West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, 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 captai

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

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, 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

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, 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

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, 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 wher

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, 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 L

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

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, 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.All that and more, on We

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, 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 powerfu

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 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.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live

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, 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

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, 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.All 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, 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.All that and more,

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 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.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters

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, 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 ba

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, 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

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, 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,

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, 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

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, '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 t

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