Kitchen Briefs - April 22, 2026 AM

• Iran has fired on 3 ships and captured 2 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The ships were flagged as from Panama and Liberia
• Lufthansa has cut more than 20,000 summer flights due to fuel prices
• Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is warning that emergency funds will be exhausted within the next couple of weeks and once again TSA workers will go unpaid
• Trump advisers are privately trying to strategize around a new midterm push claiming that Democrats would be worse
• Virginians came out yesterday and voted to redistrict adding 4 Congressional seats to their maps
• Israel has what they’re calling a yellow line in Gaza that marks safety zones and in the middle of the night, they’re just moving it and turning areas into free fire zones to strike
• Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is trying to get her conviction overturned again
• Yesterday the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms
• The Gates Foundation has hired an outside investigator to look into the Epstein ties
• A ping pong robot has beat top level human players