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, Hegseth insists on “Peace Through Strength,” but several strong women senators tore him to pieces.Then, on the rest of the menu, tech companies don’t want you to know how much energy AI uses; the MAGA Justice Department says the Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos for her cancer research brought in illegal ‘biological materials;’ and, Redemption Bank becomes the first bank owned by a Black-led investment group in the Western US.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland’s lawmakers voted to leave the international land mine treaty as the Nordic country boosts its defenses against Russia; and, Russia’s economy minister says the country is on the brink of recession.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroot

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, Senator Tina Smith confronted Christo-Nationalist MAGA Mike Lee for mocking the Minnesota assassination victims, who were also her personal friends.Then, on the rest of the menu, Colorado shut down a state campaign finance site after the Minnesota assassination; Oregon state lawmakers recently passed a bill blocking their personal addresses; and, Trump called Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “slick,” “whacked out” and said, “I’m not calling him” after the targeted shootings of two state lawmakers because it would “waste time” he doesn’t waste on losers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech coalition government faces a parliamentary no-confidence vote over a bitcoin scandal; and, the remaining leaders at the G7 will have no problem completing their summit after Trump’s early exit.All that and more, on W

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 cognitive issues continue being exposed as he is bullied into submission for his failures.Then, on the rest of the menu, voters rebuked the MAGA-led Huntington Beach City Council effort to ban books; Noem’s not-so-secret boyfriend Lewandoski was spotted at the detention of Senator Alex Padilla; and, the Louisiana AG is investigating CVS for sending mass text messages lobbying against legislation that would have closed down the corporation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US-backed Israeli company’s spyware was used to target European journalists; and, with daily threats from DHS, ICE and the White House, fans don’t appear to be snatching up tickets to the Club World Cup.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radi

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, the rightwing Georgia Supreme Court ruled against MAGA Republicans.Then, on the rest of the menu, the former head of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs filed a federal lawsuit accusing Governor Kay Ivey of wrongful termination and defamation; a former worker who leaked information about plans by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration to build golf courses and hotels in Florida state parks has filed a whistleblower lawsuit; and, seven Arkansas families filed suit challenging the state law that requires the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Polish security services have detained three men who were planning an attack inspired by Neo-Nazi perpetrators of mass killings; and, the European court ruled Italy is not liable for the actions of the

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, Pam Bondi's brother was dealt a stunning defeat in the DC Bar election.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin lawsuit seeks to ban Elon Musk from ever again offering $1 million checks to voters for their votes; Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill targeting out-of-state doctors who prescribe and mail abortion pills; and, a federal appeals court in New York is set to hear arguments in Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Netanyahu’s government faces a possible collapse as the opposition seeks to dissolve it; and, three far-right lawmakers in Greece were expelled from parliament due to ties with a Neo-Nazi politician convicted of leading a criminal organization.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, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, over three hundred National Institute of Health employees have published the ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration health policies.Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK Jr’s top aide attacks the US health system while running a company that promotes untested wellness alternatives; Trump got a public rebuke as the Smithsonian refused to kowtow to his illegal orders; and, the Mad King decreed we are all going to get coal, and we better like it or else.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech president appointed a new justice minister amid a bitcoin scandal; and, the US-China trade talks in London entered their second day.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 Bea

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, Gavin Newsom criticized Trump as “a stone-cold liar” after his call about the ICE invasion.Then, on the rest of the menu, Washington state farmworkers fear retaliation and deportation for reporting sexual harassment to a key federal agency under Trump; a reporter from Australian Channel 9 News was shot with rubber bullets live on air in Los Angeles as she was covering the ICE blitzkrieg; and, you can tell MAGA propaganda works because MAGA state houses are filing bills to outlaw chem trails.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Czech court sentenced a Colombian national to eight years in prison for an arson attack tied to Russia; and, NATO chief Rutte called for a 400% increase in the alliance’s air and missile defenses to counter the threat from Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speake

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 lost four court cases within hours of each other.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s surgeon general pick criticizes others’ conflicts but profits from wellness product sales that puts money in her own pocket; a jury awarded a California prosecutor $3 million after she was forced out of her position; and, seventy law professors, attorneys and former Florida Supreme Court justices filed a Florida Bar complaint accusing Pam Bondi of ‘misconduct’ as US Attorney General.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China issued warrants for Taiwanese hackers and banned a business for pro-independence links; and, the private lunar lander from Japan crashed into the moon in a failed mission.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots 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, a legal scholar schooled Josh Hawley during a Senate hearing on all these “commie judges ruling against Trump.”Then, on the rest of the menu, instead of being gone in one hundred and thirty days, ‘Big Balls’ and other core DOGE brownshirts are now full time government employees; a MAGA political consultant behind AI-generated robocall deepfakes of Joe Biden, goes on trial in New Hampshire; and, surgeons say the MAGA MAHA report wrongly dismisses tonsil and ear tube surgeries as harmful, ignoring evidence that the procedures greatly improve sleep, hearing, and behavior in children.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the outgoing head of Europe’s drug agency warned of a surge of violence from the extreme right wing stimulant trade; and Trump’s travel ban has an exemption for Olympic and World Cup 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, MAGA Mike was torn to shreds by his own party.Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s DOGE goons left the US Institute of Peace they illegally tried to take over, full of cockroaches and pot; a Tennessee appeals court upheld the law from Republican legislators to punish blue Nashville’s council for refusing the Republican National Convention in the Music City; and, the FBI discovered a cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding a home in Washington state.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pete Hegseth is too busy purging women, gays and non-whites from the US military to show up at an important NATO meeting, the first time a Pentagon chief has blown off the fifty-nation meeting since the group’s inception; and, Cologne, Germany has begun its biggest evacuation since 1945 to defuse three u

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 New York Bar Council is addressing a complaint about top Trump official Emil Bove by kicking it back to Trump’s DOJ.Then, on the rest of the menu, ex-Homeland Security official Miles Taylor is fighting back against Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ investigation order; NOAA says it will hire ‘mission-critical’ weather service positions that were cut because ketamine-addled, apartheid-loving South African Boers said they know better; and, OAN’s ‘MAGA Girl’ Pentagon reporter learned the limits of expressing her own opinion.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Dutch Prime Minister said his coalition government will become a caretaker administration after far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders pulled his ministers out of the Cabinet; and, the Liberal candidate is forecast to win South Korea’s snap presidential electio

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, Representative Daniel Goldman confronted plainclothes ICE agents who stormed his district office.Then, on the rest of the menu, the New England Patriots were threatened with a MAGA boycott for a Pride flag display during Pride Month; Tulsa’s new Black mayor proposed a $100 million dollar trust to ‘repair’ the impact of the 1921 Race Massacre by a white mob; and, Trump fast-tracked a Utah uranium mine, but an industry revival may wait for higher prices.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the election of a Trump ally in Poland could alter European Union/Ukraine policies; and, Ukrainian spies hid the drones in woodsheds and hired unwitting Russian truck drivers to transport the weapons deep in the country that crippled Russian defenses and nuclear capabilities.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Sp

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, after a failed attempt to takeover the North Carolina State Supreme Court, the MAGA US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to purge voters from the state registration rolls.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas cops searched license plate cameras across the United States to find a woman who had an abortion; a controversial wage theft bill that MAGA hates passed the Oregon House; and, the TACO administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for thirty-four offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a US tanker in the North Sea pleaded not guilty to manslaughter at a UK court hearing; and, a global rally for stocks lost steam amid questions about what the administration and courts will do to the TACO

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 is called out for his “brutal and ugly attacks” that have caused a spike of threats against federal judges.Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States is storing migrant children’s DNA in a future crimes criminal database; Oregon's chances to implement stricter vehicle emission regulations could be derailed by the MAGA federal government; and, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has caused industry leaders to cancel or delay more than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the US just this year.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where California avocado growers say Mexican imports have helped their sales; and, the Canadian province of Manitoba declared a state of emergency over wildfires and imposed the largest evacuation in the province’s history.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the anti-voting section of the Trump Department of Justice filed an anti-voter lawsuit in North Carolina.Then, on the rest of the menu, NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit in federal court against Trump’s illegal, retaliatory executive order; Trump’s Border Gestapo Chief Tom Homan has been cashing checks from one of the private prison giants profiting from the immigration crackdown he’s overseeing; and, the Trump State Department stopped scheduling visa interviews for foreign students while it expands vetting their social media so they can be thrown in a gulag somewhere.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

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, law firm Paul Weiss capitulated to Trump, now it has lost its top partners.Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK, Jr’s FDA head warned doctors to “stop throwing insulin at diabetics,” or else; the state Trump won by just one percent faces an ugly three hundred fourteen million dollar loss in vital aid in the “Big Beautiful Bill;” and, former US Representative Charles Rangel, who spent nearly fifty years representing New York, has died at age ninety-four.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tesla sales across Europe plunged by half last month, even as growth in the electric car market picked up pace; and, Russia-backed far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who upended the Romanian presidential race, has withdrawn from politics.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justic

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 Supreme Court blocked the nation’s first religious charter school in a surprise rebuke, with Amy Coney Barrett recusing.Then, on the rest of the menu, American refugees are fleeing across state lines to escape hostile forces under Trump; Kentucky’s bitcoin boom has gone bust; and, a just-passed Louisiana law threatens residents with one million dollar fines for sharing warnings about bad air quality.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian hackers are targeting Western firms shipping aid to Ukraine; and, Trump’s early morning rage tweet tariff threats on the European Union and Apple, have sent US futures and global markets on a sharp death spiral.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resist

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 fed up Supreme Court schooled the Trump administration on the basics of Constitutional law.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is 'deeply underwater' on his Wall Street skyscraper as a massive debt deadline looms; a fire at the historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set; and, the two Israeli Embassy staffers murdered near the White House by a “Free Palestine” activist, had just left the Young Diplomats Reception for multinational aid to Gaza.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s Constitutional Court unanimously validated the results of Romania’s presidential election rerun, shortly after rejecting a request to annul the results by the hard-right Moscow-backed candidate; and, Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Yingluck has been ordered to pay for losses from a money-losing rice su

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 budget bill has created a 'legislative suicide pact' for the MAGA House.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pacific Northwest braces for a tsunami and typhoon monitoring blackout from Trump’s agency shutdown; a bombshell email leak has exposed a Gabbard goon secretly ordering intel changes so it couldn’t be ‘used against’ Trump; and, the hacker who breached the Signal chats used by Waltz and Hegseth, intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police broke up a right-wing extremist group that aimed to destabilize the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents; and, the mother of the arrested Salvadoran lawyer who represented Trump’All that and more, on We

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, and Trump gave up in a humiliating surrender before the world.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge just struck down DOGE’s attempt to seize the $500 million dollar building owned by the US Institute of Peace; a Black neighborhood fights back as an Elon Musk supercomputer factory belches toxic pollutants into the air; and, Pacific Northwest hydroelectric power risks a major shutdown as agencies lose hundreds of on-the-ground employees because of Trump’s cutbacks.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Honda pulls back on its EV strategy and will now push hybrid sales; and, at a South Africa agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff at Trump’s allegations of white genocide.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio