West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, Democrats have seized a rare and huge opportunity to defeat Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, scholars are stranded in America and abroad amid the MAGA funding freeze of State Department programs; Musk slashing government by cutting out the House and the Senate has alarmed even some fiscal conservatives; and, Hegseth is accused of 'endangering troops' with his statement denying military climate science when it was the military that first researched climate change decades and decades ago.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia is upset after far-right Vlad toady Calin Georgescu is barred from the Romanian presidential election redo; and, Russia expelled two British diplomats from the Moscow embassy over unsubstantiated espionage claims.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Rad

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 complaint has been formally filed to disbar rogue Trump prosecutor, Ed Martin.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Bonneville Power Administration is attempting to find and rehire all the staff fired by Trump; life-saving avalanche forecasts are being hindered by the DOGE purge; and, Oregon police investigate nighttime gunshots that shattered windows at a Tesla dealership.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Buenos Aires power outage has left over 600,000 customers without electricity during a sizzling heatwave; and, after Trump ordered a stop to all early warning and intel-sharing with Ukraine, Russia bombarded Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile and drone bombardment during the night.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon

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 distinctly American resistance is tripping up Trump’s illegal power grab.Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States charged twelve spies in China’s freewheeling hacker-for-hire ecosystem; Trump lost millions of viewers with the longest-ever speech to Congress; and, in a move even the Antichrist would avoid, Trump plans to revoke the legal status of 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, putting them on a fast-track for deportations.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania detained six members of a criminal group on suspicion of plotting a coup in collusion with Russia; and, a Canadian teen recruited to spy for Russia is now sitting in a Polish jail.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s pathetic behavior throughout the day yesterday is chronicled, from crashing the markets to his disastrous joint session speech.Then, on the rest of the menu, some DOGE staffers are drawing six-figure government salaries from the very agencies they are slashing and burning;” Musk ordered the IRS to draft plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce; and, the Supreme Court denied Trump’s emergency challenge and backed a federal judge's order that the administration pay $2 billion to US Agency for International Development contractors for work already done.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Trump-controlled CFPB dropped its lawsuit against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo over Zelle fraud; and, Eric Prince’s mercenary for hire company BlackRock, has penned a dea

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum ripped Trump to shreds over his tariffs, and she was not alone.Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s one dollar credit card spending limit is paralyzing federal agencies just like it was planned to do; state lawmakers consider the ‘Freedom to Read’ bill as the latest attempt to limit book bans in Oregon schools; and, the Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge from conservative college students who say their freedom of speech is violated by a university program for reporting allegations of bias.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where at least three Serbian lawmakers were injured, one seriously, as smoke bombs and flares were thrown in parliament; and, the European Union is pondering an eight hundred billion euro plan to beef up defenses to counter US disengagement.All that and more, on

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, interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, illegally demoted seven of the top prosecutors in the office.Then, on the rest of the menu, farmers and ranchers in MAGA Southern Oregon hit by the federal funding freeze are confused and worried; the Trump administration wants to exclude government spending from the GDP, obscuring the impact of the DOGE cuts; and, Musk’s embrace of right-wing politics is turning off car buyers and sinking Tesla’s stock.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN human rights chief expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States when it comes to human rights; and, an Iranian government official who was key to the 2015 nuclear deal resigned under hard-liner pressure.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Res

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, during his meeting and press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump was “humiliated by his own ignorance.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA-captured SEC is suddenly backing away from crypto investigations and lawsuits, a move described as “unprecedented;” MAGA has to destroy NOAA because hurricane, tsunami and other weather warnings are woke; and, Trump’s pick for Under Secretary of the Navy once accused Monterey, California of being taken over by witches.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where India and the EU have agreed to conclude a long-pending free trade agreement by the end of this year; and, just one voter backed the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany Party in the nation’s smallest town.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putn

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, Jamie Raskin humiliated Jim Jordan to his face in the takedown of the year.Then, on the rest of the menu, America First is not America First when it comes to stock markets worldwide this year; MAGA is pushing legislation to weaken judges by abandoning the centuries-old precedent that courts can decide whether laws are constitutional; and, the Georgia State Election Board voted to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena against a conservative group that was unable to produce evidence to support its claims of ballot stuffing.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Rubio had the EU’s Kaja Kallas fly all the way to DC for transatlantic negotiations, then stood her up as Trump exacerbates transnational tensions; and, Austria is getting a new coalition government without the far-right election winn

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had his MAGA House vote to kick old folks in nursing homes out into the streets and people on hospice to die on their own so Musk can get richer selling out America.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump signed an executive order targeting the law firm representing former special counsel Jack Smith with special unitary executive punishment; contractors sued Oregon Governor Tina Kotek over an executive order requiring union labor; and, the DOGE-fired cybersecurity chief for the Veterans Affairs site warns that health and financial data of millions of veterans is at risk.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia-backed, far-right populist Romanian politician Calin Georgescu was detained and questioned by prosecutors; and, who told Trump that issuing tariffs on copper would reshape global trade?All

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the United States joining Russia and North Korea in the Axis of Evil is a day that will live in infamy.Then, on the rest of the menu, Apple shareholders are expected to reject scrapping corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce; nurses at Providence’s eight Oregon hospitals approved new contracts, ending the largest health care strike in state history; and, the Trump National Park Service withdrew a Black community in Louisiana from a decade-long historic landmark consideration.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a hard-right British politician has been charged with accepting bribes to boost Russia’s agenda in Ukraine; and, Taiwanese authorities are investigating a Chinese-crewed ship suspected of severing an undersea communications cable.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with

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 losing it as American’s of all of parties quickly turn against him.Then, on the rest of the menu, key federal agencies refused to comply with Musk’s latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade; Trump suspended the USDA 1890 Scholars Program for students at historically Black colleges; and, Republican state lawmakers are threatening local officials who resist Trump with lawsuits, fines and even potential jail time.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where conservative Friedrich Merz won the country’s national election and will partner with the center-left Social Democrats against the surging neo-Nazis; and, tens of thousands across forty-seven cities rallied in Slovakia to mark the 2018 slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Ra

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, Republican Members of Congress are getting destroyed by their own voters at Town Halls.Then, on the rest of the menu, Judge Dale Ho has a very messy docket connected to New York’s criminal mayor; actual US Marshals are peeved that Marshal badges were handed out to Musk’s security guards like candy; and, a small Alabama city placed its entire police force on administrative leave after a grand jury reported it has “operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency.”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Ukrainian man has been sentenced to eight years in a Poland prison for planning sabotage on Russia’s behalf; and, Sweden is investigating another damaged cable by the Russia ghost fleet in the Baltic Sea.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Just

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, Emil Bove could not find a single attorney to represent Trump’s DOJ in court.Then, on the rest of the menu, the incompetence of DOGE is a feature, not a bug; a Cal Fire captain targeted by MAGA during the Los Angeles wildfires for being a DEI hire was found stabbed to death in her San Diego home; and, the chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court is stepping down, opening the door for the court to have a 6-1 majority of Democratic-backed justices.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a billion dollar Russian mafia money-laundering ring has been broken up in Spain; and, King Trump warned Zelenskyy to quickly negotiate the war’s end with Russia, or else.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Zelenskyy is not submitting to Trump’s threats, coercion, and intimidation. Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump has removed all the remaining US Attorneys, including Oregon’s first Black woman and second Asian American to serve the district; the JFK Library in Boston will reopen today after Trump issued an 'executive order' for its sudden closure; and, rejecting arguments from former Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York’s top court affirmed the constitutionality of an ethics watchdog created three years ago to stem public corruption.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where racist attacks have increased in the German city of Magdeburg after the deadly Christmas market violence there last year; and, Brazil’s prosecutor-general formally charged former President Bolsonaro with attempting a coup in a plot that incl

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump spent President’s Day pretending to be a tough guy by posting pictures of his mug shot and taking about a dozen mulligans playing golf.Then, on the rest of the menu, both Oregon senators called Trump’s dramatic reduction in the workforce at the Bonneville Power Administration, “not only reckless but also financially ludicrous;” Trump has given US schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money; and, Musk fired the FDA officials regulating his brain implant company.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where downloads of China’s DeepSeek AI apps are paused in South Korea over privacy concerns; and, JD Vance doubled down on his claims Germany is “criminalizing speech” and warned that its restrictions on his neo-Nazi friends might put a “real strain” on relations with the MAGA White House.All that 

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 continues to rage post quotes by and pictures of Napoleon, as European leaders meet to form a new alliance without the United States.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Jewish American Zionist in Miami Beach, Florida, shot two Israeli Jews because he thought they were Palestinian; cats in Oregon are being euthanized after eating raw pet food tainted with bird flu; and, San Francisco police repelled several men claiming to be from Doge who stormed City Hall demanding digital records that prove “wasteful government spending and fraud."After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an American arrested in Moscow on drug smuggling charges is conveniently freed ahead of the Russia-US talks to sign Ukraine’s surrender; and, Argentine lawyers filed fraud charges against Argentine President MAGA Milei, who promoted a crypt

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 principled resignation era is now upon us.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump-forced Bonneville Power Administration staff departures are raising concerns about the agency’s ability to ensure the reliability of the Northwest electrical grid; with a nationwide surge in influenza, the Louisiana Surgeon General ordered a stop in media campaigns and community health fairs that encourage vaccinations; and, a state MAGA lawmaker says Pride flags are verbotten, but Utah schools can let their Nazi and Confederate freak flags fly.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO is testing its ability to rapidly deploy across eastern Europe, without direct US assistance; and, under Trump’s orders, Department of Defense schools serving US military families around the world, are purging books on Ruth Bader Ginsberg f

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 Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Department of Justice will be going full banana republic and prosecute Democratic governors, representatives, county commissioners, local law enforcement, mayors, city council members and even individual clerks at state DMV’s who conspire against Trump’s orders.Then, on the rest of the menu, the NYC comptroller accused Musk of “highway robbery” after stealing eighty million dollars from the city bank account; a federal judge blocked Trump from firing the head of the federal office that investigates government corruption and protects whistleblowers; and, a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice rejected a Republican demand that she recuse from a case to restore collective bargaining rights that tens of thousands of teachers, nurses and other state workers lost in 2011.After

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Elon crashed and burned over basic questions as his four-year-old pissed Trump off at the Oval Office.Then, on the rest of the menu, Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States; Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded the alarm over Trump’s “monarchy” power grab; and, Oregon expects to get the $26M appropriated for electric vehicle chargers, but many officials also expect Trump won’t pay the bills.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese court ordered the daughter whose parents were severely injured in a Tesla crash to pay $23k dollars and publicly apologize after Tesla sued her for defamation; and, the EU vows countermeasures to US tariffs, with bourbon, jeans, peanut butter and motorcycles as easy targets.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & S

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump lied to America, with a straight face, it was the insurrectionist mob who were assaulted on January 6, not the cops.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Military is abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid Trump's purge; twenty-seven religious groups sued the Trump administration to protect houses of worship from immigration raids; and, the Trump loyalty test for federal intelligence and law enforcement candidates order “yes” or “no” responses to the questions: Was January 6 “an inside job?” And was the 2020 presidential election “stolen?”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Kosovo’s governing party won the parliamentary election but without a majority to govern alone; and, a federal court blocked the