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, Maurene Comey, a career federal prosecutor in Manhattan, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, as well as the lead in the Epstein and Sean Diddy prosecutions, has been fired from her job in the Southern District of New York by the Trump/Bondi Justice Department for reasons unknown, so don’t talk about it.Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA John Roberts secretly praised Trump during crisis talks with judges who ruled against him; the Urban League declared a ‘state of emergency’ for civil rights in the US; and, only one in four US adults say Trump’s policies have helped them.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Europol-coordinated global operation took down a pro-Russian cybercrime network; and, the UK and Germany are set to sign a treaty on defense, trade and migration.All that and mor

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, the Justice Department refused to intervene in Ghislaine Maxwell’s case.Then, on the rest of the menu, Native American radio stations are at risk as the MAGA Congress looks to cut $1Billion in public broadcasting funding; “Crypto Week” in the MAGA House is not going as planned; and, a federal MAGA judge in Texas reversed a Biden-era rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Turkish court sentenced Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to Erdogan, to almost two years in prison for insulting and threatening a public official; and, a Chinese court sentenced a Japanese man to more than three years in prison on espionage charges.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, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA SCOTUS looks dead set on gutting the Voting Rights Act again, this time with a North Dakota case especially teed up to be issued from the MAGA Shadow Docket.Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-four states sued the Trump administration to unfreeze more than $6 billion in education grants; the Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change reports on the NASA website as promised; and, for the first time in over seventy-five years, Native American teens were able to kayak the whole length of the Klamath River in celebration of the removal of four decayed dams and the return of long-lost salmon.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where turncoat Daniel Martindale, the US citizen who helped the Kremlin target and kill thousands of Ukrainian troops while he resided in the embattled country,

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, attorney Marc Elias predicts the actual reason for Trump’s bizarre Epstein rant.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas governor Abbott won't release his emails with Elon Musk because they are of a “private nature, not of public interest and potentially embarrassing;” chasing bizarre theories becomes a major White House time suck; and, Trump refused to leave the stage after presenting Chelsea with the FIFA Club World Cup trophy, baffling the London team.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Union trade ministers meet to forge a strategy after Trump’s surprise 30% tariffs on America’s largest trade partner; and, the largest-ever war-fighting drills in Australia are underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spy ships.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, Japan is furious at Trump and they made a powerful statement rejecting his disgraceful conduct.Then, on the rest of the menu, DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent; DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data, so now it can cut off billions to farmers; and, federal officials charged a prominent Georgia Republican with running a $140 million Ponzi scheme.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China; and, Cambodian lawmakers passed a constitutional amendment allowing the government to revoke citizenship.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Rad

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, furious world leaders like Lula from Brazil, Modi of India, Zelenskky of Ukraine, the foreign minister in Mexico and President Sheinbaum, are taking decisive action to checkmate Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, the ‘oppressive’ Florida State University revenue-sharing deals show continued exploitation of college football players; an “anti-government militia” announced  that it is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars for manipulating the weather, days after an individual vandalized a news station’s radar; and, the Trump administration sued California, arguing animal cruelty laws are the real cause of high egg prices.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European court ruled that Russia committed widespread human rights violations in Ukraine and was behind the downing of Flight MH17; and, Euro

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, the American public knows Donald Trump is lying about tariffs and they’ve figured it out without any help from the White House press corps who continue to accept his lies as answers.Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK Jr.’s vaccine policy sparks a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics; Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts; and, Trump blocked a ‘click-to-cancel’ rule, intended to make cancelling subscriptions easier, just before it was to go in effect.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Turkish court ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok for offensive content; and, French police raided the far-right National Rally headquarters in a new finance probe.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine

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, it was a sight to behold Fox News panicking on live tv over Trump’s major failures, and trying to desperately flip the script.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is opening new coal sales from public lands in Montana and Wyoming; a Georgia appeals court upheld a ruling that election officials must certify results according to deadlines set in law; and, ICE Barbie Kristi Noem shrugged off oversight as detainee deaths surge.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British jury convicted three men of an arson attack organized by Russian intelligence; and, Trump’s director of personnel, Sergio Gor, was born in the Soviet Union and secretly visited Moscow just last year.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Yo

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, Fox issued an apology in anticipation of a defamation suit by Kilmar Abrego Garcia.Then, on the rest of the menu, the anti-climate change MAGA candidate who claimed no one was killed in the Texas  'fake flood,' ramped up a $175M Texas 'land grab' conspiracy; the guy who said he only wants little Jews wearing yarmulkes counting his casino money, claims he never knew ‘shylock’ is an antisemitic term; and, the quick action by one Texas summer camp lead to timely evacuations ahead of the deadly flash flood no one was warned about.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China retaliated against the EU with a ban on European medical devices; and, China used embassies to undermine the sales of France’s flagship Rafale fighter jet.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Pu

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, King Krasnov gave an Independence Day speech for the ages at the Iowa State Fair.Then, on the rest of the menu, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is the one responsible for halting aid to Ukraine, blindsiding the State Department; Alina Habba has been under professional investigation for a year in a hush money scheme for Trump; and, the Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group filed a lawsuit against a state park for breaking state law by planning an exhibit on slavery, segregation and white supremacy.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hours after US anti missile shipments were halted to Ukraine, Russia hammered Kyiv in the largest missile and drone barrage since the war began; and, a strike by air traffic controllers is disrupting travel to, from and over France.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &am

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 whiny-ass House MAGA whined on the Capitol steps, “we are not a bunch of little bitches!”Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA dropped a legal case against major Trump donor GEO Group over its misuse of a harmful disinfectant in an ICE facility; with anti-vax loon RFK, Jr at the helm, the United States is seeing the largest measles outbreak since the infectious disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago; and, National Guard pilot Jo Ellis is suing a right-wing influencer for falsely blaming her for the DC crash that killed sixty-seven people.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s foreign minister denounced spy charges being used to hold two French nationals in Iran for more than three years; and, a US federal appeals court ordered the reinstatement of the convictions of a former Fox ex

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 mid-decade “census recount" plan is obviously illegal to anyone who cares.Then, on the rest of the menu, a MAGA TV outlet was forced to change its name because it 'confused' Trump; Zuckerberg’s ‘Bizzaro World’ cameo at a top secret military conference with Trump left military leaders and officials in attendance “mystified and a bit unnerved;” and, a bombshell report revealed a 'massive stockpile' of cash Trump has built since the election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the first American ‘scientific refugees’ have begun arriving in France; and, Azerbaijan detained seven people linked to Kremlin media outlet Sputnik over the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis held in Russian custody.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The

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, Trump rushed off to the Florida Everglades concentration camp for alligator feeding time.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is appealing the judicial order striking down his EO that targeted law firm Perkins Coie; Texas data shows after Abbott outlawed abortion, near death first trimester miscarriages soared to over fifty-four percent; and, Iran, if you’re listening, if you could release the tens of thousands of hacked emails from Tump’s inner circle of Susie Wiles, Lindsey Halligan and Roger Stone, our media will reward you, mightily.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s lavish ex-deputy defense minister was handed a thirteen-year prison sentence on corruption charges; and, coming to an America near you, Turkey’s Erdogan has just detained over one hundred-twenty opposition figures, including a f

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, a Trump lawyer just got some brutal disbarment news.Then, on the rest of the menu, the suspected gunman who fatally ambushed firefighters in MAGA Land Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, has been found dead; a second intelligence leak has undermined Trump’s claim that the Iranian nuclear program has been “totally obliterated;” and, while serving as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem secretly took a 'disturbing' $80K payment from a mystery donor.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chilean communist scored a surprise win in the primary vote as the larger battle with the far-right looms; and, women can be drafted into the Danish military as Russian aggression and military investment grows.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Pl

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, Republicans have lost so much control at their hearings, even Melania got roasted by witnesses on live television.Then, on the rest of the menu, Big Balls never left, he’s now embedded in the biggest agency Musk wants to break; Oregon’s only congressional Republican has joined the chorus against federal land sales; and, Louisiana is latest state to redefine planet-warming natural gas, as green energy.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Apple revamped its EU App Store terms to avert more fines; and, Brazil’s outspoken first lady is coming under fire, but she refuses to stop speaking out.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly div

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, well-known draft dodger Bone Spurs Krasnov says he’s a warrior for watching bombs drop, and he’ll disappear any reporter who reports he’s not more of a warrior than Eisenhower, that guy on PT-109 and all the those dead losers on battlefields through all of time.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s Big Beautiful $20 Billion Dollar War with CBS will have to knock off three zeros; rumors about armed militia threatening teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forced a medical unit to flee hurricane-hit North Carolina; and, a federal judge ordered the Labor Department to keep Job Corps running during its lawsuit to purge the Great Society from American life.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where reeling from the erratic firehose of Trump rebukes, Europe weighs deeper ties with China; and, M

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, an exploding “F*** You!” Trump whistleblower bomb has exposed a lawless DOJ plot.Then, on the rest of the menu, Stephen Miller’s push to have the FBI assist in the Trump administration’s ethnic cleansing has been put on ice; in response to a habeas ruling by the bench, MAGA Pam Bondi is demanding the entire federal district court in Maryland recuse itself; and, acting-US attorney Alina Habba was slapped with a new ethics complaint over her pursuit of New Jersey Democrats.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a federal judge ordered Trump to release billions of dollars in funding for electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states; and, after musing whether he abides by Article 5 of the NATO treaty “depends on your definition,” TACO said about twenty-four hours later that he stood with that promise.

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, a key provision of the MAGA budget bill that sought to limit judicial power is dead.Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s lawyers are trying to claim in court he doesn’t use a computer; home sales just posted their slowest May in sixteen years; and, a jury ordered a J6’er to pay five hundred thousand dollars to the widow of a DC police officer who killed himself after the insurrection.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where pro-Russian hackers launched a series of denial-of-service attacks on several municipalities and organizations linked to the NATO summit; and, the fighting between Iran and Israel raises questions about Russia’s influence in the Middle East.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resi

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 was dealt a stinging rebuke by the judge in the latest Garcia hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE detained a Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby; oil prices flip-flop and US stocks drift as Wall Street waits for Iran’s reaction to Trump’s ‘Good Vibrations’ bombing attacks; and, Elon Musk announced plans to completely rewrite human knowledge itself after his AI chatbot Grok keeps clashing with his far-right worldview.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian prosecutors asked for a 14.5-year prison sentence for a former deputy defense minister jailed on bribery charges; and, 639 employees of Voice of America, including employees at VOA’s Persian-language service, were issued layoff notices just before Trump’s Big Beautiful Bombing of Iran.All that and more, on We

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, New Jersey governor candidate and former Navy lieutenant Mikie Sherrill, critiqued Trump’s military deployments to US cities.Then, on the rest of the menu, first the states cut civics classes, now the Mississippi education board has axed the US history test for high schoolers to graduate; Virginia Democrats have a big fundraising advantage in the race for governor this year; and, he didn’t complain about it on Columbus Day, but Trump had to rail about federal holidays on Juneteenth.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s new president nominated a center-right former mayor as prime minister; and, Europe and Iran will try diplomacy as Trump weighs nuking cofeve in two weeks.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Liv