West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 03 July 24

Today’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, former Federal Prosecutor, Shan Wu, reported on what it was like inside the Supreme Court during the reading of Trump's immunity decision.Then, on the rest of the menu, federal officials are seeking to overhaul how Medicare pays health-care providers after a $3 billion scheme to defraud the program; the Department of Justice announced a policy change agreement after accusing educators in Kansas’ largest public school district of discriminating against Black and disabled students when disciplining them; and, the National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a court in Belarus sentenced twenty political analysts to prison terms of at least ten years each after convicting them in absentia of conspiracy to overthrow the government; and, ten members of a nonviolent Cambodian environmental activist group were each sentenced to six years in prison on charges of conspiring against their state.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.