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 Colorado ruling is also a warning to other pro-coup lawmakers that it is not over.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Huntington Beach, California city council will remove Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Pride Month, among others from their 2024 celebration calendar to make room for their new celebrations that will be “free of any identity politics and political agendas” they don’t like; Seattle Children’s Hospital sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after he ordered them to hand over all their records of trans minors; and, a federal judge hearing a challenge to Florida’s anti-Trans law noted DeSantis repeatedly spread false information about doctors mutilating children.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pakistan authorities arrested over two hundred activists to stop t

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, Jack Smith’s filing in opposition to Trump’s request under the Classified Information Procedure Act will make Trump pay for Judge Cannon’s protection.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon court delivered a blow to Oregon’s signature Climate Protection Program, ruling in favor of industry and the utilities; the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the EPA rule limiting downwind power plant pollution in ten states; and the chair of the MAGA Shasta County Board of Supervisors told a San Francisco reporter to 'drop dead' in an email from his county account, that email did not turn up in public records requests.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s new Cabinet has moved to free state media from the conservative party that consolidated its grip on it during eight years in power; and

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, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump was an officer of the United States, January 6 was an insurrection, Trump was the leader of the insurrection and his candidacy in the state is prohibited on constitutional grounds.Then, on the rest of the menu, Tesla’s recall of two million vehicles to fix its Autopilot system uses technology that may not work; the ACLU of Montana is challenging the law defining the word ‘sex’ in state code as only male or female; and, Southwest Airlines and its pilots reached a tentative labor agreement after three-and-a-half years of negotiations.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Airbnb has admitted to misleading Australian customers by charging in US dollars instead of local currency; and, Greece has approved a new law granting undocumented migrants residen

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 reason Trump keeps jawing like a fascist is because it works.Then, on the rest of the menu, a lawsuit says Georgia’s lieutenant governor should be disqualified from office for acting as Trump fake elector; Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro testified in the Nevada fake electors case to avoid prosecution; and, an audit finds Tennessee prisons are severely understaffed and officers worried about safety.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Greek anti-terror squad investigates after a bomb was defused near riot police headquarters; and, the European Union is investigating Musk’s X over possible breaches of the new tough social media law.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

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 becoming more explicit on how he wants to take down US democracy.Then, on the rest of the menu, fake news sites have ballooned one thousand percent since May, and Artificial Intelligence is making it worse; the Washington State Attorney General’s office named a new head of its Indigenous cold case office; and, health officials have opened a tuberculosis probe involving dozens of schools in Nevada’s most populous county.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Albania returned twenty religious and secular icons to neighboring North Macedonia that were stolen a decade ago; and, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen pieces of looted ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit

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, remember Trump's constant propaganda about the economy?Then, on the rest of the menu, the Idaho Transportation Department completed construction on the state’s first wildlife overpass this fall, and animals are already finding their way over the highway; liberals seek the ouster of a Trump lawyer who advised fake electors from a Wisconsin judicial ethics panel; and, two months after a massive foreign cyberattack, the Kansas courts’ computer systems are starting to come back online.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO’s newest member, Finland, will sign a defense pact with the United States; and, an academic arrested in Norway as a Moscow spy confirmed his real, Russian name.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netro

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, MAGA Republican Congressman Troy Nehls of Texas admitted the GOP motivation for the Biden impeachment is “Donald J Trump 2024, baby!”Then, on the rest of the menu, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon says the company managing the facilities at Crater Lake National Park has created unsafe conditions that threaten the park, visitors and employees who live and work there; the vandalization of the beloved Lake Merritt Menorah in Oakland, California is being investigated as a hate crime; and, a Texas high school Black student suspended for months over his hairstyle, likely won’t return to class anytime soon.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where independent news outlets and NGOs condemned Hungary’s new ‘sovereignty protection’ law as a way to silence critics; and, a Thailand court sentenced a newly elect

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, 'Putin has congratulated House Republicans for stalling the Ukraine aid package.'Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI is investigating dozens of emailed hoax threats to Oregon synagogues, schools and airports; Media Matters for America sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for launching a “retaliatory” investigation over its investigation into Elon Musk’s Twitter; and, the New Mexico Supreme Court is weighing whether to strike down local abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German prosecutors have indicted twenty-seven people on terrorism charges in connection with a far-right coup plot; and, the MI6 chief thanked Russian state television for its ‘help’ in encouraging Russians to spy for the UK.All that and more, on West Coast Cookboo

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, Texas is a War on Women state.Then, on the rest of the menu, advocacy groups want a full federal appeals court to revisit a panel ruling limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act; a Montana county will vote on removing election oversight duties from a Stop the Steal-affiliated clerk recorder; and, a Kentucky judge struck down a charter schools funding measure.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s parliament elected Donald Tusk to return as prime minister, following eight years of stormy, white nationalist, conservative rule; and, Austrian authorities arrested a 16-year-old who planned to attack a Vienna synagogue.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 24/7/365!“As

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, armchair foreign policy expert JD Vance downplays the threat of Putin invading a NATO country as 'preposterous.'Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will be returning more than forty acres of Inyo County land to the Indigenous Paiute people; the Massachusetts attorney general filed a civil rights lawsuit against a white nationalist group; and, a judge has voided the result of a Louisiana sheriff’s election and recount where the Black democratic candidate won by a single vote.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of people marched in the Belgian and German capitals to protest soaring antisemitism since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; and, the UN Refugee Agency warned that half of the half million Afghans forcibly evicted so far from Pakis

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, a Texas judge granted a woman permission to get an emergency, life-saving abortion, but Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened hospitals, doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff with felony charges if they help her stay alive.Then, on the rest of the menu, Senator Rick Scott of Florida is sounding the alarm about the national security risk posed by communist garlic from China; the maternal mortality rate is much higher for Black women than white women in Mississippi; and, the University of Michigan is launching a new effort to fight antisemitism.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Moscow court extended the pre-trial detentions of three lawyers for representing imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny; and, Japan pledged $4.5 Billion more in aid for Ukraine, including $1 Billion in hu

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 ‘will do whatever is necessary for him to take power.’Then, on the rest of the menu, the Coast Guard is promising reforms after an internal review found its members don’t feel safe and trust in leadership is eroding; an Air Force Reserve staff sergeant has been arrested on felony charges for his role in the January 6 Capitol insurrection; and, Jill Biden was joined with children from military families to help sort toys donated by the White House to the US Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the union representing German train drivers has called for a twenty-four hour strike that will hit passenger services; and, a conglomerate of unions in Norway will take action against Tesla in solidarity with its Swedish colleagues, who are demanding tha

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, Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, admitted to being an “accessory after the fact.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the second-ranking Democrat in the House is the latest member to become entangled in an epidemic of big money thefts affecting public officials; New Mexico wants to underwrite development of a strategic new source of water by buying treated fracking water; and, Frontier Airlines has settled a lawsuit filed by female pilots who accused the airline of discriminating against pregnant or breastfeeding employees.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israeli regulators are looking into claims investors earned millions of dollars by short-selling Israeli stocks days ahead of Hamas’s October 7 attack; and, the US made an offer to bring home jailed Americans Paul Whelan and Evan Gershko

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 is facing renewed scrutiny from former January 6 committee co-chair Liz Cheney, who says supporting him equates to "sleepwalking into dictatorship.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Clark County, Washington is ordered to pay almost two million dollars in a racial discrimination case; the new Republican-drawn North Carolina congressional districts are challenged in federal court on racial bias claims; and, a prosecutor in Texas has dropped charges against seventeen Austin police over tactics used during 2020 George Floyd protests, and is asking the Justice Department to investigate instead.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists has jumped bail and moved to Canada; and, a Madrid judge has opened an investigation into several agents of Spain’s National I

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 Supreme Court’s ruling on the Security Exchange Commission case could ‘upend government as we know it.’Then, on the rest of the menu, even though DeSantis’ lawyers admitted his personally-drawn gerrymander map violated the state constitution by diminishing Black votes, the Florida First District Court of Appeal ruled it’s all good, he had to; a Wisconsin man plead guilty to firebombing the office of a prominent anti-abortion group last year; and, a Barbie doll honoring Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller is met with mixed emotions.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Vice President Kamala Harris engaged in a speed round of diplomatic talks with Arab leaders while also negotiating at the COP28; and, a former American diplomat who served as US ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FB

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, unsealed texts from GOP Congressman Scott Perry reveal a "vast web of contacts" who he was talking to about efforts to overturn the election, including top Republicans.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon secretary of state says she lacks the authority to bar Trump from the Republican primary ballot; securities fraudster and Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, announced he is suing Pfizer for “emotionally blackmailing” the American public into getting the COVID-19 vaccine; and, most US cities will replace harmful lead pipes within ten years under a new Biden administration plan.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog told the COP28 that the world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change; and, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey

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 prison fears mount as Jack Smith wins another round in the coup subpoena clash.Then, on the rest of the menu, the New York court-ordered financial auditor caught Trump sneaking forty million dollars from the Trump Organization into a personal bank account; Los Angeles County reported that hate crimes surged in 2022, with nearly seventy-five percent of them violent; and, the nation’s top cybersecurity agency warned that water utilities are vulnerable to hackers after the Pennsylvania Water Authority was attacked.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Canada says Google will pay one hundred million Canadian dollars annually under the country’s new Online News Act; and, Vice President Harris will attend the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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, Jack Smith is going on the offense with Pence’s testimony.Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s Cybertruck is already a production nightmare for Tesla; James Comer forgets his own behavior after calling out the Dems; and, Michigan will join the state-level effort to regulate AI political ads as congress debates more sweeping regulations ahead of the 2024 elections.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s president swears in a government expected to last no longer than fourteen days; and, a diplomatic spat over the Parthenon Marbles has scuttled a meeting between the leaders of Britain and Greece.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 24/7/365!"To those of us

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 threat to Fani Willis ran into a legal wall at Georgia Supreme Court.Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan is on the verge of implementing one of the nation’s most ambitious clean energy mandates in a state with a long-standing manufacturing legacy; Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 billion legal debt for a minimum of $85 million; and, a streaker was arrested at the Disneyland “It’s a Small World” attraction on a cold day in California.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a contract between Puerto Rico’s government and a coal-fired plant operator leaves residents in the dark; and, both an Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based company and a Dutch firm have been awarded a $342 million contract to produce equipment trailers for the US Army.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, a New York Times opinion piece written by conservative lawyers and scholars sounds the alarm about the threat of a second Trump administration.Then, on the rest of the menu, frazzled parents are celebrating that schools in Portland, Oregon, reached a tentative deal with the teachers union after a nearly month-long strike; authorities evacuated over several hundred people after a petroleum refinery explosion near Detroit; and, a federal appeals court ruled Georgia can keep statewide elections for its five-member commission regulating utilities, overturning an earlier ruling that statewide elections illegally diluted Black votes.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia put Meta communications director Andy Stone on its terrorist watch list; and, the prime minister of Ireland condemned anti-immigrant protest