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’s latest shameless grift is backfiring with all Americans, including real Conservatives.Then, on the rest of the menu,  a federal court tossed Republican Pennsylvania lawmakers’ challenge of state and federal voter access actions; Ahmaud Arbery’s killers asked a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions; and, a large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry over climate change.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the British Museum is suing a former curator it says stole 1,800 items and tried to sell them; and, Puerto Rico’s health secretary declared an epidemic following a spike in dengue cases.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appé

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 had a major public meltdown after Justice Juan Merchan set a criminal trial date for April 15.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Kansas man is suing a Republican US Representative from Tennessee who falsely claimed he was an “illegal alien” who carried out the mass shooting at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade; the Feds are taking a California prison agency to court for requiring Sikh guards to shave their beards; and, a high school teacher and two students sued Arkansas over the state’s ban on critical race theory.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France launched a nationwide anti-drug crackdown ahead of the European elections; and, Bulgaria’s prime minister-designate withdrew her nomination after negotiations between two political coalitions failed.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, the smart money on Wall Street already hates Trump so much that short sellers are crushing his Truth Social stock price and shorting it in advance of today’s public trading.Then, on the rest of the menu, a scheduled “Drag Queen Story Hour” at a Lancaster, Pennsylvania library was canceled after a suspicious package was found in the building; months after his disputed one-vote victory in a Louisiana sheriff’s race was tossed by a court, a Black career law enforcement officer was decisively elected on his second try; and, the Wyoming Republican Governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed people to carry concealed guns in public schools and government meetings.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Spanish judge opened an investigation into fraud and false documentation against the partner of Madrid’s powerf

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 New York Attorney General is taking the final steps to seize Trump’s properties and assets.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri Republican party filed suit to kick a KKK-racist, GOP candidate off the ballot for governor; a liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice said that she won’t recuse herself from a case dealing with the legality of mobile voting sites; and, plans to expand Medicaid coverage to over half a million more people in Georgia and Kansas were defeated by Republican-led legislative committees.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spanish daily El Mundo said that its correspondent in Russia left the country after authorities refused to renew his journalist visa; and, a Russian diplomat has been declared persona non grata in Slovenia and ordered to leave within seven days.

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, Alina Habba’s refusal to answer if Trump was going to accept money from Russia and Saudi Arabia to pay for his $464 million bond, means he will.Then, on the rest of the menu, questions swirl over the reasons why forty prominent Napa Valley wine owners and businesses were subpoenaed by the Department of Justice; authorities are still searching for two white supremacist Idaho prison inmates after they ambushed and shot three corrections officers; and, the Los Angeles Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani’s longtime interpreter for engaging in a “massive theft” of the ballplayer’s funds to place bets with an illegal bookmaker.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French Competition Authority hit Google with another big fine tied to a long-running dispute over payments to French publishers for their

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 is in total panic mode as he gets bad news from all sides all at once, and it’s an amazing sight.Then, on the rest of the menu, a new clerk was chosen to oversee elections in a deep-red rural Nevada county that has been roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud since 2020; a bill approved by the Rhode Island Senate would require all firearms to be locked when not in use; and, Stellantis, the maker of Jeep, Dodge and Ram vehicles, has agreed to follow California’s strict emissions standards.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldovan authorities expelled a Russian diplomat after Moscow opened polling stations for its presidential election in Moldova’s pro-Russia breakaway region of Transnistria; and, Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approved a security law giving the government

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 comments on Sebastian Gorka’s show “is antisemitic garbage.”Then, on the rest of the menu, voters in MAGA Shasta County, California are rejecting MAGA politics; a Portland, Oregon nonprofit has been given a nod of approval on its work to revitalize a historically Black neighborhood that’s been targeted by decades of racist development policies; and six former Mississippi law officers could be sentenced to decades behind bars for torture of two Black men.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Croatia’s top court ruled that the president cannot run in the parliamentary election unless he resigns from his current position immediately; and, Australian authorities have issued legal notices to Google, Meta, Xitter, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit over cyber extremism threats.All that and more, on West Coast

River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has a plan to use Judge Cannon to “ice”  Judge Chutkan and avoid his various trials before election day.Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a multistate ad campaign to fight abortion travel restrictions in red states; a severe lack of affordable housing is testing Oregon’s pioneering land use law; and, the Department of Justice has foiled four state-sponsored assassination plots on US soil since 2022.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Caribbean leaders met with the Haitian Prime Minister to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence, with a foreign force deployment on the agenda; and, the Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure due to an employee strike.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we wer

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 late-night panic attack over Dark Brandon’s energetic State of the Union, and there was a glaring contradiction in Scary Britt’s GOP rebuttal.Then, on the rest of the menu, Alabama Republicans pushed through an anti-DEI bill and a limit on absentee ballots; Oregon passed campaign finance reform that limits contributions to political candidates; and, a bill on DeSantis’ desk would allow Florida public schools to make use of Christian chaplains on campus.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey struggles to stop violence against women after at least seventy-one have been killed so far this year; and, voters are being asked to change Ireland’s constitution that says a woman’s place is in the home.​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, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump met with Elon Musk and other donors because Trump not only needs big bucks for his legal problems, he is also "seeking a cash infusion" to support his campaign. Then, on the rest of the menu, Liberty University will pay the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act; the Kentucky Senate passed a bill to grant the right to collect child support for unborn children; and, Arizona’s Democratic governor vetoed an unconstitutional border bill approved by the Republican-led Legislature.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in spite of not possessing a navy, Ukrainian sea drone attacks have increasingly sapped the power of Russia’s Black Sea fleet; and, thousands of striking junior doctors in South Korea face the suspensions of their medical licenses.All that and more, on West Coast Cook

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 Republican Party is going through some things.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court blocked the Florida anti-DEI ‘Stop Woke Act,’ calling it a ‘First Amendment sin;’ two San Francisco Bay Area high school journalists say their principal illegally interfered and censored them while reporting on sexual harassment; and, a sixth-grade girls' basketball team from northern Kentucky was banned from a boys' basketball league after romping through the regular season to reach the championship.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Polish Prime Minister sharply criticized the Hungarian and Slovak foreign ministers for meeting with Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, on the same day Alexei Navalny was buried; and, a key hearing on restructuring the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s staggering nine b

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 suddenly confronted by a disaster scenario in his DC trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, Berkeley, California public schools are hit with a federal civil rights complaint alleging ‘severe and persistent’ antisemitic bullying; the University of Maryland has suspended all fraternities and sororities on campus after multiple reports of hazing; and, Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German authorities are investigating after a recording of its military officers discussing aid to Ukraine was leaked in Russia; and, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest said that the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be res

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, Special Counsel Jack Smith and Trump present dueling trial date submissions in the Mar-A-Lago document case before Judge Aileen Cannon today.Then, on the rest of the menu, a man who sought to spark a ‘race war’ plead guilty to firebombing a Costa Mesa, California Planned Parenthood clinic; a Montana judge declared three laws passed in 2021 that restricted abortion are unconstitutional; and, the Justice Department says Mississippi police unconstitutionally jailed people for unpaid fines.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the editor of the top independent Russian newspaper was detained and later fined for discrediting the military; and, the Biden administration will investigate Chinese-made “smart cars” that can gather sensitive information about Americans driving them.All that and more, on W

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 ‘threw out half of Trump’s appeal’ by taking on his immunity case, while committing “the greatest ethical lapse” by a Supreme Court justice in history.Then, on the rest of the menu, Raw Story has sued OpenAI for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Virginia lawmakers again declined to put restrictions on the personal use of campaign accounts; and, the candidate atop the Republican ballot for Missouri governor says he was only an "honorary" KKK member, but he does acknowledge going to a "religious Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony."After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where traces of toxic gas were found during the evacuation of the Swedish security agency; and, two scientists in Canada were fired for failing to protect sensitive information.All that and more

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, America’s allies are sounding the alarm on the Trump menace.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Senate, on a party line vote, approved a bill to ban book bans; the FBI and state investigators seek tips about the explosive left outside the Alabama attorney general’s office after he said he would not enforce any in vitro fertilization bans; and, out-of-control wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing the shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former member of Germany’s Leftist Red Army Faction has been arrested after decades on the run; and, three men arrested during an investigation into right-wing extremism were charged in a London court with preparing to commit terrorist acts.All

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 NYPD affidavit that accompanies Alvin Bragg’s “gag order” request, details the hundreds of credible threats in the days after Trump announced he would be “arrested” in New York.Then, on the rest of the menu, the West Virginia House passed a bill to allow religious exemptions for student vaccines; the New College of Florida has been hit with a rare sanction for “egregious and extensive” standards violations during DeSantis’ conservative takeover last year; and, students at a medical school in the Bronx will no longer pay tuition after it received a one billion dollar donation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany plans to enable underground storage of captured carbon dioxide at its offshore sites; and, the International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has increased its total stockpile of

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 has a plan to use Judge Cannon to “ice” Judge Chutkan and avoid his various trials before election day.Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a multistate ad campaign to fight abortion travel restrictions in red states; a severe lack of affordable housing is testing Oregon’s pioneering land use law; and, the Department of Justice has foiled four state-sponsored assassination plots on US soil since 2022.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Caribbean leaders met with the Haitian Prime Minister to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence, with a foreign force deployment on the agenda; and, the Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure due to an employee strike.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7

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’s key decision on Trump’s immunity challenge is about to drop, as soon as Thomas and Alito finish writing their dissents.Then, on the rest of the menu, Washington state lawmakers advanced a bill making it a felony to threaten election workers; “Discount Goebbels” Stephen Miller lost big in a racially-charged lawsuit to restrict voting in Arizona; and, a Texas judge ruled a Texas school can legally discriminate against a Black Texas teen for not styling his hair to his white Texas superior’s liking.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Food and Agriculture Organization set a target of thirty-five percent growth in aquaculture production by 2030 to fight world hunger; and, a private lander made the first US touchdown on the moon in more than fifty years.All that and more

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 governing will not be televised.”Then, on the rest of the menu, an Orange County, California federal judge who had been censured for past racist remarks to court officials, dismissed criminal charges against members of a Southern California white supremacist group, saying there is bias against the far right; a large Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver’s City Park was vandalized; and, there are less than one hundred seventy Idaho obstetricians left after the state’s near total-abortion ban.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Estonia detained ten people suspected of committing sabotage on orders from Russia; and, an old European satellite plunged harmlessly through the atmosphere and broke up over the Pacific.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de

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 missed a major deadline with the Supreme Court.Then, on the rest of the menu, the West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill allowing the prosecution of librarians; the Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill to tighten up a law to crack down on child labor violations; and, the Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives voted to ban celebratory gunfire less than a week after the Chiefs’ parade shooting.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups; and, Argentina’s poverty levels under President Javier Milei skyrocketed to fifty-seven percent of the population, a twenty-year high in January.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots R