Best Berkeley Groups Podcasts (2025)

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 24 June 25 1:04:17

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a key provision of the MAGA budget bill that sought to limit judicial power is dead. Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s lawyers are trying to claim in court …

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 23 June 25 1:04:11

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump was dealt a stinging rebuke by the judge in the latest Garcia hearing. Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE detained a Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was sti…

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Michael Galant on Sanctions and Immigration / LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts 29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: We’ve always heard that racists hate quotas, yet Stephen Miller’s “3000 a day, however which way” mandate is terrorizing immigrant communities — brown immigrant communities — around the country. The response from people of conscience can look many ways: linking arms around people in danger, absolutely; vigorously disputing…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 20 June 25 1:04:12

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, New Jersey governor candidate and former Navy lieutenant Mikie Sherrill, critiqued Trump’s military deployments to US cities. Then, on the rest of the menu, fi…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 19 June 25 1:04:20

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Hegseth insists on “Peace Through Strength,” but several strong women senators tore him to pieces. Then, on the rest of the menu, tech companies don’t want…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 17 June 25 1:04:35

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Tina Smith confronted Christo-Nationalist MAGA Mike Lee for mocking the Minnesota assassination victims, who were also her personal friends. Then, on th…

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Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil / Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness 29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Media are focused on public protests in LA but seem less interested in what’s making people angry. That’s in part about the federal government’s stated bid to capture and eject anyone who they determine “opposes U.S. foreign policy.” Protesters and witnesses and journalists in LA aren’t being shot at and thrown around and …

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 13 June 25 1:03:59

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s cognitive issues continue being exposed as he is bullied into submission for his failures. Then, on the rest of the menu, voters rebuked the MAGA-led H…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 12 June 25 1:03:39

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the rightwing Georgia Supreme Court ruled against MAGA Republicans. Then, on the rest of the menu, the former head of the Alabama Department of Veterans Af…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 11 June 25 1:03:52

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Pam Bondi's brother was dealt a stunning defeat in the DC Bar election. Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin lawsuit seeks to ban Elon Musk from ever a…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 10 June 25 1:03:49

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, over three hundred National Institute of Health employees have published the ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration health policies. Then, on…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 09 June 25 1:04:02

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Gavin Newsom criticized Trump as “a stone-cold liar” after his call about the ICE invasion. Then, on the rest of the menu, Washington state farmworkers fear retal…

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Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk / Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal 29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: An email we got this week tells us: “The radical left is up in arms about DOGE. Just think about it — DOGE has exposed BILLIONS in wasteful spending, and is rooting out fraud and corruption at every turn. They’re making the government work for the people of this great nation once again, as the founders intended, and that i…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 06 June 25 1:03:51

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump lost four court cases within hours of each other. Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s surgeon general pick criticizes others’ conflicts but profits fr…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 05 June 25 1:03:53

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a legal scholar schooled Josh Hawley during a Senate hearing on all these “commie judges ruling against Trump.” Then, on the rest of the menu, instead of b…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 04 June 25 1:04:10

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike was torn to shreds by his own party. Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s DOGE goons left the US Institute of Peace they illegally tried to take o…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 03 June 25 1:03:15

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the New York Bar Council is addressing a complaint about top Trump official Emil Bove by kicking it back to Trump’s DOJ. Then, on the rest of the menu, ex-Homel…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 02 June 25 1:04:15

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Representative Daniel Goldman confronted plainclothes ICE agents who stormed his district office. Then, on the rest of the menu, the New England Patriots were thr…

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Tom Morello on Music as Protest 29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and … Oprah? They’re among the entertainers in Trump’s sights for, it would seem, endorsing Kamala Harris in the election and, maybe, for saying something unflattering about him or his actions — which, in his brain, and that of the minions who’ve chosen to share that brain, constitu…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 30 May 25 1:03:59

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after a failed attempt to takeover the North Carolina State Supreme Court, the MAGA US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to purge voters from the state reg…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 29 May 25 1:03:20

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is called out for his “brutal and ugly attacks” that have caused a spike of threats against federal judges. Then, on the rest of the menu, the United…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict wednesdays 28 May 25 50:42

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the anti-voting section of the Trump Department of Justice filed an anti-voter lawsuit in North Carolina.Then, on the rest of the menu, NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit in federal court against Trump’s illegal, retaliatory executive order; Trump’s Border Gestapo Chief Tom Homan has been cashin…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday 27 May 25 1:03:55

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, law firm Paul Weiss capitulated to Trump, now it has lost its top partners. Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK, Jr’s FDA head warned doctors to “stop throwing i…

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Bryce Covert on Work Requirements / Erin Reed on Trans Care “Questions” 29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: On a Sunday night, not when officials do things they’re most proud of, House Republicans passed a plan to give more money to rich people by taking it from the non-rich. Call it what you will, that’s what’s ultimately happening with the plan to cut more than $700 billion from Medicaid in order to “offset,” as elite media ha…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 23 May 25 1:03:49

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court blocked the nation’s first religious charter school in a surprise rebuke, with Amy Coney Barrett recusing. Then, on the rest of the menu, Ame…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 22 May 25 1:04:05

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a fed up Supreme Court schooled the Trump administration on the basics of Constitutional law. Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is 'deeply underwater' o…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 21 May 25 1:04:24

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's budget bill has created a 'legislative suicide pact' for the MAGA House. Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pacific Northwest braces for a tsunami an…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 20 May 25 1:04:20

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, and Trump gave up in a humiliating surrender before the world. Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge just struck down DOGE’s attempt to seize the $500 …

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 19 May 25 1:03:55

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme court ripped Trump and his cabinet to shreds. Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly three-quarters of the attorneys working for the Justice Department…

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Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade 27:05

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This week on CounterSpin: As part of its deadly denial of food, water, and medicine to Palestinian people, Israel attacked a civilian aid ship endeavoring to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, setting it on fire, injuring crew members, cutting off communications. The ship was called the Conscience. Millions around the world ask every day what it will …

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 16 May 25 1:03:32

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Democratic Party hit record recruitment numbers for 2026. Then, on the rest of the menu, Multnomah County health officials have confirmed one case of activ…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 15 May 25 1:03:51

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a major update on arrested judge Dugan is discussed. Then, on the rest of the menu, a new law bans Oregon employers from asking for an applicants’ age; a f…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 13 May 25 1:04:18

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the “most corrupt president,” has been telling Americans to live in austerity because of his tariffs, while he wants “the most expensive private plane in the wo…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 12 May 25 1:04:00

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller insists Trump has to suspend habeas corpus because the Supreme Court doesn’t understand the law. Then, on the rest of the menu, a probation officer…

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Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift / Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff 29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: They say ignorance is bliss, but I know that, for myself and others, our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives. Bartlett Naylor breaks it down for us; he works at Public Citizen, as a financial policy advo…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 09 May 25 1:04:31

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s Ponzi scheme presidency continues to be the least popular in American and World history. Then, on the rest of the menu, a famed New York law firm’s $10…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 08 May 25 1:03:48

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Republican Jefferson Griffin’s long effort to steal the North Carolina Supreme Court race has finally failed. Then, on the rest of the menu, more olde…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 07 May 25 1:03:24

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democratic Congress members brutally cross-examined Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Then, on the rest of the me…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 06 May 25 1:04:13

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, 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’…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 05 May 25 1:04:08

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Nazi courtier Stephen Miller sued Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in a bid to control the courts. Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA Nazis ruli…

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Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn / Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists 29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The website of the Kairos Democracy Project has a quote from John Lewis, reminding us, “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.” Our guest Tanya Clay House is board chair at Kairos and a longtime advocate for the multiracial democracy that the Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail — in part by erasing the history …

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 02 May 25 1:04:25

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, another Trump-appointed judge ruled against him in court. Then, on the rest of the menu, an intern at the Harris County, Texas DA’s Office uncovered possible c…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 01 May 25 1:03:45

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kamala Harris used a high-profile speech Wednesday to sharply criticize Trump. Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK, Jr doesn’t believe in the cornerstone of…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 30 April 25 1:04:27

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, victims of Trump's irresponsible anti-immigrant crusade include American citizens born in the country to natural born American citizen parents. Then, on the …

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 29 April 25 1:03:35

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, powerful Republican judges are standing up against Trump in a recent series of scathing rulings. Then, on the rest of the menu, the new principal of a private c…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 28 April 25 1:04:37

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and his MAGA minions in Congress are getting booed at more town halls including the recent town hall held by MAGA Republican Mike Lawler in New York’s 17th …

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Jeff Hauser on DOGE / Karen Thompson on “Fetal Personhood” 29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Elon Musk reportedly told Tesla investors that he’ll be amping down his role with the Department of Government Efficiency to, one guesses, bring his big brain back into their service. Like the “War on Terror,” “DOGE” is a thing that was in part spoken into normalcy by the corporate press. Media seem ready to, if not embrac…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 25 April 25fa 1:04:13

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge went off on Trump in court. Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge is accused of helping an immigrant defendant hide from ICE when they tried t…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 24 April 25fa 1:04:46

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump woke up to disastrous news as his approval plummets based on his horrible policies and massive public failures. Then, on the rest of the menu, the St…

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 23 April 25 1:04:02

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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as the Trump regime continues its assault on the Constitution, the defense of democracy will increasingly depend on Governors willing to fight back. Then, on…

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