West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, Aileen Cannon issued a new tactic to delay Trump’s espionage trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, a state ethics panel ruled an Oregon lawmaker who suggested non-Christians are ill-suited for elected office did not violate House rules; Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui voted to oppose a US military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano; and, a hail stone the size of a pineapple found in Texas will likely set a state record.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Emirati leader met with a Taliban official facing a $10 million US bounty over attacks on US citizens; and, the Netherlands is the first to kick off four days of European Union elections across twenty-seven nations.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cui

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 off the wall posting spree of bizarre and unhinged videos of himself is compared with the posts and actions by President Biden.Then, on the rest of the menu, a man who attacked a Muslim state representative outside a prayer service in Connecticut was sentenced to five years in prison; big GOP funders are sending millions into Missouri’s attorney general primary; and, South Carolina is trading its all-male Supreme Court for an all-white Supreme Court.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where several London hospitals had to cancel operations and send patients away because of a cyberattack on a company that supplies pathology laboratory services; and, Interpol and the FBI have broken up a cyber scheme in Moldova to get asylum for wanted criminals.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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, Jamie Raskin humiliated Marjorie Taylor Green at another bonkers hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, a confidential state document showed a long-shot MAGA political stunt to personally interfere with the New York judge who found Trump liable for bank fraud, fizzled out quietly months ago; a panel of MAGA judges on the 11th Circuit blocked the Fearless Fund from awarding grants to Black women because it might discriminate against white men; and, the CFO of the far-right MAGA QAnon China-owned propaganda outlet Epoch Times, has been arrested for his role in a sixty-seven million dollar multinational money laundering scheme.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of Greece’s extreme neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will return to prison after a council of judges rescinded his early conditional release; an

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, Justice Sotomayor sounded the alarm on the MAGA SCOTUS.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Army National Guardswoman and part-time instructor for an Arizona high school was exposed as a neo-Nazi; with rates climbing, more Oregonians had their electricity or natural gas service cut off in April than at any time in the six years the state’s been tracking disconnections; and, mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus have been found in Los Angeles County.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iceland elected businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir as its new president; and, physicist and climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum holds an irreversible lead that has made her Mexico’s first woman president, oh, and she’s Jewish, too.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never 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, Trump still has to deal with sentencing, appeal options, the gag order and more following his historic conviction on all 34 felony counts.Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a January 6 officer was ‘swatted’ at her Virginia home hours after her son criticized Trump; a New Mexico judge granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect kids from sexual exploitation; and, anti-vaxxers are to blame for the sharp rise of whooping cough in Oregon.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where billons of dollars in gold is smuggled out of Africa each year and most of it ends up in the United Arab Emirates; and, Sweden’s domestic security agency accused Iran of using established criminal networks in Sweden as a proxy to target Israeli or Jewish inter

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 left to stew in his own madness as the jury deliberates his crimes.Then, on the rest of the menu, a conservative Republican blocked the confirmation of the first Native American federal judge for Montana; the Governor of Louisiana signed legislation that makes it a crime to knowingly approach within twenty-five feet of a police officer while they are “engaged in law enforcement duties;” and, a MAGA Republican on the election board for Fulton County, Georgia refused to certify the primary election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police searched the European Parliament as part of an investigation into whether EU lawmakers were bribed to promote Russian propaganda; and, the US pledged $135 million in aid to Western-leaning Moldova to counter Russian influence.All that and more,

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, Cannon went full MAGA with her pro-Trump ruling.Then, on the rest of the menu, Klickitat County, Washington has narrowed its options for a new jail, and none include the out of control Constitutional Sheriff lording over everything; a former California water official plead guilty to conspiring to steal water for the last two decades from the California Aquaduct; and, the Texas GOP has taken the party’s hostility to democracy to a new level.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Europe’s cybersecurity chief says disruptive digital attacks by Russia have doubled recently in the run up to the EU elections; and a Polish nature photographer who was arrested in Congo and sentenced to life on espionage charges, has been released and returned to Europe.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Spea

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 wants to dance, but you don’t put Baby Aileen in a corner.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin judge will hear arguments in a union lawsuit against collective bargaining restrictions; after a deadly heat wave killed over four hundred people last summer, Phoenix, Arizona officials are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting triple digits this spring; and, a Chicago man wrongfully convicted of murder, based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness, is suing the city and the police department.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungary’s five-time Prime Minister Orbán is facing a new serious contender in the upcoming EU elections; and, Poland rolled out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus.All that and more, on West Coast C

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 was a total lunatic on social media over the weekend as he made posts that could constitute criminal admissions and made statements about the jury that are highly inappropriate and likely gag order violations.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon officials have warned against drinking raw milk as a bird flu outbreak spreads among dairy farms; a Virginia tech company was hit with a DOJ fine after it sent up a job posting seeking only white candidates; and, a Riverside, California woman who bombarded the former executive director of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue with phone calls and threatening voicemails, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British police say four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed

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 shared the stage in the Bronx and accepted the endorsement of two gang members currently on bond after a one hundred-forty count criminal indictment that includes murder and at least twelve shootings.Then, on the rest of the menu, North Carolina residents filed suit to remove a Confederate monument dedicated to “our faithful slaves;” Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law; and, New York is offering up to $90 million in tax credits for news outlets to hire and retain journalists in an effort to help keep the shrinking local news industry afloat.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin signed a decree allowing the seizure of Americans’ assets if the US confiscates Russian holdings; and, work on the new Rome subway line under th

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, Marjorie Taylor Greene is purposely conducting a dangerous disinformation campaign.Then, on the rest of the menu, the bank accounts of tens of thousands of US businesses and consumers have been frozen in the aftermath of the abrupt shutdown and bankruptcy of financial technology company Synapse; the “buy now, pay later” companies must adhere to credit card standards; and, wind towers crumpled after an Iowa wind farm suffered a rare direct hit from a powerful twister.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where leaders around the Baltic Sea reacted warily to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region; and, the British prime minister unexpectedly set a July 4 snap election as his Conservatives face their biggest challenge in a decade.All that and more, on We

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 Trump criminal plan was revealed in a major unsealing in the Mar a Lago espionage case.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Hawaii court ordered drug companies to pay the state a combined $916 million in the Plavix blood thinner lawsuit; a Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than thirty million dollars in connection with two explosions near Houston; and, the Massachusetts Senate is weighing a tuition-free community college plan.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a man charged with helping the Hong Kong intelligence service in the UK has been found dead; and, politically motivated crimes in Germany reached their highest level in 2023, since tracking began more than twenty years ago.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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, cry baby Trump had a major meltdown as he exited his criminal trial after his sole witness fell apart on the stand.Then, on the rest of the menu, with cyberattacks against water utilities across the country becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water; Minnesota lawmakers failed to pass a state Equal Rights Amendment in their Constitution as the 2024 legislative session came to an acrimonious end; and, former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and at least eleven other people are set to be arraigned today on conspiracy, forgery and fraud charges stemming from their fake elector scheme.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British court ruled Julian Assang

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, Elise Stefanik was asked just one simple question and she wouldn’t answer it.Then, on the rest of the menu, the family of an indigenous Arizona man killed by border patrol agents after he called for help, has filed a wrongful death suit; inmates at a Virginia prison for the mentally ill were hospitalized at least thirteen times for hypothermia in the last three years; and, US regulators are reconsidering the mandated twenty percent capital hike for big banks.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Europe’s far right groups launched their unofficial campaign for the European Union elections; and, the State Department issued an unusual warning to Americans traveling abroad of "the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations, or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests."Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radi

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, chaos erupted in the House of Representatives as MAGA Republicans returned from their visit at Trump’s criminal trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, Merrick Garland punched back at House Republicans over their “unfounded attacks” on the US Justice Department; the Nevada Supreme Court denied an appeal of a conservative election fraud activist who sought to oust county election officials; and, Google wants a judge, rather than a jury, to decide whether it violated US antitrust laws.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Swedish court rejected Tesla’s appeal in its dispute over labor unions in the Nordic country; and, Italy's neo-fascist League wants to change the law and remove the European Union flag from public offices.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Jus

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 Georgia Court of Appeals granted review of the decision to leave Fani Willis as a prosecutor on the case.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Michigan man has been charged for making explosives to target the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts; responding to a disturbance call, Florida deputies burst into the wrong apartment and fatally shot a Black US airman; and, a federal judge ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where another German politician was violently attacked by a right wing extremist that required treatment at a Berlin hospital; and, Mexico was hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Ch

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 Manhattan prosecutors dropped some stunning news on Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge blocked a proposed measure introduced by the Portland, Oregon police union from landing on the November ballot; a MAGA insurgent from West Virginia who stormed the Capitol on January 6, lost his bid for the US Congress: and, the CDC says “it is highly concerning” that drownings have risen among young children after decades of decline.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where over a hundred thousand protesters filled the streets of Georgia’s capital after parliament passed the so-called ‘Russian law;’ and, orcas sank their first ship of the year off the coast of Morocco.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Pla

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, ‘Michael Cohen on the witness stand is like Donald Trump in AA.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida man was sentenced to three years in prison for firebombing a California Planned Parenthood clinic; a large group of Republican attorneys general took legal action against the Biden administration and California over new emissions limits for trucks; and, the MAGA-controlled Nebraska GOP is rejecting all Republican congressional incumbents in today’s primary election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three men were charged in the United Kingdom with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service; and, President Biden blocked a Chinese-backed crypto mining firm from land ownership near a Wyoming missile base.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon

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 panicked overnight about going to prison.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments to expand the use of absentee ballot drop boxes; the Office of Congressional Ethics found probable cause that MAGA representative from Texas, Troy Nehls, misused campaign funds; and, Lake Tahoe is expected to fill for first time in five years.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s prime minister vowed to strengthen security at the EU border with Belarus; and, Lithuanians voted Sunday in a presidential election as anxieties rise over Russia and the war in Ukraine.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia ChildBecome a s

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’s lawyers crashed and burned with repeated failures during the trial yesterday.Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Attorney General plans to stymie Trump with targeted lawsuits if he wins another term; Jackson and Josephine counties in Oregon will vote on measures to restructure local government in an attempt to thwart MAGA rule; and, severe solar storms are expected to trigger northern lights unusually far south, from California to Alabama, late Friday night.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of protesters demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister over his unilateral decision to hand over control of border villages to Armenia’s long-time rival Azerbaijan; and, Vietnam’s arrest of a reformist labor official could disturb the ongoing bid for better trade terms