West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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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 ha...

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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 ha...

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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 f...

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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 gree...

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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...

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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 Habb...

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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 o...

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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 its...

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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 compl...

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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...

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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 target...

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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 wo...

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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 lawsu...

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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 Tr...

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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...

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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 tel...

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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...

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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 s...

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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 di...

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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 Gi...

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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 in...

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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 Ore...

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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 l...

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 ne...

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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 qua...

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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 l...

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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...

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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 agen...

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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; a...

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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 det...

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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.

Afte...

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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 Empl...

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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 fo...

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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...

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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 gran...

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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 f...

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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...

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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...

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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...