West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially Special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays & Blue Moon Spirits Fridays! Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam serves up a cornucopia of abundance in The Bistro Cafe with "All The News That's Fit To Read" and "In This Reporter's Opinion," a lively, humorous and astute analyses on the issues of the day, along with spirited discussions at the "Chef's Table" with politicians, pundits, celebrities, musicians, authors, filmmakers, academics and leaders of the New Media. Bon Appétit! First a road manager and occasional back-up singer for the rock group, Cottonmouth in the mid-70's, Justice Putnam then re-emerged with the Laguna Beach Free Poets briefly, part of the Los Angeles Art/ Performance/ Poetry/ Dance/ Punk movement during the early 80's. He then performed solo shows, as a member of Meta-4 and later with Chris Watkins of Hoi Poloi and also Preacher Boy & The Natural Blues, as well as with Jimmy McAllister of Rabbit Choir at such venues as Gorky's in Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque in Santa Monica, Cafe du Nord and Biscuits and Blues in San Francisco, Freight and Salvage and The Bison Brewing Company in Berkeley, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, and also at music festivals in France, Belgium, Germany, California and Oregon. His poetry and prose has been published in Elektrum Magazine, Vol. No. Magazine, American Poetry Anthology, Literatus World Review, Berkeley Daily Planet and other academic, small press, print and online journals. A scholar-athlete in his youth, Justice Putnam worked as an orderly, an emergency room technician, a Roustabout and a Production Operator at an oil refinery. He taught History and English in private schools briefly, while coaching football and track. He was a fruit and vegetable inspector for the California State Department of Agriculture and a stone mason building free standing moss stone walls in Marin and Sonoma Counties. He has been a theater light designer, an actor, a surfer, deep-sea fisherman and a Grinder on a racing yacht. He was the co-host with the chanson francaise impresario, Simon Dray, on his "Fm/French Connection Bistro Radio" broadcast from KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco for over a decade. Justice has also traveled around the world, living for short times in France, Italy, Japan and Mexico.
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Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jamie Raskin explained plans on blocking Trump's $1.7 billion dollar slush fund.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Tuberville/Jones rematch is set for the Alabama governor race; a former Tennessee police officer who was jailed over his anti-Charlie Kirk posts won an $835,000 court settlement; and, Democratic-led states challenge the Trump administration's new caps on federal student loans.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where South Korean Samsung faces a strike after pay talks with its union fell apart; and, Argentine investigators hunting for the source of the hantavirus outbreak trap rats in the country's southernmost city.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, Trump is causing an Arctic Cold War as he initiates credible threats against the sovereignty of Greenland and Canada following his failed trip to China.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's own handpicked lawyer quit his Treasury Department general counsel position in disgust at the mad man's massive $1.776 billion dollar grift; a federal judge banned most arrests by federal agents in immigration courts in New York; and, the New York Times sued the Pentagon a second time over Hegseth's media restrictions.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Australia banned a neo-Nazi network under a new law that criminalizes hate groups; and, a Spanish court is investigating former Prime Minister Zapatero for influence peddling and other crimes tied to a government airline bailout.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ka$h Patel has failed to take the sobriety test he promised under oath.Then, on the rest of the menu, former reality TV star and now the MAGA-favorite Los Angeles mayoral candidate, Spencer Pratt, vowed to leave LA if he loses the election; Trump cashed in big time one day after handing AI tech firm CoreWeave a major government deal; and, the Texas Supreme Court refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state in 2025 to block a vote on new congressional maps pushed by Trump had, vacated their office.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Trump's Pentagon quietly shut down the legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military; and, Trump's Pentagon has halted deployments to Poland and Germany to cut troop numbers in Europe to make it easier for Vlad to be Vlad.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome 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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, world leaders set a fatal trap that Trump walked right into while he was in China.Then, on the rest of the menu, Jackson County welcomes Oregon's first floating solar project; a man who livestreams himself saying racially derogatory statements to Black people in public settings was arrested and charged with attempted murder after a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse; and, Todd Blanche accused the DC Bar of acting as a “blatantly partisan arm of leftist causes” for sanctions against Jeff Clark and “Eagle” Ed Martin.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Chinese security officials refused to allow a US Secret Service agent into an historic Beijing temple compound in a tense Trump showdown, because he was carrying a gun; and, an EU commissioner warned of long term jet fuel shortages because of Trump's “little excursion.”All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ka$h Patel committed a federal crime at the televised committee hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, while Melania is slumbering elsewhere, Trump is not alone during his sleepless, social media rage-fueled nights; the DHS inspector general has launched an investigation of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem over the controversial $38 billion program that converted commercial warehouses into immigration detention centers; and, in an overnight ‘power grab,' the Louisiana MAGA voted at 4 AM to nix the next to last Dem seat in the state.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the European Union imposed sanctions on sixteen Russian officials accused of helping Vlad abduct tens of thousands of children from Ukraine; and, Japanese snack packages are turning black-and-white as the Iran war depletes the worldwide ink supply.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, it doesn't matter if the cameras are rolling, Trump always blinks first.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Eugene, Oregon police officer was forced to resign in the wake of his bodycam footage full of racist remarks during the January anti-ICE protests; the Trump administration was hit with a federal lawsuit after diverting $100 Million dollars in taxpayer funds without approval for his 250th anniversary “celebration of America like no other;” and, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Pentagon for refusing to “follow the law” when it comes to briefing members of Congress.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Venezuela's acting president rejected Trump's 51st state demands; and, an Alberta Pro-Trump separatist group illegally seized voter data in the Canadian province the Mad King has targeted as the next 51st state.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, gut the VRA, get Jim Crow 2.0.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump unveiled an ominous midterm plot he wants to use in ‘every single state;' the general counsel for the Oregon State Bar said fabricated cases and citations have become more common among lawyers and people representing themselves; and, a Georgia data center drained 30 million gallons of water unnoticed until residents complained about low water pressure.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Starmer pledges to bring Britain closer to the EU as he faces calls to step down; and, Venezuela warns of ‘serious' environmental impact from an oil spill in Trinidad and Tobago.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, John Roberts is a lying, whiny baby.Then, on the rest of the menu, Sam Alito used deceptive DOJ data to gut voting rights; a federal judge ruled Trump administration's DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional; and, the Trump-appointed FEMA Review Council proposes sweeping changes to federal disaster support.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a UK border official and a former Hong Kong police officer were convicted of spying for China in Britain; and, French prosecutors seek criminal charges against Elon Musk for child sexual abuse images on his social media platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by his artificial intelligence system, Grok.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump ran away from the cameras as his claim he ended the war on Iran was exposed as yet another lie.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's wild ‘Unite the Right' claim collides with legal fact-checks; a former MAGA insider confirmed that rumors of secret GOP payments to MAGA influencers is true; and, a California immigration judge sued the Trump Department of Justice, alleging she was fired because of her political beliefs and fluency in Spanish.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Sweden detained a sanctioned oil tanker linked to Russia's shadow fleet; and, three Australian women returning from Syria have been arrested on suspicion of slavery and terrorism offenses.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA VA investigated VA employees who attended vigils for VA employee Alex Pretti.Then, on the rest of the menu, public schools in Florida will now require teaching a history course that calls slavery a ‘necessary evil;' a promotional video for the FBI posted by Kash Patel used AI to generate clips nearly identical to those in the Beastie Boys' iconic 1994 classic music video “Sabotage;” and, a federal judge is referring a Trump administration lawyer to face an investigation into misconduct charges for withholding key information from her about a case.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Russian punk group Pussy Riot and Ukrainian feminist organization FEMEN protested at the Venice Biennale against the opening of the Russian pavilion; and, Poland's internal security service said Russia is shifting from individual recruits to ‘professional' sabotage cells across Europe.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, MAGA leaders shut down Congress to secretly help Trump personal enrich himself as his war in Iran collapses.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump agency is accused of ‘very stalker-like' targeting of VA employees who mourned Alex Pretti; a federal judge ripped into the Trump administration for putting her safety and that of the American public at risk with a “patently false” public smear about an immigration ruling; and, Neo-Confederate MAGA Sam Alito raged that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's “insulting criticism” over the Louisiana shadow docket rule that ignored Purcell, is uppity.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a former Trump advisor working for Russian propaganda outlet RT to spread Russian propaganda, filed suit from his home in Moscow to have his Biden-era charges dropped as a violation of his first amendment right to spread Russian propaganda to destroy representative democracy; and, Armenia hosts a historic European Union summit as the country charts a course away from Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Iran issued a dire warning after Trump's unhinged, late night social media posts.Then, on the rest of the menu, ultra right-winger Leonard Leo is linked to $50M funneled through a beloved Catholic charity to fund his extreme agenda; the MAGA GOP is bashed after Trump lawyers expose private data; and, a federal judge demands answers as Trump shuts down the beloved 124-year-old East Potomac Golf Links golf course.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Austria expelled three Russian Embassy staff over antenna spying in Vienna; and, European leaders see Trump's petulant troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “in the history of American war quagmires, from Vietnam onwards, no president before Donald Trump has ever been so lost that they did not even know who the enemy was in that war.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Congress approved a short-term extension of the divisive FISA program hours before expiration; Ohio lets counties ban solar, but in Richland, it's now on the ballot; and, Trump's approval rating has fallen so sharply that it has broken the scale of a pollster's graph.After the break, Russia will hold its Victory Day parade without military equipment for the first time in nearly two decades; and, Argentine workers mark May Day with protests over Milei's labor-law overhaul.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, additional shocking red flags surface in the WHCD incident.Then, on the rest of the menu, Janet Mills has bowed out of the Maine senate race; DHS used a clip of an agent defiling Renee Good's memorial in a twisted PR stunt; and, the celebration over SCOTUS handing MAGA a win in the Louisiana gerrymander case is getting way ahead of the math.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a British prosecutor charged three men who were offered payment by a Russian contact to set fire to two houses and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer; and, London police say the stabbing of two Jewish men is an act of terror.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is blowing up at his Generals and Admirals as they leak he is frozen and has no clue what he's doing in Iran.Then, on the rest of the menu, a New Hampshire Republican tried to stack a local Holocaust remembrance board with a Nazi apologist who has been convicted of public lewdness at a children's playground; Washington state says Geo Group refuses to let its health inspectors into their for-profit detention facility; and, a Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the MAGA Department of Justice lawsuit against Arizona seeking access to the state's detailed voter records.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the daughter of the former Uzbek president is on trial in Switzerland over money laundering charges; and, a South Korean appeals court extended the prison sentence on corruption charges for the wife of its ousted president, who was sentenced to life for leading the rebellion.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, Trump's meeting with King Charles is off to a bad start.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Federal appeals court granted agent's unrestricted use of poison gasses on the neighborhoods around the Portland, Oregon ICE building; Trump pursues new import taxes to replace the tariffs the Supreme Court rejected; and, the National Trust says it won't drop its suit against Trump's $400M White House ballroom after a DOJ request following the incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Philippine officials say two Americans are among suspected communist rebels killed in a clash with federal troops; the United Arab Emirates says it will leave OPEC effective May 1.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Vichy Press is instantly exposed after the WHCD shooting.Then, on the rest of the menu, Congress is not on board with Trump's budget that guts local libraries and museums; cheap airlines want a fortune from Trump to stay in the air; and, technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court in a high-stakes showdown over AI.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the German government accused Russia over a series of phishing attacks on Signal targeting high-ranking politicians; and, dozens of international civil and human rights groups issued a “World Cup travel advisory”, warning tournament visitors of “rising authoritarianism and increasing violence” in the United States.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The Dems are going all scorched Earth on Trump and we like it.Then, on the rest of the menu, “ICE Barbie” Kristi Noem is still occupying the waterfront home of the Coast Guard commandant on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in DC; an assault charge for an immigration officer in Colorado could test the overly broad immunity provisions for federal agents; and, a Michigan utility approved a 12-month ban on supplying water for data centers.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the health data of 500,000 volunteers of a UK medical study is being offered for sale online in China; and, Giorgia Meloni's government ruled out Italy replacing Iran at World Cup.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike Johnson is trying to cancel all hearings in order to avoid subpoenas and accountability.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon woman lost her job after she raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE; Kalshi has fined and suspended three political candidates for betting on their races; and, even though Trump Media has pivoted to crypto, financial services and nuclear fusion, its stock keeps falling.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Lufthansa has cut 20,000 flights as Trump's illegal war squeezes worldwide fuel prices and supplies; and, the International Criminal Court confirmed crimes against humanity charges against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte for his deadly, anti-drugs crackdowns.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kash Patel can't even remember basic allegations from his own complaint filed against the Atlantic.Then, on the rest of the menu, the parent company of Truth Social has replaced its chief executive Devin Nunes after years of mounting losses and a stock collapse that erased billions in investor wealth; a lawsuit was filed against the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior for authorizing gold mining operations within Mojave National Preserve, one of the country's largest national park sites; and, the MAGA Nazi Department of Justice has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with illegally infiltrating neo Nazi groups in an effort to shut down their operations.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Wall Street moved cautiously higher in obvious insider, premarket trading just before Trump extended another fragile ceasefire with Iran; and, the gunman who opened fire on tourists at Mexico's iconic Teotihuacan pyramids, carried materials related to the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, Trump had another late night freakout, this time over Obama's leadership of the “vote yes” position in Virginia could lead to Trump's impeachment.Then, on the rest of the menu, the House ethics panel defended its handling of sexual misconduct allegations; the DHS is making smart glasses to spy on migrants and protesters; and, the Southern Poverty Law Center announced it faces a MAGA Justice Department criminal probe over paid informants who infiltrated violent, right wing groups.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Mexico's Sheinbaum demands an explanation after US officials died following a clandestine operation in Chihuahua; and, Taiwan's president postponed a visit to Africa this week when three countries withdrew permission for him to fly over their territories after pressure from China.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” — Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ka$h Patel made some bombshell threats ahead of "imminent arrests" of the Democratic January 6 "conspirators" against Trump. Then, on the rest of the menu, wildfire survivors who lost their homes could face another blow from taxes on settlement payouts; book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs; and, businesses can claim refunds starting today for Trump tariffs that were declared unconstitutional. After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where countries across Central Europe have pulled baby food off the shelves after rat poison was discovered in the product; and, while Trump lashed out at Spain, US Democrats joined world leaders in Barcelona to galvanize forces and defend a rules-based world order. All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam. Bon Appétit!Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it's getting so bad for John Eastman, he can't even expatriate to Hungary, now.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida Sheriff's Office criminalized a 12-year-old rape survivor for “lying” and left her abuser free to assault her again, so she recorded the attack, ten years later, a federal judge has ruled she can sue over it; CBS boss Bari Weiss is handpicking the guest list for the ritzy suck up dinner honoring Trump; and, an informant paid millions to travel the world partying with rogue DEA agents, will avoid jail after not paying taxes on the income.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where EU officials in Hungary discuss unlocking billions of euros held while Orbán was in charge; and, the Philippine president says the key suspect in the massive government corruption scandal has been arrested in Prague.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump knows he's losing the midterms, his war on Iran, and his new war with the pope.Then, on the rest of the menu, police will pay $3.15M for tasing a San Anselmo, California man as he was suffering a grad mal seizure; Clarence Thomas went on an unhinged, televised rant against “intellectuals;” and, California MAGA attorney John Eastman, who aided Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, has lost his license to practice in the state.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where after criticizing the pope, Trump turned his ire on Italy's Meloni over her lack of support for his illegal Iran war; and, Sweden blamed a pro-Russian group for cyberattacks on its energy infrastructure.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a British Parliament Member called Trump ‘a dangerous and corrupt gangster.'Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Oregon ruled that a state law requiring insurance plans to cover abortions and contraception violates the Constitutional rights of the virulent anti abortion group, Oregon Right to Life; the Trump-packed DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Judge Boasberg must end his “intrusive” contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador; and, an Austin district Judge temporarily allows women and minority-owned businesses to qualify for the Texas Historically Underutilized Business program again.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where an 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after rekindling a 1960s romance is being detained at an immigration enforcement center in Louisiana; and, All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” - Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, world leaders are forming new global alliances and banning Trump from joining them. Then, on the rest of the menu, a worker died at Amazon's Troutdale, Oregon warehouse last week, employees were told to look away and keep working; a Georgia Republican running for Congress is facing explosive allegations he forged a Major League Baseball star's signature to lure investors into a land deal and sent a trove of racist and antisemitic text messages; and, one of the largest stakeholders in the Trump family's crypto venture accused the company of bilking investors.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations for US MAGA; and, a Brazilian senator said that the country's former intelligence agency chief has been arrested by ICE in Florida. All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -- Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a lot of people are thirsting for what Hungary is having.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump family deal spree could open the door for future presidents to profit from office; commercial salmon fishing is set to open in California for the first time since 2022 as the population rebounds; and, “diversity, equity and inclusion are not foreign values, they're American values.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Peruvian election results are delayed after thousands get a one-day voting extension; and, Hungary's new prime minister wants to take over as early as May 5.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia ChildBecome 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, hours after getting the keys to the sex jet, Melania went out and put the Epstein Files back in the news.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ordered the Pentagon to rewrite a report that labeled China a 'security threat'; a federal judge ordered the Trump DOJ to fork over the records on the ICE officer who killed Renee Goode; and, the White House was forced to warn staff not to bet on the war hours after suspicious, lucrative trades.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Britain and Norway conducted a weekslong military operation to deter Russian spy submarines near undersea cables in the North Atlantic; and, after JD's endorsement resulted in a double-digit deficit, Hungary's election could end Orbán's journey from liberal firebrand to far-right leader and Putin suck up.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious world leaders are ghosting Trump and want nothing to do with him as his fraudulent ceasefire quickly unravels.Then, on the rest of the menu, immigration arrests in the Northwest have dropped significantly, but people without criminal records are still vulnerable; Keystone Ka$h and Whiskey Pete are gloating over the arrest of a US Army veteran who exposed drug trafficking, corruption and murder in the elite Delta Force; and, the Trump Era of political violence means higher costs for candidate security.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where North Korea says its latest weapons tests included missiles with cluster-bomb warheads; and, Australia moves to shore up fuel supplies as it prepares for extended disruptions caused by Trump's imperialist war.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, did JD Vance betray Trump with his own 25th Amendment plan?Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE is forcing the newlywed wife of a US soldier they apprehended on base, to wear an ankle bracelet on her release; the board of Wisconsin's public university system voted to fire President Jay O Rothman for capitulating to MAGA; and, a US judge ruled a customs officer cancelling the visa of a Harvard scholar charged with frog embryo smuggling, was arbitrary and capricious.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Donnie Junior criticized the European Union during a visit to boost Bosnia's extreme right wing separatist movement; and, Australia's most decorated living veteran will remain behind bars on Afghan war crime charges.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” - Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, Trump was sundowning while divulging secret military operations at last night's press conference alongside his partners in war crimes.Then, on the rest of the menu, without Elon Musk skipping around in a foam cheesehead hat, Wisconsin's Supreme Court race goes quiet; the MAGA Supreme Court pulled a Roland Freisler by clearing the way to dismiss Steve Bannon's Jan 6 contempt of congress conviction; and, Trump threatened to jail journalists who first reported that a second US airman was missing after Iran shot down a fighter jet last week.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles-rubella vaccinations to contain an outbreak that has killed more than 100 children in less than a month; and, the UN is set to vote on a resolution to open the Strait of Hormuz that has been watered down by Russia and China.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -- Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Vichy Press revels in sane washing Easter Sunday F Bombs and Blasphemy for fun and profit.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions are not considering race in admissions; the DOJ lied to a judge about how it's using voter roll data; and, the congregants of the tiny Methodist church on the cover of JD Vance's new book say they don't know him.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where European ministers call for profit caps on energy companies as the Iran war drives a massive price surge; and, outspoken Iranians overseas say their loved ones are being detained back home.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia ChildBecome 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's top aides are finally confessing to him that the United States is losing the war and the economy is taking a massive hit as a result of his catastrophic invasion.Then, on the rest of the menu, a racist MAGA hopeful for Florida governor is threatened with the 'wrath of the court' as he's ordered to fork over financial documents; Hegseth wants more mass killings of US soldiers on US military bases by disgruntled US military recruits; and, Amazon is slapping a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge on third-party sellers because of Trump's illegal war driving up costs.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Moscow court sentenced a German artist in abstentia to over eight years in a Siberian gulag for his Düsseldorf Carnival parade floats mocking Putin; and, Sweden's Coast Guard boarded a sanctioned “Shadow Fleet” tanker suspected of causing a Baltic oil spill after leaving the Russian port of Primorsk.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump failed to explain his “little journey to Iran.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the death of the nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, whose body was found on a Buffalo street five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop during a blizzard, has been ruled a homicide; Amazon will pay a $20.5 million settlement over northeast Oregon groundwater nitrate pollution; and RFK, Jr ordered his CDC to Make America Healthy Again by halting its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox, Epstein-Barr virus, the varicella zoster virus behind chickenpox and shingles, and over two dozen other infectious diseases.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the UK accepted Trump's surrender and gathers more than forty countries to plot ways of reopening the Strait of Hormuz; and, a Danish warship sunk by Nelson's British fleet has been discovered after 225 years.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is in a full-blown panic as his war in Iran continues to escalate despite his attempt to leave and falsely pretend the war was won.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump plans to move the Forest Service headquarters from DC to Utah and shutter research sites in thirty-one states; an appeals court panel suspended the federal court order for Voice of America employees to return to work; and, the National Football League dared the Florida MAGA attorney general to sue the league over its diversity hiring policy.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Danish intelligence services accused members of Trump's inner circle of running a “covert” operation in Greenland; and, thieves brazenly stole paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from a private museum in Italy.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” - Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, Trump is preparing to leave Iran with Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz and the United States facing the most humiliating military defeat in the US history.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety uncovered rare KKK artifacts in one of its offices; a Democratic electrician with no Nazi tattoos nabbed a state senate seat in MAGA Red Florida; and, the MAGA California sheriff running for governor and who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots, has paused the probe into election fraud allegations, citing mounting legal challenges.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Russia expelled a British diplomat over spying allegations; and, international observers at a local election in European Union candidate Serbia, said they witnessed violence and irregularities during the vote.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -- Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's blockade against Cuba collapsed after he permitted Putin to send a Russian oil tanker to Havana.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump issued another crazed early Monday morning war threat designed to juice the markets, again; Trump melted down at “dumb judges” ahead of Supreme Court arguments on the MAGA birthright citizenship policy critics have branded as outright racism; and, Trump is such a master businessman and military planner, the rising price of war oil is making at least one nation rich, and they speak Farsi.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war; and, French authorities are investigating after thwarting an Iranian bomb attack outside a Bank of America in Paris over the weekend.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia ChildBecome 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Iranian regime saw a wartime president fixated on cognitive tests, presidential pens and Sharpies, while nodding off during a Cabinet meeting about the war.Then, on the rest of the menu, “all white men all the time”-Pete Hegseth pulled some racism and misogyny out of his Christo-Fascist pocket and ordered two Black and two women officers removed from the one-star promotion list; the MAGA sheriff running for California governor ignored the state's Attorney General and illegally seized even more ballots from the 2025 special election; and, nine more people have been sickened by raw milk from a MAGA raw milk dairy, and the MAGA FDA refuses to recall the product.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the UK banned crypto donations to political parties in a bid to curb foreign influence; and, a Gulf of Mexico oil spill that you don't know about, has spread hundreds of miles, killed wildlife and polluted Mexican reserves.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's DOJ smear tactic backfired and revealed Smith caught Trump red-handed selling top secrets out of Mar a Lago.Then, on the rest of the menu, Plantation Coach Tommy Tuberville was sued as the heated Alabama governor race gets ugly; Balls and Strikes Chief Justice John Roberts is cracking down on the Court's three liberal justices for not letting the men speak enough; and, Whiskey Pete loves his enemies to death so much, he hosted the first Pentagon Christian worship service since the Iran war began and prayed for “overwhelming violence.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Europeans vowed to get tougher on Russia's shadow fleet as a Euro sea drone hit one of its oil tankers approaching the Black Sea entrance to the Bosporus Strait; and, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum defied Trump and said Mexico will continue to have Cuban doctors work in the country at a time when other nations across the Americas have ditched their agreements under intense MAGA pressure.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after the fall of princes, prime ministers and captains of industry, the UK government has demanded the full un-redacted Epstein files from Pam Bondi.Then, on the rest of the menu, three weeks after Trump fired her, ICE Barbie Noem has a new boss and she is not going to like it; a federal prosecutor privately conceded under questioning by a skeptical judge that the Justice Department's investigation of a $2.5 billion renovation project at the Federal Reserve didn't find any evidence of a crime; and, the FDA flagged misleading claims for a cancer drug by biotech billionaire and Los Angeles Times owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” - Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, Trump described his “imagined negotiations with Iran” to reporters with “the goofy insecurity of the man who knows he stands accused of always chickening out.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas MAGA have moved to ensure that a Democratic lawmaker elected in a shock special election upset earlier this year will effectively have no power; after raging that voting by mail is cheating, Trump voted by mail at Mar a Lago for a Florida special election; and, the Securities and Exchange Commission's top enforcement official, who left abruptly last week, clashed with agency leaders over investigating Trump and his family for market manipulation and insider trading.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Orbán's top opponent says Hungary's Russian backchannel ‘treason' will be investigated; and, Italian voters rejected judicial reform in a major setback for Premier Giorgia Meloni ahead of next year's national elections.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -- Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, two Florida public universities, two Republican student organizations, two racism and antisemitism scandals in the same month.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's EPA is paving the way for the return of smog to national parks; an Oath Keeper MAGA sheriff running for California Governor seized 650,000 Riverside County ballots from the recent redistricting election; and, it's not just vaccines, MAGA parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Prime Minister Tusk says Poland has long suspected Orban's Hungary shared EU Council details with Russia; and, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Prague against the new government of Czech prime minister and Putin-puppet Babiš.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia ChildBecome 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious Vets unloaded on Trump over his scheme to profit off the bodies of fallen troops.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration has launched investigations into thirteen states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion; two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the EPA over the repeal of the ‘endangerment' finding central to the climate fight; and, two former FBI agents are suing bureau director Ka$h Patel and AG Pam Bondi, claiming they were fired for having investigated Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the French navy intercepted and boarded a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea linked to Russia's sanctioned shadow fleet; and, Israel blasted Tehran with airstrikes on the Persian New Year Nowruz, as the war jolts worldwide energy markets.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge blocked RFK Jr's anti-vax policies, allowing children and babies to go without Hepatitis, meningitis, COVID19, influenza, and Rotavirus vaccines based on the policy set by a band of anti-vaxxers RFK Jr. brought in.Then, on the rest of the menu, national parks employees say SFGATE/SFChronicle has been blacklisted by the Interior Department; Pam Bondi defied the courts and gave an ousted interim US attorney a new title to allow him to keep his job in Wisconsin; and, rapper Afroman won his lawsuit against police over mocking their 2022 raid in viral music videos using home security video showing the deputies thirsting over his lemon pound cake.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where two men appeared in a London court accused of carrying out “hostile” surveillance of the UK's Jewish community on behalf of Iran; and, the MAGA State Department says it is adding twelve countries to an expanding list of nations whose citizens must post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply for US visas.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the “Coalition of the Unwilling” is expanding because the ‘Psychopath in Chief' just won't shut up.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge struck down the Arkansas law mandating schools display the Ten Commandments; Sam Alito was shamed as an 'absolute embarrassment' for not recusing from a case involving his close billionaire pal; and, the Canadian billionaire just given $314 million of taxpayers' money to build and operate a new ICE mega-jail, was accused of making death threats against his employees and their families.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a military live fire demonstration for Vance and Hegseth meant to intimidate California during the ICE invasion there, did rain shrapnel onto Interstate-5 from a premature artillery shell explosion; and, former Germany coach Joachim Löw said Canada is secure, but raised concerns about safety at the World Cup being played in the United States and Mexico.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” - Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is fundraising off the deaths of fallen troops.Then, on the rest of the menu, California launched a probe after video showed petition gatherers offering money for signatures for tech backed ballot measures; the Energy Secretary ordered a Texas firm facing criminal charges for the worst oil spill off the California coast, to restore oil drilling at the same site; and, an offshore wind project targeted by the Trump administration has begun sending power to New England's electric grid.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Brazil revoked the visa of a US diplomat who sought to visit Bolsonaro in prison; and, a bomb blast at a Jewish School in Amsterdam was the second antisemitic attack in two days.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia ChildBecome 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had a 12:30am meltdown as the nightmare of war scares the living shi* out of him.Then, on the rest of the menu, Live Nation employees pulled an Enron by mocking customers as ‘so stupid' in internal messages released in the multi-state antitrust court case; the Trump administration sued California over the state's nation-leading vehicle-emission rules; and, Montana halted permitting on all weekend rallies at the Capitol in a brazen move to thwart the massive upcoming ‘No Kings' event.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Dutch police are investigating an arson attack after a fire broke out at a Rotterdam synagogue; and, an Australian jury convicted a Sydney business consultant over deals with Chinese spies.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is furious Republicans are killing his election-grabbing scheme.Then, on the rest of the menu, YouTube banned Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings' podcast after the AI monitor flagged his debunking of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was hate speech; the Social Security Administration's internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower complaint into the misuse of data by an ex-DOGE employee; and, a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education institutions to collect data showing they are following the government's racist orders to be racist as MAGA is.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where South Africa summoned new ambassador Brent Bozell to explain his demand the nation reverse its anti-Apartheid laws; and, white South African “refugees” are returning home rather than live in Trump's racist police state.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become 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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alina Habba is mean and stupid, so of course MAGA will go to the mats for her.Then, on the rest of the menu, judges across the nation are losing it over ICE's brazen and 'unremorseful' defiance of court orders; Energy Secretary Chris Wright's ”accidental” post about Navy tanker escorts in the Strait of Hormuz cost petroleum traders $84 million in mere minutes; and, the Democratic candidate came out on top in the race for Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat in a shocking election twist.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Tokyo and Berlin said they planned to release oil from their strategic reserves to address supply disruptions from Trump's Middle East war; and, Italy stunned the US, beating the Dream Team 8-6 in the World Baseball Classic.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” - Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)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, the War Criminal in Chief is learning war increases gas prices.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Oregon limited federal officers' use of tear gas at Portland ICE building protests; a federal jury awarded $667,000 in damages to a group of Muslim men in Missouri who were pepper-sprayed by state correctional officers while praying; and, the Pentagon was busted for purchasing over $2 million dollars on Alaskan King Crab, a $98 thousand dollar Steinway piano and over $6 billion dollars from foreign governments in its record-breaking spending binge.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Japan is preparing to deploy its first batch of domestically developed long-range missiles; and, Australia granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women's soccer team after Trump thrust the world into war.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep 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 the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” -- Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"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, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is refusing to acknowledge the rising death toll of US troops in his Iran war or the severity he has done to the United States economy and to the economies of countries across the world.Then, on the rest of the menu, Ford has recalled 1.74 million of its cars over rearview display issues; a second NTSB member was fired without explanation by the Trump administration; and, California US Rep Darrell Issa retiring raises the stakes for the GOP holding House control.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Trump said to fuhgeddaboudit it when asked whether Russia was sharing intel with Iran to kill US soldiers; and, European countries are on high alert after bomb blasts near a Belgian synagogue and outside the US Embassy in Oslo over the weekend.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.