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, Maryland’s first Black Governor Wes Moore told the Morehouse College Class of 2023, “our history is our power.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis insists that a federal judge be disqualified from the First Amendment lawsuit filed by Disney against the Florida governor; a small New York Christian college denies it fired two dorm directors for using pronouns in their email signatures, but they did; and, thirty tons of a heavily regulated component to make explosives mysteriously disappeared from a sealed rail car while in transit from Wyoming to California.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia brought indictments for a judge and prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who issued a war crimes warrant for Putin; and, after enduring more abuse, Brazilian forward Vinícius Júnior says the Span

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, Jim Jordan's choice of witnesses raises questions about right-wing extremism within the FBI.Then, on the rest of the menu, the governor of Rhode Island signed a bill to fund abortion coverage for state workers and Medicaid recipients; TikTok content creators filed a lawsuit against Montana over its first-in-the-nation law banning the app; and, the firearms industry could face more legal risk under a bill approved by Illinois lawmakers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French lawmakers have voted to ban smoking in all forests and woods during the fire season; and, China’s predatory loans are pushing the world’s poorest countries to the brink of collapse.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Y

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, instead of denying whether Trump and Giuliani were selling pardons for two million dollars, Bill Barr replied, “I don’t know.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the former chief financial officer of a Seattle-based startup took thirty-five million dollars of his employer’s money without permission, and then lost it all by investing in cryptocurrency; trust in the Supreme Court fell to its lowest point in fifty years after their onerous abortion decision; and, Nevada’s Republican governor vetoed a trio of gun safety bills and threatened to ax the state budget if his priorities aren’t addressed.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Tunisian journalist was sentenced to five years in prison for reporting on counterterrorism; and, the Myanmar military has imported at least one billion dollars worth of we

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, House Democratic Leader Jeffries hopes to find some reasonable Republicans to prevent the default crisis.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Secret Service is investigating how an unidentified man entered National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s home undetected by his protective detail; Arizona announced a crackdown on Medicaid fraud targeting tribal communities; and, Wells Fargo agreed to pay one billion dollars to settle a shareholders’ class-action lawsuit.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Department of Justice announced a series of criminal cases involving the flow of technology and information to Russia, China and Iran; and, the Cyprus Finance Ministry has frozen more than 1.2 billion euros in Russian assets.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Jus

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, “there is no there there in the Durham probe.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans continued their boycott of the Oregon state Capitol, leading to the disqualification of two Republicans and one Independent from reelection due to a new, voter-approved law; CNN staffers are enraged at Chris Licht’s move to crush internal dissent over the Trump town hall; and, a Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing a 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pacific Island leaders say rich countries are not doing enough to control climate change; and, dozens of anti-nuclear activists protested against the Fukushima plant radioactive water release plan.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radi

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, ‘I lost my key witness and I can’t get up.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a Tennessee company is refusing a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration demand to recall 67 million potentially dangerous air bag inflators; GOP state lawmakers are trying to restrict ballot initiatives in an attempt to thwart abortion protections; and, a Biden Administration proposal would let conservationists lease public land much as drillers and ranchers do.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese real estate development firm was fined $4 million for bribing a Los Angeles city councilmember to get a downtown skyscraper approved; and, China sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison on spying charges.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The

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, DeSantis was shredded over his book bans and assault on the arts.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Virginia ruled 18-to-20-year-olds cannot be barred from buying handguns; DeSantis wanted to rewrite Florida’s press laws, but conservative media helped kill the effort; and, when researchers launched solar-powered balloons up to 70,000 feet, they detected a hidden acoustic world, including mysterious noises without any known origin.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN human rights body passed a resolution on human rights abuses in Sudan; and, Norway takes over the presidency of the Arctic Council from Russia.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

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, even CNN’s own fact-checker couldn’t believe that Chris Licht let that travesty of lying propaganda be broadcast to the world.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department has reached a settlement with a New Jersey county over language barriers for Spanish-speaking voters; a New Hampshire utility has proposed a transmission line from Canada to carry renewable power to New England; and, officials in a remote northeastern Oregon county have voted to give tax breaks worth an estimated $1 billion to Amazon for five more data centers there.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain plans to ban outdoor work during periods of extreme heat; and, Tunisian authorities cannot figure out what a National Guardsman’s motive was to kill two jewish pilgrims and then three security officers who were prot

oday’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, only partisan, commie extremists want honest courts.Then, on the rest of the menu, Kansas City considers becoming a LGBTQ sanctuary city; the South Carolina House agreed to larger state worker raises; and, a Florida law takes aim at the teachers union that defied DeSantis.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States busted a Russian cyber-espionage operation in dozens of countries; and, Rita Lee, Brazil’s long-reigning Queen of Rock, has died at age seventy-five.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!"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness

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, radical right wing mass violence sits dangerously close to Republican politics.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Minnesota Senate approved a paid family and medical leave plan; abortion providers in three states filed suit to protect their access to mifepristone pills; and, the Pennsylvania House battle hinges on the Philadelphia suburbs.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where workers at a Goodyear tire plant in Mexico voted to throw out an old-guard union; and, tens of thousands marched in silence in Serbia after the mass shootings there.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!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that

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 is a sickness in Texas and that sickness starts at the top with Greg Abbott.Then, on the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis deploys the state police to enforce his political agenda, and many in the agency don’t like it; far-right activist Ammon Bundy’s latest standoff is in court; and, FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen warned of summer travel ‘havoc’ if GOP budget cuts pass.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Paraguayan far-right populist who blamed election fraud for his third place finish in last week’s presidential election, has been detained by police; and, Botticelli’s Venus is an ‘influencer,’ but Italy is not happy.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!

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, Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, arranged for Ginni Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work and urged that her name be left off the invoices.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon state Republicans boycotted the legislature for the second straight day so Democrats who control the chamber don’t have a quorum to lawfully convene a vote; the Republican Iowa governor will sign a bill to yank kids out of school and put them on the meat packing floor for the night shift; and, scores of new hearings were granted after it was discovered a Maryland judge negotiated a job position with local prosecutors.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where foreign citizens and companies would need US government approval to buy property within 100 miles of eight military bases; and, China is

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, billionaire Harlan Crow paid at least $150k for Justice Thomas' grandnephew to attend private school.Then, on the rest of the menu, a former FBI supervisor was arrested in Oregon in connection with the January 6 insurrection; a Wisconsin judge is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the state’s 174-year-old abortion ban; and, Michelle Obama launches a new company to improve child nutrition.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungarian police tear-gassed teenagers at a protest against Orban's education reforms; and, Canada's spy agency withheld information about Chinese threats against a Canadian lawmaker and his family.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 Beami

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, Democrats have a ‘legislative secret agent’ to fight the GOP on the debt ceiling crisis.Then, on the rest of the menu, the state of Georgia will for the first time run its own marketplace for individual health insurance; a Utah judge delayed implementing the statewide abortion clinic ban; and, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill expanding access to contraceptives.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three hundred people were arrested in a crackdown on the dark web drug market; and, three imprisoned Iranian women journalists have won the top UN prize for press freedom.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!Show Notes & Links

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, US religious extremists are pushing radical anti-gay laws in Africa.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Minnesota man set fire to two mosques, vandalized Ilhan Omar’s office and then targeted a 'Somali Mall;' a California “mom influencer” who claimed that a Latino couple tried to kidnap her two children has been convicted of one count of making a false police report; and, a lawsuit in Texas alleges SpaceX used a state wildlife preserve as a ‘dumping ground for space waste.’After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where millions have already snapped up the new Germany-wide public transit ticket; and, Britain's finance ministry said that the country's banking system remained safe, sound and well capitalized after the First Republic Bank collapse.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuis

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 Proud Boys went into January 6 ‘committed to carrying out violence.’Then, on the rest of the menu, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel urged losing GOP candidates to double down on taking away women’s rights; metrosexual Josh Hawley blamed Hunter Biden for America’s “manliness crisis;” and, Christale Spain is the first Black woman to lead the South Carolina Democratic Party.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after a series of killings, anti-corruption groups urged South African authorities to provide far better protection for whistleblowers; and, a powerhouse US doctor who was slain in Sudan, was ‘killed for nothing.’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 2

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, Congress has 'a responsibility' to investigate the Supreme Court over ethics concerns.Then, on the rest of the menu, East Brunswick, New Jersey cops found large-capacity ammunition magazines at the home of a Republican candidate who threatened to 'light up' his rivals; a Missouri judge temporarily halted enforcement of a first-of-its-kind rule that restricts access to gender-affirming health care, just hours before it was set to take effect; and, the Minneapolis NAACP sued the city of Minneapolis over allegations that police officers used phony social media accounts to spy on its leaders and members.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany has stepped up surveillance of far-right party affiliates; and a federal judge in Brazil ordered a temporary suspension of Telegram, citing the social media

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, Tucker Carlson made Abby Grossman’s “life a living hell.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a My Pillow Guy-backed supervisor in election conspiracy-addled Shasta County, California was served recall papers at a raucous public meeting; federal prosecutors allege in newly unsealed charges that a 20-year-old neo-Nazi tried to firebomb an Ohio church to stop an upcoming drag performance; and, Twitter star Yashar Ali still owes $230,000 to a Getty heir, now a debt collector wants his income.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the foreign minister of war-mongering Russia whined that the European Union “is becoming militarized at a record-rate” and showing “very little difference” with NATO; and, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been appointed to dual fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy Scho

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, Tucker Carlson was given an “enormous platform” to undermine democracy, but then just like O’Reilly, he cost Rupert too much money.Then, on the rest of the menu, Alabama and Mississippi closed most their government offices yesterday Monday for Confederate Memorial Day; survivors of last year’s wildfire in New Mexico will get FEMA aid; and, a newly formed nonprofit group headed by a longtime Maine journalist wants to buy most of the newspapers in the state.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European leaders committed to more wind energy production; and, a Tokyo company aims to be the first business to put a lander on the moon.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!

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, sixty-seven year-old bachelor Lindsey Graham has some ideas what the little ladies should be allowed to do about their reproductive health.Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit brought by disability advocates challenging Governor Newsom’s plan to treat mental illness; the conservative campaign to rewrite child labor laws can be traced to one group funded by a consortium of anti-government billionaires; and, Alabama governor Kay Ivey was slammed after ousting the state’s top education official over a widely-used four decade-old teacher resource guide as being, “too woke.”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the campaigns for the May 21st Greek election begins with a dissolved parliament; and, special forces swiftly evacuated US embassy staff from Sudan, but private US