Kitchen Briefs - July 9, 2026

• Attacks continue to be traded between the US and Iran
• The Gaza blood bank is facing imminent shutdown as supplies run out
• 8 more Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks with 17 wounded while Israel continues to destroy homes in southern Lebanon
• Ships are at a standstill in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran moved 10M barrels of oil out of the Strait in anticipation of the US strikes
• Palm Beach International Airport has officially been renamed President Donald J Trump International airport
• Trump flew to NATO on his newly gifted Qatari Air Force One but then strikes occurred and so he flew the old Air Force One from Turkey to England and then switched to the new Air Force One
• Trump posted on Truth Social a photo of his West Wing renovations
• Multiple Epstein survivors have claimed that Epstein’s former assistant lied during her testimony
• Democratic Senate Candidate for Maine Graham Platner has finally dropped out
• ICE has shot and killed a man in Houston, TX
• Singer Bonnie Tyler who famously sang Total Eclipse of the Heart has died at the age of 75
• Yesterday I read an article in The Atlantic entitled The End of Reading is Here. Check out my podcast Read The Damn Book
• Thank you for all of the birthday wishes yesterday

Kitchen Briefs - July 8, 2026

• The ceasefire between the US and Iran is over
• Trump misspeaks...many times
• Iran has struck 85 locations in Bahrain and Kuwait including the US Fifth Fleet base
• Oil prices are up, stocks are down
• Trump ordered Treasury Secretary Bessent to cut off all trade with Spain
• Trump said he’s thinking of removing Syria from the terrorist list
• Israeli forces have killed 8 more people in Gaza including the World Cup screening organizer
• Mitch McConnell supposedly spoke to CNN's Scott Jennings and Senate Majority Leader John Thune
• A judge has tossed out Trump Media’s $3.8B lawsuit against the Washington Post
• The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Cats On A Couch against the Trump administration
• I started my day with V of Under The Desk News and Amanda of Amanda's Mild Takes!

Kitchen Briefs - July 7, 2026

• Iran is warning Trump that if he doesn’t stop threatening them, there will be no final deal
• While ships are moving through the Strait of Hormuz, three tankers have been struck by projectiles in the past 24 hours. Qatar is holding Iran responsible for the attacks
• A new lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration has been sharing confidential information with the Iranian government about Iranian asylum seekers, violating their rights in an effort to pressure them to go back to Iran
• Israeli forces have killed 4 more people in Gaza
• Israel’s far right national security leader said “They wanted me to hand sandwiches to those terrorists. They used to come in fat; today they come in fat and leave thin. That’s how terrorists should come out.”
• Trump is currently at the NATO summit
• Zelensky is also present and NATO is planning to provide Ukraine with military assistance in the amount of $160B
• Medicaid reimbursement for Planned Parenthood non-abortion health services started back up on Sunday after almost a year of funding restrictions thanks to Trump’s tax bill
• I shared about the disappearance of Nolan Wells in Mississippi yesterday after a boating trip and immediately after, a body was found and Nolan’s family confirmed it was him
• The Democratic Senate candidate for Maine, Graham Platner is accused of sexual assault
• Where in the world is Mitch McConnell?
• The boarding school in Utah that Paris Hilton attended and alleges she was abused at has had their license revoked
• The US was knocked out of the World Cup last night in a 4-1 loss to Belgium
• Shameless plug here the audiobook version of How to Get On Podcasts is currently on sale for just $8. Link is in my bio!

Kitchen Briefs - July 6, 2026 AM

• Israel is bombing homes in southern Lebanon and the death toll continues to rise
• Israel is also continuing their strikes in Gaza and have killed another 6 and wounded 20 more
• While a ceasefire is supposed to exist, Israel certainly isn’t adhering to it at all
• Trump accounts are now live and SpaceX has decided to chip in some of their stock
• Trump threatened Iran and say we’ll win one way or another and we can knock everything out in one afternoon
• DOGE has finally shutdown and claims to have saved $215B
• Over the weekend, two National Guardsmen were in pursuit of a man who allegedly pulled a gun on them in Tennessee. The guardsmen fatally shot the suspect
• A story I am not seeing in traditional media is that of a missing 18 year old named Nolan Wells. On July 4th, Nolan, a Black man, went out boating with 3 white male friends to Horn Island, Mississippi. The boat returned and so did the friends, but Nolan did not
• Get out the specialized bug spray because ticks are on the rise
• Yesterday I shared with you that the striker for the US world cup team has his red card suspension lifted so he could play in today’s game. Turns out Trump called in a favor to the FIFA president
• A huge thank you to We The People for my shirt. It supports the ACLU! Go to Two50.org

Kitchen Briefs - July 5, 2026

• A 4 month old Palestinian boy has died after Israeli forces blocked his urgent medical transfer through a military checkpoint
• Two more people have been killed by an Israeli drone attack in Gaza
• The death toll in Lebanon continues to rise and is now at 4,304 since March 2nd
• Netanyahu says his relationship with Trump is excellent while Trump says Netanyahu knows who the boss is
• Yesterday was America’s 250th birthday. After the National Mall was evacuated due to storms, Trump gave a speech
• White Supremacists marched through DC yesterday showing off their small d energy
• A White House report has branded the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History as radical activists who can’t be trusted
• Nearly 1 million investors lost a total of $3.8B on Trump crypto
• Democrat Mallory McMorrow has suspended her campaign for Michigan Senate
• Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was involved in a hit and run outside of Napa, CA on Friday
• The US’s striker Folarin Balogun’s one game suspension has been lifted by FIFA
• A big thank you to John for purchasing my coffee this week

Kitchen Briefs - June 29, 2026

• Trump has announced the US will meet with Iran tomorrow and Iran said what?
• Trump he's responsible for oil prices going down
• Iran says $6B of the $12B in frozen assets held by Qatar will be released to them
• Israeli forces have killed 4 more Palestinians in Gaza including a child
• The Supreme Court denied Trump’s appeal and he has to pay E. Jean Carroll $5M for sexual abuse
• In more Supreme Court news, they ruled that states may continue counting mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive within a state-established grace period
• The Supreme Court also declined to let President Donald Trump remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook
• Trump has nominated former Oklahoma State Trooper Lance Schroyer as the new ICE director
• One person has been shot and killed here in San Jose at the World Cup Watch area Fan zone
• Comcast is splitting it’s cable business into two publicly traded companies through a tax-free spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky
• The US is experiencing a Heat Dome this week with expected high temperatures

Kitchen Briefs - June 28, 2026

• The US has bombed Iran for a 2nd day and Iran has launched retaliatory attacks on US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. Iran claims they have destroyed 8 US military bases while the US says no
• The death toll in Lebanon continues to rise from Israeli attacks and is now at 4,247
• 4 more people been killed in Gaza due to Israeli strikes
• Israel has started to also attack a village in southern Syria
• Iran’s supreme leader is calling for American and Israeli leaders to be tried for war crimes
• Trump is suggesting Syria take on Hezbollah
• Iraqi officials were arrested on corruption charges in an overnight raid in the fortified Green Zone
• Ukraine’s drone assault has ignited a major Russian oil refinery
• The death toll in Venezuela from the earthquakes is now at 1,430
• A large fire continues to spread in Utah and has killed 3 firefighters and injured 2. It’s now reached the Colorado-Utah border
• Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy chips from a blacklisted Chinese company
• Trump is posting to Truth Social again...
• Programming update for the coming week. I’m going camping

Kitchen Briefs - June 27, 2026

• The US struck Iran’s missile, drone and radar facilities. Iran is responding by targeting US military bases in Bahrain, home of the US Navy’s 5th fleet
• Israel is raiding several towns in the occupied West Bank. Israel also made a drone attack targeting a tent shelter of displaced Palestinians, killing 2 Palestinians, including a young girl
• It’s exam time in Gaza with 37K students needing to walk to internet cafes hoping the internet doesn’t drop so they can continue their education
• Yesterday Gazans held anti-Hamas protests protesting hunger, displacement and deteriorating conditions
• The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission released a draft report arguing that the traditional concept of separation of church and state is a legal error and they want it changed
• The Freedom 250 rally is proving to be uber classy with the North Carolina pavilion displaying confederate flags, a MAGA influencer committing lewd acts while livestreaming, power outages that melted ice cream and baptisms
• The Trump administration is looking to restore the 988 crisis line for LGBTQ+ youth and despite The Trevor Project previously handling 1.6M calls which is roughly half of all calls, the administration is looking to exclude them
• The House Oversight committee has served subpoenas to billionaire Leon Black after he refused to answer questions about his relationship with Epstein
• Prediction platform Polymarket is making $1B in revenue
• In Humboldt County, northern California, investigators found a dog rescue business called Miranda’s Rescue to have the remains of over 100 dogs with gunshots, hundreds of collars and microchips
• The White house has announced preparations for the Patriot Games for high school students

Kitchen Briefs - June 26, 2026

• In Venezuela there are now over 900 deaths and over 3000 are injured due to the earthquakes
• Israeli settlers have set fire to agricultural land in the West Bank, raided a mosque in the West Bank and assaulted worshippers, and assaulted a detained a Palestinian man at a compound in Jerusalem. Israel has said they’ve killed 7 more people and are alleging they had Hezbollah membership. They also killed 2 people in a drone strike in Gaza
• Meanwhile the IRGC’s commander has taken to X to threaten potential attacks of Iran on Israel
• Israel and Lebanon have just signed a framework deal and a complete ceasefireIt hinges on Hezbollah
• The unidentified projectile that hit a boat yesterday off Oman came from Iran because it wasn’t using the approved route in the Strait
• The US is considering shifting some military bases to Israel after the Iranian attacks in Kuwait
• Ukraine has unleashed one of the heaviest drone attacks on Russia
• Former Trump National Security adviser John Bolton has pled guilty to illegally retaining classified information
• This evening Iran and Egypt will be playing each other in Seattle for the World Cup and it’s been designated Pride Night. Iran’s coach said he will not address things that don’t exist
• The judge in the Charlie Kirk murder case held prosecutors in contempt today for sharing too much with the media
• A false report was made about Pete Buttigieg which prompted CPS to separate him from his 4 year old twins overnight while the claims were investigated
• A mistrial has been declared after the jury deadlocked in the case of the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles
• The Texas State Board of Education has approved a proposal that will establish lists of required reading in school and it includes the Bible verses
• JD Vance thinks he’s Richard Nixon and that he always liked him
• Sean Duffy called the artists who backed out of performing at Freedom 250 "libtards"

Kitchen Briefs - June 25, 2026 PM

• The death toll in Venezuela is now at 188 with over 1500 people injured. The US has pledged $150M in humanitarian aid
• A cargo vessel was struck by an unknown projectile near Oman, putting an evacuation effort for ships in the Strait on hold
• Oil prices went up
• Israel continues to strike Lebanon, at least 10 times today despite the ceasefire
• The White House submitted a request to Congress for $1.4B in supplemental funding to combat the widening Ebola outbreak
• A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s new rule lowering federal student loan limits for graduate degrees in nursing and healthcare fields
• Oregon Senator Wyden is sounding the alarm that the Trump administration is targeting over 500 migrant children for fast-track removal because they are currently held in long term foster care
• Lockheed Martin just scored a $35B deal to restock the depleted weapons Trump used in Iran
• Congress has canceled upcoming votes because 25 representatives pledged to vote no on any Senate bills until the SAVE America Act is passed
• Harvey Weinstein’s latest sexual assault charge has been dropped after his accuser said she can’t endure a 4th trial
• JD Vance quoted Sean Combs in his new book and today referred to him as the great Christian theologian P Diddy
• California and Santa Clara County have filed a lawsuit to stop the construction of a ICE facility in Gilroy
• Tennis Hall of Famer Chris Everet has announced that her ovarian cancer has returned