West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, even John Bolton might throw his hat in the ring and run for president, maybe.Then, on the rest of the menu, citing California’s increasing wildfire risk and soaring construction costs, State Farm and Allstate have stopped writing new policies in the nation’s most populace state; Oregon is invested in Fox Corp and is investigating its board over bogus election fraud claims; and, the New College of Florida is without an American history professor after a DeSantis critic was fired by the new DeSantis board.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union’s highest court confirmed that Poland has refused to comply with EU rules on judicial independence; and, France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel celebrates one thousand years since the laying of its first stone.All that and more, on West Coast Co

The 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, DeSantis continues to sneer he will “destroy leftism,” but he’s far from the only right-wing figure using violent political rhetoric.Then, on the rest of the menu, the outcry over a recycling plant next to a historic Watts high school appears to finally gain traction; the Temecula Valley, California school board voted to leave over 11,000 students without a history textbook because it mentioned Harvey Milk; and, the California attorney general accused Florida of “state-sanctioned kidnapping” for trafficking over a dozen asylum seekers to Sacramento.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an award-winning Hong Kong journalist won an appeal in a rare court ruling upholding media freedom in the territory; and, hundreds of thousands of people marched in an anti-government protest in Warsaw, Poland, to show support for

Friday’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 GOP political strategy ‘based on getting likes,’ is ‘disconnected from the country.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled the Oregon youths’ climate lawsuit against the US government can proceed to trial; New Mexico sued manufacturers of ‘forever chemicals;’ and, thirty-two Mississippi school districts are still under federal desegregation orders.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia hiked its minimum wage as living costs surge; and, the US retaliated against Russia’s suspension of the New START treaty by revoking the visas of its nuclear inspectors.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!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divid

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, just-impeached Texas Attorney General Paxton sued Dem stronghold Harris County in 2020 to block the use of universal mail-in ballots, and he’s bragging about it.Then, on the rest of the menu, after one hundred fifteen years, the Josephine County, Oregon Board of Supervisors defunded 4-H for being Woke; Tuberville’s national security adviser resigned after a report on his role in stalling military promotions; and, a California judge dismissed all charges against Pacific Gas & Electric in connection to a 2020 fatal wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes and killed four people, including an 8-year-old.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a priceless painting looted by Nazis during World War II has returned to Poland from Japan; and, an unprecedented wildfire on Canada’s Atlantic coast is stil

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, President Joe Biden is ‘kind of a master of the inside game.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black man was kicked out of the white nationalist-dominated Shasta County, California Board of Supervisors meeting when he complained about a white speaker using the N-word; Ron DeSantis is attempting to "create the Army of the confederacy;" and, those who harass, intimidate or use force on election workers performing their duties in Nevada, could soon face up to four years in prison.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece’s Education Ministry has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s history; and, NATO is sending seven hundred more troops to Kosovo to help quell the violent protests there.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef

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, as president, DeSantis said he would 'destroy leftism' and 'woke ideology,' while Disney just pulled more investments, more developments and tens of thousands of more jobs out of Florida.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Nevada legislature blocked the Republican governor approving guns to those convicted of hate crimes after being released from prison; the Texas impeachment trial of Ken Paxton is to begin no later than August 28; and, it’s not only rising oceans threatening New York City, the metropolis is also sinking.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia issued an arrest warrant for Lindsey Graham over his Ukraine comments; and, a minority religious community following the teachings of a 14th-century Indian guru, are stepping into the public eye to advocate making California the first state in th

The 29 May 23 Edition of the 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, as we mark Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday, it’s important to note hundreds of thousands never got a chance to be 40, 50, 60… let alone, 100 years old, because of Henry Kissinger.Then, on the rest of the menu, there is a ‘literal dumpster fire’ as Infighting erupts among Texas Republican leaders; DeSantis’ curious 2011 book on US history has disappeared from the internet; and, President Joe Biden has reached a milestone in judicial appointments.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” is a frank and visceral look at the Holocaust through his father’s eyes, and the McMinn County School District in Tennessee banned the classic.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Yo

Friday’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 Texas Judge from the abortion pill case will now hear a $1.8 Billion dollar lawsuit against Planned Parenthood.Then, on the rest of the menu, even though she broke no law, Indiana’s medical licensing board decided late Thursday night to discipline the doctor who performed an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim; the Supreme Court just went ahead and re-wrote the Clean Water Act; and, California is unlikely to run out of electricity this summer because of a big increase in power storage and a wet winter that filled the state’s reservoirs.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Pakistani journalist and supporter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has gone missing, the second in two weeks; and, companies are finding it’s not so simple to leave Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbo

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, when asked what was his 'hardest decision,’ the Balls and Strikes Chief Justice fenced himself in.Then, on the rest of the menu, Klamath County, Oregon public library book clubs have been cancelled because a resident complained it was indoctrination; Republican state lawmakers want children to fill labor shortages, even in bars and on school nights; and, a Republican investigation found Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton committed multiple crimes, including felonies, over many years in office.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the sophisticated Pegasus spyware has been turned on the Mexican president’s inner circle; and, Western intelligence agencies say Chinese hackers are spying on critical US infrastructure.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice

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, after gerrymandering the hell out of the state, Ohio Republicans are now trying to change century-old state rules to keep abortion rights off the November ballot.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will consider a plan to make power plants pay for greenhouse gas emissions; the Republican-controlled Texas legislature passed a bill to eliminate the position of the Harris County elections chief, allowing the state to take over the election if it deems there is a “pattern of problems;” and, the college student who was banned from Twitter for posting the real-time movements of Elon Musk’s jet, now has Ron DeSantis’ new aircraft in his sights.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cambodian land activists have been arrested for inciting farmers to hate the rich; and, the money

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, Harlan Crow serves high tea from his Hitler teapot while lounging in his Garden of Evil.Then, on the rest of the menu, Amazon employees plan to walk off the job as tensions rise across the tech sector; the Education Department has concluded that book removals are a violation of students’ civil rights; and, Oregon’s governor seeks changes to the legislature’s overhaul of the public defender system.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Lebanese chief prosecutor summoned the country’s central bank chief following an Interpol warrant over corruption charges; and, a prominent Australian Indigenous journalist quit television hosting duties in response to racist abuse over his comments during King Charles III’s coronation about historic Aboriginal dispossession.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, Maryland’s first Black Governor Wes Moore told the Morehouse College Class of 2023, “our history is our power.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis insists that a federal judge be disqualified from the First Amendment lawsuit filed by Disney against the Florida governor; a small New York Christian college denies it fired two dorm directors for using pronouns in their email signatures, but they did; and, thirty tons of a heavily regulated component to make explosives mysteriously disappeared from a sealed rail car while in transit from Wyoming to California.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia brought indictments for a judge and prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who issued a war crimes warrant for Putin; and, after enduring more abuse, Brazilian forward Vinícius Júnior says the Span

Friday’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, Jim Jordan's choice of witnesses raises questions about right-wing extremism within the FBI.Then, on the rest of the menu, the governor of Rhode Island signed a bill to fund abortion coverage for state workers and Medicaid recipients; TikTok content creators filed a lawsuit against Montana over its first-in-the-nation law banning the app; and, the firearms industry could face more legal risk under a bill approved by Illinois lawmakers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French lawmakers have voted to ban smoking in all forests and woods during the fire season; and, China’s predatory loans are pushing the world’s poorest countries to the brink of collapse.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Y

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, instead of denying whether Trump and Giuliani were selling pardons for two million dollars, Bill Barr replied, “I don’t know.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the former chief financial officer of a Seattle-based startup took thirty-five million dollars of his employer’s money without permission, and then lost it all by investing in cryptocurrency; trust in the Supreme Court fell to its lowest point in fifty years after their onerous abortion decision; and, Nevada’s Republican governor vetoed a trio of gun safety bills and threatened to ax the state budget if his priorities aren’t addressed.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Tunisian journalist was sentenced to five years in prison for reporting on counterterrorism; and, the Myanmar military has imported at least one billion dollars worth of we

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, House Democratic Leader Jeffries hopes to find some reasonable Republicans to prevent the default crisis.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Secret Service is investigating how an unidentified man entered National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s home undetected by his protective detail; Arizona announced a crackdown on Medicaid fraud targeting tribal communities; and, Wells Fargo agreed to pay one billion dollars to settle a shareholders’ class-action lawsuit.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Department of Justice announced a series of criminal cases involving the flow of technology and information to Russia, China and Iran; and, the Cyprus Finance Ministry has frozen more than 1.2 billion euros in Russian assets.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Jus

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, “there is no there there in the Durham probe.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans continued their boycott of the Oregon state Capitol, leading to the disqualification of two Republicans and one Independent from reelection due to a new, voter-approved law; CNN staffers are enraged at Chris Licht’s move to crush internal dissent over the Trump town hall; and, a Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing a 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pacific Island leaders say rich countries are not doing enough to control climate change; and, dozens of anti-nuclear activists protested against the Fukushima plant radioactive water release plan.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radi

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, ‘I lost my key witness and I can’t get up.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a Tennessee company is refusing a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration demand to recall 67 million potentially dangerous air bag inflators; GOP state lawmakers are trying to restrict ballot initiatives in an attempt to thwart abortion protections; and, a Biden Administration proposal would let conservationists lease public land much as drillers and ranchers do.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese real estate development firm was fined $4 million for bribing a Los Angeles city councilmember to get a downtown skyscraper approved; and, China sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison on spying charges.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The

Friday’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, DeSantis was shredded over his book bans and assault on the arts.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Virginia ruled 18-to-20-year-olds cannot be barred from buying handguns; DeSantis wanted to rewrite Florida’s press laws, but conservative media helped kill the effort; and, when researchers launched solar-powered balloons up to 70,000 feet, they detected a hidden acoustic world, including mysterious noises without any known origin.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN human rights body passed a resolution on human rights abuses in Sudan; and, Norway takes over the presidency of the Arctic Council from Russia.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

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, even CNN’s own fact-checker couldn’t believe that Chris Licht let that travesty of lying propaganda be broadcast to the world.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department has reached a settlement with a New Jersey county over language barriers for Spanish-speaking voters; a New Hampshire utility has proposed a transmission line from Canada to carry renewable power to New England; and, officials in a remote northeastern Oregon county have voted to give tax breaks worth an estimated $1 billion to Amazon for five more data centers there.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain plans to ban outdoor work during periods of extreme heat; and, Tunisian authorities cannot figure out what a National Guardsman’s motive was to kill two jewish pilgrims and then three security officers who were prot

oday’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, only partisan, commie extremists want honest courts.Then, on the rest of the menu, Kansas City considers becoming a LGBTQ sanctuary city; the South Carolina House agreed to larger state worker raises; and, a Florida law takes aim at the teachers union that defied DeSantis.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States busted a Russian cyber-espionage operation in dozens of countries; and, Rita Lee, Brazil’s long-reigning Queen of Rock, has died at age seventy-five.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 who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness