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, Representative Daniel Goldman confronted plainclothes ICE agents who stormed his district office.Then, on the rest of the menu, the New England Patriots were threatened with a MAGA boycott for a Pride flag display during Pride Month; Tulsa’s new Black mayor proposed a $100 million dollar trust to ‘repair’ the impact of the 1921 Race Massacre by a white mob; and, Trump fast-tracked a Utah uranium mine, but an industry revival may wait for higher prices.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the election of a Trump ally in Poland could alter European Union/Ukraine policies; and, Ukrainian spies hid the drones in woodsheds and hired unwitting Russian truck drivers to transport the weapons deep in the country that crippled Russian defenses and nuclear capabilities.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Sp

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, after a failed attempt to takeover the North Carolina State Supreme Court, the MAGA US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to purge voters from the state registration rolls.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas cops searched license plate cameras across the United States to find a woman who had an abortion; a controversial wage theft bill that MAGA hates passed the Oregon House; and, the TACO administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for thirty-four offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a US tanker in the North Sea pleaded not guilty to manslaughter at a UK court hearing; and, a global rally for stocks lost steam amid questions about what the administration and courts will do to the TACO

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 is called out for his “brutal and ugly attacks” that have caused a spike of threats against federal judges.Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States is storing migrant children’s DNA in a future crimes criminal database; Oregon's chances to implement stricter vehicle emission regulations could be derailed by the MAGA federal government; and, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has caused industry leaders to cancel or delay more than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the US just this year.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where California avocado growers say Mexican imports have helped their sales; and, the Canadian province of Manitoba declared a state of emergency over wildfires and imposed the largest evacuation in the province’s history.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the anti-voting section of the Trump Department of Justice filed an anti-voter lawsuit in North Carolina.Then, on the rest of the menu, NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit in federal court against Trump’s illegal, retaliatory executive order; Trump’s Border Gestapo Chief Tom Homan has been cashing checks from one of the private prison giants profiting from the immigration crackdown he’s overseeing; and, the Trump State Department stopped scheduling visa interviews for foreign students while it expands vetting their social media so they can be thrown in a gulag somewhere.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

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, law firm Paul Weiss capitulated to Trump, now it has lost its top partners.Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK, Jr’s FDA head warned doctors to “stop throwing insulin at diabetics,” or else; the state Trump won by just one percent faces an ugly three hundred fourteen million dollar loss in vital aid in the “Big Beautiful Bill;” and, former US Representative Charles Rangel, who spent nearly fifty years representing New York, has died at age ninety-four.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tesla sales across Europe plunged by half last month, even as growth in the electric car market picked up pace; and, Russia-backed far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who upended the Romanian presidential race, has withdrawn from politics.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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court blocked the nation’s first religious charter school in a surprise rebuke, with Amy Coney Barrett recusing.Then, on the rest of the menu, American refugees are fleeing across state lines to escape hostile forces under Trump; Kentucky’s bitcoin boom has gone bust; and, a just-passed Louisiana law threatens residents with one million dollar fines for sharing warnings about bad air quality.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian hackers are targeting Western firms shipping aid to Ukraine; and, Trump’s early morning rage tweet tariff threats on the European Union and Apple, have sent US futures and global markets on a sharp death spiral.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resist

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 fed up Supreme Court schooled the Trump administration on the basics of Constitutional law.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is 'deeply underwater' on his Wall Street skyscraper as a massive debt deadline looms; a fire at the historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set; and, the two Israeli Embassy staffers murdered near the White House by a “Free Palestine” activist, had just left the Young Diplomats Reception for multinational aid to Gaza.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s Constitutional Court unanimously validated the results of Romania’s presidential election rerun, shortly after rejecting a request to annul the results by the hard-right Moscow-backed candidate; and, Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Yingluck has been ordered to pay for losses from a money-losing rice su

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's budget bill has created a 'legislative suicide pact' for the MAGA House.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pacific Northwest braces for a tsunami and typhoon monitoring blackout from Trump’s agency shutdown; a bombshell email leak has exposed a Gabbard goon secretly ordering intel changes so it couldn’t be ‘used against’ Trump; and, the hacker who breached the Signal chats used by Waltz and Hegseth, intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police broke up a right-wing extremist group that aimed to destabilize the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents; and, the mother of the arrested Salvadoran lawyer who represented Trump’All that and more, on We

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, and Trump gave up in a humiliating surrender before the world.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge just struck down DOGE’s attempt to seize the $500 million dollar building owned by the US Institute of Peace; a Black neighborhood fights back as an Elon Musk supercomputer factory belches toxic pollutants into the air; and, Pacific Northwest hydroelectric power risks a major shutdown as agencies lose hundreds of on-the-ground employees because of Trump’s cutbacks.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Honda pulls back on its EV strategy and will now push hybrid sales; and, at a South Africa agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff at Trump’s allegations of white genocide.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio

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 Supreme court ripped Trump and his cabinet to shreds.Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly three-quarters of the attorneys working for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have resigned in protest of Trump's “perversion” of the department’s mission; libraries across the country are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle the small Institute of Museum and Library Services; and, Trump set up a tip line for federal employees to snitch on colleagues working on DEI initiatives, and not one of the fifteen thousand employees at the EPA used it.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania’s presidential election; and, Putin outlawed Amnesty International in his latest crackdown on dissent and activists.All that and more, o

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 Democratic Party hit record recruitment numbers for 2026.Then, on the rest of the menu, Multnomah County health officials have confirmed one case of active tuberculosis at a middle school in Southeast Portland, Oregon; Trump has suspended the asylum system, leaving immigrants to face an uncertain future; and, the US lost a major percentage of business travelers in April as economic anxiety and border detentions have cooled demand.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Estonia warned that Russia is using military force to defend its shadow fleet of aging tankers violating international sanctions; and, Vietnam approved the Trump Organization’s $1.5 billion golf and real estate project to avoid Donnie Two Doll’s 46% tariff.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justi

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 major update on arrested judge Dugan is discussed.Then, on the rest of the menu, a new law bans Oregon employers from asking for an applicants’ age; a federal judge ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for West Virginia coal miners; and, a Texas prosecutor sued to compel Border Patrol testimony in the criminal trial of the Uvalde school police chief.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three Russian-backed Ukrainian nationals have been arrested in Germany and Switzerland for plans to send explosive parcels to Kyiv; and, the Mexican security chief confirmed seventeen Chapo cartel family members entered the US in a green card deal with the Trump administration, and nobody cares.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appét

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, the “most corrupt president,” has been telling Americans to live in austerity because of his tariffs, while he wants “the most expensive private plane in the world” as a gift.Then, on the rest of the menu, White House correspondents protested the lack of wire reporters on Air Force One traveling to the Middle East; staff rebuffed two Trump appointees from entering the Copyright office; and, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission moved to fire a judge who is fighting Trump directives.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four men arrested in West Africa for an extortion scheme are linked to a California teen’s suicide; and, in a development sure to anger Trump and MAGA, Germany banned the largest anti-Democracy ‘Reich citizen’ group in the country and arrested four of its leaders.All that and more, on W

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, Stephen Miller insists Trump has to suspend habeas corpus because the Supreme Court doesn’t understand the law.Then, on the rest of the menu, a probation officer in Oregon was fired for using a Nazi salute at work but an arbitrator restored his job; Trump fired the chief of the US Copyright Office days after she prevented Musk from using copyrighted work without permission as fair use for his artificial intelligence network; and, Elizabeth Holmes may be the face of one of the 21st century’s most famous fraud cases, but that isn’t stopping her partner from doing something incredibly brazen.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Krakow, citing an arson attack blamed on Moscow; and, the Supreme Court of Argentina has discovered archives linked to Hitler’s Naz

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’s Ponzi scheme presidency continues to be the least popular in American and World history.Then, on the rest of the menu, a famed New York law firm’s $100-million pro bono deal with Trump is backfiring as employees jump ship in anger; the Washington State Supreme Court upheld a ban on large ammo magazines; and, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, David H Souter, died peacefully yesterday at home in New Hampshire at age eighty-five.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where prosecutors say Romanian treasures stolen from a Dutch museum could still be intact; and, the Stockholm, Sweden City Council rejected the US Embassy’s demands that it comply with the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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 Republican Jefferson Griffin’s long effort to steal the North Carolina Supreme Court race has finally failed.Then, on the rest of the menu, more older Americans worry Social Security won’t be there for them after the massive Trump/Musk sabotage of the agency; GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump’s tax breaks bill; and, the guy who granted Trump ‘absolute immunity,’ now says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Denmark says it will summon the top US diplomat in the country for an explanation about intelligence gathering on Greenland; and, the EU published a US product hit list as it prepares for World Trade Organization action against Trump’s tariffs.All that and more, on West Coast C

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, Democratic Congress members brutally cross-examined Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oklahoma schools have been ordered to teach Trump's 2020 election lies in the state’s new MAGA curriculum; the Black vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board is unexpectedly removed from his position because of DEI; and, a federal appeals court upheld the racketeering convictions of former MAGA Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and an ex-lobbyist in a $60 million bribery scandal.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the top two US trade officials will meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland in the first major talks since Trump sparked his impertinent trade war; and, Friedrich Merz won lawmakers’ appro

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, a federal court has blocked GOP efforts to overturn the North Carolina supreme court election and ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory.Then, on the rest of the menu, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice plans to investigate the prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county for using racial disparities in plea deals; a coalition of seventeen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Trump’s attempt to stop approved wind energy development around the country; and, Trump’s federal government is targeting its disabled workers for mass firings.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain’s government approved a bill that reduces the workweek from forty to thirty-seven and half hours; and, most of the one hundred rhinos killed in South Africa this year were poached fr

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 Nazi courtier Stephen Miller sued Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in a bid to control the courts.Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA Nazis ruling MAGA Nazi Shasta County, California have caused an uproar after appointing an out of state election denier as the county’s top election official; Texas MAGA want to ‘financially handcuff’ cities that don’t play by their rules; and, Stephen Miller rolled out the MAGA plan to indoctrinate your kids.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump blasted Mexico’s Sheinbaum for rejecting his offer to send US troops into Mexico to fight the cartels; and, Europe launched a drive to attract scientists and researchers after Trump summarily dismissed them.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!T

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, another Trump-appointed judge ruled against him in court.Then, on the rest of the menu, an intern at the Harris County, Texas DA’s Office uncovered possible charging errors in up to 300 cases, prompting a full audit, so they fired the intern for misconduct; the White House opened an inquiry into a Chicago school program aimed at helping Black students because it is DEI; and, calling desegregation a “historical wrong,” the Justice Department is making segregated Louisiana schools great again.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Greek court is set to hear the case of a man accused of spying on NATO operations for Russia; and, the German domestic intelligence service has classified the Musk-supported Alternative for Germany party as a “right-wing extremist” organization.All that and more, on West Coast Coo