Kitchen Briefs

Kitchen Briefs - September 2, 2026 PM

• Happening now in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota 2 officers are among multiple victims in a shooting. No other details are available at this time.
• Israeli settlers escorted by Israeli forces stormed a village center in the occupied West Bank this evening
• Trump told Israeli news outlet not to worry about a resumption of the war with Iran because he will take care of it and it won’t take long
• The head of an Iranian backed paramilitary group in Iraq has threatened US troops stationed in the country and told them they have until Sept 30th to leave Iraq
• An Iranian attack on a Saudi oil tanker killed two Filipino sailors
• The Kennedy Center has disassembled the Blue sculpture from its grounds
• The FBI is investigating a dark web service called Nexis was selling digital scans of more than 153M drivers licenses from the US and Canada
• The $1 gold coin with Trump's face on it went on sale today and sold out. A roll of 25 coins cost $61 and a bag of 100 coins was $154.50
• There is Pabst Blue Ribbon beer missing from Southern California and Pabst Brewing company is offering a $20k reward for it
• The Los Angeles Clippers signed Kawhi Leonard and Leonard’s team asked for assistance on obtaining off court income opportunities and apparently violated salary cap circumvention rules
• Trump posted: "Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be “hotter” than ever before!”

Kitchen Briefs - September 2, 2026 AM

• Oil is at a five week high and stocks are dropping
• Iran says the US is about to witness their new strategy after yesterdays attacks
• One of the residential buildings the US struck in Iran yesterday was holding a wedding ceremony and Iran is calling it a war crime. The strike killed 4 people including a child and more than 50 were wounded. The US has killed at least 19 people from the new strikes
• Israel continues its attacks on Lebanon killing at least one more person. An Israeli strike on a tent in southern Gaza has also wounded five Palestinians
• Trump has nominated acting US Navy Secretary Hung Cao for the permanent position
• The FBI has seized more than $560K in cryptocurrency donations to Hamas
• Iran hit a Saudi Arabian oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and the US embassy in Saudi Arabia has issued a security alert for Americans
• The funding bill passed by the House yesterday had some interesting wording Formally provides for the "condemnation and denouncement of socialism in all its forms" as well as calling for the enactment and enforcement of the SAVE Act
• This morning Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said "Data centers don’t use water. They’re data centers. This is propaganda by our adversaries."
• Leading US medical doctors are urging people to get the flu shot and updated COVID vaccine this fall and are hoping to ease the confusion caused by the current administration who keeps changing advice
• A big thank you to Stephen who’s providing me with coffee and wine this week!

Kitchen Briefs - September 1, 2026 PM

• The US is again striking southern Iran targeting residential areas and have killed at least 2 people
• In response Iran says US bases and assets in the region will be targeted. Iran has just launched strikes on the US bases in Bahrain and Jordan. Jordan says 10 of 13 Iranian ballistic missiles have been intercepted with claims that there are no injuries or damage to the US base in Jordan
• Trump says the gulf allies were notified prior to the US striking Iran
• The House has passed a short term funding bill to avoid a shutdown ahead of the midterms
• Chevron is expected to announce it will expand operations in Venezuela
• Trump has named Pastor Darrell Scott to advise the administration on tobacco health issues on a committee that advises the CDC
• Tropical Storm Edouard has made landfall on the Texas-Louisiana coast and is forecasted to weaken as it goes inland
• MapQuest has topped the Apple App store and has secured the number one app spot. Apple Maps changed its maps to Lake America. It’s Lake Ontario!
• The historic Harry S Truman bowling alley in the Eisenhower Executive building at the White House is about to get a $253K renovation
• FBI Director Kash Patel hosted Shin Bet chief David Zini for a security and intelligence meeting. They were to discuss counterterrorism, intelligence sharing, and counter-drone capabilities.
• Speaker Mike Johnson said today that the problem with Iranians is that they lie and for most of them it’s part of their religion to lie. Secretary of Transportation Duffy and his wife who have a show called From the Kitchen Table where he’s talked this week about Taylor Swift his take on Sydney Sweeney’s breasts
• Dolly’s star on the Hollywood walk of fame has been vandalized, but is already being repaired

Kitchen Briefs - September 1, 2026 AM

• The Palestinian president is warning of intensified danger from what he is calling a religious war by Israeli forces and settlers
• Israeli attacks on Gaza City this morning killed 4 people including two children and a woman
• Two more Palestinians were killed in by Israeli gunfire west of Gaza City
• Christian schools in occupied East Jerusalem remain closed after Israel declined to renew entry permits for Palestinian teachers who travel from the occupied West Bank
• Putin says Russia stands in solidarity with the Iranian people
• The death toll in Nepal is now over 1000
• Senator Richard Blumenthal has released a report from an unnamed whistleblower at the USPS is alleging some of the plans as mandated Trump
• Yesterday Representative Thomas Massie started to read the names of alleged co-conspirators from the Epstein files and introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act
• Army Secretary Dan Discroll is stepping down with no reason publicly given
• Speaker Mike Johnson affirmed his support for Representative Max Miller’s reelection despite allegations of abusing his ex-wife and 2 year old daughter and illegal drug use
• After 30 years of no answers, yesterday former gang leader Duane Davis was convicted of first degree the murder of Tupac
• From Tupac, “Don’t believe everything you hear. Real eyes, Realize, Real lies.”

Kitchen Briefs - August 31, 2026 PM

• The US is condemning an Israeli settler attack on an NBC News crew in the occupied West Bank that took place over the weekend
• Israel has used white phosphorus munitions in heavy bombing campaigns in southern Lebanon which is illegal under international law
• The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said they have received a report of an incident involving a tanker and military forces in the Indian Ocean
• The Supreme Court voted 5-4 for construction on the ballroom/military complex can continue
• There are now two dead from the flash flood in the Grand Canyon
• A top US military general says the military has no plans to send troops to the pools in November but DHS is launching a coordinated voter fraud surge starting tomorrow
• A Spanish led team of astronomers have discovered a new solar system with a habitable planet that is 337 light years away
• JD Vance said Trump was sending a message to Iran with his Kharg Island post. He also said we are about to "celebrate" the 25th anniversary of 9/11
• Trump posted on Truth Social that the communities that are against Data Centers will end up being backwards and poor
• A data center in El Reno, Oklahoma had a damaged water line this week and wasted more than 3 million gallons of water
• Lionel Richie has been hospitalized in intensive care in St Louis

Kitchen Briefs - August 31, 2026 AM

• Last night the US attacked Larak Island which is a small island near Qeshm killing 2 and wounding several more after the US claimed to see Iran laying sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz and getting ready to launch rockets
• In response, Iran targeted an air base in Jordan
• Oil prices are back up
• Turkey’s foreign minister says the international system must fight against the threat of Netanyahu
• At least 5 Palestinians have been killed due to Israeli air strikes across Gaza City
• Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir has stormed a mosque in Jerusalem accompanied by Israeli forces
• Rescues are still underway in Nepal as 900 workers are missing at various projects in hydropower tunnels. A controlled explosion at one of the tunnels was done today to try to find workers. Approximately 85 Americans are unaccounted for
• Flash floods hit the Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday leaving one person dead and 15 unaccounted for
• Trump is busy this morning with Truth Social posts claiming Iran has no navy, no air force, no currency, isn’t paying their soldiers or police, inflation is up 300% and should be tried for war crimes
• Messi has announced his retirement
• Kalshi has banned George Santos for life for insider trading
• Apple has been talking to Trump and says they’ll probably be renaming Lake Ontario soon
• Another group of men have been spotted opening a manhole cover entering the sewer in New York

Kitchen Briefs - August 30, 2026

• Israel continues to strike Gaza and has killed a 3 year old and a man whom they claim was a Hamas commander. Israel is also striking southern Lebanon today
• Iran’s navy commander says Trump is wrong. Iran’s navy is alive and well
• The death toll in Ukraine from yesterday’s strike on a weapons depot warehouse is now at 38
• A shooting in Switzerland at a rave has left one person dead and 5 injured
• A mass shooting at a neighborhood cookout in Trenton, New Jersey has left 2 dead and 9 wounded
• NASA has launched an unprecedented mission to uncover the invisible universe. SpaceX’s $4.3B Roman Space Telescope launched this morning to hunt for planets around other stars and explore secret dark energy
• 60 trees have been removed amid the golf course plans by Trump at East Potomac Park and includes an iconic cherry tree gifted by Japan in 1912
• Here in San Jose, Federal Judge Noël Wise said the government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel’s war in Gaza and others and they cannot deport students for criticizing Israel
• Google Maps has relabeled Lake Ontario to Lake America this morning
• Trump is mad that NBC’s Kristen Welker stated facts that his endorsements have mixed results
• The PGA Tour has just asked Trump to be honorary chairman of the Presidents Cup and he said yes
• Huge thank you's go out today to Marsha, Lori and Cyndi for providing me with extra cups of ambition

Kitchen Briefs - August 29, 2026

• A Russian attack on a weapons depot warehouse in Ukraine has killed at least 37 people
• Israeli forces are firing bullets and tear gas after Palestinians confronted settlers in the occupied West Bank
• An Israeli drone strike has killed another person and injured two more in Gaza
• The Israeli military struck a hospital in Gaza and did so because their targeted threat was an alleged Hamas military wing commander. They also injured 3 people who were already in the hospital.
• Israel is also firing drones and missiles in southern Lebanon
• Let’s talk more about the Venezuelan oil I mentioned yesterday that the US is buying. There is a refinery in Texas that can process the oil called Motiva. Motiva is owned by Aramco. Aramco is owned by Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has given the Trump family literal billions of dollars and real estate deals
• In regards to Yosemite, the CEO of Kingsbarn Realty Jeff Pori is a donor to the guy in the White House and the RNC with frequent donations
• Texas has suspended 1.2M voters because they can’t confirm their addresses. If you’re a Texan, check your voter status on the Secretary of State's voter registration website
• Here in California, we had two great things happen. Assembly Bill 2 passed unanimously in California, and Governor Newsom signed the Family Friendly City Councils Act
• Thank you to a follower who has asked to remain anonymous yesterday for supplying me with coffee for the week! I’m so very grateful to you all. I

Kitchen Briefs - August 28, 2026 PM

• Iran says the US is lying that the Strait of Hormuz is open to influence the price of oil and cover up their failures. The IRGC navy says it has decisive control over the Strait
• Israel says they have killed an alleged senior Hamas commander in the occupied West Bank
• Lebanon is reporting a drone strike from Israel near an orphanage
• Right wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos who has praised ICE efforts has been arrested by ICE
• Trump is asking the Supreme Court to uphold the military ban on transgender service members
• Trump is appealing the latest ruling that halted his mail in voting order
• A federal judge rejected the move by the guy in the white house to have his case with Stormy Daniels dismissed based on presidential immunity
• A National Park Service report backs the ugly proposed arch by Trump despite the adverse effects to the sightline
• The FBI has decided to no longer treat an applicant’s experience with prostitution as an automatic bar on hiring
• A federal judge ruled that owning AI generated images of child sexual abuse made without real child involvement kept in the privacy of your home is protected under the First Amendment
• Recalls on Lundberg Organic Jasmine White Rice and on Shanghai Ravioli Corporation frozen buffalo chicken
• The administration is trying to sell off some of Yosemite National Park to Kingsbarn Realty Capitol who owns land outside of Yosemite and wants to build a road into the park instead of it taking 90 whole minutes to drive into the Valley
• Ottawa has an avenue named after Trump in their central park neighborhood and are considering renaming it to Taco Avenue
• Last night on Thursday night football Al Michaels joked about Lake Erie and if that’s it’s current name or whether it will be changed and it made MAGA mad

Kitchen Briefs - August 28, 2026 AM

• An Israeli missile has killed one and injured others in Gaza City
• Israeli forces are carrying out more demolitions southeast of Gaza City
• The high representative for the Board of Peace put together by the guy in the white house says that failure to uphold the roadmap for peace in Gaza proposed by the board could lead to a collapse of the tenuous ceasefire and start a new war
• Gaza parents have coordinated with Hamas authorities to stop their children from flying kites because Israel has warned that that flying kites or balloon launches will be treated as terrorist acts
• Morocco will be joining the Board of Peace but Turkey said no
• Trump and Natalie are posting a lot on Truth Social this morning
• Trump has also just announced via Lies Social that there are 4 meat processors who run a monopoly and make life miserable for farmers and ranchers so he’s authorizing legal documents to be drawn to allow farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food
• A federal judge has paused the US Postal Service plan to implement new mail voting restrictions
• According to Axios, the US is negotiating to acquire direct ownership stakes in Venezuelan oil fields containing approximately 90B barrels of proven crude oil to extend influence on Venezuela’s interim Government
• A federal judge in Manhattan approved a $72.5 million class-action settlement between Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and Bank of America which will be distributed to about 60 victims
• The DOJ is suing Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington because they say state college tuition and financial aid policies unlawfully benefit undocumented students and deny comparable treatment to US citizens who live elsewhere
• The administration has issued new guidance restricting internships for international students
• After more than 2 weeks almost all Gary, Indiana residents have their power back on