West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the ‘Weaponization’ Committee wants to be Benghazi 2.0.Then, on the rest of the menu, Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker should return the $3.6 million in company stock he dumped just days before the bank’s collapse; Houston has joined other Democratic cities around the country fighting takeovers by Republican state legislatures; and, your Girl Scout cookie delivery is crumbling under supply chain woes and a labor shortage.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where oil giant Saudi Aramco announced a historic $161 billion dollar profit in 2022 like it was a good thing; and, Russia added the World Wildlife Fund to its register of foreign agents.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerShow Notes & Links"I was never a spy. I was with t

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Trump is going to be criminally charged, it will be this year.On the rest of the menu, House Republicans opened a new attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; a backlash by powerful national business groups is pushing conservative Republicans to weaken their anti-ESG proposals; and, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulators are turning up the heat on Tesla.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Egypt’s inflation has spiked again, hiking prices of basic food items; and, Georgia’s governing party is withdrawing a foreign agents law that opponents warned would usher in Russian-style repression.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerShow Notes & Links“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and u

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the former lead investigator of J6 committee finds the House GOP probe into the committee 'ironic.'Then, on the rest of the menu, The Justice Department issued a blistering report of an extensive federal investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department; hackers may have gained access to the sensitive personal data of House and Senate members, their employees and families in a breach of a Washington, DC, health insurance marketplace; and, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to California tribes, and the university is still discovering more ancestral remains.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where women are enlisting in Colombia’s army for first time in twenty-five years; and, leading women’s rights campaigners criticized male-dominated governments for excluding women

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, smoking gun evidence rocks Fox News.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled that a Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws is unconstitutional and void; the National Transportation Safety Board opened probes of Norfolk Southern rail accidents; and, US health officials are recalling two more eye drop brands due to contamination that could lead to vision problems and serious injury.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police have disrupted a ransomware cybercrime gang tied to Russia, that has been blackmailing large companies and institutions for years; and, Chinese ships have cut the internet of Taiwan’s outlying islands.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"To those of us who

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP Oversight Committee chair is leaning hard into far-right conspiracies.Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA has mandated the states report on cybersecurity threats to its water systems; Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs won’t proceed with an execution set by the state supreme court; and, the Interior Department will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a crisis over poisonings that are targeting Iranian schoolgirls, escalated as authorities acknowledged over fifty schools were struck; and, Hong Kong police stopped activists from joining a women’s march.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of w

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Murdoch’s ‘Wu Tang’ defense could go up in smoke.On the rest of the menu, Southern California’s snow-stranded mountain residents need food, plows and help; a man who spent more than thirty-eight years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit was declared innocent; and, two Kansas men were arrested on charges of selling aviation tech to Russia. After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it is too early to predict when its decommissioning will be completed; and, the French Senate began debate on raising the retirement age to sixty-four.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Merrick Garland faced the Senate Judiciary Committee just as reports surfaced that FBI agents and prosecutors argued over how to handle the Trump Mar-A-Lago search.Then, on the rest of the menu, Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations of federal labor law while trying to halt union campaigns; a Fox News-saturated red California county has dumped its Dominion voting machines; and, Robert Kennedy assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was denied parole for the sixteenth time.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hyundai was poised to become Tesla’s top contender, then the US government blindsided it; and, Britain's Royal Navy seized Iranian weapons, including anti-tank guided missiles, from a smuggler’s vessel in international waters in the Gulf of Oman.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy wi

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Murdoch told Fox, "Trump has a large following, it would be stupid to antagonize them with the truth."Then, on the rest of the menu, troops who refused the COVID vaccine still may face military discipline; federal officials sued a Louisiana chemical company over cancer risks to a nearby minority area; and, a settlement of more than $1 million was approved in a class action lawsuit over a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee meatpacking plant.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a French court dismissed a Uganda environmental lawsuit against TotalEnergies; and, Russian government officials will be banned from using most foreign words when carrying out their duties.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"To those

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ‘Citizen Murdoch's’ Xanadu of lies at Fox is exposed by the Dominion lawsuit.Then, on the rest of the menu, Latino Republicans push back on the party’s immigration agenda; the White House is giving all federal agencies thirty days to wipe TikTok off all government devices; and, the Biden administration is creating a new task force to crack down on an explosion of migrant child labor.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO-applicant Moldova expelled two foreign nationals caught in a Russian ‘destabilization’ plot; and, Montenegro lawmakers ended a court stalemate that threatened the nation’s EU bid.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste tha

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on Spreaker.Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, security and safety concerns continue to be raised over Kevin McCarthy giving Tucker Carlson exclusive January 6 footage.Then, on the rest of the menu, millions who rely on Medicaid are under threat of being booted from the program this year; several Democratic-led states seek to bolster voter protections; and, apartheid blood emerald heir Elon Musk says Scott Adams being cancelled is proof the US media is racist against white people.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hundreds of protesters denounced racism in Tunisia; and, tens of thousands of Israelis protested the far-right government’s plans to overhaul the legal system. protesters at a demonstration.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!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after Fox was busted in court, Tucker Carlson was handed the January 6 tapes from his ‘puppet,’ Kevin McCarthy.On the rest of the menu, the California attorney general opened a civil rights investigation of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office; old electric vehicle batteries are being repurposed for electric grid storage; and, the Biden administration is considering its first offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a highly active “hive” of Russian spies posing as diplomats, operated for more than eighteen months before it was dismantled by Australian intelligence; and, Algeria dissolved a decades-long pro-democracy group amid a wider crackdown on dissent, and democracy itself.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The W

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available.Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Marjorie Taylor Greene's ‘national divorce’ would be disastrous for red states.Then, on the rest of the menu, three Oklahoma Republican lawmakers called for a moratorium on the death penalty amid growing concerns about the state’s brisk pace of lethal injections; while in the midst of a Republican primary for US Senate, the now former Arizona AG sat on records refuting election fraud; and, the Alaska State House censured a GOP lawmaker over his incendiary child abuse comments.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the International Federation of Journalists has suspended the Russian Union of Journalists over its action since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and, Namibia welcomed Dr Jill Biden to Africa.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The West Coast Co

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joe Biden's remarkable journey to Ukraine “reads like a movie script.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA ordered Norfolk Southern to clean up the East Palestine, Ohio toxic derailment; the Minnesota Senate approved restoring voting rights for felons; and, anti-abortion groups suing to ban the abortion pill lost their bid for an early trial.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin’s war accelerated the European Union’s transition to green energy; and, Venice’s smaller canals have practically dried up due to a prolonged spell of low tides.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"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

The Podcast for Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Availabile for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if you watched Biden in Kyiv, “you watched history.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a shrinking water supply will mean more fallow fields in California’s San Joaquin Valley; a record 6,542 guns were intercepted at US airport security in 2022; and, Seattle considers an historic law barring caste discrimination.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dutch intelligence says that Russia has been targeting Netherlands' North Sea infrastructure for sabotage; and, groundwater carries a radiation risk for Korean, Chinese and Japanese cities near a North Korean underground nuke test site.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white win

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine “is a really big deal.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the drama of McCarthy’s election as Speaker may open the House to more C-SPAN cameras; Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives are treating a “peacemaker” bishop’s death as a homicide; and, Black Baltimoreans fight to save neighborhood homes from redevelopment.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland could join NATO ahead of Sweden; and, Tunisia ordered Europe’s top trade union official expelled after she addressed labor union protesters at a demonstration.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia ChildShow Notes

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kari Lake is not the only loser who keeps losing.On the rest of the menu, long a hotbed of extremism, Oregon seeks to curb paramilitaries; Department of Justice officials in Washington removed federal prosecutors in Texas and taken over the corruption investigation into Attorney General Ken Paxton; and, South Carolina lawmakers are alarmed at what they are finding in the probe of a $3.5 Billion dollar accounting error.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Facebook ran ads in Moldova for an oligarch sanctioned by the United States; and, China imposed sanctions on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon for supplying weapons to Taiwan.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession,

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Representative Jamie Raskin is calling for a congressional investigation into the $2 billion Saudi investment in Jared Kushner’s private equity fund.Then, on the rest of the menu, California and Nevada are advancing legislation that would ban forced prison labor and involuntary servitude; a second amendment sanctuary measure was overturned in Oregon; and, the waters off New England had the second warmest year on record in 2022.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Turkey quake has revived the debate over a nuclear power plant being built on the country’s southern Mediterranean coastline; and, Brazil police are targeting illegal gold exports from the Amazon.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“Everyone in this goo

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump special counsel suspects criminal conduct by Trump's lawyer.Then, on the rest of the menu, Joe Biden's judicial picks are more diverse by race and gender than those of any of his predecessors; Fox News lost an attempt to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against the network; and, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is expanding the Advanced Placement African American Studies courses next year from one school to twenty-six.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of China’s national soccer federation has been arrested on corruption charges; and, India’s tax officials searched BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Modi in the UK.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the same unnerving authoritarian patterns used by authoritarians around the world, are also seen from right wing United States governors.Then, on the rest of the menu, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat will receive the prestigious Medal of Honor, sixty years after his commanding officer first recommended him; eleven states are considering ‘right to repair’ bills for farming equipment; and, workers get state legislator support for an Atlantic City casino smoking ban.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iran released an award-winning filmmaker more than six months after arresting him for criticizing the government; and, Argentina says organized crime groups are spurring Russian birth tourism in the country.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Jus

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump lawyer wanted to say the dog ate the classified material in the empty folder on Trump’s nightstand, but Trump hates dogs.Then, on the rest of the menu, the oldest schoolhouse for Black children in the US has been moved to a museum; GOP election tactics come as no surprise to Wisconsin’s Black voters; and, the Kansas GOP picked an election conspiracy promoter as its new leader.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the shutdown of one of the country’s last independent news outlets; and, Turkey ordered the arrests of one hundred thirteen contractors over thousands of collapsed buildings in the catastrophic earthquake.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player