West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, 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

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 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

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!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 t

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!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 relea

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, 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 exu

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!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.All that and more,

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, 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 Bela

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!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 escal

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!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 Cari

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, 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

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!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  wit

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 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 mis

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!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 Po

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!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.Al

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, 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.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the O

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!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

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, “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 targeAll that and more, on West Coast Cook

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!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 i

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!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.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, 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.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radi