West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, top Trump aide Peter Navarro swings and misses for the third time at the Supreme Court.Then, on the rest of the menu, Mississippi lawmakers are expected to vote on their Medicaid expansion plan with a work requirement; the family of a Black teen who was shot after ringing the wrong doorbell has filed a lawsuit against the Kansas City, Missouri homeowner; and, a former NSA worker gets nearly 22 years in prison for selling secrets to an undercover FBI agent he thought was a Russian official.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus banned German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle as an ‘extremist’ organization; a German army captain with ties to the far-right AfD Party admitted to spying for Russia and leaking state secrets.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Just

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, Marc Elias discussed the GOP's dangerous attorney swap and what it will mean.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge sentenced a longtime DEA agent to four years in prison for leaking Agency intelligence to defense lawyers in a $100,000 bribery scheme; multiple civil cases, and a federal investigation are testing the Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes; and, six California House races could help determine control of Congress.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where nine people charged in connection with a far-right plot to topple the German government are going on trial today; tens of thousands rallied in Madrid to urge Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez not to resign after a right-wing smear campaign targeting his wife.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance 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, ”They should move the Supreme Court to RNC headquarters.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI concealed from Trump foe Lisa Page that she was being stalked by a “troubled Marine” obsessed with mass killings; Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill that could lead to the prosecution of librarians for just handing out books to anybody who wants one; and, California battery storage is increasing rapidly, but not enough yet to end summer blackouts.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin announced plans to visit China in May; and, in the wake of a major spying scandal and illegal foreign payoffs, German lawmakers mocked the far right party as “Russia Today, China Tomorrow.”All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Playe

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 court filing in Cannon’s court by Trump’s lawyer Chris Kise, now claims he is no longer free for two weeks, so she has to delay the trial a lot.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ordered an anonymous jury for the trial of Steve Bannon associate Guo Wengui, citing his past acts; the “dumbest man on the internet,” Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, will file for bankruptcy amid a slew of election conspiracy lawsuits; and, the first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the US is up and running at the Port of Oakland, California.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia vetoed a UN resolution calling for the prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space; and, a Peruvian judge ordered the preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvians in a thwarted plot t

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 attorney Todd Blanche had a disastrous show cause hearing with Judge Merchan over Trump's gag order.Then, on the rest of the menu, Justice Sotomayor sliced through the spin in the Grants Pass ‘make homelessness a crime’ case; Alabama lawmakers passed a bill that blocks state incentives to companies that voluntarily recognize unions; and, just in time for the election, Postmaster General DeJoy is committed to rerouting mail for processing so that letter delivery takes seven to ten days when it used to take two.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a far-right German EU lawmaker’s aide has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China; and, Japan’s moon lander wasn’t built to survive a weekslong lunar night, but it’s still going after three.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Sp

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, a key twist in Trump's 'catch and kill' scheme will be hard for him to explain away.Then, on the rest of the menu, Minnesota and other Democratic-led states are marshaling the pushback on censorship by banning the book ban; Seattle Children’s Hospital won’t turn over gender-affirming care records in a lawsuit settlement with Texas; and, the Baltimore mayor and city council filed suit that the owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge should be held fully liable for the deadly collapse.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UK prosecutors charged two men with spying for China, including a parliamentary researcher; and, Elon Musk accused Australia of censorship after a Sydney court banned the violent video of a Bishop being stabbed.All that and more, on West C

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 will face the witness he fears the most in his criminal trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, legal action to ‘hollow out’ Brown v. Kansas Board of Education is moving at deliberate speed; the Los  Angeles Police Department arrested a suspect for the break-in at the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass; and, after a recent exodus has left only a little more than a hundred obstetricians left in the state, an Idaho group is exploring a ballot initiative for abortion rights and reproductive care.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the public portion of the Panama Papers trial has come to an unexpectedly speedy end; and, two more mayoral candidates in Mexico were found dead late Friday night, bringing to seventeen the number of contenders slain in the lead-up to the June 2 election.Bon Appétit!The Netroots

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 filed a motion to exclude evidence of his own behavior at the Manhattan criminal trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, a top leader of Charlie Kirk’s national conservative group Turning Point Action, resigned after being accused of forging voter signatures on official paperwork so that he could run for reelection in the Arizona House; Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill to strengthen the state’s weak open records law; and, a hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow, has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group sabotaging small town infrastructure across the United States.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leaders of Belgium and the Czech Republic warned their European Union partners to take urgent action to prevent Russian interference in June’s Europe-wide ele

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, Jared Kushner has made forty million dollars a year from the Gulf Arab States and their billions of investments in him, while zero of those dollars are going into American businesses or to help everyday Americans.Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-three Republican attorneys general attacked the Biden administration’s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice, calling it a form of “racial engineering;‘’ New Mexico voters for the first time can now sign up to receive absentee ballots permanently; and, a California lawmaker wants to require business owners and landlords to disclose their identities under legislation aimed at cracking down on questionable LLC’s.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Switzerland’s lower house moved to ban use of Nazi and extremist symbols that could stir v

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 corruption within the Department of Justice under Donald Trump served Trump's interests and his allies, and can still be seen in the structure of the New York criminal case against Sleepy Don.Then, on the rest of the menu, members of an Oklahoma far-right, anti-government group are charged in the grisly slayings of a young mother and a preacher’s wife; a former Marine was sentenced to nine years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022; and, the governor of Maine signed a bill restricting paramilitary training in response to a neo-Nazi’s plan to create a center for a “blood tribe.”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where lawmakers in the Georgian legislature turned to fisticuffs as parliament debated a divisive new Kremlin-like law dubbed the foreign agent bill; an

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, in the last hours before his New York trial, Trump reminded everybody about his dark past owning teen beauty pageants.Then, on the rest of the menu, Philadelphia becomes the fourth city to ban the nation’s largest ghost gun parts dealer; a conservative Utah school board member who questioned a student’s gender, lost her party nomination for reelection; and California dairy farms are scrambling to guard their herds against the H5N1 bird flu virus.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus convicted a famous dissident rock band and sentenced its members to several years of “correctional labor;” and, three men stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island survived for more than a week until palm fronds they used to spell out HELP on the beach was spotted by Navy and Coast Guard aviators.Bon Appétit!The Netroots R

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, Aileen Cannon overturned her own prior order, but this time blamed Jack Smith for her own lack of knowledge about the law.Then, on the rest of the menu, the woman who plead guilty to stealing Ashley Biden’s diary and selling it to Project Veritas, was sentenced to one month of hardly any time in prison; a California state court ruled that Kevin McCarthy’s protege can run dual candidacies on the state ballot; and, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed suit to stop a guaranteed income program set to start this month for Houston-area residents.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where six northern European nations signed a deal to protect North Sea infrastructure from hostile actors; and, lawmaker Simon Harris was elected Ireland’s prime minister by a vote in parliament, becoming at thirty-seven the

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, in a scathing sixty-six page filing, Jack Smith urged the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s claims of complete and total immunity.Then, on the rest of the menu, new California legislation seeks to permanently ban paraquat, a powerful and widely used weedkiller that has been linked to Parkinson’s disease; West Virginia had a whopping five tornadoes last week, more than double its yearly average; and, hydropower generated for electricity from Oregon and Washington dams fell to historically low levels last year, and experts expect it could drop further by year’s end.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an espionage scandal rocking Austria is laying bare Russian spying operations across Europe; and, the 'Panama Papers' trial has begun, eight years after the international tax evasion scandal was first exposed.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, Trump’s shady loans are exposed in a bombshell report.Then, on the rest of the menu, the town of Eagle Pass, Texas planned for years to fill the town’s coffers from the tens of thousands of eclipse revelers, they got razor wire and armed soldiers from Greg Abbott, instead; a Democratic Oregon House candidate who filed fewer than two hours before the March 12 filing deadline, is a big-time Republican donor; and, a trial begins today against BNSF Railway over lung cancer deaths in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to asbestos from a vermiculite mine.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where London Metropolitan Police are investigating after a second conservative UK lawmaker is targeted in a honey trap sexting scam; and, a Brazil Supreme Court justice ordered the investigation

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 cannot keep from violating the court orders in his criminal case.Then, on the rest of the menu, a day after storms spawned multiple tornadoes that caused widespread damage, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor criticized a new Republican-backed policy that would tie his hands in responding to any future disasters; even though New York City’s AI Chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law, there are no plans to take it down; and, the Texas emergency management chief recommended that the state needs its own firefighting aircraft.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two bomb threats led to a brief lockdown of the Norwegian parliament; and, a prominent German far-right extremist has been charged with a second count of using an illegal Nazi slogan.All that and more, on West Coast Coo

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 a late-night filing, Jack Smith torched Aileen Cannon’s unlawful order asking Smith to “engage with” jury instructions that would place Donald Trump above the law.Then, on the rest of the menu, jurors in Buffalo, New York are set to begin deliberating in the case against a former DEA agent accused of taking bribes from the Mafia; major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule; and, a company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention, was ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties over abusive tactics.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the deputy chief of Thailand’s national police surrendered authorities on money laundering charges; and, a Peruvian archbishop who sued two journalists over their

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 only getting worse for Trump and he’s not handling it well.Then, on the rest of the menu,  a federal judge ruled migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida DeSantis two years ago, can sue the charter flight company; a Kansas weekly newspaper and its publisher are suing over police raids that caused the death of the paper’s 98 year-old owner in her home; and, UPS will replace FedEx as the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where US-funded Radio Free Asia closed its Hong Kong bureau over staff safety under the new security law; and, the Austrian Chancellor says the country needs to deter Russian infiltration after “grave” allegations of spying has emerged.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justic

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, frantic as hell, Trump tries to test a no-nonsense New York judge by going after his daughter.Then, on the rest of the menu, “in a grave mistake backwards,” Facebook owner Meta is decommissioning a vital digital tool that tracks viral falsehoods during this crucial election year; an oversight report found the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department flouted a request from local leaders to answer questions about a recently uncovered deputy gang; and, the states are moving to shore up voting rights protections after the courts have severely eroded federal safeguards.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian journalist who covered Navalny’s trials has been jailed in Moscow on charges of extremism; and, Erdogan suffered a major setback after Sunday’s local elections, as Turkey’s main opposition party retaine

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 an overnight panic attack over Joe’s massively successful fundraiser held with former Presidents Obama and Clinton.Then, on the rest of the menu, trustees of Tennessee’s only publicly funded historically Black university were removed by the mostly white GOP-dominated legislature; a mostly male board will decide whether a Nebraska lawmaker faces censure for sexual harassment; and, a Texas federal judge accused the major banking industry groups and US Chamber of Commerce of venue shopping in their lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece’s conservative government survived a no-confidence motion called over its handling of last year’s deadly rail disaster; and, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich marks one year in a R

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 Supreme Court has pulled an “infuriating stunt” in delaying a decision in the South Carolina gerrymander case.Then, on the rest of the menu, two Los Angeles Times reporters attacked by Minnesota state troopers will settle a lawsuit with the state for $1.2 million dollars; the Smithsonian’s Latino museum settled with an affirmative action foe who sued over “pro-Latino discrimination;” and, new boundaries for Detroit-area seats in the Legislature were approved by a federal three-judge panel who found the old map was illegally influenced by race.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a British financial trader who manipulated a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis, lost his appeal to have his conviction quashed; and, hundreds of protesters in Slovakia formed a huma