Kitchen Briefs - April 3, 2026 AM

• A US fighter jet has been shot down in central Iran. State media and an unnamed US official both confirm. A US search helicopter looking for the pilots has also been struck
• Seven rockets have been launched from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel
• This after Israeli strikes hit water facilities in Southern Lebanon, cutting vital services
• A US Israeli drone strike has hit a humanitarian aid warehouse in Iran
• 2000 more prisoners are set to be released from Cuba as Trump has made it clear he wants a change in leadership and placed an oil embargo on the country
• Iran has released another Lego video this time featuring Pete Hegseth. V from Under The Desk News fact checked it
• Hegseth has also now made policy change that allows military members to carry personal firearms on military bases
• Interim AG Todd Blanche says there will be no further Epstein files released
• SpaceX has been talking to Saudi Arabia about a potential $5Billion investment
• Today in history, the Unabomber was arrested in 1996 and Martin Luther King Jr delivered his final speech in 1968 as tomorrow marks the anniversary of his assassination 58 years ago
• And in beautiful news, the first image of Earth taken by Artemis II has arrived and it’s stunning

Kitchen Briefs - April 2, 2026 PM

• IRGC claims new strikes on Amazon Data Centers in Bahrain and Dubai
• Pam Bondi is out
• Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down immediately
• Today is in fact liberation day. It’s officially one year since Trump liberated families from their hard-earned money and socked them with higher costs implementing his tariffs.
• The ballroom just got the green light again from a commission of Trump loyalists who sit on the National Capital Planning commission
• And today in history, Pope John Paul II died in 2005, John Gotti was convicted in 1992 and Global Covid cases surpassed 1 million in 2020
• Learn a second language

Kitchen Briefs - April 2, 2026 AM

• Today the US and Israel are targeting a centuries old medical research center in Tehran, a bridge near the capital and steel plants today
• Yesterday Trump said people refer to him as King and compared himself to Jesus on Palm Sunday
• Oil prices continue to surge to $110/barrel and stocks fall
• The US Embassy in Iraq is urging US citizens to leave after threats from Iran
• Trump is talking about getting rid of Pam Bondi and blaming any bad press on Karoline Leavitt
• AP news has fact checked last night's ramble
• Markwayne Mullins’ first order of business has been to scrap the policy Kristi Noem put in place demanding her review for contracts over $100K
• In random news did you set up a Gmail account using a weird name that you wish you could change? Google is now letting you do just that!

Kitchen Briefs - April 1, 2026 PM

• Artemis II has launched for its orbit around the moon
• President Trump will be addressing us this evening and has already said he plans on telling everyone how great he is
• Meanwhile the President of Iran issued an open letter to America. He defended Iran’s actions said they were not a threat. He blamed the United States for escalating the conflict and argued that the actions of strikes on infrastructures and citizens could amount to war crimes. He criticized U.S. foreign policy history, and urged Americans to question the justification and consequences of the war
• A funding bill to finally end this partial shutdown has been agreed upon and it basically mimics what the Senate passed
• Trump cut his appears in the Supreme Court hearing short today because he didn’t like what he heard. Justices were not swayed by the arguments to end citizenship birth rights
• Florida has become the 3rd state to enact a law requiring documented proof of citizenship to vote
• SpaceX has confidentially launched their IPO could go in June and make Elon even richer than he already is
• Thank you to Lele Cake/Lele Bakery for my celebration dessert

Kitchen Briefs - April 1, 2026 AM

• Over one month into this war and Trump is finally going to address the nation tonight. He's also talking about leaving NATO
• Trump claims Iran’s new president has asked for a ceasefire but that Trump wants the Strait reopened as a condition
• The Supreme Court is currently hearing the case on limiting birthright citizenship and in yet another first, Trump is sitting in
• Yesterday I shared that the aircrew who flew over Kid Rock’s pool were suspended…nope
• Joy Ann Reid shared last night that Israel has opened the sewage water dam into the Wadi Gaza Stream polluting the river and causing untreated waste to mix with seawater. The Wadi Gaza is the only significant surface water source in Gaza
• NASA is preparing to launch the first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years
• DHS has paused their new immigrant warehouse purchases since there are now reviews of the contracts that occurred under Noem

Kitchen Briefs - March 31, 2026 PM

• Trump has just said that the US military will leave Iran in the next two to three weeks
• American journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad today
• The Iran Military Media account on X posted the following today: Dear people of America, we know this war is not your war with IRAN and will will not forget your support over the past month. With us, the missiles. With you, the streets. Do not doubt that all of us, together, will defeat the stupid, war-mongering yellow pig!
• A judge has blocked the White House ballroom construction until Congress approves it
• Trump signed an executive order creating a nationwide list of verified eligible voters, centralizing voter eligibility data ahead of this year's midterm elections. The order, first reported by the Daily Caller, tasks the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration with creating the voter list while seeking to bar the Postal Service from sending absentee ballots
• A Federal judge has blocked Trump’s order to end funding to NPR and PBS citing the First Amendment
• Montana Governor signs a law defining sex by reproductive system
• Washington's Gov has signed a 9.9% income tax on earnings over $1M
• Oracle has started mass layoffs…because they need to fund an AI data center
• Tyler Robinson’s defense team claims the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk does not in fact match his gun. The bullet fragment analysis came back as inconclusive
• The University of Pennsylvania must comply with a federal subpoena seeking a list of Jewish community members
• The Army has suspended the air crew who flew over lame Kid Rock’s house
• Thank you to my follower Easy E for alerting me to a lawsuit that has been filed by retired lawyer James Rickher to stop the minting of the Trump coin. The law he’s using for his case dates back to 1866 which bans living individuals on US currency

Kitchen Briefs - March 31, 2026 AM

• The Supreme Court has backed the challenge to conversion therapy ban in Colorado. The argument is that the law bans talk therapy claiming to violate the First Amendment
• At least 11 people, including three children and two mothers, were killed in a strike on the Iranian city of Mahallat
• Israel has passed a law introducing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis
• Iran is threatening US tech companies in the region and includes Boeing, Tesla, Meta, Google and Apple
• Trump is telling the UK and other countries who are now unable to get jet fuel from the US that the US “won’t be there to help you anymore just like you weren’t there for us”
• Republican House Budget Chair Arrington says Congress can pay for Trump’s Iran war by further addressing Medicaid and SNAP
• Hegseth says the US will negotiate with bombs while also praying for God’s protection, peace, and safety over those involved in the Iran war, ending it in the name of Jesus Christ
• Trump’s approval rating is officially the lowest of all Presidents in American history
• The Financial Times claims that a broker connected to Pete Hegseth contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in a defense-focused fund
• Trump is working on his Presidential library plans which he wants to be a skyscraper in Florida to the tune of $1B
• Sony Pictures is releasing a series starring Laura Dern based on the book Perversion of Justice the Jeffrey Epstein Story by journalist Julie K. Brown. Reminder that the full files have yet to be released
• Photos of Kristi Noem's husband have been released
• The White House wants Thanksgiving photos of Karoline Leavitt to be pulled

Kitchen Briefs - March 30, 2026 PM

• The UAE has announced that distance learning will continue until at least mid-April
• A reporter asked Karoline Leavitt about Trump’s threats and how they actually are war crimes
• Oil prices settled today at just over $102, the highest since 2022
• Lindsey Graham is suddenly changing his tune and telling Trump to wind down the war
• Wait times at TSA are starting to return to normal now that TSA employees are receiving their paychecks
• The Michigan synagogue attack that happened earlier this month was indeed an act of terrorism inspired by Hezbollah
• The Army is now investigating after MAGA follower Kid Rock shared a video of 2 Apache helicopters hovered over his pool saluting him
• My current reads are Kiss, Marry Kill by Lori Gold and The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin

Kitchen Briefs - March 30, 2026 AM

• We are officially into the 5th week of this war that Trump claimed would take four weeks or less. This morning Trump threatened again to obliterate Iran if a peace deal is not met. He’s threatening to hit civilian infrastructure which is actually a war crime
• The US and Israel has struck 75 police stations in Iran. Al Jazeera says it’s an effort to make the Iranian state collapse
• The NY Times reports that the US used a new weapon called the Precision Strike Missile
• Israel has dropped over 80 explosives on Tehran’s weapon production sites in their latest strike and Iran’s heavy water production plant is no longer operational
• Iran threatens to target political and military officials homes
• Marco Rubio says Trump prefers diplomacy and that the Strait of Hormuz is going to reopen one way or another
• The UK says this isn’t our war and will not send troops to Iran
• Iran has released a Lego video today
• Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the war. Switzerland has also done the same
• A secret military bunker is to be built under the new ballroom at the White House
• Last week Trump took to his social media and said he wants to get rid of the "unaffordable care act". This week Republicans are looking at doing just that so they can fund his war
• Corn tortillas in California must now contain folic acid. A similar law in Alabama takes effect in June with a number of other states looking at this as well. This move is aimed at reducing Hispanic infants’ disproportionately high rates of serious conditions called neural tube defects
• Also in California, a group of Epstein survivors have filed a Federal class action lawsuit against the Trump administration and Google over the release of their personal information made public by the Department of Justice as this violated federal privacy law.
• Chesney the kangaroo hopped an 8 foot fence at a petting zoo in Wisconsin and was missing for 3 days because stray dogs spooked him

Kitchen Briefs - March 29, 2026

• The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran
• Photos show and confirm that Israeli strikes at a US base in Saudi Arabia ​​destroyed a US E-3 Sentry surveillance aircraft and multiple KC-135 refueling tankers while wounding at least 12 American service members
• Meet The Press
• Philippines, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have gone to four day work weeks
• Thailand has suspended fuel exports, instructed govt employees to work from home and to increase temperatures at home to save electricity
• Vietnam is encouraging remote work, public transport and seeking alternative oil supplies
• Myanmar & Cambodia have implemented odd-even fuel rationing systems and Cambodia has closed ⅓ of their petrol stations
• Japan and South Korea have released emergency oil reserves
• Egypt has ordered malls and restaurants to close by 9pm and government buildings by 6pm
• Kenya has imposed a ban on fuel exports
• Israeli soldiers assaulted CNN reporters and there will be an investigation according to Israeli forces
• Ukrainian President Zelensky says satellite imagery of a U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia was shared by Russia with Iran
• Israeli police prevent Catholic leaders from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at Jerusalem church for the first time in centuries
• CPAC gave their nod to JD Vance for the 2028 Presidential pick
• Kash Patel is pushing to release investigative files related to Eric Swalwell who is a Congressman and running for California governor
• Trump is golfing once again this weekend which brings his golf total from us the taxpayers to $101.2M
• Over 8M people turned out across the country for the No Kings Protests