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, 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

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