Kitchen Briefs

Kitchen Briefs - May 11, 2026 PM

• Just in, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority allows Alabama to eliminate a congressional district held by a Black democrat
• Iran says they are ready to deliver a response to any aggression and the US will be surprised
• Israeli military is saying they intercepted a suspicious aerial target over southern Lebanon where their own military was occupying the area while Israel is carrying out a number of air raids across Lebanon
• Virginia Democrats are asking the US Supreme court to step in and let them use the new congressional maps that voters voted for
• Trump has nominated former Navy SEAL Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA
• Trump told Fox News this morning that he’s seriously considering making Venezuela the 51st state
• Trump is heading to China this week and he’s taking his friends with him! Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, BlackRock Inc. executive Larry Fink, Blackstone Inc. executive Stephen Schwarzman, and Visa Inc. executive Ryan McInerney will be joining him
• Two executive orders were signed today by Trump to lower the costs of beef
• Jimmy Kimmel will honor Stephen Colbert in the same way he honored David Letterman back in 2015 by airing a rerun of his show while The Late Show airs its final episode this Thursday, May 21st
• Did you catch my other video today called What’s Going On In The House? Check it out and don’t forget to subscribe to my Substack!

Kitchen Briefs - May 11, 2026 AM

• Iran foreign ministry spokesperson says the US has unreasonable demands while Trump says their response is stupid and is considering reviving Project Freedom. He said the ceasefire is on life support
• During a Maternal Health Care event hosted by Trump, he claimed he’s the father of fertility and then said Trump Derangement Syndrome is an actual disease. Dr Oz said most of us are under-babied and we have to get moms healthy enough to do the most creative thing the universe knows which is making babies
• Iran wants the US to clean up the nuclear dust at the facility the US damaged but Trump said he’s not sure how to enter Iran to do that. He also said he wants to suspend the federal gas tax which is 18.4 cents per gallon
• Israel continues to bomb Lebanon. Lebanese health officials claim that in just the past 24 hours, Israel has killed 51 more people bringing the total to approximately 2,869 with almost 9K wounded
• Suspected shooter in the White House Correspondent’s Dinner Cole Allen Thomas has plead not guilty to attempted assassination charges
• Pediatric groups are speaking out for the first time in 13 years about recess and how it is absolutely necessary for kids and also shouldn’t be what kids are kept from for disciplinary reasons
• Trump is not happy with Supreme court justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett who he says haven’t remained true to him when it comes to tariffs
• Trump went on and on yesterday about how great he is on social media

Kitchen Briefs - May 10, 2026

• Iran has sent their response to the US proposal and Trump says they’re playing games
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon today
• Israel secretly established a military base in Iraq’s western desert ahead of their attacks
• On Friday an email from Susie Wiles ordering White House staff to stop leaking things to the press was leaked
• Voice actor Hunter Peterson launched a Tiktok campaign to revive Spirit airlines and has raised $132M
• Utah residents are trying to block a massive AI data center from being built by Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary who got approval for it last month
• I shared last week that two soldiers were missing in Morocco after going on a hike after a day of exercises. It turns out they fell off a cliff. The remains of one has been recovered in the ocean a mile away from where they fell
• I'm now reading Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Kitchen Briefs - May 9, 2026

• Israeli strikes in Lebanon are being called a massacre today with at least 19 people killed due to strikes on a residential building
• In Putin’s annual speech, he denounced NATO
• Canada is doubling down on work to reunite Ukrainian children 'stolen' by Russia
• A person has died at the Denver airport after jumping the fence and being struck by a Frontier airlines plane during takeoff
• The US military struck another alleged drug boat in the Pacific Ocean, killing 2 but leaving an actual survivor
• The parent company of Truth Social reports a $400M loss
• Alligator Alcatraz might just be getting shut down
• Hantavirus has hit Polymarket in the form of $3M bets on whether it’ll be our next pandemic
• The FCC has a new proposal that would require your full ID to get a phone number so you can say goodbye to anonymous numbers
• Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission met last month and they are working on their final report

Kitchen Briefs - May 8, 2026 PM

• We are still awaiting Iran’s response to the 14 point proposal sent to them by the US
• Israeli strikes have killed 4 more in Lebanon
• Trump says Russia and Ukraine will observe a 3 day ceasefire during celebrations of the Soviet Union’s victory over nazi Germany
• A Virginia court has ruled their redistricting maps which citizens voted on are unconstitutional. This encouraged Alabama to quickly redraw their maps
• ABC is accusing the FCC of violating its first amendment rights over its scrutiny of The View
• Yesterday Trump did what he and all MAGA men are so good at which is showing how much they are intimidated by women with his remarks to ABC News reporter Rachel Scott
• Trump's planning to fire the FDA commissioner because of his handling of the abortion pill and quote undermining Trump and Vance’s pro life credentials
• And about those UFOs, Trump said he wants complete and maximum transparency
• California Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that hospitals will now give 400 free diapers to newborns. The program will launch at 65 hospitals who primarily serve low income patients

Kitchen Briefs - May 8, 2026 AM

• The US is expecting a response to their proposal from Iran today while the US claims it’s blocked 70 ships from entering or exiting Iranian ports. The ships have the capacity to hold 166M barrels of oil and is worth over $13B
• Israel continues drone strikes in Lebanon and has arrested a renowned Palestinain activist Mohammad Abu al-Hummus. He has been repeatedly arrested and attacked by Israeli police over the years
• While we feel prices going up because of the war, BBC is reporting how banks, oil and gas companies and defense companies are actually profiting billions off the war
• The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs and says American people can make up their own minds on what they believe
• The platform Canvas which many schools. The cybercriminal group behind it claims to have stolen data from 275M users across 9K schools and is now posting ransom demands.
• Trump had his motorcade drive along the reflecting pool to inspect his $1.9M paint job

Kitchen Briefs - May 7, 2026 PM

• The US has launched attacks on Iran again and please remember this is still day 69 of this war. Iran says attacks targeted two ships and civilian areas while CENTCOM claims American forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks. The US says this is not an end to the ceasefire or a restart of the war
• The CIA says the administration is wrong about Iran, they can economically survive the strait blockade for at least another 3 to 4 months
• Israel is targeting medics in south Lebanon and killed one paramedic, wounding another
• An appeals court appears ready to reject Hegseth’s bid to punish Senator Mark Kelly over his video about illegal orders
• A federal court ruled Thursday against the new global tariffs because they are “invalid″ and ”unauthorized by law”
• Republicans in Tennessee enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis, reshaping it to the GOP’s advantage. Trum’s puppet Gov Bill Lee signed it immediately
• The Trump administration is backing a proposal to allow handguns to be mailed through the US Postal Service. This hasn’t been allowed since 1927 and the DOJ says yeah that law violates the 2nd Amendment
• Defense Dept Inspector General will not investigate the flyover of Kid Rock’s Pool because Hegseth said it shouldn't be
• For anyone who is behind in child support payments of $100K you’ll be losing your passport. Shortly, that amount will go down to $2500
• In regards to hantavirus that I mentioned this morning, the group researching it had funding cut last year
• Kash Patel is ordering polygraph tests to find out who is leaking info on him
• Marco Rubio unveiled new sanctions against Cuba
• Pope Leo gifted Marco Rubio a pen made from an olive tree, the plant of peace. Rubio gifted him a crystal football

Kitchen Briefs - May 7, 2026 AM

• A Federal Judge ordered the unsealing of Epstein’s alleged suicide note yesterday
• US Treasury Dept has issued new sanctions on Iraqi individuals and companies who they claim have ties to Iran backed entities
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon while Hezbollah says they hit an Israeli bulldozer with a drone
• Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo while Trump claims the Pope is endangering a lot of Catholics
• Trump is wanting to paint the Eisenhower building white. The National Capital Planning Commission is reviewing his proposal today
• Trump posted an AI image of a sleeping President Biden in the oval office surrounded by Obama, Hillary Clinton and had Hunter
• MAGA advice on hanatavirus
• James Murdoch is trying to buy Vox Media and New York magazine for $300M
• Karoline Leavitt has announced the birth of her baby girl
• Check out my podcast Beyond the Campaign because on today’s episode I got to interview my friend V of Under The Desk News

Kitchen Briefs - May 6, 2026 PM

• Trump claims he had some very good talks with Iran and yet a US fighter jet shot out the rudder of an Iranian oil tanker today
• Israel is bombing Beirut’s southern suburb
• Trump said his autocorrect kept changing Melania to Melody and the military fixed it for him
• A massive crude oil short position worth roughly $920 million was reportedly placed about 70 minutes before Axios published a report suggesting the U.S. and Iran were nearing a deal to end the conflict giving that individual a $125M profit
• Dir of Economic Council Kevin Hassett argued that consumer spending remains strong despite rising fuel costs, saying, “Credit card spending is through the roof. They're spending more on gasoline, but they're spending more on everything else too.”
• RFK Jr has cleared the path for minors to use tanning beds.
• OpenAI board member said Elon offered her his sperm donations while she was advising OpenAI
• Pope Leo surprise video called 13 priests in Southern Lebanon to comfort them.
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Kitchen Briefs - May 6, 2026 AM

• Project Freedom has been paused due to the great progress made in the Strait. Probably the best ever but Trump said if an agreement isn’t reached, the US will start "bombing Iran at a much higher level and intensity"
• Oil prices have dropped and stocks rose this morning
• According to the Washington Post, satellite images reveal Iranian attacks caused significantly more damage to US military infrastructure than the Trump administration has admitted
• Israel has killed at least 7 more in southern Lebanon
• The FBI is currently raiding the offices of Virginia Democratic Senator Louise Lucas who led redistricting changes
• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is going on Day 2 of closed door questioning with the House Oversight Committee over his relationship with Epstein
• A Canadian man has filed a lawsuit against DHS alleging they used an improper customs summons to obtain private data from Google following his online criticisms of our Trump
• DHS is ending their rapid training for ICE agents
• Trump took to social media to talk about his ballroom again
• Did you catch the CA Gubernatorial Debate on CNN last night? Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called out Sheriff Chad Bianco for being an oath keeper and he admitted it proudly.
• Ted Turner has passed away at the age of 87. He launched CNN, the first 24 hour news channel in 1980