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, Trump’s attacks on Fani Willis could backfire in a massive way.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump Media merger prompted a $23 million insider trading probe of a Russia-linked bank owner; a New York trial judge refused to toss out Fox News’ claims that the voting technology company Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against the network is suppression of free speech; and, Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed that state-backed Russian hackers broke into its cloud-based email system and stole data from cybersecurity and other employees.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US congressional delegation made its first trip to Taiwan after the island’s presidential election; and, the EU Parliament’s environmental committee supports relaxing rules on genetically modified plants.All that and mor

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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 Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision in a case involving Martin Shkreli is now a devastating precedent against Donald Trump. Then, on the rest of the menu, Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the founder and CEO of a software company who was accused of stealing data on county poll workers in a case pushed by conspiracy theorists and election deniers; an Oregon jury awarded $85 million to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020; and, another lawsuit has been filed against a small-town in Mississippi by local Black residents claiming cops engaged in systemic, Jim Crow-like racial discrimination.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France fined Amazon $35 million for ‘excessively intrusive’ monitoring of its warehouse staff; and, an Italian Jewish leader slammed

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 cognitive lapses and unhinged behavior is accelerating at a rapid pace.Then, on the rest of the menu, the trial of a twelve million dollar federal racial discrimination lawsuit has begun between a local Hispanic business and the city of Klamath Falls, Oregon; the US Supreme Court won’t overrule a federal judges’ order to redraw the Detroit legislative seats; and, the Department of Transportation awarded over one billion dollars in federal funding to replace the aging John A Blatnik Bridge between Minnesota and Wisconsin.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union sanctioned six companies accused of trying to undermine stability in conflict-torn Sudan; and, Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa.All that

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 Biden administration just announced new abortion initiatives on the fifty-first anniversary of Roe.Then, on the rest of the menu, Georgia lawmakers want to restrict the value of homes to keep property taxes down; the Bureau of Land Management is looking to drastically cut target shooting within Arizona’s Sonoran Desert National Monument; and, a former firefighter, with a previous arson conviction, has been arrested for detonating a homemade bomb and planting several others along roadways across two Northern California counties.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of French protesters asked Macron not to sign off on an immigration law with a far-right footprint; and, over one million Germans across the country protested against the resurgence of Nazi extremism.All that and more, on West

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, after attempting to smear her, Fani Willis wasted no time dropping a bombshell filing about Trump co-conspirator and fake elector mule, Mike Roman.Then, on the rest of the menu, just weeks after executive editor Kevin Merida left the company, the Los Angeles Times union plans to walk off the job to protest another round of layoffs; the Ohio Supreme Court reinstated a lower court decision to freeze $8 million in personal assets belonging to a former top Ohio utility regulator caught up in a federal bribery investigation; and, a California court ruling could threaten the key source of funding for a disputed giant water tunnel project.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s lawmakers voted to lift the immunity of a far-right colleague who used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candle

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 concocts his dumbest defense yet in the Mar a Lago document case, and he is begging his defense team Judge to help him out.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kansas court system needs at least $2.6 million in additional funds to recover from an October cyberattack; Virginia Senate Democrats postponed work on constitutional amendments to devote more time to killing GOP voting suppression bills; and, a federal judge declined to block Georgia’s shortened runoff election period from nine weeks down to four.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s recent intense attacks on Ukraine sharply increased civilian casualties in December; and, a court in Cambodia convicted four activists of plotting to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions.All that and more,

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, critics of book banning have a message to the parents trying to ban an award-winning novel they clearly haven’t read.Then, on the rest of the menu, congressional Republicans are trying to block the Biden administration plan to cut money from the fraudulent crisis pregnancy center scam, more than a dozen states have given themselves the power to override local zoning restrictions blocking large-scale renewable energy projects; and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate two crashes involving Florida’s Brightline high-speed train that killed three people at the same railroad crossing.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Belarusian journalist faces up to six years in prison for covering anti-government protests; and, tens of thousands of Germans demonstrated against the far right following 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 New York prosecutors were not comparing Trump’s “Murderer’s Row” of experts to actual murderers in their closing, but to the 1927 Yankees.Then, on the rest of the menu, the family of the beloved Vice President of Student Affairs at HBCU Lincoln University in Missouri has confirmed her death on 8 January was by suicide, brought on by the bullying and severe mistreatment by the university’s white president; an Oregon Proud Boy plead guilty to transporting undocumented migrants in Arizona; and, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused a request by Republican lawmakers to reconsider its ruling ordering the drawing of new legislative maps.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned a plot by far-right groups to deport millions if they take power; and, a migrants’ ri

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, Thomas Massie threatened to facilitate another January 6 insurrection if Trump doesn’t get what he wants.Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge has rejected several claims lodged by Delaware’s attorney general in a lawsuit alleging that the fossil fuel industry has downplayed the risks of climate change; voters decided to remove a small-town Nebraska school board member from office after she tried to have dozens of books pulled from town’s school libraries; and, a Montana fire chief who lost a previous job for refusing a vaccine mandate in Washington state, has been charged in the January 6 insurrection.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a three-day union strike has brought train traffic to a near standstill across Germany; and, a former Gambian interior minister is going on trial in Swi

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 immunity appeal was shattered by a judge Trump doesn't believe should be a citizen of the United States.Then, on the rest of the menu, California lawmakers will consider a ban on tackle football for kids under twelve; the Virginia General Assembly is set to open the 2024 session with Democrats in full control of the Capitol; and, the Los Angeles Times executive editor is stepping down after a fraught two and half year tenure.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two convicted right wing politicians who took refuge for hours at Poland’s presidential palace are finally arrested; and, a prominent Cambodian critic of the government is charged with defamation over comments made on Facebook.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 says he hopes the market crashes right away and people lose their homes, 401k’s and jobs so he can blame it on Joe.Then, on the rest of the menu, the president of the National Association of Realtors quit just four months into her tenure after receiving a blackmail threat; US retail mortgage lender loanDepot is struggling with a major cyberattack; and, the Republican New Hampshire attorney general is considering filing felony charges against the Democratic National Committee for calling its primary ‘meaningless.’After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China says it has detained an individual accused of collecting state secrets on behalf of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency MI6; and, opposition leaders in Italy demanded an investigation after several hundred Black Shirts gave the outlawed fascist sa

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 series of upcoming bombshell court decisions could signal disaster for the Republican party.Then, on the rest of the menu, right wing election integrity activists want a federal judge to rule that Georgia’s use of Dominion Voting machines is unconstitutional; at Florida’s only public historically Black university, students and faculty fear DeSantis’ new “anti-woke” laws will censor race education; and, the Alaska Airlines in-flight emergency is almost an exact repeat of what happened to a Boeing flight from Arizona to California in 2011.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Anders Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed seventy-seven young people in a bomb and gun rampage in 2011, will try for a second time to sue the Norwegian state for allegedly breaching his human rights; and, after a sixt

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, there is only one anti-Epstein candidate, and it isn’t Trump or RFK, Jr.Then, on the rest of the menu, Baltimore celebrated an historic twenty percent drop in homicides, even though the patrons at that MAGA diner feel like it’s actually much, much higher; an embattled Sacramento, California City Council member has resigned following a federal indictment; and, the New Mexico governor has proposed a ten percent spending increase amid a hefty windfall from oil and gas production.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union has targeted the world’s biggest diamond miner as part of its Russia war sanctions; and a pair of British Neo-Nazi podcasters have been sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Spea

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 GOP ‘dog and pony show’ at the border gives Democrats an opportunity to contrast with the Republican’s cruel theatrics, stunts and fear-mongering.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Georgia district judge ruled conservative ballot suppressors, True The Vote, did not violate the Voting Rights Act when it challenged the eligibility of more than 360,000 voters just days before the 2021 runoff election; a Wisconsin court ruled absentee ballots with minor problems like an address with no zip code, are okay to count; and, the Department of Justice accused two well-connected MAGA political operatives of hiding their foreign lobbying during the Trump administration.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai has plead not guilty to sedition and collusion charges; a

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 could move quickly to hear the challenges to Trump’s ballot eligibility, or they might not.Then, on the rest of the menu, wary of GOP-led back-door privatization efforts, states and Congress wrestle with cybersecurity at water utilities amid renewed federal warnings; a federal judge ruled he will allow white Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the NAACP; and, a Leesburg-area landowner donated a historic 85-acre plot that will become a northern Virginia park.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China will ease visa requirements for US travelers in its latest bid to boost tourism; and, authorities in Germany have detained a fifth suspect in connection with a threat to attack the wo

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, Jack Smith’s effort to block Donald Trump from spreading disinformation in court is explained.Then, on the rest of the menu, lacking any federal regulation to protect the consumer, a new Oregon law requires data brokers register with state agencies before selling personal information; New Mexico environmental officials have proposed a new regulatory framework for reusing fracking wastewater; and, a conservative, all-white Missouri school board reversed itself after a contentious public outcry, and will reinstate Black history classes, but with a new curriculum.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian poet received a seven-year prison sentence for reciting verses against the war in Ukraine; and, another one of those rich ass oligarch Russian lawmakers has been found dead, after another o

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 federal judge has ruled the removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery can continue.Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge ordered a woman who set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, the full amount sought by prosecutors; more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but not enough to raise concern about the labor market or broader economy; and, pro-Hamas rioters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los Angeles.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine lost her appeal to run for president against Vladimir Putin; and, China sanctioned a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on human rights ab

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 violent rhetoric and “call and response” with his followers has led to scores of assassination threats in the last week alone against Colorado Supreme Court justices, US Supreme Court justices, presidential candidates and the FBI.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Michigan Supreme Court that Trump will remain on the state’s primary election ballot.; Disney has filed a lawsuit claiming that the oversight government appointed by DeSantis, has failed to release documents and properly preserve records in violation of Florida public records law; and, Maryland lawmakers grappling with multibillion-dollar budget shortfalls are weighing proposals to tax the rich.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Argentina’s newly elected neo-fascist president laid off five thousand government employees hired

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 latest legal filings make the claim he never took an oath, so he’s immune from all crimes.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton promised retribution for votes they didn’t like and they have a list, and they checked it twice; a Fulton County judge ruled against a media company that sued the Georgia city of Sandy Springs for delivering one line police reports in response to public records requests; and, an audit finds low compliance by the Seattle police with a law requiring youth to have access to lawyers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus says Russia has completed its nuclear weapons shipments to the country, raising concerns in the region; and, North Korea appears to be looking to make more bomb fuels at its main nuclear facility.All t