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 will be able to ramble for hours about all the good things Hitler did, but he’ll stammer and clam up if asked to name the bad things Adolph accomplished.Then, on the rest of the menu, Amazon plans to power Eastern Oregon data centers with small nuclear reactors; the top Nevada election official in a politically crucial county says she was forced out by the MAGA majority on the county board; and, a Texas county reversed its decision to reclassify a children’s book on Native American history as fiction.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the G7 allies are moving ahead with a $50 billion loan for Ukraine backed by frozen Russian funds; and, a former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate mis

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, Trump’s “comprehensive ignorance of history,” his interests in dictators, and his disdain for the American military are growing.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge dismissed an RNC lawsuit that accused the Michigan Secretary of State of failing to maintain accurate voter registration records; the Alabama Secretary of State assured several thousand voters erroneously swept up in a voter roll purge that they can vote; and, a man accused of repeatedly threatening to kill the top elections officials in Colorado and Arizona as well as judges and federal law enforcement agents, is expected to plead guilty in federal court today.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain and Germany will sign a defense pact to counter Russia’s growing threat in the North Atlantic; and, the foreign minister of Po

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, Georgia judges are taking on the Trump-controlled State Election Board and throwing out all of their last minute rule changes before the election to benefit Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Central Park Five alleged in a federal lawsuit that Trump falsely claimed they pleaded guilty to the 1989 attack; a MAGA Arizona official who refused to certify the 2022 election, plead guilty to failing to perform her duty as an election officer; and, courts in Michigan and North Carolina rejected attempts by Republicans to disqualify the ballots of overseas military voters.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova narrowly voted to secure a path toward EU membership after accusing Russia of interference; and, victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster took their case for compensation to a UK court.Al

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, Josh Hawley has been caught in a humiliating scandal.Then, on the rest of the menu, two hecklers complained to Fox News after they were escorted from Vice President Kamala Harris' rally in Wisconsin that they were “pushed by an elderly woman;” highly compensated ‘GunTubers’ are in a panic as YouTube cracks down on firearm content; and, CVS workers have gone on strike at seven Southern California stores for better pay and health care.​​​​After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Greek police data hack has exposed details of an elite crime-fighting unit; and, Cyprus said that it has successfully thwarted a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the O

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, Jack Smith might just use Trump’s words against him in court after Trump directly linked himself to the January 6 insurrectionists in statements at a Univision town hall.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon elections phone lines had to be closed after a flood of out of state MAGA conspiracy calls overwhelmed the system; a federal judge in Florida ordered the DeSantis administration to stop threatening TV stations with criminal charges if they run ads in support of an abortion rights referendum; and, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against a Dallas doctor for violating the state’s ban on gender-affirming care.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an early morning blaze burned down a brand-new fire station in Germany that lacked fire alarms; and, the youngest woman to climb all of the

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, “Bret Baier lied deliberately and knowingly” about what Trump said he wants to do to Americans he calls “the enemy from within.” Then, on the rest of the menu, the CEO and senior management of a Tennessee company snuck out the back door and survived Hurricane Helene while his workers were forced to work until they died; a New Hampshire Supreme Court justice was indicted for interfering with a criminal probe of her husband; and, the New Mexico governor rescinded the emergency health order that suspended gun rights in playgrounds.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Sea Shepard founder Paul Watson asked France for political asylum to avoid extradition to Japan; and, the European Central Bank is poised to cut rates again as inflation drops below the expected targeAll that and more, on West Coast Cook

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, in their debate, linebacker Colin Allred wiped the smirk off waterboy Ted Cruz’s smirking chimp face over Ted hiding in a supply closet on January 6.Then, on the rest of the menu, a mortgage company accused of lending discrimination by redlining predominantly Black neighborhoods in Alabama, has agreed to pay over ten million dollars to resolve the charges; California health care workers will get a pay bump under a new minimum wage law; and, the Justice Department will send election monitors to an Ohio county where a sheriff repeatedly intimidated voters in social media posts.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian man was released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drawing his thirteen year-old daughter made criticizing the Russian military; and, a court in Belarus sentenced an i

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, John Roberts was shaken, but not stirred over the backlash to his presidential immunity ruling.Then, on the rest of the menu, student athletes and coaches for the largest and most diverse public high school in Oregon say they’ve faced racist chants and slurs during most of their away games; Trump’s campaign still owes St Cloud, Minnesota nearly $209,000 for a July rally there, and, in a whistleblower lawsuit, a top 29-year veteran detective alleges the Los Angeles Police Department is toxic toward women.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French far-right leader Marine Le Pen continues to face a Paris court on charges of embezzling European Union Parliament funds; and, European soccer player unions and leagues filed a formal complaint against FIFA.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 MAGA Republican official in Pennsylvania who removed scores of drop boxes, gets what she deserves.Then, on the rest of the menu, hurricane recovery officials in North Carolina were relocated amid ‘armed militias’ threatening government workers in the region; Trump stranded hundreds of elderly MAGA supporters over five miles from their cars in the middle of the desert in the middle of the night; and, the latest Republican lawsuits are targeting rules for military voters overseas, but those ballots are already sent.​​​​After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a senior Indian politician known for his close ties with Bollywood has been killed in Mumbai; and, snubbed by Tesla, Mexico’s new president Claudia Sheinbaum, pledged to create a Mexican-made small, affordable electric car.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radi

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, a new Supreme Court scandal involving Trump and Brett Kavanaugh is surging into the spotlight, that’s why it’s being buried, again.Then, on the rest of the menu, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said Trump’s calls for CBS to lose its broadcasting rights over its Harris interview are serious “threats against free speech and should not be ignored;” Trump criticized Detroit to a group of Detroit economic and business leaders, in Detroit; and, scientists have long urged NASA to search for signs of life near Jupiter, now it is finally happening.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland tightened its visa rules as a probe confirmed the previous government’s cash-for-visas scandal; and, an “appalled” New Zealand defense minister issued a stinging rebuke that a New Zealand naval vessel sank because its captai

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 new Jack Smith filing shows Trump was willfully blind to the facts he lost.Then, on the rest of the menu, federal prosecutors indicted sixty-eight members of a white supremacist gang in the San Fernando Valley of California; an ACLU lawsuit detailing a DWI scheme where victims were forced to pay bribes to get charges dropped, is rocking the Albuquerque, New Mexico police department; and, former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters is set to be sentenced today for a MAGA voting data-breach scheme.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where swine fever is sweeping Northern Italy, threatening livelihoods and the production of region’s prized prosciutto;  and, you can count the number of women physics Nobel laureates on one hand.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, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the legality of Musk’s vote buying scheme for Trump is questionable, but his need to buy love is not in dispute.Then, on the rest of the menu, the former executive director for the San Jose, California Police Officers’ union pleaded guilty in federal court, that she illegally imported fentanyl and other synthetic opioids from half a dozen countries; with less than a month before people go to the polls, the MAGA State Election Board of Georgia is embroiled in a fight with Fulton County over a monitoring team to observe the county’s election practices; and, South Carolina prison officials told a death row inmate that he gets to choose between a firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection for his November 1st murder by the state.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Belarusian-American had his

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, the Supreme Court issued some rare bad news for Trump, and Elon Musk.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon’s Governor called for the DMV to pause automatic voter registration as the number of people mistakenly added to the voter rolls grows; MAGA Republicans are targeting $3 billion in federal contracts after a Deloitte consultant disclosed messages with JD Vance that were unconnected to his work; and, for the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries, just days after the largest dam removal project in US history was completed.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the mayor of the state capital of Guerrero in Mexico is killed less than one week after he took office; and, a self-described Nazi became the first person convicted in the Australian

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, Musk vowed to keep Twitter a non-biased platform, but he's done the opposite and has transformed the platform into a political tool to help Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, concerns have been raised with the Los Angeles County Sheriff about a previously unknown deputy subgroup that uses a logo featuring Nazi-like imagery; the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hear oral arguments today in a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies to place polluting industries in majority-Black communities; and, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to immediately decide issues related to mail-in ballots in the commonwealth with early voting already under way in the few weeks before the November fifth election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table wher

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, Fox News totally lost it over Trump’s plan gone wrong.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ruled against the correctional health care giant Wellpath after company leaders “intentionally destroyed email evidence in order to prevent its use at trial;” abortion-rights groups are outraising opponents 8-to-1 on November ballot measures; and, the Department of Justice and Microsoft disrupted a hacking group tied to Russian intelligence that tried to worm its way into the systems of dozens of Western think tanks, journalists and former military and intelligence officials.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Dutch government blamed a ‘state actor’ for hacking into its national police network; and, Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum started her day much like her political mentor, ex-President L

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 new Jack Smith filing shows Trump was willfully blind to the facts he lost.Then, on the rest of the menu, federal prosecutors indicted sixty-eight members of a white supremacist gang in the San Fernando Valley of California; an ACLU lawsuit detailing a DWI scheme where victims were forced to pay bribes to get charges dropped, is rocking the Albuquerque, New Mexico police department; and, former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters is set to be sentenced today for a MAGA voting data-breach scheme.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where swine fever is sweeping Northern Italy, threatening livelihoods and the production of region’s prized prosciutto;  and, you can count the number of women physics Nobel laureates on one hand.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, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, JD Vance knew he could lie about the generalities and the details at the debate since they have no intention of following the law anyway.Then, on the rest of the menu, a California right wing militant has been hit with additional charges in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people; a North Carolina town that produces quartz needed for a wide spectrum of tech products was destroyed by Helene; and, a Pennsylvania county manager was sued over her plans to end the use of drop boxes for mail-in ballots.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany arrested a woman who passed airport details to a suspected spy for China; and, with falling energy prices providing some of the needed relief, inflation in Europe has fallen below two percent and opens the way for faster rate cuts.All that and more, on We

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, disaster relief used to be a nonpartisan issue that no one ever lied about, until Donald Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kentucky sheriff who murdered a state judge in cold blood has made the 'difficult decision' to retire; the CEO of Steward Health Care filed a lawsuit against a US Senate panel over a contempt resolution he got for ignoring a lawful subpoena; and, a trial is underway today, challenging new rules passed at the last minute by the MAGA Georgia State Election Board to withhold or delay certification of November’s election results.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where conservative Albanian opposition lawmakers violently disrupted a Parliament session to protest the imprisonment of a fellow conservative legislator; and, Taiwan shut schools and offices ahead of a direct hit from powerfu

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 terrified of the massive evidence drop right before the election.Then, on the rest of the menu, despite rampant political divisiveness nationwide, Oregonians share at least one common belief, public education is important; US retailers brace for the potential pain from a longshoremen’s strike; and, Hurricane Helene could have widespread consequences for homeowners, the private insurance industry and the federal flood insurance program.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the main Czech opposition coalition led by former populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis won an election Saturday for a third of the seats in  Parliament’s upper house;  and, the streets of Paris were filled with activists rallying in support of the right to abortion for women across the world.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live

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, Kamala Harris is leading Trump by at least +3 in every swing state, so the media is reporting they are neck-and-neck.Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a South Carolina neo-Nazi leader has been arrested on January 6 charges; Smartmatic and Newsmax reached a “confidential” agreement just before the defamation case involving the 2020 election was to start; and, a Willamette Valley, Oregon farm is pairing solar with agriculture by installing panels to generate power and protect delicate crops from intensifying summer heat.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Argentina’s poverty rate spiked almost 53% in the first six months of President Milei’s shock therapy; and, a Hong Kong court sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison in a sedition case widely seen as an