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’s shady loans are exposed in a bombshell report.Then, on the rest of the menu, the town of Eagle Pass, Texas planned for years to fill the town’s coffers from the tens of thousands of eclipse revelers, they got razor wire and armed soldiers from Greg Abbott, instead; a Democratic Oregon House candidate who filed fewer than two hours before the March 12 filing deadline, is a big-time Republican donor; and, a trial begins today against BNSF Railway over lung cancer deaths in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to asbestos from a vermiculite mine.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where London Metropolitan Police are investigating after a second conservative UK lawmaker is targeted in a honey trap sexting scam; and, a Brazil Supreme Court justice ordered the investigation

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 cannot keep from violating the court orders in his criminal case.Then, on the rest of the menu, a day after storms spawned multiple tornadoes that caused widespread damage, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor criticized a new Republican-backed policy that would tie his hands in responding to any future disasters; even though New York City’s AI Chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law, there are no plans to take it down; and, the Texas emergency management chief recommended that the state needs its own firefighting aircraft.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two bomb threats led to a brief lockdown of the Norwegian parliament; and, a prominent German far-right extremist has been charged with a second count of using an illegal Nazi slogan.All that and more, on West Coast Coo

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 a late-night filing, Jack Smith torched Aileen Cannon’s unlawful order asking Smith to “engage with” jury instructions that would place Donald Trump above the law.Then, on the rest of the menu, jurors in Buffalo, New York are set to begin deliberating in the case against a former DEA agent accused of taking bribes from the Mafia; major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule; and, a company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention, was ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties over abusive tactics.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the deputy chief of Thailand’s national police surrendered authorities on money laundering charges; and, a Peruvian archbishop who sued two journalists over their

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 only getting worse for Trump and he’s not handling it well.Then, on the rest of the menu,  a federal judge ruled migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida DeSantis two years ago, can sue the charter flight company; a Kansas weekly newspaper and its publisher are suing over police raids that caused the death of the paper’s 98 year-old owner in her home; and, UPS will replace FedEx as the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where US-funded Radio Free Asia closed its Hong Kong bureau over staff safety under the new security law; and, the Austrian Chancellor says the country needs to deter Russian infiltration after “grave” allegations of spying has emerged.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justic

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, frantic as hell, Trump tries to test a no-nonsense New York judge by going after his daughter.Then, on the rest of the menu, “in a grave mistake backwards,” Facebook owner Meta is decommissioning a vital digital tool that tracks viral falsehoods during this crucial election year; an oversight report found the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department flouted a request from local leaders to answer questions about a recently uncovered deputy gang; and, the states are moving to shore up voting rights protections after the courts have severely eroded federal safeguards.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian journalist who covered Navalny’s trials has been jailed in Moscow on charges of extremism; and, Erdogan suffered a major setback after Sunday’s local elections, as Turkey’s main opposition party retaine

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 had an overnight panic attack over Joe’s massively successful fundraiser held with former Presidents Obama and Clinton.Then, on the rest of the menu, trustees of Tennessee’s only publicly funded historically Black university were removed by the mostly white GOP-dominated legislature; a mostly male board will decide whether a Nebraska lawmaker faces censure for sexual harassment; and, a Texas federal judge accused the major banking industry groups and US Chamber of Commerce of venue shopping in their lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece’s conservative government survived a no-confidence motion called over its handling of last year’s deadly rail disaster; and, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich marks one year in a R

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 Supreme Court has pulled an “infuriating stunt” in delaying a decision in the South Carolina gerrymander case.Then, on the rest of the menu, two Los Angeles Times reporters attacked by Minnesota state troopers will settle a lawsuit with the state for $1.2 million dollars; the Smithsonian’s Latino museum settled with an affirmative action foe who sued over “pro-Latino discrimination;” and, new boundaries for Detroit-area seats in the Legislature were approved by a federal three-judge panel who found the old map was illegally influenced by race.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British financial trader who manipulated a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis, lost his appeal to have his conviction quashed; and, hundreds of protesters in Slovakia formed a huma

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 latest shameless grift is backfiring with all Americans, including real Conservatives.Then, on the rest of the menu,  a federal court tossed Republican Pennsylvania lawmakers’ challenge of state and federal voter access actions; Ahmaud Arbery’s killers asked a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions; and, a large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry over climate change.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the British Museum is suing a former curator it says stole 1,800 items and tried to sell them; and, Puerto Rico’s health secretary declared an epidemic following a spike in dengue cases.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appé

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 had a major public meltdown after Justice Juan Merchan set a criminal trial date for April 15.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Kansas man is suing a Republican US Representative from Tennessee who falsely claimed he was an “illegal alien” who carried out the mass shooting at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade; the Feds are taking a California prison agency to court for requiring Sikh guards to shave their beards; and, a high school teacher and two students sued Arkansas over the state’s ban on critical race theory.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France launched a nationwide anti-drug crackdown ahead of the European elections; and, Bulgaria’s prime minister-designate withdrew her nomination after negotiations between two political coalitions failed.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, the smart money on Wall Street already hates Trump so much that short sellers are crushing his Truth Social stock price and shorting it in advance of today’s public trading.Then, on the rest of the menu, a scheduled “Drag Queen Story Hour” at a Lancaster, Pennsylvania library was canceled after a suspicious package was found in the building; months after his disputed one-vote victory in a Louisiana sheriff’s race was tossed by a court, a Black career law enforcement officer was decisively elected on his second try; and, the Wyoming Republican Governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed people to carry concealed guns in public schools and government meetings.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Spanish judge opened an investigation into fraud and false documentation against the partner of Madrid’s powerf

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 New York Attorney General is taking the final steps to seize Trump’s properties and assets.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri Republican party filed suit to kick a KKK-racist, GOP candidate off the ballot for governor; a liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice said that she won’t recuse herself from a case dealing with the legality of mobile voting sites; and, plans to expand Medicaid coverage to over half a million more people in Georgia and Kansas were defeated by Republican-led legislative committees.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spanish daily El Mundo said that its correspondent in Russia left the country after authorities refused to renew his journalist visa; and, a Russian diplomat has been declared persona non grata in Slovenia and ordered to leave within seven days.

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, Alina Habba’s refusal to answer if Trump was going to accept money from Russia and Saudi Arabia to pay for his $464 million bond, means he will.Then, on the rest of the menu, questions swirl over the reasons why forty prominent Napa Valley wine owners and businesses were subpoenaed by the Department of Justice; authorities are still searching for two white supremacist Idaho prison inmates after they ambushed and shot three corrections officers; and, the Los Angeles Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani’s longtime interpreter for engaging in a “massive theft” of the ballplayer’s funds to place bets with an illegal bookmaker.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French Competition Authority hit Google with another big fine tied to a long-running dispute over payments to French publishers for their

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 is in total panic mode as he gets bad news from all sides all at once, and it’s an amazing sight.Then, on the rest of the menu, a new clerk was chosen to oversee elections in a deep-red rural Nevada county that has been roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud since 2020; a bill approved by the Rhode Island Senate would require all firearms to be locked when not in use; and, Stellantis, the maker of Jeep, Dodge and Ram vehicles, has agreed to follow California’s strict emissions standards.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldovan authorities expelled a Russian diplomat after Moscow opened polling stations for its presidential election in Moldova’s pro-Russia breakaway region of Transnistria; and, Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approved a security law giving the government

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 comments on Sebastian Gorka’s show “is antisemitic garbage.”Then, on the rest of the menu, voters in MAGA Shasta County, California are rejecting MAGA politics; a Portland, Oregon nonprofit has been given a nod of approval on its work to revitalize a historically Black neighborhood that’s been targeted by decades of racist development policies; and six former Mississippi law officers could be sentenced to decades behind bars for torture of two Black men.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Croatia’s top court ruled that the president cannot run in the parliamentary election unless he resigns from his current position immediately; and, Australian authorities have issued legal notices to Google, Meta, Xitter, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit over cyber extremism threats.All that and more, on West Coast

River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has a plan to use Judge Cannon to “ice”  Judge Chutkan and avoid his various trials before election day.Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a multistate ad campaign to fight abortion travel restrictions in red states; a severe lack of affordable housing is testing Oregon’s pioneering land use law; and, the Department of Justice has foiled four state-sponsored assassination plots on US soil since 2022.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Caribbean leaders met with the Haitian Prime Minister to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence, with a foreign force deployment on the agenda; and, the Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure due to an employee strike.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 wer

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 had a late-night panic attack over Dark Brandon’s energetic State of the Union, and there was a glaring contradiction in Scary Britt’s GOP rebuttal.Then, on the rest of the menu, Alabama Republicans pushed through an anti-DEI bill and a limit on absentee ballots; Oregon passed campaign finance reform that limits contributions to political candidates; and, a bill on DeSantis’ desk would allow Florida public schools to make use of Christian chaplains on campus.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey struggles to stop violence against women after at least seventy-one have been killed so far this year; and, voters are being asked to change Ireland’s constitution that says a woman’s place is in the home.​All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justic

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 met with Elon Musk and other donors because Trump not only needs big bucks for his legal problems, he is also "seeking a cash infusion" to support his campaign. Then, on the rest of the menu, Liberty University will pay the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act; the Kentucky Senate passed a bill to grant the right to collect child support for unborn children; and, Arizona’s Democratic governor vetoed an unconstitutional border bill approved by the Republican-led Legislature.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in spite of not possessing a navy, Ukrainian sea drone attacks have increasingly sapped the power of Russia’s Black Sea fleet; and, thousands of striking junior doctors in South Korea face the suspensions of their medical licenses.All that and more, on West Coast Cook

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 Republican Party is going through some things.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court blocked the Florida anti-DEI ‘Stop Woke Act,’ calling it a ‘First Amendment sin;’ two San Francisco Bay Area high school journalists say their principal illegally interfered and censored them while reporting on sexual harassment; and, a sixth-grade girls' basketball team from northern Kentucky was banned from a boys' basketball league after romping through the regular season to reach the championship.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Polish Prime Minister sharply criticized the Hungarian and Slovak foreign ministers for meeting with Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, on the same day Alexei Navalny was buried; and, a key hearing on restructuring the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s staggering nine b

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 suddenly confronted by a disaster scenario in his DC trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, Berkeley, California public schools are hit with a federal civil rights complaint alleging ‘severe and persistent’ antisemitic bullying; the University of Maryland has suspended all fraternities and sororities on campus after multiple reports of hazing; and, Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German authorities are investigating after a recording of its military officers discussing aid to Ukraine was leaked in Russia; and, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest said that the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be res

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, Special Counsel Jack Smith and Trump present dueling trial date submissions in the Mar-A-Lago document case before Judge Aileen Cannon today.Then, on the rest of the menu, a man who sought to spark a ‘race war’ plead guilty to firebombing a Costa Mesa, California Planned Parenthood clinic; a Montana judge declared three laws passed in 2021 that restricted abortion are unconstitutional; and, the Justice Department says Mississippi police unconstitutionally jailed people for unpaid fines.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the editor of the top independent Russian newspaper was detained and later fined for discrediting the military; and, the Biden administration will investigate Chinese-made “smart cars” that can gather sensitive information about Americans driving them.All that and more, on W