Kitchen Briefs - June 8, 2026 AM

• Iran and Israel traded strikes but have halted. Iran said if Israel strikes on Lebanon, then they will resume their strikes as well
• Oil prices are up and stocks are skittish this morning
• A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines has killed at least 32
• Arson suspect Jonathan Rinderknecht’s trial starts today for his role in the Palisades Fire
• 3 men were arrested last week by the FBI, 1 in Kansas, 2 in California on charges of providing materials to ISIS
• In the Los Angeles Mayoral race, Nithya Raman has overtaken Spencer Pratt in votes right now
• In the new Department of Defense’s new recognized religion list which went from over 200 to just 31 lists which religions are Christian but one they didn’t list as Christian is the Church of Latter Day Saints
• LEGO has launched is largest set with over 12,060 pieces
• My current reads: Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead and Summerland Cove by Ellen Baker

Kitchen Briefs - June 7, 2026

• Israel continues to strike Lebanon and has hit two apartment buildings killing at least 2 and wounding many more. While Iran is ticked off about the continued attacks, Trump is calling for more “surgical” strikes on Lebanon
• Israel has killed another 9 in Gaza
• Iran says the problem with negotiations is that the US keeps changing their positions and being contradictory
• A Russian drone has struck a spent nuclear fuel storage facility near Chornobyl
• At least 12 people were shot last night at a festival in Toledo, Ohio. Police are still searching for the suspect
• Trump is heading to New York to cheer on the Knicks despite not being wanted
• Trump rage quit his Meet The Press interview
• A Virginia Vietnam Vet is suing to block the UFC fight at the White House
• Iraq’s stryker was detained for nearly 7 hours yesterday when he arrived at Chicago’s O’hare airport and the team’s official photographer was denied entry. Iran’s team must enter and leave the US on their match day
• Central African Republic has agreed to taking migrants from other countries that the US has deported
• A number of scientists were removed from the American Diabetes Association conference after distributing materials that criticized the Trump Administration
• The New World Screwworm has been found in Texas cattle and the Trump administration says this isn’t because they got rid of USAID and cut funding, no it’s because of Biden and immigrants
• The Pentagon has raised the threat assessment for Israel to “critical” with significant increase in Israeli human and technical espionage capabilities directed at US targets
• Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act which is heading to Congress which aims to intertwine the US and Israeli army by committing to bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements and an unprecedented integration of the US and Israeli weapons industries

Kitchen Briefs - June 6, 2026

• The US and Iran are trading strikes in the Gulf
• Israel continues to strike Gaza and today it was a wedding tent where they killed at least 5 with many more injured
• At least 10 more have been killed in Lebanon due to Israeli strikes with at least 3 being Lebanese soldiers
• Israeli troops open fired on a car in the West Bank and killed a 7 month old
• Iran says their technical staff have been denied visas by the US for the World Cup games. This includes key managerial and administrative members
• Yesterday SoFi stadium workers in Los Angeles voted to strike just days before the World Cup games are set to start
• Ukraine has been targeting St. Petersburg
• In California, Xavier Becerra will advance to the November election
• Trump pardoned former Indiana congressman Stephen Buyer who served nearly two years in prison for insider trading
• Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day Hegseth warned that Europe is being stormed by dangerous ideologies
• The Department of Defense has reduced its list of officially recognized religions from over 200 to 31, saying the change will help chaplains better provide religious support to service members
• The White House website now has a page called Leftist Influencers
• Quote from Read This When Things Fall Apart

Kitchen Briefs - June 5, 2026 PM

• Lebanon’s president is accusing Iran of using them as a bargaining chip while Israel continues to strike and has killed 5 more, including another medic in Lebanon. This brings Lebanon’s death toll since March to 3,558
• Trump says after the Strait of Hormuz opens, oil prices will drop a lot
• Iran’s Supreme Leader’s adviser wants $24B in frozen assets or they’ll widen the war
• Zelensky has asked for a face-to-face meeting with Putin
• FIFA accidentally gave away free tickets to a game in Toronto
• Trump plans on attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals to root for the Knicks
• Next week Trump is going to meet with the leading Tech Bros of AI to discuss the US investing in their companies
• The DOJ has sent a prosecutor to Los Angeles to oversee ballot counting
• A federal judge has blocked Trump’s asylum freeze on 39 countries
• In an appeals court today, a DOJ lawyer said even if the ballroom is illegal, the courts can’t stop it
• A former senior executive at the Social Security Administration has filed a whistleblower disclosure claiming Trump administration officials planned to falsely add 2.7 million living people to the government's master death database
• NASDAQ is down 4% and is the worst day all year
• Meta has quietly added facial recognition to their smart glasses
• The Chicago Bears are heading to Indiana and building a new stadium

Kitchen Briefs - June 5, 2026 AM

• Despite the call for a ceasefire, strikes continue. Hezbollah claims 8 attacks on Israeli positions in southern Lebanon
• Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker has rejected the ceasefire due to the conditions in which only Hezbollah is to withdraw. He wants Israel to have to withdraw from Lebanon as well
• Iran is firing warning missiles and drones at the US Navy who they claim are harassing maritime traffic and seizing commercial vessels and oil tankers
• Ukraine has struck 5 ships allegedly containing illegal cargo
• After more than 18 hours of debates and proposed amendments, the Senate passed the $70B bill to fund CBP and ICE. They did not put a single limit on Trump’s slush fund, ballroom or immigration enforcement.
• The Senate also killed the SAVE Act
• The House passed the Ukraine Support Act approving new military assistance for Ukraine and tougher sanctions on Russia
• ICE will stop reporting deaths of former detainees that happen within 30 days of their release from federal custody. This comes after death rates continue to rise but DHS says this is common sense, they’re not in our custody any longer, we’re not responsible
• Trump is building a promenade connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River and he claims “people” want it to be called the Trump Promenade
• The corporate donors for Trump’s ballroom are proving their investment is paying off to the tune of over $50B in new or expanded federal contracts and those who were already under federal investigation have had those paused or reduced
• Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced that Illinois will temporarily stop processing applications for tax incentives for new AI data centers
• NASA has ordered astronauts on the International Space Station to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation as Russian crews attempt to repair an air leak. There are 2 US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut currently aboard
• The US is weaponizing visas for FIFA players. Switzerland’s main goalscorer was blocked from boarding a flight with his teammates. The Men’s national team of South Africa had to delay their flight because 20 people in their group were still trying to get the US embassy to process their visas
• Trump says Bill Pulte won’t be the permanent Director of National Intelligence
• Last night in Long Beach, CA the US military conducted training exercises at 2am with helicopters, controlled explosions and simulated weapons fire
• Albanians for the 4th night protesting against Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s island purchase

Kitchen Briefs - June 4, 2026 PM

• Hezbollah is dismissing the ceasefire and striking Israel and have killed at least one Israeli soldier. Trump just said he thinks progress has been made
• In the closed door interview with Pam Bondi she said that it wasn’t actually her who oversaw the release of the Epstein files. It’s been Todd Blanche
• Todd Blanche went on Katie Miller’s podcast where he claimed there were no security cameras in Epstein's house
• Senate Republicans have rejected funding amendments that would have gotten rid of the ballroom fund and the anti-weaponization fund
• Good news for Delaney Hall: Governor Sherrill has committed $20M to immigrant legal defense
• In an unincorporated part of Gilroy, CA, just south of San Jose, blueprints confirm an ICE facility with detention and processing space is planned and already under construction
• I have had a number of messages about HR8800 which is the National Defense Authorization Act. In section 224 of the bill, it proposes establishing a US Israel Tech Partnership
• My current read is The Supper Club Saints by Claire Swinarski who will be on an upcoming episode of Read The Damn Book. I also received in the mail this week Happiness Habits by Mandie Brice and Bright Side by Kim Holden who was a guest last week

Kitchen Briefs - June 4, 2026 AM

• Yesterday Lebanon and Israel decided on a ceasefire but it was also dependent on Hezbollah. Hezbollah calls the agreement shameless and rejects it
• Israeli strikes have killed 4 more Lebanese
• Yesterday Congress passed the Iran War Powers Resolution
• Trump says he is going to nominate acting attorney general Todd Blanche to be the attorney general
• An AP News investigation has found that The Trump administration has re-separated dozens of migrant children from their families, violating a landmark 2023 legal settlement intended to protect those previously separated
• Here in CA, votes are still being counted as we expected and Trump is not happy saying "they're trying to steal the election"
• Last night at a graduation ceremony at Fairfield High near Sacramento, CA a shooting killed 1 and injured 3 others. No suspect description has been released
• RFK Jr is looking into gaining state access to medical records to investigate possible links between vaccines, autism, and chronic illnesses
• The Senate begins voting today on funding DHS and ICE. A Vote-A-Rama has started which is a marathon session of debate and amendments
• Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump bought an island in Albania for a mere $1.4B

Kitchen Briefs - June 3, 2026 PM

• Iran says contact with the US has not been cut off but no progress has been made. Also according to Iran they targeted a US military vessel in the Sea of Oman but CENTCOM says that’s a lie
• To help negotiations along, Trump says he called Netanyahu crazy when they spoke
• In regards attack of Iran on Kuwait’s airport, Iran is claiming it was the fault of the US and a malfunctioning US patriot missile that was supposed to intercept Iranian missiles. CENTCOM says it was Iran
• In unredacted Epstein files it shows Trump flew on Epstein’s plane
• Today Trump said he believes a Vance Rubio 2028 ticket would be unbeatable
• Trump wants the UFC installation to be permanent
• Today Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met with Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner whose sexting while marriage scandal has come out
• A hostage standoff in Bakersfield, CA has ended with the suspect being killed by the FBI. The suspect held 10 people hostage yesterday in an office building and they were employees of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. The suspect was Anthony Scott Searles-Harris, 41, who was a dishonorably discharged Army veteran with a history of trouble with law enforcement and was a registered sex offender.
• Polymarket has cut ties with George Santos and their paid relationship after learning he placed bets against himself attending Trump’s State of The Union.

Kitchen Briefs - June 3, 2026 AM

• Iran has attacked Kuwait striking a terminal at the international airport, killing one and wounding dozens of others. Iran says this should serve as a lesson to the US
• Trump said we don’t need boots on the ground because the US wiped out Iran’s military
• Israel has intercepted two missiles from Lebanon while Israel struck Lebanon and killed 2 more paramedics and a Lebanese soldier. Israel has also killed 3 more in Gaza and wounded 35 in the last 24 hours
• The Supreme Court decided yesterday that Alabama can use their GOP friendly map for the midterms and cut a seat held by a Black Democrat
• Former Rep George Santos is now under investigation for insider trading on the prediction market platform Kalshi
• The Anti Weaponization fund is dead the settlement says the IRS can’t investigate Trump, his businesses or his family
• A convicted January 6er has been hired for a counterterrorism job that oversees highly classified military operations
• Trump hasn’t been seen in actual public in a week
• Costs of revamping the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has gone from $1.8M to over $13M
• Indiana’s Gov Mike Braun is also celebrating Nuclear Family Month
• The Trump administration isn’t just canceling wind projects, they’re also dismantling the ocean monitoring system which will not only harm environmental research but harms the monitor of tsunamis and earthquakes
• Some Republican Senators are agreeing that Nat’l Intelligence Director nominee Bill Pulte lacks experience
• CBS’s Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes was fired yesterday after speaking the truth

Kitchen Briefs - June 2, 2026 PM

• Marco Rubio says the US will not remove sanctions on Iran in exchange for a full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Any sanction relief would need to include Iran giving up its enriched Uranium
• Iranian outlets are saying Iran has stopped talking negotiations but liar liar pants are on fire Trump says talks continue
• Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed 4 more
• The death toll in Ukraine is now up to 22
• House Ethics Committee is investigating Representative Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations
• The Trump administration paid $1B to a French company to NOT build offshore wind farms and instead invest in fossil fuel projects. Had the project gone through, it would have powered 1.3M homes and potentially saved ratepayers $10B.
• Trump just signed an executive order on the oversight of AI to vet the national security risks up to a month before they go public
• On May 15th, a $10M settlement was announced as the result of a 2023 investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital. They were to stop allowing transgender children from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapies along with revoking medical privileges of 3 current doctors and 2 former ones. They have to also create a detransition clinic for transgender patients by this summer and keep a list of potential gender affirming patients
• The White House Correspondent’s dinner has been rescheduled for July 24
• Stay tuned for California election updates and a special interview later today