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, Democratic testimony outsmarted the Republican’s "Weaponization of Government" hearing, chaired by Jim Jordan.Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI’s raid on leading Department of Defense IT vendor Carahsoft, comes amid allegations of price fixing with SAP and Accenture; the Kamala Harris campaign has beckoned enigmatic Bay Area billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs out of the shadows; and, Anna Wolf won a Pulitzer for the Favre welfare scandal story, now she could face jail time for it.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where MAGA Mike Johnson demanded Zelenskyy remove Ukraine’s ambassador to the United State after the Ukraine President’s visit to a Pennsylvania munitions factory; and, the EU judicial cooperation agency is stepping up its fight against organized crime.All 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, Trump describes a dystopian America while on the campaign trail that does not actually exist.Then, on the rest of the menu, hundreds of residents pushed back on the removal of the thirty-four year old novel, ‘How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,’ from the Tillamook, Oregon High School honors curriculum; a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County alleged that a California rehab center hired and promoted white supremacists; and, a Federalist Society judge in Kentucky partially blocked a Transportation Department program for minorities and women, over discrimination against white contractors.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police will increase the number of bodyguards for leading politicians; and, China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean.All that and more,

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 blamed the US for the war in Ukraine.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon removed over 1,200 voters from the rolls for failing to provide proof of citizenship; an elections board in Ohio will not use the county Sheriff’s department for election security after the sheriff’s posts about Harris yard signs; and, California becomes the latest state to restrict student smartphone use at school.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Pakistani Taliban denied attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors; and, reconstruction is set to begin on Copenhagen’s 400-year old fire-damaged Old Stock Exchange landmark.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!“As I ate the oysters

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, with just over six weeks until Election Day, the latest NBC poll finds Kamala Harris with a 5-point lead over Trump among registered voters, 49 percent to 44 percent.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Florida has violated the Endangered Species Act over an unusually high number of Manatee deaths; the Bureau of Land Management announced they have finalized a plan to add Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming to its existing Western Solar Plan, adding over a million acres from Oregon alone; and, California water regulators are cracking down on a second farming area in the San Joaquin Valley for failing to take adequate steps to curb depleting underground aquifers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats held ba

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 North Carolina judge refused a Republican Party demand to block students and employees at the state’s flagship public university from being able to show a digital identification to comply with a largely new photo ID law.Then, on the rest of the menu, in a move to counter China dominance in the market, the Biden/Harris administration awarded $3 billion for EV battery production in 14 states; four men among the first rioters to assault police officers and the first to breach a security perimeter during the attack on the US Capitol, were sentenced to prison terms; and, the animals of the Big Bear Alpine Zoo are returning home after spending a week in Palm Springs evacuated from the wildfires.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where eight former state security personnel accused of responsibility for the deaths

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, Republican men who write abortion bans don't care about the life of the mother.Then, on the rest of the menu, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed an executive order banning “conversion therapy” for minors, skirting the Republican-led state legislature and setting up a likely legal challenge; the editor of the Haitian Times, along with scores of other prominent Haitians, have been the targets of police swatting attempts since Monday; and an EPA inspector general report found during the Trump administration, agency scientists were retaliated against for refusing to delete evidence of harm from new chemicals, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the DOJ indicted a Chinese national for a spearphishing campaign against NASA,

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, a new book exposes the lies behind the myth of Trump's business acumen.Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election; two former New York City Fire Department chiefs were arrested on charges of soliciting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes for preferential treatment to some individuals and companies; and, new archaeology at an abandoned Oregon town reveals the hidden lives of segregated Black logging families in the 1920’s.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Vatican opened a new investigation into leaks surrounding its ‘trial of the century’ London property investment probe; and, Australian police infiltrated the encrypted global

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 most hateful mind' in presidential history wants everybody else to tone down the rhetoric.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge denied a request from Mark Meadows to move his Arizona election-subversion case from state court to federal court; the president of the California Professional Firefighters union said that Trump “should be ashamed” of his threat to withhold federal firefighting aid to the state if he were elected; and, in English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where autoworkers demonstrated in Brussels to protest layoff threats across the EU industrial base; and, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance reported Democracy declined for the eighth straight year around t

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 losing his mind with awful news that Kamala Harris poll numbers are soaring.Then, on the rest of the menu, more than three hundred noncitizens have been added to Oregon’s voter rolls over the last three years due to a state data entry error; an Arizona man accused of online terror threats has been arrested in Montana; and, progress was made over the weekend against three Southern California wildfires.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a High Court Justice rejected plans for the United Kingdom’s first new coal mine in three decades; and, a Brazil judge said he wasn’t messing around when he withdrew $3.3 million from Musk’s frozen Starlink and twitter accounts to pay for social media fines.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy.

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 GOP has been busy laying the groundwork for their “three part plan to subvert the elections.”Then, on the rest of the menu, an Illinois judge ruled Trump Tower is a public nuisance that threatens the Chicago River; a New York Police Department commissioner has resigned amid a federal corruption probe; and, Yosemite National Park’s historic 168-year old Wawona Hotel will close indefinitely for an ‘intensive’ checkup.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two private power companies in Puerto Rico are under scrutiny as officials demand fewer outages; and, Iran summoned the envoys of Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands over their accusations that Tehran supplied short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine.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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a majority of the conservative Missouri Supreme Court ordered MAGA Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft to place a measure on the November ballot to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ally Michael Flynn is priming supporters for violence ahead of the election; Trump claimed ‘We hardly make chips anymore,’ but US chip manufacturing remains among world leaders in the industry; and, Michigan leaders joined a national bipartisan effort to push back against attacks on the election system.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Serbian appeals court overturned a ruling to extradite a critic of the authoritarian Belarus regime; and, a 21-year old man in Denmark faces a twenty-year sentence on terrorism charges over arson at a Jewish woman’s home.All that and

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!tarting off in the Bistro Cafe, if MAGA thinks they can gaslight last night’s debacle, I’ve got a dog and cat mixed grill I can sell them.Then, on the rest of the menu, in an effort to keep the rabid Trump-endorsed State Election Board at bay, Georgia’s Fulton County has hired a team of independent monitors to observe its operations for this year’s general election; a MAGA judge ruled a New Jersey man with no ties to the state of Alaska, and who is serving a 20-year sentence in a New York prison, can remain on Alaska’s ranked choice general election ballot to kick the libs; and, the WNBA players and union roundly criticized commissioner Cathy Engelbert, after she failed to condemn fan racism.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an ex-CIA officer who spied for China faces a decade of prison time and a lifetime of polygraph tests; and,

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,  what the New York Times calls a “disputable policy assumption,” is just the Times’ way of “sane-washing” Trump’s tariff lies.Then, on the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis is sending state police to Florida voters’ homes to interrogate them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the November ballot; the FBI reported Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams, so Trump is now selling crypto; and, the DOJ charged two white supremacists with planning assassinations and attacks on public officials, minorities, and infrastructure on Telegram to start a race war.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Spanish prime minister visited China during a dispute over electric vehicles; and, Poland’s security officials said they foiled cyberattacks and online blackmail at

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, The RNC has filed a handful of lawsuits in recent weeks targeting the election administration in the key swing states of Michigan and North Carolina.Then, on the rest of the menu, the ACLU plans to spend $1.3M to educate Montana voters about their state Supreme Court candidates; Casino company Wynn Resorts has agreed to pay $130 million to federal authorities and admit it laundered international money to its gamblers at its flagship Las Vegas Strip property ; and, star Miami wide receiver Tyreek Hill was violently detained by police before the Dolphins game Sunday with hundreds recording on cell cameras, leading to one officer subsequently placed on administrative leave.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkish president Erdogan vowed to ‘purge’ military graduates who took an oath to defend “a

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 Trump for president campaign has a very bad day coming on September 26.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Missouri judge ruled that anti-abortion Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, used misleading language to summarize a ballot question designed to restore abortion rights in the state; federal investigators seized phones from New York City’s police commissioner and at least three top deputies to New York Mayor Eric Adams; and, a Massachusetts physician was sentenced to nine months in prison for punching police during the January 6 insurrection.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police in Munich exchanged gunfire and killed an assailant who planned an attack on the Israeli Consulate; and, the US Justice Department has widened its indictment of Russians in the WhisperGate malware attacks aimed

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 pulling out his same old playbook of tricks to distract from the latest devastating story about him and Russia.Then, on the rest of the menu, live fire is suspected of starting a wildfire that severely damaged a naval base on a remote California island; Republicans have filed over one hundred voting-related lawsuits as a way to contest the presidential election; and, an appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Macron named the EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister; and, leaders of South Korea and New Zealand strongly condemned the deepening military cooperation between North Korea and Russia.​​​​​​All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef

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 was swatted down by the judge in his New York case.Then, on the rest of the menu, after raiding the homes of elderly Latino Democratic election volunteers, Texas MAGA Attorney General Ken Paxton is now threatening Democratic-leaning counties not to mail out voter registration forms; a MAGA federal judge ruled New Mexico election regulators and prosecutors discriminated against an election denying MAGA group in refusing access to sensitive voter registration rolls; and, a Federalist Society federal judge ruled that an Illinois law banning the concealed carry of firearms on public transit is unconstitutional.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where facial recognition startup Clearview AI has been fined $33.7 million by the Dutch data protection watchdog over an ‘illegal database’ of faces; and, senior

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 oldest Latino civil rights group in the US is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's raids on their members' homes. Then, on the rest of the menu, California lawmakers approved legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI; a Republican state representative in central Florida has been indicted on felony forgery charges related to her administration of her private, family-owned Christian school; and, the Arlington cemetery controversy has shined a spotlight on Utah Governor Spencer Cox’s sudden and bewildering embrace of Trump.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian newspaper publisher was convicted by a court in Siberia and sentenced to eight years in prison after his paper reported on Russia’s attacks on civilians in Ukraine; and

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, Jack Smith formally filed the brief for Trump’s espionage case with the 11th Circuit.Then, on the rest of the menu, an 87-year-old Texas Latina who complained about local seniors not being sent mail-in ballots, had her house raided by officers for Paxton’s election integrity unit; a Republican New Hampshire state representative will pay two drag queens $100,000 each after they sued him for falsely calling them sex offender pedophiles; and, a cyberattack has left the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport facing major internet outages for the fourth straight day.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Dutch data protection watchdog fined Uber $324 million for inadequate protection of drivers’ data; and, China expressed its opposition to the latest US sanctions on Chinese companies over their ties to Russia’

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 about debating VP Kamala Harris while JD Vance continues to be weird.Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly forty percent of Washington state parents quit work or got fired after having kids; Oklahoma revoked the license of a teacher who gave her class the QR code to the Brooklyn library; and, Ken Paxton raided the offices of Texas Latino Democratic candidates for office after a fake news story on Fox.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk acknowledged that he does not have the votes to liberalize the country’s strict abortion law; and, French authorities arrested the CEO of Telegram at a Paris airport for using his platform for money laundering, drug trafficking and other offenses.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Bea