Kitchen Briefs - April 16, 2026 AM

• Breaking news: Trump has announced a 10 day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel beginning at 5pm ET
• According to Pete Hegseth the US is ready to start combat if Iran doesn’t agree to a deal
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department related to the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump’s 2019 impeachment
• The International Energy Agency is warning that Europe has about 6 weeks of jet fuel supply left if oil supplies remain blocked
• US Military forces struck a vessel on Wednesday in the eastern Pacific Ocean killing 3 men who were trafficking drugs according to the Pentagon
• Sweden has decided to go back to the basics and is swapping out laptops for books, pens and paper
• I want to acknowledge what many of you have said to me in my DMs…it’s starting to feel like we live in a movie and those of us paying attention feel like we are conspiracy theorists.
• Pete Hegseth’s morning prayer in which he claims to quote the bible is actually from Pulp Fiction
• CNN investigation that found that 62 million men attended an online rape academy in February alone.