West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 commands a strong lead over DeSantis, despite his ninety-one felony indictments.Then, on the rest of the menu, a well-known and beloved fashion designer was shot dead in front of her small clothing store near Lake Arrowhead, California over a dispute about an LGBTQ flag; Georgia made it easier for parents to challenge school library books, but almost no one has done so; and, the South Dakota Democratic Party ousted the state chair amid accusations that she violated party rules and created a hostile work environment for staff.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Egyptian authorities briefly detained a journalist working for a fact-checking organization following its coverage of a plane that was seized in Zambia; and, Russia’s first lunar mission in forty-seven years ended in a smashing failure.All that

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 doesn't need until April 2026 to read the evidence in his federal trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors asked a federal judge to sentence former Proud Boys chairman “Enrique” Tarrio and leader Joey Biggs to thirty-three years in prison; nine current or former Northern California police officers were charged in a federal corruption investigation that found 'violently racist' and 'anti-gay' behavior; and, authorities report people are dying in the record-shattering heat wave that is baking the Pacific Northwest this week.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia fined Google $32,000 for videos about the conflict in Ukraine; and, a socialist candidate won a key Spanish parliament vote that could pave the way for a new center-left government.All that and more, on West Coast Co

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, “there is a case to be made that Rudy has actually been this version of Rudy the whole time.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the local Kansas prosecutor behind the controversial police raid on the Marion County Record has agreed to withdraw the search warrant and return items taken from the paper; as Xitter’s legal director stalled the DOJ and Jack Smith, Musk met with McCarthy, then Jim Jordan, twice; and, the Colorado River Basin ranks among the world’s most water-stressed regions.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech Republic completed the ratification of a defense treaty with the United States that makes it easier to deploy US troops in Czech territory; and, Russia’s Foreign Ministry informed a Dutch journalist who has lived and worked in the country for ten years, her visa would not

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 Georgia indictment tells the story of exactly who Donald Trump is “more clearly” than the other indictments as it lays out the actions of Trump’s “criminal enterprise.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by two conservative groups to halt Biden’s student debt relief for longtime borrowers; the EPA is investigating how California manages its water following complaints from Native American tribes; and, the Chinese spies who read State Department email also hacked a GOP congressman on the House Armed Services Committee.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland arrested two Russians on allegations of spreading propaganda for the Wagner group; and, the Argentine peso plunged after an extreme rightist Trump admirer came first in the presidential primary vote.All 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, prosecutors in Georgia have text and email messages that link Trump's legal team to a 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, Georgia. Then, on the rest of the menu, legal experts question a MAGA judge’s order telling Southwest Airline lawyers to get religious-liberty training; a recent lawsuit targets Wisconsin legislative districts that resemble Swiss cheese; and, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a law banning firearms advertising that appeals to children, militants or others who might later use the weapons illegally.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where doctors in England walked off the job again as their pay dispute with the UK government shows no progress; and, insurgents opened fire on a convoy carrying Chinese citizens in a fractious province in southwestern Pakistan.All that and more, on

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 'blinking red light' scandal of Kushner's Saudi billions looms as the GOP faceplants on Hunter Biden.Then, on the rest of the menu, a research firm says the Proud Boys stiffed them $30,000 for work on their J6 sedition trials; more Michigan Republicans accused of being fake electors for Trump plead not guilty; and, jumping into the water to escape a wildfire should always be a last resort.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil’s former highway police director has been arrested in a probe into election interference; and, a Chinese-Australian journalist jailed in China for three years described being only allowed to stand in sunlight for just ten hours each year.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Pl

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 Trump ‘co-conspirator’ wrote out a scheme that could land many in prison.Then, on the rest of the menu, in a win for unions, the White House unveiled wage rules for federal projects; Los Angeles striking hotel workers are being roughed up by hotel security goons; and, a white supremacist has been threatening to attack the power grid unless two neo-Nazis who were arrested by the FBI for bank robbery in 2022 are released.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German citizen was arrested on allegations that he tried to spy for Russia; and, a former International Criminal Court prosecutor warned that Armenians face genocide in Azerbaijan.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

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, Ohio voters flooded the polls to give the anti-democracy Republicans a firm, ‘no.’Then, on the rest of the menu, Ohio voters soundly defending Democracy has given fire to an Arizona effort to enshrine abortion rights in their state Constitution; California is ill-equipped to investigate whether racism played a role in the death of a pregnant Black woman at Centinela Hospital in Los Angeles; and, the Oregon Secretary of State announced that voter-backed Measure 113 disqualifies ten Republican and Independent senators who participated in a six-week walkout this spring from running for reelection.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hackers may have information on tens of millions of British voters after they got access to electoral registers, but it’s even worse than that; and, New Zealand is par

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, our two-tiered justice system is a “tale of two riots.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans in Virginia are proposing legislation that would ban kids under eighteen from visiting a public library without a parent or guardian; after a Black pregnant woman's false arrest, Senator Ed Markey has renewed a call for a federal facial recognition ban; and, the Florida lawmaker accused in a ‘ghost’ candidate scheme will go to trial in February.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian science fiction writer was handed an eight-year prison term for discrediting Russia’s army; and, Mexico City arrested the neighboring state of Morelos’ attorney general, who accused an ex-soccer star of corruption. protested against the government’s decision to suspend a private television station’s operations.All that and

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 lawyer was only being aspirational when he dissembled on all the Sunday shows while Trump continued to lash out at the special counsel and the judge.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black man in Alabama filed a lawsuit against white locals who changed the locks on city hall and shut off review of the small town’s bank account after he won the mayor’s race; two conservative groups sued to block the recent Biden plan canceling $39 billion in student loans; and, Oregon extended its crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in crab pot trap ropes.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the extremist far-right Alternative for Germany party declared the European Union a “failed project;” and, German police are investigating the antisemitic motive in an attack on an Israeli tourist in Ber

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 criminal indictment of Donald Trump shows that violence has always been at the core of his putsch to stay in power.Then, on the rest of the menu, Ed Mullins, the loudmouth ex-head of the NYPD sergeants union, was sentenced to two years in a federal prison for stealing $600k from union members; Florida banned the Advanced Placement psychology course over LGBTQ content; and, Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Agence France-Presse is pursuing a copyright case against X, formerly known as Twitter; and, two US Navy sailors were charged with spying for China.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistan

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 Michigan attorney general thinks ‘ we're going to see a lot more indictments.'Then, on the rest of the menu, after the success against Congressional MAGA extremists holding the debt ceiling hostage, Biden aides were shocked Fitch went ahead and downgraded the US credit rating anyway; Kentucky’s search for a top-tier education chief will be more challenging after the political backlash experienced by the state’s departing education commissioner; and, after California’s record-breaking winter rains, public health officials are warning about an increased risk for valley fever this summer.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where PEPFAR, the global AIDS program targeted by US religious extremists in the abortion battle, gets a new home in a State Department bureau; and, the progressive political party

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, Tricia Cotham, the North Carolina lawmaker who switched parties and handed the GOP-gerrymandered state legislature a veto-proof majority, was courted by top GOP officials before the election.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Texas man was found not guilty after he was ticketed for feeding homeless people in Houston; a federal judge ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers’ free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services; and, a grand jury charged two top Michigan Republicans in connection with voting machine tampering during the 2020 election ballot count.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a bill aimed at halting criticism of Pakistani intelligence figures is expected to become law; and, the United States will put forward a UN Security Co

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, co-defendant Carlos de Oliveira could save himself by telling Jack Smith about that twenty-four minute phone call with criminal defendant, Donald Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, citing the separation of church and state, a group of parents, clergy and education activists in Oklahoma filed a lawsuit to halt the opening of the nation’s first religious charter school; Texas extremist foot soldiers became federal judges under Trump, securing a conservative stronghold in America's courts; and, monsoon rains in Phoenix ended a thirty-one day streak of highs at or above 110 degrees.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four separatist Bosnian Serb leaders are sanctioned by the US Treasury for undermining the 1995 peace deal; and, Kosovo’s journalists protested against the government’s decision to suspend a 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, according to two major reports, the Department of Homeland Security has a domestic extremism problem.Then, on the rest of the menu, Kentucky Governor Beshear has 'set the stage' for ignoring the law banning him from appointing a Democratic replacement if McConnell steps down; a federal judge blocked the Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials; and, voting rights activists are returning to court to fight Alabama’s redrawn congressional districts for failing to follow federal court orders to create a district that is fair to Black voters.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where pro-democracy Russians in Serbia protested after two prominent anti-war activists and critics of Putin faced problems with entry and residence permits in the Balkan country; and, a human rights law

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, Jack Smith waited until now to charge Trump for the secret Iran document he flaunted on tape.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas is shutting down libraries in the Blackest school district in the state and turning them into child prisons; misleading women on abortion could cost Illinois crisis pregnancy centers big bucks; and, protected by 'shield laws', US health workers are able to skirt state bans on women’s healthcare.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan’s annual defense paper raised new alarms about China’s military, its ties to Russia and Taiwan tensions; and, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are considering joining the US National Guard’s security partnership program.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netr

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, MAGA lies and physical intimidation have driven election workers from their jobs in every state of the union, but Trump's Big Lie has hit a brick wall in court.Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-two attorneys general oppose the 3M Company settlement over public water systems contaminated with ‘forever chemicals;’ high superintendent turnover means many Oregon school districts are led by inexperienced newcomers; and, Lockheed Martin won the NASA contract to build a nuclear thermal rocket engine, a key technology that could dramatically speed up space travel and help humans get to Mars.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a prominent Belarusian journalist was sentenced to six years in prison for reporting on the opposition; and, the British billionaire owner of the English soccer team Tottenham

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, this time, Trump might not do the news media the favor of announcing when he is indicted.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Kansas judge ruled that the police practice of detaining motorists on I-70 with license plates from states with legal pot, is an unconstitutional “war on motorists;” the GOP and the NRA want to stop the one-of-its-kind gun violence research they just found out California has conducted since 1966; and, the Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s policies on legacy admissions.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a fugitive Catalan separatist may hold the key to unifying Spain’s government after the socialist party barely beat back a Franco-adjacent right wing takeover; and, thousands of women across Poland protested outside p

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, Alabama Republicans may be plotting something bigger with their defiance of the Supreme Court.Then, on the rest of the menu, a southern Oregon town is buying the forest around it to confront wildfires; small-town GOP officials are torn over Biden’s clean energy cash; and, an Idaho jury hit right wing anti-government militant Ammon Bundy with $26.5 million in compensatory damages and $26 million in punitive damages over a defamation lawsuit filed by a Boise hospital.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a week-old wildfire on the Greek resort island of Rhodes tore past fire line defenses, forcing more evacuations; and, Argentina demanded that Bolivia explain its new defense agreement with Iran.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netro

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, Georgia prosecutors could bring charges in the election probe as soon as 31 July, or maybe not.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department threatened to sue after telling Texas the floating barrier the state put on the Rio Grande violates federal and international law; a Missouri school board taken over by Christian extremists revoked an anti-racism resolution; and, a federal judge ruled that an Arizona law limiting how close people can get to recording law enforcement is unconstitutional.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the right wing extremist party in Spain failed in Sunday’s general election to control government for the first time since Franco; and, Bulgaria agreed to send heavy military equipment to Ukraine for the first time since the invasion.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &a