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, Vice President Kamala Harris is now leading or close to Trump in every battleground state.Then, on the rest of the menu, Arizona voters will decide the fate of a Republican metro Phoenix election official who pushed hard against MAGA election falsehoods; despite MAGA Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s cruel efforts, a Missouri man was finally freed from prison after his murder conviction was overturned after 34 years behind bars; and, Georgia’s largest school district won’t teach a new AP course in African American Studies because of the MAGA-controlled state Department of Education’s refusal to approve the course.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a two-year investigation in Greece has cleared the country’s security agencies of involvement in an international spyware scandal that triggered san

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, roughly one-hundred-forty individuals who worked in Trump's presidential administration are affiliated with Project 2025.Then, on the rest of the menu, a hooded hooligan vandalized a Hollywood, California synagogue as an accomplice recorded it; federal authorities charged a construction company in a deadly Idaho airport hangar collapse ignored well-established safety standards; and, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a nearly $58 billion state budget bill that includes a plan for free community college.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a historic UNESCO world heritage park in Germany grapples with dying trees as climate change kicks in; and, a diplomatic spat has erupted between Hungary and Poland over conflicting views on Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Ch

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, JD Vance is so weird he tripled down on his attacks on women, cats and the American Way of Modern Life.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Health Authority reports the state is on the verge of measles outbreak caused by unvaccinated kids; Mark Meadows’ legal team will argue that Trump’s total immunity means the Supreme Court should toss the former chief of staff’s Georgia election charges; and, a woman mauled on her porch by a ‘find and bite’ police dog while talking to cops she called to report a crime, has sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three sisters of an Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross, christened a US Navy warship bearing his name with a promise that the ship will visit Ireland; and, Edna O’Brien, one of the world’s most admired and con

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 had a major freakout over FBI Director Chris Wray’s congressional testimony about the assassination attempt.Then, on the rest of the menu, Southern Oregon postal workers will hold a rally next week to raise awareness about the consolidation of mail services that is delaying mail ahead of the November election; Justice Kagan says there needs to be a way to enforce the US Supreme Court’s new ethics code; and, Monsanto agreed to a $160 million settlement with Seattle over pollution in the Duwamish River.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the G20 finance ministers discussed a global tax on the super-rich; and, US authorities indicted a North Korean military intelligence operative in a conspiracy to hack into American health care providers, NASA, US military bases and international entities.All th

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 freaked out big time over Madame VP at his rally in North Carolina.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri MAGA Attorney General whined so much the state Supreme Court halted the release of a man with an overturned conviction just as he was about to go free; a judge ruled a Texas woman’s lawsuit after being jailed on a murder charge over abortion can proceed; and, a third man has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with threats and vandalism targeting public radio journalists in New Hampshire.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Eluned Morgan will be Wales’ first female leader as she takes over a troubled governing party; and, French authorities say a Russian man is among those arrested in several plots targeting the Paris Olympics.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, the possibility of a Judge Cannon on the Supreme Court surges into the spotlight.Then, on the rest of the menu, a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation is kickstarting a new effort at Portland State University to diversify Oregon’s burgeoning semiconductor workforce; pointing a finger at Louis DeJoy, state election directors from across the country expressed fear the Postal Service can’t handle the expected crush of mail-in ballots; and, scientists have found ‘dark oxygen’ being produced in a complete lack of light from metals on the seafloor.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Wisconsin man was charged with fleeing to Ireland to avoid a prison term for his role in the January 6 insurrection; and, Germany’s governing coalition and the conservative opposition presented a plan

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, MAGA Mike and the other insurgents have 0.00 chance of prevailing in their legal challenges to keep Kamala off the ballot, but they’ll still try by any means necessary.Then, on the rest of the menu, one of nation’s largest corporate landlords will pay thirty-five California cities $20 million for making repairs without permits; a Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to three years of probation for calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital; and, the EPA has awarded $4.3 billion to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian-American journalist for Radio Free Europe has been sentenced to 6½ years in prison after a secret trial; and, the EU is putting new pressure on Hungary’s Orban over his outreach to Russia.All that and more, on

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, Fox, the RNC and MAGA are losing it over the news that Vice President Harris will be the presumptive Democratic nominee. Then, on the rest of the menu, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department secretly investigated a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote about a leaked list of problem deputies; airlines continued to struggle to restore operations two days after a faulty software update and crowdstrike hack caused technological havoc worldwide; and, the US Treasury warned that anti-woke banking laws like Florida’s are a national security risk.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Austrian police detained dozens of protesters trying to disrupt a march by far-right extremists; and, a French neo-Nazi sympathizer was sentenced to two years in prison after making threats online and for targeting the Olympic torch

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 Jack Smith appeal could go faster than expected.Then, on the rest of the menu, in response to an appeals court blocking Biden’s student loan repayment plan, the administration will put the 8 million borrowers’ loans in the Save program in interest-free forbearance; a county judge in California “ignored 89 years of labor law precedent” and granted an injunction for billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick to stop the United Farm Workers from unionizing their agricultural employees; and, a MAGA judge in Colorado rejected claims that a group of Trump supporters intimidated voters when they went armed, door-to-door, searching for fraud following the 2020 election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s divided National Assembly kept a centrist member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party as speake

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 keeps falling asleep at the Republican National Convention.Then, on the rest of the menu, just released financial reports show a conservative group made a last ditch play to influence the Oregon primary in a high-profile congressional race; Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California has filed charges against Libs of TikTok for a doctored viral post in which a professor wishes Trump dead; and, the Nevada GOP official who gained national notoriety backing rancher Cliven Bundy and his family during armed standoffs between militiamen and federal law enforcement officers, has been federally indicted for ripping off a charity for slain cops.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German court convicted a businessman of delivering components with military use to Russia; and, the hea

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 had an unhinged meltdown over the stock market records and Biden’s plan to reform the Supreme Court.  Then, on the rest of the menu, a Washington state man has been arrested and charged for attacks in 2022 that were part of a national series of disruptions to the electrical grid by far right extremist groups; Steve Bannon’s exiled Chinese businessman partner has been convicted of wire fraud and money laundering; and, federal prosecutors indicted a neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ leader who plotted to give poison candy to Jewish kids in New York City.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s top security official banned a far-right magazine, accusing it of spreading hatred against Jews; and, a Romanian court reimposed the travel ban on Andrew Tate and his brother as they await trial on charges

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 quickly delivered a reality check to Aileen Cannon.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Feds charged three former Chicago hospitals executives in a $15 million dollar embezzlement scheme; the President of Dickinson State University in North Dakota resigned after all of the nursing faculty quit; and, a Georgia county says slave descendants can’t use the referendum process to challenge the rezoning of their island community.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italy’s tax police freed thirty-three Indian farm workers from “slave-like working conditions” in the northern province of Verona; and, Estonia’s first woman Prime Minister is stepping down to become the European Union’s top diplomat.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The

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 shooting incident outside Justice Sotomayor’s home by her security detail, is a reminder of Trump’s general threats against America and Americans.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black man in Michigan only got a hotel job interview after using a White-sounding name; a lawyer disbarred in Ohio tricked an Irvine, California law firm into a $250,000 job offer; and, the Justice Department arrested a New Jersey man for plotting an electrical substation attack to advance his white supremacist views.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States and Germany foiled a Russian plot to assassinate the CEO of an arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine; and, the United Nations demanded that Russia immediately return Europe’s biggest nuclear plant to Ukraine.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbo

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, Clarence Thomas was caught trying to protect himself from investigation.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Massachusetts House unanimously approved legislation that bans companies from selling cellphone location data of reproductive and gender-affirming care clinics; a pair of government regulators slapped Citigroup with a $135.6 million fine for making insufficient progress resolving longstanding internal control and risk issues; and, a woman who pleaded guilty to killing entertainment consultant and social justice advocate Michael Latt, was sentenced to thirty-five years to life in prison.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s foreign minister says she doesn’t plan to run for chancellor in the next election; and, Russia declared The Moscow Times, an online newspaper popular among

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, if Ted Lieu raised the issue of Donald Trump’s awful past at a press conference, would it make a sound?Then, on the rest of the menu, Montana Republicans want the state high court to reverse the landmark youth climate ruling; election conspiracy-addled MAGA commissioners in Nevada’s second most populous county refused to certify the results of two local recounts from last month’s primary; and, California fast food franchisees are responding to the state-mandated $20 per hour minimum wage by drastically cutting employee hours.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian court ordered the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow, who lives abroad; and, following in a long-held family tradition, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is being investigated over illicit financing in her 2

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 unwritten deal with the media was exposed by the “hyenas” of the White House press corps yesterday.Then, on the rest of the menu, billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has invested heavily in Smartmatic’s lawsuit against Fox; Governor Greg Abbott was not the only Texas bigwig to jet out of the state just as Hurricane Beryl made landfall; and, welfare fraudster Brett Favre is asking an appeals court to reinstate his defamation lawsuit against fellow pro football Hall of Fame member Shannon Sharpe.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian playwright and a theater director were sentenced to prison for six years each on charges of advocating terrorism; and, the Brera Modern Art Museum will be inaugurated this fall, fifty-two years and thirty-nine Italian governments after it was first envi

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 prosecutions can still move forward despite the Supreme Court's immunity ruling.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas is still investigating migrant aid groups on the border in violation of a judge’s scathing order; the Kansas Supreme Court strongly reaffirmed that the state constitution protects abortion access; and, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced the formation of a new panel charged with guiding the state’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a coalition of the French left beat back a far-right surge by winning the most seats in the high-stakes snap election; and, Hungary’s Orbán made a surprise visit to China after trips to Russia and Ukraine.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was

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 threat by the president of the Heritage Foundation that there will be blood, is only part of Project 2025.Then, on the rest of the menu, a cybersecurity breach could delay court proceedings across New Mexico; a federal judge sentenced four anti-abortion activists for a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade; and, two more people charged with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of cash in one of the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases, pleaded not guilty.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN human rights chief appealed to voters not to scapegoat migrants and refugees as the elections loom; and, Russian-linked cybercampaigns put a bull’s-eye on France during the Olympics and their elections.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays Independence Day Special, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new audio recordings of Trump were just leaked from a pissed off reporter who was writing a book on him.Then, on the rest of the menu, the DOJ quickly outmaneuvered the Supreme Court after the immunity ruling.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Epstein evidence drop reveals shocking details about Trump.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!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/suppor

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, former Federal Prosecutor, Shan Wu, reported on what it was like inside the Supreme Court during the reading of Trump's immunity decision.Then, on the rest of the menu, federal officials are seeking to overhaul how Medicare pays health-care providers after a $3 billion scheme to defraud the program; the Department of Justice announced a policy change agreement after accusing educators in Kansas’ largest public school district of discriminating against Black and disabled students when disciplining them; and, the National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a court in Belarus sentenced twenty politica