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, Trump continues to abuse the court system with his “pathetic” twenty billion dollar amended complaint against CBS.Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA had the expected meltdown because of all the Black entertainers performing at the Super Bowl; illegally fired Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub revealed there were thirty-one staff-supported Trump complaints that were never investigated; and, after saving consumers over twenty billion dollars, Trump ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop all its work, close its building and remove all signage of its existence.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where more than two hundred thousand protesters rallied in Munich, Germany against the far-right, neo-Nazi extremism of the AfD Party ahead of the country’s general election; and, Afrikaner g

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’s mental decline is on full display as he continues to surround himself with the worst people.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ordered the states to retract their plans to build hundreds of federally funded EV charging stations; sheriffs in Southern Oregon say they plan to adhere to the state’s sanctuary laws; and, Musk’s cadre of Lost Boys emailed federal judges to quit or else, including the one overseeing the lawsuit aimed at blocking these messages across government.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a wave of antisemitic attacks by foreign actors has roiled Australia; and, Indonesia ordered the halt of Trump tourism projects over water management and environmental issues.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots

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, intelligence experts warn of the “grave security risk” after the CIA sent an unclassified email to the White House listing all the thousands of new hires around the world in the last two years.Then, on the rest of the menu, security experts question whether the nineteen year old Musk “Lost Boy” known online as “Big Balls,” would pass the background check typically required to obtain security clearances;  Department of Education staffers were warned at the last minute there is a little noticed provision in the buyout contract where Trump could renege and not pay any of what they were promised if they quit; and, the heist of over one hundred thousand eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland cannot

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, after Musk’s MAGA Trumpenjungen hacked into government servers and mass emails sent out, the Central Intelligence Agency became the first major national security agency to offer buyouts to its entire workforce.Then, on the rest of the menu, two federal workers seek a restraining order to shut down the illegally connected DOGE email server at OPM; MAGA farmers in Oregon are dependent on overseas markets, and concerned about the effects of Trump’s trade war; and, Trump wants to bring back the same acting chief who was overseeing NOAA during the “Sharpiegate” scandal.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of France’s far-right National Rally party said he doesn’t support a no-confidence motion filed against the government; and, concerns grow over press freedoms in Cambodia after a British journalis

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’s illegal actions as president prove “we are not a nation of laws.”Then, on the rest of the menu, no one could have ever thought that smarmy, sanctimonious Ben Sasse would treat the University of Florida as his personal bank account; failed Washington state MAGA candidate Joe Kent is known for calls to defund the FBI and spouting off the craziest QAnon conspiracies, so Trump nominated him as director of National Counter Terrorism Center; and, a 25-year-old Musk engineer has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump wants to hold US aid to Ukraine hostage until he can get the country’s rare earth materials; and, China announced retaliatory tariffs on select American imports and an antitrust investigation into Google.

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 acting FBI Director defied the felon’s demand to give up thousands of agents who investigated January 6 and the Mar a Lago espionage case for prosecution.Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho MAGA proposed a constitutional amendment that would remove state power to enforce mandatory education for children; the Trump administration freeze on federal funding is heading back to a Washington courtroom today; and, NFL emails reveal the extent of the New Orleans Saints owner’s involvement in covering up the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal in the state.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where faced with Trump’s threats over Greenland, Denmark’s leader seeks military support from her EU partners; and, Canada and Mexico ordered retaliatory tariffs on American goods in response to Trump’s crazy ass trade war.Bon

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, Tulsi Gabbard was cross examined to her face and she folded like a cheap Russian suit.Then, on the rest of the menu, when RFK Jr was presented with the science on vaccines he said he needed to see, he dismissed it; all the air traffic controllers resigned at a 'hugely important' California airport after Musk illegally transferred their contracts to a cheaper paying firm; and, Tennessee MAGA passed a bill making it a felony for a local official to vote in a way that doesn’t support Trump’s immigration plans.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Iraqi man who carried out Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm; and, an ultra-traditionalist, Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop, who created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him, has died at age eighty-fourAll

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, Trump’s new press secretary royally screwed up when one of her lies was used in a court case to freeze Trump’s illegal funding freeze.Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI recorded a spike in sexual misconduct claims and male-dominated culture; a Louisiana environmental activist lost her freedom of speech lawsuit against parish officials; and, a white West Virginia couple have been convicted of forced labor, civil rights violations, human trafficking and child neglect of their five Black adopted kids.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni says she is being investigated for repatriating a Libyan warlord wanted by the ICC; and, Australia woke to more antisemitic graffiti after a discovery of explosives was revealed by police.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &am

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 approval rating plummets as his meltdowns get worse.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon bill would ban new livestock farms in the state’s most polluted areas; the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group goes on trial for conspiring to attack Maryland’s power grid; and, Northwest water managers slammed Trump’s claim of a giant water valve at the Oregon border as a mix of “bluster, ignorance, and disinformation” that is “completely far-fetched and detached from reality.”  After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France offered to deploy troops to Greenland after Trump has repeatedly signaled he’d like to annex the Danish territory; and, a Colombian customs official plead guilty in a money laundering case tied to DEA misconduct.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef

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 could not finish his first week as President “without violating the law.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a former New York State Trooper who lied that a mysterious Black man shot him, has been arrested and charged with official misconduct, tampering with evidence and falsifying documents; Trump pulled a Kremlin-like purge and fired over a dozen career DOJ prosecutors who worked on criminal prosecutions of the mobbed up Russian money launderer; and, the new top prosecutor for DC advocated for the January 6 insurgents and has echoed Trump’s false 2020 election claims.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Belarus opposition and Western leaders rejected the orchestrated election result that extends strongman Lukashenko’s thirty-year rule; and, Pakistani journalists protested after the Senate passed a bill allo

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 enacting the Schedule F portion of Project 2025 to gut the civil service and replace it with die hard loyalists because he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025, but he heard the Project really likes him, lots.Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA freshman members of Congress are inaugurating a hiring trend, staffing up with fake electors from 2020; a Portland, Oregon pastor has joined scores of national faith leaders in offering sanctuary amid Trump’s deportation blitzkrieg; and, after nationwide outrage, the Air Force will resume training recruits with material about the Tuskegee Airmen that Trump told Hegseth he wanted banned, because they were Black DEI hires.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sweden seized a Russian-linked cargo ship in the Baltic Sea after it damaged an underwater fiber opt

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 froze federally-funded cancer research, cancelled health science meetings and outlawed all communication from the National Institute of Health.Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA Mike was advised against issuing a subpoena for Cassidy Hutchinson because of all the dick pics GOP reps sexted her; for the first time since the early 70’s, conservatives clinched the longtime goal of booting Democrats from leadership ranks in the Texas House; and, Trump’s number two pick for the EPA is a lawyer who challenged the ban on asbestos while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first administration.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police in Hungary are investigating bomb threats affecting over two hundred-forty schools; and, the top European rights court ruled a French woman’s refusa

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, you can be guilty of using and spreading child pornography and Trump will pardon you for January 6.Then, on the rest of the menu, Costco defends its diversity policies as other US companies capitulate; a Wisconsin weather reporter was fired after criticizing Musk’s Nazi salute; and, Trump fired the heads of the TSA, Coast Guard and gutted a key aviation safety advisory committee because the cost of eggs is too damn high.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Dutch court ordered the government to meet its own pollution reduction targets or face millions in fines; and, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials for the repression of women.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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is having meltdown after meltdown at the White House and it’s been barely 48 hours.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Crescent City, California official says two MAGA Grants Pass, Oregon city councilors lied about busing the homeless to their former Sundown Town; the Supreme Court rejected a Republican-backed Montana case based on the controversial election law theory known as Moore v. Harper; and, Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht who was serving two life sentences plus forty years for running a covert bitcoin marketplace for cocaine and heroin that killed six, child sex abuse images, and continuing a criminal enterprise.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Italian government is under fire for releasing a Libyan warlord after he was arrested on a warrant from the International Cri

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 disastrous meme coin implosion is ruining the lives of his supporters who bought it.Then, on the rest of the menu, seven Texas human services employees were fired for fraud and theft, and the largest data breach in agency history; two former FirstEnergy executives were indicted on RICO charges; and, fifteen wolves from Canada were released into Colorado under a voter-approved initiative.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pope Francis dissolved a Peru-based conservative Catholic movement after severe financial and sexual abuses were uncovered by the Vatican; and, the Australian state of New South Wales has committed more police to investigate a proliferation of antisemitic crime.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroo

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 voters who showed up for the inauguration are demanding refunds after Trump canceled the outdoor speech, the jumbotrons and the events they paid for, claiming “it was too cold.”Then, on the rest of the menu, some oligarch came forward and paid Giuliani’s $150 million dollar judgement for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss; tens of thousands of Oregon state employees across multiple school districts are the target of a massive data breach; and, Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died at age sixty-seven from an aggressive brain cancer.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Voice of America is required by law to report the news accurately, but Trump has vowed to change that; and, for the first time in US history, a president-elect will welcome foreign leaders to the ina

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’s approval rating for a president-elect is the lowest in American history.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Idaho timber executive was sentenced to prison in a multimillion-dollar forestry management fraud scheme; a broad DOJ civil rights investigation found a pattern of excessive force by the Louisiana State Police; and, MAGA-embedded Texas judge Kacsmeryk says states can revive their challenge to restrict abortion pill access nationwide.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Elon Musk’s support for the far-right in Europe is “completely unacceptable;” and, Brussels just hours ago, ordered Musk to hand over Twitter internal documents in a major discovery around his algorithmic propaganda and election attacks in Europe.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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, career prosecutors discussed whether Pam Bondi perjured herself during her confirmation hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly twenty Tennessee Republican lawmakers were hit with federal subpoenas in a massive corruption trial; an Ohio woman who was criminally charged after having a miscarriage in her home has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Warren; and, the Federal Trade Commission sued Deere & Company for monopolizing the farm-equipment repair software market.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan launched an independent mission to NATO as tensions with Russia, China and North Korea rise; and, Polish Prime Minister Tusk accused Russia of planning acts of mid-air sabotage against ‘airlines around the world.’All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with 

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, Jasmine Crockett clapped back at Nancy Mace after Mace physically threatened her during a committee hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Musk for failing to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock before buying the social media site; rejecting a challenge by local Republican officials, the US Supreme Court upheld a North Dakota state House district on an American Indian reservation; and, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood at the lectern and said college professors should be fired if they are “indoctrinating” students.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ireland moved closer to forming a new government after a deal is reached a month and a half after the election gave no party a majority; and, over a thousand South Korean federal police faced dow

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, right-wing Maple MAGA Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who took “the pilgrimage of shame” from Canada to genuflect to Trump at Mar a Lago, was humiliated in the packed resort dining hall as he doubled down on his threats.Then, on the rest of the menu, if you want to hang out or use the restroom at Starbucks, you’re going to have to buy something; New York Governor Kathy Hochul will announce a plan to offer free tuition to state and city colleges today; and, after securing a Reagan/Iranian-like deal with Bibi to withhold the Peace Deal until Inauguration Day, Trump raised the US flag at full height before the end of 30-day mourning period following Carter’s death.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a tsunami alert has been lifted after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattled southwestern Japan; and, China says a fishing