Kitchen Briefs

Kitchen Briefs - October 7, 2026 AM

• Today marks 3 years since October 7th where Hamas militants killed over 1200 people and the war in Gaza started where over 74,000 Palestinians have been killed
• Over 201,000 people have been displaced in Yemen
• Houthi ballistic missiles and suicide drones were launched at the Aden International airport in Yemen
• Putin had a phone call with the President of Iran and praised Iran for their courage in the face of the attacks
• Israeli forces have killed 5 Palestinians in Gaza
• Riots continue in France and the use of stun grenades have been stopped after a boy’s hand was blown off
• The Congressional Research Service reported this week that the US has lost 81 planes, drones and helicopters worth $3.3Billion dollars in the War in Iran
• Trump said he’s considering suspending the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents
• The FCC is considering a request by Club For Growth for a waiver to allow more political robocalls before the midterms including ones created by AI
• Matthew Ingalls, one of the Cornell 7 has reportedly fled to Dubai
• The Russian oligarch who paid for Don Jr’s wedding claims he has been paid back
• There’s a proposal on the table to hand over part of Trump's golf course in West Palm Beach to the federal government to be a new Camp David
• Common Sense Media’s Youth AI safety Institute has rated ChatGPT for Teens as unacceptable risk and is urging OpenAI to cease marketing the tool to minors until it provides a safer experience
• Thank you Susan for my coffee this morning

Kitchen Briefs - October 6, 2026 PM

• Trump says the biggest problem with Iran is that nobody knows who is running the country
• The Houthis have killed 7 civilians in Yemen including women and children
• Christa Pike is conscious and talking
• The White House Communications director took to social media and said the comments made by Trump have been misunderstood and misrepresented by a media freakout that is not rooted in reality
• A hacking group stole the data of over 3,000 Trump mobile users
• Republicans are spending $5M in South Carolina because they are scared of Dr. Annie Andrews
• The 3 supposed friends of Nolan Wells have had their fathers file federal lawsuits for defamation on their behalf since they’re under 21 against NFL Hall of famer Terrell Owens
• A California couple in Arcadia have been arrested after investigators found their house of 21 children, mostly born via surrogates, were being abused
• Award winning actress Eva Marie Saint has passed away at 102
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Kitchen Briefs - October 6, 2026 AM

• The UK has arrested another man for alleged preparation of terrorist acts
• India says 12 sailors have been injured in an attack on a Panama flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz
• The Houthis have attacked two airports in Saudi Arabia injuring 3 people
• Israeli attacks have killed 3 Palestinians on the Gaza Strip and Israeli settlers are setting fire to vehicles and houses in the occupied West Bank
• Senator Chris Murphy was denied access to the air base in Qatar by the Pentagon
• Commodities trading giant Vitol’s chief executive says we could see oil get up to $200 a barrel
• Kenya has confirmed its first Ebola case
• Russia now says no plague has been found among the contacts of the lab research tech who died
• Hundreds of schools in France are closed because students are protesting in support of teachers on strike
• Trump suggested Iran should take out Los Angeles or San Diego and it would be a small price for us to pay
• Trump says reporters who say there are empty seats at his rallies should be arrested
• Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee released an ad portraying white guy and saying no more able bodied lounging around while receiving taxpayer funded healthcare and conservatives are mad
• Paramount and Warner Brothers have finalized their merger and have created Skydance
• Televangelist Jim Bakker died yesterday

Kitchen Briefs - October 5, 2026 PM

• Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have agreed to provide military forces and capabilities for rapid deployment in response to attacks by Yemen’s Houthis
• Treasury Secretary Bessent says Iran has not loaded any crude oil onto tankers
• Senator Chris Murphy is currently in Saudi Arabia and says Trump was unprepared for this war
• Trump says our gas prices are no longer up because of his war in Iran. It’s because of Russia’s war with Ukraine and all of his political opponents
• Trump is blaming Iran for the FlyDubai incident
• Israeli forces have killed a 22 year old Syrian Palestinian
• Marco Rubio is on his way to Iceland and called Netanyahu
• Trump is offering help to Russia with the plague
• Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US
• Politico was banned from the White House press pool today
• Portions of a phone call between Jane Doe and one of the Cornell 7, Matthew Ingall who was supposed to be her friend have Ingall saying maybe she was the one who assaulted him.
• Republican Senator Thom Tillis says his biggest regret of his career was voting to confirm Secretary Hegseth
• PepsiCo is recalling 122,000 cases of Gatorade because of undeclared yellow food dyes
• Former Speaker of the House and registered sex offender Dennis Hastert has died
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Kitchen Briefs - October 5, 2026 AM

• Yemen’s Defense Minister says they’re on the right track to defeat the Houthis
• According to Doctors Without Borders, Israel is progressively suffocating Gaza amid ongoing genocide
• The Israeli army shot and wounded 3 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
• An Israeli drone attack in Gaza has killed 1 and injured 5
• Some analysts think Gulf countries might be paying Iran a secret toll fee
• A 27 year old lab technician has died in Siberia from a suspected pneumonic plague outbreak and nearly 200 people are being observed to prevent transmission
• The Associated Press released an exclusive interview with soldiers and Gold Star families from the Iranian drone strike in Kuwait that killed 6
• Whistleblower Simon Andriesz who called out Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Congress as being in the Epstein files has committed suicide
• A mass shooting in George at a homecoming block party has killed 2, injured 35 and the shooter has yet to be apprehended
• Kash Patel is engaged to country singer Alexis Wilkins
• Karoline Leavitt is going to be a contributor for Fox News
• The KKK are trying to rebrand themselves as a group of faith and family known as the Knights Party
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman says we just have to accept some of the bad that comes with all the good of AI
• The administration has proposed a rule change for Head Start that would eliminate federal discipline guidelines and allow states to establish their own
• PEN America released their new data on banned books and nearly 12,000 school books have been banned which is a new record
• California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is running a new TV ad and it's weird. We are voting for Becerra

Kitchen Briefs - October 4, 2026

• Israeli jets have attacked another town in southern Lebanon
• More attacks in the West Bank have killed another person and injured more than 15
• Israel killed a Christian mother and daughter along with 2 other women
• Israel has ordered the closure of all West Bank and Gaza crossings from october 5th through the 7th
• The Houthis are saying they launched ballistic missiles and drones on Saudi’s Aramco site in Riyadh causing fires
• Saudi Arabia is giving Yemen $60million in aid
• The FlyDubai co-pilot from Oman had been barred from flying in Oman because of his extremist views
• A US Marine has been arrested in Okinawa for robbing and murdering a Japanese woman
• North Korea has tested an intermediate range missile
• Russia has hit another bridge in Kyiv and two vessels in the Black Sea
• Elon Musk said he’ll rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI
• Trump announced his Super Intelligence Force this morning led by Jay Clayton
• JD Vance and Ted Cruz aren’t getting along
• Natalie and Trump are busy this morning posting on Truth Social
• Thank you so much to Cecilia, Susan and Elizabeth for buying me coffee and thank you to Heather, Susan, Nadeen and Bobbi for becoming paid Substack subscribers
• The theme for banned books week is Let Books Be. Protect The Freedom To Read. I’m reading Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. What are your banned books plans?
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Kitchen Briefs - October 3, 2026

• Two more tankers have been hit by unidentified projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran says an additional tanker in violation has exploded
• Iraq’s Oil Tankers Company has transported 2 million barrels of of through the Strait
• Israeli attacks in Gaza City have injured 3
• Israel says their attempt to assassinate Hamas’ deputy head of their political bureau in Gaza failed
• Saudi attacks in Yemen have killed 72 people and injured 125
• Russia has struck another major bridge in Ukraine
• Tennessee’s prison chief is resigning
• Trump is sending a $90 gift to seniors
• The Coast Guard is searching for a medical transport aircraft with 6 on board off the coast of Nantucket
• A key member of the hacking group ShinyHunters who hacked into the FBI database has been detained in Jordan
• Trump posted the personal cell phone number of Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton urging people to call him to support permanent daylight savings time
• Trump is now saying that Iran was using nuclear sites for drug manufacturing
• Trump is concerned the Cornell 7 won’t get a fair shake
• A new taxpayer funded ad says "I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle the deep state, and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to ruffle the feathers. So God made Trump."
• Robert Kraft had no problem with Zach Bryan performing at Gillette Stadium in a Free Palestine shirt
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Kitchen Briefs - October 2, 2026

• Iran says it has destroyed a terrorist cell killing 2 terrorists after an Iranian security personnel was killed at a checkpoint
• The US has charged 4 for alleged Hamas fundraising
• The US has issued new sanctions against Hamas
• Another tanker has been struck in the Strait of Hormuz by an unknown projectile
• Trump says Europe has agreed to release a massive amount of diesel reserves immediately
• New York Attorney General Letitia James has been named special prosecutor to oversee the Cornell University sexual assault investigation
• Kendall Francis asked police and LSU to investigate being sexually assaulted by LSU football player Damien Shanklin. The school found he was responsible and issued a one year full ban from campus and activities. He appealed and was still found responsible aka guilty but his punishment was reduced to four semesters of probation with no restrictions so he went back to school and played football
• Amazon is investing $1B into communities where it operates data centers over the next 5 years
• If you receive a $500 Obamacare refund check in the mail, be sure to read the letter that comes with it from Trump
• The Venezuelan Door Dash driver who was shot by ICE has had the bullet finally removed from his back
• Christa Pike is in critical condition after the botched lethal injection attempts
• Trump is going to name Director of National intelligence Jay Clayton as his Super AI Czar
• The DOJ has opened a review into whether Watergate prosecutors mistreated Nixon
• Costco is rolling out a new medicare program
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Kitchen Briefs - October 1, 2026

• The US has deployed a strike team of 3 aircraft carriers and two landing groups to Iran by the end of November and has issued new sanctions
• The US has announced new sanctions for Russia for helping Iran
• A British-Iranian man was arrested today by British counterterrorism police amid the RAF investigation
• Trump says if Iran was involved in the FlyDubai pilot stabbing incident, they will be "hit very hard"
• Renee Good’s family is suing the US government and officials over her death
• Trump is now expressing his regret over his Supreme Court Justice appointments
• CNN was once again removed from the press pool
• The Treasury Department doesn’t think enough children are enrolled for Trump accounts
• Secretary Hegseth delivered his State of the Force speech
• Christa Pike is still alive after 2 lethal injections
• TSA will no longer allow agents to sit while checking your ID
• Trump says he’ll consider issuing preemptive pardons
• The self-policing accord that the AI tech bros signed with Trump misspelled United States
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Kitchen Briefs - September 30, 2026

• A FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing when one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot
• The UK says there are strong indications that Iran had a role in the security incident on their RAF base
• Iran says the US has responded to their proposal and are reviewing it
• Another vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday
• US troops are officially out of Iraq today after 23 years
• An Israeli strike on a bus in Gaza has killed 7 and injured 13
• Democrats have blocked the data center bill called the Ratepayer Protection Act
• The FTC is opening an investigation into the AI companies over potential AI risks
• A bill to limit stock trading in Congress was blocked in the Senate
• Senate Republicans and Fetterman blocked a resolution demanding a State department report on the killings of 9 Americans in the occupied West Bank
• Trump has finally given up on his appeal on the case with E. Jean Carroll
• A US Court of Appeals court has halted the execution of Christa Pike an hour before she was to become the first woman in 200 years to be executed in Tennessee
• Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her husband of 34 years
• Thank you to Carol for ensuring I had Hawaiian coffee yesterday for national coffee day!
• 842 days left