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