West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Eric Schmitt's VP buzz turned to a whimper, because that's the way the ball bounces.Then, on the rest of the menu, Hegseth is set to announce more cuts to the military's general and admiral ranks in his never-ending “end the woke” campaign;” Hegseth ordered the Defense Department to no longer appoint civilians as tenured college faculty at the United States' military service academies; and, after Trump gutted the civilian agency specifically created to safeguard election infrastructure, Hegseth announced national security, military and cyber forces will now guard US election systems during the midterms from the wrong influences voting.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Hungarian court reduced the sentence for a German anti-fascist convicted of punching Nazis in Budapest; and, the British government told UK universities to stop working with a Chinese research institute that Britain's security service says is a front for espionage.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, Judge Sullivan entered a late night order denying Todd Blanche's motion to stay his order that they immediately produce this week, all foreign language documents contained in the Epstein Files.Then on the rest of the menu, Trump wants Project 2025 author Russel Vought to cut cancer research grants that don't fit the MAGA agenda; secret donors paid millions to a Clarence Thomas-linked law firm with cases before the Supreme Court; and, a hardline Texas Republican has been hit with a police report over a series of deepfaked campaign ads.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where calls for UK's air traffic control chief to resign increased after the second software glitch in two weeks cancelled flights and disrupted travel worldwide; and, Trump gave a firm with ties to his ballroom bunker donor the green light to do business with a sanctioned Russian bank.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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 prosecutor charged with misconduct in the failed Broadview Six case, accused Chicago US Attorney Andrew Boutros of making her the scapegoat for a felony prosecution she says he personally directed over her objection.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Moms for Liberty MAGA candidate running on “election integrity” for a California elections office, has been convicted on nine counts of election fraud; Utah state officials say school district book ban decisions are now considered just ‘routine' business, so no public discussion is necessary; and, Ka$h Patel was caught partying with a Russian mixed martial arts manager who the Obama DOJ deported for being a double agent.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where five men were arrested near a UK air base used by the US in the Iran war, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act; and, a German town southeast of Dresden sparked outrage as neo-Nazis and Merz conservatives rallied against displaying Holocaust memorial plaques for being, “woke.”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, if the FBI coverup of Trump selling pardons has been blown wide open, will it make a sound in the forest of all the Mad King's other crimes?Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal lawsuit accuses one of the country's largest AI-powered hiring platforms of rank racism; younger voters and voters of color in Washington state see their ballots challenged for signature issues more often than their older and white counterparts; and, more than eighty-three tons of meat bearing false USDA inspection labels have been recalled nationwide.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the NATO chief called for calm as Denmark's intel agency warned that Russia is ramping up its hybrid attacks; and, Australia is opening an investigation of Sam Altman's OpenAI hack of the nation's health department website.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 woke up to a cascade of bad news with Chinese President Xi Jinping in town.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is still refusing to restore press access to CNN, Politico and MS NOW, hours after being ordered by a judge to do so; an investigation is demanded over how tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications, some dating back more than a year, were “mistakenly” not processed; and, a judge dismissed Trump's lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and its former pollster, rejecting the Mad King's claim that the newspaper's poll coverage violated Iowa's consumer fraud law.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a former Canadian chef is set to be sentenced for selling products that facilitated hundreds of suicides worldwide; and, Jamaica celebrated that its reparations case against Britain has been referred to the final appeals court.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 announced he will annihilate the world with ‘Super Intelligence.'Then, on the rest of the menu, Brendan Carr spent over a decade as a member of a sex cult but he says he never inhaled; for the first time in its history, the Secret Service will outsource its polygraph screenings; and, the MAGA FBI has sent an internal memo to ICE warning of “fake tradwife dating profiles” to lure agents and expose their extrajudicial crimes.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Trump signed an agreement with Denmark and Greenland to bolster Arctic and North Atlantic security, paving the way for more US bases in Greenland and easing tensions over his repeated calls for the vast island to become part of the United States; and, Trump said ‘Commie Dumocrats' are the greatest threat the US has ever faced, as he rolls out the red carpet and lavishes praise on the Red China Commie leader visiting in the Oval Office.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, Judge Sullivan entered a late night order denying Todd Blanche's motion to stay his order that they immediately produce this week, all foreign language documents contained in the Epstein Files.Then on the rest of the menu, Trump wants Project 2025 author Russel Vought to cut cancer research grants that don't fit the MAGA agenda; secret donors paid millions to a Clarence Thomas-linked law firm with cases before the Supreme Court; and, a hardline Texas Republican has been hit with a police report over a series of deepfaked campaign ads.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where calls for UK's air traffic control chief to resign increased after the second software glitch in two weeks cancelled flights and disrupted travel worldwide; and, Trump gave a firm with ties to his ballroom bunker donor the green light to do business with a sanctioned Russian bank.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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 Holiday Special, Yom Kippur River City Hash Monday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, CNN, MS NOW, and Politico filed a critical First Amendment lawsuit to restore their access.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Millers fear legal reprisals if Trump loses the Chancellory; and the White House Press Pool is boycotting the White House over Trump's press ban.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, airlines are cutting flights, companies are cutting deliveries and oil companies are cutting refineries, because Trump has run out of diesel.Then, on the rest of the menu, University of Texas-Austin is cutting majors centering on Latino, Black, women and gender studies; Milwaukee police swatted an innocent couple fifty-five times in a single year, only stopping after they filed a $575,000 dollar lawsuit; and, Whiskey Pete and his wife's massive European troop withdrawal plan sparks an immediate backlash.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Hague convicted Kosovo's former President Thaci of war crimes committed during the 1998-99 Serbian war, sentencing him to twenty-five years; and, Malaysia's king has allowed former leader Najib to serve the rest of his graft sentence under house arrest.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 demanded 'emergency' answers as a forklift purposely rammed the Kennedy Center repeatedly after Trump's threat to demo it.Then, on the rest of the menu, David Ellison is moving one of the most storied studios in the history of Hollywood out of California because he is a pissy little beotch; a retired, decorated four-star general questioned airman “Bravo's” account of his risky recovery operation featured in the latest 60 Minutes installment; and, the Park Service quietly awarded contracts in the dead of night to work on Trump's takeover of the long beloved East Potomac public golf course.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where UN human rights experts accused the US of war crimes in Iran; and, heavy rain and floods in northern Vietnam have submerged thousands of homes, blocked key transportation routes and severely disrupted the economy.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, at an oversight hearing where even the GOP chair had to gavel the director to STFU, arrogant Ka$h Patel petulantly battled critical reports about his own conduct running the FBI, mass resignations and firings at the bureau, and the easing of the agency's strict hiring requirements allowing sexy beast abusers, drunk wife beaters and department store check kiters to compensate for those losses.Then, on the rest of the menu, Hegseth's misogynistic attempts to revise fitness standards to purge women from the military seems to have backfired; online critics accused Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick of posting a fake video of the Kennedy Center ceiling collapsing, with one damning detail; and, a State Department official said he would look into campus events where university students mocked Charlie Kirk.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Donald Trump Jr is being investigated over national security and corruption violations after it was revealed that his lavish Bahamas wedding celebration was funded by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin; and, Trump is stripping tens of millions of dollars in US military assistance from countries in Europe and the Middle East, to support conservative-leaning governments in Central and South America.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, former Air Forces Central commander Lt General Derek France went public with major warnings about US military preparedness, with just over six months into the Iran war.Then on the rest of the menu, MAGA Bari Weiss' calls to Hegseth's wife to secure the propaganda interview on 60 Minutes has been revealed; no word from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy about the English skills of the two MAGA Oakland, California cops facing federal charges after conspiring with a federal aviation official to fake their helicopter pilot certifications; and, a federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked Trump's attempt to impose a four-year limit on student visas, calling the justification for the new rule, “absurd.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Brazilian Supreme Court justice unsealed an investigation into a biopic about former President Bolsonaro, citing the film's funding by a wide-ranging criminal network; and, thick wildfire smoke is disrupting flights on Indonesia's Borneo island.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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 was blindsided by his own judge in a 12:30am ruling blocking his mail-in ballot scheme.Then, on the rest of the menu, Ted Cruz mercilessly booed by college football fans on a live ESPN interview, has ignited a firestorm inside the network; while retail investors have lost over a billion bucks, four anonymous accounts that perfectly correspond with the Trump Family holdings, have taken the first step to enable offloading their own crypto worth several billions of dollars; and, major retailer Costco has begun rationing purchases of its branded motor oil because of shortages caused by Trump's illegal war.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where in the lead up to the national elections, Turkish authorities launched a massive crackdown on LGBTQ+ and HIV support groups to “protect children, the institution of the family, and public order;” and, Jared promised a win win they couldn't refuse, so when it looked like they might, former CIA Director David Petraeus and scores of European leaders and security advisers from several EU member states on diplomatic trains leaving the Yahodyn railway station near the Ukraine-Poland border, was attacked by Russian drones on Sunday, coincidence?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 angrily lunged at another Black woman reporter for asking a basic question.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration accused the UC Berkeley Law School of discriminating against white and Asian students by illegally admitting Black and Hispanic applicants; an innocent county 4-H extension agent picking up piglets for a children's 4-H show, was violently held at gunpoint by cops after a Flock camera confused his forty foot aluminum livestock trailer with a white compact sedan; and, Oregon lawmakers agreed to spend an additional $1.25 million to increase the number of ballot drop boxes across the state in response to Trump's war on voting.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Switzerland has published a 200-page dossier on Nazi war criminal Josef “Angel of Death” Mengele; and, Emma Bonino, a leader of campaigns that legalized abortion and divorce in the 1970s in heavily Roman Catholic Italy, against the objections of the Vatican, has died at age 78.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, Putin gave an “explosive” answer to Jared's “win-win.”Then, on the rest of the menu, after twenty years interviewing political candidates and even Trump himself with no problem, the Mad King had his FCC goon threaten ABC to censor Kimmel's interview tonight with Talarico, so now it will only be posted on YouTube; Trump's capricious federal rangelands rules overhaul will cut out western state residents from public input; and, the Trump administration has quietly removed a key option for overseas citizen and military voters to register and request mail ballots.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where British police expanded their investigation into Nigel Farage's ReformUK party, after an undercover sting caught party officials arranging secret contributions from a foreign donor; and, a British man was charged with aiding Russian spies to sabotage a UK drone factory.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, in a clear sign Trump's war is winding down just as he claims, Iran attacked ten US war ships in the Strait of Hormuz and a US military base in Jordan, in retaliation after the US struck five Iranian civilian oil tankers.Then, on the rest of the menu, hidden dangers have been exposed in Musk's ‘slick' new MAGA voting site that's been dubbed a ‘surveillance machine;' competing court orders have added to voter confusion, eight weeks from the Missouri congressional elections;” and, ballots rejected for late postmarks surged in the Washington and Oregon primaries because of the recent MAGA Postal Service changes, just as it was designed to do.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the European Union's highest court ruled the Neo-Nazi curious Belgian far-right party cannot use IKEA trademarks for its anti-immigration campaign; and, measles cases have killed over a thousand children as Bangladesh struggles to contain the 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!“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 has sugar plum dreams of conquering Canada, but Canada refuses to blink.Then on the rest of the menu, claiming their pro-slavery monument represented a “renewed sense of national unity,” the neo-Confederate MAGA government erased language criticizing slavery and the Confederacy from a memorial sign at Arlington National Cemetery; after expecting a multi-year effort, scientists report screwworm cases have mysteriously dropped to zero because the MAGA USDA has cooked the books; and, the Party is over for a group of crypto scammers who went on a spending spree after a $240 million bitcoin theft.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Belgian authorities arrested a dual national over semiconductor espionage for China; and, Alternative for Germany party leader Alice Weidel is not only the granddaughter of a famous Nazi SS officer, she becomes the first leader in the world who is anti-immigration but has an immigrant wife, is anti-LGBTQ+ but is a lesbian herself, opposes LGBT adoption but has adopted two children, and is a hardcore German nationalist but lives in Switzerland.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player“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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Pardon Lawyer” Liz Oyer just filed a wrongful discharge suit against the DOJ to get her job back as the chief pardon attorney.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri Supreme Court blocked a Trump-backed US House map and ordered it to be put to a vote; North Carolina mailed its first ballots for the midterm election, as Trump escalates efforts to restrict the practice; and, US diesel prices hit a record high, adding to the political challenges MAGA faces heading into the midterms.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the UN watchdog reported Syria was constructing a nuclear reactor in Deir el-Zour under the leadership of ousted former President Assad; and, a Philippine court ordered the arrest of Vice President Sara Duterte over charges that she publicly threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and two other people assassinated.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, the MAGA DOJ fired a career federal prosecutor “for waging lawfare” against a cadre of “MAGA Warriors,” moments before their twenty-million dollar Medicare fraud trial, on the orders from a twenty-four year old Bannon War Room MAGA influencer.Then, on the rest of the menu, the security researcher who helped expose that former FBI counterintelligence official Charles McGonigal was working for a Russian oligarch, has been found dead at her home; Trump goons issued a bonkers new threat in its escalating war against the Smithsonian; and, a slew of ‘vindictive' DOJ cases are in peril as defense lawyers say Trump 'caused terror, violence and murder.'After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the German Neo-Nazi AfD party has targeted the iconic Bauhaus school ahead of a landmark state election, just like the Nazis did in 1933; and, Norwegian authorities seized a Russian vessel in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard as part of a global effort to enforce a four-billion dollar arbitration award.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's Freedom Fuel stations are able to sell petroleum at such a steep discount because Freedom Fuel stations are selling stolen gas.Then, on the rest of the menu, what if Trump held a midterm convention and nobody came?; Trump ordered the destruction of a popular statue outside the Kennedy Center because he hates the Blues; and, Texas hospitals have started losing $27 million a day in Medicaid funding because Trump loves to hurt those who love him the most.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a bipartisan group of US lawmakers is pressing the Army to explain why it told a unit based in Europe, to stop specializing in drone warfare; and, US oil giant Chevron confirms it will expand operations in Venezuela, as part of Trump's illegal imperial conquest.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.

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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 MAGA SCOTUS Shadow Docket issued a ruling that nobody has standing to keep Donald Trump from knocking down the Oval Office and building a big ass gilded Trump Dome in its place.Then on the rest of the menu, California lawmakers passed a ban on the ICE Shock Gloves; a whistleblower revealed Trump officials are secretly in cahoots with the USPS to defy Court orders on mail-in ballots, that could imperil millions of voters; and, an ex-deputy convicted of a decade of sexual assaults while on the force, is now a chaplain for a MAGA-centric Christian cop group.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the UN warned nuclear weapon states' refusal to ratify a test ban treaty could trigger a catastrophic arms race; and, the leaders of China, Russia and India are among the heads of state meeting to counter US influence.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, court watchers claim there is a very high probability that Judge Cooper will issue at least a temporary stay against the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center to stop the memorial's demolition and renaming.Then, on the rest of the menu, Republican Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon objected to the “very odd behavior” of MAGA election observers who visited a polling station in Cheyenne during last week's primary; a federal judge once again temporarily prohibited the US Postal Service from carrying out a plan to restrict mail-in voting; and, Florida leads the nation in Medicare fraud, so DeSantis laundered over $10 million dollars from a Medicare settlement through his wife's charity to fund his pet political projects.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where after Trump's most recent embrace of North Korea, the MAGA Pentagon ordered allies on NATO to prove they are stepping up their defense of Europe; and, Nepalese authorities warned all security and rescue personnel to remain on high alert over a newly formed, overflowing lake that could trigger further catastrophic flooding.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, past and present top military officials gave a final warning about Trump's destruction of the US military command structure and capabilities.Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE arrests of the “worst of the worse” innocent immigrants has soared; a West Point climate scientist was fired for refusing to “defy science;” and, another witness has been ordered released from detention after a fatal shooting by a federal immigration agent in Texas.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where another former Malaysia prime minister faces criminal charges after leaving office; and, thousands are missing or dead after a torrent of water and mud over five stories high from a glacier collapse, scoured valley communities along the China/Nepal border.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, Hegseth is so scared of Stars and Stripes exposing his gross incompetence, he had no choice but to fire the publisher, the editor and a reporter.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump sent his Saudi nuclear deal to Congress for review; Sean Duffy's luxuriant “Great American Road Trip” is mired in mystery as the IRS has no record of the non-profit that funded it; and, under Hegseth, rape aboard Navy ships is just part of a woman's duty, so she should just file a workman's comp claim.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the wife of an active-duty Army sergeant is deported to Honduras under Trump's immigration crackdown; and, Italy is the latest nation to pull support for Infantino's reelection as FIFA president.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 ghosted Trump after his economic “D-Day” announcement.Then on the rest of the menu, the California Supreme Court is weighing whether a MAGA sheriff running for governor, who seized Riverside County election ballots, must return them to county election officials. MAGA John Roberts is worth over twenty-five million dollars, but he still suffered the indignity of over forty kayakers protesting at his secluded, private island; and, farmers struggle to get basic services from a depleted MAGA Agriculture Department.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Chinese authorities sentenced artist Gao Zhen to three years in prison for statues satirizing Mao; and Denmark's prime minister blasted unsolicited beauty advice from a plastic surgeon on Instagram.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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 people who brought you farm to table explosive diarrhea, now wants you to grill Argentinian mystery meat burgers.Then, on the rest of the menu, an out-of-control wildfire near Reno, Nevada that jumped over fire trucks, has forced authorities to urge ninety-thousand residents to evacuate; a complaint before the DC Bar makes it official, the organization must now decide whether to investigate MAGA Chief Justice John Roberts for misconduct over millions of dollars in payments to his wife for cases before the Court; and, the Washington Post was ordered to reinstate Karen Attiah and compensate her with back pay for her social media posts following racist MAGA firebrand Charlie Kirk's killing.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Dutch regulators fined Uber nearly one billion dollars over the automated suspensions of driver accounts; and, the guy who thinks he invented the word groceries, wants Canada to make French-speaking Quebec an English-only province.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.

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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, the Trump controlled Kennedy Memorial Board basically told a Federal judge to pound sand and threatened to put Trump's name all over the Center in violation of the Court's prior order.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's top DHS lawyer has been accused of risking bloodshed by publishing a “Worst of the Worst” hit list of sitting federal judges; Pentagon officials want to fire the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes before he can retire this fall; and, who can blame people for getting tired of winning when the national debt just surpassed a record $40 trillion.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison wants more than $1.5 billion in damages from Panama after the country seized two canal ports caught in the crosshairs of US-China tensions; and, a Swiss tourist was sentenced to a year in jail for insulting Bali's sacred Day of Silence.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, retired Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher is running against Lauren Bobert and has had enough of Trump and his MAGA stooges.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge refused to throw out a fraud lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of rigging a $1 million voter payout he publicly promised would be random; the MAGA organizers of the “Steroid Olympics” admit they lost over $61 million dollars at the Vegas event; and, US futures are flat as artificial intelligence-related stocks continue to sell off and oil prices rise again from Trump's illegal war.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the International Criminal Court slammed the latest US sanctions targeting senior ICC staff, vowing to continue seeking justice for atrocities around the world; and, the Trump Administration was sued over its push to auction areas of water around American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining.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, his long list of corruption scandals exposes Trump as “an absolute crook.”Then on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court ruled the Trump Justice Department's favorite trick for keeping unconfirmed far-right MAGA prosecutors in power, is flat-out illegal; an undercover ICE goon's hidden wire fell to the floor inside a church it was ordered by a court to avoid; and, the MAGA DHS defended its practice of hunting down MAGA critics and giving them notices to STFU, or else.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the MAGA goon in charge of Trump's ballroom bunker vanity project, held secret talks with Vladimir Putin's aides during a recent trip to Russia; and, Trump's threats to “bomb the shit” out of Oman, has an Oman Trump golf course problem.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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 ran from the cameras as the Iranian and Russian secret war plans surfaced.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump declared one of the stable of blonde Fox News hosts an enemy of MAGA for failing to flatter him; Trump blamed vandals for the damaged grass in the same spot where he held his big July 4th cage match spectacle; and, the buck stops somewhere else when it's Trump to blame.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where after blowing up hundreds of fishermen in extrajudicial boat strikes, the US military is expanding its killing campaign on land in Latin America; and, concerns of another White House cyber hack are raised after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles.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 MAGA Justice Department faces a contempt of court order in Katie Phang's Epstein case.Then, on the rest of the menu, hundreds of California stonecutters have fallen ill with a deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need;' Trump's billion-dollar order to steam punk the US Navy is handing our enemies a gift; and, instead of investigating the goons who murdered Good and Pretti in Minnesota, the MAGA DOJ conducted expansive surveillance of unions, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of liberal organizations never accused of crimes.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Poland thwarted a Russian plot to kill an American citizen in Warsaw; and, plunging water levels have revealed the ruins of Nero's Bridge near St. Peter's Basilica in Rome's Tiber River.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, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, furious world leaders are ditching Trump to form their own regional security arrangements.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration is accused of ‘inventing' terror threats to target charities; Trump's Sumo Goon scolded the CNN's top foreign war correspondent for the grave crime of, dancing; and, RFK, Jr says he can't vote because he's legally homeless.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a UN investigation found Myanmar's military has escalated airstrikes against civilians; and, a coalition of farmers, consumer associations and environmental groups is urging Malaysia's National Biosafety Board to reject a proposed field trial of genetically modified rice.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.

Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's latest Air Force One scheme is causing major red flags to surface about all of the other incidents he has claimed were assassination attempts.Then on the rest of the menu, details spill on a secret plan to ‘cover up' Trump's ‘mountain of crimes;' Trump vowed to take legal action in a deranged name-calling rant after a liberal think tank said his costly National Guard deployments in cities did not reduce violent crime; and, lawmakers are demanding answers after ICE detained more than fifty spouses and parents of active-duty troops.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where two former Chinese military service members were arrested in South Korea on espionage charges; and, over one hundred firefighters from Mexico had to avoid US air space as they flew to help battle the deadly wildfire that has forced twenty thousand people to flee and destroyed homes in Western Canada.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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 closed down the White House all day today after Iran won't let him surrender.Then, on the rest of the menu, two impeachments and thirty-four criminal convictions didn't work, so top lawyers are working on a stratagem to haul Trump out of office in an under-the-radar law; pogrom detainees allege torture as Trump's for-profit death camps deploy ‘involuntary medical procedures;' and, just like the Central Park Five who were found innocent, Trump still wants to execute the former Olympian who did nothing to his botched blue pool project.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a former Thai lawmaker was arrested after killing the head of a government administrative organization outside his offices; and, a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia and neighboring Ecuador today, forcing people to evacuate homes and buildings.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.

Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the nation's top generals and admirals are working to get Hegseth fired and block Trump from further escalating his catastrophic war.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-backed MAGA candidate has been caught living a luxury out-of-state lifestyle despite his ‘farmer' image; an ICE policy says the agency will only release body camera footage that depicts its officers in the best possible light; and, Lake Tahoe's exclusive Incline Village is aghast after another stand of mature trees were “criminally poisoned” for the third time this year.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Romania rushed to sink four barges in the record-low Danube to keep a nuclear power plant's second reactor running; and, a Spanish-led police raid smashed a vast Mediterranean smuggling network, arresting seventy-eight suspects.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 trying to avoid turning over two years of every scrap of financial and tax data held by his 400 companies to justify what he now admits is a phony ten billion dollar damage claim against the BBC, for defaming him by using his own words.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-appointed judge's ‘weird' corporate side-hustle stuns insiders; Zuckerberg's AI went rogue and hacked another company; and, a probe of ICE agents criminally charged reveals a pattern of domestic violence, sex offenses against children, abuses of authority and corruption while carrying out the administration's mass deportation campaign.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where ousted Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina says she will return from exile in December; and, two members of the Iranian women's soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia in March, have been granted citizenship.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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge has gained access to the full, un-redacted Epstein files.Then, on the rest of the menu, a decorated US Army veteran is taking legal action against the Idaho National Guard and the Defense Department after troops detained her without a warrant on her front patio in a violent confrontation; the Kennedy Center scrapped public tours after a New York Times report on Trump's ‘”gutting of the iconic cultural institution;” and, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced she is cancelling the sale of a state-owned property in Salem where developers have plans to build a data center.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the MAGA State Department used a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent; and, ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas.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 missed a critical court deadline, so the judge ordered all of Trump's private tax and business records from “January 1, 2023 to present,” to be immediately turned over to the BBC.Then, on the rest of the menu, the legality of Trump's ballroom is still being contested; Elon Musk sued Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning his artificial intelligence ‘nudification' technology; and, an Urban League report reveals the Trump administration is harming Black Americans' chances at the American Dream.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Courts in Myanmar have sentenced nine activists up to thirty-seven years in prison for a protest calling to boycott the elections last December; and, a French student plead guilty and was fined for a straw-licking stunt in Singapore.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, “don't just burn your MAGA hats, torch them.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge threw out a defamation suit filed by Ka$h Patel because he really is a “googly-eyed Kremlin Bit*h”; the Arizona Department of Education wants answers to why the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind violated federal disability law when it restricted placement options for students and predetermined where they should attend; and, a labor union and two women prison employees filed a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for unlawfully halting their sexual harassment cases as part of wider order to suspend proceedings in all federal-sector class claims.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where gunmen killed a high-ranking Taliban official in Afghanistan in a rare targeted attack; and, France served pro-Russian propagandist Xenia Fedorova, with an order to leave the country, after accusations that she was churning out Kremlin propaganda on French television and radio.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.

Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Barron is now suffering a “world of hell” because of Big Daddy.Then, on the rest of the menu, contracted armed MAGA goons descend on USPS facilities as Trump's war on mail-in voting ratchets up; butt-crack plumber Mark Wayne Mullin sure loves his “gas station heroin” investments; and, Elena Kagan's dissent of the 6-3 Temporary Protected Status case ruling, shocks with a blistering attack on Trump lawyers.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where US diplomats walked out of a UN meeting as ally France criticized the Trump administration's human rights record; and, as surely as Stephan Miller pulled the trigger himself, a Missouri couple deported to Guatemala have been found shot dead in a sugar cane field with their 14-month old daughter crying and dehydrated beside their mutilated bodies.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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 international Epstein investigation is catching up with Blanche, Trump and several major corporations.Then, on the rest of the menu, the guy who said the Continental Army “took over the airports” during the American Revolutionary War, now wants to put up warning signs about the Smithsonian's “fake history” exhibits; as Trump boosts nuclear power, the MAGA Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeks to eliminate a fifty year foundational radiation safety practice; and, a US appeals court upheld an injunction that blocks Trump's order to create a federal voter list. After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Romania scrambled its F-16 jets on Sunday and downed the third Russian drone in three days; and, Brazil's Foreign Ministry denied visas to two US State Department officials who wanted to cast doubt on the South American nation's upcoming October 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! “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,  Gym Jordan needs a shower after going to the mats seeking a criminal referral for Jack Smith.Then, on the rest of the menu, FBI agents scrambled to draw up a list of the most “salacious” Jeffrey Epstein-related allegations against Trump, just days after it announced the pedophile had left no client list; nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state's June primary because the USPS erroneously postmarked them after election day; and, two North Carolina women who were arrested by federal immigration agents for honking their car horn to alert others to the officers' presence are suing the government for $2.5 million.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the BBC wants Trump to explain his “executive privilege” response to every request in Jack Smith's January 6 report in their ongoing defamation case; and, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reshuffled his government's top posts in a bid to counter advances made by the Neo-Nazi far right.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.

Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “if you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a Shasta County, California MAGA father and son held two women biologists studying frogs in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in 15-hour hostage ordeal; the Oregon Secretary of State slammed Trump's new election threats and urged Oregonians to turn their ballots in at dropboxes if they live more than fifty miles from the Portland area; and, the MAGA White House admitted it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants.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, a new stockholder lawsuit is filed in Delaware to try to block the Ellison's acquisition of CNN and other Warner assets based on charges of fraud and bribery involving Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, with a history of of getting paid to promote Russian propaganda as part of a years-long crusade to dismiss the Kremlin's meddling in the 2016 US election as a “hoax,” Kash Patel's planned secret trip to Moscow was just leaked; Trump's IRS chief snooped on colleagues' and rivals' emails while working at JPMorgan; and, the MAGA federal government took a major step toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio's only national forest to “fracking.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where disturbing details were revealed in the UK charges against Barron Trump's rapey pals; and, LIV Golf suffers another major setback with the Asian Tour joining a new alliance with the European and PGA tours.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's delusional “broken election system” speech was a bunch of explosive diarrhea.Then, on the rest of the menu, Mississippi teachers say the new state-mandated process for buying classroom supplies has been made more difficult; Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid and denying Democratic states more frequently; and, in what surely must be ICE job requirements, the ICE officer who murdered an innocent man in Maine, has a history of domestic violence and serious mental health issues since childhood.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where ICE arrested a human rights lawyer who fled the China crackdown on human rights lawyers, for deportation back to Beijing; and, Japan's parliament ruled only paternal-lineage men can become emperor, sparking concern that the measure could doom the already shrinking imperial family.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, you can't have a three-ring MAGA clown show without a couple of MAGA clowns up for Senate confirmation and another MAGA clown complaining about Low-T.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ignored Congress as he poured concrete for a black granite helipad over the White House lawn without permits; MAGA AG Ken Paxton meddled in an explosive college football betting scandal one day after a big donation from the school's Board of Regents Chair; and, Secret Service agents are now in Kash Patel's crosshairs into how security vulnerabilities of Trump's Qatar-grifted Air Force One jet leaked to The New York Times.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Trump against interfering in German elections after a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe was announced; and, Hong Kong authorities raided two independent bookstores and arrested five people on suspicion of selling seditious publications that threatened China's national security.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, all evidence points to Trump trying to steal the 2026 midterms.Then, on the rest of the menu, Signal Pete Hegseth has made sure for the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty women Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year; law firms that cut deals with Trump to stop executive orders to shut down their businesses, are now fighting a secret courtroom battle against the Department of MAGA Justice; and, a GOP election rigging scheme was thwarted when a Democratic governor selected a new judge to a key state court.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Hungary's parliament voted to remove Orban puppet Tamas Sulyok from his Presidential post; and, the reason so many are rooting against the Land of Messi is because Argentina soccer fans, players and sports journalists, have a racist problem.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)Justice PutnamBecome 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 consigliere Todd Blanche sweats as one judge finds he's a fraudster, another wants to hold him in contempt and his advocate to shepherd his nomination hearing died of a heart attack after a phone call with Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, senior ICE officials are blaming Trump for the recent wave of deadly shootings by ICE death squads; as its lawyers flee in droves, Trump's embattled Department of Justice has imposed new quotas on its prosecutors; and, Louden County, Virginia officials found almost one hundred health violations at the restaurant for the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC, in Potomac Falls, Virginia.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where two suspects have been arrested in connection with setting fire to the Fontainebleau forest near Paris that forced the evacuation of one thousand people; and, European troops, warplanes and around thirty leaders joined the Paris Bastille Day parade in a show of unity for Ukraine.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots 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 own judge dressed him down for supporting white nationalist, paramilitary groups.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Illinois teacher targeted by vicious right-wing hate over critical posts about Charlie Kirk, is now hailed for ‘saving lives'; Trump justified all the grift, graft and insider trade fraud as president with a slew of inaccurate claims; and, with the resurgence of polio under MAHA, Martha Lillard, the last US polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Nicaragua's husband-and-wife co-presidents stripped masses of lawyers of their licenses to practice in an ongoing crackdown on dissent; and, the European Union imposed sanctions on Russian military intelligence officers, hackers and private companies, denouncing a years-long cyberespionage campaign to undermine the bloc.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.