four constitutional amendments championed by MAGA Governor Jeff Landry related to crime, courts and finances.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where protests against Musk’s purge of the US government swarm Tesla showrooms worldwide; and, Brazil’s government admitted to spying on Paraguay during Bolsonaro’s presidency.
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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, Musk made an unhinged legal threat because Tesla sales are tanking worldwide.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Los Angeles-based federal prosecutor was fired on instructions from the White House due to his part in a case involving one of Trump’s top donors; Trump’s trade wars threaten America’s craft brewers already reeling from changing tastes; and, Trump’s promised ‘Liberation Day’ of tariffs is coming on Wednesday, at stake are family budgets, America’s prominence as the world’s leading financial power and the structure of the global economy.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump warned military force is not off the table for Greenland after Danish Foreign Minister scolded his administration; and, Russian toady Marine Le Pen was sentenced to four years imprisonment for embezzlement and five years ineligibility in French politics “with immediate effect.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it is so on point in MAGA World that when a man like Mike Walz screws up royally, a woman like Elise Stefanik will lose her cabinet job.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the hosts on San Francisco Bay Area sports radio titan KNBR fired back at the ‘racist’ Homeland Security ads airing on their station; the first Black Speaker of the House in Virginia’s 405-year history was barred from entering a high school to give a presentation because “he was not vetted properly;” and, Trump signed a late night executive order to "eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology" from museums, research libraries and the National Zoo, because of the longtime KKK/ white nationalist screed that “race is a biological reality.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two more journalists were detained in Istanbul as part of a crackdown on media covering Turkey’s largest protests in more than a decade; and, the German and Austrian interior ministers broke off a planned trip to Syria because of a possible threat to their delegation.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s term is blowing up in his face as failed tariffs and awful scandals cripple him.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Social Security Administration backtracked on some ID requirements after a major public backlash; the family of a woman who was “violently ejected” from a malfunctioning revolving door at Trump’s Las Vegas hotel is suing for her wrongful death; and, Oregon’s top elections official panned the Trump executive order on voter registrations as an illegal power grab.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tesla sales fell by 49% in Europe even as the electric vehicle market has grown; and, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Russia to expect a ‘devastating’ reaction if it ever attacks Poland.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the democratic candidate who stunningly flipped a ruby red 15+ Trump district in Pennsylvania’s Senate, made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump Administration plans to cut the team responsible for critical atomic measurement data; and, the MAGA gunman who killed twenty-three Hispanics in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart is offered a plea deal to avoid death penalty.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police executed raids in six German states against “an international network whose aim is to overthrow the government in Eritrea;” and, Greenland and Denmark appeared cautiously relieved by the news that JD Vance and his wife are changing their itinerary for their visit to Greenland on Friday.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if a Signal was sent in the forest about how there is no bottom to the Trump regime, would it make a flushing sound?
Then, on the rest of the menu, more questions arise over Middle Tennessee congressman MAGA Andy Ogles’ campaign spending, mysterious companies and bogus addresses; the hired mercenary company who tackled an Idaho woman confronting Republican lawmakers at a town hall, zip-tied her hands and dragged her from the event, have a long history of harassing hippies in Humboldt County California; and, DOGE cuts are testing some Florida conservative voters’ faith in MAGA in the special election for Matt Gaetz’s old seat.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where international students weigh new risks of pursuing higher education in the US under Trump; and, Brazil’s Supreme Court began proceedings today to decide if Bolsonaro stands trial on coup attempt charges.
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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 federal judge lost her patience and exploded in court over Trump officials lying right to her face.
Then, on the rest of the menu, where Trump’s Border Czar backed off his bold attacks against judges, but just a little; a Georgia jury orders Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in the Roundup weedkiller lawsuit; and, former US Attorney Jessica Aber, who was conveniently™ found dead at the age of 43 on Saturday, was at the helm of high-profile investigations into intelligence leaks, allegations of war crimes against Russian-linked individuals and people suspected of providing sensitive US technology to Moscow before she stepped down at the start of the year.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkish authorities detained several journalists from their homes in a crackdown amid escalating protests triggered by the imprisonment of the mayor of Istanbul and top rival to President Erdogan; and, Austrian authorities said they uncovered a Russian disinformation campaign about Ukraine following the detention of a Bulgarian woman accused of spying for Russia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus warned Canadians not to travel to the United States.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Virginia campground owner evicted two families because they 'didn’t tell me the friend’s husband is Black;' Musk’s dad says Elon can’t be racist because two of his best friends were their “Black servants” when they lived in apartheid South Africa; and, Trump’s migrant gang members renditioned to El Salvador are anything but.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a library and opera house that straddles the Canada-US border and has been a symbol of binational friendship for 100 years will have its Canadian entrance cut off by US authorities; and, in what has all the hallmarks of Russian sabotage, an electrical substation exploded near Heathrow Airport, disrupting at least 1,350 flights and stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers worldwide.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, federal judge Boasberg outsmarted Trump in a brilliant move.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s former campaign lawyer is furious after his personal information and social security number were made public with the release of the unredacted JFK assassination files; an FBI agent who previously criticized the bureau for having a “Trump bias” was arrested this week on charges of illegally disclosing classified information to other agents; and, Tesla has recalled every single Cybertruck ever sold over exterior trim pieces detaching while driving.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Indonesia’s new military law is alarming pro-democracy activists and rights groups; and, Canada’s new leader announced a $4.2 billion Australian radar purchase instead of the United States’ system.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Musk and Trump lose bigly in a “landmark” court case they intend to ignore anyway.
Then, on the rest of the menu, real federal auditors say the DOGE take over of whole agencies is “a heist;” a big shot, longtime Tesla investor begged Musk to step down as CEO; and, the MAGA DOJ argued that Trump would be well within his authority to fire all agency chiefs who are women, especially if they are over the age of forty.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Irish leaders slammed thug rapist Conor McGregor for his cozy White House visit with Trump; and, Denmark’s intelligence services said that Greenland’s recent election took place without any signs of influence by a foreign government.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Musk was caught pulling a bombshell stunt to meddle in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Amy Coney Barrett’s mysterious recusal could upend the pivotal Supreme Court religion case; the Musk Starship is a hoax, it was never developed to make it to Mars, but only to grift beaucoup bucks from the government; and, Eric and Don Jr are advisors and investors in Dominari Holdings, which has ties to a network linked to a $27 million stock fraud.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Union government ministers debated ways to keep Radio Free Europe afloat after Trump defunded the pro-democracy media outlet; and, MI6 is about to go all James Bond for real with it’s first woman spy chief.
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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 Chief Judge of the DC Circuit Court has substantially expanded his Temporary Restraining Order against Trump's phony "declaration of war" to lawlessly use the war time powers of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport migrants.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a DOGE goon is accused of breaking Treasury privacy rules by circulating a spreadsheet with personal information to other people in the Trump administration; Trump ramps up rhetoric targeting the courts amid his mounting legal setbacks; and, staff cuts at federal agencies overseeing US dams are threatening their ability to provide reliable electricity, supply farmers with water and protect communities from floods.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Lithuanian authorities say Russian military intelligence was behind an arson attack at an IKEA store in Vilnius; and, new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to Paris and London to seek alliances as he deals with Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge blasted the Trump administration's defense of its firing of thousands of federal workers and orders that the jobs be restored, with some harsh words for Trump's lawyers to boot.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Arlington National Cemetery "unpublished" links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and educational material pertaining to Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as some Medal of Honor recipients; MAGA Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters is hit with a new ethics probe; and, tributes pour in for longtime Arizona congressman Raúl Grijalva who passed away from cancer at age seventy-seven.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Indonesian fishermen have sued Bumble Bee charging the canned tuna giant knew of forced labor abuse in its supply chain; and, the Canadian governing Liberal Party appeared poised for a historic election defeat until Trump declared economic war and threatened to annex the entire country as a 51st state, now the party and its new prime minister could come out on top.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, John Larson of Connecticut is mad as hell at Elon Musk and he’s not going to take it anymore.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA FBI ordered Citibank to freeze accounts for Habitat for Humanity as it criminally charges the longtime charity with accepting EPA grants; a federal judge ruled that Trump cannot fire the Democratic member of federal labor board; and, a Canadian businesswoman detained by ICE for the last nine days is speaking out about being "wrapped in chains" and kept in a cell with thirty other people.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland and Ukraine have signed a bilateral defense cooperation agreement; and, Nigerian authorities confirmed a meningitis outbreak has killed twenty-six people since January.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump was dealt a consequential court loss as the federal judiciary continues as a bulwark against the MAGA onslaught.
Then, on the rest of the menu, The MAGA spokesperson for the Office of Personal Management posted influencer fashion vids from her government office 'while defending mass layoffs of federal workers;' MAGA attorney general Pam Bondi is set to slash the public corruption unit for wasting money prosecuting corruption; and, ICE is rife with "inner turmoil" as the Stephen Miller-handpicked MAGA leader of the agency has been ousted, deportation numbers are down and expenses are exploding.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the captain of the cargo ship that collided with a US tanker in the North Sea, setting both ablaze in an environmental catastrophe, is a Russian national who remains in UK police custody; and, Trump ordered remaining USAID staff to illegally shred all classified documents and if the shredders break down, burn the docs in burn bags, instead.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump issued a Truth Social order that boycotting Tesla is illegal and suffering a recession is MAGA’s patriotic duty.
Then, on the rest of the menu, just as hostile foreign powers ramp up hacking efforts against the United States, Trump halted funding for two cybersecurity initiatives, including one for elections; Kentucky bourbon makers fear becoming ‘collateral damage’ in Trump’s trade war; and, despite widespread opposition from dentists and national health organizations, Utah will become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an extreme right wing Greek lawmaker was arrested after attacking paintings in the Athens’ National Gallery he claimed are offensive; and, families are reporting more British and German tourists with valid visas have been apprehended by ICE and detained in immigration limbo.
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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, Democrats have seized a rare and huge opportunity to defeat Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, scholars are stranded in America and abroad amid the MAGA funding freeze of State Department programs; Musk slashing government by cutting out the House and the Senate has alarmed even some fiscal conservatives; and, Hegseth is accused of 'endangering troops' with his statement denying military climate science when it was the military that first researched climate change decades and decades ago.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia is upset after far-right Vlad toady Calin Georgescu is barred from the Romanian presidential election redo; and, Russia expelled two British diplomats from the Moscow embassy over unsubstantiated espionage claims.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a complaint has been formally filed to disbar rogue Trump prosecutor, Ed Martin.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Bonneville Power Administration is attempting to find and rehire all the staff fired by Trump; life-saving avalanche forecasts are being hindered by the DOGE purge; and, Oregon police investigate nighttime gunshots that shattered windows at a Tesla dealership.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Buenos Aires power outage has left over 600,000 customers without electricity during a sizzling heatwave; and, after Trump ordered a stop to all early warning and intel-sharing with Ukraine, Russia bombarded Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile and drone bombardment during the night.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a distinctly American resistance is tripping up Trump’s illegal power grab.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States charged twelve spies in China’s freewheeling hacker-for-hire ecosystem; Trump lost millions of viewers with the longest-ever speech to Congress; and, in a move even the Antichrist would avoid, Trump plans to revoke the legal status of 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, putting them on a fast-track for deportations.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania detained six members of a criminal group on suspicion of plotting a coup in collusion with Russia; and, a Canadian teen recruited to spy for Russia is now sitting in a Polish jail.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s pathetic behavior throughout the day yesterday is chronicled, from crashing the markets to his disastrous joint session speech.
Then, on the rest of the menu, some DOGE staffers are drawing six-figure government salaries from the very agencies they are slashing and burning;” Musk ordered the IRS to draft plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce; and, the Supreme Court denied Trump’s emergency challenge and backed a federal judge's order that the administration pay $2 billion to US Agency for International Development contractors for work already done.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Trump-controlled CFPB dropped its lawsuit against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo over Zelle fraud; and, Eric Prince’s mercenary for hire company BlackRock, has penned a deal to bring ports on both sides of the Panama Canal under American control.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum ripped Trump to shreds over his tariffs, and she was not alone.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s one dollar credit card spending limit is paralyzing federal agencies just like it was planned to do; state lawmakers consider the ‘Freedom to Read’ bill as the latest attempt to limit book bans in Oregon schools; and, the Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge from conservative college students who say their freedom of speech is violated by a university program for reporting allegations of bias.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where at least three Serbian lawmakers were injured, one seriously, as smoke bombs and flares were thrown in parliament; and, the European Union is pondering an eight hundred billion euro plan to beef up defenses to counter US disengagement.
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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, interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, illegally demoted seven of the top prosecutors in the office.
Then, on the rest of the menu, farmers and ranchers in MAGA Southern Oregon hit by the federal funding freeze are confused and worried; the Trump administration wants to exclude government spending from the GDP, obscuring the impact of the DOGE cuts; and, Musk’s embrace of right-wing politics is turning off car buyers and sinking Tesla’s stock.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN human rights chief expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States when it comes to human rights; and, an Iranian government official who was key to the 2015 nuclear deal resigned under hard-liner pressure.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, during his meeting and press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump was “humiliated by his own ignorance.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA-captured SEC is suddenly backing away from crypto investigations and lawsuits, a move described as “unprecedented;” MAGA has to destroy NOAA because hurricane, tsunami and other weather warnings are woke; and, Trump’s pick for Under Secretary of the Navy once accused Monterey, California of being taken over by witches.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where India and the EU have agreed to conclude a long-pending free trade agreement by the end of this year; and, just one voter backed the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany Party in the nation’s smallest town.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jamie Raskin humiliated Jim Jordan to his face in the takedown of the year.
Then, on the rest of the menu, America First is not America First when it comes to stock markets worldwide this year; MAGA is pushing legislation to weaken judges by abandoning the centuries-old precedent that courts can decide whether laws are constitutional; and, the Georgia State Election Board voted to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena against a conservative group that was unable to produce evidence to support its claims of ballot stuffing.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Rubio had the EU’s Kaja Kallas fly all the way to DC for transatlantic negotiations, then stood her up as Trump exacerbates transnational tensions; and, Austria is getting a new coalition government without the far-right election winner.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had his MAGA House vote to kick old folks in nursing homes out into the streets and people on hospice to die on their own so Musk can get richer selling out America.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump signed an executive order targeting the law firm representing former special counsel Jack Smith with special unitary executive punishment; contractors sued Oregon Governor Tina Kotek over an executive order requiring union labor; and, the DOGE-fired cybersecurity chief for the Veterans Affairs site warns that health and financial data of millions of veterans is at risk.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia-backed, far-right populist Romanian politician Calin Georgescu was detained and questioned by prosecutors; and, who told Trump that issuing tariffs on copper would reshape global trade?
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the United States joining Russia and North Korea in the Axis of Evil is a day that will live in infamy.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Apple shareholders are expected to reject scrapping corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce; nurses at Providence’s eight Oregon hospitals approved new contracts, ending the largest health care strike in state history; and, the Trump National Park Service withdrew a Black community in Louisiana from a decade-long historic landmark consideration.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a hard-right British politician has been charged with accepting bribes to boost Russia’s agenda in Ukraine; and, Taiwanese authorities are investigating a Chinese-crewed ship suspected of severing an undersea communications cable.
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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 is losing it as American’s of all of parties quickly turn against him.
Then, on the rest of the menu, key federal agencies refused to comply with Musk’s latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade; Trump suspended the USDA 1890 Scholars Program for students at historically Black colleges; and, Republican state lawmakers are threatening local officials who resist Trump with lawsuits, fines and even potential jail time.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where conservative Friedrich Merz won the country’s national election and will partner with the center-left Social Democrats against the surging neo-Nazis; and, tens of thousands across forty-seven cities rallied in Slovakia to mark the 2018 slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republican Members of Congress are getting destroyed by their own voters at Town Halls.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Judge Dale Ho has a very messy docket connected to New York’s criminal mayor; actual US Marshals are peeved that Marshal badges were handed out to Musk’s security guards like candy; and, a small Alabama city placed its entire police force on administrative leave after a grand jury reported it has “operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Ukrainian man has been sentenced to eight years in a Poland prison for planning sabotage on Russia’s behalf; and, Sweden is investigating another damaged cable by the Russia ghost fleet in the Baltic Sea.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Emil Bove could not find a single attorney to represent Trump’s DOJ in court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the incompetence of DOGE is a feature, not a bug; a Cal Fire captain targeted by MAGA during the Los Angeles wildfires for being a DEI hire was found stabbed to death in her San Diego home; and, the chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court is stepping down, opening the door for the court to have a 6-1 majority of Democratic-backed justices.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a billion dollar Russian mafia money-laundering ring has been broken up in Spain; and, King Trump warned Zelenskyy to quickly negotiate the war’s end with Russia, or else.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Zelenskyy is not submitting to Trump’s threats, coercion, and intimidation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump has removed all the remaining US Attorneys, including Oregon’s first Black woman and second Asian American to serve the district; the JFK Library in Boston will reopen today after Trump issued an 'executive order' for its sudden closure; and, rejecting arguments from former Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York’s top court affirmed the constitutionality of an ethics watchdog created three years ago to stem public corruption.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where racist attacks have increased in the German city of Magdeburg after the deadly Christmas market violence there last year; and, Brazil’s prosecutor-general formally charged former President Bolsonaro with attempting a coup in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump spent President’s Day pretending to be a tough guy by posting pictures of his mug shot and taking about a dozen mulligans playing golf.
Then, on the rest of the menu, both Oregon senators called Trump’s dramatic reduction in the workforce at the Bonneville Power Administration, “not only reckless but also financially ludicrous;” Trump has given US schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money; and, Musk fired the FDA officials regulating his brain implant company.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where downloads of China’s DeepSeek AI apps are paused in South Korea over privacy concerns; and, JD Vance doubled down on his claims Germany is “criminalizing speech” and warned that its restrictions on his neo-Nazi friends might put a “real strain” on relations with the MAGA White House.
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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 continues to rage post quotes by and pictures of Napoleon, as European leaders meet to form a new alliance without the United States.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Jewish American Zionist in Miami Beach, Florida, shot two Israeli Jews because he thought they were Palestinian; cats in Oregon are being euthanized after eating raw pet food tainted with bird flu; and, San Francisco police repelled several men claiming to be from Doge who stormed City Hall demanding digital records that prove “wasteful government spending and fraud."
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an American arrested in Moscow on drug smuggling charges is conveniently freed ahead of the Russia-US talks to sign Ukraine’s surrender; and, Argentine lawyers filed fraud charges against Argentine President MAGA Milei, who promoted a crypto coin over the weekend that cratered in “one of the fastest and largest destructions of wealth in retail trading history that erased over $4.5 billion dollars in seven hours.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “The principled resignation era is now upon us.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump-forced Bonneville Power Administration staff departures are raising concerns about the agency’s ability to ensure the reliability of the Northwest electrical grid; with a nationwide surge in influenza, the Louisiana Surgeon General ordered a stop in media campaigns and community health fairs that encourage vaccinations; and, a state MAGA lawmaker says Pride flags are verbotten, but Utah schools can let their Nazi and Confederate freak flags fly.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO is testing its ability to rapidly deploy across eastern Europe, without direct US assistance; and, under Trump’s orders, Department of Defense schools serving US military families around the world, are purging books on Ruth Bader Ginsberg from its libraries.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Department of Justice will be going full banana republic and prosecute Democratic governors, representatives, county commissioners, local law enforcement, mayors, city council members and even individual clerks at state DMV’s who conspire against Trump’s orders.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the NYC comptroller accused Musk of “highway robbery” after stealing eighty million dollars from the city bank account; a federal judge blocked Trump from firing the head of the federal office that investigates government corruption and protects whistleblowers; and, a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice rejected a Republican demand that she recuse from a case to restore collective bargaining rights that tens of thousands of teachers, nurses and other state workers lost in 2011.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Minister of War Pete Hegseth told Ukraine to surrender because Trump will dismantle NATO anyway; and Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl’s efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party, has collapsed.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Elon crashed and burned over basic questions as his four-year-old pissed Trump off at the Oval Office.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States; Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded the alarm over Trump’s “monarchy” power grab; and, Oregon expects to get the $26M appropriated for electric vehicle chargers, but many officials also expect Trump won’t pay the bills.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese court ordered the daughter whose parents were severely injured in a Tesla crash to pay $23k dollars and publicly apologize after Tesla sued her for defamation; and, the EU vows countermeasures to US tariffs, with bourbon, jeans, peanut butter and motorcycles as easy targets.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump lied to America, with a straight face, it was the insurrectionist mob who were assaulted on January 6, not the cops.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Military is abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid Trump's purge; twenty-seven religious groups sued the Trump administration to protect houses of worship from immigration raids; and, the Trump loyalty test for federal intelligence and law enforcement candidates order “yes” or “no” responses to the questions: Was January 6 “an inside job?” And was the 2020 presidential election “stolen?”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Kosovo’s governing party won the parliamentary election but without a majority to govern alone; and, a federal court blocked the Trump administration from renditioning Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
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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 continues to abuse the court system with his “pathetic” twenty billion dollar amended complaint against CBS.
Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA had the expected meltdown because of all the Black entertainers performing at the Super Bowl; illegally fired Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub revealed there were thirty-one staff-supported Trump complaints that were never investigated; and, after saving consumers over twenty billion dollars, Trump ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop all its work, close its building and remove all signage of its existence.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where more than two hundred thousand protesters rallied in Munich, Germany against the far-right, neo-Nazi extremism of the AfD Party ahead of the country’s general election; and, Afrikaner groups in South Africa declined Trump’s resettlement plan, denying there are any concerted attacks on white farmers and that Trump's description of the new land law is full of misinformation and distortions.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s mental decline is on full display as he continues to surround himself with the worst people.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ordered the states to retract their plans to build hundreds of federally funded EV charging stations; sheriffs in Southern Oregon say they plan to adhere to the state’s sanctuary laws; and, Musk’s cadre of Lost Boys emailed federal judges to quit or else, including the one overseeing the lawsuit aimed at blocking these messages across government.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a wave of antisemitic attacks by foreign actors has roiled Australia; and, Indonesia ordered the halt of Trump tourism projects over water management and environmental issues.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, intelligence experts warn of the “grave security risk” after the CIA sent an unclassified email to the White House listing all the thousands of new hires around the world in the last two years.
Then, on the rest of the menu, security experts question whether the nineteen year old Musk “Lost Boy” known online as “Big Balls,” would pass the background check typically required to obtain security clearances; Department of Education staffers were warned at the last minute there is a little noticed provision in the buyout contract where Trump could renege and not pay any of what they were promised if they quit; and, the heist of over one hundred thousand eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland cannot get its money back after the EU fined the country’s previous, conservative government; and, India’s Parliament was disrupted as opposition lawmakers protested the mistreatment of one hundred four Indian immigrants deported by the United States.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after Musk’s MAGA Trumpenjungen hacked into government servers and mass emails sent out, the Central Intelligence Agency became the first major national security agency to offer buyouts to its entire workforce.
Then, on the rest of the menu, two federal workers seek a restraining order to shut down the illegally connected DOGE email server at OPM; MAGA farmers in Oregon are dependent on overseas markets, and concerned about the effects of Trump’s trade war; and, Trump wants to bring back the same acting chief who was overseeing NOAA during the “Sharpiegate” scandal.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of France’s far-right National Rally party said he doesn’t support a no-confidence motion filed against the government; and, concerns grow over press freedoms in Cambodia after a British journalist is blacklisted from the country.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s illegal actions as president prove “we are not a nation of laws.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, no one could have ever thought that smarmy, sanctimonious Ben Sasse would treat the University of Florida as his personal bank account; failed Washington state MAGA candidate Joe Kent is known for calls to defund the FBI and spouting off the craziest QAnon conspiracies, so Trump nominated him as director of National Counter Terrorism Center; and, a 25-year-old Musk engineer has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump wants to hold US aid to Ukraine hostage until he can get the country’s rare earth materials; and, China announced retaliatory tariffs on select American imports and an antitrust investigation into Google.
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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 acting FBI Director defied the felon’s demand to give up thousands of agents who investigated January 6 and the Mar a Lago espionage case for prosecution.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho MAGA proposed a constitutional amendment that would remove state power to enforce mandatory education for children; the Trump administration freeze on federal funding is heading back to a Washington courtroom today; and, NFL emails reveal the extent of the New Orleans Saints owner’s involvement in covering up the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal in the state.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where faced with Trump’s threats over Greenland, Denmark’s leader seeks military support from her EU partners; and, Canada and Mexico ordered retaliatory tariffs on American goods in response to Trump’s crazy ass trade war.Bon Appétit!
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tulsi Gabbard was cross examined to her face and she folded like a cheap Russian suit.
Then, on the rest of the menu, when RFK Jr was presented with the science on vaccines he said he needed to see, he dismissed it; all the air traffic controllers resigned at a 'hugely important' California airport after Musk illegally transferred their contracts to a cheaper paying firm; and, Tennessee MAGA passed a bill making it a felony for a local official to vote in a way that doesn’t support Trump’s immigration plans.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Iraqi man who carried out Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm; and, an ultra-traditionalist, Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop, who created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him, has died at age eighty-fourAll thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s new press secretary royally screwed up when one of her lies was used in a court case to freeze Trump’s illegal funding freeze.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI recorded a spike in sexual misconduct claims and male-dominated culture; a Louisiana environmental activist lost her freedom of speech lawsuit against parish officials; and, a white West Virginia couple have been convicted of forced labor, civil rights violations, human trafficking and child neglect of their five Black adopted kids.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni says she is being investigated for repatriating a Libyan warlord wanted by the ICC; and, Australia woke to more antisemitic graffiti after a discovery of explosives was revealed by police.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s approval rating plummets as his meltdowns get worse.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon bill would ban new livestock farms in the state’s most polluted areas; the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group goes on trial for conspiring to attack Maryland’s power grid; and, Northwest water managers slammed Trump’s claim of a giant water valve at the Oregon border as a mix of “bluster, ignorance, and disinformation” that is “completely far-fetched and detached from reality.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France offered to deploy troops to Greenland after Trump has repeatedly signaled he’d like to annex the Danish territory; and, a Colombian customs official plead guilty in a money laundering case tied to DEA misconduct.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump could not finish his first week as President “without violating the law.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a former New York State Trooper who lied that a mysterious Black man shot him, has been arrested and charged with official misconduct, tampering with evidence and falsifying documents; Trump pulled a Kremlin-like purge and fired over a dozen career DOJ prosecutors who worked on criminal prosecutions of the mobbed up Russian money launderer; and, the new top prosecutor for DC advocated for the January 6 insurgents and has echoed Trump’s false 2020 election claims.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Belarus opposition and Western leaders rejected the orchestrated election result that extends strongman Lukashenko’s thirty-year rule; and, Pakistani journalists protested after the Senate passed a bill allowing full control over social media content.
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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 is enacting the Schedule F portion of Project 2025 to gut the civil service and replace it with die hard loyalists because he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025, but he heard the Project really likes him, lots.
Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA freshman members of Congress are inaugurating a hiring trend, staffing up with fake electors from 2020; a Portland, Oregon pastor has joined scores of national faith leaders in offering sanctuary amid Trump’s deportation blitzkrieg; and, after nationwide outrage, the Air Force will resume training recruits with material about the Tuskegee Airmen that Trump told Hegseth he wanted banned, because they were Black DEI hires.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sweden seized a Russian-linked cargo ship in the Baltic Sea after it damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier Sunday; and, fire engulfed the town hall of Paris’ 12th arrondissement earlier this morning, leaving the bell tower at risk of collapse.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump froze federally-funded cancer research, cancelled health science meetings and outlawed all communication from the National Institute of Health.
Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA Mike was advised against issuing a subpoena for Cassidy Hutchinson because of all the dick pics GOP reps sexted her; for the first time since the early 70’s, conservatives clinched the longtime goal of booting Democrats from leadership ranks in the Texas House; and, Trump’s number two pick for the EPA is a lawyer who challenged the ban on asbestos while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first administration.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police in Hungary are investigating bomb threats affecting over two hundred-forty schools; and, the top European rights court ruled a French woman’s refusal to have sex with her husband is not a fault against her in their divorce case.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you can be guilty of using and spreading child pornography and Trump will pardon you for January 6.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Costco defends its diversity policies as other US companies capitulate; a Wisconsin weather reporter was fired after criticizing Musk’s Nazi salute; and, Trump fired the heads of the TSA, Coast Guard and gutted a key aviation safety advisory committee because the cost of eggs is too damn high.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Dutch court ordered the government to meet its own pollution reduction targets or face millions in fines; and, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials for the repression of women.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is having meltdown after meltdown at the White House and it’s been barely 48 hours.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Crescent City, California official says two MAGA Grants Pass, Oregon city councilors lied about busing the homeless to their former Sundown Town; the Supreme Court rejected a Republican-backed Montana case based on the controversial election law theory known as Moore v. Harper; and, Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht who was serving two life sentences plus forty years for running a covert bitcoin marketplace for cocaine and heroin that killed six, child sex abuse images, and continuing a criminal enterprise.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Italian government is under fire for releasing a Libyan warlord after he was arrested on a warrant from the International Criminal Court for war crimes; and, Turkey arrested the leader of a far-right party on charges of inciting violence through social media.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s disastrous meme coin implosion is ruining the lives of his supporters who bought it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, seven Texas human services employees were fired for fraud and theft, and the largest data breach in agency history; two former FirstEnergy executives were indicted on RICO charges; and, fifteen wolves from Canada were released into Colorado under a voter-approved initiative.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pope Francis dissolved a Peru-based conservative Catholic movement after severe financial and sexual abuses were uncovered by the Vatican; and, the Australian state of New South Wales has committed more police to investigate a proliferation of antisemitic crime.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump voters who showed up for the inauguration are demanding refunds after Trump canceled the outdoor speech, the jumbotrons and the events they paid for, claiming “it was too cold.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, some oligarch came forward and paid Giuliani’s $150 million dollar judgement for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss; tens of thousands of Oregon state employees across multiple school districts are the target of a massive data breach; and, Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died at age sixty-seven from an aggressive brain cancer.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Voice of America is required by law to report the news accurately, but Trump has vowed to change that; and, for the first time in US history, a president-elect will welcome foreign leaders to the inaugural, and all of them are dictators, fascists and autocrats.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s approval rating for a president-elect is the lowest in American history.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Idaho timber executive was sentenced to prison in a multimillion-dollar forestry management fraud scheme; a broad DOJ civil rights investigation found a pattern of excessive force by the Louisiana State Police; and, MAGA-embedded Texas judge Kacsmeryk says states can revive their challenge to restrict abortion pill access nationwide.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Elon Musk’s support for the far-right in Europe is “completely unacceptable;” and, Brussels just hours ago, ordered Musk to hand over Twitter internal documents in a major discovery around his algorithmic propaganda and election attacks in Europe.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, career prosecutors discussed whether Pam Bondi perjured herself during her confirmation hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly twenty Tennessee Republican lawmakers were hit with federal subpoenas in a massive corruption trial; an Ohio woman who was criminally charged after having a miscarriage in her home has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Warren; and, the Federal Trade Commission sued Deere & Company for monopolizing the farm-equipment repair software market.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan launched an independent mission to NATO as tensions with Russia, China and North Korea rise; and, Polish Prime Minister Tusk accused Russia of planning acts of mid-air sabotage against ‘airlines around the world.’
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jasmine Crockett clapped back at Nancy Mace after Mace physically threatened her during a committee hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Musk for failing to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock before buying the social media site; rejecting a challenge by local Republican officials, the US Supreme Court upheld a North Dakota state House district on an American Indian reservation; and, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood at the lectern and said college professors should be fired if they are “indoctrinating” students.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ireland moved closer to forming a new government after a deal is reached a month and a half after the election gave no party a majority; and, over a thousand South Korean federal police faced down the impeached President’s armed security detail and finally remanded him into custody for illegally declaring martial law.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, right-wing Maple MAGA Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who took “the pilgrimage of shame” from Canada to genuflect to Trump at Mar a Lago, was humiliated in the packed resort dining hall as he doubled down on his threats.
Then, on the rest of the menu, if you want to hang out or use the restroom at Starbucks, you’re going to have to buy something; New York Governor Kathy Hochul will announce a plan to offer free tuition to state and city colleges today; and, after securing a Reagan/Iranian-like deal with Bibi to withhold the Peace Deal until Inauguration Day, Trump raised the US flag at full height before the end of 30-day mourning period following Carter’s death.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a tsunami alert has been lifted after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattled southwestern Japan; and, China says a fishing vessel hijacked off Somalia with eighteen crew aboard has been freed.
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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, analysts break down the Jack Smith resignation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Daimler Truck North America halted diesel truck sales in Oregon over new rules even though the rules are the same in twelve other states including Washington and California, the company sells trucks in; an ex-cop fired from his job as an investigator at the US Center for SafeSport for stealing money seized at a drug bust has been arrested again; and, the Biden administration proposed new rules on exporting AI chips that has provoked an industry pushback.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey’s Erdogan launched the ‘Year of the Family’ with an attack on the families in the LGBTQ+ community; and, tens of thousands of students protested in Serbia against violations of civil rights and a crackdown by the nation’s spy agency.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s political stunts over the Southern California urban wildfire exposes to the world once again what a self-centered, disgusting liar he is.
Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA Josephine County commissioners terminated the lease with the Grants Pass, Oregon Library that has been in place since 1959; the American Civil Liberties Union sued Ron DeSantis of failing to fulfill his constitutional obligation to call special elections for two seats in the Florida state House and Senate; and, Border Patrol arrested a Russian mercenary when he illegally crossed the Rio Grande carrying two passports and four thousand dollars.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol threatened civil war if he is detained; and, a prominent Vietnamese lawyer goes on trial for criticizing a top judge on Facebook.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, evacuees of the SoCal wildfire say Trump’s attacks on the region should be criminal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, tribes and environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan; the New Orleans Police Superintendent hired former New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton as a consultant in the aftermath of the terror attack on Bourbon Street; and, Alito says he spoke with Trump about a former law clerk getting a low level position in the new administration the day before Trump went to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an imprisoned Belarus activist has resurfaced after being held incommunicado for over seven hundred days; and, an Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks was freed yesterday and returned home.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Republican Member of Congress and January 6 Intelligence Committee advisor Denver Riggleman has the receipts Trump wants to hide.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department accused six major landlords of colluding to keep rents high; a lawsuit alleges racial and gender discrimination led to an Air Force contractor’s death; and, Virginia Democrats kept control of the Statehouse in the first elections after Trump’s win.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the now pro-Putin Austrian far right has a mandate to try to lead a government for the first time since World War II; and, self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who defeated Maduro in last year’s presidential election, said his son-in-law was kidnapped in Caracas.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kamala Harris was the personification of the return of the peaceful transfer of power.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon health officials are preparing for change under Trump; the Seattle police officer who struck and killed a graduate student from India and then laughed that her life had “limited value,” has been fired; and, DeSantis appointed five new right wing members to the board overseeing the University of West Florida in Pensacola, including two from the extremist think tank behind Project 2025.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a man has been charged with assisting a former British soldier later convicted of spying for Iran in his escape from a London prison; and, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French neo-Nazi party the National Front, has died at age ninety-six.
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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 and his allies in the GOP have flip-flopped, downplayed, and whitewashed the events of January 6, and it's all by strategic design.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in an 11th hour action, President Biden banned new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters; higher Social Security payments are coming for millions of people from a bill that Biden signed; and, Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over the certification of her defeat to Trump four years after he tried to violently overthrow the United States and steal the 2020 election from Joe Biden.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former French President Sarkozy ‘s trial has started over illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi; and, South Korea’s anti-corruption agency and police debated on more forceful measures to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after their previous attempt was thwarted by his armed presidential security service last week.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘Ship Builders for Trump’ are finding out the leopards are eating their faces as the industry is slated to sink during the MAGA administration.
Then, on the rest of the menu, citing last year's Supreme Court decision that stripped federal agencies of their regulatory powers, an all-Republican panel on the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to reinstate net neutrality rules; Oregon anti-vaxxers have caused the highest number of whooping cough cases in over seventy years; and Apple has agreed to pay ninety-five million dollars to settle a lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping for the past decade.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Jenniffer González Colón was sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor amid widespread anger over another major electric grid blackout; and, a senior British politician pushed back on Musk’s criticism of the government’s handling of a historic child grooming scandal as “‘misjudged and certainly misinformed.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even Fox News had to fact-check Trump for lying about the terror attack in New Orleans.
Then, on the rest of the menu, New York City jail staff blocked medics from treating a 23-year-old Black woman who later died of scarlet fever; Giuliani is whining he has to give up his Yankees World Series rings for his $148 million defamation verdict; and, a federal judge granted bond to a Virginia man who used pictures of Biden for target practice, called for “the return of political assassinations,” and was arrested after the “largest seizure of homemade explosives in FBI history.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands marched in Bangladesh calling for the ousted prime minister’s prosecution and extradition from India; and, German prosecutors charged three men with spying on US military bases for Russia and plotting attacks on American personnel in retaliation for Western support of Ukraine.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith pulled a surprising move by transferring Trump's Mar-a-Lago espionage case to the US Attorney’s office.
Then, on the rest of the menu, C-SPAN is set to return to filming Congress this Friday; legal experts slammed Chief Justice John Roberts’ yearly whine fest report as ‘chilling and 'disingenuous;' and, the Texas Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by the Bar Association against the Assistant Attorney General to take away his law license for “dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” by joining Paxton’s challenge of the 2020 election results that Biden won in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Montenegro extradited a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to the United States; and, the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland condemned the violence in Georgia by pro-Vlad authorities against the nation’s pro-democracy movement.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the utter hypocrisy of a MAGA Senator who called on Vlad to release more manufactured kompromat on Hunter Biden, was exposed after his own son was just sentenced to thirty-five years in prison for killing a cop while high on bath salts and meth.
Then, on the rest of the menu, following a series of home invasions, the FBI issued warnings to sports leagues about organized crime groups targeting pro athletes; California will soon require insurers to increase home coverage in wildfire-prone areas, or stop doing business in the state; and, the Biden administration moved to bar oil, gas and geothermal development in a Nevada mountain range for the next twenty years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese hackers remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider; and, showing America and the world how it is done, a South Korean court issued warrants to arrest impeached President Yoon and search his office.
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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 made a public show of throwing MAGA Mike under the bus.
Then, on the rest of the menu, An Arizona Republican lawmaker's 'racist' anti-Kwanzaa post was slammed by his own Republican constituents; Utah authorities pleaded with the public for help finding who damaged a petroglyph panel with illegally installed climbing bolts; and, tens of thousands of abandoned Texan newborns are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian man arrested for running a travel agency for gay customers was found dead while in custody in Moscow; and, the opinion editor of a major German newspaper resigned in protest after Musk penned an OpEd over the weekend backing the German neo-Nazi party ahead of the parliamentary elections.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, looks like Hunter Biden will get the last laugh over Trump’s nominee for Attorney General exposed as the real drug-addled, nepo creep, sex-fiend we’ve all known he is.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the number of registered lobbyists jumped to a record high in California; Florida condo owners face higher costs as new regulations take effect in the new year; and, a Nebraska man who lost his home over a $588 tax debt is getting it back.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland detained a Russia-linked vessel over the recently damaged undersea power cable in the Baltic Sea; and, a judge reinstated Ecuador’s vice president after deeming her suspension unconstitutional.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democratic legislative members have no more F’s to give and are on the offensive.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, prompting a recall of raw frozen pet food that was sold nationwide; a circuit judge struck down part of the Missouri law restricting access to court records; and, a symbol of the power and strength of the United States for more than 240 years, President Biden signed a bill officially making the bald eagle the national bird of America.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian sabotage is suspected in the severing of a power cable linking Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea; and, Russia’s air defense system is suspected in the downing of an Azerbaijani jetliner in Kazakhstan, killing thirty-eight, with twenty-nine survivors.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The New York Firefighters Union found out what happens when you endorse a 9/11 Truther arsonist.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen was hospitalized after being thrown from a horse; already a longtime opponent of the deal, Biden will decide on the US Steel acquisition by Nippon Steel after an influential panel failed to reach a consensus on the national security risks; and, New Jersey gambling regulators handed out fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company for sports betting violations.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where cleanup continued in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers; and, Romanian lawmakers voted narrowly in favor of a new pro-European coalition government led by incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.
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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, GOP Representative Don Bacon pushed back on Bannon and Musk.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk accused Mackenzie Scott of "destroying western civilization" by donating billions to charities for women, minorities, and marginalized groups, and she just keeps doing it; an Oregon sheriff has contacted the FBI about letters telling people to track possible immigrants; and, the Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit that Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where over a hundred thousand people streamed into a central square in Serbia’s capital for a rally against far right populist President Aleksandar Vucic; and, German authorities received tipoffs last year about the AfD-affiliated suspect in the deadly Christmas market attack.stioning, as the Constitutional Court began its first meeting to determine his fate.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, President Musk threw MAGA Mike under the bus for the bipartisan resolution to avoid a government shutdown.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's border czar doesn't believe birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution and that’s why he’s starting early building the gulags; a MAGA county commissioner in MAGA County Oregon has been recalled two years into his four year term; and, a Wisconsin judge temporarily put on hold his recent ruling that restored collective bargaining rights to teachers and most other public workers that were lost under a controversial 2011 state law.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a lawyer accused of being a Chinese spy and interfering in British politics, lost her legal case against UK intelligence agency MI5; and, a Manhattan man pled guilty to helping establish a secret Chinese police station in New York City.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a bipartisan lineup of Canada’s leaders blasted Trump as his tactics backfire.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Grubhub will pay $25 million dollars in a deceptive practices settlement with the Illinois attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission; Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren is the first Navajo woman to be named top prosecutor in Arizona’s Apache County; and, federal agencies have opened at least three reviews of Musk and SpaceX for repeatedly failing to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, by not providing details of his meetings with foreign leaders.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico’s anti-monopoly regulators imposed special conditions for a period of ten years on Walmart’s Mexico subsidiary; and, prominent anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was released from prison in Greenland, after Danish officials rejected a request by Japan to extradite him.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump will no doubt be taking credit for Biden’s economic policies.
Then, on the rest of the menu, New Orleans insists its police department is ready to end federal oversight, but not all are convinced; Connecticut has become the latest state to begin notifying its eligible citizens that some or all of their medical debt will soon be paid off; and, growing oil industry support for the federal methane reduction rule could help it survive Trump’s return.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote, setting up an early election in February for the collapsing government; and, Ukraine took responsibility for an explosion that killed the head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces and his assistant in Moscow.
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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, E Jean Carrol has not received one red cent for winning her lawsuit against Trump, but Trump just got $15 million from ABC/Disney to defame her over it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, cybercriminals demanded ransom after they hit the Rhode Island benefits system in a major cyberattack; Time magazine gave Trump something it has never done for a Person of the Year designee, a lengthy fact-check of claims he made in the issue’s interview; and, the Securities and Exchange Commission wants Musk to pay a penalty or face charges involving what he disclosed, or failed to disclose, about his purchases of Twitter stock before he bought the social media platform.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German foreign minister warned anyone involved in atrocities for the ousted Syrian government against seeking refuge in her country, saying they would face “the full force of the law;” and, South Korean investigators summoned the impeached president for questioning, as the Constitutional Court began its first meeting to determine his fate.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, SCOTUS ruled to keep Trump’s gag order in place.
Then, on the rest of the menu, charges have been revived against a slate of six Nevada Republicans for submitting a bogus certificate to Congress that declared Trump the winner of the presidential 2020 election; the FTC has sued the largest US wine and spirits distributor, saying it discriminates against smaller stores; and, the Governor of Kentucky unveiled a paid leave plan for state workers with a new child or serious illness.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights abuses took place, has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in Los Angeles for visa fraud charges; and, Poland will guard its major TV stations against hostile purchase attempts by Russia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democratic House members went on the offense against MAGA Republicans at the latest Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Washington state lawmakers could decide whether a MAGA representative facing felony voter fraud charges will serve in the state legislature; North Carolina MAGA lawmakers enacted a law after midnight that nullifies the powers of the incoming Democratic governor, attorney general and school superintendent; and, federal court filings allege a MAGA parish official committed perjury in a lawsuit tied to a Louisiana grain terminal.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea’s president pulled a Trump and defended his martial law decree as an act of governance while denying the rebellion charges; and, Australian police have launched a special operation to investigate a massive increase in antisemitic attacks.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Louis DeJoy suffered a bipartisan Senate hearing beatdown.
Then, on the rest of the menu, judges in Oregon and Washington separately blocked a $24.6 billion merger of Kroger and Albertsons; a federal bankruptcy judge rejected the sale of Infowars to satirical news website The Onion; and, US Biathlon officials ignored sexual harassment and abuse of women racers for decades.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated across North Macedonia to demand better air quality in cities that are among the most polluted in Europe; and, Ecuador’s government will stop rationing electricity nationwide, just before the holidays.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Justin Trudeau is fed up with the Mayor of Mar a Lago.Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho’s strict abortion ban , even when the mother’s life is in danger, faces scrutiny in a federal appeals court hearing; a federal judge is considering whether to overturn a Minnesota law that bans religious tests for colleges that participate in a state program; and, a state attorney in Florida appointed by DeSantis says he won’t help his elected democratic replacement transition into office.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where prosecutors told the International Criminal Court that two leaders of a Christian rebel group in the Central African Republic were guilty of multiple counts of war crimes; and, the global chemical weapons watchdog said that it reminded Syria of its obligations to comply with rules to safeguard toxic chemicals after rebels entered Damascus and overthrew Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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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, If Trump chops down the Constitution in the Vichy forest of Meet the Press, will it make a sound?
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI warned iPhone and Android users to stop sending texts between the two platforms because of the Salt Typhoon Chinese military hacking group; the California Capitol was deemed safe for reopening after an emailed threat prompted an evacuation; and, a bid by The Onion to buy Alex Jones’ Infowars is scheduled to return to a Texas courtroom where a judge will decide whether the bankruptcy auction was properly run, as Jones alleges collusion and fraud because a shadow company he owns was outbid.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romanian prosecutors conducted raids linked to the funding of Russia-linked Georgescu’s campaign; and, the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland condemned “the disproportionate use of force” against peaceful protesters and media in Georgia.
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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.
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"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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Gaetz nomination has both intended and unintended consequences.
Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for an Idaho white supremacist who killed a man while on the run; a former Phoenix Suns employee filed a racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the team; and, lawmakers postponed a vote on a key bill in Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry’s complex tax reform package over a sales tax snag.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union slapped Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine for engaging in ‘abusive’ Marketplace practices; and, US and Polish officials opened a missile defense site that Russia has long protested.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, JD Vance’s Yale Law School roommate says, “I lived with the creep, I know his secrets and how to control him.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors revealed that some evidence a federal judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors; a California eighteen year-old plead guilty to making hundreds of swatting calls to Black colleges, synagogues and mosques; and, the state of Louisiana asked a federal appeals court to immediately block a judge’s ruling that posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms is unconstitutional.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a federal investigation into efforts by the Chinese government to hack into US telecommunications networks has revealed a “broad and significant” cyber-espionage campaign; and, Paris prosecutors requested a 2-year prison sentence for far-right leader Marine Le Pen and an additional 5-year period of ineligibility to run for office, in a trial over embezzlement of European Parliament funds.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s almost like Trump fell into Putin’s trap on purpose.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a conservative freelance writer plead guilty for his part in the January 6 Capitol insurrection; a judge recused himself from presiding over Arizona’s fake electors case after the MAGA defendants complained about an email in which he told fellow judges to speak out against attacks on Kamala Harris; and, from “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, to “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut, Florida education officials report hundreds of books have been pulled from the state’s school libraries.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one of the most popular and charismatic figures of the imprisoned Belarusian opposition, has resurfaced after more than twenty months of no contact with the outside world; and, police in Antigua have charged a man with murder in the stabbing death of a controversial politician.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s not a personal record, but Putin humiliated Trump in under forty-eight hours on the world stage.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira could get up to seventeen years in prison for stealing a lot less important documents than what Trump stole; Spokane City Hall in Washington state was temporarily closed and a council meeting was canceled because of a security threat; and, revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the International Criminal Court’s oversight body announced it will open an outside investigation into sexual misconduct accusations against its top prosecutor; and, Azerbaijan has been accused of ramping up repression of critics ahead of hosting the UN climate summit.
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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 is panicking and is begging the MAGA senate to slow walk current judicial appointments, then go into an immediate 10-day recess on Jan 20 so he can fill all of the government with recess appointment toadies for two years.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump has vowed to kill off-shore wind projects, but it won’t be that easy; a prep course to raise the dismally low test scores of Army recruits is working; and veterans face challenges starting small businesses but there are plenty of resources to help.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof canceled a trip to United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan after assaults on Jewish soccer fans in Amsterdam that some condemned as a pogrom; and, Lithuania’s defense minister proposed ways for smoother relations between Europe and Trump that sounds a lot like a preemptive surrender.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s criminal cases are going away and Jack Smith has made plans to escape the United States before January 20th.
Then, on the rest of the menu, long-time Trump ally and Russian spy Michael Flynn said it’s time to dismantle the FBI and purge 'highly qualified' government experts; a Texas appeals court ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the trial judge; and, one of the two Democratic state attorneys in Florida who DeSantis removed from office in what opponents say were political moves, won back their old job from voters.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister as his three-party coalition collapses; and, British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kerry Kennedy has a warning about her brother RFK, Jr and Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Colorado law raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21 can take effect while the legal battle over it continues; former military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of US Navy officers; and, a Georgia judge set an early 2025 trial date for a former Georgia district attorney charged with interfering with the police investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European security officials have identified Russian intelligence behind a plot to put incendiary devices in packages on cargo planes headed to North America; and, German police arrested eight members of a neo-Nazi militant group.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s closing message is he’s the protector of women because women are trash whether they like it or not, that’s how chivalrous he is.
Then, on the rest of the menu, law enforcement in MAGA-dominated Southern Oregon has prepared for the MAGA disturbances MAGA promised on election day and the days after if they don’t get their way; federal agents arrested a white supremacist who was going to blow up a Nashville energy facility with C-4 to start a race war; and, the Arizona elections chief said he fought as hard as he could, but a court ordered he surrender voter’s sensitive personal and voting data to Stephen Miller’s gestapo legal group.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pakistan shut primary schools for a week in Lahore due to dangerous air quality; and, Nigeria’s President ordered the immediate release of twenty-nine children facing the death penalty for participating in protests against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
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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, Alito left a cryptic message to MAGA hidden in the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket order protecting Pennsylvania voting rights.
Then, on the rest of the menu, since Dobbs, Idaho mothers are increasingly accused of child abuse while pregnant; a federal judge ruled it’s too close to the election to stop the state from challenging the validity of thousands of ballots that the Iowa attorney general began only two weeks ago; and, the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division is looking into allegations that the four-star general who heads the US Central Command, shoved a member of his air crew during a trip overseas.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova’s pro-Western president has won a second term in a runoff overshadowed by Russian meddling; and, at a boisterous event in front of thousands of exuberant supporters, the Albanian prime minister said the country hopes to join the European Union by 2030.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Musk figures since he could ignore our immigration laws and become the richest man in the world, he can ignore our election laws and continue to buy votes while laughing in the DOJ’s face.
Then, on the rest of the menu, ballot-sorting machine woes slow the count in an Oregon county with a pivotal US House race; Arizona has enlisted county employees to help tackle a surge of two-page early ballots; and, a Florida school board candidate lost his race but DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese online retailer Temu is facing a European Union investigation over failing to prevent the sale of illegal goods; and, an Australian judge ruled an anti-immigration senator broke the country’s race law by telling a rival legislator to go back to Pakistan.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it took John Roberts over eight months to pull his presidential immunity ruling out of thin air, but it took him only one day to ignore the the Voting Rights Act and the longstanding Purcell Principle to overturn unanimous lower court decisions to let Virginia “accidentally” purge decades-long legal voters from the polls, six days before the election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage; police warn that the suspect in the Pacific Northwest ballot box fire bombings is certain to strike again; and, Michigan officials removed two Upper Peninsula clerks from election duties over their illegal MAGA-fueled planned hand count.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a special commission investigating Russian and Belarusian influences in Poland, said it will refer criminal charges against a former defense minister whose decisions impaired the country’s defenses ahead of the war on Ukraine; and, two journalists were killed in separate incidents in Mexico within twenty-four hours of each other.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Judge Cannon pulled a stunning move in court that flies in the face of judicial norms, so what else is new?
Then, on the rest of the menu, the man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer was given a life term without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial; weeks after the head of the elections office was forced out using the same tactic, the manager of critical Washoe County in northern Nevada is now been put on medical leave days before the election; and, a federal judge continues to block Florida officials from threatening TV stations over abortion ads.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil fined meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle; and, Finland’s president said North Korea’s mustering troops in Russia represents an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s no hoax Russian influence becomes a feature of American elections when Trump is on the ballot.
Then, on the rest of the menu, hundreds of ballots were destroyed in targeted attacks on ballot boxes in blue districts spanning Oregon and Southern Washington state; over two hundred thousand people canceled their Washington Post subscription after the Harris snub, with almost another twenty thousand canceling after Bezos’ whined in an op ed why he did it; and, a Boston-area pizza shop owner was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for threatening workers with deportation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Islamabad police arrested a Pakistani lawyer and her husband, who are known for taking on human rights cases, on charges of being national security risks; and, the government of the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe ordered a curfew after a strike by workers left 370,000 people in the dark.
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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 New York MAGA Square Garden rally went off the rails and delivered him the perfect Instant Karma he deserves.
Then, on the rest of the menu, officials in New Haven, Connecticut, are considering a public apology for a decision by city leaders in 1831 to reject what would have been the nation’s first Black college; a six-hundred pound bronze statue of a Tuskegee airman has been found after it was stolen from a Detroit city park; and, Latin superstar Bad Bunny has backed Harris for president after the racist jokes at Trump’s MAGA Bund rally in New York.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen denounced Russia’s hybrid attacks against democracies; and, Georgia’s opposition disputed the result of a crucial vote which could decide the country’s role in Europe.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump issued a threat to Jack Smith just like it came from Vlad.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Ohio judge struck down a state law that banned nearly all abortions, ruling it was unconstitutional in light of the 2023 voter referendum; a MAGA Georgia election official is appealing a judge’s order that she and other election leaders in the state’s most populous county must vote to certify results by the deadline set in law; and, a Pennsylvania GOP operative accused a Benedictine monastery of voter fraud, and now the nuns are fighting back.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Venezuelan media tycoon was charged in federal court in Florida for a conspiracy to siphon more than $1 billion from the oil company owned by the South American country’s government; and, Elon Musk has had regular, secret talks with Vladimir Putin the last two years, resulting in intense public and private pressure on the skipping dipshit by the Kremlin.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump will be able to ramble for hours about all the good things Hitler did, but he’ll stammer and clam up if asked to name the bad things Adolph accomplished.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Amazon plans to power Eastern Oregon data centers with small nuclear reactors; the top Nevada election official in a politically crucial county says she was forced out by the MAGA majority on the county board; and, a Texas county reversed its decision to reclassify a children’s book on Native American history as fiction.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the G7 allies are moving ahead with a $50 billion loan for Ukraine backed by frozen Russian funds; and, a former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s “comprehensive ignorance of history,” his interests in dictators, and his disdain for the American military are growing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge dismissed an RNC lawsuit that accused the Michigan Secretary of State of failing to maintain accurate voter registration records; the Alabama Secretary of State assured several thousand voters erroneously swept up in a voter roll purge that they can vote; and, a man accused of repeatedly threatening to kill the top elections officials in Colorado and Arizona as well as judges and federal law enforcement agents, is expected to plead guilty in federal court today.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain and Germany will sign a defense pact to counter Russia’s growing threat in the North Atlantic; and, the foreign minister of Poland said that he is ordering the closure of one of three Russian consulates in response to acts of infrastructure sabotage that were sponsored by Moscow.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Georgia judges are taking on the Trump-controlled State Election Board and throwing out all of their last minute rule changes before the election to benefit Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Central Park Five alleged in a federal lawsuit that Trump falsely claimed they pleaded guilty to the 1989 attack; a MAGA Arizona official who refused to certify the 2022 election, plead guilty to failing to perform her duty as an election officer; and, courts in Michigan and North Carolina rejected attempts by Republicans to disqualify the ballots of overseas military voters.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova narrowly voted to secure a path toward EU membership after accusing Russia of interference; and, victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster took their case for compensation to a UK court.
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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.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Josh Hawley has been caught in a humiliating scandal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, two hecklers complained to Fox News after they were escorted from Vice President Kamala Harris' rally in Wisconsin that they were “pushed by an elderly woman;” highly compensated ‘GunTubers’ are in a panic as YouTube cracks down on firearm content; and, CVS workers have gone on strike at seven Southern California stores for better pay and health care.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Greek police data hack has exposed details of an elite crime-fighting unit; and, Cyprus said that it has successfully thwarted a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith might just use Trump’s words against him in court after Trump directly linked himself to the January 6 insurrectionists in statements at a Univision town hall.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon elections phone lines had to be closed after a flood of out of state MAGA conspiracy calls overwhelmed the system; a federal judge in Florida ordered the DeSantis administration to stop threatening TV stations with criminal charges if they run ads in support of an abortion rights referendum; and, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against a Dallas doctor for violating the state’s ban on gender-affirming care.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an early morning blaze burned down a brand-new fire station in Germany that lacked fire alarms; and, the youngest woman to climb all of the world’s fourteen tallest peaks, calls for novices to be regulated.
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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.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Bret Baier lied deliberately and knowingly” about what Trump said he wants to do to Americans he calls “the enemy from within.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the CEO and senior management of a Tennessee company snuck out the back door and survived Hurricane Helene while his workers were forced to work until they died; a New Hampshire Supreme Court justice was indicted for interfering with a criminal probe of her husband; and, the New Mexico governor rescinded the emergency health order that suspended gun rights in playgrounds.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sea Shepard founder Paul Watson asked France for political asylum to avoid extradition to Japan; and, the European Central Bank is poised to cut rates again as inflation drops below the expected targe
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in their debate, linebacker Colin Allred wiped the smirk off waterboy Ted Cruz’s smirking chimp face over Ted hiding in a supply closet on January 6.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a mortgage company accused of lending discrimination by redlining predominantly Black neighborhoods in Alabama, has agreed to pay over ten million dollars to resolve the charges; California health care workers will get a pay bump under a new minimum wage law; and, the Justice Department will send election monitors to an Ohio county where a sheriff repeatedly intimidated voters in social media posts.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian man was released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drawing his thirteen year-old daughter made criticizing the Russian military; and, a court in Belarus sentenced an imprisoned opponent of hardline President Lukashenko to an additional year behind bars for disobeying prison officials.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, John Roberts was shaken, but not stirred over the backlash to his presidential immunity ruling.
Then, on the rest of the menu, student athletes and coaches for the largest and most diverse public high school in Oregon say they’ve faced racist chants and slurs during most of their away games; Trump’s campaign still owes St Cloud, Minnesota nearly $209,000 for a July rally there, and, in a whistleblower lawsuit, a top 29-year veteran detective alleges the Los Angeles Police Department is toxic toward women.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French far-right leader Marine Le Pen continues to face a Paris court on charges of embezzling European Union Parliament funds; and, European soccer player unions and leagues filed a formal complaint against FIFA.
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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 MAGA Republican official in Pennsylvania who removed scores of drop boxes, gets what she deserves.
Then, on the rest of the menu, hurricane recovery officials in North Carolina were relocated amid ‘armed militias’ threatening government workers in the region; Trump stranded hundreds of elderly MAGA supporters over five miles from their cars in the middle of the desert in the middle of the night; and, the latest Republican lawsuits are targeting rules for military voters overseas, but those ballots are already sent.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a senior Indian politician known for his close ties with Bollywood has been killed in Mumbai; and, snubbed by Tesla, Mexico’s new president Claudia Sheinbaum, pledged to create a Mexican-made small, affordable electric car.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new Supreme Court scandal involving Trump and Brett Kavanaugh is surging into the spotlight, that’s why it’s being buried, again.
Then, on the rest of the menu, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said Trump’s calls for CBS to lose its broadcasting rights over its Harris interview are serious “threats against free speech and should not be ignored;” Trump criticized Detroit to a group of Detroit economic and business leaders, in Detroit; and, scientists have long urged NASA to search for signs of life near Jupiter, now it is finally happening.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland tightened its visa rules as a probe confirmed the previous government’s cash-for-visas scandal; and, an “appalled” New Zealand defense minister issued a stinging rebuke that a New Zealand naval vessel sank because its captain was a woman.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new Jack Smith filing shows Trump was willfully blind to the facts he lost.
Then, on the rest of the menu, federal prosecutors indicted sixty-eight members of a white supremacist gang in the San Fernando Valley of California; an ACLU lawsuit detailing a DWI scheme where victims were forced to pay bribes to get charges dropped, is rocking the Albuquerque, New Mexico police department; and, former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters is set to be sentenced today for a MAGA voting data-breach scheme.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where swine fever is sweeping Northern Italy, threatening livelihoods and the production of region’s prized prosciutto; and, you can count the number of women physics Nobel laureates on one hand.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the legality of Musk’s vote buying scheme for Trump is questionable, but his need to buy love is not in dispute.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the former executive director for the San Jose, California Police Officers’ union pleaded guilty in federal court, that she illegally imported fentanyl and other synthetic opioids from half a dozen countries; with less than a month before people go to the polls, the MAGA State Election Board of Georgia is embroiled in a fight with Fulton County over a monitoring team to observe the county’s election practices; and, South Carolina prison officials told a death row inmate that he gets to choose between a firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection for his November 1st murder by the state.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Belarusian-American had his prison sentence extended amid the continuous crackdown on dissent in Belarus; and, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum, said his agents are facing a “staggering rise” in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes on UK soil by Russia and Iran.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court issued some rare bad news for Trump, and Elon Musk.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon’s Governor called for the DMV to pause automatic voter registration as the number of people mistakenly added to the voter rolls grows; MAGA Republicans are targeting $3 billion in federal contracts after a Deloitte consultant disclosed messages with JD Vance that were unconnected to his work; and, for the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries, just days after the largest dam removal project in US history was completed.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the mayor of the state capital of Guerrero in Mexico is killed less than one week after he took office; and, a self-described Nazi became the first person convicted in the Australian state of Victoria of performing the outlawed Nazi salute.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Musk vowed to keep Twitter a non-biased platform, but he's done the opposite and has transformed the platform into a political tool to help Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, concerns have been raised with the Los Angeles County Sheriff about a previously unknown deputy subgroup that uses a logo featuring Nazi-like imagery; the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hear oral arguments today in a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies to place polluting industries in majority-Black communities; and, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to immediately decide issues related to mail-in ballots in the commonwealth with early voting already under way in the few weeks before the November fifth election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian prosecutors asked for a seven-year sentence in the trial of a US citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine against Russia; and, tens of thousands of Hungarians protested the state media ‘propaganda factory’ and demanded an unbiased press.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Fox News totally lost it over Trump’s plan gone wrong.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled against the correctional health care giant Wellpath after company leaders “intentionally destroyed email evidence in order to prevent its use at trial;” abortion-rights groups are outraising opponents 8-to-1 on November ballot measures; and, the Department of Justice and Microsoft disrupted a hacking group tied to Russian intelligence that tried to worm its way into the systems of dozens of Western think tanks, journalists and former military and intelligence officials.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Dutch government blamed a ‘state actor’ for hacking into its national police network; and, Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum started her day much like her political mentor, ex-President López Obrador began most of his, with an early morning news briefing from the National Palace.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new Jack Smith filing shows Trump was willfully blind to the facts he lost.
Then, on the rest of the menu, federal prosecutors indicted sixty-eight members of a white supremacist gang in the San Fernando Valley of California; an ACLU lawsuit detailing a DWI scheme where victims were forced to pay bribes to get charges dropped, is rocking the Albuquerque, New Mexico police department; and, former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters is set to be sentenced today for a MAGA voting data-breach scheme.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where swine fever is sweeping Northern Italy, threatening livelihoods and the production of region’s prized prosciutto; and, you can count the number of women physics Nobel laureates on one hand.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, JD Vance knew he could lie about the generalities and the details at the debate since they have no intention of following the law anyway.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a California right wing militant has been hit with additional charges in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people; a North Carolina town that produces quartz needed for a wide spectrum of tech products was destroyed by Helene; and, a Pennsylvania county manager was sued over her plans to end the use of drop boxes for mail-in ballots.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany arrested a woman who passed airport details to a suspected spy for China; and, with falling energy prices providing some of the needed relief, inflation in Europe has fallen below two percent and opens the way for faster rate cuts.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, disaster relief used to be a nonpartisan issue that no one ever lied about, until Donald Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kentucky sheriff who murdered a state judge in cold blood has made the 'difficult decision' to retire; the CEO of Steward Health Care filed a lawsuit against a US Senate panel over a contempt resolution he got for ignoring a lawful subpoena; and, a trial is underway today, challenging new rules passed at the last minute by the MAGA Georgia State Election Board to withhold or delay certification of November’s election results.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where conservative Albanian opposition lawmakers violently disrupted a Parliament session to protest the imprisonment of a fellow conservative legislator; and, Taiwan shut schools and offices ahead of a direct hit from powerful Typhoon Krathon.
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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 is terrified of the massive evidence drop right before the election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, despite rampant political divisiveness nationwide, Oregonians share at least one common belief, public education is important; US retailers brace for the potential pain from a longshoremen’s strike; and, Hurricane Helene could have widespread consequences for homeowners, the private insurance industry and the federal flood insurance program.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the main Czech opposition coalition led by former populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis won an election Saturday for a third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house; and, the streets of Paris were filled with activists rallying in support of the right to abortion for women across the world.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kamala Harris is leading Trump by at least +3 in every swing state, so the media is reporting they are neck-and-neck.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a South Carolina neo-Nazi leader has been arrested on January 6 charges; Smartmatic and Newsmax reached a “confidential” agreement just before the defamation case involving the 2020 election was to start; and, a Willamette Valley, Oregon farm is pairing solar with agriculture by installing panels to generate power and protect delicate crops from intensifying summer heat.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Argentina’s poverty rate spiked almost 53% in the first six months of President Milei’s shock therapy; and, a Hong Kong court sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison in a sedition case widely seen as an indicator of media freedom in the city.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democratic testimony outsmarted the Republican’s "Weaponization of Government" hearing, chaired by Jim Jordan.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI’s raid on leading Department of Defense IT vendor Carahsoft, comes amid allegations of price fixing with SAP and Accenture; the Kamala Harris campaign has beckoned enigmatic Bay Area billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs out of the shadows; and, Anna Wolf won a Pulitzer for the Favre welfare scandal story, now she could face jail time for it.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where MAGA Mike Johnson demanded Zelenskyy remove Ukraine’s ambassador to the United State after the Ukraine President’s visit to a Pennsylvania munitions factory; and, the EU judicial cooperation agency is stepping up its fight against organized crime.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump describes a dystopian America while on the campaign trail that does not actually exist.
Then, on the rest of the menu, hundreds of residents pushed back on the removal of the thirty-four year old novel, ‘How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,’ from the Tillamook, Oregon High School honors curriculum; a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County alleged that a California rehab center hired and promoted white supremacists; and, a Federalist Society judge in Kentucky partially blocked a Transportation Department program for minorities and women, over discrimination against white contractors.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police will increase the number of bodyguards for leading politicians; and, China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump blamed the US for the war in Ukraine.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon removed over 1,200 voters from the rolls for failing to provide proof of citizenship; an elections board in Ohio will not use the county Sheriff’s department for election security after the sheriff’s posts about Harris yard signs; and, California becomes the latest state to restrict student smartphone use at school.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Pakistani Taliban denied attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors; and, reconstruction is set to begin on Copenhagen’s 400-year old fire-damaged Old Stock Exchange landmark.
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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, with just over six weeks until Election Day, the latest NBC poll finds Kamala Harris with a 5-point lead over Trump among registered voters, 49 percent to 44 percent.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Florida has violated the Endangered Species Act over an unusually high number of Manatee deaths; the Bureau of Land Management announced they have finalized a plan to add Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming to its existing Western Solar Plan, adding over a million acres from Oregon alone; and, California water regulators are cracking down on a second farming area in the San Joaquin Valley for failing to take adequate steps to curb depleting underground aquifers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats held back a strong showing by the extreme far right in a vote in the German state of Brandenburg; and, tens of thousands of revelers over the weekend marked the opening of the sixteen days of the 189th Oktoberfest in Munich.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a North Carolina judge refused a Republican Party demand to block students and employees at the state’s flagship public university from being able to show a digital identification to comply with a largely new photo ID law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in a move to counter China dominance in the market, the Biden/Harris administration awarded $3 billion for EV battery production in 14 states; four men among the first rioters to assault police officers and the first to breach a security perimeter during the attack on the US Capitol, were sentenced to prison terms; and, the animals of the Big Bear Alpine Zoo are returning home after spending a week in Palm Springs evacuated from the wildfires.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where eight former state security personnel accused of responsibility for the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters who were arrested in southern Thailand in 2004, will be indicted on murder charges; and, an oversight board says it will help speed up projects to fix Puerto Rico’s electric grid.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republican men who write abortion bans don't care about the life of the mother.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed an executive order banning “conversion therapy” for minors, skirting the Republican-led state legislature and setting up a likely legal challenge; the editor of the Haitian Times, along with scores of other prominent Haitians, have been the targets of police swatting attempts since Monday; and an EPA inspector general report found during the Trump administration, agency scientists were retaliated against for refusing to delete evidence of harm from new chemicals, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the DOJ indicted a Chinese national for a spearphishing campaign against NASA, the FAA, and the Air Force; and, Hungary refuses to pay fines for breaking EU asylum rules, but Brussels is taking the money anyway.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new book exposes the lies behind the myth of Trump's business acumen.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election; two former New York City Fire Department chiefs were arrested on charges of soliciting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes for preferential treatment to some individuals and companies; and, new archaeology at an abandoned Oregon town reveals the hidden lives of segregated Black logging families in the 1920’s.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Vatican opened a new investigation into leaks surrounding its ‘trial of the century’ London property investment probe; and, Australian police infiltrated the encrypted global messaging app Ghost and arrested dozens.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, 'The most hateful mind' in presidential history wants everybody else to tone down the rhetoric.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge denied a request from Mark Meadows to move his Arizona election-subversion case from state court to federal court; the president of the California Professional Firefighters union said that Trump “should be ashamed” of his threat to withhold federal firefighting aid to the state if he were elected; and, in English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where autoworkers demonstrated in Brussels to protest layoff threats across the EU industrial base; and, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance reported Democracy declined for the eighth straight year around the globe.
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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.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is losing his mind with awful news that Kamala Harris poll numbers are soaring.
Then, on the rest of the menu, more than three hundred noncitizens have been added to Oregon’s voter rolls over the last three years due to a state data entry error; an Arizona man accused of online terror threats has been arrested in Montana; and, progress was made over the weekend against three Southern California wildfires.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a High Court Justice rejected plans for the United Kingdom’s first new coal mine in three decades; and, a Brazil judge said he wasn’t messing around when he withdrew $3.3 million from Musk’s frozen Starlink and twitter accounts to pay for social media fines.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP has been busy laying the groundwork for their “three part plan to subvert the elections.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Illinois judge ruled Trump Tower is a public nuisance that threatens the Chicago River; a New York Police Department commissioner has resigned amid a federal corruption probe; and, Yosemite National Park’s historic 168-year old Wawona Hotel will close indefinitely for an ‘intensive’ checkup.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two private power companies in Puerto Rico are under scrutiny as officials demand fewer outages; and, Iran summoned the envoys of Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands over their accusations that Tehran supplied short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a majority of the conservative Missouri Supreme Court ordered MAGA Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft to place a measure on the November ballot to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ally Michael Flynn is priming supporters for violence ahead of the election; Trump claimed ‘We hardly make chips anymore,’ but US chip manufacturing remains among world leaders in the industry; and, Michigan leaders joined a national bipartisan effort to push back against attacks on the election system.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Serbian appeals court overturned a ruling to extradite a critic of the authoritarian Belarus regime; and, a 21-year old man in Denmark faces a twenty-year sentence on terrorism charges over arson at a Jewish woman’s home.
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tarting off in the Bistro Cafe, if MAGA thinks they can gaslight last night’s debacle, I’ve got a dog and cat mixed grill I can sell them.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in an effort to keep the rabid Trump-endorsed State Election Board at bay, Georgia’s Fulton County has hired a team of independent monitors to observe its operations for this year’s general election; a MAGA judge ruled a New Jersey man with no ties to the state of Alaska, and who is serving a 20-year sentence in a New York prison, can remain on Alaska’s ranked choice general election ballot to kick the libs; and, the WNBA players and union roundly criticized commissioner Cathy Engelbert, after she failed to condemn fan racism.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an ex-CIA officer who spied for China faces a decade of prison time and a lifetime of polygraph tests; and, both Google and Apple lost their court fights against the EU and owe tens of billions in fines and taxes.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, what the New York Times calls a “disputable policy assumption,” is just the Times’ way of “sane-washing” Trump’s tariff lies.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis is sending state police to Florida voters’ homes to interrogate them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the November ballot; the FBI reported Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams, so Trump is now selling crypto; and, the DOJ charged two white supremacists with planning assassinations and attacks on public officials, minorities, and infrastructure on Telegram to start a race war.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Spanish prime minister visited China during a dispute over electric vehicles; and, Poland’s security officials said they foiled cyberattacks and online blackmail attempts by groups acting for the Russian and Belarusian intelligence services.
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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 RNC has filed a handful of lawsuits in recent weeks targeting the election administration in the key swing states of Michigan and North Carolina.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the ACLU plans to spend $1.3M to educate Montana voters about their state Supreme Court candidates; Casino company Wynn Resorts has agreed to pay $130 million to federal authorities and admit it laundered international money to its gamblers at its flagship Las Vegas Strip property ; and, star Miami wide receiver Tyreek Hill was violently detained by police before the Dolphins game Sunday with hundreds recording on cell cameras, leading to one officer subsequently placed on administrative leave.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkish president Erdogan vowed to ‘purge’ military graduates who took an oath to defend “a secular, democratic Turkey,” that was discontinued from the academy in 2022; and, opposition candidate and presidential winner Edmundo González, was forced to flee Venezuela by the Maduro regime for asylum in Spain.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump for president campaign has a very bad day coming on September 26.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Missouri judge ruled that anti-abortion Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, used misleading language to summarize a ballot question designed to restore abortion rights in the state; federal investigators seized phones from New York City’s police commissioner and at least three top deputies to New York Mayor Eric Adams; and, a Massachusetts physician was sentenced to nine months in prison for punching police during the January 6 insurrection.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police in Munich exchanged gunfire and killed an assailant who planned an attack on the Israeli Consulate; and, the US Justice Department has widened its indictment of Russians in the WhisperGate malware attacks aimed at destroying computer systems in Ukraine and twenty-six NATO allies, including the United States.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is pulling out his same old playbook of tricks to distract from the latest devastating story about him and Russia.
Then, on the rest of the menu, live fire is suspected of starting a wildfire that severely damaged a naval base on a remote California island; Republicans have filed over one hundred voting-related lawsuits as a way to contest the presidential election; and, an appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Macron named the EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister; and, leaders of South Korea and New Zealand strongly condemned the deepening military cooperation between North Korea and Russia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe,Trump was swatted down by the judge in his New York case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, after raiding the homes of elderly Latino Democratic election volunteers, Texas MAGA Attorney General Ken Paxton is now threatening Democratic-leaning counties not to mail out voter registration forms; a MAGA federal judge ruled New Mexico election regulators and prosecutors discriminated against an election denying MAGA group in refusing access to sensitive voter registration rolls; and, a Federalist Society federal judge ruled that an Illinois law banning the concealed carry of firearms on public transit is unconstitutional.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where facial recognition startup Clearview AI has been fined $33.7 million by the Dutch data protection watchdog over an ‘illegal database’ of faces; and, senior EU ministers took a very public swipe at Hungary over its lack of respect for the bloc’s values.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the oldest Latino civil rights group in the US is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's raids on their members' homes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California lawmakers approved legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI; a Republican state representative in central Florida has been indicted on felony forgery charges related to her administration of her private, family-owned Christian school; and, the Arlington cemetery controversy has shined a spotlight on Utah Governor Spencer Cox’s sudden and bewildering embrace of Trump.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian newspaper publisher was convicted by a court in Siberia and sentenced to eight years in prison after his paper reported on Russia’s attacks on civilians in Ukraine; and, a twenty-three year old woman who posted a video of herself singing outdoors in Afghanistan to protest the Taliban’s morality laws, which include a ban on women’s voices in public, said she won’t be silenced.
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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, Jack Smith formally filed the brief for Trump’s espionage case with the 11th Circuit.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an 87-year-old Texas Latina who complained about local seniors not being sent mail-in ballots, had her house raided by officers for Paxton’s election integrity unit; a Republican New Hampshire state representative will pay two drag queens $100,000 each after they sued him for falsely calling them sex offender pedophiles; and, a cyberattack has left the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport facing major internet outages for the fourth straight day.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Dutch data protection watchdog fined Uber $324 million for inadequate protection of drivers’ data; and, China expressed its opposition to the latest US sanctions on Chinese companies over their ties to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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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 is panicking about debating VP Kamala Harris while JD Vance continues to be weird.
Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly forty percent of Washington state parents quit work or got fired after having kids; Oklahoma revoked the license of a teacher who gave her class the QR code to the Brooklyn library; and, Ken Paxton raided the offices of Texas Latino Democratic candidates for office after a fake news story on Fox.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk acknowledged that he does not have the votes to liberalize the country’s strict abortion law; and, French authorities arrested the CEO of Telegram at a Paris airport for using his platform for money laundering, drug trafficking and other offenses.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court rejected part of the Republican National Committee and Arizona Republicans' request to reinstate parts of the state’s voter suppression law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Google agreed to pay millions of dollars for California news, but journalists call it a bad deal; a New York non-profit has come to an agreement with several southern states to cancel the medical debt of one hundred ninety-three thousand needy patients; and, Floridians balk at the DeSantis administration plan to build golf courses at state parks.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where RW darling Andrew Tate has been placed under house arrest as new human trafficking allegations emerge involving minors; and, security at a NATO air base in western Germany has been raised because of intelligence information pointing to a “potential threat.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, this is not the Democratic Party your conservative grandparents ran against.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Marine Corps veteran who tried to fake his own death after a falling out with a Virginia-based militia group, has pleaded guilty to illegal possession of ricin; Utah lawmakers want voters to give them the power to change ballot measures once they’ve passed; and, a federal judge temporarily blocked exploratory drilling for a lithium project on sacred, tribal lands in Arizona.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European milk and cheese producers have become the latest target in a simmering trade war with China; and, Pakistan authorities charged a man with cyber terrorism over misinformation that sparked the riots in the United Kingdom.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, 'Kamala Harris has a resume, Donald Trump has a rap sheet.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, over thirteen thousand complaints of tenant harassment in Los Angeles has led to only four fines in the last three years; a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down the FTC rule banning noncompete agreements; and, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon is suing the city of Medford, saying its police department has been unlawfully monitoring progressive political activists who aren’t suspected of criminal activity.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s top court has refused to release Navalny’s lawyers pending their trial on extremism charges; and, Taiwan has been conducting live-fire missile drills as China ramps up its military threats.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Republicans filed its fourth lawsuit against Joe Biden’s executive order to set up voter registration tables at federal agencies and offices.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump campaign threatened the Loudoun County, Virginia GOP with a lawsuit over merchandise sales; Illinois will become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all its schools; and, the differing approaches Idaho and Oregon took to heat related deaths on the job, had fatal results for one of the states.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain has taken emergency action to prevent prisons in northern England from becoming overcrowded; and, employees at Mexico’s federal courts went on strike over measures that would make all judges stand for election.
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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 is losing is his mind as VP Harris continues to gain momentum and Governor Walz is more popular than ever.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an audit of the Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care found the agency could benefit from stronger oversight and equity training; a controversial bill to abolish the California fire hazard rankings died in the Legislature; and, a salmonella outbreak tied to cucumbers from Florida was larger than initially indicated, sickening four hundred forty-nine people across thirty-one states and DC.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where more than four hundred homes were evacuated in Northern Ireland to remove a World War II-era bomb; and, a volcano erupted after a powerful 7.0 earthquake in Russia’s Far East, with scientists warning of a stronger, more potent earthquake on the way.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Just one day after Judge Merchan denied Trump's third motion to remove Merchan from the case, Trump's lawyers try yet again to put a stop to Trump's sentencing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration failed to provide timely tax refunds worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Virginia corporations two years in a row; Mark Meadows tries to move his charges in Arizona’s fake electors case to federal court; and, Florida election officials warn of a MAGA-fueled false rumor about ballot markings days before the state’s primary.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US-Russian dual national woman will be jailed for twelve years on treason charges for a $52 donation to Ukraine; and, Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman in history to win the country’s presidential vote back on June 2, has finally been formally declared Mexico’s President-elect.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has been hit with a devastating development in his state prosecutions.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Meta has killed off the tracking tool CrowdTangle, to keep researchers and journalists from monitoring how misinformation spreads across the company’s platforms; Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is threatening to sue the State Fair of Texas for banning firearms after a fatal shooting also injured scores of people at the Fair last year; and, President Biden will designate the site of the 1908 Springfield, Illinois race riot as a national monument.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German authorities are investigating the unauthorized entry and sabotage of the water supply at a major military barracks; and, UNESCO reported at least 1.4 million Afghan girls have been deliberately denied access to secondary education since the Taliban takeover in August of 2021.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Trump's laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims,” is not just a “firehose of falsehoods,” it is “madness.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, fresh off an Olympic bronze medal, basketball star Dearica Hamby filed a federal lawsuit against the WNBA and her former team, for discriminating and retaliating against her while she was pregnant; a district judge says Maine can forbid discrimination by religious schools that take state tuition money; and, Indiana’s attorney general dropped a lawsuit against the state’s largest hospital system because a doctor told a newspaper that a 10-year-old Ohio girl had traveled to Indiana for an abortion.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan’s Kishida announced he will not run in September, paving the way for a new prime minister; and, Senegal’s media outlets staged a blackout day to bring attention to the government’s attacks on press freedom.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has threatened to sue the DOJ over the Mar a Lago search and investigation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Colorado jury found former county election official, Tina Peters, guilty for her role in election equipment tampering and could face prison time; a federal judge ruled Illinois must move most of the inmates at its 100-year-old prison within less than two months because of decrepit conditions; and, power-hungry Artificial Intelligence data centers are raising not only electric bills, but major blackout risks as well.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where several hundred thousand people in India who prepaid $1,000 to order Tesla EVs, ask for their money back as cars fail to arrive at their destinations; and, Sierra Leone’s president used the UN Security Council presidency to urge for more seats for Africa.
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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, prosecutors everywhere are finally dropping the hammer on Trump’s fake elector’s and co-conspirators.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the financial services industry has blocked the Biden administration from requiring brokers to put retirees’ needs first, above lucrative commissions; West Virginia’s high court upheld a lower court panel’s decision to remove two GOP county commissioners who refused to attend meetings; and, Schumer says he will work to block any effort in the Senate to significantly cut the CDC’s budget.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where King Charles III applauded the people who stood against racism during the recent unrest in the UK; and, a wildfire near Greece’s capital has darkened the skies over Athens and is advancing fast.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Apartheid Clyde got some bad news over his Trump-linked scam PAC.
Then, on the rest of the menu, three Columbia University deans have resigned in the wake of antisemitic texts they exchanged during an alumni weekend event about Jewish life on campus; an estimated eighteen hundred Alabama students will repeat third grade under a new reading law; and, the FBI arrested a California woman who stormed the Capitol on January 6 with a sword, knife and pepper spray.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian prosecutors asked for a 15-year sentence in the treason trial of a Russian-American woman, who has plead guilty; and, prepared for a battle with far-right agitators, British police found peaceful anti-racism protesters, instead.
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― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Tim Walz destroyed JD Vance like a midwestern John Wick.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Arizona grand jurors discussed indicting Trump, but prosecutors urged them not to; extreme heat is impacting most Americans’ electricity bills; and, a Delaware judge rejected a bid by Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller to reopen their fight over access to the Biden Senate papers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the trial has started for a Polish man accused of punching the Danish prime minister in Copenhagen; and, a Russian pianist has conveniently died in jail while awaiting trial on charges linked to his criticism of Moscow’s military action in Ukraine.
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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, where did the ten million in one hundred dollar bills from Egypt go?
Then, on the rest of the menu, embracing election conspiracies could sink a Kansas sheriff who once looked invulnerable; a Georgia county election board rejected thousands of voter challenges filed by a MAGA activist using faulty data; and, the fact Gorsuch felt free to issue his “be careful” threat to Biden, shows the real dangers of an unchecked Supreme Court.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where commodities giant Glencore is ordered to pay over $150M in the wake of its Congo mining bribery case; and, in its annual report, the Federation of the Jewish Communities said antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic rose sharply in 2023.
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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, Attorney General Garland will authorize Special Counsel Smith to argue to overturn Judge Cannon’s wrong headed decision to dismiss the Mar a Lago indictment against Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Democratic primary in Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District still remains too close to call and could be headed for a recount; election conspiracy theories related to the 2020 presidential race live on in Michigan’s GOP primary; and, Ohio removed 155,000 people from the voter rolls ahead of November’s presidential election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer strongly condemned an attack on asylum seekers that saw at least 10 police officers injured, as “far-right thuggery;” and, over 3,000 Salvadoran Catholics will participate in Saint Óscar Romero’s pilgrimage, an annual event in August honoring the San Salvador archbishop who was assassinated by the right wing government as he celebrated Mass on March 24, 1980.
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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, legal experts issued a warning to election officials who refuse to certify the election based on bogus fraud claims.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the University of California set a new record with the largest, most diverse class of California students for the fall 2024 semester; the Justice Department will offer cash rewards for whistleblower tips on criminal financial misconduct; and, a federal appeals court made it harder for Black and Hispanic voters to form coalitions to elect the candidates they prefer in three southern states, overruling long-standing precedents.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two Belarusian journalists working for news outlets that the government of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has declared extremist, have been sentenced to prison in a closed-door trial; and, saying it is a key partner, India offered a $300 million loan to build up Vietnam’s maritime security.
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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-supporting election officials are poised to prevent the certification of the November election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a jury convicted a man of illegally accessing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health records in 2019; Massachusetts businesses with at least twenty-four employees must disclose the salary range for new jobs; and, Black and other minority farmers are getting two billion dollars from the USDA after years of discrimination.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian couple in Slovenia has been sentenced to nineteen months in prison for spying; and, an investigation has determined that “Chinese state actors” were responsible for a 2021 cyberattack on Germany’s national office for cartography.
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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, Vice President Kamala Harris is now leading or close to Trump in every battleground state.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Arizona voters will decide the fate of a Republican metro Phoenix election official who pushed hard against MAGA election falsehoods; despite MAGA Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s cruel efforts, a Missouri man was finally freed from prison after his murder conviction was overturned after 34 years behind bars; and, Georgia’s largest school district won’t teach a new AP course in African American Studies because of the MAGA-controlled state Department of Education’s refusal to approve the course.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a two-year investigation in Greece has cleared the country’s security agencies of involvement in an international spyware scandal that triggered sanctions by the United States; and, an Australian police officer testified in an inquest about the 2022 ambush by Christian extremists in a rural area that left two constables dead.
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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, roughly one-hundred-forty individuals who worked in Trump's presidential administration are affiliated with Project 2025.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a hooded hooligan vandalized a Hollywood, California synagogue as an accomplice recorded it; federal authorities charged a construction company in a deadly Idaho airport hangar collapse ignored well-established safety standards; and, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a nearly $58 billion state budget bill that includes a plan for free community college.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a historic UNESCO world heritage park in Germany grapples with dying trees as climate change kicks in; and, a diplomatic spat has erupted between Hungary and Poland over conflicting views on Russia.
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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, JD Vance is so weird he tripled down on his attacks on women, cats and the American Way of Modern Life.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Health Authority reports the state is on the verge of measles outbreak caused by unvaccinated kids; Mark Meadows’ legal team will argue that Trump’s total immunity means the Supreme Court should toss the former chief of staff’s Georgia election charges; and, a woman mauled on her porch by a ‘find and bite’ police dog while talking to cops she called to report a crime, has sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three sisters of an Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross, christened a US Navy warship bearing his name with a promise that the ship will visit Ireland; and, Edna O’Brien, one of the world’s most admired and controversial writers who scandalized her native Ireland with her debut novel, “The Country Girls,” which was censored and even burned, has died at age ninety-three.
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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, Trump had a major freakout over FBI Director Chris Wray’s congressional testimony about the assassination attempt.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Southern Oregon postal workers will hold a rally next week to raise awareness about the consolidation of mail services that is delaying mail ahead of the November election; Justice Kagan says there needs to be a way to enforce the US Supreme Court’s new ethics code; and, Monsanto agreed to a $160 million settlement with Seattle over pollution in the Duwamish River.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the G20 finance ministers discussed a global tax on the super-rich; and, US authorities indicted a North Korean military intelligence operative in a conspiracy to hack into American health care providers, NASA, US military bases and international entities.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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 freaked out big time over Madame VP at his rally in North Carolina.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri MAGA Attorney General whined so much the state Supreme Court halted the release of a man with an overturned conviction just as he was about to go free; a judge ruled a Texas woman’s lawsuit after being jailed on a murder charge over abortion can proceed; and, a third man has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with threats and vandalism targeting public radio journalists in New Hampshire.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Eluned Morgan will be Wales’ first female leader as she takes over a troubled governing party; and, French authorities say a Russian man is among those arrested in several plots targeting the Paris Olympics.
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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, the possibility of a Judge Cannon on the Supreme Court surges into the spotlight.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation is kickstarting a new effort at Portland State University to diversify Oregon’s burgeoning semiconductor workforce; pointing a finger at Louis DeJoy, state election directors from across the country expressed fear the Postal Service can’t handle the expected crush of mail-in ballots; and, scientists have found ‘dark oxygen’ being produced in a complete lack of light from metals on the seafloor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Wisconsin man was charged with fleeing to Ireland to avoid a prison term for his role in the January 6 insurrection; and, Germany’s governing coalition and the conservative opposition presented a plan to protect the country’s highest court against future manipulation or obstruction by extremist or authoritarian politicians.
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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, MAGA Mike and the other insurgents have 0.00 chance of prevailing in their legal challenges to keep Kamala off the ballot, but they’ll still try by any means necessary.
Then, on the rest of the menu, one of nation’s largest corporate landlords will pay thirty-five California cities $20 million for making repairs without permits; a Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to three years of probation for calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital; and, the EPA has awarded $4.3 billion to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian-American journalist for Radio Free Europe has been sentenced to 6½ years in prison after a secret trial; and, the EU is putting new pressure on Hungary’s Orban over his outreach to Russia.
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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, Fox, the RNC and MAGA are losing it over the news that Vice President Harris will be the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department secretly investigated a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote about a leaked list of problem deputies; airlines continued to struggle to restore operations two days after a faulty software update and crowdstrike hack caused technological havoc worldwide; and, the US Treasury warned that anti-woke banking laws like Florida’s are a national security risk.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Austrian police detained dozens of protesters trying to disrupt a march by far-right extremists; and, a French neo-Nazi sympathizer was sentenced to two years in prison after making threats online and for targeting the Olympic torch relay.
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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, the Jack Smith appeal could go faster than expected.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in response to an appeals court blocking Biden’s student loan repayment plan, the administration will put the 8 million borrowers’ loans in the Save program in interest-free forbearance; a county judge in California “ignored 89 years of labor law precedent” and granted an injunction for billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick to stop the United Farm Workers from unionizing their agricultural employees; and, a MAGA judge in Colorado rejected claims that a group of Trump supporters intimidated voters when they went armed, door-to-door, searching for fraud following the 2020 election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s divided National Assembly kept a centrist member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party as speaker; and, Ursula von der Leyen has been reelected to a second 5-year term as European Commission president.
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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 keeps falling asleep at the Republican National Convention.
Then, on the rest of the menu, just released financial reports show a conservative group made a last ditch play to influence the Oregon primary in a high-profile congressional race; Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California has filed charges against Libs of TikTok for a doctored viral post in which a professor wishes Trump dead; and, the Nevada GOP official who gained national notoriety backing rancher Cliven Bundy and his family during armed standoffs between militiamen and federal law enforcement officers, has been federally indicted for ripping off a charity for slain cops.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German court convicted a businessman of delivering components with military use to Russia; and, the head of Hong Kong’s leading journalist group says she lost her Wall Street Journal job after refusing to drop her leadership role in the trade union.
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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, Trump had an unhinged meltdown over the stock market records and Biden’s plan to reform the Supreme Court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Washington state man has been arrested and charged for attacks in 2022 that were part of a national series of disruptions to the electrical grid by far right extremist groups; Steve Bannon’s exiled Chinese businessman partner has been convicted of wire fraud and money laundering; and, federal prosecutors indicted a neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ leader who plotted to give poison candy to Jewish kids in New York City.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s top security official banned a far-right magazine, accusing it of spreading hatred against Jews; and, a Romanian court reimposed the travel ban on Andrew Tate and his brother as they await trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
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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, Jack Smith quickly delivered a reality check to Aileen Cannon.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Feds charged three former Chicago hospitals executives in a $15 million dollar embezzlement scheme; the President of Dickinson State University in North Dakota resigned after all of the nursing faculty quit; and, a Georgia county says slave descendants can’t use the referendum process to challenge the rezoning of their island community.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italy’s tax police freed thirty-three Indian farm workers from “slave-like working conditions” in the northern province of Verona; and, Estonia’s first woman Prime Minister is stepping down to become the European Union’s top diplomat.
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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 shooting incident outside Justice Sotomayor’s home by her security detail, is a reminder of Trump’s general threats against America and Americans.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black man in Michigan only got a hotel job interview after using a White-sounding name; a lawyer disbarred in Ohio tricked an Irvine, California law firm into a $250,000 job offer; and, the Justice Department arrested a New Jersey man for plotting an electrical substation attack to advance his white supremacist views.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States and Germany foiled a Russian plot to assassinate the CEO of an arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine; and, the United Nations demanded that Russia immediately return Europe’s biggest nuclear plant to Ukraine.
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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, Clarence Thomas was caught trying to protect himself from investigation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Massachusetts House unanimously approved legislation that bans companies from selling cellphone location data of reproductive and gender-affirming care clinics; a pair of government regulators slapped Citigroup with a $135.6 million fine for making insufficient progress resolving longstanding internal control and risk issues; and, a woman who pleaded guilty to killing entertainment consultant and social justice advocate Michael Latt, was sentenced to thirty-five years to life in prison.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s foreign minister says she doesn’t plan to run for chancellor in the next election; and, Russia declared The Moscow Times, an online newspaper popular among Russia’s expatriate community, as an “undesirable organization,” subjecting collaborators with up to five years in a Siberian gulag.
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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, if Ted Lieu raised the issue of Donald Trump’s awful past at a press conference, would it make a sound?
Then, on the rest of the menu, Montana Republicans want the state high court to reverse the landmark youth climate ruling; election conspiracy-addled MAGA commissioners in Nevada’s second most populous county refused to certify the results of two local recounts from last month’s primary; and, California fast food franchisees are responding to the state-mandated $20 per hour minimum wage by drastically cutting employee hours.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian court ordered the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow, who lives abroad; and, following in a long-held family tradition, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is being investigated over illicit financing in her 2022 campaign for president..
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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, Trump’s unwritten deal with the media was exposed by the “hyenas” of the White House press corps yesterday.
Then, on the rest of the menu, billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has invested heavily in Smartmatic’s lawsuit against Fox; Governor Greg Abbott was not the only Texas bigwig to jet out of the state just as Hurricane Beryl made landfall; and, welfare fraudster Brett Favre is asking an appeals court to reinstate his defamation lawsuit against fellow pro football Hall of Fame member Shannon Sharpe.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian playwright and a theater director were sentenced to prison for six years each on charges of advocating terrorism; and, the Brera Modern Art Museum will be inaugurated this fall, fifty-two years and thirty-nine Italian governments after it was first envisioned.
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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 prosecutions can still move forward despite the Supreme Court's immunity ruling.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas is still investigating migrant aid groups on the border in violation of a judge’s scathing order; the Kansas Supreme Court strongly reaffirmed that the state constitution protects abortion access; and, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced the formation of a new panel charged with guiding the state’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a coalition of the French left beat back a far-right surge by winning the most seats in the high-stakes snap election; and, Hungary’s Orbán made a surprise visit to China after trips to Russia and Ukraine.
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!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the threat by the president of the Heritage Foundation that there will be blood, is only part of Project 2025.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a cybersecurity breach could delay court proceedings across New Mexico; a federal judge sentenced four anti-abortion activists for a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade; and, two more people charged with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of cash in one of the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases, pleaded not guilty.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN human rights chief appealed to voters not to scapegoat migrants and refugees as the elections loom; and, Russian-linked cybercampaigns put a bull’s-eye on France during the Olympics and their elections.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new audio recordings of Trump were just leaked from a pissed off reporter who was writing a book on him.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the DOJ quickly outmaneuvered the Supreme Court after the immunity ruling.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Epstein evidence drop reveals shocking details about Trump.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Federal Prosecutor, Shan Wu, reported on what it was like inside the Supreme Court during the reading of Trump's immunity decision.
Then, on the rest of the menu, federal officials are seeking to overhaul how Medicare pays health-care providers after a $3 billion scheme to defraud the program; the Department of Justice announced a policy change agreement after accusing educators in Kansas’ largest public school district of discriminating against Black and disabled students when disciplining them; and, the National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a court in Belarus sentenced twenty political analysts to prison terms of at least ten years each after convicting them in absentia of conspiracy to overthrow the government; and, ten members of a nonviolent Cambodian environmental activist group were each sentenced to six years in prison on charges of conspiring against their state.
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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, Trump has become totally unhinged after the immunity ruling.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ordered more than a dozen of the nation’s most prominent white supremacists and hate groups to pay about $9.7 million dollars for the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Hate rally; the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is probing the death of a major general whose body was found at the Twentynine Palms, California Marine base; and, a MAGA US representative from Indiana was charged with bringing a .380-caliber firearm through airport security.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US military has heightened the security alert at its European bases due to a combination of threats; and, a Japanese executive is among dozens arrested in Myanmar for selling rice above set prices.
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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, Jack Smith slipped a ‘poison pill’ in the brief Cannon demanded he file.
Then, on the rest of the menu, nine Oregon Senate Republicans are seeking to tie rising electricity rates to a program that is not yet in effect; Nevada has verified enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment for abortion rights on the ballot; and, California is the first of three states to pass bills requiring tracking codes for gun stores, while seventeen states have passed bills barring or limiting gun store codes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia has appointed only the second woman governor-general in 123 years to represent the British monarch; and, the European Union is escalating its scrutiny of the artificial intelligence industry.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Dr Jill was at the debate while Melania watched the Uruguay/Bolivia Copa soccer match with her 24-hour bodyguard at her Manhattan penthouse.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Arizona MAGA RNC delegation chair said she ‘would lynch’ the Jewish county election official who oversaw the 2020 election for Maricopa County; a Minnesota judge was reprimanded for stripping voting rights from people with felonies; and, Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s administration is moving forward with plans for a new light rail project in Baltimore.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Slovakia will boost protections for politicians after an assassination attempt on the populist premier Fico; and, fire tore through the Danish taxation ministry, the latest of over a dozen major fires in Copenhagen since April.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the immunity challenge has been hogging the news at SCOTUS, but the Fischer case has been flying under the radar and it could make insurrections great again.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled Border patrol officers falsely imprisoned a 9-year-old US citizen, and now they must pay; California lawmakers approved a budget that slashes spending and temporarily raises taxes on some businesses; and, an independent watchdog within the IRS reported delays in resolving identity theft cases are ‘unconscionable.’
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia ordered an Austrian journalist out in response to Austria’s expulsion of a Russian journalist; and, a Bolivian general was quickly arrested after a failed coup attempt, which is proof it can be done.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Aileen Cannon is defying legal norms by giving Trump a forum to attempt to throw out his indefinitely-delayed classified documents case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon is the first state to join the free filing option for federal taxes; Arizona authorities are investigating whether a 27-year-old temporary election worker in the state’s largest county had political motivations when he stole a fob that would allow him access to vote tabulators; and, a federal judge rejected a $30 billion settlement that would have capped the fees Visa and Mastercard charge to merchants for credit and debit card purchases.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Brazilian police official won crucial backing to become the next head of Interpol; and, Puerto Rico’s Justice Department is suing at least thirty former government officials accused of corruption to recover more than $30 million in public funds.
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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, Cannon made a major mistake inquiring how the DoJ is funding the case, and it may cost her.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the state infant mortality rate rose over eight percent in the wake of the Texas abortion ban; the first Black mayor of a small Alabama town, who was locked out of town hall by the former mayor and the all-white council, will return to the role under the terms of a proposed settlement agreement; and, civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit to block Louisiana’s new unconstitutional law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a high-profile German far-right politician is on trial for the second time over knowingly using a Nazi slogan during a political event; and, Indonesia won’t pay the $8 million ransom demanded by a hacking group who compromised the national data center.
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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, Judge Cannon's extraordinary pretrial backlog is 'like LaGuardia on a holiday.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI has offered a reward for information about those responsible for igniting a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the past week; abortion access has won when it’s been on the ballot, that’s why half the states are working hard to keep it off; and, a Wisconsin judge is expected to consider whether to allow people with disabilities to vote electronically from home this November.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the investigation of the Russian hack on London hospitals earlier in the month, may take weeks to complete; and, right-wing Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage, is facing wide-ranging criticism over his claim that the West provoked Putin to invade Ukraine.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, striking back at Trump, Fulton County DA Fani Willis filed a Motion to Dismiss his appeal to remove her as prosecutor, that could lead to the case being sent back to the trial judge in time for setting a trial before November.
Then, on the rest of the menu, educational material from propaganda chop shop PragerU is now taught in public schools in six states; top executives of a California-based online mental health company were arrested in a $100 million dollar scheme to improperly prescribe Adderall during the pandemic; and, a MAGA attorney charged in connection with an effort to illegally access and tamper with voting machines in Michigan after the 2020 election, said that he’s running for the state’s high court.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leader of Armenia declared his intention to pull out of a Russia-dominated security alliance as tensions rise between the two allies; and, unseasonably extreme heat forced Greek authorities to shut down the Acropolis during the afternoon hours for a second day in a row.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared Kushner’s dark past resurfaces and MAGA is working hard to cover it up, again.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the leaders of Oregon’s two Planned Parenthood affiliates have temporarily delayed their effort to dissolve the organization’s political arm; the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled unanimously the MAGA Superintendent of Public Instruction and the state Department of Education overstepped their authority to force schools to ban books; and, intelligence officials say the presidential election is a prime target for foreign disinformation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Slovakia plans to boost protection for politicians after the assassination attempt on its populist premier; and, a Russian woman has been detained and questioned in Denmark for helping a foreign intelligence agency operate in the country.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Cannon’s latest efforts to aid Trump and avoid any Mar a Lago espionage act trial this year accidentally exposed her own errors.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court upheld the California law banning gun shows at county fairs; the Virginia NAACP sued a county school board over its reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools; and, the lead singer of the Four Tops sued a Detroit-area hospital for restraining him and ordering a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was one of the Four Tops.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French opposition parties on the left and right are seeking alliances ahead of the snap elections called by President Macron; and, the government of the Central African Republic suspended a Chinese mining company’s operations in the country, accusing it of cooperating with armed militias.
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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, the decision by the right wing Georgia appellate court to stop the continued prosecution of Trump until they issue their appellate ruling raises serious questions.
Then, on the rest of the menu, voting technology company Smartmatic subpoenaed four Fox Corporation board members as part of its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News; a Federalist Society judge in Texas halted a federal disaster aid program for minority farmers because it discriminated against white farmers; and, the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission unanimously chose a Democratic member as chair for the next two years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Czech authorities suspect that Russia may have been behind last week’s attempt to set Prague public transportation buses on fire; and, Hungary Prime Minister Orbán’s party showed its weakest performance in European Union elections since joining the bloc twenty years ago.
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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.”
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"A Moveable Feast"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump allies, Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis and Michael Roman, were charged with felony forgery in the Wisconsin 2020 fake electors scheme.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Georgia congressional candidate convicted for his participation in the January 6 insurrection, walked out of a televised debate on Sunday ahead of a June 18 primary runoff; an Indiana Christian group teaching Bible instruction to public school students during classroom hours, says it will triple its programs in the state this fall after new legislation forced school districts to comply; and, New Haven, Connecticut dedicated an immigrant monument in the square where Christopher Columbus statue was removed.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Norway’s sovereign wealth fund said it will vote against Elon Musk’s hefty CEO compensation package during Tesla’s annual meeting on Thursday; and, the assault on the Danish prime minister over the weekend is the latest in a recent spate of attacks on European politicians.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s train wreck of a speech in 118 degree heat in Arizona sent over fifty people to the hospital.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the only Black head team doctor in the NFL has filed suit alleging racial discrimination; an appeals court ruled eight books dealing with racism and transgender issues must be returned to library shelves in a rural Texas county that had removed them; and, Eugene Meyer, the longtime president of the Federalist Society, announced his retirement.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States imposed sanctions on dozens of Georgian officials in response to the enactment of a law that will curb media freedom; and, a French citizen was arrested in Moscow on charges of collecting military data.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Aileen Cannon issued a new tactic to delay Trump’s espionage trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a state ethics panel ruled an Oregon lawmaker who suggested non-Christians are ill-suited for elected office did not violate House rules; Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui voted to oppose a US military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano; and, a hail stone the size of a pineapple found in Texas will likely set a state record.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Emirati leader met with a Taliban official facing a $10 million US bounty over attacks on US citizens; and, the Netherlands is the first to kick off four days of European Union elections across twenty-seven nations.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s off the wall posting spree of bizarre and unhinged videos of himself is compared with the posts and actions by President Biden.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a man who attacked a Muslim state representative outside a prayer service in Connecticut was sentenced to five years in prison; big GOP funders are sending millions into Missouri’s attorney general primary; and, South Carolina is trading its all-male Supreme Court for an all-white Supreme Court.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where several London hospitals had to cancel operations and send patients away because of a cyberattack on a company that supplies pathology laboratory services; and, Interpol and the FBI have broken up a cyber scheme in Moldova to get asylum for wanted criminals.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jamie Raskin humiliated Marjorie Taylor Green at another bonkers hearing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a confidential state document showed a long-shot MAGA political stunt to personally interfere with the New York judge who found Trump liable for bank fraud, fizzled out quietly months ago; a panel of MAGA judges on the 11th Circuit blocked the Fearless Fund from awarding grants to Black women because it might discriminate against white men; and, the CFO of the far-right MAGA QAnon China-owned propaganda outlet Epoch Times, has been arrested for his role in a sixty-seven million dollar multinational money laundering scheme.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of Greece’s extreme neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will return to prison after a council of judges rescinded his early conditional release; and, a small group of women got down on their knees outside Russia’s Defense Ministry to hold a rare protest and demand the return of their mobilized soldier husbands and sons from Ukraine.
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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.”
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"A Moveable Feast"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Justice Sotomayor sounded the alarm on the MAGA SCOTUS.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Army National Guardswoman and part-time instructor for an Arizona high school was exposed as a neo-Nazi; with rates climbing, more Oregonians had their electricity or natural gas service cut off in April than at any time in the six years the state’s been tracking disconnections; and, mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus have been found in Los Angeles County.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iceland elected businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir as its new president; and, physicist and climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum holds an irreversible lead that has made her Mexico’s first woman president, oh, and she’s Jewish, too.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump still has to deal with sentencing, appeal options, the gag order and more following his historic conviction on all 34 felony counts.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a January 6 officer was ‘swatted’ at her Virginia home hours after her son criticized Trump; a New Mexico judge granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect kids from sexual exploitation; and, anti-vaxxers are to blame for the sharp rise of whooping cough in Oregon.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where billons of dollars in gold is smuggled out of Africa each year and most of it ends up in the United Arab Emirates; and, Sweden’s domestic security agency accused Iran of using established criminal networks in Sweden as a proxy to target Israeli or Jewish interests in the Scandinavian country.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is left to stew in his own madness as the jury deliberates his crimes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a conservative Republican blocked the confirmation of the first Native American federal judge for Montana; the Governor of Louisiana signed legislation that makes it a crime to knowingly approach within twenty-five feet of a police officer while they are “engaged in law enforcement duties;” and, a MAGA Republican on the election board for Fulton County, Georgia refused to certify the primary election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police searched the European Parliament as part of an investigation into whether EU lawmakers were bribed to promote Russian propaganda; and, the US pledged $135 million in aid to Western-leaning Moldova to counter Russian influence.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Cannon went full MAGA with her pro-Trump ruling.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Klickitat County, Washington has narrowed its options for a new jail, and none include the out of control Constitutional Sheriff lording over everything; a former California water official plead guilty to conspiring to steal water for the last two decades from the California Aquaduct; and, the Texas GOP has taken the party’s hostility to democracy to a new level.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Europe’s cybersecurity chief says disruptive digital attacks by Russia have doubled recently in the run up to the EU elections; and a Polish nature photographer who was arrested in Congo and sentenced to life on espionage charges, has been released and returned to Europe.
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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, Jack Smith wants to dance, but you don’t put Baby Aileen in a corner.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin judge will hear arguments in a union lawsuit against collective bargaining restrictions; after a deadly heat wave killed over four hundred people last summer, Phoenix, Arizona officials are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting triple digits this spring; and, a Chicago man wrongfully convicted of murder, based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness, is suing the city and the police department.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungary’s five-time Prime Minister Orbán is facing a new serious contender in the upcoming EU elections; and, Poland rolled out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus.
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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 was a total lunatic on social media over the weekend as he made posts that could constitute criminal admissions and made statements about the jury that are highly inappropriate and likely gag order violations.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon officials have warned against drinking raw milk as a bird flu outbreak spreads among dairy farms; a Virginia tech company was hit with a DOJ fine after it sent up a job posting seeking only white candidates; and, a Riverside, California woman who bombarded the former executive director of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue with phone calls and threatening voicemails, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British police say four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at a London event marking the death of President Ebrahim Raisi; and, a Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison for complicity in war crimes.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump shared the stage in the Bronx and accepted the endorsement of two gang members currently on bond after a one hundred-forty count criminal indictment that includes murder and at least twelve shootings.
Then, on the rest of the menu, North Carolina residents filed suit to remove a Confederate monument dedicated to “our faithful slaves;” Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law; and, New York is offering up to $90 million in tax credits for news outlets to hire and retain journalists in an effort to help keep the shrinking local news industry afloat.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin signed a decree allowing the seizure of Americans’ assets if the US confiscates Russian holdings; and, work on the new Rome subway line under the Colosseum and Forum has entered a crucial phase.
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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, Marjorie Taylor Greene is purposely conducting a dangerous disinformation campaign.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the bank accounts of tens of thousands of US businesses and consumers have been frozen in the aftermath of the abrupt shutdown and bankruptcy of financial technology company Synapse; the “buy now, pay later” companies must adhere to credit card standards; and, wind towers crumpled after an Iowa wind farm suffered a rare direct hit from a powerful twister.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where leaders around the Baltic Sea reacted warily to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region; and, the British prime minister unexpectedly set a July 4 snap election as his Conservatives face their biggest challenge in a decade.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump criminal plan was revealed in a major unsealing in the Mar a Lago espionage case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Hawaii court ordered drug companies to pay the state a combined $916 million in the Plavix blood thinner lawsuit; a Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than thirty million dollars in connection with two explosions near Houston; and, the Massachusetts Senate is weighing a tuition-free community college plan.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a man charged with helping the Hong Kong intelligence service in the UK has been found dead; and, politically motivated crimes in Germany reached their highest level in 2023, since tracking began more than twenty years ago.
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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, cry baby Trump had a major meltdown as he exited his criminal trial after his sole witness fell apart on the stand.
Then, on the rest of the menu, with cyberattacks against water utilities across the country becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water; Minnesota lawmakers failed to pass a state Equal Rights Amendment in their Constitution as the 2024 legislative session came to an acrimonious end; and, former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and at least eleven other people are set to be arraigned today on conspiracy, forgery and fraud charges stemming from their fake elector scheme.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British court ruled Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order to the United States on espionage charges; and, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced sanctions against Boeing and two other defense companies for arms sales to Taiwan.
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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, Elise Stefanik was asked just one simple question and she wouldn’t answer it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the family of an indigenous Arizona man killed by border patrol agents after he called for help, has filed a wrongful death suit; inmates at a Virginia prison for the mentally ill were hospitalized at least thirteen times for hypothermia in the last three years; and, US regulators are reconsidering the mandated twenty percent capital hike for big banks.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Europe’s far right groups launched their unofficial campaign for the European Union elections; and, the State Department issued an unusual warning to Americans traveling abroad of "the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations, or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests."
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, chaos erupted in the House of Representatives as MAGA Republicans returned from their visit at Trump’s criminal trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Merrick Garland punched back at House Republicans over their “unfounded attacks” on the US Justice Department; the Nevada Supreme Court denied an appeal of a conservative election fraud activist who sought to oust county election officials; and, Google wants a judge, rather than a jury, to decide whether it violated US antitrust laws.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Swedish court rejected Tesla’s appeal in its dispute over labor unions in the Nordic country; and, Italy's neo-fascist League wants to change the law and remove the European Union flag from public offices.
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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.”
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Georgia Court of Appeals granted review of the decision to leave Fani Willis as a prosecutor on the case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Michigan man has been charged for making explosives to target the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts; responding to a disturbance call, Florida deputies burst into the wrong apartment and fatally shot a Black US airman; and, a federal judge ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where another German politician was violently attacked by a right wing extremist that required treatment at a Berlin hospital; and, Mexico was hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Manhattan prosecutors dropped some stunning news on Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge blocked a proposed measure introduced by the Portland, Oregon police union from landing on the November ballot; a MAGA insurgent from West Virginia who stormed the Capitol on January 6, lost his bid for the US Congress: and, the CDC says “it is highly concerning” that drownings have risen among young children after decades of decline.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where over a hundred thousand protesters filled the streets of Georgia’s capital after parliament passed the so-called ‘Russian law;’ and, orcas sank their first ship of the year off the coast of Morocco.
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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, ‘Michael Cohen on the witness stand is like Donald Trump in AA.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida man was sentenced to three years in prison for firebombing a California Planned Parenthood clinic; a large group of Republican attorneys general took legal action against the Biden administration and California over new emissions limits for trucks; and, the MAGA-controlled Nebraska GOP is rejecting all Republican congressional incumbents in today’s primary election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three men were charged in the United Kingdom with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service; and, President Biden blocked a Chinese-backed crypto mining firm from land ownership near a Wyoming missile base.
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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 panicked overnight about going to prison.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments to expand the use of absentee ballot drop boxes; the Office of Congressional Ethics found probable cause that MAGA representative from Texas, Troy Nehls, misused campaign funds; and, Lake Tahoe is expected to fill for first time in five years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s prime minister vowed to strengthen security at the EU border with Belarus; and, Lithuanians voted Sunday in a presidential election as anxieties rise over Russia and the war in Ukraine.
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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, Trump’s lawyers crashed and burned with repeated failures during the trial yesterday.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Attorney General plans to stymie Trump with targeted lawsuits if he wins another term; Jackson and Josephine counties in Oregon will vote on measures to restructure local government in an attempt to thwart MAGA rule; and, severe solar storms are expected to trigger northern lights unusually far south, from California to Alabama, late Friday night.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of protesters demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister over his unilateral decision to hand over control of border villages to Armenia’s long-time rival Azerbaijan; and, Vietnam’s arrest of a reformist labor official could disturb the ongoing bid for better trade terms with the US.
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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, the Georgia Court of Appeals granted review of the decision to leave Fani Willis as a prosecutor on the case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Michigan man has been charged for making explosives to target the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts; responding to a disturbance call, Florida deputies burst into the wrong apartment and fatally shot a Black US airman; and, a federal judge ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where another German politician was violently attacked by a right wing extremist that required treatment at a Berlin hospital; and, Mexico was hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation.
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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,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Judge Cannon’s luxury gift scandal grows.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho prosecutors have declined to bring charges against a Coeur d’Alene eighteen year old for using the N word and threatening sexual violence against the University of Utah women’s basketball team earlier this year; the nation’s largest public utility ignored warnings its environmental review does not comply with federal law, and is moving forward with a new Tennessee natural gas plant, anyway; and, two professors are challenging an Indiana law that creates new regulations on faculty tenure at public colleges and universities.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the governor of the Italian region surrounding the port city of Genoa, was placed under house arrest as part of a corruption investigation; and, the Poland Prime Minister called for a special meeting of the secret services to discuss Russian and Belarusian infiltration, after a Polish judge who had access to sensitive state information defected to Belarus.
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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, Cannon pulled a last-minute stunt to yet again delay Trump’s espionage trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, New York filed suit against a dozen anti-abortion groups for promoting false treatments to reverse medication abortions; the federal government fined a Tennessee-based sanitation company $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants on the graveyard shift; and, after massive downpours flooded the state’s rivers and packed mountains with snow, California reported the first increase in groundwater supplies in four years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an American soldier was arrested in Russia and accused of stealing from his honey-pot girlfriend; and, Jordan stationed two firefighting helicopters in Cyprus to help as the summer fire season arrives.
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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, while ruminating over the weekend of possibly being a key witness against Trump, Karen McDougal hinted at some major plans for his criminal trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department warned it plans to sue Iowa over a new state immigration law; Boeing locked out its private firefighters around Seattle over a pay dispute; and, a federal lawsuit against Meta asks if Facebook users have the right to control their feeds using external tools.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a candidate for Germany’s key party was beaten up by right wing thugs while campaigning for the European elections; and, the German foreign minister says Russia will face consequences for its monthslong cyber espionage campaign.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s lawyer introduced into the court record something that Donald Trump never wanted to be made public.
Then, on the rest of the menu, southwest Washington state farmers called on Congress to keep conservation funding in the farm bill; some anti-vaxxer somewhere is going to complain that jackboot Long Beach, California officials declared a public health emergency after one person died and nine others were hospitalized due to a tuberculosis outbreak in the city; and, the former Republican Michigan House leader and his wife plead not guilty to misusing political funds.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands rallied in Slovakia to protest a controversial overhaul of public broadcasting; and, the head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party was granted conditional early release from prison.
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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, there is a major update on the Republican effort to keep Biden off the November ballot in Ohio and Alabama.
Then, on the rest of the menu, another whistleblower linked to Boeing has ended up dead under suspicious circumstances; the Arizona state Senate finally voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban, but the ban will still take effect temporarily; and, a three-judge panel of the 9th circuit ruled the ex-FBI informant with ties to Russian and charged with lying about the Biden’s, must remain jailed while awaiting trial.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs overnight, but sustained minimal damage; and, a senior Australian minister refused to comment on media reports that Indian spies were secretly expelled four years ago.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, at this point, everybody expects Trump to appeal Merchan’s order that he attend Barron’s graduation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Southern Oregon coast is closer to building a floating offshore wind energy farm, capable of powering a million homes, after the Biden administration announced it’s preparing to accept proposals for the area; Tim Kennedy of New York is projected to win the special election for New York’s 26th Congressional District, temporarily shaving the GOP majority in the US House to one seat; and, an Alabama Senate committee voted to set aside money so that the state can reverse course and participate in a federal summer food program for low-income families with school-age children.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union said that it’s investigating Facebook and Instagram for not doing enough to protect users from foreign disinformation ahead of EU-wide elections; and, Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United States.
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-- Shauna Niequist
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, top Trump aide Peter Navarro swings and misses for the third time at the Supreme Court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Mississippi lawmakers are expected to vote on their Medicaid expansion plan with a work requirement; the family of a Black teen who was shot after ringing the wrong doorbell has filed a lawsuit against the Kansas City, Missouri homeowner; and, a former NSA worker gets nearly 22 years in prison for selling secrets to an undercover FBI agent he thought was a Russian official.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus banned German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle as an ‘extremist’ organization; a German army captain with ties to the far-right AfD Party admitted to spying for Russia and leaking state secrets.
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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, Marc Elias discussed the GOP's dangerous attorney swap and what it will mean.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge sentenced a longtime DEA agent to four years in prison for leaking Agency intelligence to defense lawyers in a $100,000 bribery scheme; multiple civil cases, and a federal investigation are testing the Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes; and, six California House races could help determine control of Congress.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where nine people charged in connection with a far-right plot to topple the German government are going on trial today; tens of thousands rallied in Madrid to urge Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez not to resign after a right-wing smear campaign targeting his wife.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ”They should move the Supreme Court to RNC headquarters.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI concealed from Trump foe Lisa Page that she was being stalked by a “troubled Marine” obsessed with mass killings; Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill that could lead to the prosecution of librarians for just handing out books to anybody who wants one; and, California battery storage is increasing rapidly, but not enough yet to end summer blackouts.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin announced plans to visit China in May; and, in the wake of a major spying scandal and illegal foreign payoffs, German lawmakers mocked the far right party as “Russia Today, China Tomorrow.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a court filing in Cannon’s court by Trump’s lawyer Chris Kise, now claims he is no longer free for two weeks, so she has to delay the trial a lot.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ordered an anonymous jury for the trial of Steve Bannon associate Guo Wengui, citing his past acts; the “dumbest man on the internet,” Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, will file for bankruptcy amid a slew of election conspiracy lawsuits; and, the first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the US is up and running at the Port of Oakland, California.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia vetoed a UN resolution calling for the prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space; and, a Peruvian judge ordered the preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvians in a thwarted plot to kill Israelis living in the country.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump attorney Todd Blanche had a disastrous show cause hearing with Judge Merchan over Trump's gag order.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Justice Sotomayor sliced through the spin in the Grants Pass ‘make homelessness a crime’ case; Alabama lawmakers passed a bill that blocks state incentives to companies that voluntarily recognize unions; and, just in time for the election, Postmaster General DeJoy is committed to rerouting mail for processing so that letter delivery takes seven to ten days when it used to take two.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a far-right German EU lawmaker’s aide has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China; and, Japan’s moon lander wasn’t built to survive a weekslong lunar night, but it’s still going after three.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a key twist in Trump's 'catch and kill' scheme will be hard for him to explain away.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Minnesota and other Democratic-led states are marshaling the pushback on censorship by banning the book ban; Seattle Children’s Hospital won’t turn over gender-affirming care records in a lawsuit settlement with Texas; and, the Baltimore mayor and city council filed suit that the owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge should be held fully liable for the deadly collapse.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UK prosecutors charged two men with spying for China, including a parliamentary researcher; and, Elon Musk accused Australia of censorship after a Sydney court banned the violent video of a Bishop being stabbed.
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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 will face the witness he fears the most in his criminal trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, legal action to ‘hollow out’ Brown v. Kansas Board of Education is moving at deliberate speed; the Los Angeles Police Department arrested a suspect for the break-in at the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass; and, after a recent exodus has left only a little more than a hundred obstetricians left in the state, an Idaho group is exploring a ballot initiative for abortion rights and reproductive care.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the public portion of the Panama Papers trial has come to an unexpectedly speedy end; and, two more mayoral candidates in Mexico were found dead late Friday night, bringing to seventeen the number of contenders slain in the lead-up to the June 2 election.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump filed a motion to exclude evidence of his own behavior at the Manhattan criminal trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a top leader of Charlie Kirk’s national conservative group Turning Point Action, resigned after being accused of forging voter signatures on official paperwork so that he could run for reelection in the Arizona House; Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill to strengthen the state’s weak open records law; and, a hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow, has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group sabotaging small town infrastructure across the United States.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leaders of Belgium and the Czech Republic warned their European Union partners to take urgent action to prevent Russian interference in June’s Europe-wide elections; and, a Tunisian journalist was sentenced to six months in prison for insulting an official.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared Kushner has made forty million dollars a year from the Gulf Arab States and their billions of investments in him, while zero of those dollars are going into American businesses or to help everyday Americans.
Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-three Republican attorneys general attacked the Biden administration’s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice, calling it a form of “racial engineering;‘’ New Mexico voters for the first time can now sign up to receive absentee ballots permanently; and, a California lawmaker wants to require business owners and landlords to disclose their identities under legislation aimed at cracking down on questionable LLC’s.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Switzerland’s lower house moved to ban use of Nazi and extremist symbols that could stir violence; and, Australia prime minister Anthony Albanese said the French construction worker who stopped a man who stabbed six people to death from killing more shoppers in a Sydney shopping mall, is welcome to stay in the country as long as he likes.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the corruption within the Department of Justice under Donald Trump served Trump's interests and his allies, and can still be seen in the structure of the New York criminal case against Sleepy Don.
Then, on the rest of the menu, members of an Oklahoma far-right, anti-government group are charged in the grisly slayings of a young mother and a preacher’s wife; a former Marine was sentenced to nine years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022; and, the governor of Maine signed a bill restricting paramilitary training in response to a neo-Nazi’s plan to create a center for a “blood tribe.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where lawmakers in the Georgian legislature turned to fisticuffs as parliament debated a divisive new Kremlin-like law dubbed the foreign agent bill; and, testimony began in a civil lawsuit accusing Japanese police of racial profiling.
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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, in the last hours before his New York trial, Trump reminded everybody about his dark past owning teen beauty pageants.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Philadelphia becomes the fourth city to ban the nation’s largest ghost gun parts dealer; a conservative Utah school board member who questioned a student’s gender, lost her party nomination for reelection; and California dairy farms are scrambling to guard their herds against the H5N1 bird flu virus.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus convicted a famous dissident rock band and sentenced its members to several years of “correctional labor;” and, three men stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island survived for more than a week until palm fronds they used to spell out HELP on the beach was spotted by Navy and Coast Guard aviators.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Aileen Cannon overturned her own prior order, but this time blamed Jack Smith for her own lack of knowledge about the law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the woman who plead guilty to stealing Ashley Biden’s diary and selling it to Project Veritas, was sentenced to one month of hardly any time in prison; a California state court ruled that Kevin McCarthy’s protege can run dual candidacies on the state ballot; and, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed suit to stop a guaranteed income program set to start this month for Houston-area residents.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where six northern European nations signed a deal to protect North Sea infrastructure from hostile actors; and, lawmaker Simon Harris was elected Ireland’s prime minister by a vote in parliament, becoming at thirty-seven the country’s youngest-ever leader.
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-- Shauna Niequist
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in a scathing sixty-six page filing, Jack Smith urged the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s claims of complete and total immunity.
Then, on the rest of the menu, new California legislation seeks to permanently ban paraquat, a powerful and widely used weedkiller that has been linked to Parkinson’s disease; West Virginia had a whopping five tornadoes last week, more than double its yearly average; and, hydropower generated for electricity from Oregon and Washington dams fell to historically low levels last year, and experts expect it could drop further by year’s end.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an espionage scandal rocking Austria is laying bare Russian spying operations across Europe; and, the 'Panama Papers' trial has begun, eight years after the international tax evasion scandal was first exposed.
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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 shady loans are exposed in a bombshell report.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the town of Eagle Pass, Texas planned for years to fill the town’s coffers from the tens of thousands of eclipse revelers, they got razor wire and armed soldiers from Greg Abbott, instead; a Democratic Oregon House candidate who filed fewer than two hours before the March 12 filing deadline, is a big-time Republican donor; and, a trial begins today against BNSF Railway over lung cancer deaths in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to asbestos from a vermiculite mine.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where London Metropolitan Police are investigating after a second conservative UK lawmaker is targeted in a honey trap sexting scam; and, a Brazil Supreme Court justice ordered the investigation of Elon Musk over fake news and obstruction.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump cannot keep from violating the court orders in his criminal case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a day after storms spawned multiple tornadoes that caused widespread damage, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor criticized a new Republican-backed policy that would tie his hands in responding to any future disasters; even though New York City’s AI Chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law, there are no plans to take it down; and, the Texas emergency management chief recommended that the state needs its own firefighting aircraft.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two bomb threats led to a brief lockdown of the Norwegian parliament; and, a prominent German far-right extremist has been charged with a second count of using an illegal Nazi slogan.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in a late-night filing, Jack Smith torched Aileen Cannon’s unlawful order asking Smith to “engage with” jury instructions that would place Donald Trump above the law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, jurors in Buffalo, New York are set to begin deliberating in the case against a former DEA agent accused of taking bribes from the Mafia; major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule; and, a company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention, was ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties over abusive tactics.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the deputy chief of Thailand’s national police surrendered authorities on money laundering charges; and, a Peruvian archbishop who sued two journalists over their reports about sexual abuse and financial corruption in his religious movement, has resigned amid a Vatican investigation.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, It’s only getting worse for Trump and he’s not handling it well.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida DeSantis two years ago, can sue the charter flight company; a Kansas weekly newspaper and its publisher are suing over police raids that caused the death of the paper’s 98 year-old owner in her home; and, UPS will replace FedEx as the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where US-funded Radio Free Asia closed its Hong Kong bureau over staff safety under the new security law; and, the Austrian Chancellor says the country needs to deter Russian infiltration after “grave” allegations of spying has emerged.
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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, frantic as hell, Trump tries to test a no-nonsense New York judge by going after his daughter.
Then, on the rest of the menu, “in a grave mistake backwards,” Facebook owner Meta is decommissioning a vital digital tool that tracks viral falsehoods during this crucial election year; an oversight report found the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department flouted a request from local leaders to answer questions about a recently uncovered deputy gang; and, the states are moving to shore up voting rights protections after the courts have severely eroded federal safeguards.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian journalist who covered Navalny’s trials has been jailed in Moscow on charges of extremism; and, Erdogan suffered a major setback after Sunday’s local elections, as Turkey’s main opposition party retained control over key cities and made huge gains across the country.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had an overnight panic attack over Joe’s massively successful fundraiser held with former Presidents Obama and Clinton.
Then, on the rest of the menu, trustees of Tennessee’s only publicly funded historically Black university were removed by the mostly white GOP-dominated legislature; a mostly male board will decide whether a Nebraska lawmaker faces censure for sexual harassment; and, a Texas federal judge accused the major banking industry groups and US Chamber of Commerce of venue shopping in their lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece’s conservative government survived a no-confidence motion called over its handling of last year’s deadly rail disaster; and, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich marks one year in a Russian jail.
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― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court has pulled an “infuriating stunt” in delaying a decision in the South Carolina gerrymander case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, two Los Angeles Times reporters attacked by Minnesota state troopers will settle a lawsuit with the state for $1.2 million dollars; the Smithsonian’s Latino museum settled with an affirmative action foe who sued over “pro-Latino discrimination;” and, new boundaries for Detroit-area seats in the Legislature were approved by a federal three-judge panel who found the old map was illegally influenced by race.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British financial trader who manipulated a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis, lost his appeal to have his conviction quashed; and, hundreds of protesters in Slovakia formed a human chain around the country’s public television and radio building over a takeover plan by the populist, pro-Russia prime minister.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s latest shameless grift is backfiring with all Americans, including real Conservatives.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal court tossed Republican Pennsylvania lawmakers’ challenge of state and federal voter access actions; Ahmaud Arbery’s killers asked a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions; and, a large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry over climate change.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the British Museum is suing a former curator it says stole 1,800 items and tried to sell them; and, Puerto Rico’s health secretary declared an epidemic following a spike in dengue cases.
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-- 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, Trump had a major public meltdown after Justice Juan Merchan set a criminal trial date for April 15.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Kansas man is suing a Republican US Representative from Tennessee who falsely claimed he was an “illegal alien” who carried out the mass shooting at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade; the Feds are taking a California prison agency to court for requiring Sikh guards to shave their beards; and, a high school teacher and two students sued Arkansas over the state’s ban on critical race theory.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France launched a nationwide anti-drug crackdown ahead of the European elections; and, Bulgaria’s prime minister-designate withdrew her nomination after negotiations between two political coalitions failed.
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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 smart money on Wall Street already hates Trump so much that short sellers are crushing his Truth Social stock price and shorting it in advance of today’s public trading.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a scheduled “Drag Queen Story Hour” at a Lancaster, Pennsylvania library was canceled after a suspicious package was found in the building; months after his disputed one-vote victory in a Louisiana sheriff’s race was tossed by a court, a Black career law enforcement officer was decisively elected on his second try; and, the Wyoming Republican Governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed people to carry concealed guns in public schools and government meetings.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Spanish judge opened an investigation into fraud and false documentation against the partner of Madrid’s powerful rightwing regional president; and, with just weeks until the general election, supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India’s most consequential politicians of the past decade in opposition to Modi, held protests against his arrest.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the New York Attorney General is taking the final steps to seize Trump’s properties and assets.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri Republican party filed suit to kick a KKK-racist, GOP candidate off the ballot for governor; a liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice said that she won’t recuse herself from a case dealing with the legality of mobile voting sites; and, plans to expand Medicaid coverage to over half a million more people in Georgia and Kansas were defeated by Republican-led legislative committees.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spanish daily El Mundo said that its correspondent in Russia left the country after authorities refused to renew his journalist visa; and, a Russian diplomat has been declared persona non grata in Slovenia and ordered to leave within seven days.
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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.”
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alina Habba’s refusal to answer if Trump was going to accept money from Russia and Saudi Arabia to pay for his $464 million bond, means he will.
Then, on the rest of the menu, questions swirl over the reasons why forty prominent Napa Valley wine owners and businesses were subpoenaed by the Department of Justice; authorities are still searching for two white supremacist Idaho prison inmates after they ambushed and shot three corrections officers; and, the Los Angeles Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani’s longtime interpreter for engaging in a “massive theft” of the ballplayer’s funds to place bets with an illegal bookmaker.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French Competition Authority hit Google with another big fine tied to a long-running dispute over payments to French publishers for their news; and, an Amsterdam court ruled that Dutch national airline KLM made misleading statements and accused the carrier of “greenwashing.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is in total panic mode as he gets bad news from all sides all at once, and it’s an amazing sight.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a new clerk was chosen to oversee elections in a deep-red rural Nevada county that has been roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud since 2020; a bill approved by the Rhode Island Senate would require all firearms to be locked when not in use; and, Stellantis, the maker of Jeep, Dodge and Ram vehicles, has agreed to follow California’s strict emissions standards.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldovan authorities expelled a Russian diplomat after Moscow opened polling stations for its presidential election in Moldova’s pro-Russia breakaway region of Transnistria; and, Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approved a security law giving the government more power to curb dissent.
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“Will no one rid us of these meddlesome priests?”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s comments on Sebastian Gorka’s show “is antisemitic garbage.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, voters in MAGA Shasta County, California are rejecting MAGA politics; a Portland, Oregon nonprofit has been given a nod of approval on its work to revitalize a historically Black neighborhood that’s been targeted by decades of racist development policies; and six former Mississippi law officers could be sentenced to decades behind bars for torture of two Black men.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Croatia’s top court ruled that the president cannot run in the parliamentary election unless he resigns from his current position immediately; and, Australian authorities have issued legal notices to Google, Meta, Xitter, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit over cyber extremism threats.
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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 has a plan to use Judge Cannon to “ice” Judge Chutkan and avoid his various trials before election day.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a multistate ad campaign to fight abortion travel restrictions in red states; a severe lack of affordable housing is testing Oregon’s pioneering land use law; and, the Department of Justice has foiled four state-sponsored assassination plots on US soil since 2022.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Caribbean leaders met with the Haitian Prime Minister to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence, with a foreign force deployment on the agenda; and, the Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure due to an employee strike.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had a late-night panic attack over Dark Brandon’s energetic State of the Union, and there was a glaring contradiction in Scary Britt’s GOP rebuttal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Alabama Republicans pushed through an anti-DEI bill and a limit on absentee ballots; Oregon passed campaign finance reform that limits contributions to political candidates; and, a bill on DeSantis’ desk would allow Florida public schools to make use of Christian chaplains on campus.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey struggles to stop violence against women after at least seventy-one have been killed so far this year; and, voters are being asked to change Ireland’s constitution that says a woman’s place is in the home.
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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 met with Elon Musk and other donors because Trump not only needs big bucks for his legal problems, he is also "seeking a cash infusion" to support his campaign.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Liberty University will pay the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act; the Kentucky Senate passed a bill to grant the right to collect child support for unborn children; and, Arizona’s Democratic governor vetoed an unconstitutional border bill approved by the Republican-led Legislature.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in spite of not possessing a navy, Ukrainian sea drone attacks have increasingly sapped the power of Russia’s Black Sea fleet; and, thousands of striking junior doctors in South Korea face the suspensions of their medical licenses.
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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, ‘the Republican Party is going through some things.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court blocked the Florida anti-DEI ‘Stop Woke Act,’ calling it a ‘First Amendment sin;’ two San Francisco Bay Area high school journalists say their principal illegally interfered and censored them while reporting on sexual harassment; and, a sixth-grade girls' basketball team from northern Kentucky was banned from a boys' basketball league after romping through the regular season to reach the championship.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Polish Prime Minister sharply criticized the Hungarian and Slovak foreign ministers for meeting with Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, on the same day Alexei Navalny was buried; and, a key hearing on restructuring the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s staggering nine billion dollar debt, has finally begun.
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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 is suddenly confronted by a disaster scenario in his DC trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Berkeley, California public schools are hit with a federal civil rights complaint alleging ‘severe and persistent’ antisemitic bullying; the University of Maryland has suspended all fraternities and sororities on campus after multiple reports of hazing; and, Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German authorities are investigating after a recording of its military officers discussing aid to Ukraine was leaked in Russia; and, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest said that the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Special Counsel Jack Smith and Trump present dueling trial date submissions in the Mar-A-Lago document case before Judge Aileen Cannon today.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a man who sought to spark a ‘race war’ plead guilty to firebombing a Costa Mesa, California Planned Parenthood clinic; a Montana judge declared three laws passed in 2021 that restricted abortion are unconstitutional; and, the Justice Department says Mississippi police unconstitutionally jailed people for unpaid fines.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the editor of the top independent Russian newspaper was detained and later fined for discrediting the military; and, the Biden administration will investigate Chinese-made “smart cars” that can gather sensitive information about Americans driving them.
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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, the Supreme Court ‘threw out half of Trump’s appeal’ by taking on his immunity case, while committing “the greatest ethical lapse” by a Supreme Court justice in history.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Raw Story has sued OpenAI for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Virginia lawmakers again declined to put restrictions on the personal use of campaign accounts; and, the candidate atop the Republican ballot for Missouri governor says he was only an "honorary" KKK member, but he does acknowledge going to a "religious Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony."
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where traces of toxic gas were found during the evacuation of the Swedish security agency; and, two scientists in Canada were fired for failing to protect sensitive information.
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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, America’s allies are sounding the alarm on the Trump menace.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Senate, on a party line vote, approved a bill to ban book bans; the FBI and state investigators seek tips about the explosive left outside the Alabama attorney general’s office after he said he would not enforce any in vitro fertilization bans; and, out-of-control wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing the shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former member of Germany’s Leftist Red Army Faction has been arrested after decades on the run; and, three men arrested during an investigation into right-wing extremism were charged in a London court with preparing to commit terrorist acts.
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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, the NYPD affidavit that accompanies Alvin Bragg’s “gag order” request, details the hundreds of credible threats in the days after Trump announced he would be “arrested” in New York.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the West Virginia House passed a bill to allow religious exemptions for student vaccines; the New College of Florida has been hit with a rare sanction for “egregious and extensive” standards violations during DeSantis’ conservative takeover last year; and, students at a medical school in the Bronx will no longer pay tuition after it received a one billion dollar donation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany plans to enable underground storage of captured carbon dioxide at its offshore sites; and, the International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has increased its total stockpile of uranium and continues to bar the agency’s most seasoned inspectors from monitoring the nation’s nuclear program.
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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 has a plan to use Judge Cannon to “ice” Judge Chutkan and avoid his various trials before election day.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a multistate ad campaign to fight abortion travel restrictions in red states; a severe lack of affordable housing is testing Oregon’s pioneering land use law; and, the Department of Justice has foiled four state-sponsored assassination plots on US soil since 2022.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Caribbean leaders met with the Haitian Prime Minister to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence, with a foreign force deployment on the agenda; and, the Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure due to an employee strike.
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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, the Supreme Court’s key decision on Trump’s immunity challenge is about to drop, as soon as Thomas and Alito finish writing their dissents.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Washington state lawmakers advanced a bill making it a felony to threaten election workers; “Discount Goebbels” Stephen Miller lost big in a racially-charged lawsuit to restrict voting in Arizona; and, a Texas judge ruled a Texas school can legally discriminate against a Black Texas teen for not styling his hair to his white Texas superior’s liking.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Food and Agriculture Organization set a target of thirty-five percent growth in aquaculture production by 2030 to fight world hunger; and, a private lander made the first US touchdown on the moon in more than fifty years.
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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, “the governing will not be televised.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Orange County, California federal judge who had been censured for past racist remarks to court officials, dismissed criminal charges against members of a Southern California white supremacist group, saying there is bias against the far right; a large Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver’s City Park was vandalized; and, there are less than one hundred seventy Idaho obstetricians left after the state’s near total-abortion ban.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Estonia detained ten people suspected of committing sabotage on orders from Russia; and, an old European satellite plunged harmlessly through the atmosphere and broke up over the Pacific.
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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, Trump missed a major deadline with the Supreme Court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill allowing the prosecution of librarians; the Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill to tighten up a law to crack down on child labor violations; and, the Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives voted to ban celebratory gunfire less than a week after the Chiefs’ parade shooting.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups; and, Argentina’s poverty levels under President Javier Milei skyrocketed to fifty-seven percent of the population, a twenty-year high in January.
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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 “dumb as rocks” Republicans destroyed their own investigation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, video games are becoming a hotbed of dangerous propaganda; another top Arizona Republican election official is forced to resign as threats by MAGA goons gets 'worse and worse;' and, a monument at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles honors Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War Two by listing every name.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German labor union has called on ground staff for Lufthansa to walk off the job at seven airports on Tuesday; and, police in Moscow were called to investigate alleged LGBTQ+ propaganda at a fan event dedicated to the cartoon series, “My Little Pony.”
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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, the plan to replicate a dangerous Republican victory in the 8th circuit court of appeals to the 11th circuit is discussed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri Supreme Court rejected the latest attempt by Republican state officials to block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood; the “Bundy Ranch sniper” says he’s the driving force behind an Idaho bill to limit the definition of “terrorism;” and, the first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February caused more than $2.4 million in damage.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s top security official said that she aims to make it easier to trace right-wing extremists’ financing; and, an appeals court in Paris upheld a guilty verdict against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign funding, and the country still stands.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court's quick response to Trump’s last minute motion could spell disaster for the crook.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the federal government has finalized almost two hundred thousand acres for floating offshore wind farms along the Oregon coast; a Republican Michigan lawmaker loses his staff and committee assignment after an online racist post; and, Alabama lawmakers advanced absentee ballot restrictions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Albanian authorities accused Iranian-backed hackers of a cyberattack on the Institute of Statistics; and, Jared Kushner defended his business dealings with Bone Saudi Arabia.
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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, Republicans committed “political malpractice” when they blocked the bipartisan border bill.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a suburban Seattle, Washington gun shop will pay $3 million for selling high-capacity ammunition magazines despite a state ban; a judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to block the University of California from renaming the former Hastings College of the Law; and, billionaire NFL owners are complaining the San Francisco 49ers are benefiting too much from hiring people of color.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis lost his final appeal in Slovakia over allegations that he collaborated with the communist-era Czechoslovakian secret police; and, the European Union launched a legal action against Hungary over a new law that allows authorities to investigate and prosecute critics of the right-wing government.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DC Appeals Court used a surprise tactic to cut Trump’s legs off in seeking to delay the order.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Montgomery County, Maryland school board members apologized for the district’s failures in the handling of employee misconduct complaints and vowed to heal the school system; the mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a Mississippi poultry factory is suing the companies that hired and employed him; and, New Hampshire’s attorney general announced a criminal investigation into a Texas-based company behind thousands of AI-generated calls impersonating President Biden.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian man who defected from a high-ranking position in the Wagner Group has been given permission to stay in Norway, but was refused permanent asylum; and, the Netherlands is having trouble forming a new far-right government around neo-Nazi Geert Wilders.
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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, “Donald Trump has tested every norm of democracy.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the quasi-independent Oversight Board implored Meta to rethink its policy on manipulated media in this high-stakes election year; the family of four Black girls mistakenly handcuffed by Colorado police and held at gunpoint, have reached a $1.9 million settlement; and, the town manager of a quaint New Hampshire town that has just recently become known for its arts, theater and music festivals, has quit after unrelenting anti-gay pressure from a Republican state senator who is also a town selectboard member.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cambodia’s ruling party claims a leading rights activist defamed it and is seeking $500,000 in damages; and, the leaders of the United Kingdom and Ireland went to Belfast to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government.
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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, Moses Mike Johnson’s claims about the border bill “is just a lie.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the governor of Pennsylvania is set to deliver a second budget while seeking more money for higher education, public education and public transit; the largest tribe in South Dakota has barred the state’s governor from its lands after her speech about unauthorized immigration harming reservations; and, federal judges are setting the record straight over claims the January 6 insurgents are political prisoners.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Boston man has been extradited from Sweden to face obstruction charges in arson cases targeting Jewish organizations; and, a diplomatic rift between Ecuador and Russia appeared to intensify after Putin decided to ban some imports of bananas from Ecuador.
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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, you really can’t blame a bunch of FBI agents who didn’t want to search Mar a Lago in the first place, to miss important hiding places for the stolen secret documents.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that eight Republican lawmakers will be blocked from running for reelection after refusing to attend Senate floor sessions for six weeks last year; a year after scaring away Hispanic Americans and immigrants from the state, the Florida house passed a bill to loosen child labor laws; and, once a self-proclaimed leader in criminal justice reform, Georgia is sliding a little further toward its old lock-'em-up ways.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the two key farmers unions have suspended their nationwide protests after the French government offered new measures; and, tens of thousands rallied across Slovakia against the government’s plan to close the special prosecutor’s office.
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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 insisted to reporters he won the NY fraud and E Jean Carroll cases, and there were no penalties.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the newest member of the Oregon House of Representatives is a frothing MAGA who claimed supporting drag queens and LGBTQ+ was akin to supporting child abuse and pedophilia; twenty-five California counties have sued electric car manufacturer Tesla for mishandling hazardous waste at more than one hundred facilities throughout the state; and, a small venture capital firm faced tough questions about DEI from a tribunal of conservative federal judges in Florida, as it defended a grant program for Black women-owned businesses.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has put its own “Mike Flynn,” who was removed as the agency’s head several years ago, under scrutiny for his neo-Nazi advocacy; and, Hungary defended its treatment of an Italian antifascist activist, after images of her chained and shackled at a Budapest court hearing, sparked official protests by the far-right Italian government.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the brief by a panel of historians on the real history of the fourteenth amendment that is before the Supreme Court, is further evidence the Court needs a professional historian, and not the amateurs there now.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted depositions in the whistleblower case against Attorney General Ken Paxton, hours after Trump called on the court to end the case; an Arizona lawmaker who was a “fake elector” for Trump, has introduced a bill that would allow members of the statehouse to overturn future election results that they don’t like; and, the court and other systems in Georgia’s Fulton County were hacked, but the district attorney’s office said the racketeering case against Trump is unaffected.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Union Parliament is investigating a Latvian lawmaker after allegations that she spied for Russia; and, a Thai court convicted a prominent political activist of defaming the country’s monarchy and sentenced her to a two-year suspended jail term.
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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, Alina Habba sent a threatening letter to the judge who already threatened to lock her up.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a conservative Oregon lawmaker suggested that Muslims, atheists and other non-Christians are unfit to serve in elected office; the diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator of public schools in South Portland, Maine, has left the state after receiving credible threats from white supremacists; and, a Colorado woman whose name is listed on the Minnesota presidential primary ballot as a third-party candidate, says she did not agree to run.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where federal police are investigating the son of former Brazilian President Bolsonaro for spying on his father’s opponents; and, members of a prominent self-exiled Russian rock group that publicly opposed the invasion of Ukraine, face deportation back to Moscow after being arrested in Thailand at Vlad’s behest.
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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 very terrified Trump filed a very desperate motion in Georgia.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon weekly newspaper that had to lay off its entire staff after its funds were embezzled by a former employee, will relaunch its print edition next month; a superior court judge ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to get rid of photographs of legal documents that officers took during an unannounced raid on the home of a Black Lives Matter attorney; and, Illinois election officials are weighing the recommendation of a retired Republican judge to remove Trump’s name from the March primary ballot.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech lower house approved a tougher gun law a little over a month after the nation’s worst mass shooting; and, French farmers vow to continue protesting despite the government’s offer of concessions.
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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, Trump lashed out against everyone and everything after another devastating day in court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Florida removed sociology as a core course option for public colleges because students should focus on preparing for “high-demand, high-wage jobs, not woke ideology;” the Republican Ohio attorney general rejected a voting-rights coalition’s ballot petition for a second time; and, a bid to overhaul New Mexico’s oil and gas regulations clears its first hurdle amid fierce litigation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where antisemitic acts have risen sharply in Belgium and France since the Israel-Hamas war began; and, Japan’s precision moon lander has hit its tiny target on the moon’s surface, upside-down.
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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’s attacks on Fani Willis could backfire in a massive way.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump Media merger prompted a $23 million insider trading probe of a Russia-linked bank owner; a New York trial judge refused to toss out Fox News’ claims that the voting technology company Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against the network is suppression of free speech; and, Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed that state-backed Russian hackers broke into its cloud-based email system and stole data from cybersecurity and other employees.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US congressional delegation made its first trip to Taiwan after the island’s presidential election; and, the EU Parliament’s environmental committee supports relaxing rules on genetically modified plants.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision in a case involving Martin Shkreli is now a devastating precedent against Donald Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the founder and CEO of a software company who was accused of stealing data on county poll workers in a case pushed by conspiracy theorists and election deniers; an Oregon jury awarded $85 million to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020; and, another lawsuit has been filed against a small-town in Mississippi by local Black residents claiming cops engaged in systemic, Jim Crow-like racial discrimination.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France fined Amazon $35 million for ‘excessively intrusive’ monitoring of its warehouse staff; and, an Italian Jewish leader slammed the use of a citation of Holocaust survivor Primo Levi by a group planning an anti-Israel protest on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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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, Trump’s cognitive lapses and unhinged behavior is accelerating at a rapid pace.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the trial of a twelve million dollar federal racial discrimination lawsuit has begun between a local Hispanic business and the city of Klamath Falls, Oregon; the US Supreme Court won’t overrule a federal judges’ order to redraw the Detroit legislative seats; and, the Department of Transportation awarded over one billion dollars in federal funding to replace the aging John A Blatnik Bridge between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union sanctioned six companies accused of trying to undermine stability in conflict-torn Sudan; and, Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa.
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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 Biden administration just announced new abortion initiatives on the fifty-first anniversary of Roe.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Georgia lawmakers want to restrict the value of homes to keep property taxes down; the Bureau of Land Management is looking to drastically cut target shooting within Arizona’s Sonoran Desert National Monument; and, a former firefighter, with a previous arson conviction, has been arrested for detonating a homemade bomb and planting several others along roadways across two Northern California counties.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of French protesters asked Macron not to sign off on an immigration law with a far-right footprint; and, over one million Germans across the country protested against the resurgence of Nazi extremism.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after attempting to smear her, Fani Willis wasted no time dropping a bombshell filing about Trump co-conspirator and fake elector mule, Mike Roman.
Then, on the rest of the menu, just weeks after executive editor Kevin Merida left the company, the Los Angeles Times union plans to walk off the job to protest another round of layoffs; the Ohio Supreme Court reinstated a lower court decision to freeze $8 million in personal assets belonging to a former top Ohio utility regulator caught up in a federal bribery investigation; and, a California court ruling could threaten the key source of funding for a disputed giant water tunnel project.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s lawmakers voted to lift the immunity of a far-right colleague who used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles during a ceremony in parliament last month; and, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, dismissed a US proposal to resume dialogue on nuclear arms control.
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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 concocts his dumbest defense yet in the Mar a Lago document case, and he is begging his defense team Judge to help him out.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kansas court system needs at least $2.6 million in additional funds to recover from an October cyberattack; Virginia Senate Democrats postponed work on constitutional amendments to devote more time to killing GOP voting suppression bills; and, a federal judge declined to block Georgia’s shortened runoff election period from nine weeks down to four.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s recent intense attacks on Ukraine sharply increased civilian casualties in December; and, a court in Cambodia convicted four activists of plotting to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, critics of book banning have a message to the parents trying to ban an award-winning novel they clearly haven’t read.
Then, on the rest of the menu, congressional Republicans are trying to block the Biden administration plan to cut money from the fraudulent crisis pregnancy center scam, more than a dozen states have given themselves the power to override local zoning restrictions blocking large-scale renewable energy projects; and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate two crashes involving Florida’s Brightline high-speed train that killed three people at the same railroad crossing.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Belarusian journalist faces up to six years in prison for covering anti-government protests; and, tens of thousands of Germans demonstrated against the far right following a report extremists will deport even German citizens if they take power.
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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."
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the New York prosecutors were not comparing Trump’s “Murderer’s Row” of experts to actual murderers in their closing, but to the 1927 Yankees.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the family of the beloved Vice President of Student Affairs at HBCU Lincoln University in Missouri has confirmed her death on 8 January was by suicide, brought on by the bullying and severe mistreatment by the university’s white president; an Oregon Proud Boy plead guilty to transporting undocumented migrants in Arizona; and, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused a request by Republican lawmakers to reconsider its ruling ordering the drawing of new legislative maps.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned a plot by far-right groups to deport millions if they take power; and, a migrants’ rights group criticized Cyprus authorities for not condemning a bomb attack on its offices by right-wing extremist groups.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Thomas Massie threatened to facilitate another January 6 insurrection if Trump doesn’t get what he wants.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge has rejected several claims lodged by Delaware’s attorney general in a lawsuit alleging that the fossil fuel industry has downplayed the risks of climate change; voters decided to remove a small-town Nebraska school board member from office after she tried to have dozens of books pulled from town’s school libraries; and, a Montana fire chief who lost a previous job for refusing a vaccine mandate in Washington state, has been charged in the January 6 insurrection.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a three-day union strike has brought train traffic to a near standstill across Germany; and, a former Gambian interior minister is going on trial in Switzerland over crimes against humanity.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump immunity appeal was shattered by a judge Trump doesn't believe should be a citizen of the United States.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California lawmakers will consider a ban on tackle football for kids under twelve; the Virginia General Assembly is set to open the 2024 session with Democrats in full control of the Capitol; and, the Los Angeles Times executive editor is stepping down after a fraught two and half year tenure.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two convicted right wing politicians who took refuge for hours at Poland’s presidential palace are finally arrested; and, a prominent Cambodian critic of the government is charged with defamation over comments made on Facebook.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump says he hopes the market crashes right away and people lose their homes, 401k’s and jobs so he can blame it on Joe.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the president of the National Association of Realtors quit just four months into her tenure after receiving a blackmail threat; US retail mortgage lender loanDepot is struggling with a major cyberattack; and, the Republican New Hampshire attorney general is considering filing felony charges against the Democratic National Committee for calling its primary ‘meaningless.’
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China says it has detained an individual accused of collecting state secrets on behalf of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency MI6; and, opposition leaders in Italy demanded an investigation after several hundred Black Shirts gave the outlawed fascist salute at a Rome rally.
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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 series of upcoming bombshell court decisions could signal disaster for the Republican party.
Then, on the rest of the menu, right wing election integrity activists want a federal judge to rule that Georgia’s use of Dominion Voting machines is unconstitutional; at Florida’s only public historically Black university, students and faculty fear DeSantis’ new “anti-woke” laws will censor race education; and, the Alaska Airlines in-flight emergency is almost an exact repeat of what happened to a Boeing flight from Arizona to California in 2011.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Anders Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed seventy-seven young people in a bomb and gun rampage in 2011, will try for a second time to sue the Norwegian state for allegedly breaching his human rights; and, after a sixteen-year restoration, Greece has unveiled the palace where Alexander the Great became king.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there is only one anti-Epstein candidate, and it isn’t Trump or RFK, Jr.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Baltimore celebrated an historic twenty percent drop in homicides, even though the patrons at that MAGA diner feel like it’s actually much, much higher; an embattled Sacramento, California City Council member has resigned following a federal indictment; and, the New Mexico governor has proposed a ten percent spending increase amid a hefty windfall from oil and gas production.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union has targeted the world’s biggest diamond miner as part of its Russia war sanctions; and a pair of British Neo-Nazi podcasters have been sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP ‘dog and pony show’ at the border gives Democrats an opportunity to contrast with the Republican’s cruel theatrics, stunts and fear-mongering.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Georgia district judge ruled conservative ballot suppressors, True The Vote, did not violate the Voting Rights Act when it challenged the eligibility of more than 360,000 voters just days before the 2021 runoff election; a Wisconsin court ruled absentee ballots with minor problems like an address with no zip code, are okay to count; and, the Department of Justice accused two well-connected MAGA political operatives of hiding their foreign lobbying during the Trump administration.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai has plead not guilty to sedition and collusion charges; and, Australia has launched an inquiry into why Cabinet documents relating to the Iraq war remain secret.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court could move quickly to hear the challenges to Trump’s ballot eligibility, or they might not.
Then, on the rest of the menu, wary of GOP-led back-door privatization efforts, states and Congress wrestle with cybersecurity at water utilities amid renewed federal warnings; a federal judge ruled he will allow white Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the NAACP; and, a Leesburg-area landowner donated a historic 85-acre plot that will become a northern Virginia park.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China will ease visa requirements for US travelers in its latest bid to boost tourism; and, authorities in Germany have detained a fifth suspect in connection with a threat to attack the world-famous Cologne Cathedral over the holidays.
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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, Jack Smith’s effort to block Donald Trump from spreading disinformation in court is explained.
Then, on the rest of the menu, lacking any federal regulation to protect the consumer, a new Oregon law requires data brokers register with state agencies before selling personal information; New Mexico environmental officials have proposed a new regulatory framework for reusing fracking wastewater; and, a conservative, all-white Missouri school board reversed itself after a contentious public outcry, and will reinstate Black history classes, but with a new curriculum.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian poet received a seven-year prison sentence for reciting verses against the war in Ukraine; and, another one of those rich ass oligarch Russian lawmakers has been found dead, after another one of those convenient multi-story falls that seems to conveniently happen with convenient regularity in Vlad’s Russia.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge has ruled the removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery can continue.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge ordered a woman who set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, the full amount sought by prosecutors; more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but not enough to raise concern about the labor market or broader economy; and, pro-Hamas rioters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los Angeles.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine lost her appeal to run for president against Vladimir Putin; and, China sanctioned a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on human rights abuses committed against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s violent rhetoric and “call and response” with his followers has led to scores of assassination threats in the last week alone against Colorado Supreme Court justices, US Supreme Court justices, presidential candidates and the FBI.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Michigan Supreme Court that Trump will remain on the state’s primary election ballot.; Disney has filed a lawsuit claiming that the oversight government appointed by DeSantis, has failed to release documents and properly preserve records in violation of Florida public records law; and, Maryland lawmakers grappling with multibillion-dollar budget shortfalls are weighing proposals to tax the rich.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Argentina’s newly elected neo-fascist president laid off five thousand government employees hired in the year before he took office; and, Sweden moved a step closer to NATO membership after Turkey’s parliamentary committee gave its
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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, Trump’s latest legal filings make the claim he never took an oath, so he’s immune from all crimes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton promised retribution for votes they didn’t like and they have a list, and they checked it twice; a Fulton County judge ruled against a media company that sued the Georgia city of Sandy Springs for delivering one line police reports in response to public records requests; and, an audit finds low compliance by the Seattle police with a law requiring youth to have access to lawyers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus says Russia has completed its nuclear weapons shipments to the country, raising concerns in the region; and, North Korea appears to be looking to make more bomb fuels at its main nuclear facility.
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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 Colorado ruling is also a warning to other pro-coup lawmakers that it is not over.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Huntington Beach, California city council will remove Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Pride Month, among others from their 2024 celebration calendar to make room for their new celebrations that will be “free of any identity politics and political agendas” they don’t like; Seattle Children’s Hospital sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after he ordered them to hand over all their records of trans minors; and, a federal judge hearing a challenge to Florida’s anti-Trans law noted DeSantis repeatedly spread false information about doctors mutilating children.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pakistan authorities arrested over two hundred activists to stop them from protesting in Islamabad against extrajudicial killings; and, ‘Fat Leonard’ has landed back in a US federal court and could face more charges.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith’s filing in opposition to Trump’s request under the Classified Information Procedure Act will make Trump pay for Judge Cannon’s protection.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon court delivered a blow to Oregon’s signature Climate Protection Program, ruling in favor of industry and the utilities; the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the EPA rule limiting downwind power plant pollution in ten states; and the chair of the MAGA Shasta County Board of Supervisors told a San Francisco reporter to 'drop dead' in an email from his county account, that email did not turn up in public records requests.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s new Cabinet has moved to free state media from the conservative party that consolidated its grip on it during eight years in power; and, a pro-peace Russian presidential hopeful has submitted her documents to register as a candidate.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump was an officer of the United States, January 6 was an insurrection, Trump was the leader of the insurrection and his candidacy in the state is prohibited on constitutional grounds.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Tesla’s recall of two million vehicles to fix its Autopilot system uses technology that may not work; the ACLU of Montana is challenging the law defining the word ‘sex’ in state code as only male or female; and, Southwest Airlines and its pilots reached a tentative labor agreement after three-and-a-half years of negotiations.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Airbnb has admitted to misleading Australian customers by charging in US dollars instead of local currency; and, Greece has approved a new law granting undocumented migrants residence rights, provided they have a job.
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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, the reason Trump keeps jawing like a fascist is because it works.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a lawsuit says Georgia’s lieutenant governor should be disqualified from office for acting as Trump fake elector; Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro testified in the Nevada fake electors case to avoid prosecution; and, an audit finds Tennessee prisons are severely understaffed and officers worried about safety.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Greek anti-terror squad investigates after a bomb was defused near riot police headquarters; and, the European Union is investigating Musk’s X over possible breaches of the new tough social media law.
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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 is becoming more explicit on how he wants to take down US democracy.
Then, on the rest of the menu, fake news sites have ballooned one thousand percent since May, and Artificial Intelligence is making it worse; the Washington State Attorney General’s office named a new head of its Indigenous cold case office; and, health officials have opened a tuberculosis probe involving dozens of schools in Nevada’s most populous county.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Albania returned twenty religious and secular icons to neighboring North Macedonia that were stolen a decade ago; and, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen pieces of looted ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand.
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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, remember Trump's constant propaganda about the economy?
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Idaho Transportation Department completed construction on the state’s first wildlife overpass this fall, and animals are already finding their way over the highway; liberals seek the ouster of a Trump lawyer who advised fake electors from a Wisconsin judicial ethics panel; and, two months after a massive foreign cyberattack, the Kansas courts’ computer systems are starting to come back online.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO’s newest member, Finland, will sign a defense pact with the United States; and, an academic arrested in Norway as a Moscow spy confirmed his real, Russian name.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Republican Congressman Troy Nehls of Texas admitted the GOP motivation for the Biden impeachment is “Donald J Trump 2024, baby!”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon says the company managing the facilities at Crater Lake National Park has created unsafe conditions that threaten the park, visitors and employees who live and work there; the vandalization of the beloved Lake Merritt Menorah in Oakland, California is being investigated as a hate crime; and, a Texas high school Black student suspended for months over his hairstyle, likely won’t return to class anytime soon.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where independent news outlets and NGOs condemned Hungary’s new ‘sovereignty protection’ law as a way to silence critics; and, a Thailand court sentenced a newly elected parliamentarian to six years in prison for defaming the monarchy.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, 'Putin has congratulated House Republicans for stalling the Ukraine aid package.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI is investigating dozens of emailed hoax threats to Oregon synagogues, schools and airports; Media Matters for America sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for launching a “retaliatory” investigation over its investigation into Elon Musk’s Twitter; and, the New Mexico Supreme Court is weighing whether to strike down local abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German prosecutors have indicted twenty-seven people on terrorism charges in connection with a far-right coup plot; and, the MI6 chief thanked Russian state television for its ‘help’ in encouraging Russians to spy for the UK.
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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, Texas is a War on Women state.
Then, on the rest of the menu, advocacy groups want a full federal appeals court to revisit a panel ruling limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act; a Montana county will vote on removing election oversight duties from a Stop the Steal-affiliated clerk recorder; and, a Kentucky judge struck down a charter schools funding measure.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s parliament elected Donald Tusk to return as prime minister, following eight years of stormy, white nationalist, conservative rule; and, Austrian authorities arrested a 16-year-old who planned to attack a Vienna synagogue.
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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, armchair foreign policy expert JD Vance downplays the threat of Putin invading a NATO country as 'preposterous.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will be returning more than forty acres of Inyo County land to the Indigenous Paiute people; the Massachusetts attorney general filed a civil rights lawsuit against a white nationalist group; and, a judge has voided the result of a Louisiana sheriff’s election and recount where the Black democratic candidate won by a single vote.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of people marched in the Belgian and German capitals to protest soaring antisemitism since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; and, the UN Refugee Agency warned that half of the half million Afghans forcibly evicted so far from Pakistan, could die in harsh winter conditions if they are not given adequate shelter immediately.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Texas judge granted a woman permission to get an emergency, life-saving abortion, but Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened hospitals, doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff with felony charges if they help her stay alive.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Senator Rick Scott of Florida is sounding the alarm about the national security risk posed by communist garlic from China; the maternal mortality rate is much higher for Black women than white women in Mississippi; and, the University of Michigan is launching a new effort to fight antisemitism.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Moscow court extended the pre-trial detentions of three lawyers for representing imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny; and, Japan pledged $4.5 Billion more in aid for Ukraine, including $1 Billion in humanitarian funds.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump ‘will do whatever is necessary for him to take power.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Coast Guard is promising reforms after an internal review found its members don’t feel safe and trust in leadership is eroding; an Air Force Reserve staff sergeant has been arrested on felony charges for his role in the January 6 Capitol insurrection; and, Jill Biden was joined with children from military families to help sort toys donated by the White House to the US Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the union representing German train drivers has called for a twenty-four hour strike that will hit passenger services; and, a conglomerate of unions in Norway will take action against Tesla in solidarity with its Swedish colleagues, who are demanding that the Texas-based automaker sign a collective bargaining agreement.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, admitted to being an “accessory after the fact.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the second-ranking Democrat in the House is the latest member to become entangled in an epidemic of big money thefts affecting public officials; New Mexico wants to underwrite development of a strategic new source of water by buying treated fracking water; and, Frontier Airlines has settled a lawsuit filed by female pilots who accused the airline of discriminating against pregnant or breastfeeding employees.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israeli regulators are looking into claims investors earned millions of dollars by short-selling Israeli stocks days ahead of Hamas’s October 7 attack; and, the US made an offer to bring home jailed Americans Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich, but Russia rejected it.
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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, Trump is facing renewed scrutiny from former January 6 committee co-chair Liz Cheney, who says supporting him equates to "sleepwalking into dictatorship.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Clark County, Washington is ordered to pay almost two million dollars in a racial discrimination case; the new Republican-drawn North Carolina congressional districts are challenged in federal court on racial bias claims; and, a prosecutor in Texas has dropped charges against seventeen Austin police over tactics used during 2020 George Floyd protests, and is asking the Justice Department to investigate instead.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists has jumped bail and moved to Canada; and, a Madrid judge has opened an investigation into several agents of Spain’s National Intelligence Center for passing secret information to the United States.
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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 Supreme Court’s ruling on the Security Exchange Commission case could ‘upend government as we know it.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, even though DeSantis’ lawyers admitted his personally-drawn gerrymander map violated the state constitution by diminishing Black votes, the Florida First District Court of Appeal ruled it’s all good, he had to; a Wisconsin man plead guilty to firebombing the office of a prominent anti-abortion group last year; and, a Barbie doll honoring Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller is met with mixed emotions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Vice President Kamala Harris engaged in a speed round of diplomatic talks with Arab leaders while also negotiating at the COP28; and, a former American diplomat who served as US ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of being a secret agent for Cuba.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, unsealed texts from GOP Congressman Scott Perry reveal a "vast web of contacts" who he was talking to about efforts to overturn the election, including top Republicans.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon secretary of state says she lacks the authority to bar Trump from the Republican primary ballot; securities fraudster and Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, announced he is suing Pfizer for “emotionally blackmailing” the American public into getting the COVID-19 vaccine; and, most US cities will replace harmful lead pipes within ten years under a new Biden administration plan.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog told the COP28 that the world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change; and, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walked out on Western critics while attending international security talks in Northern Macedonia.
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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’s prison fears mount as Jack Smith wins another round in the coup subpoena clash.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the New York court-ordered financial auditor caught Trump sneaking forty million dollars from the Trump Organization into a personal bank account; Los Angeles County reported that hate crimes surged in 2022, with nearly seventy-five percent of them violent; and, the nation’s top cybersecurity agency warned that water utilities are vulnerable to hackers after the Pennsylvania Water Authority was attacked.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Canada says Google will pay one hundred million Canadian dollars annually under the country’s new Online News Act; and, Vice President Harris will attend the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith is going on the offense with Pence’s testimony.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s Cybertruck is already a production nightmare for Tesla; James Comer forgets his own behavior after calling out the Dems; and, Michigan will join the state-level effort to regulate AI political ads as congress debates more sweeping regulations ahead of the 2024 elections.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s president swears in a government expected to last no longer than fourteen days; and, a diplomatic spat over the Parthenon Marbles has scuttled a meeting between the leaders of Britain and Greece.
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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, the Republican threat to Fani Willis ran into a legal wall at Georgia Supreme Court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan is on the verge of implementing one of the nation’s most ambitious clean energy mandates in a state with a long-standing manufacturing legacy; Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 billion legal debt for a minimum of $85 million; and, a streaker was arrested at the Disneyland “It’s a Small World” attraction on a cold day in California.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a contract between Puerto Rico’s government and a coal-fired plant operator leaves residents in the dark; and, both an Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based company and a Dutch firm have been awarded a $342 million contract to produce equipment trailers for the US Army.
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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 New York Times opinion piece written by conservative lawyers and scholars sounds the alarm about the threat of a second Trump administration.
Then, on the rest of the menu, frazzled parents are celebrating that schools in Portland, Oregon, reached a tentative deal with the teachers union after a nearly month-long strike; authorities evacuated over several hundred people after a petroleum refinery explosion near Detroit; and, a federal appeals court ruled Georgia can keep statewide elections for its five-member commission regulating utilities, overturning an earlier ruling that statewide elections illegally diluted Black votes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia put Meta communications director Andy Stone on its terrorist watch list; and, the prime minister of Ireland condemned anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through central Dublin.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new federal appeals court ruling that undermines Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is expected to test the racial reality of John Robert’s long dedication to attacking the law.
Then, on the rest of the menu, retailers are ready to kick off Black Friday just as shoppers pull back on spending; a Florida judge ruled a lawsuit blaming Tesla’s Autopilot for a driver’s death can go to trial; and, a Georgia Supreme Court ruling prevents a GOP-backed commission from beginning to discipline and remove liberal prosecutors.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain’s Conservative government pushes tax cuts in hopes of bolstering its electoral chances; and, three New Zealand political leaders say they’ve reached an agreement to form the next government.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, despite all his whines of victimhood, parallel hearings exposes Trump's special treatment by the courts.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Supreme Court ruled Pacific Gas & Electric cannot be sued over safety-related power shutoffs due to wildfires; a right wing NRA-funded rural judge ruled the voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution; and, the Missouri Supreme Court turned away a extreme right wing appeal about how to word a ballot question on access to abortion in the state an upcoming citizen initiative.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active women in Afghanistan significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country; and, German authorities raided the homes of seventeen people in the state of Bavaria accused of spreading antisemitic hate speech and threats targeting Jews online.
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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, prosecutors for Jack Smith clashed in the DC Court of Appeals with Trump's legal team over the gag order in the DC election crimes case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Republican former congressional staffer and a Democratic state senator face off in a Utah special election to replace Republican US Representative Chris Stewart; Las Vegas hotel union workers voted overwhelmingly to approve their contract agreement with casino giant Caesars Entertainment; and, the Republican Party argued New Mexico’s state Supreme Court should strike down a congressional map that has divvied up a politically conservative oil-producing region into multiple, competitive districts.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a parliamentary committee hearing in Israel descended into chaos as far-right lawmakers screamed at the families of people taken hostage by Hamas; and, the president of Cyprus wants an experienced team of financial crime experts to help with investigations into old and new allegations that Cypriot financial service providers helped Russian oligarchs skirt international sanctions.
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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 is ramping up his dangerous rhetoric on 2024 campaign trail.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Moms for Liberty reported over $2 million in revenue, with the bulk of contributions coming from just two donors; Mississippi’s capital city is considering a unique plan to slash water rates for poor people; and, fears of political violence are growing as the 2024 campaign heats up and conspiracy theories evolve.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Moscow Times, noted for its English coverage of Russia, is declared a ‘foreign agent;’ and, censored art from around the world finds a second opportunity at a Barcelona museum for banned works.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Elon Musk’s ‘shocking pronouncement of antisemitism’ is not only repellent on its face, it’s also abhorrent that he actually believes it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, climate change in Texas science textbooks is causing divisions on the state’s education board; the US Securities and Exchange Commission urged a federal judge to force Elon Musk to testify for its investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter; and, a federal judge in Nevada has dealt another legal setback to Native American tribes trying to halt construction of one of the biggest lithium mines in the world.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Blackwater founder Erik Prince and four others went on trial in Austria over the export of illegally modified crop-spraying planes for military purposes; and, the US will resume food aid to millions across Ethiopia after a months-long pause over massive corruption.
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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.”
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, just because Trump loses repeatedly doesn't mean the judges are biased.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Montgomery County, Maryland middle school teacher is put on leave after publicly claiming the October 7 massacre is a hoax; twenty-four people were arrested in Grants Pass, Oregon as part of a major illicit drug trafficking investigation; and, the Federal Communications Commission has enacted new rules intended to eliminate discrimination in access to internet services.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German publisher will stop selling books about Vladimir Putin by an award-winning reporter who accepted money from Putin-aligned Russian oligarchs; and, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples,” Chinese President Xi Jinping promised that China will be sending new pandas to the United States.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump conviction is more likely as aides confess to the RICO prosecutors.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Detroit police corporal accused of shooting three photojournalists with rubber pellets while they covered the 2020 George Floyd protests has been ordered to stand trial; a new Democratic-leaning congressional district in Alabama is a rare opportunity in the deep red state to flip a Republican seat in the battle for control of the House of Representatives; and, Kansas officials evacuated the secretary of state’s building after it received a letter with “a suspicious substance.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin approved new restrictions on media coverage ahead of the March presidential elections; and, the new owners of Univision cancelled all of Biden’s campaign ad buys after a late night meeting with Trump at Mar a Lago.
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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, the new Supreme Court code of ethics written by John Roberts, leaves ‘a gaping hole for mischief.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, a South Dakota hotel owner who was sued for racial discrimination has been ordered by the Justice Department to publicly apologize and step down for four years; an Oregon jury awarded an Hispanic man more than $3 million after cops used excessive force arresting him for trying to steal a car he was fixing outside his home; and, arson is behind the massive fire that shut down the I-10 Freeway in Los Angeles.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one in three US Asians and Pacific Islanders faced racial abuse this year; and, an ex-Philippine senator who fought Duterte’s harsh drug crackdown, is free on bail after a six year-long detention on fabricated drug charges.
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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 Trump second term would look 'a lot like Vladimir Putin's Russia.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, woman after woman after woman has died on an Alaska mayor’s property, and no one has been charged; two California tech execs could face up to twenty years behind bars in a massive fraud case; and, commuters are urged to work from home or take public transportation after a massive fire over the weekend closed a mile-long section of Interstate 10 in downtown Los Angeles.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where over one hundred thousand people in Paris and another one hundred-eighty thousand across France marched peacefully against the surge of antisemitism in the wake of the war in Gaza; and, researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, 'The highest court in the land cannot have the lowest ethical standards.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, Jezebel has been shuttered after sixteen years, just as major layoffs rocked the company; a federal judge has temporarily blocked Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” law from being enforced while a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality is underway; and, a class-action lawsuit alleges unsafe conditions at a migrant detention facility in New Mexico.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey is marking its centennial, but a brain drain has cast a shadow on the occasion; and, Apple might end up on the hook after all for billions of euros in back taxes to Ireland in the latest twist in the long running European Union dispute.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats will not pay the Republican 'ransom note' to keep government open.
Then, on the rest of the menu, librarians turn to a civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their own firings; four Washington state elections offices were evacuated after workers processing ballots received envelopes containing suspicious powders, including two that field-tested positive for fentanyl; and, Mount St Helens recorded more than four hundred earthquakes since mid-July, and just like last time, seismologists say there are no signs of an imminent eruption.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey’s highest court upheld a controversial media law that mandates prison terms for people deemed to be spreading “disinformation,” even when they are not; and, Russian authorities demanded an eight-year prison term for an artist and musician who was jailed after speaking out against Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new filing by the Jack Smith team fights back against Trump’s effort to delay his trial past the election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black Tacoma, Washington newspaper carrier and the county sheriff reached a settlement in their controversial 2021 confrontation; the FBI is investigating suspicious packages containing a white powder sent to over a half dozen Seattle synagogues in the last four days; and, a federal lawsuit denouncing the conditions at a West Virginia jail has been settled.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cyprus has a plan for a humanitarian sea corridor to Gaza and will present it to the European Union heads of state; and, a French prosecutor says a link to Russia is responsible for the dozens of Stars of David stenciled around Paris.
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-- 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, Trump incriminated himself and his children with one word on the stand.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Philly teen saw a murder, called 911 and did 15 years in prison, now, he’s exonerated; morale is down while cronyism is up after the DeSantis takeover of the Disney World governing district; and, California’s oldest tree, a Palmer’s Oak estimated at over 13,000 years old, may be threatened by a huge planned community development in Riverside County.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French justice minister went on trial on charges of using his office to settle personal scores; and, Hungary fired its national museum director over LGBTQ+ content in the prestigious World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest.
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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 is 'going to perjure himself one way or another' when he takes the stand in his New York civil fraud trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge in central Arizona charged with extreme DUI earlier this year has resigned; a California police officer involved in a controversial shooting last year has resigned after the discovery of racist text messages he wrote; and, an Arkansas man was arrested for trying to crash through the exit gates of a South Carolina nuclear plant.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea plans to launch its first military spy satellite on 30 November; and, Russia says it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile from a new nuclear submarine.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson is just a dapper insurrectionist.
Then, on the rest of the menu, two women intend to sue the City of Portland, Oregon after Portland police drove into their car and held them at gunpoint by mistake; Indiana’s attorney general violated professional conduct rules in statements he made about a doctor who provided an abortion to a ten-year-old rape victim from Ohio; and, a Minnesota appeals court ruled to protect felon’s voting rights after finding a lower court judge overstepped.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin signed a bill revoking Russia’s ratification of the global nuclear test ban treaty; and, police in Bangladesh’s capital used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse more than a thousand garment factory workers who took to the streets for a sixth straight day to demand better wages.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Team Trump is looking for a 'different type of lawyer' to serve a second term with more loyalty.
Then, on the rest of the menu, antisemitic messages found painted outside the famous Canter’s Deli in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles are being investigated as a possible hate crime; a smalltown newspaper publisher and reporter in Alabama were arrested after authorities accused them of publishing an article that revealed information about a grand jury investigation; and, a Georgia Tech scientist was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for defrauding the university and the Central Intelligence Agency.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European officials widened its ban on Meta’s “behavioral advertising” practices to most of Europe; and, two more men have been arrested into who cut down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall in England.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the 'terrorist' threatening DA Willis did so with Trump's implicit instructions.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black senior manager at AT&T was fired after she reported a racist death threat; the Arizona attorney general is investigating two county officials who refused to certify the 2022 election; and, the country’s largest Christian university is being fined almost thirty-eight million dollars for misleading students about the cost of its graduate programs.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland convicted three neo-Nazis for plotting racially motivated attacks using 3D printed weapons; and, three members of a pop music group in Belarus were sentenced to prison for nine years in the country’s relentless crackdown on dissent.
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-- 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, Trump will do anything he can to save himself between now and the 2024 election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Senate Democrats plan to subpoena the wealthy benefactors of the justices on the Supreme Court; a federal judge blocked California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs; and, US regulators sued SolarWinds for fraud for failing to disclose cybersecurity deficiencies ahead of the stunning hack by Russian spies.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a 22-year-old Bavarian politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany party was arrested in connection with incitement and the use of illegal Nazi symbols; and, activists urged Paris Olympics organizers to respect the rights of migrants and homeless people.
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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, in an urgent action Sunday night, Judge Chutkan has heard enough from Trump and reimposed her gag order.
Then, on the rest of the menu, boys graduate from high school at lower rates than girls, with lifelong repercussions; most of the voters in Mississippi will have no choice about who represents them in the Legislature; and, California’s commercial Dungeness crab season is delayed for the sixth year in a row to protect humpback whales.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israel is reassessing its diplomatic relations with Turkey due to Erdogan’s ‘increasingly harsh’ remarks; and, reminiscent of the beginning of the 1905 Odessa Pogrom, a mob of almost a thousand people shouting antisemitic slogans, stormed a Russian airport looking for ‘genocidal Jews’ arriving from Tel Aviv.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the voting record and extreme policy positions of new House Speaker ‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ deserves a closer look.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Wisconsin Republicans back a bill outlawing university financial aid based on race and diversity; the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a new law giving participants in constitutional cases the right to change venue; and, a federal judge ruled Georgia congressional and legislative districts are racially discriminatory and must be redrawn by December 8th.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Secretary-General has appointed a thirty-nine member panel to advise on the international governance of artificial intelligence; and, the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary force have resumed peace talks in Jeddah.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump wanted his “Legally Blonde” moment, but he didn’t get it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Supreme Court will decide if Republican state senators who carried out a record-breaking walkout during this year’s legislative session, can run for reelection; Scholastic will drop the highly criticized policy that makes it easier for school fairs to exclude diverse books; and, the White House wants fifty-six billion dollars from Congress for disaster relief, child care and high-speed Internet.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the World Bank approved a one billion dollar loan to help blackout-hit South Africa’s energy sector; and, Slovakia’s president is ready to swear in a new Cabinet after a coalition partner agreed to replace a climate change-denying ministry nominee.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DOJ granting Meadows immunity is ‘not surprising’ because his ‘self-preservation kicked in.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, the wealthy Nashville suburb of Franklin roundly rejected the scandal-scarred MAGA mayoral candidate and her coterie of Nazi white supremacists; Texas sued the Biden administration seeking to stop federal agents from cutting the state’s “inhumane” razor wire on the border; and, the Senate voted 98-0 to confirm Biden’s nominee to run the Federal Aviation Administration.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China replaced its defense minister mere months after its foreign minister was removed from office; and, women across Iceland, including the prime minister, went on strike for equal pay and no more violence.
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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, Trump lawyers keep pleading guilty in the Georgia election interference case and keep agreeing to testify against him.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Montana man was sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison for repeated racist phone calls made to a church; the Justice Department has issued subpoenas after expanding its investigations into Tesla beyond the electric vehicle maker’s partially automated driving systems; and, North Dakota’s Republican-dominated legislature began a special session to fix the budget invalidated as unconstitutional by the Republican-dominated state Supreme Court.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a prominent German leftist is set to launch a new party that could eat into the far-right’s support; and, Orbán blasted the European Union on the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, as being just like the Soviets.
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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, multiple House Republicans have reported receiving threats and harassment following their Speaker votes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, police in an Atlanta suburb pledged a full investigation after residents reported anti-Semitic flyers plastered throughout the community; the Charlottesville, Virginia City Council suspended virtual public comments after anonymous callers Zoomed into a council meeting and made racist remarks; and, Michigan State has suspended an employee involved in allowing Adolf Hitler’s image to be shown on videoboards for a quiz contest before playing arch rival Michigan.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where envoys of the European Union and the United States urged Kosovo and Serbia to resume their dialogue before the bitter tensions between the two sides result in more violence; and, the Greek economy won a new vote of confidence with a credit rating upgrade and hopes for an investment boost.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the tactics of the extreme right in the speaker fight is to “rule or ruin.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Maryland police are investigating the fatal shooting of a circuit court judge; a state of emergency was issued in a northern New York county following a major water main break that has left tens of thousands without water; and, the Department of Justice secured a $9 million settlement with Ameris Bank over redlining in Florida.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Dutch Court convicted a man who projected an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank museum; and, the EU demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb disinformation from the Israel-Hamas war.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s embrace of violence since leaving office is not too dissimilar from when he entered the 2016 campaign.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Republican lawmaker from Iowa received "credible death threats" following her vote against Jordan for Speaker, and law enforcement is investigating the matter; Trump’s lawyer is not only incompetent, he’s literally unqualified to appeal the gag order in the DC Court; and, a Texas city settled a lawsuit over their police response to a caravan of Trump supporters who aggressively surrounded a Biden bus in an attempt to run it off the freeway in 2020.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly condemned a firebomb assault on a synagogue in Berlin; and, the failed referendum on Indigenous rights has set back the Australian government’s plans to become a republic.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘the public has to understand what is at stake’ over a possible Jordan speakership.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a security problem has taken down the computer systems for almost all Kansas courts for the last five days; Disney attorneys want to question a former administrator in its lawsuit with DeSantis appointees; and, a federal judge sentenced a former Republican candidate for Michigan governor to two months behind bars for his actions during the January 6 insurrection.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Swedish security police arrested two people suspected of unauthorized possession of secret information; and, citing the stand of the United States, the lower house of the Russian parliament voted unanimously to revoke the ratification of the global nuclear test ban treaty.
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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, a gag order can be issued on Trump, but enforcing it is the problem.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court ordered makers of gun parts to comply with Biden Administration rules on ghost guns; New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order directing state agencies to switch to an all-electric vehicle fleet by the year 2035; and, Georgia’s cash hoard approaches $11 billion after a third year of big surpluses.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where voters in Poland gave support to the centrist opposition after eight years of anti-EU, hyper-nationalist rule; and, the UN Security Council rejected Russia’s resolution on Gaza that failed to mention Hamas.
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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 US is 'working through third countries' for the release of hostages held by Hamas.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Supreme Court dispute over a $15,000 IRS bill may be aimed at a never-enacted tax on billionaires; a suspended Miami city commissioner pleaded not guilty to money laundering and other charges; and, an executive who had business ties to Playgirl magazine pleaded guilty to a $250M fraud scheme at one of his lending companies.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece’s ruling conservative party suffered serious setbacks in Sunday’s regional and municipal elections; and, announcing that 'reconciliation is dead,’ indigenous Australians vowed a week of silence after the landmark equality referendum was decisively defeated.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Hamas has relentlessly attacked the peace process for its own agenda since the late 1980’s.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Colorado judge has rejected an attempt by Trump to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to keep him off the state ballot; a Florida college reported it has seen "27 percent of its student body drop out" since Ron Desantis' recent takeover; and, a Mississippi city was sued for failing to properly inform property owners in a majority-Black neighborhood that their homes could be targeted for eminent domain under a redevelopment plan.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French prosecutors are investigating the suspected poisoning of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV; and, the European Union made a formal, legally binding request for information from Elon Musk’s social media platform over its handling of hate speech, misinformation and violent terrorist content related to the Israel-Hamas war.
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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.”
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Hamas terrorism echoes the barbaric playbook from Putin to ISIS.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Nebraska voters will decide next year whether public money can go to private school tuition; Virginia’s Democratic members of Congress asked for a DOJ probe after voters were removed from the state electoral rolls in error; and, a former Alabama lawmaker plead guilty to a voter fraud charge for using a fake address to run for office.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia was defeated in its bid to regain a seat on the UN’s top human rights body; and, Finland charged that damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Netanyahu warning Gazans to leave amid Israel’s war with Hamas is called “disingenuous.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Nevada’s largest teachers union filed suit against a state law making it illegal for teachers and other public school employees to go on strike; the Wisconsin Supreme Court sided with tenant advocates in limiting eviction records; and, Florida settled a lawsuit over COVID data DeSantis ordered was off limits, and has agreed to provide weekly stats to the public.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an independent inquiry opened into unlawful killings by United Kingdom special forces in Afghanistan a decade ago; and, the European Union reversed an earlier announcement that it was suspending development aid to the Palestinians.
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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 GOP's lies on Israel attack funding is exposed, while Tuberville continues his military holds.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an illustrated children's book about siblings who build a dog house together was placed on a watch list for removal in Alabama, simply because its author's last name is "Gay;" a judicial order canceled a demonstration planned by a Roman Catholic diocese in Kansas that would have blocked the only entrance to a Wichita abortion clinic; and, Alaska fishermen will be allowed to harvest the lucrative red king crab in the Bering Sea for the first time in two years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United Nations warned Pakistan that forcibly deporting Afghans could lead to severe human rights violations; and, the American Airlines pilot union called for stopping all flights to Israel, citing the formal declaration of war.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s lawyers say Trump’s sharing of highly classified nuke sub secrets on the patio of Mar a Lago with a billionaire Australian container magnate, “lacks proper context.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, battleground state Republicans are refusing campaign donations from Marjorie Taylor Greene; Oklahoma has executed more people per capita than any other state in the US, but some Republican lawmakers want to impose a moratorium until more safeguards can be put in place; and, the US government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American site on the slopes of Oregon’s Mount Hood that was destroyed by highway construction.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where developed countries pledged $9.3 billion at a conference held in the German city of Bonn, to help poor nations tackle climate change; and, a special unit of German police and customs officials raided several properties of an EU-sanctioned Russian national in the southern state of Bavaria.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kevin McCarthy blaming Nancy Pelosi for his ouster is the “weakest of weak ideas.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a newly enacted Arizona recount law could cause the state to miss crucial deadlines for certifying the 2024 vote; the Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether Alabama discriminated against Black residents in wastewater infrastructure funding; and, three New England states are joining together for offshore wind power projects, the first multi-state agreement in the nation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union announced plans to better protect its cutting-edge technologies from foreign snooping; and, Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant began releasing a second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The MAGA House cares more about “making headlines than headway.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI alleges a die-hard MAGA sheriff in Virginia, charged with accepting bribes for deputy badges, sold one to a controversial Iraqi fixer; neo-Nazis violently threatened journalists covering a Tennessee mayoral race; and, the Education Department asserts Liberty University violated federal safety laws by failing to warn the campus community about gas leaks, bomb threats and people credibly accused of repeated acts of sexual violence, for years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Armenia’s parliament voted to join the International Criminal Court, a move that further strains the country’s ties with Russia; and, police in India searched journalists’ homes and offices in the country’s latest raids on the media.
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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, a new filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith reinforces a request for a narrowly-tailored gag order to be placed on Donald Trump in one of his federal cases.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Army officer pepper-sprayed during a traffic stop in Virginia, asked for a new trial in his lawsuit against police; the Elias Law Group sued to block Wisconsin’s absentee voting witness requirements; and, the lawyer who won a defamation lawsuit for the Sandy Hook parents against Alex Jones, is representing a California man suing Elon Musk over posts that falsely identified the recent college-graduate as a government agent inciting a riot that he never attended.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where amid tight security, Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year in an effort to inoculate forty-four million children under the age of five; and, generations of students marched through downtown Mexico City, marking fifty-five years since the military massacred hundreds of students ten days before the opening of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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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, Donald Trump has shown a “lifelong pattern” of disrespect for America’s most cherished institutions and practices.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a grant program for Black women entrepreneurs has been blocked by the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, because it discriminates against rich, white men; attorneys for the New College of Florida, the traditionally public liberal arts academy confiscated by the state in a right wing takeover, are suing former faculty and students after they formed an alternative online institute offering all the “woke” curriculum DeSantis is trying to get rid of; and, an Oklahoma Democratic candidate's office was ransacked after his impressive debate performance.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Parliament president backs the UN naming an envoy to help restart the Cyprus peace talks; and, police wrestled with justices of Guatemala’s top electoral tribunal, as prosecutors sought to seize the tally sheets of votes from the August presidential elections.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “The Republican Party knew that” their impeachment hearing “was cooked and done from the beginning,”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a MAGA hat gunman is in custody after opening fire on dozens of protesters in New Mexico over the installation of a conquistador statue; Los Angeles police recovered a stolen 250-pound Japanese Buddha statue valued at $1.5 million and arrested a suspect, but mystery still shrouds the case; and, the governor of Indiana broke ground on a $1.2 billion state prison that will replace two others.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of women marched in cities across Latin America calling for abortion rights; and, a Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost ten percent of its ice volume in just two years.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘Mob Boss’ Trump is directing his 'soldiers' to shut down the government.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Nebraska is the latest Republican state to expand Medicaid to cover postpartum care for low-income mothers; the Biden administration made disaster assistance available to Louisiana, as salt water threatens the state’s drinking water; and, a Rhode Island community bank will pay $9 million dollars to resolve discriminatory lending allegations.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Bulgarian parliament approved additional weapons to Ukraine; and, the leader of Spain’s conservatives failed in his long-shot first bid to become the country’s next prime minister.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, 'let's not sleepwalk into another Trump Presidency'.
Then, on the rest of the menu, it’s a feature, not a bug that 'threats and harassment' are causing America's West to bleed qualified election officials; California will raise taxes on guns and ammo to pay for school safety; and; academics, universities and government agencies are ending research programs to counter the spread of online misinformation, after a relentless campaign of intimidation by the MAGA insurgents in congress.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German government banned a far-right, racist group known for its Nazi indoctrination of children; and, the European Union reports Musk’s Xitter is the biggest purveyor of disinformation in the twenty-seven nation bloc.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Cassidy Hutchinson described Trump’s “dangerous” need for attention, and the “careless and reckless” handling of classified intelligence documents.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a white neighbor in toney Forest Hills, New York, is sued for hosing down his prominent Black neighbors and their prominent Black dinner guests during a catered dinner in their spacious backyard garden; California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to ban school boards from rejecting textbooks based on their teachings about the contributions of people from different racial backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities; and, rogue Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito 'invented an entirely new rule' for himself.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States offered Poland a rare loan of $2 billion to modernize its military; and, independent UN-backed human rights experts said they have turned up continued evidence of war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, and are looking into genocide allegations.
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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, there’s a reason Vladimir Putin feared Hillary Clinton and used any means necessary to keep her from the presidency.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida judge ordered a far-right blogger and Proud Boys associate be arrested and held in contempt of court in a civil suit brought by a former Florida House candidate; California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people, a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates; and, subsidized child-care meals are tied to better child health and lower rates of household food insecurity.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Union antitrust enforcers slapped Intel with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight; and, Canadian autoworkers ratified a new labor agreement with the Ford Motor Company.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, for the first time since resigning from the Durham Trump/Russia investigation three years ago, federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy confirmed it was the politically-driven way that Barr handled the investigation that drove her to leave.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Mississippi state auditor says numerous social science and humanities degree programs are “indoctrination factories;” Fort Lauderdale, Florida was duped in a $1.2 million phishing scam; and, with climate change hitting home, California announced that they are making reforms to the state’s insurance system to stabilize the market.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union called on the Bosnian Serb parliament to reject a draft law that brands NGOs as ‘foreign agents;’ and, Bulgaria expelled a Russian and two Belarusian clerics accused of spying for Moscow.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe,“a witness to one of the greatest crimes ever committed in America,” who has defied a congressional subpoena for almost five hundred days, threatened Merrick Garland with contempt of congress for not being a bootlicker.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a progressive group is planning a $10 million investment in left-leaning school and library board candidates for the 2024-25 election cycle; one of only four black mayors in the whole state of Oregon has resigned, claiming he was bullied out of office;’ and, even though California enacted sweeping legislation nearly a decade ago, thousands of drinking water wells could run dry in the Central Valley by the time the law’s restrictions take full effect in 2040.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the president of South Korea warned Russia against any weapons collaboration with the North; and, India has moved to ensure more equal representation by reserving 33% of the seats in Parliament and state legislatures for women.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, on the senate floor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse dressed down the corruption of the FedSoc Supreme Court and the “very possible illegal conduct” of the billionaires funding their lavish lifestyles.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Republican book-banning bill in Texas has been blocked by a Trump-appointed conservative judge, on the same day a Texas middle school teacher was fired for reading the Diary of Anne Frank to her class; a white supremacist plead guilty to threatening the jury and witnesses in the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre trial; and, Musk’s unfounded attacks on a Las Vegas reporter are a new low in his thuggery.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German government banned a neo-Nazi group with close links to the US, then conducted raids on their compounds in ten German states; and, Polish police briefly detained an opposition Polish lawmaker, violating her parliamentary immunity, after she interrupted a campaign speech by the right wing Prime Minister.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, legal experts are astounded by Trump openly admitting the election subversion was his decision.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the University of California regents grapple with how best to protect the system's first Black president in its 155-year history, after a series of racist attacks at his home; a man has been charged with a hate crime after the windows of the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle’s Chinatown International District were smashed last week; and, the Indiana Supreme Court’s disciplinary commission filed a misconduct complaint against the Attorney General over remarks he made about an abortion doctor and her patient, an out of state ten year old rape victim.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Netanyahu administration complained to Germany after the German ambassador attended a high-profile Israeli Supreme Court hearing looking at the legality of Bibi’s judicial overhaul; and, Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat as it investigates credible allegations that the Modi government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist.
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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 is blasted for floating a pardon for the Proud Boys.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black Alabama high school band director was tased and then arrested after Birmingham police ordered him to end the performance; an Oregon judge will decide whether the gun control law approved by voters last November violates the state’s constitution; and, the Mississippi River is running so low barge companies are limiting their loads, just as farmers want to move their crops downriver.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a newly discovered letter in the Vatican archives suggests Pope Pius XII may have known about the Holocaust well before previously thought; and, tens of thousands of South Korean teachers rallied for new laws to protect them from abusive parents.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, maybe the reason Romney didn’t get a response when he warned McConnell about the dangers to all their lives on Jan 6 is because Mitch froze.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s New York fraud trial is in limbo after an appellate judge took the remarkable step of granting his last minute gambit in a surprise hearing that was closed off to the public; uber-conservative propaganda shop PragerU has officially infiltrated another state’s classrooms; and, all that Berkeley landlords wanted to do was celebrate kicking people out on the street again, then protestors showed up and spoiled the party.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian pilot deliberately fired missiles at a British Royal Air Force surveillance plane in international airspace over the Black Sea last year; and, Britain, France and Germany say they will keep their nuclear and missiles sanctions on Iran.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘this is a GOP run by Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration is recommending an overhaul of a 151-year-old mining law that will make companies pay royalties for the first time for copper, gold and other hard rock minerals; facing a one and a half billion dollar deficit, the California State University system will hike tuition six percent annually for the next five years; and, two leading conservation groups sued the Bureau of Land Management for rangeland degradation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French regulators ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12, saying it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above European Union standards; and, the Russian spaceport visited by North Korea’s Kim has a history of corruption and construction delays.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there are ways to salvage US democracy from the 'tyranny of the minority.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, a controversial Penn Carey Law professor has invited a white nationalist, who was cited in race murderer Dylan Roof’s manifesto, to lecture on campus for the second time; the five NYC pension funds accused Fox of neglecting its responsibility to shareholders by airing election lies; and, a star football reporter for the NFL filed a racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the league and its media arm.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Guatemala President-elect has suspended the transition after agents raided election facilities and illegally opened vote boxes; and, the Israeli Supreme Court hears the first challenge to Netanyahu’s divisive judicial overhaul.
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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, three military service secretaries urged Tuberville to stop blocking senior officer confirmations, but he only takes his orders in Cyrillic.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the US government is eager to restore its powers to keep dangerous chemicals out of extremists’ hands after Rand Paul objected to renewing the bill authorizing it; after nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers; and, a Georgia trial arguing that redistricting harmed Black voters, could decide control of a US House seat.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Northern Ireland’s top police officer resigned following a series of controversies, including an “industrial scale” data breach; and, Russian authorities arrested a mathematician on terrorism charges, minutes after his release from four years in detention on a hooliganism conviction.
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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, thirteen presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover have released a statement calling for a recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles, just as we learn more about a plot hatched by Trump allies to destroy the federal government as we know it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, DeSantis’ immigration law is worsening labor shortages in Florida, just as the planting season begins; an obscure Trump lawyer stands out as a key witness in the election tampering cases; and, a Minnesota meat processing plant that is accused of hiring child laborers, agreed to pay $300K in penalties.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a foreign student has been arrested in Norway on suspicion of espionage, including illegal eavesdropping; and, Egypt’s annual inflation rate hit a new record high of 39.7% in August.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DC grand jury that indicted Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss met again for the first time in four weeks.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans are freaking out over imaginary COVID mandates; Brett Kavanaugh said that he is “hopeful” the Supreme Court soon will take specific steps to deal with ethics issues at the court; and, California lawmakers approved a new tax for guns and ammunition to pay for school safety improvements.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three round-the-world sailors reached land safely after sharks nearly sank their catamaran in the Coral Sea; and, an ailing American researcher trapped 3,000 feet deep in a Turkish cave awaits a difficult and long rescue.
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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, how long does it take to put an election theft conspiracy on trial?
Then, on the rest of the menu, a US federal judge ordered that Texas must remove Abbott’s illegal floating buzz saw border barriers in the Rio Grande; Wisconsin’s gerrymandering rides to the rescue of its gerrymandering; and, the former Orange-Osceola state attorney filed a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis, and asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse his order removing her from office.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union will target Apple, Amazon, Meta and other Big Tech companies in the next phase of its digital crackdown; and, Japan launched a rocket carrying a lunar lander and an X-ray telescope to explore the origins of universe.
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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, in emulating Trump, the Republican Party is also “committing fraud” against small donors.
Then, on the rest of the menu, OAN and its star correspondent Chanel Rion, settled a defamation lawsuit over their wacko claims about a Dominion Systems executive; a civil rights lawsuitin North Dakota accuses a white supremacist group of racial intimidation; and; four million people have enrolled in Biden’s new student loan repayment plan.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Swiss parliamentary commission voted to systematically expel Russian and other spies who threaten Switzerland’s security; and, the United Kingdom will declare Russia’s Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization.
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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, three military service secretaries urged Tuberville to stop blocking senior officer confirmations, but he only takes his orders in Cyrillic.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the US government is eager to restore its powers to keep dangerous chemicals out of extremists’ hands after Rand Paul objected to renewing the bill authorizing it; after nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers; and, a Georgia trial arguing that redistricting harmed Black voters, could decide control of a US House seat.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Northern Ireland’s top police officer resigned following a series of controversies, including an “industrial scale” data breach; and, Russian authorities arrested a mathematician on terrorism charges, minutes after his release from four years in detention on a hooliganism conviction.
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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, Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee, want to subpoena Jared Kushner over his business dealings with Saudi Arabia after leaving the White House.
Then, on the rest of the menu, prominent right-wing online influencers claim neo-Nazi groups demonstrating across the state of Florida are part of a “false flag” operation staged by the federal government to smear their otherwise righteous conservative movements; a crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage is tearing Atlanta magazine apart; and, a Minnesota prison reached a resolution with inmates who refused to return to their cells during the heat wave over the weekend.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where scientists finally know why Germany’s wild boar are surprisingly radioactive; and, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south pole of the moon, India launched its first space mission to study the sun.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Clarence Thomas had to eat more Crow disclosures.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the police chief of Tillamook, Oregon was arrested for stealing drugs and cash from the evidence locker; late last year, DeSantis signed revisions to an existing law that will now increase the suffering of Hurricane Idalia victims; and, heat-related deaths are up, and not just because it’s getting hotter.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four Finnish men were charged with plotting racially motivated attacks using 3D printed weapons; and, a German court convicted a Russian man of plotting the murder of an exiled Chechen dissident.
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― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Houston school libraries have been turned into 'discipline centers' in a 'hostile takeover' by the state and Greg Abbott.
Then, on the rest of the menu, public defenders sued an Oregon county over systemic courthouse racism; a Trump supporter in court for sentencing, faced the election official he violently threatened; and, the Los Angeles City Council wants to sue Texas and its governor for sending over a dozen busloads of asylum seekers to the city since June 14, and to investigate whether Abbott’s actions violated any criminal laws.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cyprus police arrested 21 people wearing hoods and brandishing bats who tried to attack Syrian refugees; and, Guatemalan prosecutors arrested the former representative of a United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission that was expelled from the country several years ago.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in less than a year, DeSantis’ “war on woke” at New College has driven out forty faculty and over half the student body.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Raw Story filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy over their refusal to release records related to a former US Marine and avowed neo-Nazi; Montgomery, Alabama police have opened a hate crime investigation over Nazi symbols and racial slurs spray painted all over cars and houses in a majority Black community; and, a judge ruled companies that did business with the Trump Organization, cannot magically hide documents showing their ties to Trump.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the governor of the German state of Bavaria said that his deputy had not done enough to prove he wasn’t responsible for an antisemitic flyer as a high school student; and, a multinational operation that included the FBI, took down a botnet attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers with malware and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages worldwide.
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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, the courtroom calendar for the “client from hell” is filling up ahead of the election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, twice convicted con man, “Wall Street Whiz Kid” David Bloom, has been arrested in Los Angeles for bilking dozens of victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars; Republican lawmakers temporarily silenced one of the ‘Tennessee Three’ from debate on the House floor, using a hastily enacted ‘out of order’ rule; and, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will call on Democrats to codify ‘Obamacare’ into state law.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland is investigating disruptions to train traffic from unauthorized radio signals; and, all assembly lines at Toyota’s auto plants in Japan have been shut down by computer problems.
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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.”
“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 is entering a forum he cannot control.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a racial discrimination suit against a Fort Worth, Texas company for subjecting Black workers to displays of nooses and, white supremacy symbols; a last-minute legal maneuver keeps San Francisco Bay Area cops from testifying about racism within their department, for now; and, workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent worker protections in the United States.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where London’s Metropolitan Police force has stepped up security after a company that holds details of its officers and staff was hacked; and, Norway will spend $6 million a year until the end of the decade stock-piling grain, citing the pandemic, war and climate change.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Marjorie Taylor Greene was dragged mercilessly for posting a photoshopped "MAGA mug shot" after Trump was booked and released at a Georgia jail.
Then, on the rest of the menu, actual SEALs are not happy with DeSantis’ claims of being a Navy Seal; Jewish organizations in Arizona are being terrorized in "swatting" attacks; and, the Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department is under a US Department of Justice investigation for racial discrimination.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarusian authorities declared the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights group is an extremist organization; and, a top science publisher has withdrawn a peer-reviewed study cited by climate skeptics, that presented misleading conclusions from manipulated data on the impacts of climate change.
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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, the Secret Service had such a blind spot for the Oath Keepers ahead of January 6, they deleted all their texts with them from during the insurrection.
Then, on the rest of the menu, wildfires raging near the California-Oregon border killed at least one person and destroyed over a dozen homes; the superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools in Oklahoma is stepping aside in an attempt to avert a takeover of the district by the state superintendent who accused the schools of taking funding from “Communist China;” and, the Justice Department announced charges against hundreds of COVID-19 fraudsters of the theft of more than $830 million in emergency aid.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Taliban is preventing scores of Afghan women from studying abroad; and Nicaragua’s government declared the Jesuit religious order illegal and ordered the confiscation of all its property.
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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,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Elon Musk has Ukraine and the US government 'at gunpoint.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, the grieving parents of children who were massacred at The Covenant School last March, were booted out of a Tennessee subcommittee meeting about a new law that would allow for more guns on school campuses; Georgia’s second-largest school district removed two highly awarded books from twenty school libraries, days after firing a teacher for reading them; and, the DC attorney general is investigating Federalist Society co-chair and ex-Trump judicial adviser Leonard Leo and his cabal of dark money non-profits.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Fukushima nuclear plant will start releasing treated radioactive water to sea as early as Thursday; and, a rice shortage is sending prices soaring across the world, and things could get worse.
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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, the ‘J6 honchos got to sit around for 3½ years' without facing legal action.
Then, on the rest of the menu, cops in a Virginia town are facing blowback for allowing members of a far-right extremist group to march on school grounds openly toting military-style rifles; a Kansas state agency says the initial online search of a public state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid the Marion County Record newspaper was legal; and, women soldiers face rampant sexism, harassment and other gender-related challenges in the male dominated Army special operations units.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where King Felipe VI began consultations with leaders of Spain’s political parties to see which one has the best chance to form a government; and, Indian police stopped a conference of over four hundred activists and academics debating G20 issues ahead of the New Delhi summit next month.
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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 commands a strong lead over DeSantis, despite his ninety-one felony indictments.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a well-known and beloved fashion designer was shot dead in front of her small clothing store near Lake Arrowhead, California over a dispute about an LGBTQ flag; Georgia made it easier for parents to challenge school library books, but almost no one has done so; and, the South Dakota Democratic Party ousted the state chair amid accusations that she violated party rules and created a hostile work environment for staff.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Egyptian authorities briefly detained a journalist working for a fact-checking organization following its coverage of a plane that was seized in Zambia; and, Russia’s first lunar mission in forty-seven years ended in a smashing failure.
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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, Trump doesn't need until April 2026 to read the evidence in his federal trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors asked a federal judge to sentence former Proud Boys chairman “Enrique” Tarrio and leader Joey Biggs to thirty-three years in prison; nine current or former Northern California police officers were charged in a federal corruption investigation that found 'violently racist' and 'anti-gay' behavior; and, authorities report people are dying in the record-shattering heat wave that is baking the Pacific Northwest this week.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia fined Google $32,000 for videos about the conflict in Ukraine; and, a socialist candidate won a key Spanish parliament vote that could pave the way for a new center-left government.
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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, “there is a case to be made that Rudy has actually been this version of Rudy the whole time.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the local Kansas prosecutor behind the controversial police raid on the Marion County Record has agreed to withdraw the search warrant and return items taken from the paper; as Xitter’s legal director stalled the DOJ and Jack Smith, Musk met with McCarthy, then Jim Jordan, twice; and, the Colorado River Basin ranks among the world’s most water-stressed regions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech Republic completed the ratification of a defense treaty with the United States that makes it easier to deploy US troops in Czech territory; and, Russia’s Foreign Ministry informed a Dutch journalist who has lived and worked in the country for ten years, her visa would not be renewed and gave her six days to pack up and get out.
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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, the Georgia indictment tells the story of exactly who Donald Trump is “more clearly” than the other indictments as it lays out the actions of Trump’s “criminal enterprise.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by two conservative groups to halt Biden’s student debt relief for longtime borrowers; the EPA is investigating how California manages its water following complaints from Native American tribes; and, the Chinese spies who read State Department email also hacked a GOP congressman on the House Armed Services Committee.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland arrested two Russians on allegations of spreading propaganda for the Wagner group; and, the Argentine peso plunged after an extreme rightist Trump admirer came first in the presidential primary vote.
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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, prosecutors in Georgia have text and email messages that link Trump's legal team to a 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, Georgia.
Then, on the rest of the menu, legal experts question a MAGA judge’s order telling Southwest Airline lawyers to get religious-liberty training; a recent lawsuit targets Wisconsin legislative districts that resemble Swiss cheese; and, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a law banning firearms advertising that appeals to children, militants or others who might later use the weapons illegally.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where doctors in England walked off the job again as their pay dispute with the UK government shows no progress; and, insurgents opened fire on a convoy carrying Chinese citizens in a fractious province in southwestern Pakistan.
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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, the 'blinking red light' scandal of Kushner's Saudi billions looms as the GOP faceplants on Hunter Biden.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a research firm says the Proud Boys stiffed them $30,000 for work on their J6 sedition trials; more Michigan Republicans accused of being fake electors for Trump plead not guilty; and, jumping into the water to escape a wildfire should always be a last resort.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil’s former highway police director has been arrested in a probe into election interference; and, a Chinese-Australian journalist jailed in China for three years described being only allowed to stand in sunlight for just ten hours each year.
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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, a Trump ‘co-conspirator’ wrote out a scheme that could land many in prison.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in a win for unions, the White House unveiled wage rules for federal projects; Los Angeles striking hotel workers are being roughed up by hotel security goons; and, a white supremacist has been threatening to attack the power grid unless two neo-Nazis who were arrested by the FBI for bank robbery in 2022 are released.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German citizen was arrested on allegations that he tried to spy for Russia; and, a former International Criminal Court prosecutor warned that Armenians face genocide in Azerbaijan.
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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, Ohio voters flooded the polls to give the anti-democracy Republicans a firm, ‘no.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ohio voters soundly defending Democracy has given fire to an Arizona effort to enshrine abortion rights in their state Constitution; California is ill-equipped to investigate whether racism played a role in the death of a pregnant Black woman at Centinela Hospital in Los Angeles; and, the Oregon Secretary of State announced that voter-backed Measure 113 disqualifies ten Republican and Independent senators who participated in a six-week walkout this spring from running for reelection.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hackers may have information on tens of millions of British voters after they got access to electoral registers, but it’s even worse than that; and, New Zealand is partnering with US investment giant BlackRock in its aim to reach 100% renewable electricity.
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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, our two-tiered justice system is a “tale of two riots.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans in Virginia are proposing legislation that would ban kids under eighteen from visiting a public library without a parent or guardian; after a Black pregnant woman's false arrest, Senator Ed Markey has renewed a call for a federal facial recognition ban; and, the Florida lawmaker accused in a ‘ghost’ candidate scheme will go to trial in February.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian science fiction writer was handed an eight-year prison term for discrediting Russia’s army; and, Mexico City arrested the neighboring state of Morelos’ attorney general, who accused an ex-soccer star of corruption. protested against the government’s decision to suspend a private television station’s operations.
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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 lawyer was only being aspirational when he dissembled on all the Sunday shows while Trump continued to lash out at the special counsel and the judge.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black man in Alabama filed a lawsuit against white locals who changed the locks on city hall and shut off review of the small town’s bank account after he won the mayor’s race; two conservative groups sued to block the recent Biden plan canceling $39 billion in student loans; and, Oregon extended its crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in crab pot trap ropes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the extremist far-right Alternative for Germany party declared the European Union a “failed project;” and, German police are investigating the antisemitic motive in an attack on an Israeli tourist in Berlin.
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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, the new criminal indictment of Donald Trump shows that violence has always been at the core of his putsch to stay in power.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ed Mullins, the loudmouth ex-head of the NYPD sergeants union, was sentenced to two years in a federal prison for stealing $600k from union members; Florida banned the Advanced Placement psychology course over LGBTQ content; and, Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Agence France-Presse is pursuing a copyright case against X, formerly known as Twitter; and, two US Navy sailors were charged with spying for China.
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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, the Michigan attorney general thinks ‘ we're going to see a lot more indictments.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, after the success against Congressional MAGA extremists holding the debt ceiling hostage, Biden aides were shocked Fitch went ahead and downgraded the US credit rating anyway; Kentucky’s search for a top-tier education chief will be more challenging after the political backlash experienced by the state’s departing education commissioner; and, after California’s record-breaking winter rains, public health officials are warning about an increased risk for valley fever this summer.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where PEPFAR, the global AIDS program targeted by US religious extremists in the abortion battle, gets a new home in a State Department bureau; and, the progressive political party that won the most seats in Thailand’s general election has been excluded from a coalition to form the next government.
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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, Tricia Cotham, the North Carolina lawmaker who switched parties and handed the GOP-gerrymandered state legislature a veto-proof majority, was courted by top GOP officials before the election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Texas man was found not guilty after he was ticketed for feeding homeless people in Houston; a federal judge ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers’ free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services; and, a grand jury charged two top Michigan Republicans in connection with voting machine tampering during the 2020 election ballot count.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a bill aimed at halting criticism of Pakistani intelligence figures is expected to become law; and, the United States will put forward a UN Security Council resolution that will authorize Kenya to lead a multinational police force to help combat gangs in Haiti.
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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, co-defendant Carlos de Oliveira could save himself by telling Jack Smith about that twenty-four minute phone call with criminal defendant, Donald Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, citing the separation of church and state, a group of parents, clergy and education activists in Oklahoma filed a lawsuit to halt the opening of the nation’s first religious charter school; Texas extremist foot soldiers became federal judges under Trump, securing a conservative stronghold in America's courts; and, monsoon rains in Phoenix ended a thirty-one day streak of highs at or above 110 degrees.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four separatist Bosnian Serb leaders are sanctioned by the US Treasury for undermining the 1995 peace deal; and, Kosovo’s journalists protested against the government’s decision to suspend a private television station’s operations.
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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, according to two major reports, the Department of Homeland Security has a domestic extremism problem.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Kentucky Governor Beshear has 'set the stage' for ignoring the law banning him from appointing a Democratic replacement if McConnell steps down; a federal judge blocked the Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials; and, voting rights activists are returning to court to fight Alabama’s redrawn congressional districts for failing to follow federal court orders to create a district that is fair to Black voters.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where pro-democracy Russians in Serbia protested after two prominent anti-war activists and critics of Putin faced problems with entry and residence permits in the Balkan country; and, a human rights lawyer who was fleeing China has been arrested in neighboring Laos.
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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, Jack Smith waited until now to charge Trump for the secret Iran document he flaunted on tape.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas is shutting down libraries in the Blackest school district in the state and turning them into child prisons; misleading women on abortion could cost Illinois crisis pregnancy centers big bucks; and, protected by 'shield laws', US health workers are able to skirt state bans on women’s healthcare.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan’s annual defense paper raised new alarms about China’s military, its ties to Russia and Taiwan tensions; and, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are considering joining the US National Guard’s security partnership program.
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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, MAGA lies and physical intimidation have driven election workers from their jobs in every state of the union, but Trump's Big Lie has hit a brick wall in court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-two attorneys general oppose the 3M Company settlement over public water systems contaminated with ‘forever chemicals;’ high superintendent turnover means many Oregon school districts are led by inexperienced newcomers; and, Lockheed Martin won the NASA contract to build a nuclear thermal rocket engine, a key technology that could dramatically speed up space travel and help humans get to Mars.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a prominent Belarusian journalist was sentenced to six years in prison for reporting on the opposition; and, the British billionaire owner of the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, has been indicted in New York on charges of “orchestrating a brazen insider trading scheme.”
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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, this time, Trump might not do the news media the favor of announcing when he is indicted.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Kansas judge ruled that the police practice of detaining motorists on I-70 with license plates from states with legal pot, is an unconstitutional “war on motorists;” the GOP and the NRA want to stop the one-of-its-kind gun violence research they just found out California has conducted since 1966; and, the Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s policies on legacy admissions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a fugitive Catalan separatist may hold the key to unifying Spain’s government after the socialist party barely beat back a Franco-adjacent right wing takeover; and, thousands of women across Poland protested outside police stations to oppose the ruthless way officers treated a woman who had legally taken an abortion pill.
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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, Alabama Republicans may be plotting something bigger with their defiance of the Supreme Court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a southern Oregon town is buying the forest around it to confront wildfires; small-town GOP officials are torn over Biden’s clean energy cash; and, an Idaho jury hit right wing anti-government militant Ammon Bundy with $26.5 million in compensatory damages and $26 million in punitive damages over a defamation lawsuit filed by a Boise hospital.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a week-old wildfire on the Greek resort island of Rhodes tore past fire line defenses, forcing more evacuations; and, Argentina demanded that Bolivia explain its new defense agreement with Iran.
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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, Georgia prosecutors could bring charges in the election probe as soon as 31 July, or maybe not.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department threatened to sue after telling Texas the floating barrier the state put on the Rio Grande violates federal and international law; a Missouri school board taken over by Christian extremists revoked an anti-racism resolution; and, a federal judge ruled that an Arizona law limiting how close people can get to recording law enforcement is unconstitutional.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the right wing extremist party in Spain failed in Sunday’s general election to control government for the first time since Franco; and, Bulgaria agreed to send heavy military equipment to Ukraine for the first time since the invasion.
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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, Musk and MAGA were crushed in the dictator censorship scandal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri Supreme Court ordered the Republican attorney general to stand down and allow an initiative petition to legalize abortion in the state to move forward; a California court will consider the state’s anti-discrimination law in a hearing over racist texts by Antioch police officers; and, solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer, so why aren’t they widespread?
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after Kenyan police were told not to report deaths during the current protests, an independent watchdog says they killed six this week; and, German authorities arrested four suspects in the theft of hundreds of ancient Celtic gold coins from a museum in Bavaria last year.
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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, legal experts trashed Trump lawyer’s espionage case argument as “arrogant and brazen.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect has links to the Trump Organization; a serial fraudster who was granted clemency by Trump is accused of running a massive Ponzi scheme; and, Trump lawyer John Eastman has raised big bucks from religious zealots to help in his defense in the coming “holy war.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where conservative military-appointed senators in the Thai Parliament blocked the leader of the progressive Move Forward Party from being renominated for prime minister; and, South Africa says Putin will skip a Johannesburg summit next month because of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court.
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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, the GOP is attacking the DOJ for doing what Kevin McCarthy said the DOJ should do.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan charged sixteen Trump electors who falsely claimed he won the state; Sarasota County in southwest Florida reported its seventh case of locally contracted malaria; and, officials see promise in a South Carolina prison unit where ‘restorative justice’ has boosted safety.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two European spyware firms were added to the US export blacklist; and, the US deployed a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea in a show of force against North Korea.
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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, nineteen Republican state attorneys general demand their law enforcement be allowed to seize out-of-state abortion medical records.
Then, on the rest of the menu, abortion in Iowa is legal again, for now; several civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s new immigration law; and, a gag order has been issued ahead of Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial after ‘inflammatory’ remarks.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain officially joined an Asia-Pacific trade group that includes Japan and ten other nations; and, Russia halted a breakthrough wartime deal that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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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 Trump 2024 campaign is a 'shield against legal prosecution.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, GOP lawmakers defended restricting abortion access for women in the military; and, Alito has a cozy relationship with right-wing billionaire benefactors and curious links to the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain’s Health Security Agency said that measles vaccination rates have dropped so low that London alone could see tens of thousands of cases unless immunization coverage is quickly boosted; and, and the man who threatened to burn holy books outside the Israeli Embassy in Sweden has abandoned the plan.
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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, special counsel Jack Smith aggressively rejected the reasons the Trump lawyers gave for why the espionage trial should be delayed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Alabama Democrats expressed frustration over Republican secrecy in sharing proposals to the Supreme Court redistricting order; Arizona Democrats filed a complaint against No Labels over donor secrecy; and, Houston plans to spend millions of dollars to relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian lawmakers moved to further restrict transgender rights in new legislation; and, a prosecutor in Argentina has launched an investigation into crimes against humanity in Venezuela following a criminal complaint filed by the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
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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, a Clarence Thomas aide received payments in their Venmo account from parties that had successful cases before the Supreme Court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the second Oregon mayor resigned this week after racist and homophobic social media posts; Austin has suspended its controversial partnership with the Texas Department of Public Safety to police the streets of the capital city; and, the California State University system named its first Latina chancellor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former Mozambique finance minister is extradited to the US to face trial over a $2 billion scandal; and, Chinese hackers breached State Department and other government email on the eve of the Blinken visit.
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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, just as with his first two runs, Trump’s third run for the presidency is a legal strategy to keep out of prison.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Utah Supreme Court scrutinized the process that sliced the state’s most Democratic-heavy county into four districts; deputies who reported a Texas sheriff to public corruption investigators say nothing was done; and, Bank of America has been ordered to reimburse customers and pay big time fines for “double-dipping” on overdraft fees, withholding reward bonuses on credit cards and opening accounts without customer consent.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan’s Supreme Court ruled government restrictions on a transgender employee’s use of restrooms is illegal; and, the European Union faces a cliffhanger vote on a major bill protecting nature and fighting climate change.
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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, “Clarence Thomas wanted to be rich, now he's pals with billionaires.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Democratic Colorado lawmakers sued their Democratic and Republican colleagues over repeatedly violating the state open meetings law; authorities in central Washington state issued evacuation orders as a new, growing wildfire sparked in the resort area of Crescent Bar; and, the owner of the Los Angeles Times sold sister paper The San Diego Union-Tribune to publishing powerhouse, MediaNews Group.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Albanian special prosecutors demanded that a former deputy prime minister be arrested on corruption charges; and, tensions rise in Zimbabwe after police barred the opposition party from holding an election rally.
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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, “it’s Trump’s House of Representatives and Kevin McCarthy is just living in it.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, for years the mayor of an Oregon Coast city has posted racist, homophobic and violent memes on a Facebook group for law enforcement; a federal judge found Washington state in contempt for not providing services to mentally ill people in jails; and, with pregnancy-related deaths soaring in the state and across the nation, Idaho disbanded its Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
(we had a small emergency before we to Precious for her eye appointment and were not able to do a Chef's Table.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even legal threats that have no standing to enforce the Supreme Court ‘s affirmative action ruling is 'enough to frighten universities’ from admitting students of color.
Then, on the rest of the menu, three crosses were found burned outside a small Los Angeles church; the Oregon Department of Justice reported a 178% spike in bias incident reports since 2020; and, California governor Gavin Newsom demanded the US Department of Justice probe Florida for their 'unconscionable' migrant flight 'scheme.’
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tesla began laying off some battery production workers at its Shanghai plant; and, the British tourist who defaced the Colosseum with a love note to his girlfriend says he wasn’t aware the UNESCO World Heritage site was ancient.
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― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Justice Kagan shares our “crisis of faith in the Supreme Court.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a newly released government study found drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals; dozens of Vermont schools districts sued Monsanto over toxic PCB contamination; and, a Florida city famous for its water, worries that it might run out of it.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a virulent right wing nationalist has succeeded in removing the name of Black US civil rights activist Angela Davis from a Paris high school; and, Germany’s top court blocked a parliament vote on a contentious bill to replace heat sources in the nation’s homes.
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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, a lot pundits speculate the extremism of the GOP base could make their favored Republican candidates too toxic for the general election, but that’s exactly how the base like it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, filthy rich sellers of Los Angeles mansions are dodging a tax meant to help the homeless; the GOP targeting minority scholarships signals a new effort to thwart campus diversity; and, a Trump-appointed judge blocked the government from working with social media companies to fight disinformation perpetuated by hostile foreign actors.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Taliban are outlawing women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan; and, a French far-right figure ended his divisive and ghoulishly successful crowdfunding for the officer whose shooting of a Paris teen set off riots around the country.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the naive emphasis on 'colorblindness' is the new ‘Separate but Equal.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge blocked portions of Florida’s new elections law; ten states plan to sue the EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves; and, New Jersey’s other wind farm developer wants government breaks, too.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hong Kong police offered rewards for the arrests of eight pro-democracy activists who live abroad; and, Vietnam banned the ‘Barbie’ movie due to an illustration showing China’s territorial claim in the South China Sea.
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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 John Roberts' Supreme Court rolls back civil rights one marginalized group at a time.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a longtime Rutgers professor is glad her exchange went viral in which NYC mayor Eric Adams called her a plantation owner; thousands of hotel workers across Southern California walked off the job; and, the first Asian contestant to win the crown in the pageant’s 85 years, the current Miss Texas is taking on the state’s most virulent Republican leaders.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands rallied across Australia in support of Indigenous reform; and, the right wing mayor of Lisbon has been accused of "boycotting" Portugal's first memorial to victims of slavery.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, maybe the reason the MAGA SCOTUS ruling that ‘diversity is discrimination’ sounds like some deep, Orwellian trolling, is because it is.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Iowa judge blocked the state from attempting to prevent election officials from offering non-English voting materials to the public; the Department of Justice accused Los Angeles County of repeatedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act at polling places during recent elections; and, a fugitive on the run for his role in the January 6 insurrection, was arrested with weapons near Obama’s DC home after Trump posted the former president’s address on social media.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China’s manufacturing contracted in June as export orders decreased; and, Ukrainian emergency workers held drills to prepare for radiation leaks from a Russian-held nuclear plant.
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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, Giuliani now talking to the DOJ about Jan 6 is Trump’s prison nightmare.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Connecticut's first Muslim state representative was assaulted during an Eid-al-Adha ceremony in Hartford; Oregon governor Tina Kotek named a new secretary of state after the last one resigned over her consultancy work for the pot industry; and, Wisconsin Republicans are trying to force a vote on firing the state’s nonpartisan top elections official before the 2024 presidential election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a UN human rights official says an arms embargo and deployment of special forces is needed for Haiti immediately; and, scientists have finally ‘heard’ the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe, maybe.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court ruled against the right’s ‘slow-motion insurrection.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, Pennsylvania caseworkers who ignored years of child abuse, now face felony charges; a federal watchdog reports that more than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives; and, New Mexico reached a settlement with the Department of Energy over a permit renewal for the federal government’s only underground repository for nuclear waste.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former Audi boss Rupert Stadler was convicted of fraud in connection with the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal; and, Germany documented 2,480 incidents of antisemitism in the country last year, just under seven incidents per day on average.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA House attempts to expunge Trump's impeachments is out of a DC/Marvel ‘alternative universe timeline.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis and his political allies seek to have a federal lawsuit brought by Disney dismissed; seven groups of historians have now denounced a welcome reception at the Museum of the American Revolution for the “anti-government extremist hate group,” Moms for Liberty; and, Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Stonewall Inn national monument in a pointed rebuttal to the hundreds of anti- LGBTQ+ bills passed so far this year.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico arrested the former head of a federal anti-kidnapping unit in connection with the disappearance of forty-three students in 2014; and, the first UN independent investigator to visit Guantanamo Bay said the thirty men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.”
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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 January 6 probe heats up as witnesses reportedly get immunity deals.
Then, on the rest of the menu, US honeybees just suffered their second deadliest year on record; librarians were trained to defend intellectual freedom and fight book bans at the American Library Association’s annual conference in Chicago; and, a union official testified that the safety of railroads has been compromised by job cuts and time constraints.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece’s conservative New Democracy party won a landslide election victory for its second four-year term; and, Mexico began imposing a fifty-percent tariff on white corn imports amid a trade dispute with the United States and Canada.
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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, a common player in the recent Supreme Court scandals exposes a broader project to manipulate the court.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Iowa meteorologist resigned after an 18-year career in television, citing PTSD from threats over his climate change coverage; abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming, for now; and, the lawsuit protesting the Arizona governor’s refusal to execute prisoners has been dismissed.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where nearly 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia so far for the annual Hajj pilgrimage; and, the Qatar sovereign wealth fund is set to buy a stake in Washington’s NBA, NHL and WNBA sports teams.
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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, Leonard Leo matched Paul “The Vulture” Singer with Alito because he knows it’s the best Supreme Court that money can buy.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Navajo Nation declared a widespread Medicaid scam in Arizona a public health state of emergency; a federal judge struck down Florida’s ban on Medicaid funding for transgender treatment; and, Alabama lawmakers are set to begin work on new congressional maps after the US Supreme Court ruled the state’s existing plan was a racist gerrymander.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Australian online safety watchdog issued a legal notice to Twitter demanding Elon Musk stop the hate speech in twenty-eight days; and, Tel Aviv University announced it has removed the Sackler family name from its medical school after decades of donations from the makers of OxyContin.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “it’s all smoke, no fire and a hell of a lot of McCarthyism” as Republicans vow to keep ‘Benghazi-ing’ Hunter Biden.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in a blow to Trump’s election conspiracy theories, Georgia officials won’t take over elections in Fulton County; killer tornadoes clobbered Mississippi, toppling buildings and knocking out power, but it didn’t stop Governor Tate Reeves from hightailing it out state to attend a Republican fundraiser in Alabama; and, reform-minded prosecutors in northern Virginia won reelection nominations in Democratic primaries.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French police searched the Paris Olympic organizers’ headquarters, the third straight time graft allegations have dogged a Summer Olympics; and, saying minerals are needed in a green transition, Norway proposed opening its waters to deep sea mining.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DeSantis fixation on 'the woke' has a poor track record as a political strategy in Florida.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the disciplinary hearing to disbar Trump coup attorney John Eastman, begins in California; opponents of offshore wind energy projects in New Jersey are furiously passing wind energy restrictions; and, Montana officials said a victory by the young plaintiffs in the climate trial would not stop them from continuing their blood oath to the fossil fuel industry.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico’s president announced the appointment of a 35-year-old woman lawyer as interior secretary, considered the country’s top Cabinet post; and, Amazon, Marriott and other companies vow to hire thousands of refugees in Europe.
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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 hostile takeover of the PGA Tour by Saudi-backed LIV Golf has sparked outrage and Congressional Democrats are demanding answers.
Then, on the rest of the menu, corporate and political opponents of President Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act have intensified their campaign to kill broad swaths of the law before it takes effect; a small group of conservative doctors has sought to shape the nation’s most contentious policies by promoting views rejected by the medical establishment as scientific fact; and, the collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia is set to reopen within two weeks.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus targets not just political activists, but also their lawyers; and, Thailand’s caretaker government is criticized for holding a meeting with neighboring nations to discuss military-ruled Myanmar.
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the ‘Bedminster Mystery’ has some grave implications that Jack Smith has already dug into if he brings charges from New Jersey.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a bipartisan Senate bill would seize the paychecks of executives overseeing failed banks; the Justice Department has begun investigating the PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger; and, a massive hack of the Oregon DMV system has put an estimated 3.5 million driver license and ID card info at risk.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where state-backed Chinese hackers broke into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations around the globe; and, support mounts for Stoltenberg to stay on in NATO’s top job.
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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.”
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, prosecutors need 'Goldilocks Documents' to try an Espionage Act case without exposing national secrets.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a jury ordered the electric utility PacifiCorp to pay punitive damages for causing devastating wildfires in Oregon in 2020; a US Marine and a second man were arrested on federal charges of firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic in Southern California last year; and, the House rejected MAGA efforts to censure and fine Adam Schiff over the Trump-Russia investigations.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Canada has suspended work with a Chinese-founded development bank while it investigates complaints the bank has “one of the most toxic cultures imaginable;” and, a US appeals court rejected bail for a Steve Bannon-affiliated Chinese businessman awaiting trial in a $1 billion fraud case.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Hillary Clinton called the GOP efforts to defend Trump, profoundly disturbing.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a teacher group sued over a Tennessee law that bans the deduction of members’ dues from their paychecks; the Senate narrowly confirmed Jared Bernstein to be the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; and, federal assistance is sought for northeastern vineyards and apple orchards hit by a severe late-season frost.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France accused Russia of faking websites to sow confusion and disinformation about the Ukraine war; and, three Kosovo police officers were injured during the arrest of an organizer of the Serb protests that injured 30 NATO-led peacekeepers.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, banning Trump from public office could tempt the DOJ to offer a no-jail plea deal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, funding for schools, literacy programs and special education teachers in Oregon could be jeopardized by a Republican walkout that has stalled hundreds of bills and derailed the Legislature for nearly six weeks; the California Coastal Commission penalized some beaucoup rich Malibu homeowners for blocking access to Escondido Beach; and, a ‘first of its kind’ Illinois law will penalize libraries that ban books.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Africa’s ruling party expelled its former secretary-general while he faces charges of criminal corruption; and, the United Nations Secretary-General called for coordinated global action on disinformation, hate and artificial intelligence.
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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 former impeachment lawyer, Robert Ray, admits the law applies to everyone, but then insists Presidents like Trump are not everyone.
Then, on the rest of the menu, SEC lawsuits against cryptocurrency companies have raised serious questions about the industry’s future; Brittney Griner and her Phoenix Mercury teammates were confronted by a hate-spewing “provocateur” at a Dallas airport over the weekend; and, a hulking smokestack brought down in a controlled implosion at a defunct Detroit trash incinerator, ends decades of toxic stink.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where ex-Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon was released after her arrest by police in a party finance probe; and, the United States will rejoin UNESCO after a five-year absence that began while Trump was president.
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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, Trump has a history of admitting intent publicly, but he’s about to find out he can't bully federal judges, or the feds themselves.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI arrested the Texas businessman linked to the impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton; Joe Biden picked a longtime transportation official as acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration; and, Juneteenth is now recognized as a state holiday in Nevada.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States Agency for International Development suspended all food aid for millions in Ethiopia after an investigation found ‘widespread’ theft; and, Malaysia and Indonesia have ended their 18-year-long sea border disputes.
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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.”
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when pressed, former-Trump lawyer Palatore would not answer why a classified document was illegally in Donald Trump’s desk.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Nevada’s GOP governor is facing a $1.7M ethics penalty for campaigning while wearing his sheriff’s badge and uniform; an outbreak of salmonella infections in the Chicago area has been linked to ground beef; and, Black workers at the Fremont, California Tesla factory have alleged rampant racism and are seeking class-action status.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UN investigators are compiling evidence on chemical weapons use by the Islamic State in Iraq; and, Australia plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols with legislation coming next week.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mark Meadows could be only the second White House Chief of Staff to be convicted of crimes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Virginia regulators are expected to take a final vote on whether to advance Youngkin’s plan to withdraw from a multi-state carbon cap-and-trade program; racist messages and a dead raccoon were left for an Oregon mayor and a Black city council member; and, the US Army Corps of Engineers revoked a permit for a Minnesota mine citing threats to a downstream tribe’s water standards.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Air India Boeing 777 flying to San Francisco made an emergency landing in Russia’s Siberia after experiencing engine problems; and, artist Françoise Gilot, the acclaimed painter who loved and later left Picasso, is dead at age 101.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even John Bolton might throw his hat in the ring and run for president, maybe.
Then, on the rest of the menu, citing California’s increasing wildfire risk and soaring construction costs, State Farm and Allstate have stopped writing new policies in the nation’s most populace state; Oregon is invested in Fox Corp and is investigating its board over bogus election fraud claims; and, the New College of Florida is without an American history professor after a DeSantis critic was fired by the new DeSantis board.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union’s highest court confirmed that Poland has refused to comply with EU rules on judicial independence; and, France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel celebrates one thousand years since the laying of its first stone.
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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, DeSantis continues to sneer he will “destroy leftism,” but he’s far from the only right-wing figure using violent political rhetoric.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the outcry over a recycling plant next to a historic Watts high school appears to finally gain traction; the Temecula Valley, California school board voted to leave over 11,000 students without a history textbook because it mentioned Harvey Milk; and, the California attorney general accused Florida of “state-sanctioned kidnapping” for trafficking over a dozen asylum seekers to Sacramento.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an award-winning Hong Kong journalist won an appeal in a rare court ruling upholding media freedom in the territory; and, hundreds of thousands of people marched in an anti-government protest in Warsaw, Poland, to show support for democracy.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP political strategy ‘based on getting likes,’ is ‘disconnected from the country.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled the Oregon youths’ climate lawsuit against the US government can proceed to trial; New Mexico sued manufacturers of ‘forever chemicals;’ and, thirty-two Mississippi school districts are still under federal desegregation orders.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia hiked its minimum wage as living costs surge; and, the US retaliated against Russia’s suspension of the New START treaty by revoking the visas of its nuclear inspectors.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, just-impeached Texas Attorney General Paxton sued Dem stronghold Harris County in 2020 to block the use of universal mail-in ballots, and he’s bragging about it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, after one hundred fifteen years, the Josephine County, Oregon Board of Supervisors defunded 4-H for being Woke; Tuberville’s national security adviser resigned after a report on his role in stalling military promotions; and, a California judge dismissed all charges against Pacific Gas & Electric in connection to a 2020 fatal wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes and killed four people, including an 8-year-old.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a priceless painting looted by Nazis during World War II has returned to Poland from Japan; and, an unprecedented wildfire on Canada’s Atlantic coast is still burning after five days.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851
Metro Shrimp & Grits
3 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup coarsely ground grits
2 cups whole milk
2 pounds uncooked 22 to 26 count shrimp, peeled and deveined
salt to taste
1 pinch hot smoked Hungarian paprika, or to taste
1 lemon, zest and juiced
2 tablespoons lemon thyme
1 pound andouille sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
5 slices hickory smoked bacon
1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
1 medium red bell pepper, chopped
1 medium yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
¼ cup butter
¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 cup shredded sharp Tillamook Cheddar cheese
Bring water and 2 teaspoons salt to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk grits into the boiling water, and then whisk in half-and-half. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until grits are thickened and tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Set aside and keep warm.
Sprinkle shrimp with salt and hot smoked paprika to taste. Add lemon juice, toss to combine, and set aside to marinate.
Place sausage slices in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove sausage from the skillet.
Add bacon to the same skillet and increase heat to medium-high. Cook until evenly browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain, then chop or crumble when cool enough to handle. Leave bacon drippings in the skillet.
Add bell peppers, onion, and garlic to the bacon drippings; cook and stir until onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.
Stir cooked sausage and marinated shrimp into the skillet with the cooked vegetables. Turn off the heat and set aside.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour, stirring to create a smooth roux. Turn heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is golden brown in color, 8 to 10 minutes.
Pour the roux over the sausage, shrimp, and vegetables. Place the skillet over medium heat, add chicken broth, bacon, and Worcestershire sauce, and stir to combine. Cook until sauce thickens up and shrimp turn opaque and bright pink, about 8 minutes.
Just before serving, mix sharp Cheddar cheese into grits until melted and grits are creamy and light yellow. Serve shrimp mixture over cheese grits. Sprinkle lemon zest and lemon thyme over shrimp and grits.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, President Joe Biden is ‘kind of a master of the inside game.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black man was kicked out of the white nationalist-dominated Shasta County, California Board of Supervisors meeting when he complained about a white speaker using the N-word; Ron DeSantis is attempting to "create the Army of the confederacy;" and, those who harass, intimidate or use force on election workers performing their duties in Nevada, could soon face up to four years in prison.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece’s Education Ministry has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s history; and, NATO is sending seven hundred more troops to Kosovo to help quell the violent protests there.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as president, DeSantis said he would 'destroy leftism' and 'woke ideology,' while Disney just pulled more investments, more developments and tens of thousands of more jobs out of Florida.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Nevada legislature blocked the Republican governor approving guns to those convicted of hate crimes after being released from prison; the Texas impeachment trial of Ken Paxton is to begin no later than August 28; and, it’s not only rising oceans threatening New York City, the metropolis is also sinking.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia issued an arrest warrant for Lindsey Graham over his Ukraine comments; and, a minority religious community following the teachings of a 14th-century Indian guru, are stepping into the public eye to advocate making California the first state in the nation to outlaw caste bias.
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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, as we mark Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday, it’s important to note hundreds of thousands never got a chance to be 40, 50, 60… let alone, 100 years old, because of Henry Kissinger.
Then, on the rest of the menu, there is a ‘literal dumpster fire’ as Infighting erupts among Texas Republican leaders; DeSantis’ curious 2011 book on US history has disappeared from the internet; and, President Joe Biden has reached a milestone in judicial appointments.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” is a frank and visceral look at the Holocaust through his father’s eyes, and the McMinn County School District in Tennessee banned the classic.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Texas Judge from the abortion pill case will now hear a $1.8 Billion dollar lawsuit against Planned Parenthood.
Then, on the rest of the menu, even though she broke no law, Indiana’s medical licensing board decided late Thursday night to discipline the doctor who performed an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim; the Supreme Court just went ahead and re-wrote the Clean Water Act; and, California is unlikely to run out of electricity this summer because of a big increase in power storage and a wet winter that filled the state’s reservoirs.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Pakistani journalist and supporter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has gone missing, the second in two weeks; and, companies are finding it’s not so simple to leave Russia.
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― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when asked what was his 'hardest decision,’ the Balls and Strikes Chief Justice fenced himself in.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Klamath County, Oregon public library book clubs have been cancelled because a resident complained it was indoctrination; Republican state lawmakers want children to fill labor shortages, even in bars and on school nights; and, a Republican investigation found Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton committed multiple crimes, including felonies, over many years in office.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the sophisticated Pegasus spyware has been turned on the Mexican president’s inner circle; and, Western intelligence agencies say Chinese hackers are spying on critical US infrastructure.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after gerrymandering the hell out of the state, Ohio Republicans are now trying to change century-old state rules to keep abortion rights off the November ballot.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will consider a plan to make power plants pay for greenhouse gas emissions; the Republican-controlled Texas legislature passed a bill to eliminate the position of the Harris County elections chief, allowing the state to take over the election if it deems there is a “pattern of problems;” and, the college student who was banned from Twitter for posting the real-time movements of Elon Musk’s jet, now has Ron DeSantis’ new aircraft in his sights.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cambodian land activists have been arrested for inciting farmers to hate the rich; and, the money laundering trial against former Panama President Martinelli has begun in Panama City.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Harlan Crow serves high tea from his Hitler teapot while lounging in his Garden of Evil.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Amazon employees plan to walk off the job as tensions rise across the tech sector; the Education Department has concluded that book removals are a violation of students’ civil rights; and, Oregon’s governor seeks changes to the legislature’s overhaul of the public defender system.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Lebanese chief prosecutor summoned the country’s central bank chief following an Interpol warrant over corruption charges; and, a prominent Australian Indigenous journalist quit television hosting duties in response to racist abuse over his comments during King Charles III’s coronation about historic Aboriginal dispossession.
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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, Maryland’s first Black Governor Wes Moore told the Morehouse College Class of 2023, “our history is our power.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis insists that a federal judge be disqualified from the First Amendment lawsuit filed by Disney against the Florida governor; a small New York Christian college denies it fired two dorm directors for using pronouns in their email signatures, but they did; and, thirty tons of a heavily regulated component to make explosives mysteriously disappeared from a sealed rail car while in transit from Wyoming to California.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia brought indictments for a judge and prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who issued a war crimes warrant for Putin; and, after enduring more abuse, Brazilian forward Vinícius Júnior says the Spanish soccer league “now belongs to racists.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jim Jordan's choice of witnesses raises questions about right-wing extremism within the FBI.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the governor of Rhode Island signed a bill to fund abortion coverage for state workers and Medicaid recipients; TikTok content creators filed a lawsuit against Montana over its first-in-the-nation law banning the app; and, the firearms industry could face more legal risk under a bill approved by Illinois lawmakers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French lawmakers have voted to ban smoking in all forests and woods during the fire season; and, China’s predatory loans are pushing the world’s poorest countries to the brink of collapse.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, instead of denying whether Trump and Giuliani were selling pardons for two million dollars, Bill Barr replied, “I don’t know.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the former chief financial officer of a Seattle-based startup took thirty-five million dollars of his employer’s money without permission, and then lost it all by investing in cryptocurrency; trust in the Supreme Court fell to its lowest point in fifty years after their onerous abortion decision; and, Nevada’s Republican governor vetoed a trio of gun safety bills and threatened to ax the state budget if his priorities aren’t addressed.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Tunisian journalist was sentenced to five years in prison for reporting on counterterrorism; and, the Myanmar military has imported at least one billion dollars worth of weapons and related material from Russia, China and other countries since its February 2021 coup.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, House Democratic Leader Jeffries hopes to find some reasonable Republicans to prevent the default crisis.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Secret Service is investigating how an unidentified man entered National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s home undetected by his protective detail; Arizona announced a crackdown on Medicaid fraud targeting tribal communities; and, Wells Fargo agreed to pay one billion dollars to settle a shareholders’ class-action lawsuit.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Department of Justice announced a series of criminal cases involving the flow of technology and information to Russia, China and Iran; and, the Cyprus Finance Ministry has frozen more than 1.2 billion euros in Russian assets.
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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.”
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “there is no there there in the Durham probe.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans continued their boycott of the Oregon state Capitol, leading to the disqualification of two Republicans and one Independent from reelection due to a new, voter-approved law; CNN staffers are enraged at Chris Licht’s move to crush internal dissent over the Trump town hall; and, a Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing a 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pacific Island leaders say rich countries are not doing enough to control climate change; and, dozens of anti-nuclear activists protested against the Fukushima plant radioactive water release plan.
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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, ‘I lost my key witness and I can’t get up.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Tennessee company is refusing a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration demand to recall 67 million potentially dangerous air bag inflators; GOP state lawmakers are trying to restrict ballot initiatives in an attempt to thwart abortion protections; and, a Biden Administration proposal would let conservationists lease public land much as drillers and ranchers do.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese real estate development firm was fined $4 million for bribing a Los Angeles city councilmember to get a downtown skyscraper approved; and, China sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison on spying charges.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, DeSantis was shredded over his book bans and assault on the arts.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Virginia ruled 18-to-20-year-olds cannot be barred from buying handguns; DeSantis wanted to rewrite Florida’s press laws, but conservative media helped kill the effort; and, when researchers launched solar-powered balloons up to 70,000 feet, they detected a hidden acoustic world, including mysterious noises without any known origin.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN human rights body passed a resolution on human rights abuses in Sudan; and, Norway takes over the presidency of the Arctic Council from Russia.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even CNN’s own fact-checker couldn’t believe that Chris Licht let that travesty of lying propaganda be broadcast to the world.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department has reached a settlement with a New Jersey county over language barriers for Spanish-speaking voters; a New Hampshire utility has proposed a transmission line from Canada to carry renewable power to New England; and, officials in a remote northeastern Oregon county have voted to give tax breaks worth an estimated $1 billion to Amazon for five more data centers there.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain plans to ban outdoor work during periods of extreme heat; and, Tunisian authorities cannot figure out what a National Guardsman’s motive was to kill two jewish pilgrims and then three security officers who were protecting one of the world’s oldest synagogues.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, only partisan, commie extremists want honest courts.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Kansas City considers becoming a LGBTQ sanctuary city; the South Carolina House agreed to larger state worker raises; and, a Florida law takes aim at the teachers union that defied DeSantis.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States busted a Russian cyber-espionage operation in dozens of countries; and, Rita Lee, Brazil’s long-reigning Queen of Rock, has died at age seventy-five.
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"A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, radical right wing mass violence sits dangerously close to Republican politics.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Minnesota Senate approved a paid family and medical leave plan; abortion providers in three states filed suit to protect their access to mifepristone pills; and, the Pennsylvania House battle hinges on the Philadelphia suburbs.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where workers at a Goodyear tire plant in Mexico voted to throw out an old-guard union; and, tens of thousands marched in silence in Serbia after the mass shootings there.
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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, there is a sickness in Texas and that sickness starts at the top with Greg Abbott.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis deploys the state police to enforce his political agenda, and many in the agency don’t like it; far-right activist Ammon Bundy’s latest standoff is in court; and, FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen warned of summer travel ‘havoc’ if GOP budget cuts pass.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Paraguayan far-right populist who blamed election fraud for his third place finish in last week’s presidential election, has been detained by police; and, Botticelli’s Venus is an ‘influencer,’ but Italy is not happy.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, arranged for Ginni Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work and urged that her name be left off the invoices.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon state Republicans boycotted the legislature for the second straight day so Democrats who control the chamber don’t have a quorum to lawfully convene a vote; the Republican Iowa governor will sign a bill to yank kids out of school and put them on the meat packing floor for the night shift; and, scores of new hearings were granted after it was discovered a Maryland judge negotiated a job position with local prosecutors.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where foreign citizens and companies would need US government approval to buy property within 100 miles of eight military bases; and, China is the biggest global jailer of journalists.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, billionaire Harlan Crow paid at least $150k for Justice Thomas' grandnephew to attend private school.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a former FBI supervisor was arrested in Oregon in connection with the January 6 insurrection; a Wisconsin judge is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the state’s 174-year-old abortion ban; and, Michelle Obama launches a new company to improve child nutrition.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungarian police tear-gassed teenagers at a protest against Orban's education reforms; and, Canada's spy agency withheld information about Chinese threats against a Canadian lawmaker and his family.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats have a ‘legislative secret agent’ to fight the GOP on the debt ceiling crisis.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the state of Georgia will for the first time run its own marketplace for individual health insurance; a Utah judge delayed implementing the statewide abortion clinic ban; and, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill expanding access to contraceptives.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three hundred people were arrested in a crackdown on the dark web drug market; and, three imprisoned Iranian women journalists have won the top UN prize for press freedom.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, US religious extremists are pushing radical anti-gay laws in Africa.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Minnesota man set fire to two mosques, vandalized Ilhan Omar’s office and then targeted a 'Somali Mall;' a California “mom influencer” who claimed that a Latino couple tried to kidnap her two children has been convicted of one count of making a false police report; and, a lawsuit in Texas alleges SpaceX used a state wildlife preserve as a ‘dumping ground for space waste.’
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where millions have already snapped up the new Germany-wide public transit ticket; and, Britain's finance ministry said that the country's banking system remained safe, sound and well capitalized after the First Republic Bank collapse.
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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 Proud Boys went into January 6 ‘committed to carrying out violence.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel urged losing GOP candidates to double down on taking away women’s rights; metrosexual Josh Hawley blamed Hunter Biden for America’s “manliness crisis;” and, Christale Spain is the first Black woman to lead the South Carolina Democratic Party.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after a series of killings, anti-corruption groups urged South African authorities to provide far better protection for whistleblowers; and, a powerhouse US doctor who was slain in Sudan, was ‘killed for nothing.’
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-- Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Congress has 'a responsibility' to investigate the Supreme Court over ethics concerns.
Then, on the rest of the menu, East Brunswick, New Jersey cops found large-capacity ammunition magazines at the home of a Republican candidate who threatened to 'light up' his rivals; a Missouri judge temporarily halted enforcement of a first-of-its-kind rule that restricts access to gender-affirming health care, just hours before it was set to take effect; and, the Minneapolis NAACP sued the city of Minneapolis over allegations that police officers used phony social media accounts to spy on its leaders and members.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany has stepped up surveillance of far-right party affiliates; and a federal judge in Brazil ordered a temporary suspension of Telegram, citing the social media platform’s failure to provide all information Federal Police requested on neo-Nazi chat groups.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tucker Carlson made Abby Grossman’s “life a living hell.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a My Pillow Guy-backed supervisor in election conspiracy-addled Shasta County, California was served recall papers at a raucous public meeting; federal prosecutors allege in newly unsealed charges that a 20-year-old neo-Nazi tried to firebomb an Ohio church to stop an upcoming drag performance; and, Twitter star Yashar Ali still owes $230,000 to a Getty heir, now a debt collector wants his income.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the foreign minister of war-mongering Russia whined that the European Union “is becoming militarized at a record-rate” and showing “very little difference” with NATO; and, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been appointed to dual fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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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, Tucker Carlson was given an “enormous platform” to undermine democracy, but then just like O’Reilly, he cost Rupert too much money.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Alabama and Mississippi closed most their government offices yesterday Monday for Confederate Memorial Day; survivors of last year’s wildfire in New Mexico will get FEMA aid; and, a newly formed nonprofit group headed by a longtime Maine journalist wants to buy most of the newspapers in the state.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European leaders committed to more wind energy production; and, a Tokyo company aims to be the first business to put a lander on the moon.
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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, sixty-seven year-old bachelor Lindsey Graham has some ideas what the little ladies should be allowed to do about their reproductive health.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit brought by disability advocates challenging Governor Newsom’s plan to treat mental illness; the conservative campaign to rewrite child labor laws can be traced to one group funded by a consortium of anti-government billionaires; and, Alabama governor Kay Ivey was slammed after ousting the state’s top education official over a widely-used four decade-old teacher resource guide as being, “too woke.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the campaigns for the May 21st Greek election begins with a dissolved parliament; and, special forces swiftly evacuated US embassy staff from Sudan, but private US citizens are out of luck.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats would be wise to follow Michigan’s example in standing up to the tyranny of the MAGA minority.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Kansas governor Laura Kelly vetoed four anti-trans bills, but Republican lawmakers appeared to have the votes to override most of her actions; the Texas Senate moved to end countywide voting on Election Day; and, California will provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years, thanks to winter storms that filled the state’s reservoirs.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Steve Bannon partner and self-exiled Chinese businessman charged in a $1 billion fraud case, will remain behind bars after a federal judge rejected a proposed $25 million bail package; and, Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch dropped his defamation lawsuit against Australian news website Crikey.
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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, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest stunt for Fox backfired instantly and blew up in her face.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the first officer has been disciplined nearly two years after the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad blew up a South LA neighborhood by detonating of a cache of fireworks; Portland, Oregon police responded to LGBTQ+ training with racist feedback; and, a semi-automatic rifle ban passed the Washington state Legislature.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where scientists have identified the cause of a massive Caribbean sea urchin die-off; and, Russia is suspected of spying in the waters of the Baltic and North Seas, using civilian fishing trawlers, cargo ships and yachts.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, no one in their right mind believes a fine of almost a billion dollars will have any affect on Fox’s continuous misrepresentations, outright lies and overt propaganda.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Iowa Senate advanced a bill to loosen child labor laws; concerned with the safety of process servers and his deputies, an Idaho sheriff has declined to serve legal notices on heavily-armed Ammon Bundy; and, Oklahomans are terrified of heavily-armed right-wing extremists twenty-eight years after Tim McVeigh bombed the Alfred P Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union is near a deal on a $47 Billion dollar law to boost computer chip production; and, hunger is soaring and spreading across West Africa.
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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, the Discord intel leak was only exposed because Russian propaganda produced from the leak, found its way to a pro-Russia social media network run by a former Navy NCO under investigation by the FBI, right onto the Fox network.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oklahoma Sheriff, who along with other officials were recorded threatening local media with violence, is now investigating local media for recording their secret meeting; a federal appeals court overturned Berkeley, California’s ban on natural gas in new construction; and, a bill in Washington state to establish a minimum marriage age of 18 has stalled again in the Legislature.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the G7 vowed a tough, unified stance on Russia’s war; and, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation paused its use of Twitter after Elon Musk stamped its account with a label the public broadcaster says is intended to undermine its credibility.
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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, Marjorie Taylor Greene's defense of the air national guardsman who posted classified documents online is "grossly irresponsible."
Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon police indiscriminately blasted tear gas toward demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in violation of their own policies; a Silicon Valley city councilman has been charged with perjury after he lied about leaking a grand jury report to the San Francisco 49ers last year; and, a report issued by the National Urban League found democracy for Black Americans is under attack.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni acknowledged “anomalies” in the handling of a Russian businessman who escaped house arrest to avoid extradition to the United States; and, Europe’s most powerful nuclear reactor has started regular output in Finland.
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Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, 'Clarence Thomas has absolutely violated federal law.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Orange County, California school district wants to overrule its own Literature Review Committee of educators and parents, raising concerns of book bans; Oregon likely broke federal law by hiring over a hundred unqualified special education teachers for the school year; and, the Arkansas attorney general is working hard to convince the courts racism is over, so it’s okay to segregate the schools, again.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Norway expelled fifteen Russian diplomats suspected of spying; and, Slovakia’s central bank chief was fined for bribery but still faces a trial.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, no need to head off overseas to find a child bride, when you can just go to Missouri.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration has proposed a HIPPA rule update to protect the privacy of abortion seekers and physicians; the charged debate on the Oregon gun safety bills is a microcosm of the national divide; and, the Department of Agriculture wants US meat processors to make sure they are not using child labor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Switzerland’s lower house of parliament issued a searing rebuke of an emergency plan to rescue Credit Suisse; and, the president of Colombia removed the national police director who had talked about using exorcisms to catch fugitives.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, anti-democratic movements thrive in GOP statehouses.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Fox attorneys in the Dominion libel case got the mild-mannered judge really, really mad at them; free COVID testing will end in May; and, an environmental group sued to uphold closing California’s last nuke plant.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iran President Ebrahaim Raisi announced a Cabinet reshuffle; and, Germany expelled Chad’s ambassador after their own envoy was kicked out.
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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, “the people have spoken, and they expect abortion rights.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, three Tennessee trial judges blocked the state’s move to cut the Nashville city council in half; for the first time in the school’s 257-year history, Rutgers faculty went on strike; and, the major leak of classified US documents that’s shaken Washington, may have started in a chatroom on a social media platform popular with gamers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a top judge in Greece’s supreme court quit in a legal dispute over the upcoming elections; and, the UN food agency said it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghanistan.
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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 political quicksand quickens for Republicans over abortion.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Florida officials cut key data from a vaccine study to make vaccinations seem more dangerous; Iowa will discontinue paying for rape victims’ emergency abortions or contraceptives; and, the California San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department experienced a “network disruption” to its electronic systems and has called in the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to investigate.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands of doctors plan to walk off job again in England; and, Afghan religious scholars criticized the Taliban over their ban on education for women.
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Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the expulsion of two Black Democratic Tennessee lawmakers is the result of ‘a predominantly-White supermajority undoing democracy.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal regulatory group voted to officially close the king salmon fishing season along much of the West Coast; three Alaska Native tribes have sued to block a major gold mine project; and, Vice President Harris promoted a huge community solar deal in Georgia.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where intense fighting in Myanmar sent thousands fleeing to Thailand; and, Greece will send more arms to Ukraine, but set some limits.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, police are providing extra security for those involved in the Manhattan case against Donald Trump following a string of violent threats.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a pair of Oklahoma jailers got probation after torturing inmates by playing ‘Baby Shark’ on repeat for hours; the sheriff of one of Maryland’s most populous counties was accused of illegally obtaining machine guns so a gun shop could rent out the weapons for profit; and, participants in a Department of Defense training exercise at a Boston hotel entered the wrong room and mistakenly detained a guest instead of the person assigned the role.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Switzerland will end its auto import tax exemption for electric cars; and, coal use has climbed worldwide despite promises to slash it.
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-- The Daily Picayune,
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got away with the Access Hollywood tape politically, but will pay for it legally.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Hawai’i lawmakers are considering legislation that would require tourists to pay for a yearlong license to visit state parks; the state of Washington has purchased a three-year supply of abortion pills ahead of the court ruling out of Amarillo, Texas; and, still reeling from a weekend of deadly weather, the risk of severe storms persists from Texas to the Great Lakes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where new images from inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant has triggered concerns about the reactor’s safety; and, Italy is rallying international support for another attempt to build a bridge to Sicily.
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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, Trump was expecting the Presidential Archives to pay him about $18 million dollars for the top secret documents he stole, like they paid Nixon.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a lawsuit has been filed challenging Utah’s abortion clinic ban; Tennessee Republican lawmakers moved expel three Democratic members for their role in the recent school children gun control protest at the state Capitol; and, the Indiana Senate backed a GOP bill tightening mail voter rules.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Indian opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, avoids prison as he appeals his defamation verdict; and, OPEC’s surprise cuts in production is meant to benefit Russia, at the expense of the US and Europe.
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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, McCarthy is acting as a 'surrogate criminal defense team' for Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, voters with disabilities are often overlooked in the voting battles; a federal judge temporarily blocked Tennessee’s anti-drag law; and, the EPA approved California’s rules that phases out diesel trucks.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a network of activists in Mexico helps US women get abortions; and, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician, film composer and anti-nuke activist, has died at age 71.
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Julia Child
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DeSantis’ tweet about Bragg being Soros-backed is “hard to even call it a dog whistle of antisemitism.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, federal authorities arrested a Washington state man for making almost two dozen “swatting” calls around the country and in Canada; Republican legislative leaders in New Mexico asked the federal government to investigate the state Health Department amid allegations of abuse of developmentally disabled people; and, among 160 years of presidential scandals, Trump stands alone.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia is seeking an arms-for-food deal with North Korea; and, Russia arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter on a spying charge.
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― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Republicans like to say the AR-15 is not a weapon of war, but it absolutely is.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a permit to buy a handgun is no longer required in North Carolina; the rejection of a veteran Black educator for state superintendent has angered some Mississippi senators; and, Walt Disney World passed restrictive covenants that strips the power of the DeSantis-appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Credit Suisse violated a plea agreement with the United States by failing to report secret offshore accounts of wealthy, tax-avoiding Americans; and, Taiwan’s president is beginning a swing through the United States and Central America to shore up support.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, concern for the health of Israel's democracy sparks alarm at all levels.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a right-wing think tank tied to deep right wing dark money, has jumped into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race; federal authorities offered rewards of up to $20,000, as their search continues for former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s ex-chief of staff; and, California farmers are capturing the runoff from a freakishly wet year to replenish the over-pumped Central Valley Aquifer.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French authorities raided the Paris offices of five banks on suspicion of tax fraud; and, a Muslim leader for Scotland is a sign of the United Kingdom’s political diversity.
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-- Shauna Niequist
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's latest legal challenge is convincing a jury he loves his wife.
Then, on the rest of the menu, New Jersey will take over the Paterson police department a month after city cops killed a well-known crisis intervention worker; the Kansas Supreme Court signaled that it still considers access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state constitution; and, Joe Biden issued an executive order that will restrict the use of commercial spyware tools that have been used to surveil human rights activists, journalists and dissidents around the world.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Black children in England and Wales were six times more likely to be strip-searched by police; and, China’s global influence campaign has been surprisingly robust and successful... in Utah.
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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, Pence ‘embarrassed himself’ with his defense of Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and ground crews; New York Community Bank has agreed to buy a significant chunk of the failed Signature Bank in a $2.7 billion deal; and, Minnesota regulators say that a nuclear power plant leak four weeks ago didn’t require public notice.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australian fintech firm Latitude Group said it had taken its platforms offline as the cyberattack detected last week remained active; and, justice ministers from around the world will meet in London to build support for the International Criminal Court after it issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans have abandoned all pretense and are brazenly weaponizing Congress to save Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Pennsylvania judge dismissed the latest GOP mail ballot lawsuit; unions for service workers at Walt Disney World reached a deal that would raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18 an hour; and, reversing the state’s long opposition, North Carolina just approved Medicaid expansion.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the founder of Terraform Labs, who is wanted in South Korea in connection with a $40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency, was arrested in Montenegro; and, the Finnish president formally signed, sealed and delivered the Nordic country’s historic bid to join NATO.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the medication abortion battle is emboldening the right-wing war on science.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin man pled guilty to his role in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping scheme; California state regulators could decide to impose the nation’s first penalty on oil companies for price gouging; and, a former Wells Fargo executive will plead guilty for her role in the bogus customer accounts scandal.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil has reintroduced visa requirement for US tourists; and, North Korea test-launched an ICBM just hours before the South Korea-Japan summit in Tokyo.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, rather than being held accountable, Trump has consistently been protected and rewarded.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor near Playa del Rey, California has spared the Pacific from hundreds of thousands of pounds of garbage during the recent storms; the effort to recall the first woman mayor of New Orleans has failed; and, Oregon lawmakers are poised to pass a sweeping $200 million housing and homelessness package.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Kenyan judge temporarily blocked the mass layoff of Facebook moderators in the country; and, Google suspended a Chinese shopping app amid security concerns.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, no one has to worry about a violent Trump mob invading Manhattan.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Los Angeles schools will close as district workers begin a three-day strike; Philadelphia announced a $9.25 million settlement with hundreds of people over the police response to the George Floyd protests; and, Minnesota is moving to fortify its state status as an abortion refuge.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former United States military pilot accused of training Chinese aviators was lured from China to Australia as part of a US plan to extradite him; and, the France Council of State ordered the government to better protect endangered dolphins and porpoises.
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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, Pence ‘embarrassed himself’ with his defense of Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and ground crews; New York Community Bank has agreed to buy a significant chunk of the failed Signature Bank in a $2.7 billion deal; and, Minnesota regulators say that a nuclear power plant leak four weeks ago didn’t require public notice.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australian fintech firm Latitude Group said it had taken its platforms offline as the cyberattack detected last week remained active; and, justice ministers from around the world will meet in London to build support for the International Criminal Court after it issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McCarthy is willing to sacrifice the security of Congress to curry favor with MAGA and Fox.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon will halt electric vehicle rebates for one year beginning in May, due to high demand and dwindling funds; Michigan added LGBTQ protections to the state's civil rights law; and, California will transform the infamous San Quinten prison into a lockup where less-dangerous prisoners will receive education, training and rehabilitation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Guatemala arrested another former prosecutor, the latest in a series of detentions seen as weakening anti-corruption efforts in the country; and, Tanzania’s first woman president is on her first official visit to South Africa.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the medication abortion battle is emboldening the right-wing war on science.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin man pled guilty to his role in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping scheme; California state regulators could decide to impose the nation’s first penalty on oil companies for price gouging; and, a former Wells Fargo executive will plead guilty for her role in the bogus customer accounts scandal.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil has reintroduced visa requirement for US tourists; and, North Korea test-launched an ICBM just hours before the South Korea-Japan summit in Tokyo.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, how long until Trump’s lawyers turn on Trump, again?
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Michigan Senate voted to repeal the 2012 law restricting unions; Mississippi will restrict electric vehicle manufacturers from selling cars in person unless they open franchised dealerships; and, Ohio State asked the Supreme Court to hear Title IX issues in the sexual abuse suits Jim Jordan helped cover up.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dutch voters go to the polls today in local elections that have a national impact; and, a "mafia-style" assault on a state-employed archaeologist by commercial development interests has triggered protests in Greece.
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-- Shauna Niequist
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the ‘Weaponization’ Committee wants to be Benghazi 2.0.Then, on the rest of the menu, Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker should return the $3.6 million in company stock he dumped just days before the bank’s collapse; Houston has joined other Democratic cities around the country fighting takeovers by Republican state legislatures; and, your Girl Scout cookie delivery is crumbling under supply chain woes and a labor shortage.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where oil giant Saudi Aramco announced a historic $161 billion dollar profit in 2022 like it was a good thing; and, Russia added the World Wildlife Fund to its register of foreign agents.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Trump is going to be criminally charged, it will be this year.On the rest of the menu, House Republicans opened a new attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; a backlash by powerful national business groups is pushing conservative Republicans to weaken their anti-ESG proposals; and, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulators are turning up the heat on Tesla.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Egypt’s inflation has spiked again, hiking prices of basic food items; and, Georgia’s governing party is withdrawing a foreign agents law that opponents warned would usher in Russian-style repression.
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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the former lead investigator of J6 committee finds the House GOP probe into the committee 'ironic.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, The Justice Department issued a blistering report of an extensive federal investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department; hackers may have gained access to the sensitive personal data of House and Senate members, their employees and families in a breach of a Washington, DC, health insurance marketplace; and, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to California tribes, and the university is still discovering more ancestral remains.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where women are enlisting in Colombia’s army for first time in twenty-five years; and, leading women’s rights campaigners criticized male-dominated governments for excluding women from peace negotiations.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, smoking gun evidence rocks Fox News.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled that a Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws is unconstitutional and void; the National Transportation Safety Board opened probes of Norfolk Southern rail accidents; and, US health officials are recalling two more eye drop brands due to contamination that could lead to vision problems and serious injury.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police have disrupted a ransomware cybercrime gang tied to Russia, that has been blackmailing large companies and institutions for years; and, Chinese ships have cut the internet of Taiwan’s outlying islands.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP Oversight Committee chair is leaning hard into far-right conspiracies.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA has mandated the states report on cybersecurity threats to its water systems; Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs won’t proceed with an execution set by the state supreme court; and, the Interior Department will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a crisis over poisonings that are targeting Iranian schoolgirls, escalated as authorities acknowledged over fifty schools were struck; and, Hong Kong police stopped activists from joining a women’s march.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Murdoch’s ‘Wu Tang’ defense could go up in smoke.
On the rest of the menu, Southern California’s snow-stranded mountain residents need food, plows and help; a man who spent more than thirty-eight years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit was declared innocent; and, two Kansas men were arrested on charges of selling aviation tech to Russia.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it is too early to predict when its decommissioning will be completed; and, the French Senate began debate on raising the retirement age to sixty-four.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Merrick Garland faced the Senate Judiciary Committee just as reports surfaced that FBI agents and prosecutors argued over how to handle the Trump Mar-A-Lago search.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations of federal labor law while trying to halt union campaigns; a Fox News-saturated red California county has dumped its Dominion voting machines; and, Robert Kennedy assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was denied parole for the sixteenth time.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hyundai was poised to become Tesla’s top contender, then the US government blindsided it; and, Britain's Royal Navy seized Iranian weapons, including anti-tank guided missiles, from a smuggler’s vessel in international waters in the Gulf of Oman.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Murdoch told Fox, "Trump has a large following, it would be stupid to antagonize them with the truth."
Then, on the rest of the menu, troops who refused the COVID vaccine still may face military discipline; federal officials sued a Louisiana chemical company over cancer risks to a nearby minority area; and, a settlement of more than $1 million was approved in a class action lawsuit over a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee meatpacking plant.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a French court dismissed a Uganda environmental lawsuit against TotalEnergies; and, Russian government officials will be banned from using most foreign words when carrying out their duties.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘Citizen Murdoch's’ Xanadu of lies at Fox is exposed by the Dominion lawsuit.Then, on the rest of the menu, Latino Republicans push back on the party’s immigration agenda; the White House is giving all federal agencies thirty days to wipe TikTok off all government devices; and, the Biden administration is creating a new task force to crack down on an explosion of migrant child labor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO-applicant Moldova expelled two foreign nationals caught in a Russian ‘destabilization’ plot; and, Montenegro lawmakers ended a court stalemate that threatened the nation’s EU bid.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, security and safety concerns continue to be raised over Kevin McCarthy giving Tucker Carlson exclusive January 6 footage.
Then, on the rest of the menu, millions who rely on Medicaid are under threat of being booted from the program this year; several Democratic-led states seek to bolster voter protections; and, apartheid blood emerald heir Elon Musk says Scott Adams being cancelled is proof the US media is racist against white people.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hundreds of protesters denounced racism in Tunisia; and, tens of thousands of Israelis protested the far-right government’s plans to overhaul the legal system. protesters at a demonstration.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after Fox was busted in court, Tucker Carlson was handed the January 6 tapes from his ‘puppet,’ Kevin McCarthy.
On the rest of the menu, the California attorney general opened a civil rights investigation of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office; old electric vehicle batteries are being repurposed for electric grid storage; and, the Biden administration is considering its first offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a highly active “hive” of Russian spies posing as diplomats, operated for more than eighteen months before it was dismantled by Australian intelligence; and, Algeria dissolved a decades-long pro-democracy group amid a wider crackdown on dissent, and democracy itself.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Marjorie Taylor Greene's ‘national divorce’ would be disastrous for red states.
Then, on the rest of the menu, three Oklahoma Republican lawmakers called for a moratorium on the death penalty amid growing concerns about the state’s brisk pace of lethal injections; while in the midst of a Republican primary for US Senate, the now former Arizona AG sat on records refuting election fraud; and, the Alaska State House censured a GOP lawmaker over his incendiary child abuse comments.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the International Federation of Journalists has suspended the Russian Union of Journalists over its action since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and, Namibia welcomed Dr Jill Biden to Africa.
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METRO SHRIMP & GRITS
3 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup coarsely ground grits
2 cups whole milk
2 pounds uncooked 22 to 26 count shrimp, peeled and deveined
salt to taste
1 pinch hot smoked Hungarian paprika, or to taste
1 lemon, zest and juiced
2 tablespoons lemon thyme
1 pound andouille sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
5 slices hickory smoked bacon
1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
1 medium red bell pepper, chopped
1 medium yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
¼ cup butter
¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 cup shredded sharp Tillamook Cheddar cheese
Bring water and 2 teaspoons salt to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk grits into the boiling water, and then whisk in half-and-half. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until grits are thickened and tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Set aside and keep warm.
Sprinkle shrimp with salt and hot smoked paprika to taste. Add lemon juice, toss to combine, and set aside to marinate.
Place sausage slices in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove sausage from the skillet.
Add bacon to the same skillet and increase heat to medium-high. Cook until evenly browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain, then chop or crumble when cool enough to handle. Leave bacon drippings in the skillet.
Add bell peppers, onion, and garlic to the bacon drippings; cook and stir until onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.
Stir cooked sausage and marinated shrimp into the skillet with the cooked vegetables. Turn off the heat and set aside.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour, stirring to create a smooth roux. Turn heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is golden brown in color, 8 to 10 minutes.
Pour the roux over the sausage, shrimp, and vegetables. Place the skillet over medium heat, add chicken broth, bacon, and Worcestershire sauce, and stir to combine. Cook until sauce thickens up and shrimp turn opaque and bright pink, about 8 minutes.
Just before serving, mix sharp Cheddar cheese into grits until melted and grits are creamy and light yellow. Serve shrimp mixture over cheese grits. Sprinkle lemon zest and lemon thyme over shrimp and grits.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joe Biden's remarkable journey to Ukraine “reads like a movie script.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA ordered Norfolk Southern to clean up the East Palestine, Ohio toxic derailment; the Minnesota Senate approved restoring voting rights for felons; and, anti-abortion groups suing to ban the abortion pill lost their bid for an early trial.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin’s war accelerated the European Union’s transition to green energy; and, Venice’s smaller canals have practically dried up due to a prolonged spell of low tides.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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, if you watched Biden in Kyiv, “you watched history.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a shrinking water supply will mean more fallow fields in California’s San Joaquin Valley; a record 6,542 guns were intercepted at US airport security in 2022; and, Seattle considers an historic law barring caste discrimination.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dutch intelligence says that Russia has been targeting Netherlands' North Sea infrastructure for sabotage; and, groundwater carries a radiation risk for Korean, Chinese and Japanese cities near a North Korean underground nuke test site.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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, Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine “is a really big deal.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the drama of McCarthy’s election as Speaker may open the House to more C-SPAN cameras; Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives are treating a “peacemaker” bishop’s death as a homicide; and, Black Baltimoreans fight to save neighborhood homes from redevelopment.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland could join NATO ahead of Sweden; and, Tunisia ordered Europe’s top trade union official expelled after she addressed labor union protesters at a demonstration.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
"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, Kari Lake is not the only loser who keeps losing.On the rest of the menu, long a hotbed of extremism, Oregon seeks to curb paramilitaries; Department of Justice officials in Washington removed federal prosecutors in Texas and taken over the corruption investigation into Attorney General Ken Paxton; and, South Carolina lawmakers are alarmed at what they are finding in the probe of a $3.5 Billion dollar accounting error.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Facebook ran ads in Moldova for an oligarch sanctioned by the United States; and, China imposed sanctions on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon for supplying weapons to Taiwan.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
“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, Representative Jamie Raskin is calling for a congressional investigation into the $2 billion Saudi investment in Jared Kushner’s private equity fund.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California and Nevada are advancing legislation that would ban forced prison labor and involuntary servitude; a second amendment sanctuary measure was overturned in Oregon; and, the waters off New England had the second warmest year on record in 2022.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Turkey quake has revived the debate over a nuclear power plant being built on the country’s southern Mediterranean coastline; and, Brazil police are targeting illegal gold exports from the Amazon.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
“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, the Trump special counsel suspects criminal conduct by Trump's lawyer.Then, on the rest of the menu, Joe Biden's judicial picks are more diverse by race and gender than those of any of his predecessors; Fox News lost an attempt to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against the network; and, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is expanding the Advanced Placement African American Studies courses next year from one school to twenty-six.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of China’s national soccer federation has been arrested on corruption charges; and, India’s tax officials searched BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Modi in the UK.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
"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"
Show Notes & Links
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the same unnerving authoritarian patterns used by authoritarians around the world, are also seen from right wing United States governors.Then, on the rest of the menu, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat will receive the prestigious Medal of Honor, sixty years after his commanding officer first recommended him; eleven states are considering ‘right to repair’ bills for farming equipment; and, workers get state legislator support for an Atlantic City casino smoking ban.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iran released an award-winning filmmaker more than six months after arresting him for criticizing the government; and, Argentina says organized crime groups are spurring Russian birth tourism in the country.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
“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"
Show Notes & Links
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump lawyer wanted to say the dog ate the classified material in the empty folder on Trump’s nightstand, but Trump hates dogs.Then, on the rest of the menu, the oldest schoolhouse for Black children in the US has been moved to a museum; GOP election tactics come as no surprise to Wisconsin’s Black voters; and, the Kansas GOP picked an election conspiracy promoter as its new leader.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the shutdown of one of the country’s last independent news outlets; and, Turkey ordered the arrests of one hundred thirteen contractors over thousands of collapsed buildings in the catastrophic earthquake.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, House Republicans spent yesterday getting crushed by Democrats.On the rest of the menu, despite repeated requests, Florida still has not explained to the College Board how its African American Advanced Placement course violates state law; the Ohio Department of Education says it won’t do anything about neo-Nazi homeschoolers; and, a Nevada company that recycles batteries for electric vehicles has won a $2 billion green energy loan from the Energy Department.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a joint US/UK effort has imposed sanctions on a Russian cybercrime group; and, Greece’s parliament has banned the far-right Greek National Party from the upcoming election.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
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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, thanks to Chrissy Teigen, Donald Trump will forever be described in the Congressional Record with three words that will live in infamy.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a former deputy alleges in a lawsuit there is another cop gang forming at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department; a broadcast reporter was arrested for trespassing while covering a news conference about the Ohio toxic train derailment; and, the Missouri Republican-led House voted against banning minors from openly carrying firearms in public without adult supervision.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China says it was smeared in Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech because of the repeated use of “competition;” and, Twitter’s plan to cut off free access to its application programming interface has evoked a ‘fair amount of panic’ among scientists.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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METRO SHRIMP & GRITS
3 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup coarsely ground grits
2 cups whole milk
2 pounds uncooked 22 to 26 count shrimp, peeled and deveined
salt to taste
1 pinch hot smoked Hungarian paprika, or to taste
1 lemon, zest and juiced
2 tablespoons lemon thyme
1 pound andouille sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
5 slices hickory smoked bacon
1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
1 medium red bell pepper, chopped
1 medium yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
¼ cup butter
¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 cup shredded sharp Tillamook Cheddar cheese
Bring water and 2 teaspoons salt to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk grits into the boiling water, and then whisk in half-and-half. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until grits are thickened and tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Set aside and keep warm.
Sprinkle shrimp with salt and hot smoked paprika to taste. Add lemon juice, toss to combine, and set aside to marinate.
Place sausage slices in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove sausage from the skillet.
Add bacon to the same skillet and increase heat to medium-high. Cook until evenly browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain, then chop or crumble when cool enough to handle. Leave bacon drippings in the skillet.
Add bell peppers, onion, and garlic to the bacon drippings; cook and stir until onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.
Stir cooked sausage and marinated shrimp into the skillet with the cooked vegetables. Turn off the heat and set aside.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour, stirring to create a smooth roux. Turn heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is golden brown in color, 8 to 10 minutes.
Pour the roux over the sausage, shrimp, and vegetables. Place the skillet over medium heat, add chicken broth, bacon, and Worcestershire sauce, and stir to combine. Cook until sauce thickens up and shrimp turn opaque and bright pink, about 8 minutes.
Just before serving, mix sharp Cheddar cheese into grits until melted and grits are creamy and light yellow. Serve shrimp mixture over cheese grits. Sprinkle lemon zest and lemon thyme over shrimp and grits.
Bon Appétit!
JP
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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, the real reason GOP members heckled Biden was for “showbiz.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Democrats won control of the Pennsylvania House in a special election, ending a dozen years of GOP rule; Virginia Senate Democrats rejected three Youngkin appointees; and, Indiana lawmakers look to broaden birth control access.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where five priests were sentenced to ten years for conspiracy to commit democracy in Nicaragua; and, archaeologists have uncovered a rare 14th-century Spanish synagogue in the southern town of Utrera.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam
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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, a Florida teacher ripped DeSantis’ book banning and criminal threats.Then, on the rest of the menu, one hundred forty-six New York City police committed misconduct in the 2020 George Floyd protests; strict changes to the legal sizes for New England lobsters could protect the severely declining population; and, a review of Biden's legislative and policy successes over united GOP opposition, shows why he’s the most successful president since FDR.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China apologized to Costa Rica for a balloon that flew over its territory; and, Vice President Harris highlighted $4.2 billion in private sector investment in Central America.
All thatand 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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s 2024 campaign is anything but normal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last year; a major northern Florida hospital system was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend; and, spotty electronic poll book security raises considerable concerns going into 2024.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Buddhist temple has been extensively damaged by fire in the Australian city of Melbourne; and, a pair of 7.8 magnitude earthquakes, followed by severe aftershocks, knocked down scores of buildings across Turkey and Syria.
All thatand 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, Dems sound alarm over Capitol security under the GOP.On the rest of the menu, Ohio officials are investigating a pro-Nazi home school network; frustrated Texans endure another winter storm with no power or heat; and, Washington state’s low-income tax credit is available for the first time.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Austria expelled four Russian diplomats based in Vienna; and, a Brazilian senator claimed Bolsonaro plotted the coup to block the Lula presidency.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, one could almost think the College Board 'bowed to political pressure' with the whitening of the AP African American Studies program.Then, on the rest of the menu, lawmakers introduced a bill that would eliminate Idaho’s only bipartisan legislative committee and place the state’s independent auditing agency under Republican control; Pacific Gas & Electric will face trial for manslaughter over its role in a 2020 Northern California wildfire that killed four people; and, the first sweeping federal gun crime report in twenty years has been released.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States and the Philippines agreed on a larger American military presence in the island chain, as a bulwark against increasing China aggressiveness; and, Australia is removing the British monarchy from its bank notes.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
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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, Trump’s decision to invoke the fifth amendment more than four hundred times was 'unprecedented.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA blocked an Alaska gold and copper mine over the environmental impact on the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery; the population of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has rebounded for a second year in a row; and, Maine utility regulators gave final approval to a wind power project that would provide enough electricity for at least 450,000 New England homes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where state lawmakers may exonerate women killed during the Connecticut Witch Trials three hundred seventy-five years ago; and, the Church of England shed light on its ‘shameful’ slave trade ties.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
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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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump Stormy Daniels hush money case resumes beyond the reach of Bill Barr's obstacles.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Treasury Department will increase borrowing amid the debt ceiling standoff; California’s Tulare County will pay $32 million dollars in a child welfare settlement; and, a federal appeals court issued a secret hold that blocks the Justice Department from searching the phone of J6 insurgent, Scott Perry.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO member Slovenia apprehended a husband and wife Russian spy team suspected of using an agency dealing in real estate and antiques as a front for their activities; and, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin, is standing trial in federal court in Boston over a hacking and insider trading scheme.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
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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 and Barr lose as their “deep state” bomb blows up in their face.Then, on the rest of the menu, emails reveal tensions on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched Colorado River; mass shootings lead to a widening divide on state gun policies; and, the DEA Mexico chief was quietly ousted last year over ties to cartel drug lawyers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a search is underway for a radioactive capsule missing in Western Australia; and, Afghan malnutrition rates are at a record high.
All thatand 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, new reporting by the New York Times exposed corruption of the Durham probe was used as a political weapon for Trump.
On the rest of the menu, Virginia Democrats defeated bills limiting abortion access; a judge blocked the sale of machine gun converters after the Department of Justice sued; and, the FBI said it “hacked the hackers” to bring down the Hive ransomware gang.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Thai activist was sentenced to 28 years for online posts insulting the monarchy; and, the US Treasury Department toughened sanctions against Russia's Wagner mercenary group.
All thatand more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!
The Netroots Radio Live Player
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, we’ve all been waiting for the definitive debunking of Trump AG Bill Barr.
Then, on the rest of the menu, New York’s attorney general warned the owner of Madison Square Garden that it may be violating anti-bias laws with its practice of barring lawyers from its venues, and using facial recognition technology to enforce it; a record 16.3 million people have sought health coverage through ‘Obamacare’ this year; and, the Department of Agriculture announced it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in southeast Alaska.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain issued an app-based food delivery company a new fine of $62 million for violating labor laws; and, the results of a survey in the Netherlands showed a “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust.”
All thatand 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, “Donald Trump must be indicted to save our democracy.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty GOP states sued the Biden administration over its new border policy; Los Angeles County’s annual count of homeless residents began Tuesday night; and, Florida is offering an advanced lesson in anti-Blackness.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland’s foreign minister signaled the country could join NATO without Sweden; and, killings of journalists around the world jumped by fifty percent in 2022, driven largely by attacks in Ukraine, Mexico and Haiti.
All thatand 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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links
lWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a top senior FBI counterintel official has been charged for helping Russian oligarch Deripaska sabotage America, and now compromised investigations are a concern after his arrest.
Then, on the rest of the menu, someone scammed Republican US Senator Jerry Moran’s reelection campaign out of $690,000; privacy concerns were raised over the New York City police filming people leaving a Drake show in Manhattan; and, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s gun proposals include an open carry ban.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey’s President Erdogan threw cold water on Sweden’s membership in NATO; and, most of Pakistan was left without power Monday as an energy-saving measure by the government backfired.
.All thatand 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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joe Manchin went full Manchin on the debt ceiling, classified docs, running for president and high-fiving Sinema in Davos for saving the filibuster.T
hen, on the rest of the menu, the military is probing whether blood cancers are linked to nuclear silo work from decades ago; state lawmakers have proposed power grid protections after scores of domestic terror attacks; and, a subpoena has been granted in the Reno mayor’s suit over who secretly installed a tracking device on her vehicle.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Justice Department charged two businessmen with trying to conceal a sanctioned Russian oligarch’s luxury yacht seized in Spain last year; and, the trial of a former leader of the Hells Angels in Europe for organized crime charges, is set to start today in Madrid.
All thatand 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the reason they had the janitor investigate the court leaks is because John Roberts knows, if they let the Ginni out of the bottle, bad things will happen.
On the rest of the menu, a Georgia school district lowered a Black student's GPA after he reported racist Snapchats; T-Mobile says the data on 37 million customers has been stolen; and, climate misinformation rockets out of control on Musk’s twitter.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Peru police used tear gas to block thousands of protesters from marching in the capitol city of Lima; and, over one million people marched in the streets of Paris and other French cities against raising the retirement age.
All thatand 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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DeSantis culture war on US history threatens to backfire on Florida higher education.T
hen, on the rest of the menu, the State Department launched a new program dubbed, the Welcome Corps, that lets private citizens sponsor refugees in the US; no woman is expected to serve on the South Carolina Supreme Court for the first time in thirty-five years; and, an election-denying GOP congressman under an active Department of Justice probe, has been assigned to the House committee investigating Biden.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus’ main opposition leader denounced her trial as a farce; and, fighting back tears, Jacinda Ardern announced that February 7 would be her last day as New Zealand’s prime minister.
All thatand 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, ‘hateful rhetoric transcends into hateful actions.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Washington, DC mayor and the city council are at odds over the new criminal code; the FEC dismissed the GOP complaint over Gmail’s spam filter; and, the World Economic Forum in Davos said Elon Musk was not on the guest list for the annual meeting, despite what the Head Twit claims.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has been acquitted of tax charges in the Philippines; and, the US Supreme Court struggles with criminal charges against Turkish-owned Halkbank, accused of helping to launder billions of dollars so Iran could evade US economic sanctions.
All thatand 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, a new book shows how journalists exposed the frighteningly invasive Pegasus spyware.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Ohio’s restrictive new election law is angering active-duty members of the military and their families because of its potential to disenfranchise them; New Mexico’s top prosecutor wants to focus on child civil rights; and, Elon Musk’s trial on Tesla stock manipulation begins today in San Francisco.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the trial of a journalist for a prominent Polish newspaper began in Belarus on Monday; and, Italy’s most-wanted Mafia boss has been nabbed after thirty years on the run.
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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even if he is elected, “Kevin McCarthy will be the weakest Speaker we’ve ever seen.”Then, on the rest of the menu, US News & World Report will change how its rankings of law schools are calculated after a boycott by a number of top programs; California cops searched Black teenagers at nearly six times the rate of white teens; and, a rural state judge continued to block a provision of Oregon’s voter-approved gun law requiring a background check to close the so-called Charleston Loophole.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a journalist in northern Mexico escaped unharmed in the first reported attempt on a reporter’s life in the country in the new year; and, the US is reopening visa and consular services at its embassy in Cuba.
All thatand 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, the coup evidence bolsters the case for AG Garland to indict, as the DOJ faces heat over 'double standards.'
Then, on the rest of the menu, Louisiana authorities’ use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken-identity arrest of a Black Georgia man on a fugitive warrant; the Supreme Court is taking longer to hear cases; and, Washington Commander’s owner Dan Snyder, in a recent court filing, called England his “usual residence.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where scuffles broke out just outside a village in western Germany that is to be razed to allow the expansion of a coal mine; and, Mexico’s Supreme Court elected the first woman chief justice in its history.
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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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Adam Kinzinger fears for the nation if Trump is not charged with a crime for January 6.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge put a temporary hold on a new California law boosting protections for fast-food workers; the Illinois Supreme Court has halted provisions of a new law that would eliminate cash bail for criminal defendants; and, blackouts after coal and natural gas units went offline during dangerously cold conditions has intensified questions about the Tennessee Valley Authority’s recent decision to double down on fossil fuels.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dubai ended its 30% tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom; and, Croatia rang in the New Year as a fully integrated EU member.
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, the threat of mass resignations from the intel community upended Trump’s coup plans.
On the rest of the menu, an Idaho school board won’t say what are the racist incidents it is investigating at its middle and high schools; the US Census Bureau has redefined the meaning of ‘urban’ America; and, the New Year is expected to bring more changes to state voting laws.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a court in Dubai approved the extradition to Denmark of a British financier accused of orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax fraud scheme; and, the Turkish, Syrian, and Russian defense chiefs held surprise talks in Moscow.
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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Meadows burned documents in his White House office “maybe a dozen times,” right after meeting with Scott Perry during the transition period.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA is investigating Colorado for racially discriminatory air pollution regulations; in courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn’t commit; and, Florida’s citrus, fruit and vegetable crops appear to have escaped any widespread damage from some of the coldest weather in years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Iraq prime minister ordered a crackdown on local businesses violating international trademarks; and, Finland received its first floating Liquid Natural Gas terminal to replace Russian petrol.
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, a White House aide testified Trump wanted blanket pardons for everyone involved in the January 6 insurrection.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans distorted crime data to win elections, but it didn't work; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to know why Tesla has stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online; and, monster waves, high tides and gale-force winds that battered Oregon and Washington led to fatal crashes, power outages and flooded homes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where about two hundred women are still in prison in Mexico under outdated anti-abortion state laws, even though the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion last year; and, pre-Christmas weapons inspections in a small town in northern Greece has turned up hand grenades, assault rifles and decades-old unexploded ordnance.
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, Cassidy Hutchinson’s January 6 testimony transcript was ‘like a mob movie.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon will get $24 million dollars to replace its decades-long faulty water facility; a January 6 insurgent was arrested after an hours-long standoff in California; and, a federal judge in New York kept the plea deals of two FTX executives secret so Sam Bankman-Fried wouldn’t get spooked and fight extradition from the Bahamas.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four major international aid groups suspended operations in Afghanistan following a Taliban edict to ban women from working at non-governmental organizations; and, the head of the Turkish Medical Association stands trial on terror charges after calling for an investigation into whether the Turkish military used chemical weapons on Kurd militants.
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, Cassidy Hutchinson did not want a lawyer from Trump World.
On the rest of the menu, after spending $95 million dollars to own the Libs, outgoing-Arizona governor Doug Ducey is backing down and removing the shipping container wall along the Mexico border; a federal judge questioned San Francisco’s tactics in its homeless sweeps; and, turning what had been a long-standing post-Watergate norm into established federal policy, the House passed a bill that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s Wagner Group received arms from North Korea to bolster its forces in Ukraine; and an employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason for passing secret information to Russia.
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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6th committee released testimony transcripts of Trump allies under oath.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Kari Lake’s promised bombshells to prove she’s the rightful governor of Arizona turned out to be duds at the first day of her trial; the IRS mandatory presidential audit policy goes under the spotlight; and, as the flu rages, the Biden administration has released medicine from the national stockpile.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two of Sam Bankman-Fried’s top associates secretly pleaded guilty to criminal charges and are cooperating with investigators; and the foreign ministers of Australia and China met in Beijing in a bid to repair their tense relationship.
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,
Orleans, March 5, 1851
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s insurrection impeachment lawyer David Schoen was fact-checked on live tv.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a rule delay by the Treasury Department makes a big EV tax credit possible by early next year; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the witness stand in an FTC anti-trust case; and, after intense prodding by the Biden Administration, the Postal Service pledged a move to an all-electric delivery fleet.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers banned women students from attending universities effective immediately; and, in an unprecedented move against Spain’s leftist coalition government, the country’s top court handed down a ruling preventing the upper house of Parliament from debating and voting.
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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
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if the DOJ does not act on the J6 Committee criminal referrals, “the country will want to know why.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, at a White House Hanukkah event, Joe Biden condemned the ‘venom’ of antisemitism; the Republican’s usual embrace of Trump is strangely muted after the January 6 criminal referrals; and, the Air Force grounded its entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers following an emergency landing and fire, and none will perform flyovers at this years’ college bowl games.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea warned Japan over its 'very dangerous' military buildup; and, scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have created a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae that could eventually help rewild reefs threatened by climate change.
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
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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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Show Notes & Links
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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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Show Notes & Links
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 thatand 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 thatand 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
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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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s call to eliminate the Constitution is not a deal-breaker for the Republican party.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the re-elected Republican governor of Tennessee is considering highway express toll lanes and tripling the fees for electric car owners; election conspiracists who were soundly defeated for statewide offices, are now seeking to take over the Michigan GOP; and, the Oregon attorney general acknowledged the state isn’t ready to have a permitting process in place by this Thursday as required by the voter-approved gun control Measure 114.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European officials have objected to the green subsidies in Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act as protectionist; and, the British rail workers union rejected an offer aimed at averting future strikes.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/5/2140042/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Hank Johnson are demanding accountability from the Supreme Court.
On the rest of the menu, the $20 billion allocated to Indian Country under the American Rescue Plan will affect 2.6 million people; a rural Arizona county finally certified its midterm election results after a judge ruled Republican supervisors broke the law when they refused; and, immigrant rights groups sued Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials over the constitutionality of their migrant relocation plan.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the trial of Hong Kong newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai was postponed when the territory’s leader asked China to block him from hiring a British defense lawyer; and, Australian economist Sean Turnell, who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar, received a hero’s welcome at Australia’s Parliament House.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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/2022/12/2/2139568/-Untitled-StoryWest-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Oath Keepers conviction on seditious conspiracy makes it harder to whitewash the January 6 Committee.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in a historic move, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York will succeed Nancy Pelosi as leader; creeping white nationalism has infected the GOP; and, conservative, anti-abortion activists executed a strategy to ingratiate themselves with Supreme Court justices in order to advance their agenda.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union is seeking a UN-backed specialized court to investigate Russia war crimes; and, the German parliament approved a resolution that labels the 1930’s Ukraine famine as genocide.
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/2022/12/1/2139349/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the seditious conspiracy verdict in the Oath Keeper trial gives the Department of Justice a “stronger hand” in future cases.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon settled a federal lawsuit over its police use of tear gas and other crowd control weapons; a panel of three federal judges heard closing arguments on whether South Carolina’s heavily gerrymandered US congressional maps are legal; and, journalists with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper continued their strike, claiming that parent company McClatchy has refused to bargain in good faith over a new contract.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of the International Monetary Fund urged China to end its mass lockdowns; and, a prominent Polish judge has been reinstated amid a standoff with the European Union over judicial independence.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/30/2139129/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s “toxic wing” has caused chaos in the House.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Brett Favre asked to be removed from a lawsuit by the state of Mississippi that seeks to recover millions of dollars in misspent welfare money; more than four hundred thousand voters cast ballots in early voting for the Georgia Senate runoff; and, the Interior Department proposed rules to limit methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on public lands.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Irish regulators slapped Facebook with a $277 million fine for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules; and, for the first time since 2014, Australia’s terrorism threat level has been downgraded from “probable” to “possible.”
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/29/2138924/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Adam Schiff fired back after McCarthy threatened to remove him from the intel committee.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Whole Foods’ decision to stop selling Maine lobster has divided environmentalists, politicians and fishermen; California regulators approved $1 billion for the new heavy-duty truck EV charging project; and, a federal judge denied a bid for a new trial in the Whitmer kidnapping case.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two Iranian-born Swedish brothers went on trial in Stockholm, charged with spying for Russia for a decade; and, US Soccer briefly scrubbed the Islamic Republic emblem from the Iran flag at the World Cup, in support of the protests for women’s rights.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/28/2138683/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump thought the Supreme Court judges would be like Judge Cannon.
On the rest of the menu, the lack of Oregon public defenders has strained the criminal justice system and left more than seven hundred people statewide without legal representation; a Tennessee judicial panel has upheld the state’s contentious school voucher law; and, Ford has recalled over six hundred thirty-four thousand SUVs due to fuel leaks and fire risks.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Egypt announced a mass pardon for thirty jailed activists; and, Australia moved to prevent a repeat of their former leader’s power grab.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/25/2138291/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump braces for his tax returns going to congress, just as Pence is mulling his interview with the Department of Justice.
Then, on the rest of the menu, most of the Fed officials at their last meeting backed slower rate hikes; a South Carolina program aims to boost the ranks of Black teachers; and, New York’s first pot crop is jeopardized by a court fight.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Brazil election agency rejected Bolsonaro’s push to void votes; and, China has expanded lockdowns as COVID-19 cases hit a daily record.
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/2022/11/24/2138169/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Holiday-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s big loss in the Supreme Court is just the beginning.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the severe drought in Hawaii is fueling rare November wildfire warnings; Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has no intentions of resigning after being threatened by the congressional insurgent caucus; and, Miami-Dade County asked a federal bankruptcy court for permission to immediately remove the FTX name from the Miami Heat arena.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a huge horde of ancient Celtic gold coins has been stolen from a museum in southern Germany; and, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit a town in northwest Turkey, causing damage to some buildings and widespread panic.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/23/2137982/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, special counsel Jack Smith is getting to work with no signs yet that the two investigations he now oversees around Donald Trump will slow down.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Virginia Military Institute’s first Black superintendent is under attack by conservative White alumni; when it became clear Sandy Hook families would prevail in court, Alex Jones started moving his money around; and, a Georgia appeals court declined to halt Saturday early runoff voting between Walker and Warnock.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where auditors in Iraq have uncovered a staggering $2.5 billion tax fraud scheme; and, Australia ratified bilateral free trade deals with India and Britain.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/22/2137770/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Former CIA director Leon Panetta noticed something about Trump’s response to the DOJ investigation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, despite dangerous pregnancy complications threatening the life of the mother, abortions are still being denied in some states; the FTX bankruptcy filing says it owes more than $3 billion to creditors; and, the Club Q shooting follows a year of bomb threats, anti-drag protests and virulent anti-trans bills stoking the flames.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazilian economist Ilan Goldfajn has been selected to lead the region’s largest development bank after the previous president was fired for misconduct; and, in a historic move, developed nations at the COP27 agreed to help developing countries pay for the catastrophic consequences of climate change.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/21/2137531/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, GOP redistricting is undermining democracy in the state legislatures.
On the rest of the menu, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a plan to demolish four dams on the Lower Klamath River that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world; a federal judge in Florida issued a temporary injunction against the Ron DeSantis “Stop Woke” act in a ruling that called the legislation “positively dystopian;” and, Starbucks workers went on strike at more than one hundred US stores.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands of people marched through central Athens to mark the anniversary of the 1973 student uprising; and, Vice President Harris has arrived in Thailand for the Asia-Pacific summit.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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/2022/11/18/2137017/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Republican party is “in ruin.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own elections director to force a greatly expanded hand-count of ballots, that could affect certification of the results; a key Federal Reserve official suggested the central bank will likely slow the pace of its interest rate hikes beginning in December; and, the Energy Department awarded nearly $74 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law to advance recycling and reuse of batteries for electric vehicles.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a federal judge handed down a 20-year prison sentence to a Chinese national who was convicted in a US aviation spying case; and, a Cambodia wildlife official has been jailed in New York for monkey smuggling.
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/2022/11/17/2136747/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump wrongly thinks running again will shield him from the DOJ.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a comprehensive report found new-officer training presents an ‘immediate crisis for policing;’ a bipartisan Senate report detailed “aggressive and unethical” medical mistreatment of women immigration detainees at ICE facilities; and, Trump holdovers at DHS are mostly responsible for blocking vital research on domestic threats.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a convicted French Holocaust denier has been arrested in Scotland after a two year search; and, Britain’s polar research ship is preparing for its second voyage to Antarctica to investigate sea level rises and threats to marine biodiversity.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/16/2136491/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Republicans claim to want distance from Donald Trump after the massive midterms losses, while ignoring their extremist Tea Party roots.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the last suspect has been sentenced in a California truck driving licensing scandal that put hundreds of unqualified big-rig drivers on the nation’s highways; former Los Angeles Dodger Yasiel Puig will plead guilty to lying to the feds about a sports gambling ring; and, officials from six nations spent more than $750,000 at Trump’s DC hotel as they were trying to influence his administration.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union warned Serbia and Kosovo against returning to their violent past; and, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution calling for Russia to be held accountable for violating international law, including paying reparations to Ukraine.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/15/2136218/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats defied midterm expectations not only in the national races, but also by making historic gains in state legislatures.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Republican-engineered shorter voting window could cut turnout in the Georgia runoff; the US Merchant Marine Academy will get its first female superintendent in the eighty-year history of the institution; and, a tech CEO is spending millions to stop Elon Musk.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar won the runoff to become Slovenia’s first female head of state; and, the United Nations is investigating allegations of misconduct by Egyptian police providing security at this year’s international COP27 climate talks.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/14/2135919/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans are paying the price for right wing extremism in the midterms.
On the rest of the menu, California seeks to pair home energy storage and rooftop solar; work was stopped after a noose was found at the Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago; and, US authorities are investigating crypto exchange FTX.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week; and, the US will buy one hundred thousand rounds of howitzer artillery from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/11/2135255/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is privately "very angry" after the disappointing performance for Republicans in the midterm elections.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the CDC is conducting a new study to determine whether veterans were exposed to dangerously high levels of cancer-causing toxins at the now-shuttered Fort Ord military base in California; a Virginia judge ordered Gingrich to testify in the Georgia election probe; and, Twitter’s new owner sold nearly $4 billion worth of Tesla shares, totaling more than $19 billion liquidated since April.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO announced its next leaders’ summit will be in Lithuania; and, Holocaust survivors from around the world warned about the reemergence of antisemitism as they marked the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/10/2134988/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, voters voting against Dobbs, Deniers and Donald lifted the Dems in the midterms.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court seemed unlikely to agree to overturn decades of precedent in a case about civil rights lawsuits; over one million Americans with diabetes rationed their insulin in the past year; and, Colgate University is returning fifteen hundred funerary artifacts to the Oneida Indian Nation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hackers published the personal medical records of over ten million customers after Australian health insurer Medibank refused to pay a ransom; and, a senior UK government member resigned after mounting allegations that he bullied colleagues.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/9/2134694/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Republicans who have given in to fascist elements are trying to nuke democracy.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Arizona judge blocked a Republican effort to delay election results by hand-counting all ballots; Biden legislation is funding the largest community air pollution monitoring program in EPA history; and, the Justice Department has sent monitors to twenty-four states in an effort to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws in today’s elections.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Philippine authorities filed murder charges against the nation’s top prisons official in the killing of a radio commentator; and, China lashed out over a visit to Taiwan by British Trade Policy Minister, Greg Hands.
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/2022/11/8/2134450/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s 2020 election-denying lawyers have returned to assist in midterm election challenges, just like the over one hundred they’ve lost so far.
On the rest of the menu, the FBI warned of a ‘broad’ threat to synagogues in New Jersey; a top Milwaukee elections official has been fired after sending falsely obtained military absentee ballots to the home of an election-denying Republican state lawmaker; and, Oprah delivered a November surprise by endorsing Fetterman over Oz.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Bank of England rolled out its biggest interest rate increase in three decades; and, tens of thousands of Spanish union workers held a protest march in Madrid to demand higher wages to offset the soaring cost of living.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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/2022/11/4/2133502/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, crime as a big city, blue state problem is a GOP myth.
Then, on the rest of the menu, CBS and its former president, Leslie Moonves, will pay $30.5 million dollars for insider trading; the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada asked the state’s secretary of state to investigate a “coordinated partisan” hand-count of mail-in ballots; and, the attorneys general of California, Illinois and the District of Columbia are suing Albertsons to stop the grocery chain from paying a nearly $4 billion dollar dividend to its shareholders.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea kept up its missile barrage with the launch of an ICBM; and, with Bolsonaro tamed in defeat, Brazil steps back from the brink of losing its democracy.
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/2022/11/3/2133241/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “why would you trust somebody who jokes about the violent attack on Paul Pelosi?”
Then, on the rest of the menu, in another bonehead move, Musk has Twitter working on a paid video feature that raises potential copyright and scam concerns; toxic metal pollution is ten times worse in racially segregated communities; and, Alabama voters will decide whether to ratify a new constitution that strips out the document’s Jim Crow-era language.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Norway raised its military alert level after suspicious drone sightings put the country on edge; and, Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s administration signaled a willingness to hand over power, two days after the election loss to Lula da Silva.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/2/2132995/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the majority on the Supreme Court pretended arguments in favor of Affirmative Action “didn’t exist.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice, supporting a claim by the League of Women Voters of Arizona, said that monitoring ballot drop boxes can amount to illegal voter intimidation; Jewish leaders called on GOP candidates to reject antisemitic comments; and, in a victory for the Biden administration’s tougher approach to proposed mergers, a federal judge blocked Penguin Random House’s purchase of Simon & Schuster.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Rwanda criticized the expulsion of its ambassador from Congo; and, a kidnapped French conservationist has been released in eastern Chad.
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/2022/11/1/2132725/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, years of Republican propaganda and Trump-fueled fascism helped inspire last week's attack on House Speaker Pelosi's 82-year-old husband, Paul.
Then, on the rest of the menu, President Joe Biden cast his midterm ballot on Saturday; striking Weyerhaeuser workers in the Pacific Northwest are back to work; and, the Black church tradition of “Souls to the Poll” survives Georgia’s voting changes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UK politicians demand a probe into the Liz Truss phone hack claim; and, a venomous seven foot king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo, has returned back home by itself.
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/2022/10/31/2132443/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Donald Trump and allies continue to assert executive privilege as a way to dodge providing testimony in criminal investigations.
On the rest of the menu, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blamed the Biden Justice Department for an investigation that was begun under Trump; North Carolina GOP Senate nominee Ted Budd was part of business scheme accused of defrauding farmers; and, Georgia DA Fani Willis urged the Supreme Court to allow Lindsey Graham’s testimony.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the FBI is probing an ex-CIA officer’s spying for World Cup host Qatar; and, a court in Belarus sentenced yet another independent journalist to three years in prison.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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/2022/10/28/2131828/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the reaction to Pennsylvania’s Senate debate between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz ignores the history of illness and disability in the Senate and White House.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas Republican Chip Roy attacked the Biden administration over a program to stop COVID vaccine lies; Facebook parent Meta was fined nearly $25 million dollars for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law; and, three Maryland State Police officers have filed a federal class-action lawsuit, alleging widespread racial discrimination at the agency.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Saudi oil giant Aramco unveiled a $1.5 billion dollar “greenwashing” fund ahead of next month’s UN climate conference in Egypt; and, the gas crunch has eased in Europe, but the respite might not last.
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/2022/10/27/2131547/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, prosecutors are putting the squeeze on a key Trump aide in their documents probe.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in a dramatic increase from 2018, over one million have voted early in Georgia; Samuel Alito whined that the leak of his draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, made the majority on the US Supreme Court “targets for assassination;” and, experts are sounding the alarm about what a fourth consecutive drought year could mean for California.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia’s largest health insurer said a cybercriminal hacked the personal data of all its 4 million customers; and, New Zealand women lawmakers outnumber men for first time.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/26/2131315/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “a Supreme Court justice violated the law.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the American Rescue Plan helped 200,000 child care providers stay open; the Federal Trade Commission is taking the rare step of bringing individual sanctions against the CEO of alcohol delivery company Drizly for data privacy abuses; and, the sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix has stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after armed Trump supporters intimidated voters.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan has stepped up its push to get the public to buy-in to digital IDs; and, hundreds of Syrian men and boys were detained, beaten and forcibly returned to their country by Turkish authorities over a six-month period.
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/2022/10/25/2131070/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is 'not an enough' to comply with the J6 subpoena.
Then, on the rest of the menu, JD Vance’s firm invested in a food company that is now facing five lawsuits alleging it misled regulators and duped investors; an Oregon “constitutional” sheriff arrested a US Forest Service 'burn boss' over a prescribed burn near the site of the armed takeover of the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge by white nationalists; and, false election claims by MAGA Republicans are overwhelming local efforts to push back.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the world faces the prospect of more tension with China over trade, security and human rights after Xi Jinping awarded himself a third five-year term; and, Norway prepares for threats from Russia over its energy infrastructure.
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/2022/10/24/2130811/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump lawyers prove they don’t know why they asked for a Special Master.
On the rest of the menu, slavery is on the ballot for voters in five US states; the EPA is conducting a civil rights case that targets Mississippi over the majority-Black state capitol’s deteriorating water system; and, Daniel Smith, one of the last children of enslaved Americans, has died at age ninety.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where at least seven Russians, including the son of a close associate of Putin, were detained by Norwegian officials for flying drones or taking pictures near sensitive areas; and, Russia aimed new legal action at two prominent dissenters.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/21/2130304/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Florida’s voter fraud arrests make the state a modern version of the Jim Crow south.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration awarded $2.8 billion in grants to boost domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles in twelve states; the EPA reached a settlement with United Parcel Service to pay a civil penalty of $5.3 million and resolve violations of hazardous waste regulations at more than eleven hundred facilities; and, the Department of Justice busted a network in New York and Connecticut for providing US military technology to the Russians for its war in Ukraine.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany is set to massively expand its electric car charging network; and, France marked the one hundred year anniversary of the Paris Central Mosque.
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/2022/10/20/2130096/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, we can’t allow Trump to normalize antisemitism in this country.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the USDA announced $1 billion in debt relief for 36,000 farmers; the Biden administration will hold the first-ever lease sale for offshore wind energy on the West Coast; and, NFL owners say removing Daniel Snyder merits ‘serious consideration.’
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German government announced that it had removed the country’s cybersecurity chief after allegations emerged of links to Russian intelligence; and, Russia’s role in the Burkina Faso crisis comes under scrutiny.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/19/2129848/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Arizona's Kari Lake is just one of hundreds of Republican election deniers on the ballot this fall.
Then, on the rest of the menu, US businesses want the US government to hide trade data used to trace labor abuse overseas; hundreds of volunteer groups are mobilizing to help voters confronting new election laws; and, the National Labor Relations Board is tallying the votes in another Amazon union election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a leading Belarusian political activist was handed a 25-year prison sentence for opposing the regime; and, a scathing report says UK police are getting away with lawbreaking, racism and misogyny.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/18/2129637/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6 Committee made Trump’s culpability “dramatically clear.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump attacked American Jews and warned they better send more money, or else; the Senate race in Ohio is ground zero for hopes of more manufacturing jobs; and, months after the moon landing, an immigrant family from India showed up uninvited at Neil Armstrong’s family home, they never forgot how they were treated.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a far-right Sweden Democrats party official has been suspended for making degrading comments about Jewish teenage Holocaust victim, Anne Frank; and, UK leader Liz Truss went from triumph to trouble in six short weeks.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/17/2129389/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after the Supreme Court ruled against him, Trump raged he should have made more calls. More calls to whom?
On the rest of the menu, people with disabilities are left out of climate planning; the Carter Center will provide nonpartisan observers to monitor midterm elections in Fulton County, Georgia; and, Ohio Democrats are wondering why their party isn’t backing Senate contender Tim Ryan more forcefully.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US government had to prod Google and other tech companies to help Iranian protesters; and, Putin tempted Turkey with suggestions of making it Europe’s new gas hub.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/14/2128889/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “there is an informer inside of Donald Trump’s home.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Indiana Supreme Court will keep the state abortion ban on hold; the Treasury Department is investigating whether Florida Governor Ron DeSantis improperly used federal pandemic aid to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard; and, Democrats have a slim chance to capture a long-held Washington State GOP district in a race that pits an “America First” city-dwelling Republican against a rural Democrat.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finnish pharmacies ran out of iodine tablets a day after the country’s health ministry recommended that households buy a single dose in case of a “radiation emergency;” and, France ordered some striking gas station workers back to work to ensure gasoline supplies.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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/2022/10/13/2128663/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Americans “have a muscle for authoritarian, fascist, anti-semitic, racist wedge politics.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court not to intervene in their Trump classified records fight; extreme right-wing PACs are injecting millions of dollars into local school board races; and, a former National Security Agency worker accused of trying to sell classified information to Russia, has been ordered detained while he is prosecuted.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leadership of Hockey Canada has stepped down amid an ongoing sexual assault scandal involving the men’s junior team; and, Israel announced an historic agreement with Lebanon on maritime borders.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/12/2128432/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, blatantly racist remarks from the right has been met by complete silence from Republican leadership.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a dark money right-wing think tank is dumping millions of dollars into the Ohio Supreme Court races; a conservative small-business advocacy group filed a new lawsuit seeking to block the Biden administration’s efforts to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans; and, five California tribes will reclaim their right to manage coastal land significant to their history, backed with $3.6 million in state money.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Amazon said it will invest $972.1 million to add thousands of more electric vans, long-haul trucks and cargo bikes to its delivery network in Europe; and, the head of Germany’s national cybersecurity agency is under investigation for ties to Russian intelligence.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/11/2128222/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, placating Trump’s behavior only emboldens him.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan’s GOP statewide candidates stick to the bat-doodoo crazy far-right messaging; a federal judge won’t block the January 6 panel subpoena for Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward’s phone records; and, Georgia prosecutor Fanni Willis is seeking to compel testimony from former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Austria’s liberal president is set to win a second six-year term without a runoff vote; and, Donald Trump backed Spain’s fascists in a video shown at a rally in Madrid that also included messages from Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Hungary’s Viktor Orban.
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/2022/10/10/2127932/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the government might not know what documents Trump stole are still missing.
On the rest of the menu, a whistleblower alleged six-hundred-sixty-five agents, including forty-five senior-level officials, left the FBI over misconduct charges in the last two decades; the Coast Guard Academy settled a lawsuit over its cadets-with-kids ban; and, the city of Philadelphia issued an apology for the unethical medical experiments performed on Black inmates at its Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s through the 1970s.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sweden’s domestic security agency seized criminal evidence at the Baltic Sea pipeline blow-out site; and, renowned Sierra Leone journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay has died at age eighty-five.
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/2022/10/7/2127470/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a comprehensive report found a whopping three thousand percent increase in violent “civil war” online rhetoric just before the midterms.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a motorcade taking Vice President Harris to work was in a one-car accident, but agents misled the Secret Service director on the true nature of the incident; a former Uber security chief has been convicted of covering up a 2016 data breach; and, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has put Dreamers’ lives “in limbo.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Mexican government plans to bring another lawsuit against US companies responsible for the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico; and, the head of the European Union’s executive arm vowed to “stress test” key EU infrastructure after the sabotage of natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
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/2022/10/6/2127258/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s lawyers stepped in it by admitting Trump had “possession of classified documents” at Mar a Lago.
Then, on the rest of the menu, three major medical associations want the DOJ to investigate and prosecute people who are threatening violence against children’s hospitals and physicians; kids with disabilities face off-the-books school suspensions that is a denial of their legal right to an education; and, California wells run dry as the drought depletes underground aquifers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where motorcycle-riding gunmen killed a longtime Philippine radio commentator in metropolitan Manila, the second killing of a journalist since Marcos, Jr took office in June; and, the Estonian Prime Minister says the West should heed, not appease Putin’s threats.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/5/2127057/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, disturbing, hateful rhetoric and a sign of a resurgence of fascism is being condoned on the right.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a California high school football team forfeited the rest of the season after players staged a ‘slave auction’ with three black students in their underwear; an Arizona clinic has a workaround for the state’s abortion pill ban; and, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis seeking search warrants in the Trump election fraud case, is sure a sign that the wide-ranging probe has entered a new phase.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan, causing officials to issue a rare evacuation order for the northern region prefectures; and, the Russian journalist who made international headlines after protesting the war in Ukraine live on state television, has escaped house arrest and fled with her 11-year-old daughter.
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/2022/10/4/2126828/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “there’s no right in the Constitution to violently attack the government.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a scheme to kidnap Michigan’s governor in 2020 will get yet another airing in a different court when three men face trial today; the suspect accused of migrant deaths on the border ran a detention center with a history of abuse; and, election officials brace for confrontational MAGAt poll watchers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Haiti has reported cholera deaths for first time in three years; and, Category Three Hurricane Orlene is expected to make landfall at Mexico’s Pacific coast sometime today.
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/2022/10/3/2126590/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the way Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon treated a fellow and senior Article III judge is “tawdry” and makes her “unfit” to serve.
On the rest of the menu, an Albuquerque Starbucks is the first store in the state to vote for unionization; the Treasury Department moved forward with its database on corporate ownership; and, in response to overwhelming demand, the Environmental Protection Agency is nearly doubling the money available to states to buy electric models of the familiar yellow school bus.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Latvians will be voting on Saturday in a general election that has been substantially influenced by Russia’s attack on Ukraine; and, the US imposed sanctions on a group of firms that have played a critical role in shipping sanctioned Iranian oil.
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/2022/9/30/2126122/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Giorgio Meloni has a problem with Jewish “financial speculators,” just like all fascists do.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida CEO urged her staff to work through Ian, then she grudgingly took it back; reversing course after Biden and Harris supported it, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a farmworker unionization law; and, the Supreme Court will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases, even as it welcomes the public back to its courtroom for a new term that begins Monday.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a fashion model from Myanmar who feared being arrested by the country’s military government if she was forced back home from exile has been granted asylum in Canada; and, Italians marched in scores of cities and towns for abortion rights after neo-fascist Giorgia Meloni’s electoral victory.
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/2022/9/29/2125924/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even though Giorgia Meloni and Steve Bannon share great glee in attacking immigrants, minorities and democratic norms, while also pushing the racist, anti-semitic "Great Replacement Theory," Meloni’s neo-fascist Mussolini party still thought Bannon was too fascist for them.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office stripped forty-seven deputies of their firearms and California peace officer duties after an internal audit revealed they failed their psychological evaluations; American interstates are going to get a lot friendlier to EVs; and, millions of Americans will save on Medicare fees next year.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the British pound plunged to a record low against the soaring dollar, prompting defeatist memes about the world’s sixth-largest economy; and, European leaders believe the dual explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipeline were deliberate, and some officials blamed the Kremlin for the “sabotage.”
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/2022/9/28/2125688/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, party elders have called newly-elected Italian Fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the “great heir to Il Duce.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Arizona abortion clinics are sending women to other states after prosecutors were given the go-ahead to enforce the civil war-era near-total ban on the procedure; the EPA is preparing a plan to help fix the Jackson, Mississippi water system; and, the United States’ antitrust lawsuit against American Airlines and JetBlue begins today.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of France’s Greens party stepped down from his post after his former partner accused him of psychological abuse; and, another suspect is detained in Poland in the slaying of Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries.
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/2022/9/27/2125497/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jedi mind tricks don’t work for declassification.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Greg Abbott’s otherworldly vow to ‘eliminate all rapists’ to justify no-exception abortion, rings hollow in the real world of Texas sexual assault clinics; staffing shortages and violence plague Oklahoma for-profit prisons; and, an ex-Nevada deputy attorney general has been arrested for a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Britain’s ambassador to protest what it described as a hostile atmosphere created by London-based Farsi language media outlets; and, a fire broke out at the world’s biggest produce market in Paris.
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/2022/9/26/2125274/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Donald Trump is facing a judge who is not playing games.
Then, on the rest of the menu, US authorities charged forty-eight people in Minnesota in the largest pandemic-related fraud scheme yet, stealing $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low-income children; the California Attorney General stripped control from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of a controversial criminal investigation into county Supervisor Sheila Kuehl; and, FEMA tells a skeptical Puerto Rico that this time won’t be like Hurricane Maria.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Myanmar’s military-ruled government denied reports it carried out an air attack on a school that killed at least seven children; and, Iran faced global criticism and massive internal protests over a woman’s death by the notorious morality police.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/21/2124222/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the national security threat posed by the Proud Boys began long before the January 6.
Then, on the rest of the menu, House Democrats are voting this week to overhaul the 19th century Electoral Count Act; damage assessments have begun in flooded remote Alaska villages; and, a parts shortage has forced Ford to cut its third quarter earnings forecast.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korean prosecutors asked Interpol to issue a fugitive alert for the founder of Terraform Labs after the $40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency; and, Prime Minister Liz Truss dashed any hopes for Brexiteers with an admission that a UK-US free trade deal is not going to happen for years.
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/2022/9/20/2123970/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans are spurring a shortage of poll workers through violent intimidation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Russian trolls worked overtime to disrupt the 2017 Women's March against Trump; Republicans in key battleground races refuse to say they will accept the midterm election results, whereas Democratic candidates said they would; and, MAGA Republicans wear their cruelty as a badge of honor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a tropical storm slammed southwestern Japan with fierce rainfall, flooding and winds, injuring dozens of people, as it swerved north toward Tokyo; and, Hurricane Fiona bore down on the Dominican Republic, after knocking out the power grid and unleashing floods and landslides in Puerto Rico.
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/2022/9/19/2123719/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Judge Cannon’s ruling “is wild and completely divorced from what courts do and are supposed to do.”
On the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced a $900 million investment in car chargers along 53,000 miles of interstate; Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at a massive scale; and, the House passed a bill to curb political interference with the census, and all 208 Republicans voted against it.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries in the country before an embargo on oil from Russia takes effect next year; and, all the EU nations except Hungary are moving forward to call out rights violations in Putin’s Russia.
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/2022/9/16/2123217/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, another one of Trump’s lawyers is in very serious trouble.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Los Angeles County Sheriff arrested two prominent critics of the department on trumped up corruption charges the district attorney previously refused to prosecute; California sued Amazon, accusing it of anti-competitive behavior; and, Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver is a racist, a sexist, and so rich that it doesn’t matter.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Typhoon Muifa threatens several major Chinese port cities; and, following a similar “bank withdrawal” late last week, a woman accompanied by activists and brandishing a toy pistol, broke into a Beirut, Lebanon bank branch and took $13,000 from her trapped savings, to pay for her sister’s cancer treatment.
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/2022/9/15/2122957/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, more portions of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit have been unsealed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI is investigating a package bomb explosion that injured one at Northeastern University in Boston, and another suspicious package at a prominent Arts college; an independent commission recommended that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be removed; and, the rubberstamp Tennessee Charter School Commission expressed alarm as local school officials vote down charter schools affiliated with MAGA darling, Hillsdale College.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where lights on the Eiffel Tower will soon be turned off more than an hour earlier at night to save energy; and, Twitter’s former security chief told Congress that both China and India had agents working for the social media company.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/14/2122734/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and his attorney general, Bill Barr, manipulated the Justice Department to not only protect and cover up for Donald Trump, but to also attack his political enemies.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Amtrak cancelled some long-distance passenger routes in anticipation of a national freight strike; Trump backers are flooding election offices with coordinated records requests in a gambit to disrupt the November election; and, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Dubai court ruled that a British man suspected of masterminding a $1.7 billion tax scheme cannot be extradited to Denmark to face charges; and, the United Nations accused Taliban authorities of harassing its Afghan female employees.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/13/2122539/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bill Barr “is a coward.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Black pastor in Alabama who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers for an out of town neighbor, has filed a federal lawsuit; the Commerce Department declared fishery disasters for several West Coast tribes and allocated $17.4 million in disaster assistance; and, two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to purchase forty acres around the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where USAID Administrator Samantha Power urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory ; and, scaled-down celebrations took place in Denmark marking fifty years on the throne by Queen Margrethe, now the only female monarch in the world.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/12/2122281/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the entire security of the nation has been placed in jeopardy by an incompetent and corrupt Federalist Society judge.
On the rest of the menu, consumer regulators are cracking down on unlawful nursing home debt collections; the Michigan Supreme Court ordered that the voting rights and abortion ballot measures be put to the voters in November; and, a special prosecutor will investigate whether a Michigan GOP candidate for attorney general should be criminally charged for breaking into voting machines after the 2020 election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Secretary General appealed to the world to help badly flood-hit Pakistan; and, four nations bordering Russia will restrict Russian tourists from entering Europe’s visa-free zone.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/9/2121757/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, "The DOJ, they're tiptoeing around Donald as if he was the king, the supreme leader, or a monarch.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, unlike Texas recently, California kept the lights on after another day of grid-straining heat; amid relentless disinformation campaigns, harassment and death threats, Georgia’s most populous county can’t find a director of elections to hire; and, your MAGAt Uncle will insist the IRS move toward free e-filing to end years of corporate domination could be communism.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled the country’s embassy staff over a major cyberattack nearly two months ago; and, the European Union wants a price cap on Russian gas.
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/2022/9/8/2121507/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has “no reputation to protect.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, citing the 14th Amendment, a judge in New Mexico ordered Otero County Commissioner and Cowboys for Trump Couy Griffin, removed from office, effective immediately; Steve Bannon now faces a state indictment in New York over the federal conviction Trump pardoned him for; and, California authorities, the FBI and DHS report that the cyberattack that disabled computer systems across the Los Angeles Unified School District over the holiday weekend, was criminal in nature.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where long simmering tensions are at a dangerous level after Turkish President Erdogan issued a thinly-veiled invasion threat against NATO ally Greece; and, Japan’s defense minister has ordered a special investigation into growing reports of sexual assault after allegations of harassment were brought by a former soldier.
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/2022/9/7/2121251/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, rather than being a simple “storage issue,” Trump stole secret material and a special master won’t save him.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the National Labor Relations Board reversed a Trump-era decision by ruling that Tesla must let workers wear union clothing; California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law for fast food workers; and, the military contractor who plead guilty to orchestrating the “Fat Leonard” corruption scandal, escaped house arrest in San Diego.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Irish regulators slapped Instagram with a $402 million dollar fine for violating the European Union’s strict data privacy rules; and, a former journalist was convicted of treason by a Moscow court that handed down a 22-year prison sentence after a trial widely seen as politically motivated.
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/2022/9/6/2121039/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new details from an unsealed inventory list of what the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago is explained.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the chance of California power outages drastically increased as the ongoing heat wave worsens; a state of emergency was declared as flash flooding hits northwest Georgia; and, an investigative journalist has died after being stabbed outside his Las Vegas home.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris in these ‘troublesome’ times; and, a British con artist, who is the subject of a Netflix documentary, has been arrested in Belgium after fleeing from France.
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/2022/9/5/2120822/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's argument over a special master is really about discrediting the DOJ in the public eye than it is about making a legal argument.
On the rest of the menu, seven Florida clerics filed for a temporary injunction, saying the state’s extremist abortion law violates their freedom of speech, religious liberty and the Constitution’s establishment clause; a conservative Wisconsin activist who said voter fraud is easy to commit faces election charges after getting caught; and, an abortion rights group asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether a right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a man tried to kill Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández outside her home; and, US federal agents simultaneously searched properties in Manhattan, a posh Hamptons beach community, and an exclusive Miami island that have been linked to a billionaire Russian oligarch whose $120 million yacht was seized in April.
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/2022/9/2/2120324/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s recent filing insists they are not the mobsters, the DOJ is.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Library of Congress launched an internal probe of the controversial remodel that will alter the ornate Main Reading Room in its historical Thomas Jefferson Building; national test scores plunged during the pandemic; and, Texas governor Greg Abbott looked Uvalde families in the eye and lied that raising the age to purchase weapons like those used to slaughter their kids, would be unconstitutional.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is headed to Montenegro to investigate a massive, coordinated attack on the tiny Balkan nation’s government; and, German prosecutors raided the office of JPMorgan Chase in Frankfurt as part of a broader tax evasion investigation.
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/2022/9/1/2120104/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lindsey Graham lied because he’s “afraid of his own words.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Dominion Voting Systems deposed Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro and others in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit; a House oversight subcommittee called for vigorous cryptocurrency fraud oversight; and, the Justice Department will no longer allow political appointees to go to fundraisers and other campaign events.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a European plan for floating gas terminals raises climate fears; and, China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/31/2119888/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, not once has Trump explained why all those classified and other sensitive US documents were being kept at his not-at all-secure golf resort.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency after monsoon rains flooded the Mississippi capital and shut down its water treatment plant; federal regulators sued a data broker accused of selling sensitive geolocation data from millions of mobile devices; and, Facebook settled its lawsuit in the Stephen Bannon / Cambridge Analytica scandal.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian journalist has been charged with funding an extremist organization by donating $16 to a Navalny foundation; and, leaders of the European Union and Germany pledged reforms to cut electricity prices.
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/2022/8/30/2119647/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the documents seized from Mar a Lago are the “crown jewels” of the intel community.
On the rest of the menu, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold a Jim Crow voting law that Mississippi’s white-supremacist leaders adopted in 1890 in an attempt to disenfranchise Black residents for life; a Nebraska high school shuttered the school’s award-winning fifty-four year old student newspaper just days after its last edition that included articles and editorials on LGBTQ issues; and, widespread voting machine tampering during the primaries by Trump activists is causing a concern for the fall election.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Myanmar’s military junta arrested a former British ambassador and her husband, and are holding them in a prison labor camp, for not filing out a change of address form on time; and, Italy’s worst drought in seventy years has exposed the piers of an ancient bridge over the Tiber River once used by Roman emperors.
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/2022/8/26/2118894/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “love letters” between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un going missing after Trump left office may have tipped off the National Archives.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-friendly rodeo announcer’s politically charged remarks at the Northwest Washington Fair, dissatisfied hundreds of audience members, with some vowing never to return; ex-interior secretary Zinke lied to investigators in a Indian casino case; and, President Joe Biden named the first woman as the next director of the Secret Service.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Mexican judge accepted charges against the ex-prosecutor in the 2014 disappearance of forty-three students; and, Germany is exporting power to France, while urging savings at home.
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/2022/8/25/2118639/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new reporting shows the extent, and sometimes even exclusivity of Donald Trump's role in stealing sensitive documents from the White House.
Then, on the rest of the menu, responding to an increasing number of violent right wing threats to its workers, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it was conducting a comprehensive safety review at its facilities; a federal jury convicted two men of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer; and, an English teacher at a high school in Oklahoma was fired after she provided students with a QR code for free access to e-books from the Brooklyn Library.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two top officials of Hungary’s meteorological service were fired after an inaccurate rain forecast; and, women around the world are dancing in solidarity with Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
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/2022/8/24/2118427/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Mr Trump went through the boxes himself.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, new polls show majorities of Americans want stricter gun laws; after enduring continuous harassment, the entire election staff of a rural Texas county abruptly quit, seventy days before the election; and, a grand jury ordered Walmart to pay an Oregon man $4.4 million dollars for racial profiling.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where pandemic anti-mandate protesters converged on the New Zealand Parliament; and, the Germany Environment Ministry reported there is no single cause for the massive Oder River fish die-off.
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/2022/8/23/2118219/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, America’s schools are facing a shortage of three hundred thousand teachers and staff nationwide.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the equity language in the Minneapolis teacher contract has ignited a firestorm among white conservative groups; housing benefits for military families lag as rents explode; and, after a five-year review, US protections for Idaho salmon and steelhead must stay in effect.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a planned strike at Britain’s biggest shipping port has added to the disrupted economic activity across the country; and, African migratory birds are threatened by hot, dry weather that has depleted natural water systems and caused a devastating drought.
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/2022/8/22/2118003/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there has been a "dangerous" and significant shift by right-wing militia groups.
On the rest of the menu, a federal judge blocked Florida from enforcing a new state law that limits how private companies teach diversity and inclusion in the workplace; Utah officials secretly investigated a high school female athlete’s gender after some sore loser parents complained her margin of victory was too good; and, the FTC threatened to sue an Idaho-based adtech firm for revealing abortion clinic visits.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where following Erdogan’s unorthodox economic views, Turkey’s central bank lowered its key interest rate, despite inflation surging to nearly 80%; and, an iconic lighthouse at the northern German port of Bremen has tilted sideways and could soon topple over entirely into the sea.
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/2022/8/19/2117549/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new DeSantis-ordered Florida teacher training downplays the role of slavery in US history.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Weisselberg’s plea deal could make Trump a prosecution witness; Alex Jones’ lawyer faces a disciplinary hearing in Connecticut; and, Oregon’s chief justice denied that a personality conflict led her to fire all members of a commission that governs the Office of Public Defense Services.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a UN investigator reported that contemporary forms of slavery are widely practiced around the world; and, Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to thirty-four years in prison over her critical Twitter activity.
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/2022/8/18/2117342/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Justice Department lawyers asked the judge who approved the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago to keep the accompanying affidavit under seal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the IRS says teachers can now deduct more for out-of-pocket expenses for the classroom; immigration advocates sued LexisNexis over personal data sold to ICE: and, the special board appointed by President Joe Biden to intervene in stalled railroad contract talks, suggested that 115,000 rail workers should get 24% raises and thousands of dollars in bonuses.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China’s worst heat wave in six decades has dried up reservoirs used to generate hydropower; and, Russia’s Defense Ministry warned Britain against a planned spy plane flight over Russian territory.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/17/2117137/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a former top espionage prosecutor at the Justice Department explained what matters, and what doesn’t, in the Trump secret documents probe.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Amazon workers walked off the job mid shift at a major West Coast air hub over low wages and heat safety; Starbucks wants the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily suspend all union elections at its US stores; and, Corporate America is facing its first tax on stock buybacks in the Biden bill.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison took on extra ministerial powers in secret; and, denying Tehran was behind the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, an Iranian official said he deserved it, though.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/16/2116921/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the rhetoric and threats against FBI agents and Department of Justice officials in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago search is reminiscent of events leading up to the January 6 insurrection.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a state police inquiry found evidence the MAGAt plot in Michigan to breach voting machines points to a coordinated national pattern; some of the arrested Capitol insurgents are trying to profit from their January 6 crimes; and, Krysten Sinema took over a million dollars of Wall Street money over the past year, and then killed the carried interest tax on private equity profits.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italian right-wing nationalist parties threaten European democracy; and, Zofia Posmysz, whose semi-autobiographical Holocaust story “The Passenger,” which reached the opera stage, has died at age ninety-eight.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/15/2116643/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, damning new details on the timeline leading up to the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago compound have emerged.
On the rest of the menu, a lawsuit by a municipal pension fund accuses Glenn Younkin of a profit and tax avoidance scheme; the Federal Trade Commission is looking at rules to corral tech firm data collection; and, over two billion dollars has been earmarked by the Transportation Department for local infrastructure, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union expressed concern that a new US tax credit aimed at encouraging Americans to buy electric vehicles would break World Trade Organization rules; and, London children have been offered the polio vaccine booster as the virus is found in the city’s wastewater.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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/2022/8/12/2116068/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Trump knows what the FBI found” at Mar a Lago.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Lindsey Graham is pulling out all the stops to quash his subpoena in the Georgia election probe; lower prices are offering Americans a slight reprieve from inflation; and, an Arizona county where the August 2 primary election was beset with multiple issues, will waive the costs for running municipal elections in eleven cities and towns.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where water levels on the Rhine River could reach a critically low point in the coming days, making it increasingly difficult to transport goods; and, the leaders of Estonia and Finland want their fellow European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens.
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/2022/8/11/2115837/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “there is no uprising” for Trump after the FBI search, but the media continues to distort the reaction of a tiny number of Trump’s followers.
Then, on the rest of the menu, companies are increasing investment as Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act boosting the US semiconductor industry; Ramsey County, Minnesota settled a racial discrimination suit against the Sheriff’s Office for running a ‘whites only jail’ to guard Derek Chauvin; and, the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs will take place without any of the golfers who defected to the Saudi-funded Bone Saw Invitational Series.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States is returning thirty “looted Bronze Age antiquities” to Cambodia; and, Nagasaki paid tribute to the victims of the US atomic bombing seventy-seven years ago yesterday, August 9.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/10/2115605/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the use of search warrant, rather than a subpoena, reflects the DOJ’s “astonishing” lack of confidence in Donald Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy is over; California’s last nuke plant might run a little longer; and, two militia members face a new trial over a scheme to kidnap and execute Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Greek prime minister said he was unaware that the country’s intelligence service had been bugging an opposition politician’s mobile phone for three months; and, France is in the midst of a fourth heat wave amid an historic drought.
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/2022/8/9/2115353/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “this has been an extraordinarily successful two years legislatively.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Indiana’s new sweeping ban on abortion produced immediate political and economic fallout; the Republicans will fist bump their success in blocking a cap on insulin costs for millions of patients; and, Albuquerque detectives have “determined there is a connection” between earlier killings of Muslims, and that of an aide to a Democratic lawmaker just this past week.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ugandan authorities have suspended the work of a prominent LGBTQ rights group; and, Iraq broils in dangerous 120-degree heat as the power grid shuts down.
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, CPAC is thirsty for Hungary’s “no mixed-marriages” Orban, while “read my pie hole, hands off my carried interest loophole” Sinema, signed off on the Inflation Reduction Act.
On the rest of the menu, a recount confirmed that an indicted Colorado county clerk who alleged voting fraud, lost the primary election she ran in last month; potable water has become a needed commodity in flood-ravaged Kentucky; and, Democrats are poised to strip Iowa from leading off their presidential nominating process starting in 2024.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia is set to launch a spy satellite for Iran but will use it first over Ukraine; and, China’s military exercises aimed at Taiwan, including missiles fired into Japan’s exclusive economic zone, represent a “significant escalation.”
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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Constitutional Sheriffs around the country are vowing to stop the nonexistent 2020 election steal because the FBI are acting like “Nuremberg Officers.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Transportation Department proposed to increase refund protections for air travelers; the EPA announced flights to look for methane “super emitters” in the Permian Basin of Texas; and, the Justice Department detailed threats against election workers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a court in Belarus sentenced yet another independent journalist to a lengthy prison term; and, the UN Secretary-General sharply criticized the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas companies.
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/2022/8/4/2114431/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an ex-Trump White House lawyer says Congress should disqualify Trump from ever running for office.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Joe Manchin’s change of heart could revive the US solar industry; the Oklahoma State Board of Education downgraded the accreditation of Tulsa Public Schools after a teacher complained that the school district’s training materials “shame white people;” and, a special prosecutor has determined a Virginia police officer should not face charges after he pepper-sprayed, struck and handcuffed a Black US Army lieutenant during a 2020 traffic stop.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the arrest of a prominent Guatemalan journalist has drawn widespread condemnation; and, the fact it was England’s women’s team that won a major soccer championship, and not the men’s that ended fifty-six years of pain, made it all the sweeter for many fans.
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/2022/8/3/2114213/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, General Milley worried that Trump would try a “banana republic junta move” on January 6.
On the rest of the menu, a new United States Postal Service election division will oversee mail-in ballots; the deal Schumer and Manchin brokered on Capitol Hill could ease seniors’ health costs; and, forty-one Republican senators gloated in the well of the senate after they broke their promise to protect veterans' health.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moscow’s threat to shut down a prominent Jewish organization could worsen antisemitism in Russia; and, Italy’s president encouraged Italians to reinvigorate their country’s democracy as a bulwark against fascism.
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/2022/7/29/2113305/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DOJ is honing in on Trump’s involvement in the fake electors scheme and has also obtained phone records from Trump insiders.
Then, on the rest of the menu, judges blocked abortion bans that were ready to take effect in Wyoming and North Dakota; tens of thousands of North Carolina felons can now register and vote; and, the outgoing director of the federal prison system refused to accept responsibility for a culture of corruption and misconduct that has plagued his agency for years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China rejected a report it tried to obtain Federal Reserve data; and, over a thousand Lufthansa flights were canceled as German ground crew staff went on strike.
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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METRO SHRIMP & GRITS
3 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup coarsely ground grits
2 cups whole milk
2 pounds uncooked 22 to 26 count shrimp, peeled and deveined
salt to taste
1 pinch hot smoked Hungarian paprika, or to taste
1 lemon, zest and juiced
2 tablespoons lemon thyme
1 pound andouille sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
5 slices hickory smoked bacon
1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
1 medium red bell pepper, chopped
1 medium yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
¼ cup butter
¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 cup shredded sharp Tillamook Cheddar cheese
Bring water and 2 teaspoons salt to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk grits into the boiling water, and then whisk in half-and-half. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until grits are thickened and tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Set aside and keep warm.
Sprinkle shrimp with salt and hot smoked paprika to taste. Add lemon juice, toss to combine, and set aside to marinate.
Place sausage slices in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove sausage from the skillet.
Add bacon to the same skillet and increase heat to medium-high. Cook until evenly browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain, then chop or crumble when cool enough to handle. Leave bacon drippings in the skillet.
Add bell peppers, onion, and garlic to the bacon drippings; cook and stir until onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.
Stir cooked sausage and marinated shrimp into the skillet with the cooked vegetables. Turn off the heat and set aside.
Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour, stirring to create a smooth roux. Turn heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is golden brown in color, 8 to 10 minutes.
Pour the roux over the sausage, shrimp, and vegetables. Place the skillet over medium heat, add chicken broth, bacon, and Worcestershire sauce, and stir to combine. Cook until sauce thickens up and shrimp turn opaque and bright pink, about 8 minutes.
Just before serving, mix sharp Cheddar cheese into grits until melted and grits are creamy and light yellow. Serve shrimp mixture over cheese grits. Sprinkle lemon zest and lemon thyme over shrimp and grits.
Bon Appétit!
JP
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller contradicted Trump under oath.
On the rest of the menu, the DHS inspector general should be removed from the Secret Service probe; the Arizona fake-electors subpoenas show the breadth of the DOJ Jan 6 investigation; and, a Washington state GOP candidate’s links to violent right wing extremism surfaced in the US congressional primary.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Boris Johnson defended meeting, without staff, an ex-KGB agent at a party after returning from a NATO meeting in 2018; and, the leaders of Japan and Indonesia agreed to bolster their ties in maritime security, as well as their cooperation on climate change, energy and investment.
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, the roots of the MAGAt push for Christian Nationalism is a renewed embrace of the racist, antisemitic tenets of its founder, Gerald LK Smith.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the US West; the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against some of the largest poultry producers in the US over unfair worker practices; and, Mississippi dropped the attorney they recruited to investigate welfare abuse, after the former Republican Governor was implicated in massive fraud.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leadership of Scottish cricket is engulfed in a racism scandal; and, a seventy-two year-old liberal Russian opposition politician was detained after returning to Moscow.
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/2022/7/26/2112634/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, despite warnings from Liz Cheney, all signs point to Republicans standing by Donald Trump as he hints at running for President again.
Then, on the rest of the menu, energy experts say the Republican outrage over petroleum reserve sales is overblown; GOP representative Ted Budd of North Carolina got big bucks for opposing consumer protections against predatory lending, despite his own state prohibiting the practice; and, the FBI says it busted a big crypto Ponzi scam, but then they discovered it was even bigger.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan’s nuclear regulator approved a planned release of treated radioactive wastewater from the still-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea next year; and, China launched one of two laboratory modules to complete its permanent orbiting space station.
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/2022/7/25/2112386/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office” on January 6.
On the rest of the menu, the first US case of polio in nearly a decade has been confirmed in an unvaccinated man in upstate New York; Republican 2022 small-dollar fundraising sputters as the Democratic lead grows; and, two MAGA primary losers in Colorado failed to pay for their recounts by the state’s deadline.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States needs to engage more with the Pacific region at a time when China is asserting its presence; and, trees dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Buchenwald death camp were chopped down in a brazen, anti-Semitic attack.
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/2022/7/22/2111871/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Secret Service was told at least three times to preserve text messages and communications on their agency phones.
Then, on the rest of the menu, one hundred fifty-seven House Republicans voted against protecting same-sex and interracial marriages; House Dems moved to protect contraception from from the Supreme Court; and, it only took two hundred forty-six years for the Marines to elevate their first Black four-star general.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italy’s political turmoil is turning into a headache for Europe’s central bank; and, the European Union moved closer to imposing more sanctions on Russia.
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/2022/7/21/2111673/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the outrage is only increasing over the Secret Service deleting text messages from January 5 and 6.
On the rest of the menu, at least a dozen GOP electors who falsely certified Trump as the victor of the 2020 election in Georgia are now subjects of a criminal investigation; the unprofessional response to the mass shooting in Uvalde has intensified doubts over whether tiny police agencies make sense; and, election security experts have urged state and county directors to be prepared for possibly years of supply chain issues affecting paper, computer hardware and other items.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a top administrative court in Turkey ruled that Erdogan’s decision to pull the country out of a key European treaty protecting women from violence was lawful; and, the FBI has disrupted a group of state-sponsored North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/20/2111441/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Garland Memo doubles down on the Barr policy on investigating presidential candidates without approval.
Then, on the rest of the menu, America wants more red flag laws, but anti-government gun groups and Republican-controlled states don’t; in response to Manchin’s sabotage, Biden could declare a climate emergency as soon as this week; and, the Library of Congress’ holdover Trump-era renovation plan is not only a “desecration,” it “is nothing short of vandalism.”
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sri Lankan lawmakers prepare to vote on a new president; and, lawmakers promised more laws and enforcement of them, after a five-year government report found Australia’s environment continues to deteriorate due to climate change and resource extraction.
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/2022/7/19/2111220/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kinzinger says the J6 Committee has "filled in the blanks" and this week’s hearing will “open people’s eyes in a big way.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, Maryland Dems are eager to break the Republican stranglehold on the governor’s office; a survey of state election officials across the US found the expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems; and, a state-chartered bailout fund is seeking to borrow $600 million after seven Louisiana insurers went bust following 2021′s Hurricane Ida.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Thai pro-democracy activists had their cell phones or other devices infected and attacked with government-sponsored Pegasus spyware; and, French holocaust survivors marked eighty years since the mass Paris roundup.
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/2022/7/18/2110977/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP blocked a bill protecting a woman’s right to travel because they don’t even need to hide it anymore.
On the rest of the menu, every House Republican voted to recruit Nazis and white supremacists in the military; a suburban Detroit man sued to disqualify Republican Ryan Kelley from the Michigan governor’s race, saying he should be declared an insurrectionist whose votes won’t count; and, Manchin said he’ll oppose an economic measure he’s been negotiating like he liked it, if it includes climate or energy provisions or higher taxes on the rich and corporations.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the International Monetary Fund has reached a preliminary deal with Pakistan on a $6 Billion dollar bailout; and, a Van Gogh self-portrait has been found hidden behind another painting.
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/2022/7/15/2110495/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the willful blindness of “team normal” enabled Trump’s coup.
Then, on the rest of the menu, masks could return to Los Angeles as COVID surges nationwide; ten anti vax players on the Kansas City Royals will not be making the trip to Toronto due to Canada’s vaccine mandate; and, a former Colorado elections manager taken into custody marks the third arrest in the state on charges of tampering with voting equipment for Trump.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pope Francis named three women to serve as members of the Vatican office that vets bishop nominations; and, the European Union’s executive decried the rule of law situation in Poland and Hungary in its annual report.
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/2022/7/14/2110280/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the J6 Committee revealed new details about an Oval Office showdown that preceded the Capitol riot.
On the rest of the menu, Republicans are threatening Wall Street over climate positions and other politically sensitive national issues; the Justice Department named Colette Peters, the director of Oregon’s prison system, to run the federal Bureau of Prisons; and, the Idaho lame-duck MAGAt Lt Governor gave a huge pay raise to her assistant so as to deplete the office’s budget and hamstring her successor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a new pipeline from Greece to Bulgaria will offset the Russian gas cut; and, it’s going to be difficult for the Moonies to distance themselves from Abe’s assassination, since Japan is their major cash cow.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/13/2110070/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new reporting on the weapons brought by the January 6 insurgents amplifies the severity of the attack.
Then, on the rest of the menu, House and Senate committees are set to grill Trump-appointed IRS chief Rettig over the unusual audits of Trump’s enemies; a federal judge blocked Arizona’s confusing ‘personhood’ abortion law; and, California firefighters have gained ground against the dangerous Yosemite wildfire.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Macron’s sketchy Uber dealings may prompt a parliamentary inquiry in France; and, Shinzo Abe’s complicated legacy looms large for the current Japan Prime Minister.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/12/2109819/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in a midnight move, Pennsylvania Repugs wrote an abortion ban in the state’s constitution.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the June jobs report found the US private sector has regained every job lost during the pandemic; the Biden administration is sending billions of dollars to upgrade airports after Trump failed to help them; and, nearly a year after the DOJ opened an investigation into Phoenix police brutality, Arizona has made it illegal to videotape cops beating the crap out of somebody.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Russian alternative to McDonald’s is facing a french fry shortage; and, the US is terminating its four-decade-old tax treaty with Hungary over that country’s resistance to implementing a global minimum tax.
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/2022/7/11/2109549/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and his allies are on edge as former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone is set to testify before the J6 committee, under oath.
On the rest of the menu, acting as his own lawyer, a former CIA software engineer accused of stealing the largest trove of data in CIA history, told a jury that there’s not enough evidence to convict him of espionage; the MAGAt spectacle in Michigan is threatening the GOP’s bid for governor; and, the IRS commissioner asked the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog to immediately review the suspicious tax audits of James Comey and Andrew McCabe.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two leading human rights groups accused Egyptian authorities of failing to conduct an impartial and transparent investigation into the suspicious death of an economic researcher in custody; and, the European Union Parliament condemned the US abortion ruling and will seek safeguards to be enshrined in the EU’s fundamental rights charter.
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/2022/7/8/2109126/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as Cipollone is set to testify in the J6 Committee investigation, Giuliani said Trump should have pardoned himself.
Then, on the rest of the menu, The "No Jews Allowed" law in Tennessee deserved a separate, but equal rant to the usual morning offerings; the Biden Administration has proposed more flexibility for student debt forgiveness; the Department of Justice is investigating potential civil rights violations in Texas’ multibillion-dollar border security mission; and, contact has been restored with a $32.7 million dollar NASA spacecraft headed to lunar orbit.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a key witness in the corruption trial of Bibi Netanyahu testified that her billionaire boss ordered her to deliver gifts and expensive jewelry to the then-Israeli premier; and, Cairo’s historic Nile River houseboats are being removed in a draconian government push to redesign the city in the image of the United Arab Emirates’ skyline.
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, the deputy press secretary in the Trump White House until resigning shortly after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, has been subpoenaed by the J6 Committee.
On the rest of the menu, a Trump-endorsed Ohio GOP House nominee says the three hundred-eighty mass shootings so far this year are a fair trade for his Second Amendment rights; for the second time in the last nine years, the Department of Justice sued Arizona over requiring proof of citizenship to vote; and, West Coast dockworkers are still talking with management after their contract expired.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on one billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database; and, Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was named as one of four recipients of the prestigious Fields Medal, which is often described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
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:
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, legal analysts explained what possible Trump criminal referrals could look like.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in light of the EPA court ruling, a renewed focus is on the states’ power to rein in greenhouse gasses; researchers warn abortion misinformation will only get worse; and, nearly a year after three opioid distributors finalized a $21 billion national deal to resolve most of the lawsuits against them, a federal judge ruled against a West Virginia community that was the hardest hit.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French President Emmanuel Macron rearranged his Cabinet after losing his parliamentary majority; and, Chinese authorities refused to allow Canadian diplomats to attend the trial of a Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong five years ago.
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:
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Liz Cheney says the J6 Committee could issue multiple Trump criminal referrals.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House slammed Mitch McConnell for protecting Big Pharma price gouging; companies that help workers seeking abortions could be held criminally liable by the MAGAt Nazi States of Amerikka; and, California has better beaches than Florida, better surf, better food, better Due Process and better Equal Protection, too.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two Russian airplanes departed Bulgaria with scores of Russian diplomats, staff and their families amid a mass expulsion that has sent tensions soaring between the historically close nations; and, thirty-two thousand Sydney, Australia residents were warned they may need to evacuate their homes after more than three feet of rain fell in twenty-four hours.
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/2022/7/4/2108271/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump attacked Cassidy Hutchinson on Newsmax over her testimony before the J6 Committee.
On the rest of the menu, ransomware attacks are increasing in Oregon; the Department of Transportation announced funding of a program to aid communities harmed by racist urban planning; and, New York officials ruled against a natural gas-guzzling bitcoin-mining power plant.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN special envoy for Congo warned that the M23 rebel group has increasingly acted as a conventional army; and, authorities have suspended the operations of Puerto Rico-based Euro Pacific International Bank, which was under suspicion of money laundering and offshore tax evasion.
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/2022/7/1/2107689/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, some experts on the law might think paying the lawyer fees for the J6 Committee witnesses and sending threats to those who sought their own counsel, is coercion and witness intimidation.
Then, on the rest of the menu, antiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines by using the Texas vigilante law; two North Carolina workers filed suit against an employer who fired them for not participating in the company’s daily Christian prayer circle meetings; and, Rhode Island has set an ambitious target for one hundred percent renewable energy by 2033.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where New Zealand has joined Canada in designating American far-right group The Proud Boys as a terrorist organization; and, a Mexican journalist was shot to death in the northeastern part of the country, the 12th journalist killed in the nation so far this year.
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/2022/6/30/2107432/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Representative Jamie Raskin discussed Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony to the J6 Committee.
On the rest of the menu, health clinics scramble to divert patients as states’ “trigger bans” on abortions kick in; the Michigan Supreme Court threw out the charges against former Governor Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water scandal; and, and in a slap to the face, New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested that Rudy Giuliani be investigated for filing a false police report.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Scotland leader Nicola Sturgeon proposed a new independence vote in October of 2023; and, for the first time, the French parliament elected a woman as its speaker.
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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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/29/2107214/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, voters are swinging back to the Democrats ahead of the midterms.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s special purpose acquisition company faces a grand jury investigation; Planned Parenthood sued Idaho over its ‘trigger’ abortion ban; and, Facebook has begun removing posts offering birth control and the morning after pill.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Swiss court fined Credit Suisse for facilitating a cocaine cash laundering scheme; and, a Paris court found the French government guilty of wrongful negligence in the use of a banned pesticide in the French Caribbean islands.
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/2022/6/28/2106998/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the British documentary filmmaker who provided evidence to the January 6 select committee, revealed a conversation he had with Trump days after he lost the election.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Rhode Island cop running for state office as a Republican, was forced out of the race after punching his Black female Democratic opponent in the face during an abortion protest, twice; the former Louden County, Virginia prosecutor, and now a Louden County judge, removed his progressive successor and her office from prosecuting cases; and, the Bone Saw Golf Tournament moves to Oregon, where local officials are not happy.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French lawmakers want abortion rights in their constitution; and, the Auschwitz Museum says it’s been a target of Russian propaganda.
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/2022/6/27/2106653/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller had to call Italy to debunk the ridiculous “Italygate” conspiracy theory.
On the rest of the menu, the Education Department will erase about $6 billion of student-loan debt for defrauded borrowers; proposed in the wake of the Pandora Papers, a bipartisan House panel approved expanding anti-money laundering reporting requirements; and, the Virginia Board of Health reprimanded the state health commissioner for scandalous remarks dismissing scientific evidence of structural racism in health outcomes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US woman who was denied an emergency abortion while vacationing in Malta, has been airlifted out amid fears for her life; and, the new Australian leader is set to visit France to fix their damaged relations.
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/2022/6/24/2105933/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s fake elector scheme becomes more than just a scandal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the DOJ wants to know if Sidney Powell is funding the Oath Keepers’ legal defense; a federal judge “reluctantly” postponed the trial of five members of the extremist group Proud Boys, but they will remain in pre-trial detention; and, the owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes, who sent more than 800 of his elderly residents to a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida last year, was arrested on fraud and cruelty charges.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s choke hold over gas could send Europe back to coal; and, the Australian state of Victoria has banned the Nazi swastika amid a resurgence of far-right extremism.
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/2022/6/23/2105722/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump used his Big Lie to bludgeon election officials to his will.
On the rest of the menu, the Chevron CEO got bent out of shape when Joe Biden said the oil companies “make more money than God,” at a time the oil companies are making more money than God; Facebook signed a deal with the Justice Department to end discriminatory housing ads; and, it could take years to rebuild Yellowstone after the recent catastrophic floods, and cost billions.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Yair Lapid is set to be Israel’s next premier, but he faces a critical test; and, tens of thousands of railway workers walked off the job in Britain in the country’s biggest transit strike in three decades.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/22/2105521/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump was told the election workers he terrorized were innocent, but he didn’t care.
Then, on the rest of the menu, New York passed its landmark voting rights legislation; Facebook removed Red Flag Poster Boy, Missouri GOP US Senate candidate Eric Greitens’ “Rino Hunting” campaign ad; and, nearly 350,000 rainbow trout must be euthanized as California wildlife officials battle bacteria outbreaks at two fish hatcheries in the eastern Sierra.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cyprus launched a criminal investigation into a senior police officer blackmailing the country’s prison chief; and, the US Navy had a tense encounter with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
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/2022/6/21/2105293/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, nearly six in ten Americans believe Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in January 6.
Then, on the rest of the menu, four years after Iowa's top court ruled that abortion was protected by the state's constitution, a stacked court recently appointed by GOP Governor Kim Reynolds have said, ‘precedent? we don’t care about no stinking precedent’; modern ‘redlining’ is pushing some long-time San Antonio, Texans out of their homes; and, as national Republicans block more comprehensive measures, Democrats across the country have started pushing for bans on gun sales near schools and child-care centers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a government attorney for the Philippines was fatally shot in an Uber while visiting Philadelphia; and, the European Union’s executive arm recommended making Ukraine a candidate for EU membership.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/20/2105111/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, why did it take so long for Mike Pence “to do the right thing?”
On the rest of the menu, Republican voters in Nevada picked a nominee for attorney general who once called for the lynching of the state's current attorney general, who is Black; a Nebraska man pleaded guilty on charges that he threatened an election official, the first conviction for a Justice Department task force charged with protecting poll workers; and, as severe floods ravage Montana, where in the world is Governor Greg Gianforte.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where defying international condemnation, the Mayanmar junta has vowed to execute pro democracy activists; and, Dutch authorities deported a Russian spy posing as a Brazilian national in an attempt to infiltrate the International Criminal Court.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/17/2104631/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the J6 committee revealed Trump raised $250 million for an election fraud fund that didn’t exist, so let’s follow the money.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the New Mexico Supreme Court ordered the MAGA-dominated county commission to certify the vote; the chief public health official of Virginia says he doesn’t care about the woke science, there is no structural racism causing racial disparities in healthcare, period; and, the US Supreme Court dismissed an attempt spear-headed by Arizona to defend a Trump-era immigration policy that made it harder for immigrants to obtain green cards.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where agents from the Commerce Department and the FBI are probing how American electronics wound up in Russian military gear; and, the European Union sued the UK over its unilateral move to rewrite the trade rules agreed to when the country left the EU two years ago.
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/2022/6/16/2104429/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the violence by Trump-loyal, fascist paramilitary groups that has been in the news lately, lines up neatly with the political targeting by Republican politicians.
On the rest of the menu, an explosive device was found at the home of a San Jose, California city councilwoman; the Border Patrol is investigating an unofficial “challenge coin” distributed among the agency that depicts white border agents on horseback using their reins as whips against Black migrants; and, the historic floodwaters that continue to rage through Yellowstone has ‘dramatically changed’ the landscape.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Cambodian court convicted a lawyer and dozens of others of treason for organizing an opposition party to longtime prime minister, Hun Sen; and, China says a Bloomberg news assistant in Beijing has been released on bail after being detained in 2020 on charges of endangering national security.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/15/2104250/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Trump does everything you tell your children not to do.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, major crypto bank Celsius put a freeze on withdrawals that sent major currencies down; a children’s story hour at a California Bay Area library was disrupted by the Proud Boys, prompting local authorities to launch a hate-crime investigation; and, Amazon calls the cops and illegally fires workers in its attempts to stop unionization nationwide.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said she will not seek a new four-year term; and, the European Space Agency star survey has revealed a celestial treasure trove.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/14/2104032/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s comment to “stand back and standby” tripled the Proud Boys’ membership.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Virginia city plagued by violence will hold a gun buyback event; an assistant police chief of a suburban city near Seattle who displayed a Nazi insignia will be paid $1.5 million dollars to go away; and, a Bremerton, Washington man was charged with threatening to kill the city prosecutor and the mayor.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO’s eastern nations want better protection measures from the alliance; and, a breakthrough court ruling should lead Olympic sports bodies to reopen cases in the Russian state-backed doping program.
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/2022/6/13/2103826/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6th committee presented new footage and testimony on the panel’s first public hearing.
On the rest of the menu, the Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police; the Kentucky farm sector could set record receipts; and, after scores of wrecks with parked emergency vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said they are a step closer to recalling almost all the Teslas with partial automated driving systems that were manufactured since 2014.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Central Bank will raise interest rates next month for the first time in eleven years; and, the search narrows as pressure mounts in the Amazon disappearance of freelance journalist, Dom Phillips and Indigenous official, Bruno Pereira.
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/2022/6/10/2103316/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you can tell how partisan the January 6 Committee is by the way hardcore arch-conservative Liz Cheney is a baby eating representative democracy commie.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that private companies in Oregon jails must abide by federal laws and serve inmates equally; Brittney Griner’s case is tangled up with that of a lesser-known American also imprisoned in Russia, Paul Whelan; and, a rebel golf league, backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, has made sportswashing stooges out of Phil Mickelson, Dennis Johnson and forty-six other golfers turning a blind eye to the kingdom’s notorious record on human rights.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Angela Merkel said she won’t apologize for her failed efforts in engaging Russia; and, a Fiji court has finally ruled the US can seize a Russian oligarch’s $300 million dollar superyacht.
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/2022/6/9/2103090/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, "If January 6 is such a nothingburger, as Republicans and propaganda outlets like Fox News would have us believe, then why are they going to such extraordinary lengths to hide the committee proceedings?"
On the rest of the menu, Joshua Tree National Park has temporarily closed a popular hiking trail so bighorn sheep can get undisturbed access to water; the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning of heightened right wing extremist threats heading into the midterms; and, the latest Crypto meltdown is wake-up call for many, including Congress.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where lawyers for asylum seekers say US officials drastically slowed family reunifications during the Trump administration; and, Dutch prosecutors demanded life sentences for two men in the brazen gangland slaying last year of investigative reporter, Peter R de Vries.
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/2022/6/8/2102881/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Americans should keep their eye on Liz Cheney during the January 6 Hearings.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the DeSantis budget veto signals his intention to eliminate gun permitting in Florida and replace it with permitless carry; an Arizona judge declined the state Republican party request to block mail-in voting; and, an anti-harassment order has been issued against a sheriff in western Washington state, requiring him to stay away from a Black newspaper carrier who is suing him over a confrontation last year.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Afghan government officials looted tens of millions of dollars from the nation’s treasury during the Taliban takeover; and, Japan recorded its lowest number of births in more than a century.
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/2022/6/7/2102681/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, from Bill Clinton through Obama, and until this very day, the GOP put the P in Petty, Payback and Probes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, students of color push back on calls for more police in schools; abortion rights advocates say they need more men’s voices; and, a New Orleans Starbucks store is the first in Louisiana to vote union.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO kicked off a nearly two-week Baltic Sea naval exercise with Finland and Sweden; and, Australia charged China for threatening one of its maritime planes over the South China Sea.
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/2022/6/6/2102440/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans are out of touch with people in their own party who own guns.
On the rest of the menu, a newly revealed report puts to rest the right's conspiracy theories about Michael Flynn; the jury said they are deadlocked in the ‘We Build The Wall’ fraud trial after the judge allowed one juror who made politically biased statements against liberals to stay on the panel; and, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform accused Amazon of “obstructing” their investigation into the company’s labor practices during severe weather events.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where angered by a planned reform they worry will hurt their careers, members of the French diplomatic corp went on strike, the second such strike in over twenty years; and, the United States and its allies vowed to hold Russia accountable for crimes committed by its forces that invaded Ukraine.
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/2022/6/3/2102005/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP-appointed justices have to end Roe because pregnant women were prosecuted in the 1600’s.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an independent watchdog opened a broad investigation into Trump-era Social Security Inspector General Gail Ennis over an anti-fraud program that imposed massive penalties on disabled and elderly people; the Michigan Court of Appeals unanimously rejected a legal challenge from a former leading GOP candidate for Michigan governor, who was disqualified from the ballot for submitting fraudulent nominating petitions; and, Austin is the largest US city to challenge Trump’s 2020 census numbers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Denmark is headed toward joining the European Union common defense policy that it long eschewed; and tens of thousands have been displaced by a resurgence of fighting in eastern Congo.
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/2022/6/2/2101800/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, observers claim that actually, there is nothing unusual how a Texas police chief can go AWOL, and still be secretly sworn in to the Uvalde city council while federal investigators are trying to contact him.
On the rest of the menu, TEDx Portland may have run afoul of IRS rules by hosting Oregon’s independent gubernatorial hopeful, who is one of the state’s 6,740 machine gun owners; inspectors general need more authority to go after fraud in the COVID-19 relief programs; and, a former executive of a California solar power company was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a $1 billion fraud scheme.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a thirty-two year-old French reporter became the eighth journalist killed while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and, the new Australian government includes a record thirteen women ministers.
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, the Justice Department announced it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the TSA reports a spike in travelers trying to bring guns through airport checkpoints; far fight activist Allen West's bid to take over the NRA ended in humiliating failure; and, Pope Francis sent a ‘powerful message’ by elevating a liberal Bishop over the wannabe inquisitor Archbishop who banned Pelosi from communion.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where ignoring EU sanctions, Serbia secured a gas deal with Putin; and, a German federal court is mulling a bid to remove a seven hundred year old antisemitic relic.
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/2022/5/31/2101365/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an NRA board member was caught off guard and misfired when pressed on gun laws and the organization's priorities following the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Then, on the rest of the menu, white Christian nationalism is on the rise in some GOP campaigns; a California man pleaded guilty in a plot to blow up the state Democratic Party headquarters in retaliation for Donald Trump’s election loss; and, a suburban Portland, Oregon man has been charged with placing a white-supremacist, neo-Nazi sticker near an immigrant community center, before more than a dozen guns were found during a search of his car and residence.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an ex-Danish police employee has been charged in a huge hacking case; and, the co-founder of the ultra-leftist Japanese Red Army militant group has been released from jail after twenty years, but it’s okay, she’s really sorry for what happened.
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/2022/5/30/2101205/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP obsession with guns reveals a major weakness within the party.
On the rest of the menu, the Interior Department announced funding to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells; the Senate GOP unanimously blocked a bill to combat domestic terrorism; and, Susan Collins blocked the confirmation of a NOAA official over rules designed to protect rare whales.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States won the latest round of a legal battle to seize a $325-million, 348-foot Russian-owned super yacht in Fiji; and, the Turkish central banks will keep the interest rate at 14%, despite a 70% rate of inflation.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Netroots Radio Deep Archive:
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, outrage increases at the GOP for blocking gun safety legislation, even after the Texas school massacre.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration has sided against the airline industry over crew breaks; the State Bar of Texas sued to punish state Attorney General Ken Paxton for lying to the US Supreme court about election fraud; and, police suspect arson in a fire at one of only two Wyoming abortion clinics.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States threatened sanctions on anyone in Sudan impeding or blocking the transition to democracy; and, Russia says it will pay its foreign debt in rubles, a move that is likely to be seen by foreign investors as a default.
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/2022/5/26/2100383/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, being murdered in school is a uniquely American way of death.
On the rest of the menu, Big Pharma Dem Kurt Schrader’s potential loss in Oregon’s primary has rekindled Democratic interest in pushing through prescription drug legislation; the GOP has allowed bigotry to be mainstreamed at conservative events; and, supreme courts in Iowa and other GOP-controlled states continue to stymie abortion bans.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian naval blockade has halted maritime trade at Ukrainian ports; and, the Taliban ordered female newscasters to cover up, so their male colleagues joined them in protest.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/25/2100086/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new report reveals shameless self-dealing by Kushner and Mnuchin.
Then, on the rest of the menu, today’s election in Georgia marks the biggest test yet of new voting restrictions enacted by Republicans; not many people charged with felony crimes can go seven years without ever standing trial, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is one; and, a new Department of Justice policy stipulates federal agents have a duty to intervene if they see other law enforcement officials using excessive force.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Nancy Pelosi warned Britain there would be no trade deal unless they respect the Northern Ireland peace deal; and, the head of the UN World Food Program pressed billionaires ‘to step up.’
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/2022/5/24/2099856/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as the January 6 hearings draw closer, new revelations continue to be revealed.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the first shipment of baby formula arrived in Indianapolis from Germany on Sunday; a government report found Trump’s census plot to game apportionment might have actually cost red states scores of seats; and, the top elected GOP official in a rural and sparsely populated West Texas county has been arrested for cattle rustling.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a line of violent thunderstorms tore across Canada from southern Ontario to southeast Quebec, killing at least five and cutting power to nearly a million people; and, Russia banned 963 Americans, including Biden, Harris, journalists, lawmakers who have died, regular US citizens and even actor Morgan Freeman, but not Donald Trump.
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/2022/5/23/2099635/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “the Electoral College is a standing crime on America.”
On the rest of the menu, federal contract service workers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in pay and benefits and are at risk of losing more because of bureaucratic fumbling; the GOP is willing to damage its relationship with big business to score culture war points; and, the Disinformation Governance Board’s ex-leader faced a torrent of online right wing abuse that included credible threats of rape, kidnapping and death.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia of using food as a weapon against millions around the world; and, Poland said it will assist Sweden and Finland, should they be attacked before obtaining NATO membership.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/20/2099095/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mitch McConnell “wrecked” the Senate under Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, two hundred-three House Republicans voted against bolstering federal resources to prevent domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York; a Wisconsin man was sentenced to ten years in prison for a racist acid attack; and, the Defense Department inspector general determined the Vindman brothers suffered “swift” and severe retaliation from Trump over the Ukraine call.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the United States does not have the legal authority to seize frozen Russian central bank assets; and, the Department of Justice charged one American and four Chinese officials with spying.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2098878/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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WCC&S Deep Archive:
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Justice Department requesting transcripts from the January 6 select committee “may be the savvy way to investigate” the insurrection.
On the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced a plan to increase the supply of affordable housing, and Pennsylvania could benefit the most; three Wisconsin Democratic voters filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ten fake Trump electors and the two lawyers who advised them; and, the Justice Department sued Republican megadonor Steve Wynn to register as an agent of China, the first affirmative civil lawsuit under the Foreign Agents Registration Act in more than thirty years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN special envoy for Iraq warned that “the streets are about to boil over;” and, the Spanish government approved a draft bill that widens abortion rights, while making Spain the first country in Europe entitling workers to paid menstrual leave.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098663/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Fox News has blood on its hands.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the America First majority on the Supreme Court made it more difficult for federal courts to review the factual determinations of a case before an immigrant is deported; in a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down another limit on political corruption in the McCain-Feingold Act; and, a confidential workplace survey conducted for the DC federal trial and appeals courts detailed profound instances of gender discrimination, bullying and racial insensitivity.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian ransomware gang has threatened to overthrow the Costa Rican government; and, Macron named Elisabeth Borne as France’s new prime minister, only the second woman in history to hold the post.
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/2022/5/17/2098460/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an investigation by the Georgetown Law Center reports that ICE can spy on the majority of adult Americans, and they do.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Labor Department ordered a restaurant in South Carolina to pay more than $600,000 to nearly one hundred workers who were forced to share their tips; the Detroit Three automakers reinstated their mask mandate at some Michigan facilities; and, Atlanta is submitting a formal bid to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where India banned exports of wheat amid its own food security concerns; and, in an historic shift, the ruling parties in Finland and Sweden agreed to join NATO.
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/2022/5/16/2098243/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6 committee has subpoenaed five House Republicans after they stonewalled the panel.
On the rest of the menu, Trump officials and meat processors worked closely to keep plants open in the first year of the pandemic, even though they knew workers were rapidly getting infected; the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny a permit to build a $1.4 billion dollar seawater desalination plant; and, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine revealing Vlad’s intent, the US Army is poised to revamp its forces in Alaska to better prepare for future cold-weather conflicts.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a European Union plan aims to help get wheat from Ukraine to the world; and, Costa Rica declared a state of emergency after a month of crippling ransomware attacks.
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/2022/5/13/2097728/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Eric Holder said an ‘indictment of Trump should be seriously considered.’
Then, on the rest of the menu, Joe Biden waived executive privilege for a new set of Trump records; an Idaho health care network sued secessionist gubernatorial candidate Ammon Bundy and his armed mob after a protest they organized forced a hospital into lockdown; and, Herschel Walker’s insulting campaign is the worst kind of sports idolatry.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Sri Lankan leader vowed to shed powers and appoint a prime minister; and, Ukrainian refugees in Russia report interrogations, detention and other abuses at the ‘filtration camps.’
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/2022/5/12/2097501/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Whitehouse explained how "Brett Kavanaugh was not properly vetted and the FBI was not allowed to do a proper supplemental background investigation."
On the rest of the menu, a Tennessee attorney with deep ties to Russian agents, said Russia is better at running elections than the US, that’s why he’s helping the GOP; the pandemic is getting tougher to track as COVID testing plunges; and, California laid out a plan to drastically cut fossil fuel use.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Paraguay organized crime prosecutor was slain on a Colombian beach as he honeymooned with his new wife; and, an El Salvadoran court sentenced a woman who suffered an obstetric emergency that ended her pregnancy to thirty years in prison for aggravated homicide.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
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Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/11/2097285/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alito cited the recent decline in the ‘domestic supply of infants’ for adoption as the reason to overturn Roe.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Joe Biden announced that twenty internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes; a $20 million HUD grant doubles the size of its eviction protection program; and, lawyers for Michael Sussmann say they plan to call a former New York Times reporter as a witness to help show the attorney is not guilty of the charges in Durham’s witch hunt.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said that Chinese patriots are now firmly in charge of the city; and, Andy Warhol’s iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for a cool $195 million, making it the most expensive work by a US artist ever sold at auction.
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/2022/5/10/2097070/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe is on track to shake up the midterms.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a confusing debate suggests homework is too much when it’s often too little; the pandemic has pushed Oregon’s public defender system to the brink; and, Daunte Wright’s mother was injured by police while legally videotaping a traffic stop from across the street.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where divisions in the Taliban deepen as Afghan women defy the nation’s strict veil edict; and, Northern Ireland’s rival parties are urged to work together after Sinn Fein’s historic electoral victory.
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/2022/5/9/2096820/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Alito’s lies did not stop in his confirmation hearing.”
On the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced a wide-ranging enforcement strategy to hold industrial polluters accountable for damage done to poor and minority communities; the condition of some prominent US dams is kept secret in the national database; and, Rob Stein, the Democratic strategist who organized liberal donors as a counterweight to the network of conservative groups funded by the Koch Brothers and Richard Mellon Scaife, has died at age seventy-eight.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower as fears spread that US interest rate hikes to fight inflation might stall economic growth; and, a superyacht that American authorities say is owned by a Russian oligarch previously sanctioned for money laundering, has been seized by law enforcement in Fiji.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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/2022/5/6/2096226/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the constitution doesn’t say a damn thing about witches in any amendment, but Alito cited a British jurist who routinely put them to death.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Telecom groups ended their bid to block California’s net neutrality law;; a Los Angeles hospital has been sued for racism in death of a Black mother who died hours after childbirth; and, Stacey Abrams raised a towering $11.7 million for the last three months in the Georgia governor’s race.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leaders of Britain and Japan are meeting today to announce a new defense agreement against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine; and, while the US marks one million dead from COVID-19, the World Health Organization estimates over fifteen million worldwide have succumbed to the virus.
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/2022/5/5/2096007/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the reasoning in Alito’s ‘daft’ opinion puts a bullseye on other long-held American rights.
On the rest of the menu, the District of Columbia has reached a $750K settlement in the Trump inaugural lawsuit; New Mexico is seeking US disaster status to check the nation’s current largest wildfire; and, a woman whose son was killed in an Illinois tornado, criticized Amazon for making him work on his day off that day.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain’s government said it has nothing to hide in its spyware scandals; and, the United States will spotlight war-caused food insecurity at two United Nations events.
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/2022/5/4/2095722/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alito’s leaked draft opinion is “as full-throated and muscular a decision as could ever be imagined.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, lawmakers in eighteen states are following California’s lead in offering legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families; DeSantis has vowed to eliminate gun permits and background checks in Florida; and, a bronze statue depicting one of Oklahoma’s most famous Native American ballerinas was cut from its base outside a Tulsa museum and sold for scrap.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the first elected female leader of Panama’s Wounaan Indigenous group has officially taken office; and, Poland urged the EU to slap sanctions on Russian oil and gas.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/3/2095459/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP messed around, now they are finding out.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Black doctors say they face discrimination based on race; hundreds of US urban areas will become rural under new census criteria; and, the Connecticut Senate approved a bill that protects abortion providers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where despite a last minute debt payment, investors brace for Russia to default; and, Germany said weaning itself off of Russian oil by late summer is ‘realistic.’
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/2/2095229/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McCarthy has proven himself to have been compromised.
On the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis is waging an all-out war on Florida residents' civil rights; sixteen states are suing the United States Postal Service to halt the purchases of thousands of “Louis DeJoy’s gas-guzzling” mail trucks; and, California subpoenaed ExxonMobil as part of a first-of-its-kind broader investigation into the petroleum industry for its role in causing a global plastic pollution crisis.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Finland and Sweden could become members of the 30-nation military organization quite quickly; and, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned attacks on civilians as Russian missiles struck Kyiv during his visit there with Zelenskyy.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/29/2094733/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is no less dangerous for being a ridiculous buffoon.
Then, on the rest of the menu, millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are pouring in the big bucks to win Republican primaries for open US Senate seats in Ohio and Pennsylvania; ads for jobs in New York City will have to say what they pay; and, older people fret less about aging in the place they live, but only if they are white.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one hundred Holocaust survivors asked people to stand with them and remember the Nazi genocide to avoid repeating the horrors of the past; and, prewar data theft armed Russia with information it can use to identify and locate Ukrainians most likely to resist an occupation, and target them for internment, or worse.
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/2022/4/28/2094534/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, turns out Kevin McCarthy thinks the same way about Trump as the rest of us do.
On the rest of the menu, one of the largest providers of military housing in the United States continues to respond inadequately to mold and other structural problems; Southern California’s gigantic water supplier is requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as drought continues to plague the state; and, after a joint investigation by the National Women’s Soccer League and its players’ association, the Houston Dash suspended general manager and head coach James Clarkson on allegations of discrimination, harassment and abuse.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia is already setting it’s sights on Moldova; and, the UN General Assembly took a first step to put the five permanent members of the Security Council under the spotlight whenever they use their veto power.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/27/2094298/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new details explain why Pence told his Secret Service detail, “I’m not getting in the car, Tim.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House warned congress that without funding, the US will lose out on Covid treatments; with the midterms looming, one of Joe Biden’s closest aides is leaving the White House to take on a role as senior adviser to the Democratic National Committee; and, the White House seeks more power to counter the nefarious use of drones in the US.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the co-leader of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party urged former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, whose ties to the Russian energy industry have left him increasingly isolated at home, to leave the party; and, far-right Putin darling, Marine Le Pen, is now plotting to take over the French parliament after her decisive loss to Macron.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/26/2094083/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in a wide-ranging interview, Elizabeth Warren spoke for a lot of us when she called Kevin McCarthy a ‘liar’ and ‘traitor’ over the January 6 tape.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court is set to weigh the Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ asylum policy; the national average retail price of regular-grade gasoline continuing to drop for weeks is a sure sign that Biden and the Dems are in disarray; and, the GOP still has questions about the financial dealings of Hunter Biden, and when they take over the government again, they intend to do something about it.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an opposition liberal party convincingly won the parliamentary election in Slovenia, handing a major defeat for the right wing populist Prime Minister; and, President Joe Biden commemorated the 107th anniversary of the “Armenian genocide,” issuing a statement in memory of the 1.5 million Armenians “who were deported, massacred or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination.”
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/25/2093839/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, lordy, there are tapes, lots and lots of tapes.
On the rest of the menu, a fired Philadelphia police officer was arrested for aggravated assault in the beating of a mother who was pulled from her SUV after accidentally driving into civil unrest with her 2-year-old son in the car; the same universities that paid JD Vance $70K to promote his book, Vance now bashes as a Senate candidate for being commie groomers; and, the Supreme Court kept alive a California man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now on display in a Spanish museum.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China’s credit card processor has refused to work with banks in Russia to avoid sanctions over Vlad’s war on Ukraine; and, an Egyptian court sentenced a former member of parliament to ten years in prison for smuggling antiquities out of the country.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/22/2093344/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “a vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy Democracy.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-one people have been charged nationwide with one hundred-fifty million dollars in COVID fraud; more than fifty Republicans who once joined a lawsuit claiming the House’s pandemic-era proxy voting was unconstitutional have voted by proxy this year, remotely without showing up; and, shoddy record keeping left thousands of Americans saddled with student debt that should have been automatically canceled.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of deep Kremlin ties; and, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said that known antisemitic offenses are only “the tip of the iceberg.”
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/21/2093151/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Michigan Democratic State Senator Mallory McMorrow gave a fiery rebuke to a Republican colleague's fundraising email that accused her of wanting to "groom and sexualize kindergartners."
On the rest of the menu, a majority of Americans continue to support a mask requirement for people traveling on airplanes and other shared transportation; Florida Governor DeSantis raised the stakes in his battle with Disney over his capricious “Don’t Say Gay” law; and, California leads the effort to restore the original floodplains in the San Joaquin Valley from one hundred-fifty years ago.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Slovakia’s former Prime Minister Robert Fico is facing criminal charges; and, a massive cyberattack has crippled the Puerto Rico toll collection system.
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/2022/4/20/2092970/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the fascist tool of “Eliminationist rhetoric” has gained an alarming foothold in Trump-era politics.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan's longest-serving congressman said death threats by extreme far-right members in his party are “a detriment to getting good people to run;” the Biden administration is requiring that all steel used in infrastructure projects be made in the US; and, a judge ruled Amazon must reinstate a former warehouse employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic for leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect employees against COVID-19.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union’s fraud agency accused French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of embezzlement just days before her run-off election against Macron; and, Archbishop of Canterbury criticized the British government’s plan to put some asylum-seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda as going against God’s plan.
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/2022/4/19/2092759/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the war in Ukraine looms over Biden’s agenda.
Then, on the rest of the menu, some state lawmakers are calling it quits because they can’t afford to serve; modest-income buyers are being priced out of new-vehicle market; and a container ship stuck for more than a month in Chesapeake Bay has finally been re-floated.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Swedes are fed up with three days of demonstrations across the Nordic nation by a Danish anti-immigrant far-right extremist group; and, WNBA players say life in Russia was lucrative, but lonely.
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/2022/4/18/2092527/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump still can’t bring himself to say Putin is evil.
On the rest of the menu, the Office of the Virginia attorney general denied it gave a pedophile cop a plea deal, but it did; a Tennessee Republican praised Hitler for leading a 'life that got him in the history books'; and, tens of thousands of California grocery store workers approved a new contract with the major supermarket chains.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China said it would reject “any pressure or coercion” to persuade Moscow to end the war in Ukraine; and, concerned scientists and worried government officials probe a massive sea urchin die-off in the Caribbean.
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/2022/4/15/2092095/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Justice Department refusing a request from the House Oversight Committee for an inventory of Trump materials is the strongest sign yet that the Feds are investigating Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, state and local governments across the United States are distributing millions of dollars they received from the American Rescue Plan to fight homelessness; Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy; and, multiple US government agencies issued a joint alert warning of the discovery of a suite of malicious cyber tools that are capable of sabotaging the energy sector and other critical industries.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where agricultural workers in the Horn of Africa are preparing for their most severe drought in forty years; and, echoing the Kremlin line, French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen warned against sending any more weapons to Ukraine.
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/2022/4/14/2091876/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin lashing out at NATO has backfired as more countries want to join the alliance.
On the rest of the menu, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on whether the amount of ballot boxes should be increased, or are ballot boxes a conspiracy by pedophiles to destroy America; the New York lieutenant governor resigned after his arrest in a federal probe on corruption; and, after his Republican colleagues finally turned on him, the South Dakota attorney general became the first official to be impeached in the state’s history.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the potential of a far-right victory in France is seen as a threat to the European Union: and, a cryptocurrency expert was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for helping North Korea evade US sanctions.
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/2022/4/13/2091688/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared Kushner secured a two billion dollar investment from the Saudis despite lacking the qualifications to handle such an investment.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America, and its findings are grim; California utility Pacific Gas & Electric will pay $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two massive wildfires; and, the Georgia elections lawsuit backed by Stacy Abrams goes to a bench trial.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israeli spyware maker NSO Group turned to the US Supreme Court for immunity in the WhatsApp suit; and, Joe Biden urged India’s Narendra Modi not to accelerate the buying of Russian oil.
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/2022/4/12/2091483/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alabama once again becomes the battleground of the Civil Rights movement.
Then, on the rest of the menu, President Joe Biden is expected to nominate an Obama-era US attorney to run the ATF, as the administration unveils its formal rule to rein in ghost guns; the average US price of a gallon of gas dropped ten cents in the last two weeks to $4.27 per gallon; and, after a weekend of tech bro trolling, Elon Musk will not be joining the Twitter board of directors.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China closed the manufacturing hub of Guangzhou as the nation battles a major COVID-19 surge in its big eastern cities; and, Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower after the Federal Reserve indicated it might raise interest rates to cool US inflation.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
"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/2022/4/11/2091266/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McConnell “sold his soul for a tax cut.”
On the rest of the menu, a law and order Georgia Republican argued against banning stock trades for members of Congress because people would break the law anyway; a congressional oversight committee said the Justice Department is “obstructing” its investigation into Trump’s handling of classified material he illegally commandeered to Mar a Lago; and, more than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the US territory.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Canada banned foreign home buyers for two years to cool the hot housing market there; and, the European Union approved new punishing sanctions against Russia, including an EU embargo on coal imports.
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/2022/4/8/2090755/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
WCC&S Deep Archive:
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the party that’s accusing their enemies of being literal pedophiles, had to rewrite a bill that would have allowed child marriages to grown ass men in their 60’s.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in a 5-4 Shadow Docket decision, the Supreme Court reinstated the Trump rule that gutted the Clean Water Act of 1972; Joe Biden signed a sweeping overhaul of the US Postal Service that saved six-days-a-week mail delivery, but Louis DeJoy is still there to monkey-wrench the works; and, House Democrats accused oil companies of price gouging as Americans suffer from ever-increasing gasoline prices during the war in Ukraine.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN General Assembly is voting today for Russia to be stripped of its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council; and, Russia said that it made a debt payment in rubles this week, a move that could put the country on a path to an historic default.
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/2022/4/7/2090560/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new Republican tactic of smearing everyone who disagrees with them as supporting pedophilia “is a disgusting and cynical attempt to render their political opposition essentially as hateable as possible.”
On the rest of the menu, Rick Scott voted against American manufacturing ideas he touted in his own plan; a former Trump administration official who is now running for a House seat in New Hampshire, voted twice in the 2016 GOP presidential primary; and, the House will vote today on whether to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Nigerian atheist was sentenced to twenty-four years in prison for blasphemy over Facebook posts; and, two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks stolen from Cambridge University’s library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/6/2090355/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
WCC&S Deep Archive:
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Republican obsession with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial philosophy is just an example of “swamp, dark money talking points.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, California advanced a bill allowing private citizens to sue anyone who distributes illegal assault weapons, ghost guns, or .50 caliber rifles; Amazon’s first-ever union overcame numerous hurdles, but now faces new ones; and, an American Library Association study found “challenges” to ban books, soared in 2021.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia was urged to stop using land mines in its war in Ukraine like Russia would even care; and, updated World Health Organization guidelines show ninety-nine percent of the world’s population breathes poor-quality air.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/5/2090148/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an ex-Russian oligarch says when Vlad’s troops were not met with flowers, that was the one moment in the war that drove Putin ‘insane’.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Black Democratic candidates try to revive the party in Trump territory; an Applebee’s franchisee worker was fired over a leaked email speculating on high gas prices forcing employees to work longer hours for less money; and, new vehicles sold in the US will have to average at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline by 2026.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Lithuania cut itself off entirely of gas imports from Russia over the weekend; and, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began at sunrise Saturday, just as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy and food prices soaring even higher.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/4/2089944/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the war is not going the way Vlad thought it would.
On the rest of the menu, a Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate repeated the false claim that he served as an Army Ranger; a National Security Agency employee has been charged with mishandling classified material; and, a historian sued the New York prisons over the ban of a Pulitzer-prize winning book about the Attica uprising.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese Australian journalist went on trial in Beijing on espionage charges, with diplomats denied permission to attend the proceedings; and, the Turkish prosecutor in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request that the trial be suspended and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, raising fears of a possible coverup.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/1/2089425/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kremlin advisors will overthrow Putin before giving him “bad news” about Russia’s war failures.
Then, on the rest of the menu, House Republicans oppose Biden’s efforts to expand voting rights; a network of national conservative groups is influencing Wisconsin school board elections; and, nine people were charged with federal civil rights offenses after they traveled to DC and then blocked access to a reproductive health center, and streamed it on Facebook.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the number of Ukrainian refugees has passed the UN’s worst-case estimate; and, a New Zealand man was sentenced to one year in prison for threatening to kill Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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/2022/3/31/2089215/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the seven hour telephone record gap suggests willful and felonious omissions about January 6.
On the rest of the menu, the New York AG asked a state appeals court to enforce Trump’s subpoena; a federal judge in Texas put the national security at risk by barring the Navy from taking action against anti-vax sailors; and, the Federal Trade Commission is suing Intuit to stop its “bait and switch” TurboTax ads.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Ethiopian court ordered an Ethiopian journalist released on bail after being imprisoned for four months without charges; and, Poland finally held a state funeral for award-winning composer Krzysztof Penderecki after a two year delay due to COVID restrictions.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/30/2089004/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin can “never be welcomed back into the international community.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States seeks new lithium sources as demand for batteries grows; Anheuser-Busch beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine filed to run for the US Senate as a Democrat in Missouri against GOP wife beater Eric Greitens; and, a state Senate committee advanced a version of a sweeping bill that aims to improve Georgia’s dismal mental health care system.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Group of Seven agreed to reject Moscow’s demand to pay for Russian natural gas exports in rubles; and, a group of international experts revealed the Mexican government falsified investigations into the disappearance of forty-three students in 2014 from the start.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/29/2088776/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even with all the sturm and drang over the infamous “nine ad libbed words,” Biden delivered the right messages in Warsaw.
Then, on the rest of the menu, officials lifted most of the evacuation orders that forced more than twenty-thousand residents to flee a Boulder, Colorado wildfire; a rarely cited section of the 14th Amendment dealing with insurrection could disqualify a handful of US House members from seeking reelection; and, Iditarod officials punished three mushers for sheltering their dogs during a severe freezing windstorm instead of leaving them out to die.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after Russian threats to attack critical US energy infrastructure, officials are investigating a mysterious explosion and fire at an ExxonMobil refinery in southern Montana; and, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left party secured a big election win in the western state of Saarland that their conservative rivals have led since 1999.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/28/2088490/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ginni Thomas urged Mark Meadows up to and after the January 6 Insurrection to help pursue the efforts underway to overturn the election.
On the rest of the menu, the firing of a Texas librarian is only the latest attack on libraries; the January 6 committee set a contempt vote for two former Trump aides; and, empathy is not a quality Republican senators want to see in the first Black woman Supreme Court justice.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a prominent Somali female lawmaker was among at least 48 people killed in a suicide bombing at a polling station in rural central Somalia; and, Moscow was accused of forcibly removing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians to Russian gulags.
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/2022/3/25/2088023/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP treated Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearing like a campaign fundraiser.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced an initiative to address racial bias in home appraisals; Republicans made sure the IRS criminal investigation unit got no funds to enforce sanctions on rich Russians; and, Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where crushed by war, the Russian stock market will partially reopen for limited trading: and, the Taliban broke their promise on higher education for Afghan girls.
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/2022/3/24/2087789/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson graciously endured Ted Cruz’s “baby talk” and Lindsay Graham walking out in a pique.
On the rest of the menu, Disney is in a balancing act as workers walked out in protest over anti LBGTQ legislation; MacKenzie Scott donated $436 million dollars to Habitat for Humanity; and, a San Diego appeals court judge was confirmed as the first Latina to serve on the California Supreme Court.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian military forces destroyed a new laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that works to improve management of radioactive waste; and, Germany’s parliament paid tribute to Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during World War II, but was killed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled their country over Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the SEC announced a new rule that will require companies to disclose environmental records; the Supreme Court won’t review the case of a Seattle-based Christian organization that was sued after declining to hire a bisexual lawyer who applied for a job; and, Biden warned US companies of potential Russian cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Biden administration expanded existing US travel bans against Chinese officials accused of repressing ethnic and religious minorities; and, armed assailants killed Mexican lawyer and Indigenous rights activist, Patricia Rivera Reyes.
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:
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the life of Putin’s favorite fascist Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin and his work reveals the mindset of Vladimir Putin on his invasion of Ukraine.
Then, on the rest of the menu, policymakers say it is time to rethink the census after results released by the Bureau showed Black, Hispanic, American Indian and other minority residents were undercounted at greater rates in 2020 than in the previous decade; Democratic gains in legislative maps might not last long; and, a former Apple employee has been charged with defrauding the tech giant out of more than $10 million dollars.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China has fully militarized at least three of several islands it built in the disputed South China Sea; and German broadcaster RTL has hired a Ukrainian presenter to host a daily news show for others who have fled their homeland after the Russian invasion.
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/2022/3/21/2087130/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays?_=2022-03-21T07:50:54.000-07:00
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin has no qualms when it comes to slaughtering civilians.
On the rest of the menu, a group of millionaire GOP lawmakers say CDC requirements for wearing masks on air flights causes them 'ongoing financial harm' because they have to buy masks; Washington state signed a law that prohibits Texas-style abortion lawsuits; and, as Black colleges remain on edge after receiving dozens of bomb threats in recent weeks, the FBI said they identified six suspects who are responsible for most of the racially motivated crimes.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Borissov was detained for misuse of EU funds after a nationwide police operation; and, Russia’s Finance Ministry said it transferred a $117 million bond interest payment to an account at Citibank London, in an attempt to avoid a default on government debt.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WCC&S Deep Archive:
https://archive.org/details/west_coast_cookbook_and_speakeasy_with_justice_putnam_21_nov_17
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Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/18/2086642/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump “emboldened” Putin before the war.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the state comptroller will take over the majority-Black town of Mason, Tennessee, just ahead of the Ford electric truck and battery plant being built near by; Missouri could make it harder to get out-of-state abortions; and, a highway safety study found SUVs and pickups are more likely to hit pedestrians than cars.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Justice Department accused five Chinese operatives of spying on dissidents in the US, and for trying to bring down a New York candidate; and, Japan's military said that it spotted four large Russian amphibious warfare ships sailing close to its islands as they traveled west, possibly towards Europe.
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/2022/3/17/2086417/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the response from the White House and Congress in the first three weeks of the Ukraine crisis has been “nothing short of historic.”
On the rest of the menu, jury selection begins today in the trial of a Republican congressman from Nebraska who’s accused of lying to federal authorities about illegal campaign contributions from a Nigerian billionaire; several Republicans competing for the party’s nomination to run for US Senate in Ohio are facing scrutiny for their ties to Russia; and, a major Boise hospital went on lockdown after far-right activist Ammon Bundy urged hundreds of his supporters to go the facility in protest of a child protection case involving one of his family friends.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where journalists of Belarus’ oldest newspaper were handed prison terms in the latest move in a relentless government crackdown on independent media; and, Germany announced a 10-point plan to combat far-right extremism that includes disarming about 1,500 suspected extremists and tightening background checks for those wanting to acquire guns.
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/2022/3/16/2086211/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “the sound of war is changing” in Kyiv.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law that stops UC Berkeley from having to turn away thousands of students from its incoming freshman class; Democrats on the House Oversight Committee want an investigation into Dejoy’s US Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles; and, Trump has been accused of violating federal campaign laws by raising and spending money for a presidential run without officially filing his candidacy.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Tiananmen Square protester was killed in his New York law office; and, Slovakia’s Foreign Ministry expelled three Russian diplomats following information from the country’s intelligence services on possible spying and bribery.
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/2022/3/15/2085976/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when looking for an off ramp for Putin, it’s important to remember “there isn’t much of an off ramp, because autocrats don’t negotiate.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the West Virginia Legislature’s Republican supermajority failed to pass a controversial bill restricting how race is taught in public schools because they missed a midnight deadline; Congress renewed the landmark Violence Against Women Act nearly three years after Trump partisans caused it to lapse; and, Nantucket shops are scrambling after UPS missed the priority window for ferry bookings of large trucks for the year.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ukraine’s only woman rabbi is among the many Jews Putin has called a Nazi who are fleeing the war; and, AirSerbia will go back to one flight a day to Moscow following criticism that the carrier is busting a European Union-wide ban on flights to Russia and profiting from the war in Ukraine.
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/2022/3/14/2085760/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, some pundits on Russian state TV called for Putin to end the war as harsh sanctions and growing protests destabilize life in Russia.
On the rest of the menu, Senate Republicans are pretending gas prices didn't start rising under Trump; South Dakota lawmakers struck a deal to defy Kristi Noem to pass the state’s $5.8 Billion dollar budget; and, the IRS plans to hire 10,000 new workers to relieve a massive backlog.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the mayor of a troubled Mexican town was shot dead just weeks after the army's arrival to restore order; and, a far-right party will hold a share of power in Spain for the first time since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/11/2085227/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin will be overthrown before anyone gives him bad news about Russian setbacks in Ukraine.
Then, on the rest of the menu, one hundred and seventy-three GOP lawmakers tried to send Congress home instead of voting on Ukraine aid; over twenty-seven thousand mail ballots were rejected in the Texas primary, vastly surpassing the number of rejected ballots in all previous Texas elections combined; and, in another reversal of a Trump administration policy, the Biden administration is restoring California’s authority to set its own tailpipe pollution standards for cars.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Ukrainian government is preparing to move its sensitive data and servers abroad if Russia's invading forces push deeper into the country; and, UNICEF reported more than 1 million children have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion fifteen days ago.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/10/2085035/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when Ukraine needed US backing after Zalenskyy was first elected, all they got was Trump’s corruption.
On the rest of the menu, legislation to limit insulin costs is being revived in the Senate; Congress sent the Postal Service overhaul bill to Biden’s desk for signing; and, the President has a solution for high inflation that seems counterintuitive, bring factory jobs back to the US.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German court ruled for the nation’s domestic intel agency against the far-right Alternative for Germany party; and, a dual national has been charged with acting as an unregistered Russian agent in the US.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/9/2084826/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the lessons of the Cold War could help us de-escalate the war in Ukraine.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a proposed EPA rule would make heavy trucks cut its smog and soot pollution; the Supreme Court turned away efforts from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block state court-ordered congressional district maps; and, President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on regulating cryptocurrency.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States and ten other countries condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch; and, the US assured the nervous Baltics of NATO protection against Russia.
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/2022/3/8/2084599/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin is taking Russia back to the “depths of the cold war.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, housing advocates seek funding to repeal a California law that keeps Black families out of white neighborhoods; a contractor defaulted on a contract to build a $12.3 million bridge replacement on Interstate 40 in North Carolina; and, WNBA players wouldn’t have to play overseas during the offseason and become pawns in geopolitics if they were paid more here in the states.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an international anti-money-laundering body put the United Arab Emirates on its global ‘gray’ list; and, Denmark will boost its defense spending in response to the invasion of Ukraine, while phasing out Russian gas.
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, Russian state media refuses to show the death and destruction from the war with Ukraine, and its viewers sound a lot like Fox viewers in America.
On the rest of the menu, the EPA confirmed the filters distributed in Benton Harbor, Michigan during the city’s recent lead water crisis worked properly; Sean Hannity’s former Fox News director has been arrested in London and charged with violating Crimea-related sanctions; and, the Peace Corps plans to start sending volunteers overseas again.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany urged the UN rights office to publish its Uyghur report; and, Biden will meet the Finnish leader at the White House today as Russia rattles its European neighbors.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/4/2083805/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans are on defense after idealizing “Red State” Russia for years.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Alabama Oath Keeper is first person involved in the insurrection to be convicted of seditious conspiracy; the House is poised to vote on a bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits; and, the federal government warned states seeking billions of dollars from the infrastructure law to widen roads, protect the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists, or risk losing the money.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where OPEC is sticking with their plan to gradually increase oil production while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rattles the world’s markets; and, the United States delayed a scheduled ICBM test-launch in a bid to de-escalate Russia nuclear tensions.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“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, seizing oligarchs' property may be trickier than it sounds.
On the rest of the menu, Texas has begun investigating the parents of transgender youth for child abuse; despite wide-ranging opposition, Utah lawmakers passed new media restrictions for their House floor; and, a judge overturned a Washington state legislature-approved capital gains tax on high profit stocks, bonds and other assets, ruling that it is an unconstitutional tax on income.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian authorities have threatened to block Wikipedia's Russian-language site over an article that mentions deaths among Ukrainian civilians; and, non-Ukrainians also fleeing the war are reporting mistreatment at border check points.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/2/2083336/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays?_=2022-03-02T07:49:31.000-08:00
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump couldn’t slam Biden and praise Putin enough at CPAC.
Then, on the rest of the menu, California, Oregon and Washington announced they will drop school mask mandates; the US Supreme Court wrestled with the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to curb greenhouse gas emissions; and, the Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court to strike down the vote-by-mail system used by ninety percent of the state’s voters since 1991.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s vice chancellor will raise energy security and the climate on his visit to the US; and, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity by Russia in Ukraine.
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/2022/3/1/2083072/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The Republican Party just can’t get enough of Vladimir Putin.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration has blown past expectations with $3 billion in wind lease sales; repeatedly stymied by local courts to draw election maps in their favor, Republicans are now set on neutralizing state supreme courts; and, Phil Mickelson was removed from a PGA Tour event in California as the fallout continued over his shocking remarks and involvement in a Saudi-funded rival league.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s move to help arm Ukraine signals an historic shift; and, despite the arrests of hundreds of protesters each day, tens of thousands of Russians continue anti war protests across the country.
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:
"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
WCC&S Deep Archive:
https://archive.org/details/west_coast_cookbook_and_speakeasy_with_justice_putnam_21_nov_17
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin crossed the line with his overt nuclear threat.
On the rest of the menu, Oregon lawmakers proposed $400 million dollars for housing and homelessness; the Biden administration shut down Ron DeSantis’ attempt to cut off care to migrant children; and, whistleblowers are being bullied by high-ranking prison officials for exposing prison abuse.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the EU said "Putin must and will fail," as it agreed to new sanctions against the reckless strongman; and, from Moscow to New York, tens of thousands around the world protested against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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/2022/2/25/2082260/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
WCC&S Deep Archive: https://archive.org/details/west_coast_cookbook_and_speakeasy_with_justice_putnam_21_nov_17
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, something “strange and mysterious” is happening as the lead Manhattan prosecutors in the Trump criminal investigation resign in protest.
Then, on the rest of the menu, despite push back from the EPA, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy signed off on the next generation of mail vehicles, most of them gas guzzlers; an Amazon union organizer was arrested at a NYC facility on charges of trespassing; and, the Missouri Republican Party said it would not accept a filing fee from a state representative who is facing federal fraud charges.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Haitian police opened fire on demonstrators, killing a journalist; and, as Ukraine came under Russian attack, the Ukraine UN ambassador told the Russian UN ambassador, “there is no purgatory for war criminals, they go straight to hell.”
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, Trump can’t praise Putin’s strategy in Ukraine enough.
On the rest of the menu, GOP obstruction is preventing vital debt relief for Black farmers facing foreclosure; Joe Biden announced a plan to reduce dependency on China for vital electric car parts; and, America’s first abolitionist newspaper is being resurrected two centuries later for a nation that continues to grapple with racism.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a key organizer of the Ottawa COVID protests has been denied bail; and, Mexican television host and model Michelle Perez Tadeo, was found dead south of Mexico City, marking her as the sixth media worker killed in the nation so far this year.
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/2022/2/23/2081820/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
WCC&S Deep Archive:
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ukraine will not tolerate the installation of Putin’s puppet government.
Then, on the rest of the menu, beekeepers are turning to anti-theft technology as hive thefts rise; a former University of Delaware police officer accused the school of racial discrimination over its COVID protocols; and, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman is open to lifting interest rates by more than the traditional quarter-point.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where world shares dropped after Putin ordered troops into the separatist regions of eastern Ukraine; and, Colombia became the latest country in Latin America to expand access to abortion.
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/2022/2/22/2081604/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Hillary Clinton called out Fox and right-wing media for their misleading coverage of the filing from special counsel John Durham.
Then, on the rest of the menu, right wing brownshirts have bullied hundreds of school districts to alter their lessons on race and social injustice; Mississippi Republicans want to defund one of the poorest, unhealthiest states in the nation; and, a Texas grand jury indicted nineteen Austin police officers on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for their actions during the 2020 protests.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants a 'full investigation' into a Chinese naval vessel that pointed a laser at an Australian defense plane; and, a data leak of Credit Suisse has revealed some very unsavory details of over thirty thousand unsavory clients.
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/2022/2/21/2081400/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the most revealing words in a New York judge's opinion requiring Donald Trump and his children to testify under oath are, “copious evidence of possible financial fraud.”
On the rest of the menu, Biden celebrated the Great Lakes infrastructure project Trump tried to kill; GOP House candidates have received $162,000 from fake Trump electors; and, the Justice Department launched a new program aimed at companies exploiting supply chain disruptions to price gouge in violation of federal antitrust laws.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States denounced Bolsonaro's 'solidarity' with Russia as the Ukraine crisis heats up; and, Australia has added Hamas and a US neo-Nazi group to its terrorist list.
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/2022/2/18/2080981/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, no one testifies against Trump better than Trump.
Then, on the rest of the menu, West Virginia’s only Black female lawmaker has filed a lawsuit against an anti-abortion group over racist threats; the Biden administration granted loan relief to students misled by for-profit DeVry University; and, a Kushner pal at the Observe,r pardoned by Trump, will plead guilty to state cyberstalking charges in New York.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a job advertisement for thirty women train drivers in Saudi Arabia got twenty-eight thousand applicants; and, the leading standard German dictionary changed the definition of ‘Jew’ after an outcry from the nation’s Jewish community.
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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The WCC&S Deep Archive:
https://archive.org/details/west_coast_cookbook_and_speakeasy_with_justice_putnam_21_nov_17
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans see early success at damaging elections with their flurry of new voting restrictions.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Democratic Party eyes key governors’ races as a backstop against the GOP dismantling democracy; the GOP is positioned to grab left-leaning Nashville after they gerrymandered the US House map; and, a gunman attempted to assassinate the Jewish Democratic mayoral candidate in Louisville, Kentucky.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a public inquiry opened over the wrongful convictions of hundreds of British postal workers because of a faulty computer system; and, Canadian police arrested eleven people linked to the border blockade, seizing over a dozen long guns, as many handguns, along with thousands of rounds of ammunition.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, parents fight back against the GOP’s classroom culture wars.
Then, on the rest of the menu, states get the go-ahead to build a nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles along interstate highways; the Republican-led West Virginia Senate rescinded the state’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, declaring that it expired in 1979; and, a right wing extremist ex-Air Force sergeant plead guilty to killing a federal guard during the 2020 police brutality protests, and blaming it on Black Lives Matter.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three members of the Canadian Special Forces are under investigation for their involvement in the anti-covid trucker protest in Ottawa; and, a former vice president of China Development Bank was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes, and facilitating other financial crimes.
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/2022/2/14/2080183/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
WCC&S Deep Archive: https://archive.org/details/west_coast_cookbook_and_speakeasy_with_justice_putnam_21_nov_17
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a convicted fraudster and self-appointed election auditor was invited by Wisconsin Republicans to present his personal, colorful stolen election conspiracy theory to the state assembly's elections committee.
On the rest of the menu, a judge restored federal protections for gray wolves across much of the US; California regulators sued Tesla for discriminating against Black employees who have been likened to monkeys and slaves; and, the CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Latvia passed a long-awaited Holocaust restitution law; and, the United States urged Americans in Ukraine to leave immediately due to the "increased threats of Russian military action."
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/2022/2/11/2079767/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Navarro’s actions and the draft executive order is like “sedition for dummies.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Capitol Police deny the baseless claim its officers spy on the GOP; the National Archives asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Trump violated federal law in the handling of presidential records; and, SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites launched last week is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar storm.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico arrested the perpetrators of the murder of journalist Lourdes Maldonado; and, after serving a decade of a thirty-year sentence, El Salvador freed a woman jailed for homicide after suffering a miscarriage.
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/2022/2/10/2079561/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans try to straddle the “pro-coup” line after censuring Cheney and Kinzinger.
On the rest of the menu, an Arizona GOP governor candidate promises to illegally build a border wall on federal land; the House passed a bill ridding the Postal Service of the onerous requirement of funding health care benefits seventy-five years in the future; and, after delays by the GOP insurgent caucus, Biden’s pick to combat antisemitism finally gets a hearing.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Belarusian cross-country skier fled the country with her family after she was barred from competition over the family's political views; and, the Italian parliament approved a law making protection of the environment part of the Constitution.
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/2022/2/9/2079365/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Florida voters were duped into changing their party affiliation from Democratic to Republican.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration is considering expanding a policy that limits the use of “no-knock” warrants by federal agents; the IRS will suspend the use of facial recognition technology to identify taxpayers; and, the House is preparing a short-term spending bill to keep the government open.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s state-funded broadcaster Deutsche Welle was right to suspend five employees and take actions against eight others following a probe into antisemitism; and, Canadian police cracked down on the Covid-19 truckers, seizing thousands of gallons of fuel and an oil tanker, while a court silenced the constant blaring of trucker horns.
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/2022/2/8/2079190/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays?_=2022-02-08T07:51:46.000-08:00
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mike Pence thought he had a clear road to the presidency, now he is in a delicate balancing act.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Delta Airlines wants the DOJ to put unruly passengers on the national no-fly list; Trump’s tirade that Black DAs are ‘racist,’ echoes other racist tropes; and, as women’s health clinics are closing across the country, millions in tax dollars are flowing to anti-abortion centers instead.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where far-right candidates in France fight for the limelight; and, Ottawa declared a state of emergency over the anti-science COVID-19 protests, and warned US GOP politicians to cease meddling in Canada’s domestic affairs.
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/2022/2/7/2078979/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the bombshell MAGA memos have Trump scrambling, and Bill Barr expecting a subpoena.
On the rest of the menu, a handful of states are seeking greater protections for election officials amid growing concerns for their safety; a California court ruled developers who include affordable housing in their projects are exempt from local rules; and, the Black former president of the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the United States, sued the organization, accusing it of racial discrimination in his firing last year.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ottawans are fed up with the trucker anti-vaccine blockade and blame police for inaction; and, Spain’s Economy Minister said she would no longer attend events if women were not equally represented among the speakers.
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/2022/2/4/2078519/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, neo-Nazis and Trump treat a racial disparity fix in healthcare as white genocide.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the reason Ron DeSantis ignores the racist history of urban planning is because then he’d have to admit it’s systemic; the right wing Federalist Society cabal at the Supreme Court are aiming to gut major opinions by leftists O’Connor and Kennedy; and, the National Butterfly Center who won a court victory against Trump’s Wall in Texas, had to close indefinitely because delusional MAGAts decided to Comet Pizza the sanctuary.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexican federal agents arrested a state security chief on torture charges; and, with investigative journalists murdered at an alarming rate, a Mexican journalist narrowly escaped in Cancun when the attacker’s pistol malfunctioned.
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/2022/2/3/2078341/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, why did Trump rip up “… pieces of paper to hide the trail? It's because he knew he was doing something wrong, and he wanted to keep his hands clean."
On the rest of the menu, the right wing court stacking cabal, the Federalist Society, has barred the media from a talk by Justice Gorsuch at its annual banquet in Florida; Trump’s relentless, false claims about the 2020 presidential election has spurred Congress to bolster the electoral count law; and, calling the league, “rife with racism,” fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams over racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Israeli national police found evidence of improper use of sophisticated spyware by its own investigators to snoop on Israeli citizens; and, a Norwegian court rejected neo-Nazi mass killer Breivik’s parole request.
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"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/2/2078119/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has “always said the quiet part out loud.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge rejected a plea agreement for one of the white men convicted of murder for fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery; the Georgia DA investigating Trump asked the FBI for protective security help; and, a trial challenging Florida’s new sweeping voting restrictions law has begun.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Twitter filed a lawsuit against the Germany’s new online hate speech reporting rule; and, thirteen US states, along with the countries of Antigua, Barbuda and Belize, are backing Mexico's lawsuit against gun makers.
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/2022/2/1/2077904/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s “threat” that Capitol rioters could get pardons if he wins in 2024 is “third world baloney.”
Then, on the rest of the menu, a new federal law targets emergency medical care billing surprises; a federal judge decided not to rein in the roundup and capture of wild horses in eastern Nevada; and, hit by a surge of COVID-19, hospitals across Missouri are asking staff members and administrators to fill in helping nurses, housekeeping and patient transport.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Greek Prime Minister won a confidence vote over his government's handling of a snowstorm last week; and, criminal charges are being investigated by Canadian police after anti-vaccine protesters urinated on the National War Memorial, danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and used the statue of Canadian hero Terry Fox to display a profane anti-vaccine statement.
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/2022/1/31/2077698/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Irish fishermen from County Cork who intend to disrupt Russian Naval War Games in Irish waters, remain uncowed by Russian threats and diplomatic games.
On the rest of the menu, a Louisville judge denied a media ban request ahead of a cop’s trial over the Breonna Taylor raid; at least 14.5 million Americans are getting private health insurance under Obamacare, thanks to help from the Biden administration; and, gas stoves are worse for the climate than previously thought.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where six Japanese thyroid cancer patients sued utility company Tepco over radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster; and, an activist ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has fled Russia to avoid jail.
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/2022/1/28/2077237/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole says that the US is not on the brink of a civil war.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration is boosting reproductive health protections in the face of all-out GOP attacks; both US senators from Connecticut were denied access to a federal prison while trying to examine conditions there in response to correctional officers’ complaints; and, the Los Angeles City Council approved a measure to ban new oil and gas wells and phase out existing ones.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France has a new law that authorizes jail time for practitioners of gay conversion therapy; and, European Union leaders are worried by the rise in antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
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/2022/1/27/2077030/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, while NATO hangs back, an armada of Irish fisherman muster to disrupt the Russian naval war games being conducted in Irish territorial waters.
On the rest of the menu, five hundred acres of Northern California redwood forest has been returned to local Native American tribes; domestic right wing extremist groups view attacking the power grid as a means of disrupting the country; and, Alabama appealed a federal court ruling that ordered the state to draw new congressional maps.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain broke up an international Covid passport forgery ring; and, two more Poles critical of the right wing government have been identified as victims of phone hacking with the notoriously powerful Pegasus spyware.
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/2022/1/26/2076824/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump fake electors plot implodes.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Youngkin faces a new lawsuit as the Virginia mask order kicks in; a federal lawsuit revealed Wyoming’s first Black sheriff fired a white deputy for tormenting a Black subordinate for years with racist name-calling; and, the Supreme Court agreed to take another shot at gutting the Clean Water Act.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after taking a strong line against Russia's military build-up on the Ukrainian border, Canada’s foreign ministry was hacked; and, Switzerland’s 'banker of the year' faced numerous charges including fraud and embezzlement in a Zurich court.
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/2022/1/25/2076607/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack confirmed it is in talks with former Attorney General Bill Barr.
Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGAts are now whining that the allocating of scarce COVID-19 treatments discriminates against white people; small towns push back against Trump’s bogus Census undercounts; and, Virginia’s new Republican attorney general has fired lawyers for two of the state’s large public universities, one on leave to work as counsel for the January 6 Insurrection investigation.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a well-known Turkish journalist has been jailed for insulting Erdogan; and the UK warned Russia it will face severe sanctions if it puts a 'puppet regime' in Ukraine.
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/2022/1/24/2076403/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “anybody that doesn’t think it's a coup is a kook.”
On the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice is furious that Portland police and the city kept them in dark about training material that advocated violence against Black Lives Matter demonstrators; Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti nominated the first women as the city’s fire department chief; and, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board told the agency to stop using a misleading statistic.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a federal judge slashed Puerto Rico’s public debt load, ending the nearly five-year bankruptcy battle; and, the United Nations approved a resolution condemning the denial of the Nazi Holocaust.
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/2022/1/21/2075950/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump supporters praise Sinema's voting rights stance.
Then, on the rest of the menu, an Illinois tornado victim’s family sued Amazon over the company’s warehouse collapse; a train derailed near the Los Angeles site of a recent wave of cargo container thefts; and, a federal judge ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to revisit part of its Trump-era decision not to protect Yellowstone National Park’s bison as an endangered species.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany is one step closer to scrapping a Nazi-era anti-abortion law; and, neo-Nazi mass killer Breivik's parole hearing begins today in Norway.
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/2022/1/18/2075261/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, spoke about a meeting between ex-Trump staffers focused on preventing Trump’s future influence on US politics.
Then, on the rest of the menu, GOP lawmakers responded to free KN95 masks with racist, anti-Asian attacks; the CDC urged Americans to wear the 'most protective mask you can’ amid the recent surge in infections; and, DirectTV’s decision to drop One America News could financially cripple the propaganda shop.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ukraine said that Russia is behind a cyberattack in an increasing “hybrid war;” and, New Zealand and Australia were finally able to send military surveillance flights to Tonga to assess the damage from the Pacific volcano.
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/2022/1/17/2075067/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP is ”plotting the next coup” as Manchin and Sinema say they won’t stop it.
Then, on the rest of the menu, eight House Republicans caught in ethics scandals are campaigning for reelection; Navient has agreed to settle predatory student loan claims for $1.85 billion dollars; and, President Biden will nominate three people for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, including its first Black woman.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United Nations hailed the landmark conviction of a senior Syrian official on crimes against humanity; and, Russia’s talk of deploying troops to Venezuela and Cuba is dismissed as ‘bluster.’
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/2022/1/14/2074584/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McConnell made a racist argument to defend blocking voting rights.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Democratic nominee won the Florida House seat that Ron DeSantis kept empty for nearly a year; Republican lawmakers keep complaining about inflation but stonewall any effort to address it; and, the Ohio Supreme Court declared GOP-drawn legislative maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where weeks before hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics, China is battling multiple coronavirus outbreaks in half a dozen cities; and, Australia nears a decision on whether to deport tennis star Djokovic for entering the country unvaccinated.
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/2022/1/13/2074365/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after decades of bipartisan agreement, Republicans now claim passage of the Voting Rights Act is a “power grab.”
On the rest of the menu, the criminal prosecution of Rick Snyder and eight others over the Flint, Michigan Water Scandal is moving slowly; the EPA has moved to crack down on dangerous coal ash storage ponds; and, because of “elevated” threats from violent extremists, the Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Danish ex-intelligence head has been held for over a month on suspicion of leaking classified information; and, the Catholic Church in Rome “strongly condemned” a funeral procession outside the Saint Lucia Church in which the casket was draped in a Nazi flag and mourners gave the fascist salute.
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/2022/1/12/2074158/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans in at least three states filed forged elector letters claiming Trump won, that were signed by Republicans impersonating the real electors.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Health Secretary Xavier Becerra ordered Medicare to reassess a big premium increase for a pricey Alzheimer’s drug; Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida is the third Fed official to resign after a trading scandal at the central bank; and, the United States Mint has begun shipping quarters featuring the image of poet Maya Angelou.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Europol has been ordered to delete data not linked with crime; and, a Polish official has been fired by the government after calling the nation’s anti-Holocaust law ‘stupid.’
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/2022/1/11/2073945/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6 Committee is optimistic over its expected Pence meeting.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Navy is adding two weeks to boot camp to sharpen focus on character issues; a federal grand jury indicted a New Orleans judge on tax fraud charges tied to wedding fees; and, with a rainy day budget bursting at the seams, along with coronavirus cases surging across the state, California Governor Gavin Newsom wants to spend $2.7 Billion dollars to battle the pandemic.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK is still ready to trigger Article 16 in the EU-Northern Ireland row over Brexit; and, despite international sanctions and the top court banning the commemoration, right wing Bosnian Serbs celebrated the start of the 1992 war with a parade of goosestepping armed police forces.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
Bon Appétit!
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Chateau de Valicourt, Montmorancy, France / copyright Justice Putnam
“Do you smell that?” she asked, as we drove through Reims, past the headquarters of the National Front, on our way to La Tranche sur Mer.
“I don’t know,” I said flatly, “what is it?”
“It smells like… ” she sniffed in a haughty, Parisian disdain, “it smells like, fascism.”
I knew then I was in love with her. I knew it truly.
– Justice Putnam
“My Little French Honeymoon”
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Question: Who is your audience? What are you here for?
Answer: Tribal Alliances, Heart-felt Convictions, Passionate Reason, Random Abandon, Sustainable Civility and a kiss; to comfort the sad and the mad Ones; the Ones roaming the International section of the American Supermarket at night; or roaming the neglected streets looking for an angry malaprop to sink their teeth into; the Ones who seek without seeking and learn as much as they teach; the Ones who embrace and kiss and embrace again; the Ones who sing the song of the city and the ballads of the forest; the Ones who chant the rhythm of the sea and hum the melody of the desert; the Ones who sing the prayer of Her name and Her name is the World. Yes, those are the Ones. -- JP
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Man, Girl and Broken Window, Klamath Falls, Oregon — copyright Justice Putnam
Give me a church
Israel “Izzy Maq Styles” Putnam 2 Oct 1977 — 30 Dec 18
made entirely of salt.
Let the walls hiss
and smoke when
I return to shore.
I ask for the grace
of a new freckle
on my cheek, the lift
of blue and my mother’s
soapy skin to greet me.
Hide me in a room
with no windows.
Never let me see
the dolphins leaping
into commas
for this water-prayer
rising like a host
of sky lanterns into
the inky evening.
Let them hang
in the sky until
they vanish at the edge
of the constellations —
the heroes and animals
too busy and bright to notice.
— Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“Sea Church”
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Rest in Peace Aaron Swartz
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Detroit, Michigan, NN14 / copyright Justice Putnam
Who luvs ya, baby?
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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
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mike Pence “resisted Trump for the first time” during the Trump presidency on January 6, 2021.
Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves were shot by hunters just outside the park perimeter in recent months; South Dakota made it harder for women to get abortion meds; and, former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is ineligible to run for Oregon governor, because he does not meet the state’s three-year residency requirement.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hackers hit a major Portuguese media group, taking down its websites; and, the US questioned the legitimacy of Russia-led peacekeeping troops in Kazakhstan.
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/2022/1/7/2073204/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in even more “bad news for Trump,” new information shows that there are "multiple sources" with firsthand knowledge of Trump's activities during the Capitol insurrection on January 6.
Then, on the rest of the menu, in another Biden in disarray story, the December jobs report from payroll company ADP surpassed economists' expectations by more than double; Virginia officials were a little icy as they defended their response to the 30-hour snowy gridlock on I-95; and, the Trump-appointed US prisons director is finally resigning after a crises-filled tenure.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US announced sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, accusing him of “corrupt activities” that threaten to destabilize the region; and, Trudeau says Canadians are so angered at anti-vaxxers, he promised more tests.
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/2022/1/6/2072957/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, why did Hannity text he was “very worried” about January 6?
On the rest of the menu, new polling finds that Republicans are losing their midterm advantage; California lawmakers want to make it easier for people to sue gun companies for liability in shootings that cause injuries or deaths; and, Captain Amy Bauernschmidt is the first woman to lead a nuclear carrier in US Navy history.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Kazakhstan government has resigned after violent protests over energy prices; and, China is all but certain to rattle its sabers as Australia and Japan is set to sign an ‘historic’ defense and security pact.
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/2022/1/5/2072733/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, materials given to the January 6th Committee by Bernie Kerik, including mention of a "draft letter from… “ Trump “… to seize evidence in the interest of national security for the 2020 elections."
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Federalist Society judge who blocked the ACA, has now blocked the Pentagon from punishing a group of Navy SEALs who refused the COVID-19 vaccine; an investigation of journalists by a Trump Customs and Border Protection unit is under review; and, NASA’s new space telescope is on the verge of completing the riskiest part of its mission after ground controllers fixed a pair of problems.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Haitian prime minister survived a weekend assassination attempt; and, a weekend fire ravaged South Africa’s 138-year-old Parliament complex.
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/2022/1/4/2072545/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jan 6 Committee chairman Bennie Thompson was asked if Trump's role in the assault on the US Capitol is criminal.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms; the select House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection is preparing to go public; and, the last living parent of one of the black school girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Maxine McNair, has died at age ninety-three.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is resigning after failing to restore the civilian government; and, the German Foreign Ministry has withdrawn its nomination for historian Gideon Greif to receive the Order of Merit amid criticism of his work on a report that denies the genocide in Bosnia.
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/2022/1/3/2072354/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays