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, a gag order can be issued on Trump, but enforcing it is the problem.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court ordered makers of gun parts to comply with Biden Administration rules on ghost guns; New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order directing state agencies to switch to an all-electric vehicle fleet by the year 2035; and, Georgia’s cash hoard approaches $11 billion after a third year of big surpluses.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where voters in Poland gave support to the centrist opposition after eight years of anti-EU, hyper-nationalist rule; and, the UN Security Council rejected Russia’s resolution on Gaza that failed to mention Hamas.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live P

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 US is 'working through third countries' for the release of hostages held by Hamas.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Supreme Court dispute over a $15,000 IRS bill may be aimed at a never-enacted tax on billionaires; a suspended Miami city commissioner pleaded not guilty to money laundering and other charges; and, an executive who had business ties to Playgirl magazine pleaded guilty to a $250M fraud scheme at one of his lending companies.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greece’s ruling conservative party suffered serious setbacks in Sunday’s regional and municipal elections; and, announcing that 'reconciliation is dead,’ indigenous Australians vowed a week of silence after the landmark equality referendum was decisively defeated.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cui

Friday’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, Hamas has relentlessly attacked the peace process for its own agenda since the late 1980’s.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Colorado judge has rejected an attempt by Trump to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to keep him off the state ballot; a Florida college reported it has seen "27 percent of its student body drop out" since Ron Desantis' recent takeover; and, a Mississippi city was sued for failing to properly inform property owners in a majority-Black neighborhood that their homes could be targeted for eminent domain under a redevelopment plan.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French prosecutors are investigating the suspected poisoning of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV; and, the European Union made a formal, legally binding request for infor

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, Hamas terrorism echoes the barbaric playbook from Putin to ISIS.Then, on the rest of the menu, Nebraska voters will decide next year whether public money can go to private school tuition; Virginia’s Democratic members of Congress asked for a DOJ probe after voters were removed from the state electoral rolls in error; and, a former Alabama lawmaker plead guilty to a voter fraud charge for using a fake address to run for office.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia was defeated in its bid to regain a seat on the UN’s top human rights body; and, Finland charged that damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity.”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, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Netanyahu warning Gazans to leave amid Israel’s war with Hamas is called “disingenuous.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Nevada’s largest teachers union filed suit against a state law making it illegal for teachers and other public school employees to go on strike; the Wisconsin Supreme Court sided with tenant advocates in limiting eviction records; and, Florida settled a lawsuit over COVID data DeSantis ordered was off limits, and has agreed to provide weekly stats to the public.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an independent inquiry opened into unlawful killings by United Kingdom special forces in Afghanistan a decade ago; and, the European Union reversed an earlier announcement that it was suspending development aid to the Palestinians.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, the GOP's lies on Israel attack funding is exposed, while Tuberville continues his military holds.Then, on the rest of the menu, an illustrated children's book about siblings who build a dog house together was placed on a watch list for removal in Alabama, simply because its author's last name is "Gay;" a judicial order canceled a demonstration planned by a Roman Catholic diocese in Kansas that would have blocked the only entrance to a Wichita abortion clinic; and, Alaska fishermen will be allowed to harvest the lucrative red king crab in the Bering Sea for the first time in two years.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United Nations warned Pakistan that forcibly deporting Afghans could lead to severe human rights violations; and, the American Airlines pilot union called for stopping all flights to Isr

Friday’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’s lawyers say Trump’s sharing of highly classified nuke sub secrets on the patio of Mar a Lago with a billionaire Australian container magnate, “lacks proper context.”Then, on the rest of the menu, battleground state Republicans are refusing campaign donations from Marjorie Taylor Greene; Oklahoma has executed more people per capita than any other state in the US, but some Republican lawmakers want to impose a moratorium until more safeguards can be put in place; and, the US government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American site on the slopes of Oregon’s Mount Hood that was destroyed by highway construction.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where developed countries pledged $9.3 billion at a conference held in the German city of Bonn, to help poor nations tackle climate chan

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, Kevin McCarthy blaming Nancy Pelosi for his ouster is the “weakest of weak ideas.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a newly enacted Arizona recount law could cause the state to miss crucial deadlines for certifying the 2024 vote; the Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether Alabama discriminated against Black residents in wastewater infrastructure funding; and, three New England states are joining together for offshore wind power projects, the first multi-state agreement in the nation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union announced plans to better protect its cutting-edge technologies from foreign snooping; and, Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant began releasing a second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea.All that and more, on West Coast

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 MAGA House cares more about “making headlines than headway.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI alleges a die-hard MAGA sheriff in Virginia, charged with accepting bribes for deputy badges, sold one to a controversial Iraqi fixer; neo-Nazis violently threatened journalists covering a Tennessee mayoral race; and, the Education Department asserts Liberty University violated federal safety laws by failing to warn the campus community about gas leaks, bomb threats and people credibly accused of repeated acts of sexual violence, for years.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Armenia’s parliament voted to join the International Criminal Court, a move that further strains the country’s ties with Russia; and, police in India searched journalists’ homes and offices in the country’s latest raids o

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 new filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith reinforces a request for a narrowly-tailored gag order to be placed on Donald Trump in one of his federal cases.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Army officer pepper-sprayed during a traffic stop in Virginia, asked for a new trial in his lawsuit against police; the Elias Law Group sued to block Wisconsin’s absentee voting witness requirements; and, the lawyer who won a defamation lawsuit for the Sandy Hook parents against Alex Jones, is representing a California man suing Elon Musk over posts that falsely identified the recent college-graduate as a government agent inciting a riot that he never attended.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where amid tight security, Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year in an effort to inoculate fort

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, Donald Trump has shown a “lifelong pattern” of disrespect for America’s most cherished institutions and practices.Then, on the rest of the menu, a grant program for Black women entrepreneurs has been blocked by the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, because it discriminates against rich, white men; attorneys for the New College of Florida, the traditionally public liberal arts academy confiscated by the state in a right wing takeover, are suing former faculty and students after they formed an alternative online institute offering all the “woke” curriculum DeSantis is trying to get rid of; and, an Oklahoma Democratic candidate's office was ransacked after his impressive debate performance.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Parliament president backs the UN naming an envoy to help

Friday’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 Republican Party knew that” their impeachment hearing “was cooked and done from the beginning,”Then, on the rest of the menu, a MAGA hat gunman is in custody after opening fire on dozens of protesters in New Mexico over the installation of a conquistador statue; Los Angeles police recovered a stolen 250-pound Japanese Buddha statue valued at $1.5 million and arrested a suspect, but mystery still shrouds the case; and, the governor of Indiana broke ground on a $1.2 billion state prison that will replace two others.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of women marched in cities across Latin America calling for abortion rights; and, a Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost ten percent of

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, ‘Mob Boss’ Trump is directing his 'soldiers' to shut down the government.Then, on the rest of the menu, Nebraska is the latest Republican state to expand Medicaid to cover postpartum care for low-income mothers; the Biden administration made disaster assistance available to Louisiana, as salt water threatens the state’s drinking water; and, a Rhode Island community bank will pay $9 million dollars to resolve discriminatory lending allegations.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Bulgarian parliament approved additional weapons to Ukraine; and, the leader of Spain’s conservatives failed in his long-shot first bid to become the country’s next prime minister.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Ke

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, 'let's not sleepwalk into another Trump Presidency'.Then, on the rest of the menu, it’s a feature, not a bug that 'threats and harassment' are causing America's West to bleed qualified election officials; California will raise taxes on guns and ammo to pay for school safety; and; academics, universities and government agencies are ending research programs to counter the spread of online misinformation, after a relentless campaign of intimidation by the MAGA insurgents in congress.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German government banned a far-right, racist group known for its Nazi indoctrination of children; and, the European Union reports Musk’s Xitter is the biggest purveyor of disinformation in the twenty-seven nation bloc.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy wit

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, Cassidy Hutchinson described Trump’s “dangerous” need for attention, and the “careless and reckless” handling of classified intelligence documents.Then, on the rest of the menu, a white neighbor in toney Forest Hills, New York, is sued for hosing down his prominent Black neighbors and their prominent Black dinner guests during a catered dinner in their spacious backyard garden; California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to ban school boards from rejecting textbooks based on their teachings about the contributions of people from different racial backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities; and, rogue Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito 'invented an entirely new rule' for himself.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States offered Poland a rare loan of $2 billion to modernize its mi

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, there’s a reason Vladimir Putin feared Hillary Clinton and used any means necessary to keep her from the presidency.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida judge ordered a far-right blogger and Proud Boys associate be arrested and held in contempt of court in a civil suit brought by a former Florida House candidate; California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people, a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates; and, subsidized child-care meals are tied to better child health and lower rates of household food insecurity.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Union antitrust enforcers slapped Intel with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight; and, Canadian autoworkers ratified a new labor agr

Friday’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, for the first time since resigning from the Durham Trump/Russia investigation three years ago, federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy confirmed it was the politically-driven way that Barr handled the investigation that drove her to leave.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Mississippi state auditor says numerous social science and humanities degree programs are “indoctrination factories;” Fort Lauderdale, Florida was duped in a $1.2 million phishing scam; and, with climate change hitting home, California announced that they are making reforms to the state’s insurance system to stabilize the market.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union called on the Bosnian Serb parliament to reject a draft law that brands NGOs as ‘foreign agents;’ and, Bulgaria expelled a Russian and two Belarusia

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 witness to one of the greatest crimes ever committed in America,” who has defied a congressional subpoena for almost five hundred days, threatened Merrick Garland with contempt of congress for not being a bootlicker.Then, on the rest of the menu, a progressive group is planning a $10 million investment in left-leaning school and library board candidates for the 2024-25 election cycle; one of only four black mayors in the whole state of Oregon has resigned, claiming he was bullied out of office;’ and, even though California enacted sweeping legislation nearly a decade ago, thousands of drinking water wells could run dry in the Central Valley by the time the law’s restrictions take full effect in 2040.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the president of South Korea warned Russia against any wea

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, on the senate floor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse dressed down the corruption of the FedSoc Supreme Court and the “very possible illegal conduct” of the billionaires funding their lavish lifestyles.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Republican book-banning bill in Texas has been blocked by a Trump-appointed conservative judge, on the same day a Texas middle school teacher was fired for reading the Diary of Anne Frank to her class; a white supremacist plead guilty to threatening the jury and witnesses in the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre trial; and, Musk’s unfounded attacks on a Las Vegas reporter are a new low in his thuggery.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German government banned a neo-Nazi group with close links to the US, then conducted raids on their compounds in ten German states;

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, legal experts are astounded by Trump openly admitting the election subversion was his decision.Then, on the rest of the menu, the University of California regents grapple with how best to protect the system's first Black president in its 155-year history, after a series of racist attacks at his home; a man has been charged with a hate crime after the windows of the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle’s Chinatown International District were smashed last week; and, the Indiana Supreme Court’s disciplinary commission filed a misconduct complaint against the Attorney General over remarks he made about an abortion doctor and her patient, an out of state ten year old rape victim.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Netanyahu administration complained to Germany after the German ambassador attended a high-profile Is