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, the Supreme Court ‘threw out half of Trump’s appeal’ by taking on his immunity case, while committing “the greatest ethical lapse” by a Supreme Court justice in history.Then, on the rest of the menu, Raw Story has sued OpenAI for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Virginia lawmakers again declined to put restrictions on the personal use of campaign accounts; and, the candidate atop the Republican ballot for Missouri governor says he was only an "honorary" KKK member, but he does acknowledge going to a "religious Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony."After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where traces of toxic gas were found during the evacuation of the Swedish security agency; and, two scientists in Canada were fired for failing to protect sensitive information.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, America’s allies are sounding the alarm on the Trump menace.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Senate, on a party line vote, approved a bill to ban book bans; the FBI and state investigators seek tips about the explosive left outside the Alabama attorney general’s office after he said he would not enforce any in vitro fertilization bans; and, out-of-control wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing the shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former member of Germany’s Leftist Red Army Faction has been arrested after decades on the run; and, three men arrested during an investigation into right-wing extremism were charged in a London court with preparing to commit terrorist acts.All

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 NYPD affidavit that accompanies Alvin Bragg’s “gag order” request, details the hundreds of credible threats in the days after Trump announced he would be “arrested” in New York.Then, on the rest of the menu, the West Virginia House passed a bill to allow religious exemptions for student vaccines; the New College of Florida has been hit with a rare sanction for “egregious and extensive” standards violations during DeSantis’ conservative takeover last year; and, students at a medical school in the Bronx will no longer pay tuition after it received a one billion dollar donation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany plans to enable underground storage of captured carbon dioxide at its offshore sites; and, the International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has increased its total stockpile of

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 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

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’s key decision on Trump’s immunity challenge is about to drop, as soon as Thomas and Alito finish writing their dissents.Then, on the rest of the menu, Washington state lawmakers advanced a bill making it a felony to threaten election workers; “Discount Goebbels” Stephen Miller lost big in a racially-charged lawsuit to restrict voting in Arizona; and, a Texas judge ruled a Texas school can legally discriminate against a Black Texas teen for not styling his hair to his white Texas superior’s liking.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Food and Agriculture Organization set a target of thirty-five percent growth in aquaculture production by 2030 to fight world hunger; and, a private lander made the first US touchdown on the moon in more than fifty years.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, “the governing will not be televised.”Then, on the rest of the menu, an Orange County, California federal judge who had been censured for past racist remarks to court officials, dismissed criminal charges against members of a Southern California white supremacist group, saying there is bias against the far right; a large Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver’s City Park was vandalized; and, there are less than one hundred seventy Idaho obstetricians left after the state’s near total-abortion ban.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Estonia detained ten people suspected of committing sabotage on orders from Russia; and, an old European satellite plunged harmlessly through the atmosphere and broke up over the Pacific.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de

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 missed a major deadline with the Supreme Court.Then, on the rest of the menu, the West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill allowing the prosecution of librarians; the Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill to tighten up a law to crack down on child labor violations; and, the Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives voted to ban celebratory gunfire less than a week after the Chiefs’ parade shooting.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups; and, Argentina’s poverty levels under President Javier Milei skyrocketed to fifty-seven percent of the population, a twenty-year high in January.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots R

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 “dumb as rocks” Republicans destroyed their own investigation.Then, on the rest of the menu, video games are becoming a hotbed of dangerous propaganda; another top Arizona Republican election official is forced to resign as threats by MAGA goons gets 'worse and worse;' and, a monument at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles honors Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War Two by listing every name.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German labor union has called on ground staff for Lufthansa to walk off the job at seven airports on Tuesday; and, police in Moscow were called to investigate alleged LGBTQ+ propaganda at a fan event dedicated to the cartoon series, “My Little Pony.”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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the plan to replicate a dangerous Republican victory in the 8th circuit court of appeals to the 11th circuit is discussed.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri Supreme Court rejected the latest attempt by Republican state officials to block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood; the “Bundy Ranch sniper” says he’s the driving force behind an Idaho bill to limit the definition of “terrorism;” and, the first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February caused more than $2.4 million in damage.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s top security official said that she aims to make it easier to trace right-wing extremists’ financing; and, an appeals court in Paris upheld a guilty verdict against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for

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 Supreme Court's quick response to Trump’s last minute motion could spell disaster for the crook.Then, on the rest of the menu, the federal government has finalized almost two hundred thousand acres for floating offshore wind farms along the Oregon coast; a Republican Michigan lawmaker loses his staff and committee assignment after an online racist post; and, Alabama lawmakers advanced absentee ballot restrictions.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Albanian authorities accused Iranian-backed hackers of a cyberattack on the Institute of Statistics; and, Jared Kushner defended his business dealings with Bone Saudi Arabia.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 2

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, Republicans committed “political malpractice” when they blocked the bipartisan border bill.Then, on the rest of the menu, a suburban Seattle, Washington gun shop will pay $3 million for selling high-capacity ammunition magazines despite a state ban; a judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to block the University of California from renaming the former Hastings College of the Law; and, billionaire NFL owners are complaining the San Francisco 49ers are benefiting too much from hiring people of color.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis lost his final appeal in Slovakia over allegations that he collaborated with the communist-era Czechoslovakian secret police; and, the European Union launched a legal action against Hungary over a new law t

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 DC Appeals Court used a surprise tactic to cut Trump’s legs off in seeking to delay the order.Then, on the rest of the menu, Montgomery County, Maryland school board members apologized for the district’s failures in the handling of employee misconduct complaints and vowed to heal the school system; the mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a Mississippi poultry factory is suing the companies that hired and employed him; and, New Hampshire’s attorney general announced a criminal investigation into a Texas-based company behind thousands of AI-generated calls impersonating President Biden.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian man who defected from a high-ranking position in the Wagner Group has been given permission to stay in Norway, but was refused permanent as

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, “Donald Trump has tested every norm of democracy.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the quasi-independent Oversight Board implored Meta to rethink its policy on manipulated media in this high-stakes election year; the family of four Black girls mistakenly handcuffed by Colorado police and held at gunpoint, have reached a $1.9 million settlement; and, the town manager of a quaint New Hampshire town that has just recently become known for its arts, theater and music festivals, has quit after unrelenting anti-gay pressure from a Republican state senator who is also a town selectboard member.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cambodia’s ruling party claims a leading rights activist defamed it and is seeking $500,000 in damages; and, the leaders of the United Kingdom and Ireland went to Belfast to meet Northern

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, Moses Mike Johnson’s claims about the border bill “is just a lie.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the governor of Pennsylvania is set to deliver a second budget while seeking more money for higher education, public education and public transit; the largest tribe in South Dakota has barred the state’s governor from its lands after her speech about unauthorized immigration harming reservations; and, federal judges are setting the record straight over claims the January 6 insurgents are political prisoners.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Boston man has been extradited from Sweden to face obstruction charges in arson cases targeting Jewish organizations; and, a diplomatic rift between Ecuador and Russia appeared to intensify after Putin decided to ban some imports of bananas from Ecuador.All that and more,

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, you really can’t blame a bunch of FBI agents who didn’t want to search Mar a Lago in the first place, to miss important hiding places for the stolen secret documents.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that eight Republican lawmakers will be blocked from running for reelection after refusing to attend Senate floor sessions for six weeks last year; a year after scaring away Hispanic Americans and immigrants from the state, the Florida house passed a bill to loosen child labor laws; and, once a self-proclaimed leader in criminal justice reform, Georgia is sliding a little further toward its old lock-'em-up ways.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the two key farmers unions have suspended their nationwide protests after the French government offered new measures; and,

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 insisted to reporters he won the NY fraud and E Jean Carroll cases, and there were no penalties.Then, on the rest of the menu, the newest member of the Oregon House of Representatives is a frothing MAGA who claimed supporting drag queens and LGBTQ+ was akin to supporting child abuse and pedophilia; twenty-five California counties have sued electric car manufacturer Tesla for mishandling hazardous waste at more than one hundred facilities throughout the state; and, a small venture capital firm faced tough questions about DEI from a tribunal of conservative federal judges in Florida, as it defended a grant program for Black women-owned businesses.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has put its own “Mike Flynn,” who was removed as the agency’s hea

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 brief by a panel of historians on the real history of the fourteenth amendment that is before the Supreme Court, is further evidence the Court needs a professional historian, and not the amateurs there now.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted depositions in the whistleblower case against Attorney General Ken Paxton, hours after Trump called on the court to end the case; an Arizona lawmaker who was a “fake elector” for Trump, has introduced a bill that would allow members of the statehouse to overturn future election results that they don’t like; and, the court and other systems in Georgia’s Fulton County were hacked, but the district attorney’s office said the racketeering case against Trump is unaffected.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Uni

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, Alina Habba sent a threatening letter to the judge who already threatened to lock her up.Then, on the rest of the menu, a conservative Oregon lawmaker suggested that Muslims, atheists and other non-Christians are unfit to serve in elected office; the diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator of public schools in South Portland, Maine, has left the state after receiving credible threats from white supremacists; and, a Colorado woman whose name is listed on the Minnesota presidential primary ballot as a third-party candidate, says she did not agree to run.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where federal police are investigating the son of former Brazilian President Bolsonaro for spying on his father’s opponents; and, members of a prominent self-exiled Russian rock group that publicly opposed the invasion of U

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 very terrified Trump filed a very desperate motion in Georgia.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon weekly newspaper that had to lay off its entire staff after its funds were embezzled by a former employee, will relaunch its print edition next month; a superior court judge ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to get rid of photographs of legal documents that officers took during an unannounced raid on the home of a Black Lives Matter attorney; and, Illinois election officials are weighing the recommendation of a retired Republican judge to remove Trump’s name from the March primary ballot.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech lower house approved a tougher gun law a little over a month after the nation’s worst mass shooting; and, French farmers vow to continue protesting despite the govern

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 lashed out against everyone and everything after another devastating day in court. Then, on the rest of the menu, Florida removed sociology as a core course option for public colleges because students should focus on preparing for “high-demand, high-wage jobs, not woke ideology;” the Republican Ohio attorney general rejected a voting-rights coalition’s ballot petition for a second time; and, a bid to overhaul New Mexico’s oil and gas regulations clears its first hurdle amid fierce litigation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where antisemitic acts have risen sharply in Belgium and France since the Israel-Hamas war began; and, Japan’s precision moon lander has hit its tiny target on the moon’s surface, upside-down.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisin