West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the national security threat posed by the Proud Boys began long before the January 6.Then, on the rest of the menu, House Democrats are voting this week to overhaul the 19th century Electoral Count Act; damage assessments have begun in flooded remote Alaska villages; and, a parts shortage has forced Ford to cut its third quarter earnings forecast.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korean prosecutors asked Interpol to issue a fugitive alert for the founder of Terraform Labs after the $40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency; and, Prime Minister Liz Truss dashed any hopes for Brexiteers with an admission that a UK-US free trade deal is not going to happen for years.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans are spurring a shortage of poll workers through violent intimidation.Then, on the rest of the menu, Russian trolls worked overtime to disrupt the 2017 Women's March against Trump; Republicans in key battleground races refuse to say they will accept the midterm election results, whereas Democratic candidates said they would; and, MAGA Republicans wear their cruelty as a badge of honor.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a tropical storm slammed southwestern Japan with fierce rainfall, flooding and winds, injuring dozens of people, as it swerved north toward Tokyo; and, Hurricane Fiona bore down on the Dominican Republic, after knocking out the power grid and unleashing floods and landslides in Puerto Rico.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Judge Cannon’s ruling “is wild and completely divorced from what courts do and are supposed to do.”On the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced a $900 million investment in car chargers along 53,000 miles of interstate; Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at a massive scale; and, the House passed a bill to curb political interference with the census, and all 208 Republicans voted against it.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries in the country before an embargo on oil from Russia takes effect next year; and, all the EU nations except Hungary are moving forward to call out rights violations in Putin’s Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, another one of Trump’s lawyers is in very serious trouble.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Los Angeles County Sheriff arrested two prominent critics of the department on trumped up corruption charges the district attorney previously refused to prosecute; California sued Amazon, accusing it of anti-competitive behavior; and, Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver is a racist, a sexist, and so rich that it doesn’t matter.​​​​​​After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Typhoon Muifa threatens several major Chinese port cities; and, following a similar “bank withdrawal” late last week, a woman accompanied by activists and brandishing a toy pistol, broke into a Beirut, Lebanon bank branch and took $13,000 from her trapped savings, to pay for her sister’s cancer treatment.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, more portions of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit have been unsealed.Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI is investigating a package bomb explosion that injured one at Northeastern University in Boston, and another suspicious package at a prominent Arts college; an independent commission recommended that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be removed; and, the rubberstamp Tennessee Charter School Commission expressed alarm as local school officials vote down charter schools affiliated with MAGA darling, Hillsdale College.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where lights on the Eiffel Tower will soon be turned off more than an hour earlier at night to save energy; and, Twitter’s former security chief told Congress that both China and India had agents working for the social media company.All that a

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and his attorney general, Bill Barr, manipulated the Justice Department to not only protect and cover up for Donald Trump, but to also attack his political enemies.Then, on the rest of the menu, Amtrak cancelled some long-distance passenger routes in anticipation of a national freight strike; Trump backers are flooding election offices with coordinated records requests in a gambit to disrupt the November election; and, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Dubai court ruled that a British man suspected of masterminding a $1.7 billion tax scheme cannot be extradited to Denmark to face charges; and, the United Nations accused Taliban authorities of harassing its Afghan female employees.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bill Barr “is a coward.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Black pastor in Alabama who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers for an out of town neighbor, has filed a federal lawsuit; the Commerce Department declared fishery disasters for several West Coast tribes and allocated $17.4 million in disaster assistance; and, two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to purchase forty acres around the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where USAID Administrator Samantha Power urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory ; and, scaled-down celebrations took place in Denmark marking fifty years on the throne by Queen Margrethe, now the only female monarch in the wor

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the entire security of the nation has been placed in jeopardy by an incompetent and corrupt Federalist Society judge.On the rest of the menu, consumer regulators are cracking down on unlawful nursing home debt collections; the Michigan Supreme Court ordered that the voting rights and abortion ballot measures be put to the voters in November; and, a special prosecutor will investigate whether a Michigan GOP candidate for attorney general should be criminally charged for breaking into voting machines after the 2020 election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Secretary General appealed to the world to help badly flood-hit Pakistan; and, four nations bordering Russia will restrict Russian tourists from entering Europe’s visa-free zone.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justic

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, "The DOJ, they're tiptoeing around Donald as if he was the king, the supreme leader, or a monarch.”Then, on the rest of the menu, unlike Texas recently, California kept the lights on after another day of grid-straining heat; amid relentless disinformation campaigns, harassment and death threats, Georgia’s most populous county can’t find a director of elections to hire; and, your MAGAt Uncle will insist the IRS move toward free e-filing to end years of corporate domination could be communism.​​​​​​After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled the country’s embassy staff over a major cyberattack nearly two months ago; and, the European Union wants a price cap on Russian gas.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appé

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has “no reputation to protect.”Then, on the rest of the menu, citing the 14th Amendment, a judge in New Mexico ordered Otero County Commissioner and Cowboys for Trump Couy Griffin, removed from office, effective immediately; Steve Bannon now faces a state indictment in New York over the federal conviction Trump pardoned him for; and, California authorities, the FBI and DHS report that the cyberattack that disabled computer systems across the Los Angeles Unified School District over the holiday weekend, was criminal in nature.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where long simmering tensions are at a dangerous level after Turkish President Erdogan issued a thinly-veiled invasion threat against NATO ally Greece; and, Japan’s defense minister has ordered a special investigation into growing reports of sexual assault after

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, rather than being a simple “storage issue,” Trump stole secret material and a special master won’t save him.Then, on the rest of the menu, the National Labor Relations Board reversed a Trump-era decision by ruling that Tesla must let workers wear union clothing; California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law for fast food workers; and, the military contractor who plead guilty to orchestrating the “Fat Leonard” corruption scandal, escaped house arrest in San Diego.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Irish regulators slapped Instagram with a $402 million dollar fine for violating the European Union’s strict data privacy rules; and, a former journalist was convicted of treason by a Moscow court that handed down a 22-year prison sentence after a trial widely seen as politically motivated.All that and more, on West Coa

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new details from an unsealed inventory list of what the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago is explained.Then, on the rest of the menu, the chance of California power outages drastically increased as the ongoing heat wave worsens; a state of emergency was declared as flash flooding hits northwest Georgia; and, an investigative journalist has died after being stabbed outside his Las Vegas home.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris in these ‘troublesome’ times; and, a British con artist, who is the subject of a Netflix documentary, has been arrested in Belgium after fleeing from France.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's argument over a special master is really about discrediting the DOJ in the public eye than it is about making a legal argument.On the rest of the menu, seven Florida clerics filed for a temporary injunction, saying the state’s extremist abortion law violates their freedom of speech, religious liberty and the Constitution’s establishment clause; a conservative Wisconsin activist who said voter fraud is easy to commit faces election charges after getting caught; and, an abortion rights group asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether a right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a man tried to kill Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández outside her home; and, US federal agents simultaneously searched properties in Ma

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s recent filing insists they are not the mobsters, the DOJ is.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Library of Congress launched an internal probe of the controversial remodel that will alter the ornate Main Reading Room in its historical Thomas Jefferson Building; national test scores plunged during the pandemic; and, Texas governor Greg Abbott looked Uvalde families in the eye and lied that raising the age to purchase weapons like those used to slaughter their kids, would be unconstitutional.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is headed to Montenegro to investigate a massive, coordinated attack on the tiny Balkan nation’s government; and, German prosecutors raided the office of JPMorgan Chase in Frankfurt as part of a broader tax evasion investigation.All that and

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lindsey Graham lied because he’s “afraid of his own words.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Dominion Voting Systems deposed Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro and others in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit; a House oversight subcommittee called for vigorous cryptocurrency fraud oversight; and, the Justice Department will no longer allow political appointees to go to fundraisers and other campaign events.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a European plan for floating gas terminals raises climate fears; and, China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every cru

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, not once has Trump explained why all those classified and other sensitive US documents were being kept at his not-at all-secure golf resort.Then, on the rest of the menu, Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency after monsoon rains flooded the Mississippi capital and shut down its water treatment plant; federal regulators sued a data broker accused of selling sensitive geolocation data from millions of mobile devices; and, Facebook settled its lawsuit in the Stephen Bannon / Cambridge Analytica scandal.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian journalist has been charged with funding an extremist organization by donating $16 to a Navalny foundation; and, leaders of the European Union and Germany pledged reforms to cut electricity prices.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de C

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the documents seized from Mar a Lago are the “crown jewels” of the intel community.On the rest of the menu, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold a Jim Crow voting law that Mississippi’s white-supremacist leaders adopted in 1890 in an attempt to disenfranchise Black residents for life; a Nebraska high school shuttered the school’s award-winning fifty-four year old student newspaper just days after its last edition that included articles and editorials on LGBTQ issues; and, widespread voting machine tampering during the primaries by Trump activists is causing a concern for the fall election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Myanmar’s military junta arrested a former British ambassador and her husband, and are holding them in a prison labor camp, for not filing out a change of address form on time; and, Italy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “love letters” between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un going missing after Trump left office may have tipped off the National Archives.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-friendly rodeo announcer’s politically charged remarks at the Northwest Washington Fair, dissatisfied hundreds of audience members, with some vowing never to return; ex-interior secretary Zinke lied to investigators in a Indian casino case; and, President Joe Biden named the first woman as the next director of the Secret Service.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Mexican judge accepted charges against the ex-prosecutor in the 2014 disappearance of forty-three students; and, Germany is exporting power to France, while urging savings at home.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appéti

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new reporting shows the extent, and sometimes even exclusivity of Donald Trump's role in stealing sensitive documents from the White House.Then, on the rest of the menu, responding to an increasing number of violent right wing threats to its workers, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it was conducting a comprehensive safety review at its facilities; a federal jury convicted two men of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer; and, an English teacher at a high school in Oklahoma was fired after she provided students with a QR code for free access to e-books from the Brooklyn Library.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two top officials of Hungary’s meteorological service were fired after an inaccurate rain forecast; and, women around the world are dancing in solidarity with Finnish Prime Minister

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Mr Trump went through the boxes himself.”Then, on the rest of the menu, new polls show majorities of Americans want stricter gun laws; after enduring continuous harassment, the entire election staff of a rural Texas county abruptly quit, seventy days before the election; and, a grand jury ordered Walmart to pay an Oregon man $4.4 million dollars for racial profiling.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where pandemic anti-mandate protesters converged on the New Zealand Parliament; and, the Germany Environment Ministry reported there is no single cause for the massive Oder River fish die-off.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the c