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, while Durbin and Schumer caved to MAGA, President Biden continues to quietly lay the roadblocks to protect America from Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, Georgia’s top health official dismissed all members of a state committee that investigates pregnancy-related maternal deaths after their investigation revealed that scores of women were dying from the state’s abortion ban; the executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections wants a powerful MAGA legislator to retract a comment suggesting ballot results were being manipulated, saying it is already leading to threats against local election workers; and, Texas-based oil company Phillips 66 has been federally indicted in connection with severe violations of the Clean Water Act in California.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British an

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 attorney and Deputy AG nominee, Todd Blanche, tried to claim in a New York court that "the Presidential Transition Act of 1963" mandates dismissal of Trump’s guilty verdicts, except, it doesn’t.Then, on the rest of the menu, a convicted January 6 insurrectionist was found guilty in a separate criminal case for his plan to murder federal law enforcement agents who investigated his role in the Capitol attack; Oklahoma State Superintendent for Schools, Ryan Walters, insisted he would "absolutely" penalize schools that don't show a video of him praying for Trump; and, a Florida man was arrested and charged with a plot to plant a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech Defense Ministry said it p

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats went on cutthroat offense at a House of Representatives Hearing called by the MAGA GOP.Then, on the rest of the menu, segregation academies across the South are getting millions of taxpayer dollars from school voucher programs; the US Senate approved a stalled federal judicial nominee in Oregon; and, lame duck North Carolina Republicans advanced extensive legislation that would weaken the powers of the incoming Democratic governor, attorney general and schools superintendent, elected two weeks ago.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Danish Navy sailing close and keeping tabs on a Chinese-flagged ship that left a Russian seaport after data cables were severed in the Baltic Sea; and, NATO’s newest members, Finland and Sweden, have updated their civil preparedness guides with instructions

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s Cabinet pick scandals are drawing Fox into the dumpster fire. Then, on the rest of the menu, a MAGA federal trifecta could reshape abortion access in a deep blue state like Oregon; a state judge struck down Wyoming’s abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy; and, New Jersey Democratic US Representative Mikie Sherrill announced she is running for governor.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Vlad is hella mad that the US is allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weapons; and, the acclaimed Russian ballet dancer and Ukraine war critic, Vladimir Shklyarov, has died after one of those convenient© falls from the fifth floor of a building that Putin has been fond of for almost two decades.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cui

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 pathetic behavior over the weekend is discussed.Then, on the rest of the menu, dozens are sickened across more than a dozen states with one person dead after eating California carrots contaminated with E. coli; the Library of Congress notified lawmakers of a criminal “cyber breach” of its IT system by a foreign adversary: and, less than a month after the largest dam removal project in US history, salmon are once more returning to spawn in the cool creeks of the Northwest that have been cut off to them for generations.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union Executive Commission reported Trump’s protectionism could undermine the modest growth forecast for the eurozone; and, coming to an America near you, Belarus arrested scores of relatives of dissidents and opposition candidates ahead

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 Gaetz nomination has both intended and unintended consequences.Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for an Idaho white supremacist who killed a man while on the run; a former Phoenix Suns employee filed a racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the team; and, lawmakers postponed a vote on a key bill in Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry’s complex tax reform package over a sales tax snag.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union slapped Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine for engaging in ‘abusive’ Marketplace practices; and, US and Polish officials opened a missile defense site that Russia has long protested.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live

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, JD Vance’s Yale Law School roommate says, “I lived with the creep, I know his secrets and how to control him.”Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors revealed that some evidence a federal judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors; a California eighteen year-old plead guilty to making hundreds of swatting calls to Black colleges, synagogues and mosques; and, the state of Louisiana asked a federal appeals court to immediately block a judge’s ruling that posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms is unconstitutional.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a federal investigation into efforts by the Chinese government to hack into US telecommunications networks has revealed a “broad and significant” cyber-es

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s almost like Trump fell into Putin’s trap on purpose.Then, on the rest of the menu, a conservative freelance writer plead guilty for his part in the January 6 Capitol insurrection; a judge recused himself from presiding over Arizona’s fake electors case after the MAGA defendants complained about an email in which he told fellow judges to speak out against attacks on Kamala Harris; and, from “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, to “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut, Florida education officials report hundreds of books have been pulled from the state’s school libraries.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one of the most popular and charismatic figures of the imprisoned Belarusian opposition, has resurfaced after more than twenty months of no contact with the outside world; and, police in Antigua

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s not a personal record, but Putin humiliated Trump in under forty-eight hours on the world stage.Then, on the rest of the menu, Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira could get up to seventeen years in prison for stealing a lot less important documents than what Trump stole; Spokane City Hall in Washington state was temporarily closed and a council meeting was canceled because of a security threat; and, revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the International Criminal Court’s oversight body announced it will open an outside investigation into sexual misconduct accusations against its top prosecutor; and, Azerbaijan has been accused of rampi

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 panicking and is begging the MAGA senate to slow walk current judicial appointments, then go into an immediate 10-day recess on Jan 20 so he can fill all of the government with recess appointment toadies for two years.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump has vowed to kill off-shore wind projects, but it won’t be that easy; a prep course to raise the dismally low test scores of Army recruits is working; and veterans face challenges starting small businesses but there are plenty of resources to help.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof canceled a trip to United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan after assaults on Jewish soccer fans in Amsterdam that some condemned as a pogrom; and, Lithuania’s defense minister proposed ways for smoother relations between Europe

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 criminal cases are going away and Jack Smith has made plans to escape the United States before January 20th.Then, on the rest of the menu, long-time Trump ally and Russian spy Michael Flynn said it’s time to dismantle the FBI and purge 'highly qualified' government experts; a Texas appeals court ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the trial judge; and, one of the two Democratic state attorneys in Florida who DeSantis removed from office in what opponents say were political moves, won back their old job from voters.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister as his three-party coalition collapses; and, British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kerry Kennedy has a warning about her brother RFK, Jr and Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Colorado law raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21 can take effect while the legal battle over it continues; former military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of US Navy officers; and, a Georgia judge set an early 2025 trial date for a former Georgia district attorney charged with interfering with the police investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European security officials have identified Russian intelligence behind a plot to put incendiary devices in packages on cargo planes headed t

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s closing message is he’s the protector of women because women are trash whether they like it or not, that’s how chivalrous he is.Then, on the rest of the menu, law enforcement in MAGA-dominated Southern Oregon has prepared for the MAGA disturbances MAGA promised on election day and the days after if they don’t get their way; federal agents arrested a white supremacist who was going to blow up a Nashville energy facility with C-4 to start a race war; and, the Arizona elections chief said he fought as hard as he could, but a court ordered he surrender voter’s sensitive personal and voting data to Stephen Miller’s gestapo legal group.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pakistan shut primary schools for a week in Lahore due to dangerous air quality; and, Nigeria’s President ordered the immediate relea

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, Alito left a cryptic message to MAGA hidden in the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket order protecting Pennsylvania voting rights.Then, on the rest of the menu, since Dobbs, Idaho mothers are increasingly accused of child abuse while pregnant; a federal judge ruled it’s too close to the election to stop the state from challenging the validity of thousands of ballots that the Iowa attorney general began only two weeks ago; and, the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division is looking into allegations that the four-star general who heads the US Central Command, shoved a member of his air crew during a trip overseas.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova’s pro-Western president has won a second term in a runoff overshadowed by Russian meddling; and, at a boisterous event in front of thousands of exu

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, Musk figures since he could ignore our immigration laws and become the richest man in the world, he can ignore our election laws and continue to buy votes while laughing in the DOJ’s face.Then, on the rest of the menu, ballot-sorting machine woes slow the count in an Oregon county with a pivotal US House race; Arizona has enlisted county employees to help tackle a surge of two-page early ballots; and, a Florida school board candidate lost his race but DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese online retailer Temu is facing a European Union investigation over failing to prevent the sale of illegal goods; and, an Australian judge ruled an anti-immigration senator broke the country’s race law by telling a rival legislator to go back to Pakistan.All that and more,

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, it took John Roberts over eight months to pull his presidential immunity ruling out of thin air, but it took him only one day to ignore the the Voting Rights Act and the longstanding Purcell Principle to overturn unanimous lower court decisions to let Virginia “accidentally”  purge decades-long legal voters from the polls, six days before the election.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage; police warn that the suspect in the Pacific Northwest ballot box fire bombings is certain to strike again; and, Michigan officials removed two Upper Peninsula clerks from election duties over their illegal MAGA-fueled planned hand count.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a special commission investigating Russian and Bela

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Judge Cannon pulled a stunning move in court that flies in the face of judicial norms, so what else is new?Then, on the rest of the menu, the man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer was given a life term without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial; weeks after the head of the elections office was forced out using the same tactic, the manager of critical Washoe County in northern Nevada is now been put on medical leave days before the election; and, a federal judge continues to block Florida officials from threatening TV stations over abortion ads.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil fined meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle; and, Finland’s president said North Korea’s mustering troops in Russia represents an escal

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s no hoax Russian influence becomes a feature of American elections when Trump is on the ballot.Then, on the rest of the menu, hundreds of ballots were destroyed in targeted attacks on ballot boxes in blue districts spanning Oregon and Southern Washington state; over two hundred thousand people canceled their Washington Post subscription after the Harris snub, with almost another twenty thousand canceling after Bezos’ whined in an op ed why he did it; and, a Boston-area pizza shop owner was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for threatening workers with deportation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Islamabad police arrested a Pakistani lawyer and her husband, who are known for taking on human rights cases, on charges of being national security risks; and, the government of the French Cari

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 New York MAGA Square Garden rally went off the rails and delivered him the perfect Instant Karma he deserves.Then, on the rest of the menu, officials in New Haven, Connecticut, are considering a public apology for a decision by city leaders in 1831 to reject what would have been the nation’s first Black college; a six-hundred pound bronze statue of a Tuskegee airman has been found after it was stolen from a Detroit city park; and, Latin superstar Bad Bunny has backed Harris for president after the racist jokes at Trump’s MAGA Bund rally in New York.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen denounced Russia’s hybrid attacks against democracies; and, Georgia’s opposition disputed the result of a crucial vote which could decide the country’s role

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 issued a threat to Jack Smith just like it came from Vlad.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Ohio judge struck down a state law that banned nearly all abortions, ruling it was unconstitutional in light of the 2023 voter referendum; a MAGA Georgia election official is appealing a judge’s order that she and other election leaders in the state’s most populous county must vote to certify results by the deadline set in law; and, a Pennsylvania GOP operative accused a Benedictine monastery of voter fraud, and now the nuns are fighting back.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Venezuelan media tycoon was charged in federal court in Florida for a conspiracy to siphon more than $1 billion from the oil company owned by the South American country’s government; and, Elon Musk has had regular, secret talks  wit