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

Kitchen Briefs - June 25, 2026 AM

• 2 powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela yesterday killing at least 164 people, injuring 1,000 and at least 11,000 are missing. These were the strongest earthquakes for the region in over a century
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon, today they burned down houses after warning residents yesterday to evacuate their village
• Iran’s top negotiator denies that unfrozen assets will be used to buy US agriculture
• The Supreme Court has ruled that Trump can end temporary deportation protections for people from Haiti and Syria and cleared the way to restart Trump’s controversial asylum policy
• Last night they held another vote and voted down the war powers resolution
• The National Park Service quietly suspended dive team operations in mid-May ending their ability to recover drowning victims due to Trump’s cuts
• The DOJ has issued a warning to California and given us until June 30th to reach a voluntary resolution on the Glock ban
• Los Angeles Unified School District approved one of the strictest screentime ban in the classroo

Kitchen Briefs - June 24, 2026 PM

• Trump met with GOP senators for lunch
• The Justice Department has announced arrests in a sophisticated drone network used to deliver meth, phones and weapons to prisons
• A federal judge has permanently barred Trump from implementing his executive order which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote
• The Justice Department released a memo this week that quietly calls into question decades of civil rights protections for Americans with disabilities
• V of Under The Desk news just reported that the head of the United States postal service David Steiner who is also on the board of FedEx says USPS won’t deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls
• Temperatures continue to be unbearable in France where hitting record highs since they started being recorded in 1947
• Scotts Miracle Grow has pledged $1M to restore the south lawn after the UFC games
• I neglected to mention on Monday that Scary Mommy founder Jill Smokler died at the age of 48 from brain cancer
• The northern California town of Willits had their largest earthquake this morning since 1940 at 5.6

Kitchen Briefs - June 24, 2026 AM

• Today is the 4 year anniversary of the Dobbs decision which overturned Roe v Wade and stripped women of their right to access an abortion
• Israel has reduced their attacks on Lebanon but are still attacking. Today a 29 year old Palestinian man was shot and at least 2 people have been killed in drone attacks in southern Lebanon
• Additional drone strikes in Gaza have killed 2 more including a 12 year old child
• CBS has confirmed that in regards to injuries to our military from the Kuwait drone strike, they were more serious than the Army and administration claimed
• Trump says that Iran promised no tolls in the Strait and if that’s false, negotiations will end immediately
• Trump is having the DOJ open an investigation into major oil companies for price gouging
• Gen. Chris Donahue, one of the Army’s most decorated combat commanders and the last American service member to leave Afghanistan has decided to retire
• Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte has already removed 51 people, firing 6 of them
• Former Pardon Attorney for the DOJ Liz Oyer discovered a new policy that was quietly put in place in which attorney general Todd Blanche can place federal inmates into whatever prison he wants
• Yesterday I shared that the Senate passed a bi-partisan bill to reduce housing costs and today the President who is certainly not for the people has refused to sign it
• A fence has gone up around the reflecting pool
• Camp Mystic in Texas has filed for bankruptcy after the catastrophic floods last year killed 28 people
• The Department of Education says if you set up autopay for your student loans, they’ll cut your interest rate by 1% until 2028
• What’s on the rise in the US? Tetanus
• Today kicks off the 16 day Trump Rally that is supposed to be known as America’s 250th birthday