West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 had an overnight meltdown as United States fighter jets scrambled over Alaska while Russian aircraft encroached into Alaska air space.Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a Black Michigan elementary school student is speaking out after her son was expelled for one year after taking a gun away from a white classmate on campus; Oregon handed over the sensitive Medicaid personal data of every Oregonian in the system demanded by the MAGA government to avoid losing federal funding; and, donors to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s PAC received one billion dollars in state contracts.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Danish officials say the “systematic” drone flyovers at four airports overnight, is “hybrid warfare” by a foreign “professional actor” meant to sow fear and division; and, an Aust

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 another late night meltdown as he says he will sue ABC and Jimmy Kimmel while pushing the United States government closer to a shutdown.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump goon Ed Martin threatened Sandy Hook hero FBI Special Agent William Aldenberg for being part of the Alex Jones suit; Black church leaders reject Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom and point to his race rhetoric; and, a former Tennessee House speaker was sentenced to three years in prison over a legislative mail scheme.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Paris court is set to rule on Sarkozy’s illegal campaign financing by Libya’s Ghadafi government; and, Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warned that Russia is spending hundreds of millions of euros to “take power” in a pivotal parliamentary election.All that and more, on West C

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Big Daddy” Gavin Newsom made the Trump administration cry in public.Then, on the rest of the menu, attorneys press for the release of an Oregon wildland firefighter detained by federal immigration officials while on the fire line of the largest wildfire on the West Coast; the guy who was kicked out of Italy for being too corrupt and too fascist for the corrupt Italian fascists, says American teachers are terrorists; and, Trump just ended hunger in America by shutting down the government’s annual report on hunger in America.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German and Swedish fighter jets tracked a Russian reconnaissance plane flying over the Baltic Sea; and, airport cyberattacks linked to Russian intelligence disrupts more flights across Europe.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy 

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, decorated federal prosecutor Maurene Comey is fighting back against Trump over her illegal firing.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a city’s ban on no-knock warrants; the MAGA Senate confirmed forty-eight of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the rules; and, a late-night Instagram post from a San Francisco 49ers star led to the unraveling of a massive Charlie Kirk sports news scam targeting NFL players and teams.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one hundred twenty land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared in Latin America last year; and, history has been made, America’s first Pope refuses to meet with the self-appointed King of the Unified States of MAGA Land.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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump wants us to talk about Jimmy Kimmel, so we'll talk about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, instead.Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon will issue a land use violation notice to the city’s ICE building for breaching detention limits; experts have independently resurrected the Census Bureau advisory committee that was axed by Trump; and, a federal judge ordered Alabama’s largest county to redraw its illegal racially gerrymandered districts.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland is drawing on Ukraine’s expertise in battle-tested drone warfare, just over a week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace; and, British, Lithuanian and Latvian authorities have detained over a dozen people for arson and spying for Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef

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, Democrats finally go on the offense and call out MAGA Congress Members and witnesses at an important hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration sued Oregon to force it to turn over the full information about every state voter; ICE Barbie Noem lobbed false homicide claims at a grieving mom who had a stillbirth while in ICE custody; and, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice has quietly deleted a study showing that far-right attacks outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violence extremism.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British politicians condemned the “dangerous” comments Elon Musk told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must fight or die; and, British Royalty is indulging the “King Trump” fantasy for him like an over-eager courtesan.A

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, the MAGA Supreme Court was “bench slapped” in open court.Then, on the rest of the menu, authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City; the privately- funded National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta expanding at a critical moment in US history is not immediately subject to King Krasnov’s whims; and one of the GOP’s most prominent foreign affairs hawks is so concerned about WWIII after Russia’s escalation, that he announced his retirement.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ukrainian drones struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries; and, Brazil’s Lula pushed back against Trump’s tariff threat, telling the mumbling authoritarian the country’s democracy ‘is not on the table.’All that and more, on West

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, as Trump musters his illegal Federal shock troops to invade and occupy major Democratic Sanctuary cities and states, leaders of those Cities and States have unleashed an unexpected push back.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Senate’s top three Democrats, and two of the state’s only Black lawmakers, received bomb threats at their homes over the Charlie Kirk killing; historically Black colleges across the United States issued lockdown orders and canceled classes after receiving threats over the Charlie Kirk killing; and, the two people who were detained, publicly named and later released following the killing of Charlie Kirk, continue to face an onslaught of death threats and stalking, even after police said they were not suspects.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands in Slovakia gathered i

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 FBI is in total shambles as Kirk’s killer escapes.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas dropped its lawsuit against a doctor accused of “illegally” providing care to transgender youth; the Oregon couple who are members of a Christian anti-medicine cult and let their newborn baby die while waiting for a miracle, will serve only thirty days in jail; and, Trump cut grants for minority-serving colleges, declaring them unconstitutional and discriminatory against white men.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German parliament lifted the immunity of a prominent far-right lawmaker who was recently accused of being a spy; and, a New Zealand court rejected the latest bid by internet racketeer Kim Dotcom to halt his deportation to the United States.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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, will Trump's attorney face sanctions for lying about the Epstein letter?Then, on the rest of the menu, Intel’s most senior woman leader has been forced out; former school board member Jennifer Jenkins who defeated a Mom’s for Liberty co-founder, challenges MAGA-extremist Ashley Moody for a US Senate seat in Florida; and, a Georgia judge will toss the landmark racketeering charges against sixty-one ‘Cop City’ protesters.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a spy network being built across Europe by Belarus was broken up by the intelligence services from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania; and, NATO held Article 4 consultations after Polish and Dutch jet fighters shot down Russian drones in Poland airspace.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.B

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller's wife is losing it over Gavin Newsom's mockery.Then, on the rest of the menu, while DHS continues to post propaganda about the arrests on the fire line in Washington State, wildfire veterans say the operation was nearly unprecedented and a breach in longstanding protocol that federal agents don’t disrupt emergency responders to check immigration status; a drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trump has been found guilty of violating terms of his release after a spate of recent crimes; and, Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee want the Trump administration to give its reasons for revoking the security clearances of thirty-seven current and former national security officials.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova’s president accused Russia of conducting a ‘hybri

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, MAGA Republicans pulled an “insane” last minute scheme in court.Then, on the rest of the menu, Intel said DEI was ‘instrumental’ to innovation, then suddenly stopped talking about it when Trump confiscated part of the company; Trump ordered a Peace Vigil that has stood in Lafayette Park for over forty years dismantled for being a “hazard to those visiting the White House and the surrounding areas;” and, a MAGA Marines' shocking ties to pro-Russian neo-Nazis has been exposed after Raw Story sued the Trump-led Naval Criminal Investigative Service.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea leaders feel betrayed over the detainment of hundreds of workers at the Hyundai plant raid in Georgia; and, undersea cables cut in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in Asia and the Mideast.All that and more, on West

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 most dangerous nepo baby in American history was not put under oath by the MAGA Chairman from Idaho when he repeatedly lied in the Senate Health Department hearing.​​​​​​Then, on the rest of the menu, five-time draft-dodger Trump really wants to rebrand the Department of Defense to the Department of War; Brett Kavanaugh is doing his best to rebrand the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” by another name; and, US employers adding just 22,000 jobs last month means Trump will fire whoever at the Labor Department released the report.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea expressed ‘concern and regret’ over a US immigration raid at Hyundai’s Georgia plant that apprehended over four-hundred-fifty South Koreans, including the executives; and, prosecutors in Argentina charged the daughter of a fugitive

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, Tulsi Gabbard’s reckless outing of a CIA officer has exposed the staggering incompetence of this administration, again.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon, Washington and California are forming a new public health partnership aimed at preserving access to vaccines; the Navy reversed its demotion of drunk quack MAGA Ronny Jackson; and, Trump's surge of federal law enforcement into Washington, DC, is exposing the FBI's fleet of unmarked cars, risking its ability to do its most sensitive national security and surveillance work.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Nepal blocked Facebook, Xitter, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government; and, China’s military parade revealed new hypersonic missiles, drone submarines and ICBMs.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speak

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, MAGA leaders in Congress instantly folded during a contentious cross examination at a heated hearing about Trump’s cover up of his dark past.Then, on the rest of the menu, the just-resigned director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, accused Robert F Kennedy Jr of promoting eugenics; concerns about possible deportation are at the top of the mind as Oregon’s roughly half million students return to their classrooms; and, Trump is moving the Space Command from its fortified base buried deep in the Rocky Mountains, to an area out in the open in the Redneck Riviera of Alabama.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO is working to thwart Russian jamming of civilian flights, two days after a jet carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was targeted; and,

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, world leaders are furious at Trump after Russia’s attempt to assassinate European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a GPS jamming operation that forced her plane to land in Bulgaria.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s authoritarian policies sparked protests in multiple US cities on Labor Day;  a Democrat and a Republican will team up to try to ban masked law enforcement in Oregon; and, the MAGA Supreme Court is poised to rip a new hole in the Constitution.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where African media grilled FIFA’s Infantino about fans and players being safe from MAGA thugs and officials at the 2026 World Cup in the United States; and, German authorities warned people against becoming ‘disposable agents’ for Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cu

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 is headed for a major disaster in court over his attempt to fire Lisa Cook.Then, on the rest of the menu, Hegseth is purging everything Black from the military, but he restored the giant painting at West Point of turncoat Robert E Lee wearing his gray Confederate uniform and accompanied by a slave guiding his horse; the Bum from Queens and Ice Barbie put a target on her back as they revoked Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris ahead of her book tour; and, Native American firefighters were detained and arrested by ICE while fighting the largest wildfire in Washington State.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tesla sales plunged again in Europe as anger at Musk keeps buyers away for the seventh month in a row; and, President Milei of Argentina defended his influential sister against claims tha

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, Jack Smith and his lawyers are coming out swinging as he shoves back against MAGA’s “imaginary and unfounded” phony “whistleblower” complaint against him.Then, on the rest of the menu, mystery surrounds a $1.2 billion Army contract to build a huge tent concentration camp in the Texas desert; the MAGA-led Air Force will provide full military funeral honors to traitor Ashli Babbitt; and, Army is the last service academy to finally sell alcoholic drinks at football games.(No Chef’s Table today, had to get Gunner to his Vet appointment earlier than planned. The links to the reportage do work.) After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where defense ministers from Japan and Britain hailed their “deep strategic alignment” as a Royal Navy aircraft carrier made a historic port call in Tokyo; and, Australia, Canada a

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 got a rude awakening with major protests chasing his goons from swank DC neighborhoods.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin Lutheran pastor tested the new IRS endorsement rule by backing AOC and lost his church; ICE Barbie says the entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it; and, a federal judge ruled the Mississippi Supreme Court gerrymander map violates the Voting Rights Act.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US appeals court puts the brakes on the contested land transfer for an Arizona copper mine to a pair of international companies; and, Paris residents fight the ‘Disneyfication’ of their beloved Montmartre neighborhood.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio L

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller melted down on live television over Trump's latest scandal as Newsom mocked him mercilessly.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump threatened retaliation for countries that tax or regulate US tech companies; the leading license plate camera company has halted cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security over concern how its investigations are used; and, in its efforts to ethnically cleanse America, the Trump MAGA administration charged George Mason University’s efforts to diversify its workforce violates a civil rights law intended to end segregation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Indonesia launched a measles vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak that has killed seventeen; and, Australia accused Iran of organizing antisemitic attacks across the country and has expelled