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

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 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.All that and

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

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,  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 at

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, 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

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, 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

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

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 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

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 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

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, 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’

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 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.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Bea

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, 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 “pot

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, 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.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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,  '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.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with

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 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.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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 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 earthqua

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, 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

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 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 d

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 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 stage

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 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 fo