West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike Johnson shut down the House of Representatives for two weeks as nineteen MAGA Members revolted.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge smacked MAGA Jeanine Pirro with a second beat down over one of Trump's vindictive criminal cases; a MAGA DOJ agency claims it has no records of Trump's shady IRS settlement; and, an Arizona MAGA county attorney, who endorsed Trump for president, begged the court to stop Stephen Miller's group from an election ‘power grab.'After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where in a gift for Vlad, Trump wants to pull a third of the fighter jets and war ships the US provides to NATO; and, Italian prosecutors are investigating charges foreign workers were paid less than two dollars an hour by an Alabama construction firm to build a new US Consulate in Milan.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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!   Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Biden was the cause of all the inflation, why does Trump suddenly “love the inflation?”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pentagon's deputy secretary of defense worked closely with the CIA agent found with $40 million worth of gold bars; the Southern Baptist Convention moved to strengthen its prohibition on women as preachers; and, one day after filling Trump's dark blue reflecting pool, large swaths of algae blooms appeared along the water's edge, just as they were warned.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the MAGA administration ordered two women who fled execution in Iran be deported to a Central African country; and, Haiti is still being punished for its 1803 slave revolt, so FIFA ordered their national flag and a badge honoring the Battle of Vertières removed from their jerseys before their World Cup matches begin.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 likely waiving his immunity by traps he set for himself in cases he filed.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's $10 Billion dollar BBC lawsuit is about to backfire spectacularly; mismanagement at a massive ICE facility in Texas contributed to detainee deaths even as millions of wasted tax dollars enriched contractors; and, police are investigating a large burning cross at a Chicago park.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where after the troubled lead-in to the World Cup, the UN human rights chief urges a ‘rethink' of US immigration policy; and, adding more turmoil to a chaotic World Cup buildup for Iran, FIFA is accused of revoking the ticket allocation for fans at the team's three group-stage games 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!“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 Arizona attorney general is filing criminal charges against Trump's lawyers over his 2020 election fraud scheme.Then, on the rest of the menu, plantation coach and Alabama governor candidate Tommy Tuberville has threatened to sue a publication after it revealed details of his tax returns, which he had sent to them by mistake; the Trump Justice Department will not seek the death penalty for the man who assassinated Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman; and, a high-risk pregnancy doctor is suing Idaho, saying the state's abortion ban is unconstitutional.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a crackdown by Afghan authorities on a protest against the arrest and detention of more than a dozen women over dress code violations, left at least three people injured; and, China's exports jumped almost twenty percent in May from a year earlier, boosted by demand for tariff-free autos and tech goods.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 New York Knicks watch party outside Madison Square Garden has been cancelled for Trump's staged assassination attempt, but you can watch it at home.Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA DOJ has quietly wiped out election security safeguards in a ‘scary' move to steal elections; the CIA employee who was caught with $40 million of gold bars in his house had created a secret intelligence program to funnel millions of dollars from the federal government to himself; and, Trump has been ordered to remove his name from the Kennedy Center and abandon plans to close it for two years, but critics are concerned he may try to sabotage the iconic arts institution in retaliation.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Armenians voted in a general election Sunday under Russian pressure aimed at preventing a drift toward the West; and, Iran's World Cup players, banned from staying in the US while competing in the World Cup, arrived in Mexico wearing pins honoring the school girls and teachers blown to bits on the first day of Trump's 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!“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 California election denialism makes as much sense as his claim of a giant California water valve.Then, on the rest of the menu, a New Jersey police sergeant was charged with stealing a journalist's camera bag at the Delaney Hall protests; secret donors pumped millions of dollars into the MAGA groups behind the gutting of Black voting rights; and, no bank in the United States is willing to lend money to the Trump family, so how did a startup in North Carolina, financially backed by Junior, obtain a $620 million loan from the Department of Defense and a $50 million investment from the Department of Commerce?After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Russia is flooding Armenia with disinformation ahead of the EU-leaning nation's parliamentary election; and, the brutal killing of a 14-year-old girl gives new energy to Argentina's massive femicide protests.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, Senator Van Hollen trapped Markwayne Mullin into agreeing to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, exactly what Trump does not want his DOJ to do.Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly sixty people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks; Texas braces for a ‘full-blown disaster' as flesh-eating ‘flying piranha' arrives, after DOGE cut the monitoring program last year for being ‘woke;' and,Todd Blanche's DOJ rewrote its Southern Poverty Law Center indictment to fix a problem, and exposed an even bigger one.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a British lawmaker is suing Elon Musk for invasion of privacy after fake Grok bikini images of her were posted online; and, acclaimed Iranian-French artist, graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights, has died at age fifty-six.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, corrupt Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche crumbled under cross-examination at yesterday's House hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's budget would eliminate the agency investigating the Longview, Washington paper mill chemical disaster that killed nine workers; the artist whose mural in Dallas of whales was painted over last month ahead of the World Cup, filed a lawsuit against FIFA that seeks $25 million in damages; and, the Justice Department's number three official briefly admitted on social media that the agency was moving to revive the controversial “slush fund” to compensate January 6 defendants, then deleted the post today.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a performance artist sought to display a thin red thread in downtown Hong Kong to remember the victims of Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, but he was quickly stopped by police; and, fear shadows Peru's runoff vote as extortion and killings surge nationwide.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, Kash Patel's girlfriend filed an “insane” defamation suit against two MSNOW reporters.Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA world revolts as Trump's ex-national security adviser Mike Flynn is exposed as an agent for a close Putin ally; DUI hire Hegseth is breaking Pentagon rules and lying about purging women and Black soldiers from the military; and, the Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago because it monitors the climate.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where protests exploded after Jared Kushner's luxury coastal resort project in Albania came under investigation by the country's anti-corruption prosecutors; and, Mette Frederiksen starts her third term as Danish prime minister thanks to her firm position on Greenland.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 Supreme Court and the Treasury Department are both working overtime to cover up for the fact that Justice Sam Alito's lawyer son is secretly working as a senior attorney in the Treasury Department.Then, on the rest of the menu, America's most powerful TV networks have been handing out coveted congressional press credentials to people Congress has strictly barred from eligibility; Trump ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every American child by half; and, Trump branded the federal judge who blocked his renovation of the Kennedy Center as “an anti Trump Hater” and predicted that the nation's premier performing arts center will “soon be closed, probably never to open again.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Iran war has forced farmers to seek organic alternatives away from chemical fertilizers; and, South Africa's mostly Black World Cup squad will leave for the tournament today after problems with US travel visas delayed their departure.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 refiled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal and wants Ghislaine Maxwell to help cover up his dark past.Then, on the rest of the menu, Memphis residents are the latest to sue over MAGA federal agents' arrest tactics; California sued genetic testing company 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect user data in a 2023 breach; and, local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the MAGA Federal Communications Commission for launching an “unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional” early review of their broadcast licenses.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a criminal court in Thailand acquitted the popular leader of a progressive political movement on charges of defaming the king; and, a Greek national appears in a British court today on charges that he helped the Iranian intelligence service target a journalist working in London.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 ordered Trump to immediately turn over government documents about his plan to intimidate voters with ICE and other armed federal agents in Blue States.Then, on the rest of the menu, Samuel Alito is hit by a new scandal as his son is found secretly working for Trump's Treasury; a MAGA federal judge declined to halt Trump's executive order creating a federal voter list and limiting mail-in voting; and, Musk's SpaceX Starship launches are grounded pending an investigation into last week's test flight where a first stage booster crashed and narrowly missed several ranch houses in the Texas farmland.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where reversing the decision by the previous administration of Orban, Hungary's parliament voted to remain a member of the International Criminal Court; and, with no help from the United States, aid supplies have finally reached the heart of Congo's Ebola outbreak.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 Nazi and Klan-hunting Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks dismissal of the ‘vindictive' MAGA Justice Department indictment.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal three-judge panel in Alabama told the MAGA SCOTUS to ‘do your dirty work yourself;' the Trump administration wants federal workers to sign NDAs because running government like a business is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship; and, billionaire Tom Steyer's record-breaking California governor's race ad spending hopes to get Californians to forget who Tom Steyer is.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Roman Catholic Philippine bishop and an ex-ICC judge lead a new inquiry into thousands of Duterte-era killings; and, the director of the British communications intelligence agency, warned that Moscow is “relentlessly targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust” in Britain and 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, Trump delivered a disaster of a Memorial Day speech in Arlington, Virginia, where he disrespected fallen troops, made jokes and stumbled over his words.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump demanded action on Iran's “nuclear dust” from an agency that ceased to exist more than 50 years ago; the MAGA federal government is moving ahead with plans to spray the controversial herbicide glyphosate on thousands of acres in the Lake Tahoe Basin; and, a homesteading Montana mother of six is taking on Big Tech.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she has “no issue” with her country hosting Iran's World Cup team after its training base was moved from the United States to Mexico; and, the head of an inquiry into antisemitism in Australia issued a condemnation after Jewish witnesses who appeared before it are facing online harassment and bigotry.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 federal judge dismissed the charges against the “Broadview 6” protestors in Chicago after discovering perverse DOJ misconduct, leading her to signal that she will sanction the office and refer the lawyers for bar discipline.Then, on the rest of the menu, a key government agency is dismantling efforts to regulate online betting markets and crypto while Trump and his family make big bucks from the booming industries; Trump's MAGA Justice Department scrubbed its website of news releases about his January 6 goons; and, after evacuating over 50,000 people, Southern California officials scramble to prevent a massive chemical tank explosion that could endanger a few million folks in the neighborhood.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Lithuania suspects Russian involvement in a data leak of over 600,000 national register entries; and, Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries.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, Republicans called Trump's almost $8 billion dollar slush fund a “Payout Pot for Punks,” then they shut down the Senate.Then, on the rest of the menu, one of the San Diego mosque shooter's obsession with mass killings and Nazism so alarmed authorities in 2025, police confiscated dozens of his father's guns; a rat invasion in Boise is testing the limit of Idaho's small government rules; and, reality show villain Spencer Pratt's Los Angeles mayoral merch may be ‘straight-up' trademark infringement.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where NATO allies are bewildered by Trump's announcement that he would send 5,000 US troops to Poland, just weeks after he ordered 5,000 US troops pulled out of Poland; and, after the Supreme Court chief justice called them “cockroaches,” millions of Indian youth are flocking to the Cockroach political party.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, rogue Republicans, along with lame duck legislators who ran afoul of Trump and lost primaries because of him, now have the rest of their term to exact payback as members of the “Yolo Caucus.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a former Department of Justice prosecutor faces twenty-five years in a MAGA prison for emailing Jack Smith's Vol II report to herself; after shooting a Black man multiple times, some see a white livestreamer's freedom of speech claims as cover for race-baiting; and, a lawsuit charges an Arkansas real estate development group rejected a woman's land purchase due to her Jewish ancestry, Black husband and biracial children.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where an Australian judge fined Musk's social media platform $465,000 for online safety breaches after a 3-year court battle; and, Taiwan's president says he'd tell Trump he hopes to continue arms purchases from the US, if given a chance.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.

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 Player​Keep 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 Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that 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 Player​Keep 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 Player​Keep 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 Player​Keep 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 Player​Keep 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 Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that 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 Player​Keep 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 Player​Keep 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 Player​Keep 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.