West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump may have immunity, but his ‘corrupt sycophants’ do not.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a dentist shortage in Maine has some pediatricians working overtime to prevent tooth decay; Dominion Voting Systems quickly sought to finalize the remaining settlements to their lawsuits so they could sell the company to a Trump election denier; and, Trump has weakened the US Chemical Safety Board so seve...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the only humiliation in court during Comey’s arraignment was on the Trump side.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas cops were caught lying about why they used an AI tool to track a woman who had an abortion; two right-wing social media accounts beloved by MAGA and Musk are run by a Macedonian man who has never visited the United States; and, Trump pick...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Pam Bondi’s Senate Hearing testimony was ‘brazen,’ ‘shameless’ and ‘verifiably false.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, the feds grant ICE building access to conservative media and influencers while ignoring and lying about the local Portland, Oregon press; a law firm representing another firm targeted by Trump with a punitive executive order, was just hit with a massive cyberattack by China; and; a federal judge blocked a Trump...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is just out loud lying and feigning amnesia about his close relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Border Patrol agent tried to murder an anti-ICE protester by shooting her five times in her car at a Chicago intersection, and DHS lied to cover for him; MAGA social media accounts bombarded the South Carolina judge with death th...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump was instantly put in his place after he tried to use the California National Guard troops to conduct a military invasion of Portland, Oregon.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the police chief of Omaha, Nebraska acknowledged that police nationwide are more likely to pull Black people out of their cars at gunpoint after champion boxer Terence “Bud” Crawford was ordered out of his car at gunp...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, posting racist fake videos while refusing to negotiate with Democrats to end the shutdown reveals the madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Tim Apple capitulated to demands from Nazi Barbie Bondi and removed the ICEBlock app that allowed users to track ICE goons; a fundraiser for the family of the MAGA gunman who opened fir...

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, how many flashes of insanity from a president should we tolerate?

Then, on the rest of the menu, Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools; the racist Gestapo DHS called a lawsuit filed after a US citizen’s repeated arrests at workplace raids, “race-baiting opportunism;” and, environmentalists, politicians, celebrities and more recall the life and influence of primatologist Jane Goodall.

After the break, we move t...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Canada is outmaneuvering Trump after his latest threats before American military generals and admirals.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights dropped a key tool used to investigate workplace discrimination;  Trump Border Czar Tom Homan’s own ICE agent set up his FBI sting; and, another federal judge ruled yet another Trump-appointed federal prosecutor was unlawfully installed.

After the...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s newly-installed, inexperienced US Attorney, whose claim to fame is not only competing in Trump beauty pageants, but also insisting there are too many exhibits about slavery in the US African-American museum, encountered a fed up judge fed up with MAGA legal incompetence.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Missouri governor signed a Trump-backed gerrymander aimed at helping Republicans win another US House seat...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA National Archives illegally released the entire unredacted military file of Mikie Sherrill to her three-time loser MAGA opponent for New Jersey governor, who then “shopped it to the press” when told not to.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon firefighter who was arrested by immigration agents while battling the largest wildfire on the West Coast last month has finally been released; Whiskey Pet...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had an overnight meltdown as United States fighter jets scrambled over Alaska while Russian aircraft encroached into Alaska air space.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the mother of a Black Michigan elementary school student is speaking out after her son was expelled for one year after taking a gun away from a white classmate on campus; Oregon handed over the sensitive Medicaid personal da...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had another late night meltdown as he says he will sue ABC and Jimmy Kimmel while pushing the United States government closer to a shutdown.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump goon Ed Martin threatened Sandy Hook hero FBI Special Agent William Aldenberg for being part of the Alex Jones suit; Black church leaders reject Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom and point to his race rhet...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Big Daddy” Gavin Newsom made the Trump administration cry in public.

Then, on the rest of the menu, attorneys press for the release of an Oregon wildland firefighter detained by federal immigration officials while on the fire line of the largest wildfire on the West Coast; the guy who was kicked out of Italy for being too corrupt and too fascist for the corrupt Italian fascists, says America...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, decorated federal prosecutor Maurene Comey is fighting back against Trump over her illegal firing.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a city’s ban on no-knock warrants; the MAGA Senate confirmed forty-eight of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the rules; and, a late-night Instagram post from a San Francisco 49ers star led to the unraveling of a ma...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump wants us to talk about Jimmy Kimmel, so we'll talk about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, instead.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon will issue a land use violation notice to the city’s ICE building for breaching detention limits; experts have independently resurrected the Census Bureau advisory committee that was axed by Trump; and, a federal judge ordered Alabama’s largest county to redraw...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats finally go on the offense and call out MAGA Congress Members and witnesses at an important hearing.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration sued Oregon to force it to turn over the full information about every state voter; ICE Barbie Noem lobbed false homicide claims at a grieving mom who had a stillbirth while in ICE custody; and, Pam Bondi’s Department of J...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA Supreme Court was “bench slapped” in open court.

Then, on the rest of the menu, authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City; the privately- funded National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta expanding at a critical moment in US history is not immediately subject to King...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as Trump musters his illegal Federal shock troops to invade and occupy major Democratic Sanctuary cities and states, leaders of those Cities and States have unleashed an unexpected push back.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Senate’s top three Democrats, and two of the state’s only Black lawmakers, received bomb threats at their homes over the Charlie Kirk killing; histori...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s FBI is in total shambles as Kirk’s killer escapes.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas dropped its lawsuit against a doctor accused of “illegally” providing care to transgender youth; the Oregon couple who are members of a Christian anti-medicine cult and let their newborn baby die while waiting for a miracle, will serve only thirty days in jail; and, Trump cut grants for...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, will Trump's attorney face sanctions for lying about the Epstein letter?

Then, on the rest of the menu, Intel’s most senior woman leader has been forced out; former school board member Jennifer Jenkins who defeated a Mom’s for Liberty co-founder, challenges MAGA-extremist Ashley Moody for a US Senate seat in Florida; and, a Georgia judge will toss the landmark racketeering charges against sixty-one ‘Cop City’ protesters...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller's wife is losing it over Gavin Newsom's mockery.

Then, on the rest of the menu, while DHS continues to post propaganda about the arrests on the fire line in Washington State, wildfire veterans say the operation was nearly unprecedented and a breach in longstanding protocol that federal agents don’t disrupt emergency responders to check immigration status; a drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trum...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Republicans pulled an “insane” last minute scheme in court.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Intel said DEI was ‘instrumental’ to innovation, then suddenly stopped talking about it when Trump confiscated part of the company; Trump ordered a Peace Vigil that has stood in Lafayette Park for over forty years dismantled for being a “hazard to those visiting the White House and the surrounding areas;” and, a...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the most dangerous nepo baby in American history was not put under oath by the MAGA Chairman from Idaho when he repeatedly lied in the Senate Health Department hearing.​​​​​​

Then, on the rest of the menu, five-time draft-dodger Trump really wants to rebrand the Department of Defense to the Department of War; Brett Kavanaugh is doing his best to rebrand the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” by a...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tulsi Gabbard’s reckless outing of a CIA officer has exposed the staggering incompetence of this administration, again.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon, Washington and California are forming a new public health partnership aimed at preserving access to vaccines; the Navy reversed its demotion of drunk quack MAGA Ronny Jackson; and, Trump's surge of federal law enforcement into Washington, DC, is exposing the FBI's flee...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA leaders in Congress instantly folded during a contentious cross examination at a heated hearing about Trump’s cover up of his dark past.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the just-resigned director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, accused Robert F Kennedy Jr of promoting eugenics; concerns about possible deportation are at the top of the mind as Oregon’s roughly...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, world leaders are furious at Trump after Russia’s attempt to assassinate European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a GPS jamming operation that forced her plane to land in Bulgaria.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s authoritarian policies sparked protests in multiple US cities on Labor Day;  a Democrat and a Republican will team up to try to ban masked law enforcement in Oreg...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is headed for a major disaster in court over his attempt to fire Lisa Cook.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Hegseth is purging everything Black from the military, but he restored the giant painting at West Point of turncoat Robert E Lee wearing his gray Confederate uniform and accompanied by a slave guiding his horse; the Bum from Queens and Ice Barbie pu...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith and his lawyers are coming out swinging as he shoves back against MAGA’s “imaginary and unfounded” phony “whistleblower” complaint against him.

Then, on the rest of the menu, mystery surrounds a $1.2 billion Army contract to build a huge tent concentration camp in the Texas desert; the MAGA-led Air Force will provide full military funeral honors to traitor Ashli Babbitt; and, Army is the last service...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got a rude awakening with major protests chasing his goons from swank DC neighborhoods.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin Lutheran pastor tested the new IRS endorsement rule by backing AOC and lost his church; ICE Barbie says the entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it; and, a federal judge ruled the Mississippi Supreme Court gerrymander ma...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller melted down on live television over Trump's latest scandal as Newsom mocked him mercilessly.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump threatened retaliation for countries that tax or regulate US tech companies; the leading license plate camera company has halted cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security over concern how its investigations are used; and, in its efforts to ethnically cleanse America, the Trump MA...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her MAGA colleagues for playing “Calvin Ball.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, thousands of homes in the Northern California wine country and central Oregon are under evacuation orders and warnings; Trump halted work on a massive New England offshore wind project that’s almost ninety percent complete; and, all of the major railroad companies refuse to join a voluntary...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the only thing MAGA hates more than fair and free elections, is Gavin Newsom.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Alina Habba is ‘unlawfully appointed’ and has been 'disqualified' as a US attorney by a Republican judge; former Trump advisor John Bolton was the subject of an early morning Night of the Long Knives raid conducted by the FBI; and, Trump’s death penalty p...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the more Trump’s DOJ talks, the more they give a gift of evidence undermining their own prosecutions of Democrats.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal district court accepted a settlement mandating Montana provide education to students with disabilities up to age twenty-two; parents of kids swept away in the Texas floods begged lawmakers to protect future campers while lawmakers devoted all their atte...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got a rude awakening with major protests chasing his goons from swank DC neighborhoods.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin Lutheran pastor tested the new IRS endorsement rule by backing AOC and lost his church; ICE Barbie says the entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it; and, a federal judge ruled the Mississippi Supreme Court gerrymander ma...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump debuted his illegal executive order to eliminate mail-in ballots.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Yosemite National Park employees are furious over the firing of a research scientist for making Trump mad; a federal judge issued an injunction preventing Trump’s FTC from investigating watchdog Media Matters; and, twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Justice to stop immigration requirements on vict...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s fatal betrayal of the United States alliances and our democracy is all backfiring in his face.

Then, on the rest of the menu, DHS says its speech writer has a first amendment right to post explicitly racist conspiracy theories on social media; three MAGA-led states are sending their National Guard to DC in service to the King; and, the FDA’s new expert panels are rif...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump hated the Jobs Report so much, wait until he finds out about the Producer Price Index. Who’s left to fire?

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge struck down Trump administration orders against DEI programs at the nation’s schools and colleges; a federal judge ordered RFK, Jr to stop giving deportation officials access to the personal information, including home ad...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s Posse Comitatus trial wraps up.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Kari Lake is under investigation for criminal violations of the law related to her leadership at the Voice of America; nine people in Texas pled not guilty in a Ken Paxton-driven elections probe involving ‘vote harvesting;’ and, a federal judge ordered Trump to restore millions of dollars in National Science Foundation grants withheld...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the guy who had his wife he was cheating on drive the getaway car to avoid being served a court subpoena, wants to jail Beto O’Rourke for raising funds for elected legislators fighting the MAGA power grab.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a deputy commanding general testified the National Guard rehearsed the show of force against Los Angeles immigration raid protesters; Trump’s rhetoric about...

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s plans of taking over Washington DC is already backfiring in his face as mass protests break out.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a small Oregon county reckons with the fallout from an Amazon data center scandal; dozens of heavily armed feds swarmed a minor DC fender-bender as Trump’s militarized crackdown creates chaos; and, officials are investigating the cause of a Pennsylvania steel plant...