Kitchen Briefs

Kitchen Briefs - April 29, 2026 AM

• Congress is hearing from Secretary Hegseth who is defending his $1.5T budget
• 5 more people have been killed in Lebanon from Israeli attacks
• Iran has been trying to get around sanctions by using Crypto and now Trump has frozen $344M in crypto assets
• The Supreme Court has tossed out Louisiana’s contested congressional map as an unconstitutional gerrymandering
• California Congressman Robert Garcia has announced a civil contempt resolution for former Attorney General Pam Bondi for her failure to comply when subpoenaed
• ICE agent Jonathon Ross who killed Renee Good has been moved to another state to do his job
• A new poll shows that Democrats are stressed out by the news but still won’t look away
• Another new poll shows that Americans think Republicans are more of a threat to free speech than Democrats
• The CDC is warning of a new strain of salmonella that is antibiotic resistant and it’s linked to backyard poultry
• Today in 1945 US soldiers liberated Dachau
• California Gubernatorial Debate - takeaways are that Sheriff Chad Bianco is not only not qualified but a bad human and Tony Thurmond, Xavier becerra and Matt Mahan all put him in his place

Kitchen Briefs - April 28, 2026 PM

• Earlier today I mentioned that today is day 60 of the war in Iran. Under the War Powers Act of 1973, the President must terminate the use of Armed Forces in hostilities within 60 days of notifying Congress of military action unless Congress declares war, authorizes the use of military force, or grants a 30-day extension. Senator Adam Schiff of California is introducing the 6th war powers resolution tomorrow
• Lebanon’s Prime Minister says Israel’s killing of civil defense members is a new war crime
• An arrest warrant has been issued for ex FBI director James Comey
• Trump is putting his face and signature on US passports that will be issued around June through the summer to commemorate 250 years
• The FCC is reviewing Disney’s broadcast licenses
• The US soldier who has been charged with fraud after he made $400K on Polymarket with his bet on Maduro’s kidnapping has pled not guilty
• Good news: Mississippi middle schoolers stopped a bus from crashing after their bus driver blacked out. Also on Mississippi, I interviewed Scott Colom today who is running for Senator and ya’ll are going to be so lucky having him represent you
• A big thank you to Ayanna for buying me coffee tomorrow!

Kitchen Briefs - April 28, 2026 AM

• Iran has opened 6 airports amid the ceasefire yet Trump posted that they called him and said they’re in a state of collapse
• UAE has left OPEC
• Two more people have been killed in Gaza city after Israeli attacks
• Kid Rock and Secretary Hegseth went on some Apache helicopter joy rides
• The DOJ has filed a motion overnight against the National Trust, the lawsuit trying to shut down the ballroom construction
• Trump is accelerating the deportation of unaccompanied migrant children, speeding up the process by weeks and even months. Children as young as 4 years of age are having to appear in court, at times without legal help. The spokesman for DHHS says many of the children were at risk for trafficking and exploitation, so this should disrupt those systems
• A series of raids on businesses are being conducted in the Minneapolis area as part of an ongoing fraud investigation
• I want to share with you a quote I read last night in Theo of Golden that I posted about: “Every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow, I fear, we own all of the world’s hurts together.”

Kitchen Briefs - April 27, 2026 PM

• Katie Phang, who is an independent journalist, legal analyst and trial lawyer and whom I call friend is the first journalist to sue the DOJ for violating the Epstein files transparency act. The suit claims the DOJ missed deadlines, did excessive or improper redactions without explanation and withheld key documents. The suit calls for all documents released and all unnecessary redactions removed
• More good news is that National Trust will not back down on their suit against Trump and his $400M ballroom even after the DOJ pressured them
• Trump and his top security people are reviewing Iran’s proposal
• Shooting suspect Cole Thomas Allen was charged today with the attempted assassination of Trump. He was also charged with transportation of a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence
• Karoline Leavitt delayed her maternity leave to give a press conference and covered how Melania and Trump are upset over Jimmy Kimmel’s comments and how despicable it is that Americans refer to Trump as a fascist and compare him to Hitler
• King Charles and Queen Camilla have arrived for a 4 day visit kicking off with tea with Trump and Melania
• Taylor Swift has filed to trademark her voice and image after AI concerns

Kitchen Briefs - April 27, 2026 AM

• Iran’s Foreign Minister has left Pakistan and is now in Russia visiting with Putin
• Iran has offered to open the Strait if the US lifts the blockade and ends the war
• Lebanon’s death toll due to Israeli attacks now stands at 2,521
• Melania Trump is now mad at Jimmy Kimmel and is urging ABC to take a stand after he made a joke about her being an "expectant widow"
• Shooting suspect Cole Thomas Allen is due to be arraigned in court today
• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is proposing a new House map for Florida in order to gain 4 seats
• A Trump lover has proposed renaming Immigration & Customs Enforcement to National Immigration & Customs Enforcement so that they are referred to as NICE agents and Trump is promoting the change
• Trump went on 60 minutes last night since CBS now bows down to him. He thinks social media has made people mentally sick

Kitchen Briefs - April 26, 2026

• Last night at the White House Correspondentss dinner, there was a shooter. The suspect arrested is Cole Thomas Allen.
• Iran’s top diplomat has returned to Pakistan and Israel continues to strike Lebanon with Netanyahu ordering the Israeli army to "vigorously attack" Hezbollah in Lebanon
• Republican Thom Tillis says he’ll approve the nomination on Kevin Warsh despite last week saying he wouldn’t.
• In financial disclosures, Trump bought $51M in bonds in March. He’s now invested in Meta, Boeing, Nvidia, Microsoft, and has equity stakes in Bank of America and Wells Fargo
• My latest read is Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Kitchen Briefs - April 25, 2026

• The A team is heading back home per Trump’s orders. He said it’s too much traveling and too much work
• At least a dozen people, many children and women, have been wounded in south Lebanon due to Israeli strikes
• Technically Trump has until May 1st before he has to get approval from Congress to go past his 60 days of deployment under the 1973 War Powers Act yet there’s no actual clear legal avenue for Congress to force him to abide and past presidents have gone around it
• The US military has killed 2 more people and blown up a boat in Latin American waters claiming it was ferrying drugs. This brings their total to 183 people they’ve killed and yet they haven’t provided a single piece of evidence of actual drugs being trafficked
• Well, the Lincoln Memorial reflection pool has been drained and painting has begun.
• Tonight is the White House Correspondents dinner
• Many are gathering to honor the life of Virgnia Guifree on the one year marking her death. I’d encourage you to pick up Virginia’s Book, Nobody’s Girl in her honor

Kitchen Briefs - April 24, 2026 PM

• The A team is enroute back to Pakistan
• A US Circuit of Appeals Court has blocked Trumps executive order which suspended asylum access at the southern border of the US. The court said that immigrants have the right to apply for aslyum at the border
• The DOJ has announced that they are bringing back federal execution methods that include firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation, saying it’s become too difficult to get the drugs for lethal injections
• TMZDC reporters attended a press conference with Secretary Hegseth and asked when the Dept of War would be called the Dept of Peace
• Today on my Substack I did a deep dive into AI and the recent video of Reese Witherspoon saying women need to learn AI so we aren’t left behind

Kitchen Briefs - April 24, 2026 AM

• Overnight Trump was posting from after midnight until 3am calling for the arrests of Obama and Clinton for treason, reposting AI images and demanding Chuck Schumer resign
• Trump attended a dinner hosted by David Ellison
• Secretary Hegseth said that the War In Iran is a gift to the world
• Israeli strikes have killed 3 more people in Gaza and yet the ceasefire has been extended by 3 weeks
• Netanyahu has revealed he underwent treatment for prostate cancer
• The US has sent a 3rd aircraft carrier to the Middle East
• Iran’s Foreign Minister is heading to Pakistan for consultations over peace talks
• The DOJ has dropped its investigation into Jerome Powell over Trump’s accusations of improper costs to renovate a Federal Building
• Trump is now wanting to spend a couple million on redesigning the Lincoln Memorial reflection pool
• The FDA is now fast tracking psychedelics for mental health after Trump and his podcast bros pushed for it
• A marathon runner collapsed with just 1000 feet to go and two other runners helped him cross the finish line
• A baby koala hiding in it’s mom’s pouch at a Florida zoo
• In Palm Beach Florida, George Poncy is suing the State of Florida, Densantis and others for renaming Palm Beach airport to Trump

Kitchen Briefs - April 23, 2026 PM

• Breaking News - Soldier arrested in Nicholas Maduro capture
• Trump claims to have total control over the Strait of Hormuz and rambles on about Iran
• The Gold Card visa program where you pay $1M you to become a citizen of the US has had one person do it
• At least 10 people have been injured during a shootout at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana mall
• Iranian media has released video footage of masked soldiers boarding one of the ships they seized earlier. It was staged
• The Justice Department’s inspector general’s office is launching an investigation on the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Epstein files
• Back in 2022 Zach Witkoff was arrested in Miami on cocaine possession charges. The bodycam footage was just released it's epic
• In 2005 the first YouTube clip was uploaded