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West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 06 May 25Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal court has blocked GOP efforts to overturn the North Carolina supreme court election and ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory.Then, on the rest of the menu, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice plans to investigate the prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county for using racial disparities in plea deals; a coalition of seventeen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit...2025-05-061h 04West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 07 March 25Today’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 complaint has been formally filed to disbar rogue Trump prosecutor, Ed Martin.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Bonneville Power Administration is attempting to find and rehire all the staff fired by Trump; life-saving avalanche forecasts are being hindered by the DOGE purge; and, Oregon police investigate nighttime gunshots that shattered windows at a Tesla dealership.After the break, we move to t...2025-03-071h 04West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 13 Feb 25Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Department of Justice will be going full banana republic and prosecute Democratic governors, representatives, county commissioners, local law enforcement, mayors, city council members and even individual clerks at state DMV’s who conspire against Trump’s orders.Then, on the rest of the menu, the NYC comptroller accused Musk of “highway robbery” after stealing eighty million dollars from the city bank...2025-02-131h 04West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 12 July 24Today’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 shooting incident outside Justice Sotomayor’s home by her security detail, is a reminder of Trump’s general threats against America and Americans.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black man in Michigan only got a hotel job interview after using a White-sounding name; a lawyer disbarred in Ohio tricked an Irvine, California law firm into a $250,000 job offer; and, the Justice Department arrested a New J...2024-07-131h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays March 24Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is in total panic mode as he gets bad news from all sides all at once, and it’s an amazing sight.Then, on the rest of the menu, a new clerk was chosen to oversee elections in a deep-red rural Nevada county that has been roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud since 2020; a bill approved by the Rhode Island Senate would require all firearms to be...2024-03-201h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 26 Oct 23Today’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 wanted his “Legally Blonde” moment, but he didn’t get it.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Oregon Supreme Court will decide if Republican state senators who carried out a record-breaking walkout during this year’s legislative session, can run for reelection; Scholastic will drop the highly criticized policy that makes it easier for school fairs to exclude diverse books; and, the White Hous...2023-10-271h 04West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 07 July 23Friday’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, even legal threats that have no standing to enforce the Supreme Court ‘s affirmative action ruling is 'enough to frighten universities’ from admitting students of color.Then, on the rest of the menu, three crosses were found burned outside a small Los Angeles church; the Oregon Department of Justice reported a 178% spike in bias incident reports since 2020; and, California governor Gavin Newsom demanded the US Department of Justic...2023-07-071h 04West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 23 Feb 23faToday’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available.Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Marjorie Taylor Greene's ‘national divorce’ would be disastrous for red states.Then, on the rest of the menu, three Oklahoma Republican lawmakers called for a moratorium on the death penalty amid growing concerns about the state’s brisk pace of lethal injections; while in the midst of a Republican primary for US Senate, the now former Arizona AG sat on records refuting election fraud; and, the Alaska State House censured a GOP la...2023-02-241h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 19 Jan 23West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DeSantis culture war on US history threatens to backfire on Florida higher education.Then, on the rest of the menu, the State Department launched a new program dubbed, the Welcome Corps, that lets private citizens sponsor refugees in the US; no woman is expected to serve on the South Carolina Supreme Court for the first time in thirty-five years; and, an election-denying GOP congressman under an...2023-01-191h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 03 Jan 23West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the coup evidence bolsters the case for AG Garland to indict, as the DOJ faces heat over 'double standards.'Then, on the rest of the menu, Louisiana authorities’ use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken-identity arrest of a Black Georgia man on a fugitive warrant; the Supreme Court is taking longer to hear cases; and, Washington Commander’s owner Dan Snyder, in a recent court fili...2023-01-041h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 14 Dec 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, recent subpoenas issued by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith reveals he has expanded the Trump investigation.Then, on the rest of the menu, outgoing Democratic governor Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all seventeen people on Oregon’s death row to life without possibility of parole; a bench trial has started to determine if an Alaskan Oath Keeper lawmaker is unfit for office because of his participation to overthrow the US...2022-12-151h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 30 Nov 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the seditious conspiracy verdict in the Oath Keeper trial gives the Department of Justice a “stronger hand” in future cases.Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon settled a federal lawsuit over its police use of tear gas and other crowd control weapons; a panel of three federal judges heard closing arguments on whether South Carolina’s heavily gerrymandered US congressional maps are legal; and, journalists with the Fo...2022-12-011h 04West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 25 Nov 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump thought the Supreme Court judges would be like Judge Cannon.On the rest of the menu, the lack of Oregon public defenders has strained the criminal justice system and left more than seven hundred people statewide without legal representation; a Tennessee judicial panel has upheld the state’s contentious school voucher law; and, Ford has recalled over six hundred thirty-four thousand SUVs due to fuel leaks and fi...2022-11-261h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Holiday Thursdays 24 Nov 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Holiday Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump braces for his tax returns going to congress, just as Pence is mulling his interview with the Department of Justice.Then, on the rest of the menu, most of the Fed officials at their last meeting backed slower rate hikes; a South Carolina program aims to boost the ranks of Black teachers; and, New York’s first pot crop is jeopardized by a court fight.2022-11-251h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 08 Nov 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Republicans who have given in to fascist elements are trying to nuke democracy.”Then, on the rest of the menu, an Arizona judge blocked a Republican effort to delay election results by hand-counting all ballots; Biden legislation is funding the largest community air pollution monitoring program in EPA history; and, the Justice Department has sent monitors to twenty-four states in an effort to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws...2022-11-091h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 01 Nov 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the majority on the Supreme Court pretended arguments in favor of Affirmative Action “didn’t exist.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice, supporting a claim by the League of Women Voters of Arizona, said that monitoring ballot drop boxes can amount to illegal voter intimidation; Jewish leaders called on GOP candidates to reject antisemitic comments; and, in a victory for the Biden administration’s tougher...2022-11-021h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 28 Oct 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Donald Trump and allies continue to assert executive privilege as a way to dodge providing testimony in criminal investigations.On the rest of the menu, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blamed the Biden Justice Department for an investigation that was begun under Trump; North Carolina GOP Senate nominee Ted Budd was part of business scheme accused of defrauding farmers; and, Georgia DA Fani Willis urged the Supreme Court...2022-10-291h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 27 Oct 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the reaction to Pennsylvania’s Senate debate between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz ignores the history of illness and disability in the Senate and White House.Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas Republican Chip Roy attacked the Biden administration over a program to stop COVID vaccine lies; Facebook parent Meta was fined nearly $25 million dollars for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law; and, three Ma...2022-10-271h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 25 Oct 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “a Supreme Court justice violated the law.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the American Rescue Plan helped 200,000 child care providers stay open; the Federal Trade Commission is taking the rare step of bringing individual sanctions against the CEO of alcohol delivery company Drizly for data privacy abuses; and, the sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix has stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after armed Trump supporters intimidated voters.2022-10-251h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 20 Oct 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Florida’s voter fraud arrests make the state a modern version of the Jim Crow south.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration awarded $2.8 billion in grants to boost domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles in twelve states; the EPA reached a settlement with United Parcel Service to pay a civil penalty of $5.3 million and resolve violations of hazardous waste regulations at more than el...2022-10-211h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 12 Oct 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Americans “have a muscle for authoritarian, fascist, anti-semitic, racist wedge politics.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court not to intervene in their Trump classified records fight; extreme right-wing PACs are injecting millions of dollars into local school board races; and, a former National Security Agency worker accused of trying to sell classified information to Russia, has been ordered detained while he i...2022-10-121h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 07 Oct 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the government might not know what documents Trump stole are still missing.On the rest of the menu, a whistleblower alleged six-hundred-sixty-five agents, including forty-five senior-level officials, left the FBI over misconduct charges in the last two decades; the Coast Guard Academy settled a lawsuit over its cadets-with-kids ban; and, the city of Philadelphia issued an apology for the unethical medical experiments performed on Black inmates at its...2022-10-071h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 13 Sept 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and his attorney general, Bill Barr, manipulated the Justice Department to not only protect and cover up for Donald Trump, but to also attack his political enemies.Then, on the rest of the menu, Amtrak cancelled some long-distance passenger routes in anticipation of a national freight strike; Trump backers are flooding election offices with coordinated records requests in a gambit to disrupt the November election; and, Supreme Court...2022-09-131h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 31 Aug 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lindsey Graham lied because he’s “afraid of his own words.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Dominion Voting Systems deposed Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro and others in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit; a House oversight subcommittee called for vigorous cryptocurrency fraud oversight; and, the Justice Department will no longer allow political appointees to go to fundraisers and other campaign events.After the break, we move to the Ch...2022-09-011h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 18 Aug 22fbWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new DeSantis-ordered Florida teacher training downplays the role of slavery in US history.Then, on the rest of the menu, Weisselberg’s plea deal could make Trump a prosecution witness; Alex Jones’ lawyer faces a disciplinary hearing in Connecticut; and, Oregon’s chief justice denied that a personality conflict led her to fire all members of a commission that governs the Office of Public Defense Services.A...2022-08-191h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 17 Aug 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Justice Department lawyers asked the judge who approved the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago to keep the accompanying affidavit under seal.Then, on the rest of the menu, the IRS says teachers can now deduct more for out-of-pocket expenses for the classroom; immigration advocates sued LexisNexis over personal data sold to ICE: and, the special board appointed by President Joe Biden to intervene in stalled railroad contract talks, suggested that 115,000...2022-08-181h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 16 Aug 22fbWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a former top espionage prosecutor at the Justice Department explained what matters, and what doesn’t, in the Trump secret documents probe.Then, on the rest of the menu, Amazon workers walked off the job mid shift at a major West Coast air hub over low wages and heat safety; Starbucks wants the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily suspend all union elections at its US stores; and, Corporate Am...2022-08-181h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 15 Aug 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the rhetoric and threats against FBI agents and Department of Justice officials in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago search is reminiscent of events leading up to the January 6 insurrection.Then, on the rest of the menu, a state police inquiry found evidence the MAGAt plot in Michigan to breach voting machines points to a coordinated national pattern; some of the arrested Capitol insurgents are trying to profit from...2022-08-151h 01West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 04 Aug 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Constitutional Sheriffs around the country are vowing to stop the nonexistent 2020 election steal because the FBI are acting like “Nuremberg Officers.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Transportation Department proposed to increase refund protections for air travelers; the EPA announced flights to look for methane “super emitters” in the Permian Basin of Texas; and, the Justice Department detailed threats against election workers.After the break, w...2022-08-051h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 26 July 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the roots of the MAGAt push for Christian Nationalism is a renewed embrace of the racist, antisemitic tenets of its founder, Gerald LK Smith.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the US West; the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against some of the largest...2022-07-281h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 13 July 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the J6 Committee revealed new details about an Oval Office showdown that preceded the Capitol riot.On the rest of the menu, Republicans are threatening Wall Street over climate positions and other politically sensitive national issues; the Justice Department named Colette Peters, the director of Oregon’s prison system, to run the federal Bureau of Prisons; and, the Idaho lame-duck MAGAt Lt Governor gave a huge pay raise to he...2022-07-131h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 07 July 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as Cipollone is set to testify in the J6 Committee investigation, Giuliani said Trump should have pardoned himself.Then, on the rest of the menu, The "No Jews Allowed" law in Tennessee deserved a separate, but equal rant to the usual morning offerings; the Biden Administration has proposed more flexibility for student debt forgiveness; the Department of Justice is investigating potential civil rights violations in Texas’ multibillion-dollar border se...2022-07-081h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 06 July 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the deputy press secretary in the Trump White House until resigning shortly after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, has been subpoenaed by the J6 Committee.On the rest of the menu, a Trump-endorsed Ohio GOP House nominee says the three hundred-eighty mass shootings so far this year are a fair trade for his Second Amendment rights; for the second time in the last nine years, the Department of...2022-07-071h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 22 June 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump used his Big Lie to bludgeon election officials to his will.On the rest of the menu, the Chevron CEO got bent out of shape when Joe Biden said the oil companies “make more money than God,” at a time the oil companies are making more money than God; Facebook signed a deal with the Justice Department to end discriminatory housing ads; and, it could take years to rebu...2022-06-241h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 17 June 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, why did it take so long for Mike Pence “to do the right thing?”On the rest of the menu, Republican voters in Nevada picked a nominee for attorney general who once called for the lynching of the state's current attorney general, who is Black; a Nebraska man pleaded guilty on charges that he threatened an election official, the first conviction for a Justice Department task force charged with...2022-06-181h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 10 June 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6th committee presented new footage and testimony on the panel’s first public hearing.On the rest of the menu, the Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police; the Kentucky farm sector could set record receipts; and, after scores of wrecks with parked emergency vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said they are a step closer to recalling al...2022-06-101h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 31 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Justice Department announced it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.Then, on the rest of the menu, the TSA reports a spike in travelers trying to bring guns through airport checkpoints; far fight activist Allen West's bid to take over the NRA ended in humiliating failure; and, Pope Francis sent a ‘powerful message’ by elevating a liberal Bish...2022-06-011h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 26 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, outrage increases at the GOP for blocking gun safety legislation, even after the Texas school massacre.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration has sided against the airline industry over crew breaks; the State Bar of Texas sued to punish state Attorney General Ken Paxton for lying to the US Supreme court about election fraud; and, police suspect arson in a fire at one of...2022-05-261h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 25 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, being murdered in school is a uniquely American way of death.On the rest of the menu, Big Pharma Dem Kurt Schrader’s potential loss in Oregon’s primary has rekindled Democratic interest in pushing through prescription drug legislation; the GOP has allowed bigotry to be mainstreamed at conservative events; and, supreme courts in Iowa and other GOP-controlled states continue to stymie abortion bans.After the break, we m...2022-05-261h 04West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 24 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new report reveals shameless self-dealing by Kushner and Mnuchin.Then, on the rest of the menu, today’s election in Georgia marks the biggest test yet of new voting restrictions enacted by Republicans; not many people charged with felony crimes can go seven years without ever standing trial, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is one; and, a new Department of Justice policy stipulates federal agents have a du...2022-05-251h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 23 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as the January 6 hearings draw closer, new revelations continue to be revealed.Then, on the rest of the menu, the first shipment of baby formula arrived in Indianapolis from Germany on Sunday; a government report found Trump’s census plot to game apportionment might have actually cost red states scores of seats; and, the top elected GOP official in a rural and sparsely populated West Texas county has be...2022-05-251h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 20 May 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “the Electoral College is a standing crime on America.”On the rest of the menu, federal contract service workers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in pay and benefits and are at risk of losing more because of bureaucratic fumbling; the GOP is willing to damage its relationship with big business to score culture war points; and, the Disinformation Governance Board’s ex-leader faced a torrent of online...2022-05-221h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 19 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mitch McConnell “wrecked” the Senate under Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, two hundred-three House Republicans voted against bolstering federal resources to prevent domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York; a Wisconsin man was sentenced to ten years in prison for a racist acid attack; and, the Defense Department inspector general determined the Vindman brothers suffered “swift” and severe retaliation from Tru...2022-05-221h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 18 May 22fbWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Justice Department requesting transcripts from the January 6 select committee “may be the savvy way to investigate” the insurrection.On the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced a plan to increase the supply of affordable housing, and Pennsylvania could benefit the most; three Wisconsin Democratic voters filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ten fake Trump electors and the two lawyers who advised them; and, the Justice Department sued Repu...2022-05-221h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 17 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Fox News has blood on its hands.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the America First majority on the Supreme Court made it more difficult for federal courts to review the factual determinations of a case before an immigrant is deported; in a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down another limit on political corruption in the McCain-Feingold Act; and, a confidential workplace survey conducted for the DC fede...2022-05-211h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 16 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an investigation by the Georgetown Law Center reports that ICE can spy on the majority of adult Americans, and they do.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Labor Department ordered a restaurant in South Carolina to pay more than $600,000 to nearly one hundred workers who were forced to share their tips; the Detroit Three automakers reinstated their mask mandate at some Michigan facilities; and, Atlanta is...2022-05-161h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 13 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the January 6 committee has subpoenaed five House Republicans after they stonewalled the panel.On the rest of the menu, Trump officials and meat processors worked closely to keep plants open in the first year of the pandemic, even though they knew workers were rapidly getting infected; the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny a permit to build a $1.4 billion dollar seawater desalination plant; and, with Russia’s in...2022-05-141h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 12 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Eric Holder said an ‘indictment of Trump should be seriously considered.’Then, on the rest of the menu, Joe Biden waived executive privilege for a new set of Trump records; an Idaho health care network sued secessionist gubernatorial candidate Ammon Bundy and his armed mob after a protest they organized forced a hospital into lockdown; and, Herschel Walker’s insulting campaign is the worst kind of sports idolatry.2022-05-141h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 06 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “Alito’s lies did not stop in his confirmation hearing.”On the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced a wide-ranging enforcement strategy to hold industrial polluters accountable for damage done to poor and minority communities; the condition of some prominent US dams is kept secret in the national database; and, Rob Stein, the Democratic strategist who organized liberal donors as a counterweight to the network of conser...2022-05-071h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 04 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the reasoning in Alito’s ‘daft’ opinion puts a bullseye on other long-held American rights.On the rest of the menu, the District of Columbia has reached a $750K settlement in the Trump inaugural lawsuit; New Mexico is seeking US disaster status to check the nation’s current largest wildfire; and, a woman whose son was killed in an Illinois tornado, criticized Amazon for making him work on his day off...2022-05-041h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 03 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alito’s leaked draft opinion is “as full-throated and muscular a decision as could ever be imagined.” Then, on the rest of the menu, lawmakers in eighteen states are following California’s lead in offering legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families; DeSantis has vowed to eliminate gun permits and background checks in Florida; and, a bronze statue depicting one of Oklahoma’s most famous Native Ame...2022-05-031h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 02 May 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP messed around, now they are finding out.Then, on the rest of the menu, Black doctors say they face discrimination based on race; hundreds of US urban areas will become rural under new census criteria; and, the Connecticut Senate approved a bill that protects abortion providers.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where despite a last minute debt payment, investors br...2022-05-021h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 29 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McCarthy has proven himself to have been compromised.On the rest of the menu, Ron DeSantis is waging an all-out war on Florida residents' civil rights; sixteen states are suing the United States Postal Service to halt the purchases of thousands of “Louis DeJoy’s gas-guzzling” mail trucks; and, California subpoenaed ExxonMobil as part of a first-of-its-kind broader investigation into the petroleum industry for its role in causing a glob...2022-04-291h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 28 April 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is no less dangerous for being a ridiculous buffoon.Then, on the rest of the menu, millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are pouring in the big bucks to win Republican primaries for open US Senate seats in Ohio and Pennsylvania; ads for jobs in New York City will have to say what they pay; and, older people fret less about aging in the place they live, but...2022-04-291h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 27 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, turns out Kevin McCarthy thinks the same way about Trump as the rest of us do.On the rest of the menu, one of the largest providers of military housing in the United States continues to respond inadequately to mold and other structural problems; Southern California’s gigantic water supplier is requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as drought continues to pl...2022-04-271h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 26 April 22fbWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, new details explain why Pence told his Secret Service detail, “I’m not getting in the car, Tim.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House warned congress that without funding, the US will lose out on Covid treatments; with the midterms looming, one of Joe Biden’s closest aides is leaving the White House to take on a role as senior adviser to the Democratic National Committe...2022-04-271h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 25 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in a wide-ranging interview, Elizabeth Warren spoke for a lot of us when she called Kevin McCarthy a ‘liar’ and ‘traitor’ over the January 6 tape.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court is set to weigh the Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ asylum policy; the national average retail price of regular-grade gasoline continuing to drop for weeks is a sure sign that Biden and the Dems are in disar...2022-04-251h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 21 April 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “a vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy Democracy.”Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-one people have been charged nationwide with one hundred-fifty million dollars in COVID fraud; more than fifty Republicans who once joined a lawsuit claiming the House’s pandemic-era proxy voting was unconstitutional have voted by proxy this year, remotely without showing up; and, shoddy record keeping left thousands of Americans saddled with s...2022-04-211h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 20 April 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Michigan Democratic State Senator Mallory McMorrow gave a fiery rebuke to a Republican colleague's fundraising email that accused her of wanting to "groom and sexualize kindergartners."On the rest of the menu, a majority of Americans continue to support a mask requirement for people traveling on airplanes and other shared transportation; Florida Governor DeSantis raised the stakes in his battle with Disney over his capricious “Don’t Say Gay” law; a...2022-04-201h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 19 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the fascist tool of “Eliminationist rhetoric” has gained an alarming foothold in Trump-era politics.Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan's longest-serving congressman said death threats by extreme far-right members in his party are “a detriment to getting good people to run;” the Biden administration is requiring that all steel used in infrastructure projects be made in the US; and, a judge ruled Amazon must reinstate a former warehous...2022-04-191h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 18 April 22fbWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the war in Ukraine looms over Biden’s agenda.Then, on the rest of the menu, some state lawmakers are calling it quits because they can’t afford to serve; modest-income buyers are being priced out of new-vehicle market; and a container ship stuck for more than a month in Chesapeake Bay has finally been re-floated.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where...2022-04-181h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 15 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump still can’t bring himself to say Putin is evil.On the rest of the menu, the Office of the Virginia attorney general denied it gave a pedophile cop a plea deal, but it did; a Tennessee Republican praised Hitler for leading a 'life that got him in the history books'; and, tens of thousands of California grocery store workers approved a new contract with the major su...2022-04-161h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 14 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Justice Department refusing a request from the House Oversight Committee for an inventory of Trump materials is the strongest sign yet that the Feds are investigating Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, state and local governments across the United States are distributing millions of dollars they received from the American Rescue Plan to fight homelessness; Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a...2022-04-151h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 13 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin lashing out at NATO has backfired as more countries want to join the alliance.On the rest of the menu, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on whether the amount of ballot boxes should be increased, or are ballot boxes a conspiracy by pedophiles to destroy America; the New York lieutenant governor resigned after his arrest in a federal probe on corruption; and, after his...2022-04-131h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 12 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared Kushner secured a two billion dollar investment from the Saudis despite lacking the qualifications to handle such an investment.Then, on the rest of the menu, the National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America, and its findings are grim; California utility Pacific Gas & Electric will pay $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two massive wildfires; and, the Georgia elections lawsuit backed by...2022-04-131h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 11 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alabama once again becomes the battleground of the Civil Rights movement.Then, on the rest of the menu, President Joe Biden is expected to nominate an Obama-era US attorney to run the ATF, as the administration unveils its formal rule to rein in ghost guns; the average US price of a gallon of gas dropped ten cents in the last two weeks to $4.27 per gallon; and, after a...2022-04-111h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 08 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McConnell “sold his soul for a tax cut.”On the rest of the menu, a law and order Georgia Republican argued against banning stock trades for members of Congress because people would break the law anyway; a congressional oversight committee said the Justice Department is “obstructing” its investigation into Trump’s handling of classified material he illegally commandeered to Mar a Lago; and, more than a million customers in Puerto...2022-04-111h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 06 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new Republican tactic of smearing everyone who disagrees with them as supporting pedophilia “is a disgusting and cynical attempt to render their political opposition essentially as hateable as possible.”On the rest of the menu, Rick Scott voted against American manufacturing ideas he touted in his own plan; a former Trump administration official who is now running for a House seat in New Hampshire, voted twice in the 2016 GOP...2022-04-061h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 05 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Republican obsession with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial philosophy is just an example of “swamp, dark money talking points.”Then, on the rest of the menu, California advanced a bill allowing private citizens to sue anyone who distributes illegal assault weapons, ghost guns, or .50 caliber rifles; Amazon’s first-ever union overcame numerous hurdles, but now faces new ones; and, an American Library Association study found “challenges” to ban books, s...2022-04-051h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 04 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an ex-Russian oligarch says when Vlad’s troops were not met with flowers, that was the one moment in the war that drove Putin ‘insane’.Then, on the rest of the menu, Black Democratic candidates try to revive the party in Trump territory; an Applebee’s franchisee worker was fired over a leaked email speculating on high gas prices forcing employees to work longer hours for less money; and, new...2022-04-051h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 01 April 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the war is not going the way Vlad thought it would.On the rest of the menu, a Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate repeated the false claim that he served as an Army Ranger; a National Security Agency employee has been charged with mishandling classified material; and, a historian sued the New York prisons over the ban of a Pulitzer-prize winning book about the Attica uprising.After...2022-04-011h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 31 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kremlin advisors will overthrow Putin before giving him “bad news” about Russia’s war failures.Then, on the rest of the menu, House Republicans oppose Biden’s efforts to expand voting rights; a network of national conservative groups is influencing Wisconsin school board elections; and, nine people were charged with federal civil rights offenses after they traveled to DC and then blocked access to a reproductive health center, and stre...2022-03-311h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 29 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin can “never be welcomed back into the international community.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States seeks new lithium sources as demand for batteries grows; Anheuser-Busch beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine filed to run for the US Senate as a Democrat in Missouri against GOP wife beater Eric Greitens; and, a state Senate committee advanced a version of a sweeping bill that aims to improve Geor...2022-03-291h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 28 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even with all the sturm and drang over the infamous “nine ad libbed words,” Biden delivered the right messages in Warsaw.Then, on the rest of the menu, officials lifted most of the evacuation orders that forced more than twenty-thousand residents to flee a Boulder, Colorado wildfire; a rarely cited section of the 14th Amendment dealing with insurrection could disqualify a handful of US House members from seeking reel...2022-03-281h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 25 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ginni Thomas urged Mark Meadows up to and after the January 6 Insurrection to help pursue the efforts underway to overturn the election.On the rest of the menu, the firing of a Texas librarian is only the latest attack on libraries; the January 6 committee set a contempt vote for two former Trump aides; and, empathy is not a quality Republican senators want to see in the first Black...2022-03-251h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 24 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP treated Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearing like a campaign fundraiser.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced an initiative to address racial bias in home appraisals; Republicans made sure the IRS criminal investigation unit got no funds to enforce sanctions on rich Russians; and, Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in...2022-03-241h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 23 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson graciously endured Ted Cruz’s “baby talk” and Lindsay Graham walking out in a pique.On the rest of the menu, Disney is in a balancing act as workers walked out in protest over anti LBGTQ legislation; MacKenzie Scott donated $436 million dollars to Habitat for Humanity; and, a San Diego appeals court judge was confirmed as the first Latina to serve on the Califo...2022-03-231h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays March 22 2022faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled their country over Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.Then, on the rest of the menu, the SEC announced a new rule that will require companies to disclose environmental records; the Supreme Court won’t review the case of a Seattle-based Christian organization that was sued after declining to hire a bisexual lawyer who applied for a job; and, Biden warned US companies of...2022-03-221h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 21 March 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the life of Putin’s favorite fascist Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin and his work reveals the mindset of Vladimir Putin on his invasion of Ukraine.Then, on the rest of the menu, policymakers say it is time to rethink the census after results released by the Bureau showed Black, Hispanic, American Indian and other minority residents were undercounted at greater rates in 2020 than in the previous decade; Democratic ga...2022-03-211h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 18 March 22fbWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin has no qualms when it comes to slaughtering civilians.On the rest of the menu, a group of millionaire GOP lawmakers say CDC requirements for wearing masks on air flights causes them 'ongoing financial harm' because they have to buy masks; Washington state signed a law that prohibits Texas-style abortion lawsuits; and, as Black colleges remain on edge after receiving dozens of bomb threats in...2022-03-181h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 17 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump “emboldened” Putin before the war.Then, on the rest of the menu, the state comptroller will take over the majority-Black town of Mason, Tennessee, just ahead of the Ford electric truck and battery plant being built near by; Missouri could make it harder to get out-of-state abortions; and, a highway safety study found SUVs and pickups are more likely to hit pedestrians than cars.After the...2022-03-171h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 15 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “the sound of war is changing” in Kyiv.Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law that stops UC Berkeley from having to turn away thousands of students from its incoming freshman class; Democrats on the House Oversight Committee want an investigation into Dejoy’s US Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles; and, Trump has been a...2022-03-151h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 14 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when looking for an off ramp for Putin, it’s important to remember “there isn’t much of an off ramp, because autocrats don’t negotiate.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the West Virginia Legislature’s Republican supermajority failed to pass a controversial bill restricting how race is taught in public schools because they missed a midnight deadline; Congress renewed the landmark Violence Against Women Act nearly three...2022-03-141h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 11 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, some pundits on Russian state TV called for Putin to end the war as harsh sanctions and growing protests destabilize life in Russia.On the rest of the menu, Senate Republicans are pretending gas prices didn't start rising under Trump; South Dakota lawmakers struck a deal to defy Kristi Noem to pass the state’s $5.8 Billion dollar budget; and, the IRS plans to hire 10,000 new workers to relieve a...2022-03-111h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 10 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin will be overthrown before anyone gives him bad news about Russian setbacks in Ukraine.Then, on the rest of the menu, one hundred and seventy-three GOP lawmakers tried to send Congress home instead of voting on Ukraine aid; over twenty-seven thousand mail ballots were rejected in the Texas primary, vastly surpassing the number of rejected ballots in all previous Texas elections combined; and, in another reversal of...2022-03-101h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 09 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when Ukraine needed US backing after Zalenskyy was first elected, all they got was Trump’s corruption.On the rest of the menu, legislation to limit insulin costs is being revived in the Senate; Congress sent the Postal Service overhaul bill to Biden’s desk for signing; and, the President has a solution for high inflation that seems counterintuitive, bring factory jobs back to the US.After the...2022-03-091h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 08 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the lessons of the Cold War could help us de-escalate the war in Ukraine.Then, on the rest of the menu, a proposed EPA rule would make heavy trucks cut its smog and soot pollution; the Supreme Court turned away efforts from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block state court-ordered congressional district maps; and, President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on regulating cryptocurrency.2022-03-081h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 03 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans are on defense after idealizing “Red State” Russia for years.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Alabama Oath Keeper is first person involved in the insurrection to be convicted of seditious conspiracy; the House is poised to vote on a bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits; and, the federal government warned states seeking billions of dollars from the infrastructure law to widen roads, prot...2022-03-031h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 02 March 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, seizing oligarchs' property may be trickier than it sounds.On the rest of the menu, Texas has begun investigating the parents of transgender youth for child abuse; despite wide-ranging opposition, Utah lawmakers passed new media restrictions for their House floor; and, a judge overturned a Washington state legislature-approved capital gains tax on high profit stocks, bonds and other assets, ruling that it is an unconstitutional tax on income.2022-03-021h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 28 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The Republican Party just can’t get enough of Vladimir Putin.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration has blown past expectations with $3 billion in wind lease sales; repeatedly stymied by local courts to draw election maps in their favor, Republicans are now set on neutralizing state supreme courts; and, Phil Mickelson was removed from a PGA Tour event in California as the fallou...2022-02-281h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 25 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin crossed the line with his overt nuclear threat.On the rest of the menu, Oregon lawmakers proposed $400 million dollars for housing and homelessness; the Biden administration shut down Ron DeSantis’ attempt to cut off care to migrant children; and, whistleblowers are being bullied by high-ranking prison officials for exposing prison abuse.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the EU said "Puti...2022-02-251h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 24 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, something “strange and mysterious” is happening as the lead Manhattan prosecutors in the Trump criminal investigation resign in protest.Then, on the rest of the menu, despite push back from the EPA, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy signed off on the next generation of mail vehicles, most of them gas guzzlers; an Amazon union organizer was arrested at a NYC facility on charges of trespassing; and, the Missouri Republican Part...2022-02-241h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 23 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump can’t praise Putin’s strategy in Ukraine enough.On the rest of the menu, GOP obstruction is preventing vital debt relief for Black farmers facing foreclosure; Joe Biden announced a plan to reduce dependency on China for vital electric car parts; and, America’s first abolitionist newspaper is being resurrected two centuries later for a nation that continues to grapple with racism.After the break, we mov...2022-02-231h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 21 Feb 22faWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Hillary Clinton called out Fox and right-wing media for their misleading coverage of the filing from special counsel John Durham.Then, on the rest of the menu, right wing brownshirts have bullied hundreds of school districts to alter their lessons on race and social injustice; Mississippi Republicans want to defund one of the poorest, unhealthiest states in the nation; and, a Texas grand jury indicted nineteen Austin police...2022-02-211h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 18 Feb 22fbWest Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the most revealing words in a New York judge's opinion requiring Donald Trump and his children to testify under oath are, “copious evidence of possible financial fraud.”On the rest of the menu, Biden celebrated the Great Lakes infrastructure project Trump tried to kill; GOP House candidates have received $162,000 from fake Trump electors; and, the Justice Department launched a new program aimed at companies exploiting supply chain disruptions to p...2022-02-181h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 17 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, no one testifies against Trump better than Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, West Virginia’s only Black female lawmaker has filed a lawsuit against an anti-abortion group over racist threats; the Biden administration granted loan relief to students misled by for-profit DeVry University; and, a Kushner pal at the Observe,r pardoned by Trump, will plead guilty to state cyberstalking charges in New York. 2022-02-171h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - River City Hash Mondays 14 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, parents fight back against the GOP’s classroom culture wars.Then, on the rest of the menu, states get the go-ahead to build a nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles along interstate highways; the Republican-led West Virginia Senate rescinded the state’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, declaring that it expired in 1979; and, a right wing extremist ex-Air Force sergeant plead guilty to killing a fe...2022-02-141h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 10 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Navarro’s actions and the draft executive order is like “sedition for dummies.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Capitol Police deny the baseless claim its officers spy on the GOP; the National Archives asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Trump violated federal law in the handling of presidential records; and, SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites launched last week is tumbling out of orbit after be...2022-02-101h 03West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 08 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Florida voters were duped into changing their party affiliation from Democratic to Republican.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration is considering expanding a policy that limits the use of “no-knock” warrants by federal agents; the IRS will suspend the use of facial recognition technology to identify taxpayers; and, the House is preparing a short-term spending bill to keep the government open.After the brea...2022-02-081h 02West Coast Cookbook & SpeakeasyWest Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 02 Feb 22West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, why did Trump rip up “… pieces of paper to hide the trail? It's because he knew he was doing something wrong, and he wanted to keep his hands clean."On the rest of the menu, the right wing court stacking cabal, the Federalist Society, has barred the media from a talk by Justice Gorsuch at its annual banquet in Florida; Trump’s relentless, false claims about the 2020 presidential election has sp...2022-02-021h 03