West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Pam Bondi’s Senate Hearing testimony was ‘brazen,’ ‘shameless’ and ‘verifiably false.’Then, on the rest of the menu, the feds grant ICE building access to conservative media and influencers while ignoring and lying about the local Portland, Oregon press; a law firm representing another firm targeted by Trump with a punitive executive order, was just hit with a massive cyberattack by China; and; a federal judge blocked a Trump effort to change teen pregnancy prevention programs.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where trial of two British men accused of spying for Beijing collapsed because the UK government refused to brand China a threat to national security; and, the top UN rights body ordered probes into human rights in Afghanistan, with a focus on women and girls.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is just out loud lying and feigning amnesia about his close relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Border Patrol agent tried to murder an anti-ICE protester by shooting her five times in her car at a Chicago intersection, and DHS lied to cover for him; MAGA social media accounts bombarded the South Carolina judge with death threats before her house was firebombed; and, the Associated Press disputed Trump’s false characterization of its legal fight over access and reporting.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the newly elected liberal mayor of a town in western Germany was found with life-threatening knife wounds earlier this morning; and, fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after Trump’s illegal and deadly Predat

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 was instantly put in his place after he tried to use the California National Guard troops to conduct a military invasion of Portland, Oregon.Then, on the rest of the menu, the police chief of Omaha, Nebraska acknowledged that police nationwide are more likely to pull Black people out of their cars at gunpoint after champion boxer Terence “Bud” Crawford was ordered out of his car at gunpoint only hours after the city held a downtown celebration in his honor; Stephen Miller was called out for the violent threats that caused the firebombing of a judge’s home; and, Paramount bought The Free Press website and installed its MAGA Grifter founder Bari Weiss, as CBS News editor-in-chief.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police are investigating what they called a hate crime after a mosque was set on fire Sat

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, posting racist fake videos while refusing to negotiate with Democrats to end the shutdown reveals the madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind.Then, on the rest of the menu, Tim Apple capitulated to demands from Nazi Barbie Bondi and removed the ICEBlock app that allowed users to track ICE goons; a fundraiser for the family of the MAGA gunman who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze, has raised over $275,000, no word on any fundraisers for the four dead and eight seriously injured; and, ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where major Japanese beverage producer Asahi has been hit by a cyberattack that left its operations disrupted for the fifth day today;

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, how many flashes of insanity from a president should we tolerate?Then, on the rest of the menu, Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools; the racist Gestapo DHS called a lawsuit filed after a US citizen’s repeated arrests at workplace raids, “race-baiting opportunism;” and, environmentalists, politicians, celebrities and more recall the life and influence of primatologist Jane Goodall.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the captain of an oil tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet will face trial in France; and, Trump was reminded that FIFA, not any government, ultimately decides which cities will host the 2026 World Cup games.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 Rad

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Canada is outmaneuvering Trump after his latest threats before American military generals and admirals.Then, on the rest of the menu, the civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights dropped a key tool used to investigate workplace discrimination;  Trump Border Czar Tom Homan’s own ICE agent set up his FBI sting; and, another federal judge ruled yet another Trump-appointed federal prosecutor was unlawfully installed.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former top aide to a German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been convicted of spying for China; and, the Munich Oktoberfest fairgrounds have closed after a bomb threat following an earlier, deadly explosion in northern Munich.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bo

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 newly-installed, inexperienced US Attorney, whose claim to fame is not only competing in Trump beauty pageants, but also insisting there are too many exhibits about slavery in the US African-American museum, encountered a fed up judge fed up with MAGA legal incompetence.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri governor signed a Trump-backed gerrymander aimed at helping Republicans win another US House seat; a 79-year-old US citizen injured in a Los Angeles immigration raid at his car wash business filed a $50 million claim; and, intense and intentional training is helping Democratic women gain state lawmaking seats.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Rory McIlroy called out the ‘unacceptable and abusive behavior’ from MAGAfied golf fans at the Ryder Cup; and, Moldova’s pro-EU party defeated sever

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 MAGA National Archives illegally released the entire unredacted military file of Mikie Sherrill to her three-time loser MAGA opponent for New Jersey governor, who then “shopped it to the press” when told not to.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon firefighter who was arrested by immigration agents while battling the largest wildfire on the West Coast last month has finally been released; Whiskey Pete Hegseth literally whitewashed the Massacre at Wounded Knee; and, a federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors whose books were illegally pirated to train chatbots.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a senior minister revealed Russia is tracking two Intelsat satellites used by the German military; and, an analysis of leaked Russian d

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, Trump had an overnight meltdown as United States fighter jets scrambled over Alaska while Russian aircraft encroached into Alaska air space.Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a Black Michigan elementary school student is speaking out after her son was expelled for one year after taking a gun away from a white classmate on campus; Oregon handed over the sensitive Medicaid personal data of every Oregonian in the system demanded by the MAGA government to avoid losing federal funding; and, donors to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s PAC received one billion dollars in state contracts.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Danish officials say the “systematic” drone flyovers at four airports overnight, is “hybrid warfare” by a foreign “professional actor” meant to sow fear and division; and, an Aust

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had another late night meltdown as he says he will sue ABC and Jimmy Kimmel while pushing the United States government closer to a shutdown.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump goon Ed Martin threatened Sandy Hook hero FBI Special Agent William Aldenberg for being part of the Alex Jones suit; Black church leaders reject Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom and point to his race rhetoric; and, a former Tennessee House speaker was sentenced to three years in prison over a legislative mail scheme.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Paris court is set to rule on Sarkozy’s illegal campaign financing by Libya’s Ghadafi government; and, Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warned that Russia is spending hundreds of millions of euros to “take power” in a pivotal parliamentary election.All that and more, on West C

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Big Daddy” Gavin Newsom made the Trump administration cry in public.Then, on the rest of the menu, attorneys press for the release of an Oregon wildland firefighter detained by federal immigration officials while on the fire line of the largest wildfire on the West Coast; the guy who was kicked out of Italy for being too corrupt and too fascist for the corrupt Italian fascists, says American teachers are terrorists; and, Trump just ended hunger in America by shutting down the government’s annual report on hunger in America.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German and Swedish fighter jets tracked a Russian reconnaissance plane flying over the Baltic Sea; and, airport cyberattacks linked to Russian intelligence disrupts more flights across Europe.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy 

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, decorated federal prosecutor Maurene Comey is fighting back against Trump over her illegal firing.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a city’s ban on no-knock warrants; the MAGA Senate confirmed forty-eight of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the rules; and, a late-night Instagram post from a San Francisco 49ers star led to the unraveling of a massive Charlie Kirk sports news scam targeting NFL players and teams.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where one hundred twenty land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared in Latin America last year; and, history has been made, America’s first Pope refuses to meet with the self-appointed King of the Unified States of MAGA Land.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice

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, Trump wants us to talk about Jimmy Kimmel, so we'll talk about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, instead.Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon will issue a land use violation notice to the city’s ICE building for breaching detention limits; experts have independently resurrected the Census Bureau advisory committee that was axed by Trump; and, a federal judge ordered Alabama’s largest county to redraw its illegal racially gerrymandered districts.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland is drawing on Ukraine’s expertise in battle-tested drone warfare, just over a week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace; and, British, Lithuanian and Latvian authorities have detained over a dozen people for arson and spying for Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats finally go on the offense and call out MAGA Congress Members and witnesses at an important hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration sued Oregon to force it to turn over the full information about every state voter; ICE Barbie Noem lobbed false homicide claims at a grieving mom who had a stillbirth while in ICE custody; and, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice has quietly deleted a study showing that far-right attacks outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violence extremism.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British politicians condemned the “dangerous” comments Elon Musk told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must fight or die; and, British Royalty is indulging the “King Trump” fantasy for him like an over-eager courtesan.A

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 MAGA Supreme Court was “bench slapped” in open court.Then, on the rest of the menu, authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City; the privately- funded National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta expanding at a critical moment in US history is not immediately subject to King Krasnov’s whims; and one of the GOP’s most prominent foreign affairs hawks is so concerned about WWIII after Russia’s escalation, that he announced his retirement.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ukrainian drones struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries; and, Brazil’s Lula pushed back against Trump’s tariff threat, telling the mumbling authoritarian the country’s democracy ‘is not on the table.’All that and more, on West

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, as Trump musters his illegal Federal shock troops to invade and occupy major Democratic Sanctuary cities and states, leaders of those Cities and States have unleashed an unexpected push back.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Senate’s top three Democrats, and two of the state’s only Black lawmakers, received bomb threats at their homes over the Charlie Kirk killing; historically Black colleges across the United States issued lockdown orders and canceled classes after receiving threats over the Charlie Kirk killing; and, the two people who were detained, publicly named and later released following the killing of Charlie Kirk, continue to face an onslaught of death threats and stalking, even after police said they were not suspects.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands in Slovakia gathered i

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, Trump’s FBI is in total shambles as Kirk’s killer escapes.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas dropped its lawsuit against a doctor accused of “illegally” providing care to transgender youth; the Oregon couple who are members of a Christian anti-medicine cult and let their newborn baby die while waiting for a miracle, will serve only thirty days in jail; and, Trump cut grants for minority-serving colleges, declaring them unconstitutional and discriminatory against white men.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the German parliament lifted the immunity of a prominent far-right lawmaker who was recently accused of being a spy; and, a New Zealand court rejected the latest bid by internet racketeer Kim Dotcom to halt his deportation to the United States.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, will Trump's attorney face sanctions for lying about the Epstein letter?Then, on the rest of the menu, Intel’s most senior woman leader has been forced out; former school board member Jennifer Jenkins who defeated a Mom’s for Liberty co-founder, challenges MAGA-extremist Ashley Moody for a US Senate seat in Florida; and, a Georgia judge will toss the landmark racketeering charges against sixty-one ‘Cop City’ protesters.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a spy network being built across Europe by Belarus was broken up by the intelligence services from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania; and, NATO held Article 4 consultations after Polish and Dutch jet fighters shot down Russian drones in Poland airspace.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.B

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller's wife is losing it over Gavin Newsom's mockery.Then, on the rest of the menu, while DHS continues to post propaganda about the arrests on the fire line in Washington State, wildfire veterans say the operation was nearly unprecedented and a breach in longstanding protocol that federal agents don’t disrupt emergency responders to check immigration status; a drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trump has been found guilty of violating terms of his release after a spate of recent crimes; and, Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee want the Trump administration to give its reasons for revoking the security clearances of thirty-seven current and former national security officials.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova’s president accused Russia of conducting a ‘hybri

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, MAGA Republicans pulled an “insane” last minute scheme in court.Then, on the rest of the menu, Intel said DEI was ‘instrumental’ to innovation, then suddenly stopped talking about it when Trump confiscated part of the company; Trump ordered a Peace Vigil that has stood in Lafayette Park for over forty years dismantled for being a “hazard to those visiting the White House and the surrounding areas;” and, a MAGA Marines' shocking ties to pro-Russian neo-Nazis has been exposed after Raw Story sued the Trump-led Naval Criminal Investigative Service.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea leaders feel betrayed over the detainment of hundreds of workers at the Hyundai plant raid in Georgia; and, undersea cables cut in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in Asia and the Mideast.All that and more, on West