Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The Donald Trump Rolling Blunder & Snake Oil Revue played to a raucous crowd of a few hundred in https://youtu.be/kWQ3ym0HueQ?si=XeQLBBLOnQz6eg4S. Then on the rest of the menu, just in time for the midterms, the https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/usps-security/ is hiring armed security guards through a multinational private contractor with a history of human rights abuses and price fixing; the US citizen who was shot by an https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-shooting-lawsuit-customs-border-patrol-c5d0fd9b5f19dc3e06881bf98facf67b in Chicago has filed a lawsuit alleging he fired from behind her car; and, MAGA commentators said the decision by Sarah Huckabee Sanders to portray an https://apnews.com/article/welfare-queen-medicaid-arkansas-huckabee-sanders-c458e5fb258ecc36aa635e13890473a0 as a young, white, cheeseball-chomping gamer named Brad, instead of a Black “welfare queen named Shaniqua,” is racist against white men. After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where the FBI arrested a California woman accused of https://apnews.com/article/fbi-arrest-china-taiwan-spying-42e55337e768722b67874b9dc29f127c leader’s family for China; and, Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief, August Hanning, has been arrested on https://www.ft.com/content/4c565931-6ac7-4b4c-be72-d86e8e3a8aec?syn-25a6b1a6=1 in what Berlin prosecutors believe could be the biggest national security breach since the cold war. All that and more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ https://www.patreon.com/netrootsradio “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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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, triggered by Jack Smith, https://youtu.be/slAgc-SWUhI?si=i1rTIIejZUBs2LhQ issued a new order to gag FBI agents from telling the truth about the Mar a Lago investigation. Then, on the rest of the menu, the https://www.rawstory.com/kkk-2677998090/ of the Ku Klux Klan in a pro-Trump interview said support has surged for the terrorist group ahead of the midterms; nearly twelve-thousand https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-pen-america-stephen-king-6139f813e15c2b62ae4d27b06121ea41 took place in public schools over the past year, with Florida and Texas leading the nation in removals; and, a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints warned that an explosion in https://apnews.com/article/mormon-leaders-online-prediction-markets-gambling-2e1b3e9c8f8e2cb3d529a2e270c93085 driven by online prediction markets and sports betting is fostering naked greed, while producing “nothing of value.” After the break, we move to the https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table where the former https://www.thebanker.com/content/02286d53-0338-42ef-996d-5f7712b9f133 and whistleblower who flagged Howard Lutnick’s links to Jeffrey Epstein, has conveniently died by suicide; and, a Lao man https://apnews.com/article/eswatini-us-immigrant-released-from-prison-laos-c45975d61839e079acdabc3dfe2aacba to Eswatini is released after more than a year in prison. All that and more, on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook with https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio. Bon Appétit! https://www.netrootsradio.com/ https://www.netrootsradio.com/ “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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