West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 less than a year, DeSantis’ “war on woke” at New College has driven out forty faculty and over half the student body.Then, on the rest of the menu, Raw Story filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy over their refusal to release records related to a former US Marine and avowed neo-Nazi; Montgomery, Alabama police have opened a hate crime investigation over Nazi symbols and racial slurs spray painted all over cars and houses in a majority Black community; and, a judge ruled companies that did business with the Trump Organization, cannot magically hide documents showing their ties to Trump.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the governor of the German state of Bavaria said that his deputy had not done enough to prove he wasn’t responsible for 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 courtroom calendar for the “client from hell” is filling up ahead of the election.Then, on the rest of the menu, twice convicted con man, “Wall Street Whiz Kid” David Bloom, has been arrested in Los Angeles for bilking dozens of victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars; Republican lawmakers temporarily silenced one of the ‘Tennessee Three’ from debate on the House floor, using a hastily enacted ‘out of order’ rule; and, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will call on Democrats to codify ‘Obamacare’ into state law.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland is investigating disruptions to train traffic from unauthorized radio signals; and, all assembly lines at Toyota’s auto plants in Japan have been shut down by computer problems.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Ch

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 entering a forum he cannot control.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a racial discrimination suit against a Fort Worth, Texas company for subjecting Black workers to displays of nooses and, white supremacy symbols; a last-minute legal maneuver keeps San Francisco Bay Area cops from testifying about racism within their department, for now; and, workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent worker protections in the United States.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where London’s Metropolitan Police force has stepped up security after a company that holds details of its officers and staff was hacked; and, Norway will spend $6 million a year until the end of the decade stock-piling grain, citing the pandemic, war and climate change.All that and more, on We

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, Marjorie Taylor Greene was dragged mercilessly for posting a photoshopped "MAGA mug shot" after Trump was booked and released at a Georgia jail.Then, on the rest of the menu, actual SEALs are not happy with DeSantis’ claims of being a Navy Seal; Jewish organizations in Arizona are being terrorized in "swatting" attacks; and, the Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department is under a US Department of Justice investigation for racial discrimination.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarusian authorities declared the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights group is an extremist organization; and, a top science publisher has withdrawn a peer-reviewed study cited by climate skeptics, that presented misleading conclusions from manipulated data on the impacts of climate change.All that 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, the Secret Service had such a blind spot for the Oath Keepers ahead of January 6, they deleted all their texts with them from during the insurrection.Then, on the rest of the menu, wildfires raging near the California-Oregon border killed at least one person and destroyed over a dozen homes; the superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools in Oklahoma is stepping aside in an attempt to avert a takeover of the district by the state superintendent who accused the schools of taking funding from “Communist China;” and, the Justice Department announced charges against hundreds of COVID-19 fraudsters of the theft of more than $830 million in emergency aid.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Taliban is preventing scores of Afghan women from studying abroad; and Nicaragua’s government declared the Jesuit

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, Elon Musk has Ukraine and the US government 'at gunpoint.'Then, on the rest of the menu, the grieving parents of children who were massacred at The Covenant School last March, were booted out of a Tennessee subcommittee meeting about a new law that would allow for more guns on school campuses; Georgia’s second-largest school district removed two highly awarded books from twenty school libraries, days after firing a teacher for reading them; and, the DC attorney general is investigating Federalist Society co-chair and ex-Trump judicial adviser Leonard Leo and his cabal of dark money non-profits.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Fukushima nuclear plant will start releasing treated radioactive water to sea as early as Thursday; and, a rice shortage is sending prices soaring across the world

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 ‘J6 honchos got to sit around for 3½ years' without facing legal action.Then, on the rest of the menu, cops in a Virginia town are facing blowback for allowing members of a far-right extremist group to march on school grounds openly toting military-style rifles; a Kansas state agency says the initial online search of a public state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid the Marion County Record newspaper was legal; and, women soldiers face rampant sexism, harassment and other gender-related challenges in the male dominated Army special operations units.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where King Felipe VI began consultations with leaders of Spain’s political parties to see which one has the best chance to form a government; and, Indian police stopped a conference of over four hundred act

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 commands a strong lead over DeSantis, despite his ninety-one felony indictments.Then, on the rest of the menu, a well-known and beloved fashion designer was shot dead in front of her small clothing store near Lake Arrowhead, California over a dispute about an LGBTQ flag; Georgia made it easier for parents to challenge school library books, but almost no one has done so; and, the South Dakota Democratic Party ousted the state chair amid accusations that she violated party rules and created a hostile work environment for staff.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Egyptian authorities briefly detained a journalist working for a fact-checking organization following its coverage of a plane that was seized in Zambia; and, Russia’s first lunar mission in forty-seven years ended in a smashing failure.All that

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 doesn't need until April 2026 to read the evidence in his federal trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors asked a federal judge to sentence former Proud Boys chairman “Enrique” Tarrio and leader Joey Biggs to thirty-three years in prison; nine current or former Northern California police officers were charged in a federal corruption investigation that found 'violently racist' and 'anti-gay' behavior; and, authorities report people are dying in the record-shattering heat wave that is baking the Pacific Northwest this week.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia fined Google $32,000 for videos about the conflict in Ukraine; and, a socialist candidate won a key Spanish parliament vote that could pave the way for a new center-left government.All that and more, on West Coast Co

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, “there is a case to be made that Rudy has actually been this version of Rudy the whole time.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the local Kansas prosecutor behind the controversial police raid on the Marion County Record has agreed to withdraw the search warrant and return items taken from the paper; as Xitter’s legal director stalled the DOJ and Jack Smith, Musk met with McCarthy, then Jim Jordan, twice; and, the Colorado River Basin ranks among the world’s most water-stressed regions.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech Republic completed the ratification of a defense treaty with the United States that makes it easier to deploy US troops in Czech territory; and, Russia’s Foreign Ministry informed a Dutch journalist who has lived and worked in the country for ten years, her visa would not

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 Georgia indictment tells the story of exactly who Donald Trump is “more clearly” than the other indictments as it lays out the actions of Trump’s “criminal enterprise.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by two conservative groups to halt Biden’s student debt relief for longtime borrowers; the EPA is investigating how California manages its water following complaints from Native American tribes; and, the Chinese spies who read State Department email also hacked a GOP congressman on the House Armed Services Committee.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland arrested two Russians on allegations of spreading propaganda for the Wagner group; and, the Argentine peso plunged after an extreme rightist Trump admirer came first in the presidential primary vote.All t

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, prosecutors in Georgia have text and email messages that link Trump's legal team to a 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, Georgia. Then, on the rest of the menu, legal experts question a MAGA judge’s order telling Southwest Airline lawyers to get religious-liberty training; a recent lawsuit targets Wisconsin legislative districts that resemble Swiss cheese; and, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a law banning firearms advertising that appeals to children, militants or others who might later use the weapons illegally.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where doctors in England walked off the job again as their pay dispute with the UK government shows no progress; and, insurgents opened fire on a convoy carrying Chinese citizens in a fractious province in southwestern Pakistan.All that and more, on

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 'blinking red light' scandal of Kushner's Saudi billions looms as the GOP faceplants on Hunter Biden.Then, on the rest of the menu, a research firm says the Proud Boys stiffed them $30,000 for work on their J6 sedition trials; more Michigan Republicans accused of being fake electors for Trump plead not guilty; and, jumping into the water to escape a wildfire should always be a last resort.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil’s former highway police director has been arrested in a probe into election interference; and, a Chinese-Australian journalist jailed in China for three years described being only allowed to stand in sunlight for just ten hours each year.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Pl

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 Trump ‘co-conspirator’ wrote out a scheme that could land many in prison.Then, on the rest of the menu, in a win for unions, the White House unveiled wage rules for federal projects; Los Angeles striking hotel workers are being roughed up by hotel security goons; and, a white supremacist has been threatening to attack the power grid unless two neo-Nazis who were arrested by the FBI for bank robbery in 2022 are released.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German citizen was arrested on allegations that he tried to spy for Russia; and, a former International Criminal Court prosecutor warned that Armenians face genocide in Azerbaijan.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, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ohio voters flooded the polls to give the anti-democracy Republicans a firm, ‘no.’Then, on the rest of the menu, Ohio voters soundly defending Democracy has given fire to an Arizona effort to enshrine abortion rights in their state Constitution; California is ill-equipped to investigate whether racism played a role in the death of a pregnant Black woman at Centinela Hospital in Los Angeles; and, the Oregon Secretary of State announced that voter-backed Measure 113 disqualifies ten Republican and Independent senators who participated in a six-week walkout this spring from running for reelection.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hackers may have information on tens of millions of British voters after they got access to electoral registers, but it’s even worse than that; and, New Zealand is par

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, our two-tiered justice system is a “tale of two riots.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans in Virginia are proposing legislation that would ban kids under eighteen from visiting a public library without a parent or guardian; after a Black pregnant woman's false arrest, Senator Ed Markey has renewed a call for a federal facial recognition ban; and, the Florida lawmaker accused in a ‘ghost’ candidate scheme will go to trial in February.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian science fiction writer was handed an eight-year prison term for discrediting Russia’s army; and, Mexico City arrested the neighboring state of Morelos’ attorney general, who accused an ex-soccer star of corruption. protested against the government’s decision to suspend a private television station’s operations.All that and

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 lawyer was only being aspirational when he dissembled on all the Sunday shows while Trump continued to lash out at the special counsel and the judge.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black man in Alabama filed a lawsuit against white locals who changed the locks on city hall and shut off review of the small town’s bank account after he won the mayor’s race; two conservative groups sued to block the recent Biden plan canceling $39 billion in student loans; and, Oregon extended its crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in crab pot trap ropes.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the extremist far-right Alternative for Germany party declared the European Union a “failed project;” and, German police are investigating the antisemitic motive in an attack on an Israeli tourist in Ber

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 criminal indictment of Donald Trump shows that violence has always been at the core of his putsch to stay in power.Then, on the rest of the menu, Ed Mullins, the loudmouth ex-head of the NYPD sergeants union, was sentenced to two years in a federal prison for stealing $600k from union members; Florida banned the Advanced Placement psychology course over LGBTQ content; and, Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Agence France-Presse is pursuing a copyright case against X, formerly known as Twitter; and, two US Navy sailors were charged with spying for China.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistan

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 Michigan attorney general thinks ‘ we're going to see a lot more indictments.'Then, on the rest of the menu, after the success against Congressional MAGA extremists holding the debt ceiling hostage, Biden aides were shocked Fitch went ahead and downgraded the US credit rating anyway; Kentucky’s search for a top-tier education chief will be more challenging after the political backlash experienced by the state’s departing education commissioner; and, after California’s record-breaking winter rains, public health officials are warning about an increased risk for valley fever this summer.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where PEPFAR, the global AIDS program targeted by US religious extremists in the abortion battle, gets a new home in a State Department bureau; and, the progressive political party

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, Tricia Cotham, the North Carolina lawmaker who switched parties and handed the GOP-gerrymandered state legislature a veto-proof majority, was courted by top GOP officials before the election.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Texas man was found not guilty after he was ticketed for feeding homeless people in Houston; a federal judge ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers’ free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services; and, a grand jury charged two top Michigan Republicans in connection with voting machine tampering during the 2020 election ballot count.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a bill aimed at halting criticism of Pakistani intelligence figures is expected to become law; and, the United States will put forward a UN Security Co