Kitchen Briefs - May 14, 2026 PM

• Hezbollah targeted Israeli soldiers in north Israel and Israel is reporting several Israeli civilians were injured
• China has vowed not to provide military equipment to Iran
• China has agreed to purchase 200 Boeing Jets
• 4 Palestinians have been killed due to Israeli strikes in Gaza with more wounded, including children
• A new giant dinosaur fossil has been found in Thailand that weighed as much as 9 elephants
• Cuba is considering an offer of $100M from the US
• US Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks has resigned
• A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to bring back a Colombian woman who was deported to Congo
• Senators voted today to withhold their own pay during future government shutdowns
• Our tax dollars funded a VIP snorkeling trip at Pearl Harbor for Kash Patel
• I recorded a bonus episode of Beyond The Campaign today with Congressman Johnny O about the ROBE Act which is an amendment he is proposing for SCOTUS term limits
• Paramount CBS is looking at giving Katie Miller a big podcast deal
• Californians, as you vote for Lt Governor, I’m going to encourage you to go watch a video today by attorney Lisa Bloom on the fact that Fiona Ma was state treasurer who was accused of sexual harassment by another woman. The case was to go to trial but the state of CA settled the case and Californians paid $350K plus attorney fees. I've interviewed other candidates such as Michael Tubbs on Beyond The Campaign podcast, so go check that out before you vote.
• The gold Trump phone has started shipping this week

Kitchen Briefs - May 14, 2026 AM

• Dozens of ships are passing through the Strait of Hormuz today, including Chinese owned ones while CENTCOM says it’s redirected 70 and disabled 4
• Admiral Brad Cooper told a Senate committee today that Iran has a significantly downgraded threat and no longer threaten regional partners or the US
• Hezbollah has fired artillery at 2 Israeli military sites in southern Lebanon
• Netanyahu has instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over the op-ed alleging sexual violence by Israeli prison guards against Palistinian detainees
• China’s President warns Trump that their differences over Taiwan could bring conflict between China and the US
• Miami residents are suing Gov DeSantis and Trump over the donation of downtown land for the future Trump library stating it’s unconstitutional to give a financial benefit to a sitting president
• There are new allegations that FBI Director Kash Patel has been inflating arrest numbers and actually put people on the Most Wanted list just before arresting them
• Senator Rand Paul’s son ran into Rep Mike Lawler at a Washington Bar and allegedly went on a drunken antisemitic and anti-gay tirade
• FIFA has announced that the World Cup half time show will feature Shakira, Madonna and BTS
• Today in 1804 Lewis and Clark began their expedition
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Kitchen Briefs - May 13, 2026 PM

• VP Vance says he believes progress is being made in negotiations with Iran
• Vance announced the deferment of $1.3B in medicaid reimbursements from California because he says California hasn’t taken fraud seriously and because people are being prescribed drugs they don’t even need
• A member of Iran’s negotiating team said the two demands from the US are the Complete opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the withdrawal of all 60 percent-enriched material from Iran
• The Pentagon is busy coming up with a new name for the War in Iran if the ceasefire fails and right now Operation Sledgehammer is winning
• Another war powers resolution was put to vote in the Senate today and once again didn’t pass BUT Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky for the first time to vote with Democrats against the war
• I shared on Monday on "What's Going On In The House?" how Interior Secretary Burgum is defending his proposed cuts. Representative Jared Huffman schooled him!
• Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has called for a special session to redraw some district maps
• Kevin Warsh was confirmed today to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair
• Kouri Richins, an author who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband died was found guilty today of murdering him
• Researchers are warning that the US is in a reading recession with our kids. Join Pizza Hut's Book It Program

Kitchen Briefs - May 13, 2026 AM

• Israeli strikes have not only killed another 12 people, including 2 children in Lebanon but they’ve also bulldozed down at least 50 Palestinian shops for a settlement road project
• Iran says they are on standby and ready if the ceasefire goes away
• The ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is over and Russian drone attacks have already killed 13 in Ukraine
• Trump has arrived in China. Nvidia’s CEO received a last minute phone call to join the trip
• The DOJ has started discussing the settlement of Trump’s $10B lawsuit against the IRS
• Alex Murdaugh who was convicted of murdering his wife and son has had his appeal granted for a new trial due to improper external influences on the jury
• PCOS which is polycycstic ovarian syndrome and impacts 1 in 8 women has been renamed PMOS or polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome
• South Carolina’s Senate has spoken and said no to redistricting while Missouri’s top court upheld a new map that could help Republicans gain a seat
• Australia’s Gold Coast was set to have the first Trump tower at a cost of $1.5B but the developer said the Trump brand is too toxic and has canceled the project
• It seems the repainting of the Reflecting pond isn’t going well at all
• Stephen Cloobeck who was running for California Governor has been arrested on felony charges
• Good news: in Gardener, Massachusetts Maddy’s Ice Cream and More had a child who had no money want an ice cream. Maddy’s motto is that if a child wants a Maddy’s ice cream, the child gets it. People loved this and have donated so much money to Maddy that all summer long, every child will get a free ice cream from Maddy’s. @maddytheicecreamlady
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Kitchen Briefs - May 12, 2026 PM

• Trump said, "I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation."
• For the first time in three years inflation is outpacing wages
• Trump also told reporters that it won’t be long before the War in Iran ends
• Epstein survivors testified today in a shadow hearing
• The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to trump’s request to delay his payment of $83M to E. Jean Carroll but he did have to post a $7.4M bond to cover interest until the US Supreme Court reviews the case or rejects the appeal
• Trump’s proposed Golden Dome that he said would cost $175B over 20 years will actually cost $1.2T
• Trump’s FDA chief, Marty Makary is resigning
• The DOJ says they will subpoena reporters who get classified information because they want to prosecute leakers
• Senator Chris Van Hollen left no room for questioning what he thinks of Kash Patel
• The Hantavirus that Trump claims is under control is known to be the Andes strain which is spreadable person to person
• Waymo is recalling 3700 robotaxis after one of them tried to drive in a flooded lane

Kitchen Briefs - May 12, 2026 AM

• At least 3 more killed and 4 wounded in Lebanon due to Israeli attacks
• Iran’s chief negotiator has said the US must either accept peace terms or face failure
• According to CNN, Trump is frustrated so he’s thinking of restarting combat
• Trump posted to Truth Social images including a $100 bill, AI images of blowing up Iran’s boats and planes, Obama, Biden and Pelosi in the Reflecting Pond but with sewage, claiming 300K children have been trafficked out of America, and called for Obama’s arrest
• Yesterday Trump praised AG Todd Blanche saying he’s good because he kept him out of jail for years
• The Pentagon has publicly revealed that nuclear submarine USS Alaska has arrived in Gibraltar
• On Sunday 60 Minutes interviewed Netanyahu. He said that he would like to draw down to zero the American financial support
• Secretary Hegseth will be back defending his $1.5T budget
• The US is in talks with Greenland about opening a US military base there
• The House Oversight Committee is currently just miles away from Mar-A-Lago where Epstein survivors are testifying
• Arcadia, CA mayor Eileen Wang has resigned and agreed to plead guilty to charges from the DOJ of acting as an illegal agent of China
• Santa Clara county is suing Meta over scam advertising. Meta earns over $7B annually from fraudulent ads
• The DOJ has filed criminal charges against two companies and the ship’s technical superintendent in the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge two years ago that killed 6
• Ebay has rejected GameStop’s takeover offer
• General Motors has announced they are laying off 500-600 employees amid the need for new skills
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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
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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