Kitchen Briefs

Kitchen Briefs - April 23, 2026 AM

• Warner Brothers shareholders approves the Paramount merger
• Lebanon says no deal without Israeli withdrawal while US and Iran talks stall.
• Trump has ordered the US Navy to fire on any Iranian boats placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz while the US has boarded a ship carrying Iranian oil
• Navy Secretary John Phelan has been fired
• The DOJ has reclassified state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug
• Senate Republicans have advanced a $70Billion to fund ICE and Border Patrol. It now heads to the House
• The price of condoms is about to increase 20-30% because of Trump’s War in Iran
• Ghislane Maxwell wants her conviction overturned and apparently some Republican Congresspeople think she should be pardoned
• Eric Trump went on Fox News and shared that one of his companies just landed a $24M Pentagon contract
• Kash Patel also went on Fox with Sean Hannity and in regards to his girlfriend said, “here’s the thing: me and mine are like you and President Trump. We’re as tough as we come.”
• Megyn Kelly had Russell Brand on her show and she’s now saying that Trump isn’t loyal to anyone and isn’t even a good husband

Kitchen Briefs - April 22, 2026 PM

• Israel has killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry had earlier said Israel “pursued” journalists Khailil and Zeinab Faraj by “targeting” the house where they took shelter after an Israeli attack in a southern Lebanese town. Israel is intensifying their attacks on Lebanon
• The HHS rejects a new study that showed Covid 19 vaccines prevented hospitalizations
• Spirit Airlines is close to finalizing a a $500M bailout from the Trump administration
• Trump claims last night’s Virginia election results were rigged and now one of his Republican appointed judges has tossed out the results and claims the redistricting was unconstitutional and void from the start
• RFK Jr says that Trump has alternative ways of doing math, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was asked about how his comments and the administrations' insulting Canada are ok and he said but Canada doesn’t put US spirits on their shelves
• Florida Gov Ron DeSantis signed legislation which prohibits counties and cities from funding or promoting DEI initiatives
• I posted a video earlier about the shareholder vote taking place tomorrow for Warner Brothers and Paramount. This is dangerous especially when we also have FCC Chair Brendan Carr now wanting to issue warnings on children’s programming if any gender identity themes are in a show

Kitchen Briefs - April 22, 2026 AM

• Iran has fired on 3 ships and captured 2 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The ships were flagged as from Panama and Liberia
• Lufthansa has cut more than 20,000 summer flights due to fuel prices
• Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is warning that emergency funds will be exhausted within the next couple of weeks and once again TSA workers will go unpaid
• Trump advisers are privately trying to strategize around a new midterm push claiming that Democrats would be worse
• Virginians came out yesterday and voted to redistrict adding 4 Congressional seats to their maps
• Israel has what they’re calling a yellow line in Gaza that marks safety zones and in the middle of the night, they’re just moving it and turning areas into free fire zones to strike
• Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is trying to get her conviction overturned again
• Yesterday the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms
• The Gates Foundation has hired an outside investigator to look into the Epstein ties
• A ping pong robot has beat top level human players

Kitchen Briefs - April 21, 2026 PM

• Trump has said he’s going to extend the ceasefire until negotiations conclude
• The US used up nearly half of its Patriot missiles during this current war. It’ll take 3-5 years to replenish them
• Interim AG Todd Blanchard announced the indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center over all egged use of paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups such as the Aryan brotherhood and the KKK
• Trump is going to read 2 Chronicles 7: 14
• Hegseth says the flu vaccine is no longer mandated for US troops
• The Senate and House are back in session this week and in the Senate, they’ll looking at the war powers resolution and funding ICE and CBP.
• Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned Kevin Warsh today and asked him about his investment ties to Epstein
• Epsteinhad deep ties to Harvard both before and after his conviction.
• Next Substack will be on identifying AI

Kitchen Briefs - April 21, 2026 AM

• Trump says he’s ready to back to war with Iran yet he’s also saying he thinks a deal will be reached
• The Guardian is reporting that Israeli soldiers are sexual assault violence and pressure to for Palestinians out of their homes
• President Zelensky says the A team has been traveling to Moscow on a number of times but hasn’t stopped in Kyiv and feels it’s disrespectful
• Federal chair nominee Kevin Warsh is being questioned during his confirmation hearing
• Starting today, Trump and otherswill be taking part in a marathon reading of the Bible
• Tucker Carlson is regretting his support for Trump and says he’s sorry for misleading people
• Trump is considering a currency swap with the UAE
• Per Scott MacFarlane there are 8 pieces of legislation being presented by Republicans to suck up to Trump

Kitchen Briefs - April 20, 2026 PM

• Trump says a deal with Iran is going to come quickly while Iran says they’re not going to accept negotiations under the shadow of threats. The current ceasefire ends Wednesday evening and Trump says it’s highly unlikely that he’ll extend it.
• 6 people have been wounded in an Israeli air strike in Lebabnon
• Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down
• Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down and will become the executive chairman of the board while John Ternus will take over.
• In the California Governor’s race, Betty Yee has dropped out
• Today in history we remember those in the Columbine shooting in 1999. In 1912, Boston’s Fenway park held the first MLB game in front of an estimated 27,000 fans. In 1971 the Supreme Court upheld busing to achieve racial desegregation and in 2021 Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter for the killing of George Floyd

Kitchen Briefs - April 20, 2026 AM

• The A team is enroute to Pakistan for peace talks, Iran says there are no such talks planned, this after the US struck an Iranian ship yesterday and seized it
• Trump says Israel didn’t talk him into this war
• The families of over 100 children who the US killed during strikes on an Iranian school sent a thank you letter to Pope Leo for speaking out
• A photo emerged this weekend of an Israeli soldier in Lebanon taking a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus
• The BBC has been investigating the fact that there have been a number of spikes in trading ahead of announcements made by Trump
• Kash Patel has filed a $250M defamation suit against The Atlantic
• Trump will be reading a Bible verse from the Oval office on Tuesday and Sean Hannity turned in his Catholic card
• The Supreme Court will be deciding if preschools that decline children of same-sex couples may receive state funding.
• This weekend President Obama and Mayor Mamdani sang Wheels on the Bus to preschoolers
• A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Japan and triggered tsunami warnings
• It is National Library Week

Kitchen Briefs - April 19, 2026

• Trump says a peace deal will happen one way or another, the nice way or the hard way even if he has to blow up the entire country.
• Representative Jamie Raskin and Senator Jon Osoff are wanting to investigate Kushner’s involvement as it seems to be a direct conflict of interest with his business investments in the Middle East
• On Saturday night a Woodland Hills, CA resident was arrested at LAX on suspicion of trafficking weapons on Iran’s government’s behalf including drones and bomb fuses destined for Sudan.
• Satellite images show that Israel is building permanent military bases in Gaza as US backed plans to rebuild the area are simply nonexistent
• 8 children were killed this morning in a domestic disturbance in Shreveport Louisiana. The suspect who was also related to some of the children was killed by police during a pursuit
• Overnight, there was also a shooting near the University of Iowa with 5 people shot, 3 of which were students. No word on where the gunman is
• In Beijing a humanoid robot beat the human half marathon world record
• A lawsuit filed this week states that Madison Square Garden has been using a surveillance program since 2018 using facial recognition to scan 40 people per minute and compile dossiers including Social Security numbers, tax records, and family photos. The system has banned 900-1,500 lawyers whose firms sued MSG, ejected fans who criticized owner James Dolan, and tracked individuals' bathroom visits and social media posts across MSG venues including Radio City Music Hall.
• In the California Governor’s race, Tom Steyer has spent over $115 million on his campaign. As a reminder, you can head to my Substack to download a breakdown of the top candidates in the race: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194138603

Kitchen Briefs - April 18, 2026

• Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will never close and it’s not only closed but two ships have been fired at. The IRGC has said that “due to the violation of the ceasefire conditions, the American enemy did not lift the naval blockade of Iranian vessels and ports”
• Trump signed off on further investments to research psychedelic treatments
• Kash Patel is hitting the bottle and agents had to force their way into his hotel room because he was blacked out. He disputes this and is threatening to sue The Atlantic who reported this.
• The Navy is clapping back and saying the viral food photos and rumors of shortages are false
• Supreme Court Justices Alito and Thomas have both said they are not retiring this year
• Today in History in 1906 was the San Francisco Earthquake which was 8.3, in 1955 Albert Einstein died at the age of 76 and in 2016 Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama

Kitchen Briefs - April 17, 2026 PM

• Trump is really optimistic right now about Iran
• The Lebanon Israel ceasefire has a caveat
• Trump is claiming that Iran is going to agree to transferring their uranium to a 3rd country
• Trump is currently in Phoenix speaking at a Turning Point USA event after spending time in Las Vegas
• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick attacked Canada’s trade strategy today calling it the worst strategy and saying "they suck"
• An 11th scientist has turned up dead. This researcher died in 2022 and it was ruled a suicide but circumstances are suspicious
• White House Faith Guru Paula White-Cain said that saying no to Trump is like saying no to God
• Meta is targeting May 20th to layoff approximately 10% or 8,000 employees with additional cuts expected later this year
• Trump is currently in discussions with the IRS for a $10B settlement for not properly protecting his personal tax records.
• My current read is Eye For An I by Kim Holden
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