West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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

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 rejected part of the Republican National Committee and Arizona Republicans' request to reinstate parts of the state’s voter suppression law.Then, on the rest of the menu, Google agreed to pay millions of dollars for California news, but journalists call it a bad deal; a New York non-profit has come to an agreement with several southern states to cancel the medical debt of one hundred ninety-three thousand needy patients; and, Floridians balk at the DeSantis administration plan to build golf courses at state parks.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where RW darling Andrew Tate has been placed under house arrest as new human trafficking allegations emerge involving minors; and, security at a NATO air base in western Germany has been raised because of intelligence information pointing to a “pot

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, this is not the Democratic Party your conservative grandparents ran against.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Marine Corps veteran who tried to fake his own death after a falling out with a Virginia-based militia group, has pleaded guilty to illegal possession of ricin; Utah lawmakers want voters to give them the power to change ballot measures once they’ve passed; and, a federal judge temporarily blocked exploratory drilling for a lithium project on sacred, tribal lands in Arizona.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European milk and cheese producers have become the latest target in a simmering trade war with China; and, Pakistan authorities charged a man with cyber terrorism over misinformation that sparked the riots in the United Kingdom.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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,  'Kamala Harris has a resume, Donald Trump has a rap sheet.'Then, on the rest of the menu, over thirteen thousand complaints of tenant harassment in Los Angeles has led to only four fines in the last three years; a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down the FTC rule banning noncompete agreements; and, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon is suing the city of Medford, saying its police department has been unlawfully monitoring progressive political activists who aren’t suspected of criminal activity.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s top court has refused to release Navalny’s lawyers pending their trial on extremism charges; and, Taiwan has been conducting live-fire missile drills as China ramps up its military threats.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with

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 Republicans filed its fourth lawsuit against Joe Biden’s executive order to set up voter registration tables at federal agencies and offices.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump campaign threatened the Loudoun County, Virginia GOP with a lawsuit over merchandise sales; Illinois will become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all its schools; and, the differing approaches Idaho and Oregon took to heat related deaths on the job, had fatal results for one of the states.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain has taken emergency action to prevent prisons in northern England from becoming overcrowded; and, employees at Mexico’s federal courts went on strike over measures that would make all judges stand for election.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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 is his mind as VP Harris continues to gain momentum and Governor Walz is more popular than ever.Then, on the rest of the menu, an audit of the Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care found the agency could benefit from stronger oversight and equity training; a controversial bill to abolish the California fire hazard rankings died in the Legislature; and, a salmonella outbreak tied to cucumbers from Florida was larger than initially indicated, sickening four hundred forty-nine people across thirty-one states and DC.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where more than four hundred homes were evacuated in Northern Ireland to remove a World War II-era bomb; and, a volcano erupted after a powerful 7.0 earthquake in Russia’s Far East, with scientists warning of a stronger, more potent earthqua

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, Just one day after Judge Merchan denied Trump's third motion to remove Merchan from the case, Trump's lawyers try yet again to put a stop to Trump's sentencing.Then, on the rest of the menu, Governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration failed to provide timely tax refunds worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Virginia corporations two years in a row; Mark Meadows tries to move his charges in Arizona’s fake electors case to federal court; and, Florida election officials warn of a MAGA-fueled false rumor about ballot markings days before the state’s primary.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US-Russian dual national woman will be jailed for twelve years on treason charges for a $52 donation to Ukraine; and, Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman in history to win the country’s presidential vote back on June

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 has been hit with a devastating development in his state prosecutions.Then, on the rest of the menu, Meta has killed off the tracking tool CrowdTangle, to keep researchers and journalists from monitoring how misinformation spreads across the company’s platforms; Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is threatening to sue the State Fair of Texas for banning firearms after a fatal shooting also injured scores of people at the Fair last year; and, President Biden will designate the site of the 1908 Springfield, Illinois race riot as a national monument.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German authorities are investigating the unauthorized entry and sabotage of the water supply at a major military barracks; and, UNESCO reported at least 1.4 million Afghan girls have been deliberately d

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 laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims,” is not just a “firehose of falsehoods,” it is “madness.”Then, on the rest of the menu, fresh off an Olympic bronze medal, basketball star Dearica Hamby filed a federal lawsuit against the WNBA and her former team, for discriminating and retaliating against her while she was pregnant;  a district judge says Maine can forbid discrimination by religious schools that take state tuition money; and, Indiana’s attorney general dropped a lawsuit against the state’s largest hospital system because a doctor told a newspaper that a 10-year-old Ohio girl had traveled to Indiana for an abortion.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan’s Kishida announced he will not run in September, paving the way for a new prime minister; and, Senegal’s media outlets stage

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 has threatened to sue the DOJ over the Mar a Lago search and investigation.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Colorado jury found former county election official, Tina Peters, guilty for her role in election equipment tampering and could face prison time; a federal judge ruled Illinois must move most of the inmates at its 100-year-old prison within less than two months because of decrepit conditions; and, power-hungry Artificial Intelligence data centers are raising not only electric bills, but major blackout risks as well.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where several hundred thousand people in India who prepaid $1,000 to order Tesla EVs, ask for their money back as cars fail to arrive at their destinations; and, Sierra Leone’s president used the UN Security Council presidency to urge for more seats fo

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, prosecutors everywhere are finally dropping the hammer on Trump’s fake elector’s and co-conspirators.Then, on the rest of the menu, the financial services industry has blocked the Biden administration from requiring brokers to put retirees’ needs first, above lucrative commissions; West Virginia’s high court upheld a lower court panel’s decision to remove two GOP county commissioners who refused to attend meetings; and, Schumer says he will work to block any effort in the Senate to significantly cut the CDC’s budget.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where King Charles III applauded the people who stood against racism during the recent unrest in the UK; and, a wildfire near Greece’s capital has darkened the skies over Athens and is advancing fast.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Ra

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, Apartheid Clyde got some bad news over his Trump-linked scam PAC.Then, on the rest of the menu, three Columbia University deans have resigned in the wake of antisemitic texts they exchanged during an alumni weekend event about Jewish life on campus; an estimated eighteen hundred Alabama students will repeat third grade under a new reading law; and, the FBI arrested a California woman who stormed the Capitol on January 6 with a sword, knife and pepper spray.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian prosecutors asked for a 15-year sentence in the treason trial of a Russian-American woman, who has plead guilty; and, prepared for a battle with far-right agitators, British police found peaceful anti-racism protesters, instead.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Jus

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, “Tim Walz destroyed JD Vance like a midwestern John Wick.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Arizona grand jurors discussed indicting Trump, but prosecutors urged them not to; extreme heat is impacting most Americans’ electricity bills; and, a Delaware judge rejected a bid by Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller to reopen their fight over access to the Biden Senate papers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the trial has started for a Polish man accused of punching the Danish prime minister in Copenhagen; and, a Russian pianist has conveniently died in jail while awaiting trial on charges linked to his criticism of Moscow’s military action in Ukraine.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, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, where did the ten million in one hundred dollar bills from Egypt go?Then, on the rest of the menu, embracing election conspiracies could sink a Kansas sheriff who once looked invulnerable; a Georgia county election board rejected thousands of voter challenges filed by a MAGA activist using faulty data; and, the fact Gorsuch felt free to issue his “be careful” threat to Biden, shows the real dangers of an unchecked Supreme Court.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where commodities giant Glencore is ordered to pay over $150M in the wake of its Congo mining bribery case; and, in its annual report, the Federation of the Jewish Communities said antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic rose sharply in 2023.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!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, Attorney General Garland will authorize Special Counsel Smith to argue to overturn Judge Cannon’s wrong headed decision to dismiss the Mar a Lago indictment against Trump. Then, on the rest of the menu, the Democratic primary in Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District still remains too close to call and could be headed for a recount; election conspiracy theories related to the 2020 presidential race live on in Michigan’s GOP primary; and, Ohio removed 155,000 people from the voter rolls ahead of November’s presidential election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer strongly condemned an attack on asylum seekers that saw at least 10 police officers injured, as “far-right thuggery;” and, over 3,000 Salvadoran Catholics will participate in Saint Óscar Romero’s pilgrimage, an annual ev

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, legal experts issued a warning to election officials who refuse to certify the election based on bogus fraud claims.Then, on the rest of the menu, the University of California set a new record with the largest, most diverse class of California students for the fall 2024 semester; the Justice Department will offer cash rewards for whistleblower tips on criminal financial misconduct; and, a federal appeals court made it harder for Black and Hispanic voters to form coalitions to elect the candidates they prefer in three southern states, overruling long-standing precedents.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two Belarusian journalists working for news outlets that the government of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has declared extremist, have been sentenced to prison in a closed-door trial;

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-supporting election officials are poised to prevent the certification of the November election.Then, on the rest of the menu, a jury convicted a man of illegally accessing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health records in 2019; Massachusetts businesses with at least twenty-four employees must disclose the salary range for new jobs; and, Black and other minority farmers are getting two billion dollars from the USDA after years of discrimination.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian couple in Slovenia has been sentenced to nineteen months in prison for spying; and, an investigation has determined that “Chinese state actors” were responsible for a 2021 cyberattack on Germany’s national office for cartography.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Che