West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, the government might not know what documents Trump stole are still missing.On the rest of the menu, a whistleblower alleged six-hundred-sixty-five agents, including forty-five senior-level officials, left the FBI over misconduct charges in the last two decades; the Coast Guard Academy settled a lawsuit over its cadets-with-kids ban; and, the city of Philadelphia issued an apology for the unethical medical experiments performed on Black inmates at its Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s through the 1970s.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sweden’s domestic security agency seized criminal evidence at the Baltic Sea pipeline blow-out site; and, renowned Sierra Leone journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay has died at age eighty-five.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appét

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, a comprehensive report found a whopping three thousand percent increase in violent “civil war” online rhetoric just before the midterms.Then, on the rest of the menu, a motorcade taking Vice President Harris to work was in a one-car accident, but agents misled the Secret Service director on the true nature of the incident; a former Uber security chief has been convicted of covering up a 2016 data breach; and, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has put Dreamers’ lives “in limbo.”​​After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Mexican government plans to bring another lawsuit against US companies responsible for the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico; and, the head of the European Union’s executive arm vowed to “stress test” key EU infrastructure after the sabotage of natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.All that and m

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, Trump’s lawyers stepped in it by admitting Trump had “possession of classified documents” at Mar a Lago.Then, on the rest of the menu, three major medical associations want the DOJ to investigate and prosecute people who are threatening violence against children’s hospitals and physicians; kids with disabilities face off-the-books school suspensions that is a denial of their legal right to an education; and, California wells run dry as the drought depletes underground aquifers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where motorcycle-riding gunmen killed a longtime Philippine radio commentator in metropolitan Manila, the second killing of a journalist since Marcos, Jr took office in June; and, the Estonian Prime Minister says the West should heed, not appease Putin’s threats.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speake

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, disturbing, hateful rhetoric and a sign of a resurgence of fascism is being condoned on the right.Then, on the rest of the menu, a California high school football team forfeited the rest of the season after players staged a ‘slave auction’ with three black students in their underwear; an Arizona clinic has a workaround for the state’s abortion pill ban; and, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis seeking search warrants in the Trump election fraud case, is sure a sign that the wide-ranging probe has entered a new phase.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan, causing officials to issue a rare evacuation order for the northern region prefectures; and, the Russian journalist who made international headlines after protesting the war in Ukraine live on state television, has escaped house a

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, “there’s no right in the Constitution to violently attack the government.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a scheme to kidnap Michigan’s governor in 2020 will get yet another airing in a different court when three men face trial today; the suspect accused of migrant deaths on the border ran a detention center with a history of abuse; and, election officials brace for confrontational MAGAt poll watchers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Haiti has reported cholera deaths for first time in three years; and, Category Three Hurricane Orlene is expected to make landfall at Mexico’s Pacific coast sometime today.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of

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, the way Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon treated a fellow and senior Article III judge is “tawdry” and makes her “unfit” to serve.On the rest of the menu, an Albuquerque Starbucks is the first store in the state to vote for unionization; the Treasury Department moved forward with its database on corporate ownership; and, in response to overwhelming demand, the Environmental Protection Agency is nearly doubling the money available to states to buy electric models of the familiar yellow school bus.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Latvians will be voting on Saturday in a general election that has been substantially influenced by Russia’s attack on Ukraine; and, the US imposed sanctions on a group of firms that have played a critical role in shipping sanctioned Iranian oil.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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, Giorgio Meloni has a problem with Jewish “financial speculators,” just like all fascists do.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida CEO urged her staff to work through Ian, then she grudgingly took it back; reversing course after Biden and Harris supported it, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a farmworker unionization law; and, the Supreme Court will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases, even as it welcomes the public back to its courtroom for a new term that begins Monday.​​After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a fashion model from Myanmar who feared being arrested by the country’s military government if she was forced back home from exile has been granted asylum in Canada; and, Italians marched in scores of cities and towns for abortion rights after neo-fascist Giorgia Meloni’s e

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, even though Giorgia Meloni and Steve Bannon share great glee in attacking immigrants, minorities and democratic norms, while also pushing the racist, anti-semitic "Great Replacement Theory," Meloni’s neo-fascist Mussolini party still thought Bannon was too fascist for them.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office stripped forty-seven deputies of their firearms and California peace officer duties after an internal audit revealed they failed their psychological evaluations; American interstates are going to get a lot friendlier to EVs; and, millions of Americans will save on Medicare fees next year.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the British pound plunged to a record low against the soaring dollar, prompting defeatist memes about the world’s sixth-largest economy; and, European leaders beli

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, party elders have called newly-elected Italian Fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the “great heir to Il Duce.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Arizona abortion clinics are sending women to other states after prosecutors were given the go-ahead to enforce the civil war-era near-total ban on the procedure; the EPA is preparing a plan to help fix the Jackson, Mississippi water system; and, the United States’ antitrust lawsuit against American Airlines and JetBlue begins today.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of France’s Greens party stepped down from his post after his former partner accused him of psychological abuse; and, another suspect is detained in Poland in the slaying of Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bo

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, Jedi mind tricks don’t work for declassification.Then, on the rest of the menu, Greg Abbott’s otherworldly vow to ‘eliminate all rapists’ to justify no-exception abortion, rings hollow in the real world of Texas sexual assault clinics; staffing shortages and violence plague Oklahoma for-profit prisons; and, an ex-Nevada deputy attorney general has been arrested for a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Britain’s ambassador to protest what it described as a hostile atmosphere created by London-based Farsi language media outlets; and, a fire broke out at the world’s biggest produce market in Paris.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with th

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, Donald Trump is facing a judge who is not playing games.Then, on the rest of the menu, US authorities charged forty-eight people in Minnesota in the largest pandemic-related fraud scheme yet, stealing $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low-income children; the California Attorney General stripped control from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of a controversial criminal investigation into county Supervisor Sheila Kuehl; and, FEMA tells a skeptical Puerto Rico that this time won’t be like Hurricane Maria.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Myanmar’s military-ruled government denied reports it carried out an air attack on a school that killed at least seven children; and, Iran faced global criticism and massive internal protests over a woman’s death by the notorious morality police.All

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 national security threat posed by the Proud Boys began long before the January 6.Then, on the rest of the menu, House Democrats are voting this week to overhaul the 19th century Electoral Count Act; damage assessments have begun in flooded remote Alaska villages; and, a parts shortage has forced Ford to cut its third quarter earnings forecast.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korean prosecutors asked Interpol to issue a fugitive alert for the founder of Terraform Labs after the $40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency; and, Prime Minister Liz Truss dashed any hopes for Brexiteers with an admission that a UK-US free trade deal is not going to happen for years.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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, Republicans are spurring a shortage of poll workers through violent intimidation.Then, on the rest of the menu, Russian trolls worked overtime to disrupt the 2017 Women's March against Trump; Republicans in key battleground races refuse to say they will accept the midterm election results, whereas Democratic candidates said they would; and, MAGA Republicans wear their cruelty as a badge of honor.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a tropical storm slammed southwestern Japan with fierce rainfall, flooding and winds, injuring dozens of people, as it swerved north toward Tokyo; and, Hurricane Fiona bore down on the Dominican Republic, after knocking out the power grid and unleashing floods and landslides in Puerto Rico.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~

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, Judge Cannon’s ruling “is wild and completely divorced from what courts do and are supposed to do.”On the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced a $900 million investment in car chargers along 53,000 miles of interstate; Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at a massive scale; and, the House passed a bill to curb political interference with the census, and all 208 Republicans voted against it.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries in the country before an embargo on oil from Russia takes effect next year; and, all the EU nations except Hungary are moving forward to call out rights violations in Putin’s Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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, another one of Trump’s lawyers is in very serious trouble.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Los Angeles County Sheriff arrested two prominent critics of the department on trumped up corruption charges the district attorney previously refused to prosecute; California sued Amazon, accusing it of anti-competitive behavior; and, Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver is a racist, a sexist, and so rich that it doesn’t matter.​​​​​​After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Typhoon Muifa threatens several major Chinese port cities; and, following a similar “bank withdrawal” late last week, a woman accompanied by activists and brandishing a toy pistol, broke into a Beirut, Lebanon bank branch and took $13,000 from her trapped savings, to pay for her sister’s cancer treatment.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, more portions of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit have been unsealed.Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI is investigating a package bomb explosion that injured one at Northeastern University in Boston, and another suspicious package at a prominent Arts college; an independent commission recommended that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be removed; and, the rubberstamp Tennessee Charter School Commission expressed alarm as local school officials vote down charter schools affiliated with MAGA darling, Hillsdale College.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where lights on the Eiffel Tower will soon be turned off more than an hour earlier at night to save energy; and, Twitter’s former security chief told Congress that both China and India had agents working for the social media company.All that a

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, Trump and his attorney general, Bill Barr, manipulated the Justice Department to not only protect and cover up for Donald Trump, but to also attack his political enemies.Then, on the rest of the menu, Amtrak cancelled some long-distance passenger routes in anticipation of a national freight strike; Trump backers are flooding election offices with coordinated records requests in a gambit to disrupt the November election; and, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Dubai court ruled that a British man suspected of masterminding a $1.7 billion tax scheme cannot be extradited to Denmark to face charges; and, the United Nations accused Taliban authorities of harassing its Afghan female employees.

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, Bill Barr “is a coward.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Black pastor in Alabama who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers for an out of town neighbor, has filed a federal lawsuit; the Commerce Department declared fishery disasters for several West Coast tribes and allocated $17.4 million in disaster assistance; and, two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to purchase forty acres around the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where USAID Administrator Samantha Power urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory ; and, scaled-down celebrations took place in Denmark marking fifty years on the throne by Queen Margrethe, now the only female monarch in the wor

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, the entire security of the nation has been placed in jeopardy by an incompetent and corrupt Federalist Society judge.On the rest of the menu, consumer regulators are cracking down on unlawful nursing home debt collections; the Michigan Supreme Court ordered that the voting rights and abortion ballot measures be put to the voters in November; and, a special prosecutor will investigate whether a Michigan GOP candidate for attorney general should be criminally charged for breaking into voting machines after the 2020 election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Secretary General appealed to the world to help badly flood-hit Pakistan; and, four nations bordering Russia will restrict Russian tourists from entering Europe’s visa-free zone.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justic

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 DOJ, they're tiptoeing around Donald as if he was the king, the supreme leader, or a monarch.”Then, on the rest of the menu, unlike Texas recently, California kept the lights on after another day of grid-straining heat; amid relentless disinformation campaigns, harassment and death threats, Georgia’s most populous county can’t find a director of elections to hire; and, your MAGAt Uncle will insist the IRS move toward free e-filing to end years of corporate domination could be communism.​​​​​​After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled the country’s embassy staff over a major cyberattack nearly two months ago; and, the European Union wants a price cap on Russian gas.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appé