• Trump posted on Truth Social last night declaring the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country
• Turkey, Egypt and Qatar have joined in condemning Israeli attacks on Gaza
• Qatar’s foreign minister is calling for a halt to blackmail in the Strait of Hormuz
• The Israeli army is firing heavy artillery in Lebanon
• CENTCOM has confirmed that the USS George Washington has been deployed to the Middle East
• 16 more people in Ukraine have been killed due to Russian attacks
• 5 news reporters and 2 members of the military were invited to an event at Vandenberg Space Force Base, north of Santa Barbara. Security officers thought they were gate crashers and detained them at gunpoint
• Derek Chauvin. who murdered George Floyd, is trying for a 3rd time to have his conviction vacated and state murder charges dismissed
• A state police helicopter and small plane collided midair in in Carlisle, 120 miles west of Philadelphia killing the Cessna 150 pilot
• Secretary Sean Duffy’s tax payer funded reality show The Great American Road Trip debuted on YouTube
• Soldiers in the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, Georgia, can receive a four-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI
• Yesterday, V of Under The Desk News wrote an incredible Substack on the background of Natalie Harp
• A big thank you to Diane for supplying me with coffee this week

• The UK is calling on Israel to ensure significantly more aid to Gaza
• Bahrain, Jordan and the UK have condemned Israeli attacks on Syria’s air base
• Senator Chris Van Hollen says Israeli forces must be held accountable for 500 war crimes in Gaza
• At least 3 more people have been killed by Israeli explosives in southern Lebanon
• Trump says the US might resume talks with Iran maybe at some point but right now the situation is so good
• Trump decided to show the press his new grass and a stone that even a hammer can’t break
• The US debut hit $40T and happened sooner than expected
• Eliza Orlins shared today that $68.3M is being spent on the Freedom 250 IndyCar race around the National Mall this weekend
• GreenWise Organic Frozen blueberries have been recalled for potential e.Coli
• Harry and Megan have moved back to Britain this month
• Moderna has announced initial results from an mRNA cancer vaccine stopped melanoma from returning

• Israeli military is claiming attacks overnight in Gaza City killing 9 including the women’s police chief. Hamas is calling it a war crime
• Two men have been killed in Lebanon by an explosion of munition that Israeli forces left behind
• The Israeli Army has ordered a criminal investigation into the killing of a 5 year old Palestinian girl in Gaza along with her family and 15 paramedics but said it would not launch investigations into the attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors without Borders
• 47 Palestinian families which is over 300 people face imminent displacement from their homes in Jordan Valley due to Israeli forces and settlers severing their water pipes
• The US has sanctioned the International Criminal Court President and a Senior Prosecution Lawyer claiming it’s to protect Americans but the ICC has never charged a single American citizen. The ICC is currently looking at potential Israeli war crimes in Gaza
• Trump is pausing his 50% tariffs on Canada for 3 days on $20B worth of Canadian imports just hours before they were to go in effect
• Senator Darline Graham, said in a debate that she’s not that informed on national security
• Natalie Harp’s brother is now speaking out and seems not to be a fan of her relationship with Trump
• It was voting day yesterday and Trump mailed in his ballot
• The new White House helipad isn't just for helicopters. It's for cocktail parties too!

• This morning I shared that the UAE had detected incoming missiles. They were two ballistic missiles that targeted maritime navigation and fell into the sea launched from Iran. Iran’s foreign ministry is dismissing the accusation as baseless
• The UAE has announced that all trade, commercial exchange and financial transactions with Iran have been halted until further notice
• At least 7 Palestinians including a child have been killed in an Israeli air attack west of Gaza City and Israel says they were targeting Hamas commanders
• Israel says their attack on Syria today was because Syria was on the verge of permitting Turkish troops to deploy at the airbase so they decided to return to the status quo
• Palm Beach County Clerk of Court Michael Caruso was arrested this morning and charged with 5 felonies including kidnapping, enticing or luring a child and child abuse involving a family member who was under 12 at the time. He was immediately suspended from office by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
• The administration has decided to move ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging, road building and other development on national forest lands
• The Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison is suing the governor of Texas, Ken Paxton seeking to compel the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro who fired a gun through the front door of a home injuring a man and then accused him of trying to attack Castro and another agent with a broom handle and snow shovel
• The Justice Department is trying to revive criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
• ICE officers arrested a minor league coach for the San Diego Padres after arriving in Texas for work. Oswaldo Pirela has lived in the US for 12 years and applied for asylum in 2015. He is married to an American citizen and has two children. According to DHS he came to the US legally in 2014 and was granted permission to stay until 2018 and that his work authorization and pending application do not confer legal status
• Outshine Popsicles are now being recalled for glass and Oma’s Pride dog food has been recalled for salmonella
• Trump posted on Truth Social claiming that the census bureau has uncovered 24,000 noncitizens voted illegally and this helps prove he won the election
• Construction on the White House Thomas Jefferson columns has been completed and Trump says it turned out beautifully
• The University of Miami gave RFK Jr its original 1994 Ibogaine investigational new drug application which could help the FDA fast track the psychedelic's approval

• Trump posted on Truth Social an image of the Strait of Hormuz with a circle and the title of New U.S. Territory. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson called him delusional
• Iran claims the US is begging to talk and and accused Israel of doing everything it could to sabotage and prevent the original memorandum of understanding from happening.
• The IRGC deputy commander said today that the enemy which would be the US is in a state of helplessness and does not know what to do
• Israel struck an airbase in Syria 8 times and US ambassador Tom Barrack is deeply concerned over the escalation
• Netanyahu inaugurated a major road named after him in the West Bank. Netanyahu Road is part of the Israeli government plan to construct 12,000 new units in occupied Palestine
• The UAE’s defense ministry has just posted that systems are detecting a missile threat and are telling citizens to seek shelter
• South Korea’s president is pushing to reclaim wartime operational control of the country’s military from the US and accelerate its nuclear-powered submarine program
• Russia isn’t happy with the UK as the Ukraine is using British made drones in it’s deep strike campaign
• The USS Benfold lost power for 4 days in the South China Sea rendering their generators inoperable and the crew without toilets, air conditioning or adequate water
• Disney is suing the FCC over its retaliatory campaign against ABC
• Google is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models
• OpenAI is launching a new ChatGPT for teens promising a more age-appropriate chatbot
• I read a story last night about 404 Media placing a tracking device inside of a rare book to see where it would end up. It went to an Amazon warehouse facility in Las Vegas where employees claim their receive massive shipments of printed books which they cut the bindings off of in order to scan the books more quickly. If you can today, buy a book, gift a book, read a book

• Iranian forces have detained at least 2 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after searching 100 buildings interrogating Palestinians on suspicion of planning attacks
• Israeli troops have stormed a rehabilitation hospital in Bethlehem in the West Bank
• Jared Kushner wrapped up his talks and went on Fox News saying if Hamas voluntarily surrenders its weapons and tunnels in the next 60 to 90 days, it will mean the removal of a major security threat and a win-win for Israel
• Senator Jon Ossoff made a comment over the weekend about how all Trump really cares about is his ballroom and flying around with his aide Natalie on the defense Qatari gifted jet
• Natalie Harp a mic said we won the 2020 election. We shouldn’t be afraid to say it because it’s true
• Trump is calling the news about the USS Abraham Lincoln fake news
• Bulldozing in Big Bend National Park has been paused so the head of CBP can do an on the ground evaluation
• Luigi’s state murder trial has been postponed indefinitely due to a double jeopardy fight
• Walmart tomato soup kits have been recalled due to Listeria
• A record number of kindergartners missed their required vaccines last year as the executive order takes aim at state mandates
• ICE is trying to lure local police officers into helping them by pitch legal insurance from possible financial consequences if they’re accused of on-duty misconduct
• Congressman Jimmy Gomez is being investigated by the House Ethics committee for alleged sexual misconduct with a staffer
• Thank you to John and Carol who over the weekend saw my obvious need for liquid sanity and more coffee!

• Trump says Iran should wave the white flag but that he has no timeline and isn’t in any hurry
• Trump has decided to scale back military drills in South Korea
• The Houthis are claiming an attack on Saudi vessels in the Red Sea
• At least 5 more Palestinians have been killed and 18 injured in new Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip
• Russia and Ukraine continue to trade more strikes
• According to Trump vandals have struck again. This time there are large patches of grass that is dead on the National Mall near the WWII memorial which is the exact same spot as the the big stage and crows were for the Freedom 250 July 4th celebration
• Bulldozing continues at Big Bend National Park to make way Trump’s wall
• Attorney General Todd Blanche was on Meet the Press yesterday and when asked if he would act independently of the White House, he said no
• The Supreme Court just declined for a second time to hear from Trump on overturning the verdict that awarded E. Jean Carroll $5M
• Lake Powell hit a record low just a week after Lake Mead also hit a historic low last week. This elevates the ongoing crisis of the Colorado River system since it’s a key resource for wildlife, hydropower and more than 40 million people in 7 states
• World Liberty Financial, the crypto company owned by Trump and his family is collaborating with Hong Kong based WorldClaw to provide access to Chinese artificial intelligence models flagged by Washington for security risks
• Actress Hayden Panettiere has died at the age of 36

• The death toll in Lebanon due to Israeli invasion since March 2nd is at 4,346 and includes men, women, children and medical workers
• Jared Kushner has arrived in Egypt to meet with Hamas and discuss a peace plan before he heads off to meet with Netanyahu
• Iran has placed a $30,000 bounty for any Iranian who kills or captures an American soldier
• Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has become the longest and most expensive war at $142B
• Israeli drone attacks in Gaza have killed another 7
• Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir made a podcast appearance and publicly advocated for killing 30 to 40 in Gaza nightly
• Russia says Ukraine launched the largest scale attack of 2026 and Russia is also striking Ukraine
• In Hawaii, 1 person is dead and more than 130,000 are out of power due to what was Hurricane Lala which has been downgraded to a tropical storm
• Police arrested a 19 year old in the shooting at Virginia State University
• The Justice Department issued a legal opinion granting U.S. military personnel broader powers to detain migrants accused of trespassing near designated National Defense Areas at the U.S.-Mexico border
• Trump is posting on Truth Social more AI images of him and George Washington

• Iran says the waterway blockade will continue until the US accepts defeat
• At least 11 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon
• Israel is accusing Hezbollah of deliberately placing civilians in harm's way after they attacked Lebanon and are continuing to attack Lebanon right now
• A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia killing 47 people
• 5 people have been injured in a shooting at Virginia State University where multiple suspects were involved
• The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency which was appointed by Trump conditionally approved a federal trust bank charter for World Liberty Trust Co., the crypto company that Trump and his family own a 38% stake in and whose chairman is Steve Witkoff’s son
• Trump doesn’t really like the location of the “island,” the multistory command tower on its newest Ford-class aircraft carriers, so the navy is considering moving them back toward the middle of the ship like they had in World War II
• Trump yesterday went on and on at law and order rally in New York about the young and beautiful, young and gorgeous girls come up to him at the white house to thank him for what he’s done with DC law enforcement
• And at this moment, Trump’s posting to Truth Social
• So on that note, thank you to Cheryl for supplying me with wine tonight

• Trump said today that pretty soon he’ll declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory. Iran's deputy foreign minister responded and said the strait cannot be seized by tweet.
• Trump said that gas is at $4 and he’ll never apologize
• Trump also said the USS Lincoln deployment was not nearly long enough
• An air traffic controller in Phoenix acted quickly when he heard two American Airlines flights with the same flight number which could have caused them to both fly at the same altitude with one arriving and one departing
• Homicides in the US dropped 18.1% in 2025 making it the lowest rate since 1956
• Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before reaching Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend

• Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US will apply economic measures against Iran that have never been seen before
• Iranian forces say they intercepted a MQ-9 drone
• An Iranian cleric says the US failed to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities which has humiliated America and will continue to do so
• Two more Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli military gunfire leaving one in critical condition
• France is calling on Israel to arrest settlers occupying Palestinian homes
• Unprecedented rain in Japan has killed 8 people
• Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let him build his ballroom citing national security needs and architectural values
• Trump now believes he’s an expert on aircraft carriers and has ordered the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off of them because he prefers it
• Luigi has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges
• Melissa L. Farris has been arrested and faces 2 federal charges for vandalizing the WWII memorial in Washington DC. Farris had spray painted “Clean Hands Dirty $” and put foam in the fountain

• According to Secretary Hegseth, the US says it can maintain its blockade on Iran indefinitely by rotating its aircraft carriers
• An Israeli strike on a car has killed the Gaza City head of police
• A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the guy in the White House’s administration that alleged Harvard university failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students
• I shared yesterday how sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are not only facing horrible conditions but that some are trying to abandon ship. It’s been confirmed by CNN that one sailor did jump overboard earlier this month
• A federal judge talked about possibly holding the Justice Department in contempt after repeated delays and ignoring his orders in the case brought on by Katie Phang
• The White House released a report estimating that countries routing exports through third-party nations to avoid U.S. tariffs cost the government between $19 billion and $26 billion annually
• The Kennedy Center has voted to put Trump's name back on the building and close for renovations for 2 years
• Now that the new season of Ted Lasso is back, I want to share with you a quote from last night’s episode by the amazing Leslie. Strong women stand up for themselves. Stronger women stand up for others.

• The Iranian intelligence ministry has said two members “affiliated with American and Israeli intelligence agencies” were killed during a confrontation with security forces in the southeast of the country
• Iran’s Foreign Minister said the US “has long miscalculated due to intelligence failures,” including when launching its war on Iran
• Israel has killed at least one person and injured 7 in the past 24 hours in Gaza
• US ambassador to Jerusalem Mike Huckabee has denounced the settler sieges on Palestinians as a "horrific act of terror"
• In addition to forcing people from their homes, there are currently at least 2 families stuck inside their homes and have been without water or electricity since Sunday
• Taliban authorities detained six staff members from the Children Legal Research Foundation in Kabul, following a separate report that two Afghan employees of the United Nations mission were held in Herat
• Three men will be executed today in Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma marking the first time in nearly 16 years that three people are set to be put to death on the same day in the United States
• Bulldozing has started at Big Bend National Park in Texas as part of Trump’s $1.72 billion border barrier project
• Last month Haitian and Syrian refugees had their Temporary Protected Status expire and now it’s looking like Ukrainians are next as their TPS is set to expire on October 13th
• Forbes top editor Randall Lane was fired in July after it was discovered he received a secret $6M payment from RJ Shook founder of Shook Research which is a Forbes partner firm
• An Alaskan surrogate for a California couple refused to abort the baby she was carrying for them after it was discovered that he had a rare heart syndrome. Instead she fled to Texas and gave birth to the child
• Don’t forget that Kitchen Briefs is also a podcast available on all platforms

• Correction on this morning: Darline Graham heads to a runoff
• The Israeli army is carrying out an air attack on Gaza along with bombs and demolitions in Lebanon
• The Israeli defense minister pledged today indefinite military presence in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza
• An Israeli rights group says settlers are accelerating ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank
• Iran says that claims and repeated posts by the US saying the Strait of Hormuz is no longer blocked does not change the reality that it’s blocked and will remain blocked until their conditions are accepted
• Major Russian grain export terminals have been hit in a Ukraine Black Sea port attack
• Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are facing even worse conditions than originally reported. Their deployment began November 21st and was expected to be done in May but has been extended indefinitely. Reports from the Military Times and family members are that in addition to a lack of food, water, laundry outages and more, some sailors have attempted to jump overboard and inflict self-harm
• The attorneys for Tyler Robinson who is accused of killing Charlie Kirk are arguing that he shouldn’t face the death penalty
• I shared last week how a Texas law firm was offered a $150M federal contract to represent migrant children and the firm has ties to the guy in the White House. Well, they’ve said no thanks
• Karoline Leavitt has resigned as White House Press secretary saying she wants to spend more time with her kids
• 2 people are dead after a military helicopter crashed in Central Texas
• New York City Council is launching an investigation into marketing schemes of 4 prediction market platforms that include Polymarket and Kalshi
• The LA Lakers have just sold for a record $12.5B to ex Disney CEO Bob Iger and Jared Kushner’s brother Josh

• The Houthis have launched another attack in Yemen at a strategic port
• Two more Palestinians have been injured in more Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip
• The Israeli military has arrested 3 Palestinians including a journalist in raids of the occupied West Bank and have blown up and destroyed a public school in southern Lebanon
• The 14 point Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Iran is set to expire on Sunday, August 16th
• Senator Amy Klobuchar will be going up against Republican Minnesota State Representative Lisa Demuth for Governor of Minnesota
• The late Lindsey Graham’s sister, current Senator Darline Graham won the Republican primary and will be going against Dr. Annie Andrews for South Carolina Senate
• A rare derecho storm with hurricane force winds has knocked power out in the Midwest
• Trump is set to spend $900M in construction projects on the White House grounds in a combo of tax dollars and $323M that has been redirected from the National Park Services to renovations
• You know how there are scenario about who gets to get in the lifeboat when the ship goes down? Well, if it’s Air Force One then it’s Trump, his executive assistant Natalie Harp, Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, and personal aide Walt Nauta
• The Patriot Games have ended
• In a phone call town hall with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who is running for Senate, a voter asked Ken about cheating on his wife
• Today is a rare total solar eclipse visible in Iceland, Spain and a small corner of Portugal

• Pakistan’s Interior Minister has arrived in Iran for mediation efforts between Iran and the US
• US Central Command said it’s fired two Hellfire missiles at a Panama flagged cargo ship after it ignored warnings and attempted to sail towards an Iranian port
• The UN is warning that the occupied West Bank is at the breaking point with over 3800 Palestinians displaced, 76 Palestinians including 18 minors being killed this year
• The search for survivors in Colombia continues and the death toll is now at 180 from yesterday’s earthquake
• Marco Rubio refused to answer the question over whether the administration put US lives at risk by letting Trump sneak into a catering truck
• Russia has released a former US Marine that had been held for over 4 years on disputed charges and is apparently in need of medical treatment due to abuse in the prison
• The DOJ’s legal office says outside advisors of Trump can be shielded by executive privilege if their discussions relate to official decision making
• The Pentagon released their report and says they haven’t killed anyone in the drug boat strikes
• The US has hired 2000 video gamers as new air traffic controllers
• AP News is reporting that ICE officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals
• The media company owned by Trump and Truth Social is seeing a decline in visitors over the past 3 months and a loss of $238M

• Yemen’s Houthis attacked a ship in the Red Sea killing 3
• Iran launched a missile in northeast Iraq’s Kurdish region
• Israel is claiming to have killed a Hamas sniper in northern Gaza
• An Israeli drone targeting paramedics has injured one in Lebanon
• Zelensky says that Russia is using North Korean missiles to strike Ukraine
• Oil prices are back up
• Last month when Trump was leaving the NATO summit, there was an Iranian assassination threat against him
• Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Monday said he’ll sue to force the Trump administration to restore his security clearance
• It’s voting day in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, and Connecticut
• Trump was on Truth Social again in the middle of the night ranting about donors who support the Center for American Progress
• Secretary Hegseth appointed Marc Andreeson and Blake Masters to the Pentagon’s Defense Policy board despite both men being involved in Don Jr's business
• Thank you to Betty for sending me a gift card to Flip Coffee! My coffee has arrived and it’s delicious! Flip Coffee supports the rehabilitation of shelter dogs

• Trump has said the US will seek compensation from Iran for all the people they have killed in many conflicts
• In regards to responding to Netanyahu, Trump said he’d reply via Truth Social
• A 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Colombia and has killed at least 111
• Trump claimed today that our children are getting vats of vaccines so he’s signing an executive order to limit vaccinations and spread out the MMR shots
• The FBI and the NCAA are teaming up to help college athletes avoid sexual exploitation
• Representative Lauren Boebert’s son, Tyler has been charged with 5 felonies including sexual exploitation of a child, inducing/enticing, possession with intent, video exploitation, and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor

• Israeli forces open fired in southern Lebanon and have injured at least 6 people in Gaza
• Yemen’s Houthis have attacked a port in the Red Sea killing at least 7
• Iran says it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the US meets specific conditions such as compensation, ending military threats and lifting sanctions
• At least 13 have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in deep Russia with another 75 injured
• Taylor Farms is now recalling guacamole and salsa for salmonella because of the jalapenos they contain
• The Pentagon just released 41 declassified UFO files which reports are saying prove nothing.
• The Pentagon has extended Trump's D.C. National Guard deployment through 2029 because he says it makes D.C. “safe and beautiful”
• AOC has shared that she’s freezing her eggs
• Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller has said she slept with former Congressman Eric Swalwell when she was a 22 year old intern

• Israeli gunfire has injured yet another child in Gaza
• Israeli settlers are continuing to raid the occupied West Bank
• Israel has rejected the 15 point plan for Gaza
• Texas based oil firm Greenland Energy received a strong government warning from the country of Greenland after unapproved drilling equipment was landed on the remote Jameson Land region
• Russia and Ukraine continued exchanging strikes overnight killing 7 more people
• A boat captain has been charged after his boat capsized near the Statue of Liberty killing a 27 year old mother and her 5 month old baby. 12 others were rescued from the water
• Kristi Noem unveiled a life size bronze statue of herself and her horse last week to honor her time as governor of South Dakota

• Yemen has announced they’ve launched strikes on Houthis
• More attacks on vessels in the Strait are happening. Iran attacked a UAE tanker, another vessel was struck by a projectile off the coast of Oman
• The IRGC says the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is conditional on the US fully accepting Iran’s conditions
• There are reports per CNN that Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine is working quietly toward an exit from the war in Iran and is trying to protect the military
• Early this morning Todd Blanche was confirmed as Attorney General. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski voted with Democrats no
• Russia continued strikes last night and struck Kyiv killing 3 including a child
• The Senate has left the office for a planned 5 week break and did not pass the SAVE Act
• Trump keeps posting to truth Social and there are many AI images of him wearing 2028 hats
• Trump is obsessed with Taylor Swift and she fought back by having her song August muted from a recent White House post
• More wildfires in the news. 20,000 people have been evacuated in western Canada as a fast-moving wildfire has burned an unknown number of homes
• The defense attorney for the Tate brothers wants them to be free in the US while they fight extradition to the UK
• New legislation in California being proposed that would legally penalize content creators who fail to disclose paid political endorsements with fines of up to $5K per violation
• The administration is investing $3B in mineral projects to strengthen the US defense system and reduce reliance on China
• Yesterday the SEC dismissed it’s civil insider trading case against Terren Peizer who had been pardoned by Trump

• Israel continues to strike Lebanon
• There are reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader Khameni is in critical condition and has been rushed to the hospital. He has not been seen since the February 28th strikes
• US appeals court has halted the construction of the ballroom saying it should be up to Congress
• Trump is again trying to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook
• The Senate honored Lindsey Graham today by passing a bipartisan sanctions bill named for him targeting Russian oil purchasers and expanding penalties on Putin
• US intel reports state that Putin could attacks aimed at testing NATO unities
• A helicopter battling a Utah wildfire has crashed and there is no word on the two who were aboard
• Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said he would vote for Todd Blanche to be confirmed
• Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed he’s still going to come to work for another term
• A Federal judge ruled the Shenandoah County School Board violated federal civil rights laws by reinstating Confederate names to two schools, ordering the board to promptly remove the names
• Tomorrow is national beer day, national cat day, national pickleball day, national frozen custard day, national garage sale day and the start of Elvis week

• Israeli military is firing upon water-utility workers in Lebanon as they were repairing a water network
• Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have all signed a joint defense agreement that states an attack on any one of them is an attack on all of them
• Iran and Oman say the final agreement on Hormuz has been finalized and now final wording and details will be announced soon
• 2 people have been killed and 14 injured in Yemen due to Houthi strikes
• In Thailand, a 14 year old killed his grandparents and then open fired at a school killing 5 teachers and injuring more than 30. He then took his own life
• The US economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July and it’s being blamed on the war in Iran
• Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has announced she will not vote to confirm Todd Blanche which puts his confirmation in limbo
• ICE has decided to release body cam footage only when it’s in their best interest
• By law, the government has to provide legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children. 100 nonprofits who do this work had their contracts expire last week and the administration has now awarded a $150M contract to Austin based firm Burke Law Group who specializes in advising "companies on complex environmental, regulatory, and enforcement matters”
• Last week we heard Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche say he wants a national abortion ban and now the new CDC director Dr. Erica Schwartz said she wants abortion surveillance
• Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles lost his primary yesterday
• Backyard poultry which has caused 814 illnesses across 44 states, including one death and 201 hospitalizations
• Today is National Purple Heart Day

• Israel is firing artillery shells in southern Lebanon
• Trump said today that he thinks the war in Iran will end pretty soon. He said “I don’t think they can go much longer.”
• Trump was busy today signing more executive orders on immigration, including one limiting the number of people eligible for US citizenship after being born in the US
• Senator Mitch McConnell released a statement today saying he’s left rehab and is at home
• An offshore wind company said they’ve reached a $1.2 billion settlement with the administration to walk away from projects under development off New York, California and Louisiana
• The judge in the case Katie Phang has brought against the DOJ regarding the redactions of the Epstein files is now ordering Todd Blanche to appear in court
• The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents career IRS auditors, has joined a lawsuit challenging the settlement that would grant Trump and his offspring immunity from certain IRS tax audits, arguing it’s unlawful and unconstitutional

• Trump is not happy that rumor has it that the US is short on munitions. He said the Pentagon has massive amounts of munitions and he’ll hunt down the leakers behind the report of a weapons shortage
• Israel is continuing air attacks in Lebanon and raiding the occupied West Bank. UNICEF says one child per day has been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire
• Dozens have been killed in Houthi missile and drone attacks on Yemen Emergency Forces camps
• Ukraine has hit two oil refineries deep in Russia
• Temporary Protected Status for Haitians has now ended and over 350,000 people in the US face potential job loss and deportation
• Senate Republicans voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt today and are referring him to the DOJ for potential prosecution
• Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed as the new CDC director making her the first permanent leader in a year
• Britain has cleared the $110B merger between Paramount and Warner Bros
• Three people have been arrested for threatening witnesses in the Nolan Wells case and one of them is the defendants
• ICE set a record in July of 51,000 arrests surpassing June’s 46,000 but they haven’t hit their goal of 2,000 arrests per day
• Meta’s AI model, Muse Spark hacked another company during testing when it gained unintended internet access
• The FDA has just approved the first ever mRNA flu vaccine which means it can be produced faster and also easier to respond to new strains
• Canada’s Prime Minister had teleprompter issues and said “Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy”
• Mexican jalapenos have now been linked to a salmonella outbreak in Chipotles in 27 states

• Iran says talks with Oman are going well and one or two issues remain
• The Houthis claim to have attacked a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea with ballistic missiles
• Israel has launched new attacks in southern Lebanon claiming a blatant violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah
• Israeli forces are also carrying out new raids in the West Bank and are detaining Palestinians
• A Russian strike on Ukraine has killed 21
• Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket struck the moon today and has left a 60 ft wide crater, ejecting lunar dust and rock
• An Associated Press investigation has revealed that 51 parents and spouses of active duty US troops have been detained since Trump came into office for the second time with at least 6 military family members being deported while 8 remain in federal custody
• Speaker Mike Johnson says he feels bad for Rep Max Miller
• The FAA is investigating after a commercial flight had an apparent loss of separation with Marine One
• Trump announced he’s rolling back the intended scope of the Endangered Species Act that the Radical Climate Activists were using to hold our great country hostage by
• The UK’s AI Security Institute has reported that Claude and ChatGPT attempted a backdoor project on GitHub and wrote malicious code that attempted to trick the humans into merging it with the project
• Michigan has said in its voting last night that they are not for Democrats who take AIPAC money and have put forward Abduel El-Sayed
• TKO Group Holdings, the parent company for UFC, says it lost $30M for its little rage cage match on the White House lawn
• Disney and TikTok have struck a deal to allow creators to use characters and scenes from Disney’s library for short form videos
• A big thank you to Angela for providing me with coffee for the week!!

• Israel is setting off huge explosions in southern Lebanon. They’re also firing tear gas and destroying monuments in Gaza today
• Netanyahu said in a video today that Israeli troops are not withdrawing from Gaza until Hamas is completely disarmed
• Iran and Oman say their talks are going well
• Video shows a Russian drone chasing a Ukrainian street vendor in a human safari attack. The drone was remotely controlled and Ukraine says this amounts to a war crime
• Ohio Republican congressman Max Miller says he will not drop his reelection bid amidst abuse claims by his ex-wife
• An armed man was arrested today outside of the golf course owned by the guy in the white house in Rancho Palos Verdes
• The Senate Judiciary officially advanced Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general
• The current administration has accused OpenAI of discriminating against US workers and favoring foreign visa holders. OpenAI says no but has agreed to a paying a $1.2M fine and set aside $2 million to provide “back pay” to any U.S. workers found to have missed out on employment
• Trump decided he didn’t like the slope of the new white house lawn helipad
• Bronze statues near the Lincoln Memorial are being regilded with 23 karat gold leaf
• Oil companies made $93B in 3 months

• Trump says talks with Iran are underway. Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US is securing a deal with Iran to open the Strait today or tomorrow and Iran says they’re talking to Oman about the Strait
• Two vessels have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz and one crew member is missing after abandoning ship
• Two more Palestinians have been killed due to Israeli strikes and 10 wounded in the last 24 hours. The death toll in Gaza is now at 73,377
• Yemen’s Houthis say they have hit a target near an airport in Saudi Arabia
• Ukraine is striking Moscow and killed 5
• Senator Wyden of Oregon has released a new report around the bankers who not only helped Epstein but kept in close contact with him while seemingly knowing he was a sex trafficker
• Confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general is set for a vote today
• A man has been arrested for arson for one of the fires in Washington
• Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a 41 year old man from El Salvador, has died while in ICE custody at Delaney Hall in New Jersey
• A US district judge issued an injunction yesterday blocking New York’s law that prohibits ICE agents from wearing masks
• Trump is arriving today for a fundraiser dinner at his golf club in Rancho Palos Verdes.
• It’s voting day in Michigan
• Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos are teaming up to lead a $200M project to save 100 of the world’s most threatened species
• A federal appeals court ruled in favor of Arkansas’s 2023 book-ban law, overturning an injunction that prevented the law from taking effect for the past three years

• Trump says negotiations with Iran will start today and that Iran’s choices are "a deal or total surrender". Iran says there are no talks underway
• Trump not only wants credit for oil profits but is not demanding oil prices go down
• Israeli settlers beat and pepper sprayed an elderly man in the occupied West Bank. The man was on his own land
• Russia claims a Ukrainian drone hit a beach killing 7 and injuring 40
• Israel has formally voiced its concerns to the guy in the white house of the peace plan with Hamas and even Netanyahu’s spokesperson says what has been relayed to the public does not reflect Israel’s plan
• Todd Blanche has formally rescinded the anti weaponization fund and now Cornyn and Tillis say they’ll approve his nomination
• Senate appropriators passed a continuing resolution over the weekend to keep the government funded until December 11th
• Almost 65,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Washington due to wildfires
• Two people in Michigan have died from the Cyclospora outbreak
• The American Red Cross declared its second ever national blood crisis. The Red Cross is offering Amazon gift cards to donors in August and a bonus for those with type O blood
• RFK Jr is now saying parents you should definitely vaccinate their kids
• Thank you to Janice for my coffee today!

• Trump has called off strikes on Iran after Saudi Arabia’s crowned prince called him and tried to speak to his ego
• Gaza’s death toll has risen to at least another 18 due to Israeli strikes
• Israeli forces set fire to houses in Lebanon and 5 Lebanese Army soldiers have been injured
• Israel’s Energy Minister says Israel currently controls 70% of Gaza and should take full control
• Three people have been killed in Moscow after a bomb detonated at a restaurant which was a Ukrainian drone strike
• Wildfires are raging in Washington with over 250,000 acres burned, 600 structures have been burned and 5000 people have been evacuated
• A mass shooting at an In-N-Out in Idaho Falls killing 3 and injuring 7
• Louisiana and Alabama are joining Florida to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci
• Capitol One is seeking the dismissal of Trump’s latest suit along with Eric Trump
• The administration is working to rollback federal requirements of Head Start next week potentially dismantling the 60 year old anti-poverty program. It’s all part of Project 2025
• The Department of “War” took to social media this weekend posting “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said ‘Here I am. Send me.’ with images of soldiers and the words Send Me
• Good news for Exxon Mobil and Chevron who reported massive profits last quarter
• California minimum wage will go up to $17.40 on January 1st while the federal minimum wage continues to be stuck at $7.25 since 2009
• A huge thank you to John for supplying me with both coffee and wine this week

• The Israeli army claims to have destroyed 5 Hamas arms depots in Gaza
• Israel struck another town in southern Lebanon and more in Gaza killing at least 4
• The US warns citizens in the middle east that they should leave if possible as the US plans to further attack Iran this weekend
• Within the week, Iran is set to receive 400 new missiles from China
• Russia continues to strike Ukraine and Zelensky says Ukraine is being overwhelmed only able to shoot down one of 27 Russian missiles
• Spain has installed a 1600 foot barrier on the sea border between its North African territory and Morocco to prevent further migrant crossing
• Cyber attacks on US water systems has now grown to 7 states and appears to be the work of Iran
• The DOJ has admitted no, there were no vandals who harmed the reflecting pool because it was actually the installation crew
• Trump threatened to bring back the anti-weaponization fund if Todd Blanche isn’t confirmed

• Israeli settlers attacked a sheep farm today firing shots and injuring a 10 year old in the West Bank. Settlers also illegally seized an ancient archaeological site and turned it into a swimming pool
• The US military is posting on social media that the Strait of Hormuz is open to commercial vessels
• Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US is searching for Iranian assets all over the world
• The former Israeli chief of staff says Netanyahu has capitulated with the Gaza peace plan
• Trump says the US is decimating Iran
• An F-35 fighter jet has crashed near Miramar air base outside of San Diego
• Authorities are releasing the ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case in the hopes that someone recognizes the writing
• Today is the last day of funding from the federal government for legal services for children who entered the US alone
• Trump said he saw what happened in Spain yesterday with hundreds of thousands of migrants, no it was 60,000 and he says that could happen in America if Republicans don’t get elected
• There was a cyber attack in Minnesota targeting 30 water systems
• The National Archives sent an email to staff at offices in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle that they will be closing and records will need to be relocated
• The headline says Oprah is closing her school for girls in South Africa but she’s actually turning it over to the provincial education department
• Minocqua Brewing Company in Wisconsin is about to lose its alcohol permit and the owner says it’s in retaliation to him offering free beer
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• Trump has announced that thanks to The Board of Peace, there’s a new peace plan on the table between Hamas and Israel
• Another Palestinian has been killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza
• Iran continues to launch strikes and Kuwait says they have destroyed drones entering its airspace
• Iran claims it has struck and stopped 2 oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz
• 60,000 people crossed Spain’s border from Morocco in 24 hours
• FIFA presidential advisor Carlos Cordeiro resigned today over Infantino’s plan to sell off World Cup
• Trump doubled down this morning about how mad he is that Senator Cornyn won’t confirm Todd Blanche
• Have you heard of Meredith O’Rourke also known as "the princess of darkness". She’s helped Trump raise $800M
• ABC submitted a 119-page filing to the FCC accusing the agency of "attempted censorship" and retaliatory action over the network's broadcast programming and editorial choices
• Ohio Congressman Max Miller’s ex-wife has filed for a restraining order against him and has accused him of abuse
• Scouting America is currently hosting its National Jamboree and decided to eliminate spaces for gay youth, women and scouts of color because Hegseth demanded it
• Trump is taking his cabinet on a little retreat this weekend at Camp David
• The bots went rogue again. First it was OpenAI and now it’s Anthropic who discovered during testing that Claude models hacked another company

- Iran says they didn’t strike the vessel in Egypt and is saying it was false flag operations because they want Egypt secure

Iran claims it struck US assets at a base in Bahrain

- Israeli restrictions on aid are crippling Gaza relief efforts. The UN Palestinian refugee agency says half their vehicle fleet is inoperable because they won’t give them spare parts or lubricant oil

- Senate Republicans with the exception of Collins, Paul and Murkel voted to let Trump continue his war

- Katie Phang won big in court today when the judge said unredacted Epstein files needed to be turned over and the DOJ

- Trump is now saying he might remove his nomination of Todd Blanche as attorney general

- The administration has decided to wrap up the coverage for Medicare Part D which covered prescriptions in response to the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act

- On Thursday, the Union of European Football Associations and its 55 member associations unanimously voted to boycott all FIFA competitions in protest of the plan to sell to private investors

- RFK Jr has launched a new cooking show because the sacred ritual of cooking at home has been abandoned

• The IRGC is claiming an attack on the US military base in Kuwait. Two drone hangars and a fuel tank for an aircraft and military helicopters were set on fire and destroyed at the base
• The IRGC is claiming to have attacked Jordan’s al-Azraraq airbase and to have destroyed 3 US F-35 fighter jets, caused heavy damage to 3 others and have said they killed a number of enemy officers and technical and mechanical personnel
• Iran has also struck two vessels, one was US owned at an Egyptian port. This is the first strike on Egypt
• Kuwait says one person was killed in an Iranian strike of a building of a Chinese company
• An Israeli drone attack in northern Gaza has killed four more including 2 children
• US forces bombed a building on Iran’s Qeshm Island killing a couple and their 2 year old child. An 11 and 7 year old were pulled from the rubble and are receiving medical care
• Yesterday the US struck a deal with Lockheed Martin for a contract worth $58.6B to produce more Patriot interceptor missiles
• Poland is blaming Russia for firing a missile into its territory as Russia is unleashing deadly attacks on Ukraine with at least 8 killed
• The vote to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has been delayed because Senator John Cornyn refuses to yield
• US Space Force awarded SpaceX $1.6B to launch 18 Falcon 9 missions from Vandenberg Space Force Base through 2027
• The National Urban League released its annual “State of Black America” report today and says The American Dream is even further out of reach for Black Americans since the Civil Rights Movement thanks to the current administration
• Florida’s attorney general has launched an investigation into Dr. Fauci over his “lack of candor to Congress”

• Iran confirms the US/Saudi attack killed at least 4 people affiliated with the IRGC
• The Israeli military ordered an evacuation for a refugee camp in Gaza City and then struck it twice
• Other Israeli strikes have killed 2 more Palestinians
• Dr. Fauci pleaded the 5th 100 times today. The committee is expected to vote next week on whether to hold him in contempt
• The deadline passed on Monday for Trump to file a Supreme Court rehearing petition on birthright citizenship
• Alex Jones is calling for Trump's immediate impeachment because of a social media post on April 7th
• Matthew Wingate, the government-relations director for defense and foreign policy at the Heritage Foundation tried to take a 9 mm gun magazine with 10 rounds in it through security into a Senate office building on Friday
• A reporter asked Epstein survivors how acting attorney general Todd Blanche has been condescending to them
• Yesterday Marjorie Taylor Green put a ring on it in Vegas and married Brian Glenn
• The White House is not happy that John Mellencamp paused his concert over the weekend to call renaming the Gulf of Mexico was a stupid idea
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• The US and Saudi Arabia conducted joint strikes against Iranian backed militias in Iraq killing at least 20
• Iran has said they’re firing missiles at the US base in Jordan
• Iran is reporting a US attack in northwestern Iran
• Oil prices are up
• Ukraine says it hit two major Russian oil refineries
• More than 60,000 children have been orphaned in Gaza since October 2023
• Dr. Anthony Fauci is being questioned today by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee led by Rand Paul
• There have been more than 100 aftershocks in Japan
• Trump is unveiling a $22.5B renovation plan for Washington Dulles airport
• The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton as the new National Intelligence Director
• Actor Jared Leto has been accused of criminal sexual conduct by 10 women
• Trump and the DOJ are asking the Supreme Court to toss out an $83M defamation verdict won by E. Jean Carroll
• Elon Musk’s company xAI is suing Minnesota for banning AI nudification technology
• Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff are urging the SEC to investigate Trump's fast feed
• The absence of Mitch McConnell and death of Lindsey Graham are stalling the SAVE America Act
• BTS has been nominated for a grammy but the band has decided to boycott after the Grammys announced an Asian Pop category
• APNews shares the new media ecosystem reshaping Democratic politics

• Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister says Iran will take any action to control the Strait and has no plans on negotiating with the US
• Saudi Arabia air defences have intercepted and destroyed several drones launched from Iraqi territory attempting to target oil facilities
• Oil prices are going down again
• Netanyahu says he had an excellent meeting with Trump
• Netanyahu then declined to meet with Zelensky
• Senators John Cornyn and Thom Thillis have demanded that the anti-weaponization fund be formally killed to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general
• Colt Gray, the suspect in the Georgia school shooting was sentenced to life without parole today
• A new DHS rule took effect, allowing federal officers to refer asylum applicants directly to Immigration Judges without initial interviews
• ICE has begun arresting people with expired visas at airports, including spouses of American citizens and workers with pending status applications
• The Energy Department selected Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Utah, and Idaho as potential hosts for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses
• This administration has killed at least 221 people in 67 boat strikes and the DEA has assessed that cocaine flow hasn’t actually decreased at all. Boats have just taken a different route
• A federal judge in Illinois ruled today that the state cannot offer in-state tuition to public colleges to students who are immigrants here illegally
• The DOJ spent $900K renovating its Washington headquarters which included cleaning, new light fixtures and 6 giant banners of Trump
• The president of FIFA announced today his plans to create a $20B company to run the World Cup with private investors and the Kushner brothers
• A video has gone viral of a 16 year old Ryder Williams, a lifeguard in Santa Cruz, California rescuing a 10 year old at Seabright Beach over the weekend
• AI companies, including Anthropic, are buying up used and rare physical books in bulk to scan for training data, then destroying them, exploiting a legal loophole that treats digitizing a purchased book as "transformative" fair use

• Trump threatened to use Iranian frozen assets to fix and replace any damage and Iran says any country using their frozen assets will not be allowed in the Strait of Hormuz
• Trump took some time from posting on Truth Social to call into Fox News and say once again that if talks with Iran don’t go well, he could take out most of their bridges in less than one hour and knock out the power plants within a day
• Oman has sent a proposal to Iran for a joint regional mechanism to manage the Strait of Hormuz with voluntary fees
• Israel says the US used Israeli bases to refuel and take off in recent weeks to carry out strikes on Iran because Iran is striking everywhere except Israel
• Israel’s Defence Minister said he has issued instructions to expand the scope of the military assault on the occupied West Bank
• 3 more Palestinians were killed and 14 injured by Israeli attacks on Gaza
• Netanyahu is meeting with Trump and also meeting separately with Zelensky
• Today is the funeral for Lindsey Graham
• A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit south west Japan today and a shopping mall has collapsed trapping many people
• Uganda has declared itself ebola free as the last patient was discharged in mid-June
• The administration notified Congress last week that it intends to spend $175.8M to replace outdated and aging undersea telecommunications cables in the Caribbean and Central America to prevent China from moving in
• The Federal Transit Administration hasn’t approved a single new infrastructure grant under the Capital Investments Grants
• The Tate brothers will spend at least the next two weeks in a US jail until their extradition hearing

• 4 Iranian drones are targeting northern Iraq. Sources say that there are more than 10 US warplanes and drones flying over in response to the attacks which includes a gas field which supplies the majority of the region’s electricity.
• There has also been a series of explosions near the US consulate in Erbil
• Iran’s health minister says the US attacks have killed 60 and injured 670
• Trump was given a microphone in Michigan today
• Previously unreleased documentary footage of Lindsay Graham show him celebrating the war in Iran and saying it was the best thing he’d ever done
• Trump asked the Supreme Court today to allow the administration to move forward with implementing his executive order around mail in ballots
• Police now say there were actually 3 shooters in the Seattle Food Festival and one of them is among those dead
• A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit over the make up of the guy in the white house’s Religious Liberty Commission. The lawsuit argued the commission violates rules by excluding non-Judeo-Christian faith traditions and consists almost entirely of conservative Christians and one Orthodox Jewish rabbi
• Trump is demanding the Senate cancel their upcoming August break until they pass his SAVE America Act bill
• Mitch McConnell has been released from the hospital and moved to a rehab center but hasn’t been cleared for work
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• A shout out to my friend Lina Patton for sending me this amazing hat. Check out her book, The Lake Club, which is already out and amazing. My current read is Full Throttle by J.K. Maclaren

• Trump is claiming the US is deep in talks with Iran but his patience has run out and the talks will either go fast or not at all and if they don’t, the US will go back to very strong military action
• Trump claimed Iran is begging for a deal yet today Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq all reported more drone attacks
• Saudi Arabia is reporting drone attacks launched from Iraq
• The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, expressed concern over the depletion of air defence munitions according to an unnamed US official
• Another Palestinian has died due to an Israeli strike on central Gaza
• Germany has just approved record arms exports to Israel
• Three people were killed and at least 4 were injured in a shooting at the Seattle Food Festival over the weekend
• CNBC is reporting that court documents now show that federal officials admitted withholding billions of dollars in federal grants to states based solely on the fact that they did not vote for Trump
• Netanyahu is meeting with Trump tomorrow at 11am eastern time
• Carly Simon has revealed she has Parkinson’s and treated for skin cancer
• The CEO of Cracker Barrel is stepping down next month

• Iranian media is saying a tanker exploded after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz
• Israel says they have killed the Hamas drone commander
• Trump has decided to pause strikes to allow for diplomacy
• One woman has died and 29 were injured when a van drove into a crowd and the man then started stabbing people with a machete at the Berlin Pride parade in Germany. Authorities are saying it was an Islamic terrorist attack by a German citizen with Lebanese roots whom they’ve now shot and killed
• Ukraine has attacked an Iranian tanker in the Caspian Sea and Iran says it was done at Israel’s behest
• Brazil has denied visas to two US State Department officials who were planning on questioning the country's election system
• Russia took some satellite footage of US bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait on July 19 and 20th and gave the photos to Iran to plan strikes and then assess damage
• Seattle police are looking for 2 men who parachuted from the Space Needle
• The OpenAI agent that somehow crawled out of its sandbox also left notes for future versions of itself with instructions on how to break free
• The White House quietly updated their website this weekend re-adding the four service members who were killed last week and also adding 140 to the wounded list
• Katy Perry is expressing outrage over her song Firework being used in a White House tiktok video of the US striking Iran
• Trump's posting all kinds of AI images to Lies Social including fake images of attacks on Iranian facilities and a number of images of him wearing 2028 hats

• The Houthis are escalating attacks in Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities, calling them the bread and butter of Saudi Arabia
• Israel has launched an artillery attack on southern Lebanon
• An Israeli attack on a family home in Gaza has killed at least 2 more Palestinians including the head of the Hamas-led police and a medic
• Iraq air defences have shot down a drone near the US consulate in Erbil and have also fired tear gas at journalists in the Occupied west bank
• Iran says they sold $18B worth of oil during the war and so-called ceasefire with the US
• The IRGC is claiming to have destroyed 17 reconnaissance and operational drones, one F-15 fighter jet inside a hangar, one P-8 aircraft, one C-17 transport aircraft and 8 refuelling aircraft were also destroyed at bases throughout the region
• There are now over 270,000 people displaced due to wildfires in France and Spain
• Those who went to the White House Correspondent’s do over dinner last night were treated to an hour long rambling from Trump
• The award for courage went to the three journalists from the Wall Street Journal who investigated the Epstein birthday card from Trump
• When asked about LeBron vs Michael Jordan, Trump referred to Jordan as a friend whom he plays golf with and then said LeBron might be a racist
• Trump has ordered warning signs to be posted outside of the Smithsonian that say “inaccurate information presented in the Museum.”
• Maine Democrats have officially picked Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner
• Meta has quit the clean energy pledge
• Good news for today that I discovered thanks to V of Under the Desk News is that a new species of monkey has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo

• Trump is now saying the massive attack on Iran that he was toying with this week might not be necessary after all
• Iran has vowed to kill one member of the US forces for every Iranian killed
• Trump claims he has been promised by China and Russia that they will not, under any circumstances give or sell weapons to Iran
• Sirens are currently going off in Bahrain and citizens are being told to remain calm and find a safe place
• The US Embassy in Jerusalem has advised US citizens to stay alert, be prepared and the possibility of flight cancellations
• 10 people were killed in a Russian attack on a drone exhibition near Kyiv
• More than 140,000 people have been evacuated in France and Spain due to wildfires. Regional emergency crews say extinguishing the fires is beyond the capacity of the fire crews
• The DOJ is suing Milwaukee over their mask ban for federal agents
• Trump wants to investigate EU trade practices for what he’s calling unethical fines on Google and Apple
• Paramount has agreed to pause the Warner Brothers deal while the case plays out
• LeBron James is heading to the Philadelphia 76ers in what he says will be his final contract in the NBA
• The Los Angeles Dodgers kissed the ring yesterday and visited Trump
• The measles has just reached a 35 year high with over 2300 confirmed cases
• In good news, Christopher Hellenthal of Jonesboro, Arkansas helped a man in a wheelchair cross the road while dressed as superman

• Netanyahu is coming to Washington on Tuesday to see Trump
• Iran is attacking the US military base in Jordan and missiles are being intercepted in Bahrain. Here’s what Iran’s army has claimed they’ve done but is not confirmed: in Kuwait, projectiles hit a base used by the US and destroyed an ammunition depot and inflicted casualties among US personnel. In Bahrain, they targeted Amazon’s data center. In Jordan, drone strikes on several US army base facilities including maintenance and accommodation. In Iraq, a drone crash near the airport. US strikes in Iran has killed 4 and injured over a dozen people
• Israel continues to attack in the West Bank
• The Pentagon has removed the names of 4 fallen service members as part of the casualty count for the war in Iran because they say it happened after Trump called for a ceasefire. The count is 18
• Colt Gray, the 16 year old responsible for the 2024 Apalachee High School shooting that killed two students and two teachers and wounded several others is expected to enter a non-negotiated plea today
• Parsley and cilantro have now been linked to the Cyclospora outbreak
• Tonight the White House Correspondent’s dinner will have it’s do over and of course Trump will be in attendance
• Thank you to Diane for providing me with both coffee and wine today!

• Trump says he’s considering a massive attack on Iran
• Marco Rubio is saying that Iran is begging for a deal
• An advisor to Iran’s supreme leader says the threats from Trump to hit civilian infrastructure is proof of how desperate he is
• Iran’s chief negotiator and parliament speaker is literally mocking the US online
• Trump just posted on Truth Social that the US will use Iranian money in its possession to pay for any damages to ships and cargo
• An Israeli air strike on Gaza City has killed at least 2 people
• Trump announced today that the US will impose 10-12.5% tariffs on dozens of countries as his 10% levies are set to expire Friday
• The man who killed Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, their dog and wounded Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette was sentenced today to two life terms plus 40 years in prison
• 2 people have died in West Virginia due to flash floods
• Laura Loomer went to Ukraine and met with Zelensky and has now reversed her long held pro Kremlin stance on the war
• The DOJ is saying they’re going to withdraw the subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters after admitting legal errors
• The administration and Secretary Duffy is requesting $8B to rehab Penn Station
• Trump announced today that 23 governors have signed his Ratepayer Protection Pledge to shield consumers from data center utility costs
• The Department of Education will no longer treat policies that disproportionately harm one group of students as discriminatory unless the discrimination is intentional
• This week the American Heart Association published a new scientific statement reporting that consuming up to 5 cups of coffee daily is safe for most

• The House just voted and narrowly passed another War Powers Resolution
• The US struck a crossing on the border of Iran and Iraq which was filled with religious travelers killing 2 and wounding 11
• The Houthis are attacking Saudi tankers in the Red Sea and Qatar is calling the actions a serious violation of international law
• Iraq and Iran leaders are meeting and are pledging to have closer ties
• Turns out the nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia comes with the condition of them joining the Abraham Accords
• In Gaza there’s now an outbreak of chickenpox
• The Israeli military is saying two “terrorists” stabbed an Israeli civilian near an illegal settlement who were then neutralized by another civilian
• Israeli forces continue to push further into Lebanon carrying out explosions, drone strikes and ground incursions
• Oil prices have hit $100 a barrel
• Trump campaigned yesterday for the Georgia Governor GOP nominee Rick Jackson
• There’s a new Cyclospora outbreak
• The United States Navy says it will no longer release sailors’ service histories citing increased security threats and harassment concerns
• Norway is set to make a formal complaint to FIFA over the red card saga
• Elon and Bezos are wanting to put millions of data centers into space

• The US has launched a new set of strikes against Iran
• Kuwait is currently intercepting a drone attack by Iran
• Another Israeli drone strike has killed a person in Gaza
• The final vote for the NDAA passed in the House today and heads to the Senate
• The NDAA bill also included $1.15T in military spending
• Also included in the bill was the official renaming of the Department of Defense to the Department of War
• Speaker Mike Johnson has combined the Stop Insider Trading Act with the Save America Act into one bill
• U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes is asking why is testosterone replacement therapy ok but there’s a ban on transgender troops
• Trump went to Dover for the dignified transfer of our four fallen soldiers and told reporters that the four deceased servicemembers supported his position
• Israel has been inspired by the US and changed wildlife rules around crocodiles
• In Madison, Wisconsin today there was a police involved shooting where an officer shot a man 3 times in the head
• Big thank you’s this afternoon go out to Sharon and Betty for the coffee!

• Trump told reporters that we are all not thrilled with high gas prices but we aren’t against the war
• Trump is flying this morning to attend the dignified transfer of four of our fallen soldiers. The Pentagon named 28 year old Sgt Angel Rampersad of New York as who they believe is the fourth servicemember to die by Iranian strikes on a military base in Jordan
• Trump says for any ship shot at in the Strait, the US will bomb and destroy one bridge or power plant that is next to or in Tehran
• Trump said it’s been hard to negotiate with Iran while little Marco Rubio called Iran the troublemaker of the region
• Trump has just given his blessing for Saudi Arabia to have its own nuclear program
• Hamas has elected a new leader, Khalil al-Hayya who delivered his first statement today vowing to lift the harm and pain from the people of Gaza
• OpenAI is reporting that without human prompting, the artificial intelligence models independently stole login credentials and hacked into another startup company
• Oil is now at $94/barrel
• Yesterday the House passed a stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown months in advance
• Modeling scout Daniel Siad whose name appears thousands of times in the Epstein files was found dead this morning in Paris
• Warren Hudson who was one of the friends of Nolan Wells and was with him the day he died chose to break his silence by going on a podcast
• Cyclospora has now been reported in 41 states
• The wreckage of a Pan Am DC-4 that went down in the waters off of Puerto Rico on April 11, 1952 has been found on the bottom of the ocean. It was this flight that changed aviation safety with passenger briefings and protocols

• Trump is now threatening to attack the reportedly new Iranian nuclear site very heavily
• Trump posted to Lies Social today stats about the length of various wars and how many deaths there were
• What has this war cost you and I? According to Secretary Hegseth’s testimony today, it’s currently at $37.5B and he needs another $67B
• The Lebanese president met with Trump today and told him he needs Israel to leave Lebanon
• The IRGC claims they destroyed radar systems in Kuwait
• Kuwaitis are rationing electricity since their power grid was hit by an Iranian strike
• Yemen’s Houthis have declared a blockade of Saudi Arabia which has the potential to wide the war in Iran
• Speaker Mike Johnson says he wants more restrictions on relationships between lawmakers and staff
• The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 9-8 today to advance Jay Clayton as the nominee for Director of National Intelligence
• In New Jersey it was announced that the motor vehicle commission software glitched and around 6600 non-us citizens were registered to vote between 2023 and 2024
• The DOJ who can’t be bothered with releasing the Epstein files is now accusing UC San Diego medical school of bias in admissions because data shows 6.18% of Black applicants were admitted versus 2.45% of white applicants
• The current administration announced today the deferral of $1B in medicaid payments to Minnesota and California
• The US sent the first humanitarian flight to Cuba today under the new aid package with 700 packages of food and hygiene kits
• 32M in the northeast, including NYC are under a tornado watch until 9pm ET tonight as severe thunderstorms loom
• The US passport was once the most powerful in the world but has since plummeted. Today, Singapore secured the top spot
• I’m heading out tonight to be the conversation partner for my friend Elizabeth Svoboda for her new book The Art of Pacing

• Bahrain and Kuwait are currently under Iranian attack. All citizens have been told to find a safe place. Iran again struck Kuwait’s desalination and water plants
• At least 2 more have been killed in central Gaza by an Israeli air strike on a civilian car
• The Pentagon now says nearly 100 troops were injured in the last two weeks
• Secretary Hegseth will face Congress today as he testifies his reasoning for needing billions of dollars for the current war
• The soldier killed in Iraq has been identified as 30 year old Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton from North Carolina. Sgt Swinton was killed while trying to disarm a drone
• Trump said Iran wants to meet with the US desperately, but the US has no interest in meeting
• Oil prices are up to $90
• The Justice Department is investigating whether Harvard University is allowing Chinese donors to create scholarships that exclude American students
• JPMorgan and other banks are set to help finance Japan’s $550B US investment
• House Democrats led by Congressman Jamie Raskin are investigating whether Epstein acted as a foreign agent
• An appeals court blocked President Biden’s bid to have audio recordings of his ghostwriter interviews released. The Heritage Foundation filed a public records request because they want to show Biden had diminished faculties and a faulty memory
• Tropical Storm Bertha is on track to reach the Gulf Coast
• We still haven’t seen Mitch McConnell since June 14th

• The US continues to strike Iran and Trump says that every time Iran kills an American soldier they will pay for that killing many times over
• Iran’s president is saying this is a full scale war with the US
• At least 3 more people have been killed in northern Gaza from Israeli strikes and at least one has been killed in central Gaza from an Israeli drone strike
• Trump has invoked a new 50% tariff on Canadian goods to take effect in 30 days
• The FDA is saying that was a false positive in regards to Taylor Farms lettuce testing for Cyclospora
• The man arrested this morning in New York for setting off fireworks, lighting a fire and firing a pellet gun has been identified as former US Army soldier Andrew Arrabacca who was a mechanic on Patriot missile systems
• Lindsey Graham’s sister, Senator Darline Graham says she’s now running for the full term
• Netanyahu is concerned about traveling to the US since divisions among Republicans are widening over the Middle East
• Reverend Al Sharpton and Tyler Perry are offering a $50k reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction in the death of Nolan Wells
• Last week Trump had the 5th statue installed in the Rose Garden
• In some good news, a federal judge has paused the Paramount Warner Brothers merger and issued a restraining order for 2 weeks while she considers a broader antitrust legal challenge brought by a coalition of 12 states including California

• 3 US servicemembers have been killed, many injured, and one is missing. The US military identified 25 year old 1st Lt Tyler Feehan of Hawaii and 19 year old Pvt Isabella Gonzales of Texas as the two servicemembers killed in Jordan and an additional unidentified service member has been killed in northern Iraq
• Warning sirens are going off in Bahrain at the moment and Kuwait is under Iranian missile and drone attack
• It seems a lot of supporters of Trump are confused as to how Iran is still striking because they actually believed him when he said the US obliterated them
• At least 3 more have been killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza
• Gas prices are back up over $4/gallon
• The Tate brothers were arrested over the weekend after the UK brought on further assault charges against them
• An incendiary device was deployed this morning outside of a New York federal building
• Usha and JD have a new boy offspring
• The gifted Qatari Air Force One has been grounded
• The Freedom Fuel network that the guy in the White House has been promoting is apparently run by an NFL kicking coach, a GOP fundraiser and a New Jersey entrepreneur
• On my flight yesterday I finished Whistler by Ann Patchett and I highly recommend it!

• The US has launched a new wave of strikes on Iran targeting their military capabilities
• Kuwait says they have intercepted 21 drones and 4 cruise missiles from Iran
• 3 drones have been intercepted near the US consulate in northern Iraq
• Iran has summoned the British Ambassador in Tehran after the UK designated the IRGC a threat to national security
• Airlines have cancelled flights to the Middle East for literal weeks and months
• Aaron Parnas just reported that military planning for an invasion in Cuba is being discussed
• 103 House Democrats just voted to block $3.3B of military aid to Israel
• White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Director Patel have been overseeing an investigation to try to figure out who leaked the info about the Qatari gifted Air Force One and it’s lack of security capabilities
• Secretary Hegseth announced he’s rolling out a new screening program for testosterone deficiency for troops 30 years of age and older
• Senator Jon Ossoff asked Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton who won the 2020 election
• House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a $95 billion legislative plan focused on boosting defense, aiding farmers and of course the SAVE America act
• The federal government replaced panels of a slavery exhibit on George Washington’s home in Philadelphia in the dark of night per a court order after they had removed them
• Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said today that he’s restoring trust in the justice department
• And another big thank you goes out to follower Angela for buying me multiple cups of coffee!
• Program update for tomorrow…one brief tomorrow

• The US is currently striking Iran duing the day which is rare. The US has killed 7 soldiers in addition to over 30 civilians and wounded 260 in Iran. Iran is vowing retaliation
• Another Israeli strike in Gaza struck an apartment building killing 3 Palestinians in one family leaving a child as the sole survivor of his family
• Netanyahu is coming to Lindsey Graham's funeral
• The confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is currently underway and he admits mistakes were made over the Epstein files
• Epstein survivors are urging Senators to vote no on confirming Todd Blanche
• Trump says that ICE should resume traffic stops
• Treasury Secretary Bessent unveiled the new $1 Gold coin design which has the face of the guy in the White House on it
• Rescuers in San Francisco are searching for 3 people off Alcatraz Island after a boat carrying 20 for a memorial service sank. 1 person died along with a dog and 16 were rescued
• Captain "Sully" Sullenberger who safely landed a US Airways plane on the Hudson River in 2009, announced that he has been diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's disease at age 75
• Another thank you to follower Dianella for providing me with coffee this week!
• I’ll be back later today with more news. Stay cool and hydrated

• Let’s kick off the afternoon with some great news! E. Jean Carroll’s bank account just became $5.6M bigger because Trump had to finally pay her!
• Trump just backtracked his call for a 20% tariff on the Strait of Hormuz
• Additional US strikes are launching this evening on Iran
• Trump said US representatives held talks with Iran today. He also said that strikes will continue until he says stop. He said quote We will knock out all their power plants. We will knock out all their bridges until they get to the negotiating table.”
• Trump met with Iraq’s Prime Minister and says he had tremendous chemistry with him
• Israel’s security cabinet has approved a budget of $434M to establish 34 new illegal settlements in the West Bank
• Two more people have been killed in Gaza City from Israeli attacks
• The cloture vote failed on the National Defense Authorization Act. Call your reps!
• The House passed the bill that could make daylight saving time permanent. It now heads to the Senate
• New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a first in the national moratorium on the construction of new data centers in New York
• Wisconsin says Elon Musk broke the law by promising voters a $1M payout
• A federal judge has awarded $314 million in damages to three Americans who were jailed and allegedly tortured by what he called a “criminal enterprise” led by former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
• The Writers Guild of America has become the latest group to challenge Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Brothers
• A rare T. Rex fossil has sold for $50.1M to an unnamed buyer. The skeleton, named Gus, is 67 million years old and features a skull that is 82% intact
• A huge shoutout and thank you to follower Pam for supplying me with my coffee fix

• The US and Iran continue trading strikes today
• An Israeli tank open fired in southern Gaza at a displacement camp and killed a 9 year old who was outside of his tent. An Israeli drone strike hit a police station in Gaza and killed 7 police officers
• Netanyahu is warning Iran that if they strike Israel, they will strike back
• Oil prices are up 9% since yesterday
• Trump says he wants US allies to reimburse the US for protection
• Mexico has filed criminal complaints with state prosecutors in the US over the deaths of 17 of its citizens while in ICE custody and during enforcement operations
• ICE has now paused most traffic stops after two deadly shootings in a week
• Today Supreme Court Justices Kagan and Coney-Barrett are asking Congress for more money to cover security due to increased threats
• Congressman Thomas Massie is seeking to remove U.S.-Israel defense integration from the NDAA
• Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday and rumor has it he’s going to address voter fraud and the 2020 election results
• Taco Bell is now under investigation over the parasitic outbreak that has now hospitalized more than 80 people
• If you’re new here, allow me to introduce myself. I am not a journalist, nor do I claim to be. I am a mom of 2, stepmom of 2, wife and a dog mom. I own a podcast PR agency, host 3 podcasts, am an author and launched Kitchen Briefs this past March in an effort to simply get more people to care about the news without overwhelm

• The UAE says two tankers were targeted by Iran and an Indian crew member has been killed with 8 others wounded
• Trump said he feels the most effective way to put pressure on Iran is through a combination of blockade and hitting them
• Trump has also reinstated the Iran port blockade and vows to charge 20% on cargo passing through the Strait
• Trump formally notified Congress today that military action restarted on July 7th
• US embassy appointments in Abu Dhabi and US Consulate appointments in Dubai have been cancelled through Wednesday because of the strikes
• South Carolina’s governor has appointed Lindsey Graham’s sister to serve out the rest of his Senate term
• FBI agents are investigating the death of Lindsey Graham out of extreme caution they say
• DHS has admitted that the man they killed this morning in Maine was once again, not the guy they were trying to go after
• A federal judge ruled that Trump sought to manipulate the judicial process with his bogus IRS suit and attempted $1.8B fund
• Trump has reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah undoing protections on public lands that are sacred to Native Americans
• Trump is planning on addressing the nation on Thursday night
• Wisconsin congressman Ron Johnson said that photo of Mitch McConnell…it was an old one
• The Parasitic outbreak continues to spread and in Michigan over 3000 people are affected
• Meta removed its controversial AI feature that rolled out just last week after users complained and most opted out
• Thank you to all 23K of you for being here. I appreciate your support and promise to continue to show up daily! This is the 200th kitchen brief!

• Yemen has closed their airports until further notice to prevent Iranian aircraft from landing there
• Iran’s Armed Forces says they will not allow the US to interfere with the Strait of Hormuz, while Trump says the US has pledged to seize the Strait and will get paid a lot of money for guarding it
• Strikes continue to be traded between the US and Iran. US strikes have killed at least 2 in Iran
• Oil prices are back up and AI stocks are down today
• The European Commission has launched a $1B aid initiative for Gaza. It consists of 12 European countries, Japan, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon
• At least 28 people were killed and 25 injured after a fire engulfed a bar in Bangkok
• ICE has killed another person today, this time in Maine
• Senator Mitch McConnell broke his silence with a photo of him and his wife
• Utah Senator Mike Lee said they should pass the SAVE America Act as a legacy piece to honor Lindsey Graham
• As a tribute to Graham, Trump posted an AI generated image of Graham in a Make Iran Great Again hat
• The Trump administration is escalating its war on the International Criminal Court
• In the next few weeks Bill Pulte will be releasing classified documents in the hopes of limiting Democrats from voting and helping Republicans
• Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill has died suddenly at the age of 78

• Senator Lindsey Graham has died
• Qatar's Sheikh Hamad has died
• Iran says 10 to 11 enemy projectiles targeted Qeshm island while CENTCOM says US forces are positioned and prepared
• Iran claims attacks on Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman with missiles and suicide drones
• Trump is doing interviews and stating the Strait of Hormuz is open. He’s also posting to Truth Social about about The Radical Left Lunatics whom he says are often referred to as Dumocrats
• Israel is continuing their attacks and have killed 6 more people in Gaza
• Congressman Ro Khanna of San Jose, California was detained for about 90 minutes by armed Israeli settlers while visiting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank
• 2 people were killed in a mass shooting yesterday at Canada’s largest Latin street festival in Toronto
• Trump is promoting the new “Freedom Fuel Network,” a group of 25 gas stations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey selling gasoline for up to 50 cents below market prices
• Vinod Khosla and family will be taking over ownership of the Seattle Seahawks for $9.62B

• Strikes have stopped between the US and Iran and Qatari negotiators are again traveling to Iran to try to regain diplomacy. Trump has said he’s agreed to further talks but that the ceasefire is over.
• Israel continues to strike southern Lebanon and two hospital staff members have been injured in Gaza after an explosive device was dropped on a hospital
• Amnesty International is calling for a war crimes investigation into 3 specific Israeli attacks on Lebanon that killed 24 civilians, including 12 children
• The bipartisan housing bill that becomes law at midnight tonight most likely won’t have Trump’s signature on it
• Secretary of Defense Hegseth issued a policy last year of no beards or facial hair but his recent Navy ship visits had sailors with facial hair
• Those who attended NATO this week in Turkey were gifted a revolver and 6 rounds from the Turkish president
• I shared yesterday that Lorenzo Salgado arowho Araujo was shot and killed by Houston ICE agents. Turns out ICE says that’s not who we were looking for
• Trump has fired the remaining members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission
• The family of Nolan Wells has retained attorney Ben Crump
• Next week the House will be voting on a bill to make daylight savings time permanent
• Next week is the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for acting attorney general Todd Blanche
• I’m off to finish reading Hot Girl Murder Club. Have you read today?

• 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

• 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!

• 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!

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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"

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Senate has just passed the War Powers Resolution 50-48 for the first time which requires Trump seek congressional approval before resuming hostilities with Iran
• Trump said he thinks it would be a good idea to run for a third term. He also said we’ve had 47 years worth of presidents
• Eli Lilly’s experimental obesity drug, Triple G, has reportedly been given to a 79 year old patient under the FDA’s compassion program after he showed unusual interest in it. Speculation is that Trump is using it
• Karoline Leavitt is back from maternity leave
• The EU today hosted Taliban officials for the first time to discuss dignified returns for Afghans in Europe
• Kash Patel’s girlfriend will be performing at Freedom 250
• Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first soccer player to score in six World Cups
• FIFA announced that Trump will be handing out the World Cup trophy

• A fifth round of talks between Lebanon and Israel have begun in DC
• Trump is insisting there is no further blockade in the Strait and that Iran has agreed to inspections while Iran says they have no plans for international inspections
• Israel’s far-right national security minister said today that Israel is capable of defying Trump and there should not be a ceasefire in Lebanon
• Israeli forces opened fire on citizens in Lebanon with assault weapons killing 2 more
• An independent UN inquiry has concluded that Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children
• The F-15 pilot who was shot down in Iran is claiming to have seen multiple Iranian drones moving together in a jellyfish like formation
• It has come to light that Israel smuggled Starlink systems into Iran to help protestors coordinate
• The Senate has passed the ROAD to Housing Act to lower housing costs and restrict Wall Street from buying homes
• 40 people have drowned in heat-related deaths in France since last Thursday
• Last night in Chico, California, an 18 year old gunman open fired at the library killing 2 and injuring a child
• A new ransom note from the possible kidnappers of Nancy Guthrie claims she died after her abduction
• The Supreme Court has ruled against a Rastafarian man who sued Louisiana prison officials for cutting off his dreadlocks which were a part of his Rastafari religious beliefs
• The National Guard and US Park Police are now patrolling the reflecting pool
• Tucker Carlson says he no longer supports the Republican Party but he also won’t support the Democratic party

• Although it seems progress has been made in negotiation talks with Iran, Trump is still saying "I will do what I have to do" while Iran says "we do not trust the enemy"
• Vance says Iran will allow nuclear inspectors from the US back into the country
• The death toll in Lebanon due to Israeli attacks is now at 4,175
• A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s election integrity strategy is unlawful and can no longer be used
• A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and other state officials
• ABC has launched an on-air campaign urging viewers to file public comments with the FCC regarding investigations into the talk show The View
• Trump threatened to expand his $15B lawsuit against the New York Times calling their coverage of the War in Iran treasonous
• The House Energy and Commerce Committee agreed today on a bipartisan bill called The Kids Online Safety Act
• Music mogul Clive Davis who worked with Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Billy Joel, Pink Floyd and more has died at the age of 94
• Lionel Messi has made history as the World Cup’s all time top scorer

• Talks have concluded in Switzerland where Vance said progress has been made despite a little bit of threats and a little bit of whining
• Oil prices dropped
• US Treasury Secretary Bessent issued a general license for Iran that authorizes the production, delivery and sale of crude oil through August 21 and Iran is opening the Strait again
• And yes, the rest of the A-team is in Switzerland, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner joined JD Vance
• Israel continues their strikes and have killed 3 more Palestinians and injured 11 others in Gaza
• Ukraine is intensifying its attacks on Russia with recent drone attacks that disrupted the Moscow airport. Russia continues to attack Ukrainian citizens
• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned
• Protests continue in Albania over the proposed development by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
• Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve Chair has died at the age of 100 due to complications of Parkinson’s disease
• Tornadoes have killed 3 in the Midwest
• Due to extreme heat in France, public alcohol consumption and outdoor sports have been restricted
• The Washington Post has just published a year long investigation into Tulsi Gabbard and how she was receiving political directives from her guru, the leader of the Science of Identity Foundation
• Trump says the reflecting pool might need to be drained again
• Chevron and Microsoft have signed a 20 year power deal for a Texas Data Center
• An AP investigation has found that the DEA allowed fentanyl shipments in New Mexico while they went after larger cases between 2023 and 2025

• Israeli strikes killed at least 32 in Lebanon and Iran said that’s enough and closed the Strait. Israel has also struck Gaza killing at least 10 people including a cameraman for Al Jazeera when it targeted a house in a refugee camp
• Trump is doubling down on his claims that Italy’s Meloni begged him for a photo
• The US will no longer fund HIV programs in South Africa after alleging the white minority is not protected
• The reflecting pool now has strips of paint peeling off already
• 3 hikers in the Grand Canyon have died from apparent heat related illnesses as temperatures exceed 109 degrees
• At least 12 people were shot in the south side of Chicago
• The Boeing 747-8 gifted to the the US by Qatar has been unveiled as the new Air Force One

• Happy Juneteenth! Today marks the date in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the end of the Civil War and ensure freedom from slavery…2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed!
• Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to renew their ceasefire and a half hour later Israel has struck southern Lebanon 12 times
• Trump doesn’t like that everyone is critical of his agreement with Iran so he’s ranting on Lies Social
• The Pentagon is saying they need $80B to cover the cost of the War in Iran
• Iran is also taking full control of the Strait of Hormuz and says it’s free during the 60 day negotiation period but could then change
• A meeting planned for today between the US and Iran has been postponed because of fighting in Lebanon
• Trump is being put in his place by Italy. He said in an interview that Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni had begged him for a photo and he felt sorry for her, so he said yes
• The DOJ doesn’t have much to do so they’ve opened an investigation into the MLB saying they can’t force employees to wear uniforms that go against their religious beliefs
• DHS is looking to sell or transfer 7 warehouses originally bought to be ICE Detention Centers for $700M
• In regards to the Wired article the other day that released over 200 names…they’re saying the names aren’t actually members, just people who passed through Dialog’s orbit such as speakers or whatnot
• Only one brief today. Go watch Obama videos!

• 8 Muslim-majority countries are blaming Israel for arson attacks on West Bank mosques
• The start of the 60 day negotiation period is today
• Israel and the US held negotiations today to maintain their military deployment in southern Lebanon
• The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on some Lebanese officials for allegedly aiding Hammas
• The White House Office of Management and Budget quietly redirected $352M from a specialized Secret Service fund to an account designated for White House Security Measures
• The Obama Presidential Centre opened today reminding us all of what America used to be and can still go back to, good humans and tan suits

• The agreement between the US and Iran has been signed but Israel continues to strike Lebanon and killing 3 more people. Many Republicans think the deal is bad
• Trump is claiming to get what he wanted which is avoiding an economic catastrophe
• Trump took to Truth Social to advise that anyone who thinks he hasn’t been tough enough on Iran are fools who are either jealous, bad people or stupid
• Trump also shared a post in which he was compared favorably to Hitler, William the Conqueror, Napoleon and others
• Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed another 3
• Ukrainian drones have set a Moscow refinery on fire in a major attack
• The Supreme Court ruled unanimously this morning that the federal government cannot prosecute a marijuana user for owning a gun based solely on his drug use
• In Mississippi, officers responding to a potential shoplifting call at a Walmart fired at a car after it allegedly drove towards them and almost struck a police officer killing a 1 year old boy
• Apple announced yesterday that they’ll be increasing prices due to ongoing memory and storage supply constraints because there’s a chip shortage
• The Knicks are celebrating with a parade today and going to the White House

• Israeli media outlets not fans of the US/Iran agreement
• Trump says the US military will remain in the gulf for a while
• The death toll in Lebanon due to Israeli attacks is now at 3,884 and they have forcibly displaced over 1M people
• The Federal Reserve is holding rates
• A judge sentenced the Gilgo Beach murderer to 3 life sentences plus 25 years to life on four other charges
• Jeff Bezos is claiming that AI is actually going to create more jobs rather than eliminate them
• The so-called thwarted attack on the UFC birthday match is now another reason Trump is claiming he needs his ballroom
• Trump has settled his lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump
• In regards to Peter Thiel’s secret Dialogue group, CT Rep Himes issued a statement that he attended a conference a decade ago and that was it. Gov Wes Moore claims he was a speaker at an event and that is it

• Trump says the deal with Iran is a memorandum of understanding and "if I don’t like it, we’ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head"
• Oil prices are back up
• In regards to the agreement, it’s all about the economic relief to Iran
• Trump has canceled the hearings for his newest Director of National Intelligence pick, Jay Clayton due to Republicans siding with Democrats over his last pick
• Trumps says Democrats made up the word affordability and it’s a con job
• JD Vance thinks the whole Epstein thing is a conspiracy theory
• The DOJ asked a judge to halt the country’s first reparations program offered to Black people in Evanston, Illinois
• Luigi will be using a psychiatric defense
• Messi showed off last night with a hat trick in Argentina’s win over Algeria
• Wired is reporting that a Swiss hacktivist group has revealed the details of Peter Thiel’s Secretive “Dialog” Society

• Israel is not backing down in Lebanon
• Iran says Israel has violated the ceasefire 84 times since Sunday and that they should expect a harsh response if the attacks continue
• The US denied Israel’s request to review the deal before signing it
• Oil prices continue to drop
• The Dept of Education has moved oversight of special education to the Dept of Human Health Services. The oversight of civil rights in education has been moved to the DOJ
• Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people impeding ICE agents during Minnesota immigration crackdowns
• The MLB is warning baseball players about altering their uniforms
• World Cup news…Messi will be taking the pitch this evening as Argentina takes on Algeria
• In more sports news, have you been following Kelsey Pfendler? She is currently rowing a 2400 mile solo mission from Monterey, CA to Oahu, Hawaii. Follow her on Instagram at YouRowKelsey
• I want to give a shoutout to my online friend Sarah Quinn. You can follow her at CreatingWithQuinn

• Trump is voicing his frustrations with Netanyahu saying he’s not happy and that he needs to be more responsible in Lebanon
• Iran claims there’s wording in the agreement in which the US accepted to ensure an end to all hostilities including in Lebanon
• Oil is down to $80 a barrel
• The US has been using an Iranian smuggling tactic and our military has been overseeing scores of secretive ship to ship transfers of oil sneaking it out of the gulf
• An Israeli air attack on Gaza has killed 2 more people
• Trump suggested to Israel that they let Syria just take care of Hezbollah because they’re doing a better job
• According to Patel, 5 people from Ohio, Missouri and California have been arrested had allegedly planned attacks on the UFC match
• The ballroom estimate is now up to $600M and our tax dollars are being used
• Luigi's back in court today ahead of his September trial for allegedly killing the United Healthcare CEO
• 8 crew members on the B-52 that crashed yesterday at Edwards Air Force Base in California died
• Yum Brands is selling Pizza Hut to a private equity firm for $2.7B
• McDonalds is serving fried apple pie in honor of America’s 250th
• In book news, Amy Griffin, author of The Tell, has filed a defamation suit against her former classmate. The classmate claimed Amy took her sexual abuse stories and used them as her own for her memoir
• In World Cup news, FIFA says they have no problem with Trump doing the honors of handing off the trophy
• Gallons of hydrogen peroxide are being poured into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

• Israel doesn’t appear to be happy about the US Iran agreemen
• According to JD Vance, the US and Iran agreement includes not just the $24B in frozen assets being unfrozen but also if Iran honors their end of the obligation, they’ll have access to a $300B reconstruction fund
• Iran will be playing their first game in the World Cup this evening against New Zealand
• Cabo Verde surprised everyone by holding their own against Spain today
• The US emergency oil stockpile tumbles to the lowest it’s been since the Reagan administration
• A B-52 bomber has crashed at Edwards Air Force base in California
• Governor Newsom has announced that the DOJ has launched an investigation into him and his wife
• An ICE agent in New Jersey fired at a fleeing vehicle after allegedly being hit by the vehicle
• One Of Us Must Die by Zelly Ruskin

• An agreement has been reached between the US and Iran and despite no details
• A Lebanese politician said this is bad for Israel and feels they’ll do whatever they can to derail the deal. Israel is already saying they’re not a party of the agreement therefore they are not bound to it
• An Israeli drone attack has killed 2 more including a child in Gaza City
• Russian strikes in Ukraine have killed 11 and set a historical cathedral in Kyiv on fire
• The UK will ban social media for children under 16
• Trump fell asleep at his birthday party
• UFC fighters walk around in underwear
• Trump is taking over Independence day with a big Trump rally
• Mitch McConnell is in the hospital
• Trump and G7 leaders are in France
• DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE will only be deployed to voting centers if a “threat” arises
• Fox is buying Roku for $22B and Salesforce is buying AI agent platform Fin for $3.6B
• A plane crash in near Kansas City, Missouri killed 11 skydivers and the pilot yesterday while a fatal helicopter crash in Brazil killed American singer and comedian Oliver Tree
• In World Cup news, the World Cup racism monitor is urging FIFA to remove an official after he made a hand gesture known to represent white supremacy

• Today we remember Melissa and Mark Hortman who were killed a year ago along with their dog Gilbert
• The US and Iran are close to signing an agreement but Israel is still attacking Lebanon. Trump said striking Beirut should not have happened. The signing is set to be in a couple of hours and was delayed because of Israel
• Israel claims they’ve killed a senior Hezbollah leader in Lebanon. Israel also killed another 3 and injured 16 more today
• President Obama is weighing in and said whatever deal is struck will not be a significant improvement over his own nuclear pact from 11 years ago
• A Ukrainian drone strike has killed 1 and sparked fire at an oil facility in Russia
• The Swiss have spoken and said no to a population cap
• Tomorrow will be the G7 Summit in France and thousands are showing up and protesting already
• Last night the Knicks broke their 53 year drought and won the NBA championship against the Spurs
• Guess what’s back? The measles! Get vaccinated!
• Yesterday, former 49ers and Raiders player Aldon Smith died at the age of 36 in San Jose
• The Somali referee who was denied entry to the US will receive his full fee which is roughly $100K
• Today is flag day, the army’s birthday and we also celebrate the birthdays of Boy George and Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Trump says the US-Iran deal will be signed tomorrow and the Strait of Hormuz will be opened to everyone
• Trump said that when all is calm, the US will get the nuclear dust from Iran and destroy it
• 5 more have died in Lebanon due to Israeli attacks. Israel is stating they’ve killed 7 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon
• Israel has also attacked Gaza City again injuring one
• Canada is pledging $100M to aid Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza
• Trump said that a collaboration with Venezuelan security forces killed the leader of the largest gang, Hector Nino Guerrero
• Switzerland’s right-wing party is looking to vote to cap their population at 10M
• Anthropic has suspended new AI tools over US government security concerns
• The FDA has approved fruity flavors for vaping
• Trump’s name is gone from the Kennedy Center
• A Federal Judge ordered the restoration of exhibits and signs about topics such as slavery, climate change, civil rights, and diverse communities that had been removed from national parks. The judge said the removal created an incomplete and misleading portrayal of American history
• The US won last night’s World Cup game. Today 4 more games are being played
• Tonight is Game 5 of the NBA finals. The Knicks are leading the Spurs 3-1
• The rage in the cage match to celebrate Trump's birthday tomorrow

• Pakistan says the final agreement between the US and Iran has been reached. Iran’s foreign minister says the Strait of Hormuz will no longer be free. The nuclear issue has been postponed since neither side agrees
• A secret ground mission to capture Iran’s uranium was being planned back in May but Trump stopped it
• 100 UK lawmakers are urging the govt to cancel an Israeli settlement land sale event
• Elon Musk has become the worlds first trillionaire
• There was a shooting in Midland, Texas today killing one and injuring 10 others
• A judge has denied the last minute request to have Trump’s name kept on the Kennedy Center
• US District judge Amit Mehta refused to block the UFC Freedom 250 even that is scheduled for Sunday
• FBI agents raided an Ohio Voter Registration group’s office today as part of the DOJ’s investigation into voter fraud
• The DOJ has approved the merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers
• World Cup games kicked off in Canada today. Ghana will play without their midfielder after Canada denied his visa

• There’s a new agreement between the US and Iran but it’s not final and there’s no timeline
• Hezbollah is claiming to have killed an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon
• Israel has issued new displacement orders to residents of 3 villages in Lebanon
• Israel has activated air raid alerts for a hostile aircraft incursion
• According to a New York Times report, the US plans major cuts to reduce fighter jets, warships and all 8 aerial refuelers for NATO operations in Europe
• Trump has decided to nominate Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence
• DHS officials claim that they have found 146K unaccompanied migrant minors since Donald took office who were part of 450K children supposedly smuggled across the US-Mexico border during the Biden administration
• Democrats want JD Vance to testify in regards to the Epstein files because he helped strategize on not releasing them
• Trumpis trying to expunge his previous impeachments
• Marco Rubio compared the US landing on the moon to the innovation and ambition of the UFC
• SpaceX trading starts today with Elon Musk poised to become the first trillionaire
• The handpicked board of The Kennedy Center is going for a last ditch effort to pause removing Trump’s name before today’s deadline
• On the lawn on the National Mall someone carved into the ground 86 47
• Algae is already in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
• Turning Point USA’s women’s summit has wrapped up and Erika Kirk says feminism goes against God’s plan for women
• Renowned artist David Hockney has died at the age of 88
• The World Cup games kicked off yesterday and the US will have its first game tonight

• According to World Bank, the US-Iran War is going to pull the global economy to post-COVID low
• Trump has announced he’s called off the strikes on Iran
• Earlier today the Pentagon was evacuated due to a hazardous material but it was found that a sensor malfunctioned and all is fine
• Rain is in the forecast and is threatening the UFC fight
• The man who killed former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog has pleaded guilty to murder. Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty
• The average long term mortgage rate has hit 6.52% just below its high for the year
• Melania and Treasury Secretary Bessent announced the launch of a spinoff of Trump accounts for children in foster care. Child welfare agencies can act as the guardian of children born between Jan 1, 2025 and Dec 31, 2028 and open an account to receive $1,000
• New Medicaid rules go into effect next year in which you’ll have to prove you’re too sick to work at least 80 hours per month
• The Joint Economic Committee has just released a state-by-state data report on rising costs under Trump. The average household has had to spend more than $3,100 more on goods and services under Trump with California and Alaska having to spend over $4,300 more. Ahhh really making america great, isn’t he?
• Immigration arrests in Florida have been quietly surging
• The House failed to pass a short term extension for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
• Visa has tapped into ChatGPT and now AI agents can shop and pay for users

• Trump has announced his plans of hitting Iran very hard tonight and taking over Kharg Island
• Israeli attacks on Lebanon near a hospital has killed another person and injured 17 more
• More Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed another Palestinian
• Air Canada has canceled all flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until October 24th
• India is urging strikes to stop on ships after 3 Indian sailors were killed in a US attack on an oil tanker
• Kuwait says 24 drones have entered their airspace in the last 48 hours
• Saudi Arabia announced lifting their 5-year ban on Lebanese imports in a major step to rebuild relations between Gulf States and Lebanon
• Paolo Zampoli shared how the TikTok account of an independent journalist was removed and how he supported that
• El Nino is here and meteorologists expect it to be big, heating the globe and rivaling El Nino of 1997 and possibly being one of the most historical El Ninos dating back to the 1950s
• The EPA says they aren’t going to worry about setting standards around data centers for pollution, water or energy use
• Last night the Knicks won in the biggest comeback in NBA history
• Today kicks off the World Cup Games
• The Somali referee who was denied entry into the US has been chosen by the Union of European Football Associations to ref the champions league game in August between Paris St Germain and Aston Villa
• UFC champion Sean Strickland has been barred from the $60M UFC fight
• Gwyneth Paltrow is featured in a new ad for Israeli luxury condos

• Israeli forces have carried out a number of raids on the West Bank destroying water lines and crops, running over an 18 yr old, raiding homes, detaining citizens and interrogating them, firing tear gas and more
• More Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 3
• The US has attacked Iran’s water facilities and Iran is calling it a calculated war crime. Trump has vowed to attack Iran again today
• Trump claims 100M barrels of oil made its way through the Strait of Hormuz in a secret military mission he directed
• Trump was asked if he’s concerned about the latest inflation number. He said "No, I love it. The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation."
• Bill Gates testified today that Epstein tried to use information about his infidelities to get close to him
• FIFA’s president defended ticket prices and then said fans should "chill" in regards to the Somali ref who was denied entry into the US
• Southern Baptists have voted to advance a formal ban on churches with women as pastors
• The FBI is seizing evidence at the Southern CA plant where a chemical tank overheated and forced evacuations earlier this month
• Seattle is banning data centers for a year
• The state of California and Santa Clara County are suing to block an ICE detention and processing facility from being built in Gilroy
• This morning I sat down with Congressman Ro Khanna to discuss Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act. You can listen to the full interview on Beyond The Campaign and Kitchen Briefs podcasts.

• Israel continues to strike Lebanon killing another 13
• Netanyahu is running for re-election according to his party after Trump made comments doubting it
• Amnesty International has released a 149-page report accusing Israel of conducting ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in the West Bank
• Trump says Iran took too long to negotiate an agreement and will now have to pay the price
• Yesterday the US struck Iran in retaliation to them shooting down a US helicopter and in turn, Iran launched missile and drone attacks on US bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain
• US inflation tops 4% for the first time in 3 years
• The House passed the $70B funding bill yesterday for ICE and CBP for the next 3 years. Trump’s plan is to deport 1M people per year
• Camp East Montana in El Paso which is an ICE detention center which has a $1.3B contract but wasted $11.5M in unused services and critical safety failures
• The DOJ filed a 40 page report on why the UFC fight should be allowed to happen
• Bill Gates is set to testify behind closed doors today regarding his relationship with Epstein
• Trump's political nominees and appointees are only 14.53% women
• In voting news, yesterday Graham Platner won his primary in Maine while Nancy Mace lost her chance at being governor after resigning from Congress. Dr. Annie Andrews also won her primary in South Carolina. And in California, Trump endorsed Steve Hilton will be advancing to the November election
• In Chicago’s Grant Park, a large burning cross was found. Firefighters extinguished it, no one was hurt and police are investigating
• Exclusive interview coming up regarding the National Defense Authorization Act Section 224

Khanna also weighs in on the Epstein files and the rare bipartisan push to force transparency on what our government has been hiding.

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What We're Talking About...

• Section 224 of the NDAA and its implications
• US-Israel military partnership and sovereignty
• The Epstein files and political transparency

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Overview of Section 224

07:13 The Disconnect Between Congress and the American People

Links

Ro Khanna's Official Website - https://khanna.house.gov/

National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Section 224 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text

• Israel continues to strike Lebanon
• The helicopter crash in the Strait of Hormuz was actually shot down by Iran
• Al Jazeera is filming a documentary called Bodies of Evidence: Israel’s Darkest Weapon which looks into the torture by the Israeli army against Palestinians
• The DOJ has opened an investigation into the Philadelphia Police Department for improperly revoking firearm permits
• NASA has announced the next 4 astronauts to head to the moon on Artemis III
• Epstein’s longtime executive assistant says that he was a master manipulator but she had no idea about his sex crimes
• Barron Trump has backed a beverage brand called SOLLOS and they’ve just released their first drink
• The FDA has just approved Bemotrizinol, the UV filter that is used in Europe and Asia. It’s the first sunscreen ingredient approved in the US in 25 years and will be available later this year

• Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight have killed 5 including a pregnant woman
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon killing 9 in a residential area. Israel attacked a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
• Trump is suddenly saying a deal with Iran may come within 3 days while also telling the BBC that Netanyahu did not defy him
• Yesterday a US Military Apache helicopter crashed into the Strait of Hormuz. The pilots were rescued within 2 hours
• Trump is planning on asking the Supreme Court to revive his $475M defamation case against CNN who referred to the 2020 election as The Big Lie
• US Airlines fuel consumption was down this year but they spent 78% more paying for it
• 4 states have their primaries today, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina
• Greg Bovino who used to be the head of Border Patrol is considering a run for President in 2028
• In World Cup news, Iran says the US revoked its allocation of tickets into the games
• Somali referee was detained and denied entry into the US for the World Cup games due to vetting concerns
• Last night the Spurs beat the Knicks and Knicks fans are blaming Trump
• Marco Rubio and UFC CEO Dana White are set to sign an agreement between the State Department and the UFC
• The night before the UFC fight on the White House lawn, there’s a MAGA PAC fundraising dinner at the reasonable cost of $1M per plate

• At least 7 people have been killed in an Israeli attack on Zefta in Lebanon. 5 people were killed in a car attack in Tyre Lebanon and 4 paramedics have been injured
• Iran says that the US isn’t seeking a ceasefire nor are they looking for dialogue
• A Federal judge has voided Trump’s requirement of a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas used to hire highly skilled foreign workers
• Hegseth and the Department of Defense removed the label Christian from all of the religions
• Former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman Fried who orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds in history has asked Trump for a pardon
• Trump is calling for the removal of the Parliamentarian
• The DOJ has stripped 17 people of their citizenship because they were convicted of crimes
• Two new cases of New World Screwworm have been announced including a case in a dog in New Mexico
• China has just beat Elon Musk by approving the world’s first commercial brain implant beating Elon’s company Neuralink

• Iran and Israel traded strikes but have halted. Iran said if Israel strikes on Lebanon, then they will resume their strikes as well
• Oil prices are up and stocks are skittish this morning
• A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines has killed at least 32
• Arson suspect Jonathan Rinderknecht’s trial starts today for his role in the Palisades Fire
• 3 men were arrested last week by the FBI, 1 in Kansas, 2 in California on charges of providing materials to ISIS
• In the Los Angeles Mayoral race, Nithya Raman has overtaken Spencer Pratt in votes right now
• In the new Department of Defense’s new recognized religion list which went from over 200 to just 31 lists which religions are Christian but one they didn’t list as Christian is the Church of Latter Day Saints
• LEGO has launched is largest set with over 12,060 pieces
• My current reads: Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead and Summerland Cove by Ellen Baker

• Israel continues to strike Lebanon and has hit two apartment buildings killing at least 2 and wounding many more. While Iran is ticked off about the continued attacks, Trump is calling for more “surgical” strikes on Lebanon
• Israel has killed another 9 in Gaza
• Iran says the problem with negotiations is that the US keeps changing their positions and being contradictory
• A Russian drone has struck a spent nuclear fuel storage facility near Chornobyl
• At least 12 people were shot last night at a festival in Toledo, Ohio. Police are still searching for the suspect
• Trump is heading to New York to cheer on the Knicks despite not being wanted
• Trump rage quit his Meet The Press interview
• A Virginia Vietnam Vet is suing to block the UFC fight at the White House
• Iraq’s stryker was detained for nearly 7 hours yesterday when he arrived at Chicago’s O’hare airport and the team’s official photographer was denied entry. Iran’s team must enter and leave the US on their match day
• Central African Republic has agreed to taking migrants from other countries that the US has deported
• A number of scientists were removed from the American Diabetes Association conference after distributing materials that criticized the Trump Administration
• The New World Screwworm has been found in Texas cattle and the Trump administration says this isn’t because they got rid of USAID and cut funding, no it’s because of Biden and immigrants
• The Pentagon has raised the threat assessment for Israel to “critical” with significant increase in Israeli human and technical espionage capabilities directed at US targets
• Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act which is heading to Congress which aims to intertwine the US and Israeli army by committing to bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements and an unprecedented integration of the US and Israeli weapons industries

• The US and Iran are trading strikes in the Gulf
• Israel continues to strike Gaza and today it was a wedding tent where they killed at least 5 with many more injured
• At least 10 more have been killed in Lebanon due to Israeli strikes with at least 3 being Lebanese soldiers
• Israeli troops open fired on a car in the West Bank and killed a 7 month old
• Iran says their technical staff have been denied visas by the US for the World Cup games. This includes key managerial and administrative members
• Yesterday SoFi stadium workers in Los Angeles voted to strike just days before the World Cup games are set to start
• Ukraine has been targeting St. Petersburg
• In California, Xavier Becerra will advance to the November election
• Trump pardoned former Indiana congressman Stephen Buyer who served nearly two years in prison for insider trading
• Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day Hegseth warned that Europe is being stormed by dangerous ideologies
• The Department of Defense has reduced its list of officially recognized religions from over 200 to 31, saying the change will help chaplains better provide religious support to service members
• The White House website now has a page called Leftist Influencers
• Quote from Read This When Things Fall Apart

• Lebanon’s president is accusing Iran of using them as a bargaining chip while Israel continues to strike and has killed 5 more, including another medic in Lebanon. This brings Lebanon’s death toll since March to 3,558
• Trump says after the Strait of Hormuz opens, oil prices will drop a lot
• Iran’s Supreme Leader’s adviser wants $24B in frozen assets or they’ll widen the war
• Zelensky has asked for a face-to-face meeting with Putin
• FIFA accidentally gave away free tickets to a game in Toronto
• Trump plans on attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals to root for the Knicks
• Next week Trump is going to meet with the leading Tech Bros of AI to discuss the US investing in their companies
• The DOJ has sent a prosecutor to Los Angeles to oversee ballot counting
• A federal judge has blocked Trump’s asylum freeze on 39 countries
• In an appeals court today, a DOJ lawyer said even if the ballroom is illegal, the courts can’t stop it
• A former senior executive at the Social Security Administration has filed a whistleblower disclosure claiming Trump administration officials planned to falsely add 2.7 million living people to the government's master death database
• NASDAQ is down 4% and is the worst day all year
• Meta has quietly added facial recognition to their smart glasses
• The Chicago Bears are heading to Indiana and building a new stadium

• Despite the call for a ceasefire, strikes continue. Hezbollah claims 8 attacks on Israeli positions in southern Lebanon
• Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker has rejected the ceasefire due to the conditions in which only Hezbollah is to withdraw. He wants Israel to have to withdraw from Lebanon as well
• Iran is firing warning missiles and drones at the US Navy who they claim are harassing maritime traffic and seizing commercial vessels and oil tankers
• Ukraine has struck 5 ships allegedly containing illegal cargo
• After more than 18 hours of debates and proposed amendments, the Senate passed the $70B bill to fund CBP and ICE. They did not put a single limit on Trump’s slush fund, ballroom or immigration enforcement.
• The Senate also killed the SAVE Act
• The House passed the Ukraine Support Act approving new military assistance for Ukraine and tougher sanctions on Russia
• ICE will stop reporting deaths of former detainees that happen within 30 days of their release from federal custody. This comes after death rates continue to rise but DHS says this is common sense, they’re not in our custody any longer, we’re not responsible
• Trump is building a promenade connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River and he claims “people” want it to be called the Trump Promenade
• The corporate donors for Trump’s ballroom are proving their investment is paying off to the tune of over $50B in new or expanded federal contracts and those who were already under federal investigation have had those paused or reduced
• Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced that Illinois will temporarily stop processing applications for tax incentives for new AI data centers
• NASA has ordered astronauts on the International Space Station to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation as Russian crews attempt to repair an air leak. There are 2 US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut currently aboard
• The US is weaponizing visas for FIFA players. Switzerland’s main goalscorer was blocked from boarding a flight with his teammates. The Men’s national team of South Africa had to delay their flight because 20 people in their group were still trying to get the US embassy to process their visas
• Trump says Bill Pulte won’t be the permanent Director of National Intelligence
• Last night in Long Beach, CA the US military conducted training exercises at 2am with helicopters, controlled explosions and simulated weapons fire
• Albanians for the 4th night protesting against Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s island purchase

• Hezbollah is dismissing the ceasefire and striking Israel and have killed at least one Israeli soldier. Trump just said he thinks progress has been made
• In the closed door interview with Pam Bondi she said that it wasn’t actually her who oversaw the release of the Epstein files. It’s been Todd Blanche
• Todd Blanche went on Katie Miller’s podcast where he claimed there were no security cameras in Epstein's house
• Senate Republicans have rejected funding amendments that would have gotten rid of the ballroom fund and the anti-weaponization fund
• Good news for Delaney Hall: Governor Sherrill has committed $20M to immigrant legal defense
• In an unincorporated part of Gilroy, CA, just south of San Jose, blueprints confirm an ICE facility with detention and processing space is planned and already under construction
• I have had a number of messages about HR8800 which is the National Defense Authorization Act. In section 224 of the bill, it proposes establishing a US Israel Tech Partnership
• My current read is The Supper Club Saints by Claire Swinarski who will be on an upcoming episode of Read The Damn Book. I also received in the mail this week Happiness Habits by Mandie Brice and Bright Side by Kim Holden who was a guest last week

• Yesterday Lebanon and Israel decided on a ceasefire but it was also dependent on Hezbollah. Hezbollah calls the agreement shameless and rejects it
• Israeli strikes have killed 4 more Lebanese
• Yesterday Congress passed the Iran War Powers Resolution
• Trump says he is going to nominate acting attorney general Todd Blanche to be the attorney general
• An AP News investigation has found that The Trump administration has re-separated dozens of migrant children from their families, violating a landmark 2023 legal settlement intended to protect those previously separated
• Here in CA, votes are still being counted as we expected and Trump is not happy saying "they're trying to steal the election"
• Last night at a graduation ceremony at Fairfield High near Sacramento, CA a shooting killed 1 and injured 3 others. No suspect description has been released
• RFK Jr is looking into gaining state access to medical records to investigate possible links between vaccines, autism, and chronic illnesses
• The Senate begins voting today on funding DHS and ICE. A Vote-A-Rama has started which is a marathon session of debate and amendments
• Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump bought an island in Albania for a mere $1.4B

• Iran says contact with the US has not been cut off but no progress has been made. Also according to Iran they targeted a US military vessel in the Sea of Oman but CENTCOM says that’s a lie
• To help negotiations along, Trump says he called Netanyahu crazy when they spoke
• In regards attack of Iran on Kuwait’s airport, Iran is claiming it was the fault of the US and a malfunctioning US patriot missile that was supposed to intercept Iranian missiles. CENTCOM says it was Iran
• In unredacted Epstein files it shows Trump flew on Epstein’s plane
• Today Trump said he believes a Vance Rubio 2028 ticket would be unbeatable
• Trump wants the UFC installation to be permanent
• Today Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met with Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner whose sexting while marriage scandal has come out
• A hostage standoff in Bakersfield, CA has ended with the suspect being killed by the FBI. The suspect held 10 people hostage yesterday in an office building and they were employees of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. The suspect was Anthony Scott Searles-Harris, 41, who was a dishonorably discharged Army veteran with a history of trouble with law enforcement and was a registered sex offender.
• Polymarket has cut ties with George Santos and their paid relationship after learning he placed bets against himself attending Trump’s State of The Union.

• Iran has attacked Kuwait striking a terminal at the international airport, killing one and wounding dozens of others. Iran says this should serve as a lesson to the US
• Trump said we don’t need boots on the ground because the US wiped out Iran’s military
• Israel has intercepted two missiles from Lebanon while Israel struck Lebanon and killed 2 more paramedics and a Lebanese soldier. Israel has also killed 3 more in Gaza and wounded 35 in the last 24 hours
• The Supreme Court decided yesterday that Alabama can use their GOP friendly map for the midterms and cut a seat held by a Black Democrat
• Former Rep George Santos is now under investigation for insider trading on the prediction market platform Kalshi
• The Anti Weaponization fund is dead the settlement says the IRS can’t investigate Trump, his businesses or his family
• A convicted January 6er has been hired for a counterterrorism job that oversees highly classified military operations
• Trump hasn’t been seen in actual public in a week
• Costs of revamping the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has gone from $1.8M to over $13M
• Indiana’s Gov Mike Braun is also celebrating Nuclear Family Month
• The Trump administration isn’t just canceling wind projects, they’re also dismantling the ocean monitoring system which will not only harm environmental research but harms the monitor of tsunamis and earthquakes
• Some Republican Senators are agreeing that Nat’l Intelligence Director nominee Bill Pulte lacks experience
• CBS’s Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes was fired yesterday after speaking the truth

• Marco Rubio says the US will not remove sanctions on Iran in exchange for a full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Any sanction relief would need to include Iran giving up its enriched Uranium
• Iranian outlets are saying Iran has stopped talking negotiations but liar liar pants are on fire Trump says talks continue
• Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed 4 more
• The death toll in Ukraine is now up to 22
• House Ethics Committee is investigating Representative Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations
• The Trump administration paid $1B to a French company to NOT build offshore wind farms and instead invest in fossil fuel projects. Had the project gone through, it would have powered 1.3M homes and potentially saved ratepayers $10B.
• Trump just signed an executive order on the oversight of AI to vet the national security risks up to a month before they go public
• On May 15th, a $10M settlement was announced as the result of a 2023 investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital. They were to stop allowing transgender children from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapies along with revoking medical privileges of 3 current doctors and 2 former ones. They have to also create a detransition clinic for transgender patients by this summer and keep a list of potential gender affirming patients
• The White House Correspondent’s dinner has been rescheduled for July 24
• Stay tuned for California election updates and a special interview later today

• Israel continues to attack Lebanon with at least another 8 people killed and there was another attack on a hospital
• At least 3 more have been killed in Gaza due to Israeli attacks
• Russian strikes on Ukraine have killed 18
• Two people have been shot dead amid Kenya protests against the US Ebola quarantine center
• Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, head of Federal Housing Finance as the acting director of national intelligence replacing Tulsi Gabbard
• Newark mayor Ras Baraka is calling for the immediate closer of Delaney Hall and also threatening legal action if they do not get access to Delaney Hall
• Marco Rubio is testifying before Congress today for the first time since the start of the Iran war
• The New Mexico Truth Commission has begun investigating Epstein and his Zorro Ranch
• Milli Vanilli has pulled out of the Freedom 250 concert
• Tennessee has designated June as Nuclear Family Month defining a family as one husband, one wife and their children
• It is primary day in 6 states, including here in California

• Happy Pride Month
• Trump claims he has not only had a call with Netanyahu but also with Hezbollah
• An Israeli drone struck southern Lebanon
• Netanyahu says he told Trump that Israel will continue to operate as planned into southern Lebanon. The Lebanese presidency says Hezbollah has said they’ll stop if Israel stops
• This morning Tehran said negotiations are stopped and now Trump says they’re moving at a rapid pace
• Florida is suing OpenAI saying it is not safe for children including aiding mass shootings and encouraging suicide
• Anthropic has confidentially filed for IPO after a $65B round
• An appeals court has ruled a Trump policy illegally banned transgender troops from the military
• The DOJ says it strongly disagrees with the temporary blocking of Trump’s Anti Weaponization fund but will abide by it
• On Sunday hackers got into the Instagram account of Chief Master Sergeant Of Space Force and posted pro-Iran propaganda and anti-US messages
• The US is slashing the number of embassies in Africa that process visas in an effort to limit migration
• A judge ruled that the hearing for Tyler Robinson who is accused of murdering Charlie Kirk will be public. This will be a preliminary hearing on evidence
• Minnesota Republicans had their convention over the weekend and had a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the officer who murdered George Floyd

• Breaking News: Iran has stopped negotiations with the US due to Israel’s continued strikes on Lebanon
• Israel continues to expand attacks on Gaza and Lebanon
• Iran targeted the US base in Kuwait but missiles were intercepted
• The US has struck Iranian military sites over the weekend
• Oil prices are going back up
• Over 40 people have died in a growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. There are 260 confirmed cases and 1100 more possible infections. Hundreds are protesting outside of Kenya’s Ebola quarantine facility for US citizens
• Family visits with detainees at Delaney Hall in New Jersey have resumed
• Yesterday Trump named US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack as Special Presidential Envoy to Syria and Iraq
• Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell accepted the JFK award for Courage and used his speech time to warn that Trump’s political stress test will wreck public trust
• A new experimental pill is giving new hope for pancreatic cancer

• Trump has sent back revisions to Iran insisting on stricter terms around Iran’s nuclear capabilities and timelines regarding how the US will take control of and destroy Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile. He also wants the Strait of Hormuz opened without a toll permanently and is not liking the unfreezing of $12B
• Iran says they’ve shot down a US drone above territorial waters that they allege was to conduct hostile operations
• Netanyahu has ordered the expansion of invading Lebanon. The Lebanon death toll due to Israeli strikes is now at 3,412 with over 10K wounded since March 2nd. The death toll in Gaza is now at 72,939 with over 172K wounded since October 7, 2023
• Satellite imagery shows the erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control
• Israel has also launched new incursions into southern Syria
• France has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations
• Violence erupted last night in Paris during celebrations of PSG’s League title
• NASA has confirmed a meteor exploded over New England with the force of 300 tons of TNT
• Trump is claiming that artists have gotten the "yips". Trump will now be the headliner
• Trump wants a drone port on the roof of the White House
• Newt Gingrich praised Trump on Truth Social
• Today in New York City, the annual parade honoring Israel is taking place
• Tensions and protests continue to rise outside of Delaney Hall in New Jersey with rubber bullets being shot at protesters last night. The mayor of Newark has issued a curfew from 9pm to 6am. Gov Sherrill stated last night that her main focus is to protect law enforcement

• Still no decision from the Trump on a deal with Iran
• Israel continues to strike Lebanon and Gaza
• The US, UK and Australia are working together to develop underwater drone technology to protect undersea cables and boost defense
• Tensions are escalating outside of Delaney Hall in NJ as ICE supporters and protestors are clashing. As I scrolled Threads this morning I saw a video of two men yelling it out and one of them is our own Jolly Good Ginger
• January 6ers are trying to make their claims for the Anti-Weaponization Fund despite there being a freeze on the fund
• Dr. Sean Barbabella, Trump’s physician, says Trump just needs to lose weight and exercise more
• Troops must meet a standard weight in order to get a free ticket to the UFC fight at the White House
• A United Airlines flight bound for Minneapolis from Chicago was diverted to Madison, WI due to a passenger who tried to storm the cockpit

• The Situation Room meeting has concluded without a decision announced
• Hezbollah is claiming responsibility for 22 military operations on Israeli troops and infrastructure
• Air attack sirens have been activated in northern Israel
• A federal judge ordered the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center saying it was named for President Kennedy and him only
• The nonprofit that is being investigated for helping fund E. Jean Carroll’s case belongs to Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn
• The White House has launched aliens.gov. No, it’s not about actual aliens, it’s about immigrants
• Trump bought stock in TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of UFC
• DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is pushing a proposal to penalize sanctuary cities and states by reducing or eliminating customs processing at their airports
• Yesterday I hit 20K followers. Thank you for being here and thank you to LeLe Bakery in Los Gatos for this gorgeous treat to celebrate all 20K of you!

• Tick tock goes the clock while we wait for Trump to make a decision on the new deal with Iran. Iran’s chief negotiator says there’s no trust in words, only actions. Trump took to Lies Social to outline his basic demands and says he’s now in the Situation Room to make a final determination…whether that’s from the actual Situation Room or a makeshift with fabric walls in Mar-A-Lago, I don’t know
• The UN says in the past week 15 children have been killed in Lebanon and 62 injured. Under humanitarian law, children are to be protected. Well, there’s also a ceasefire but it seems Israel is ignoring both of these things
• Turns out there is NOT a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll. It was shared by an anonymous source. The actual investigation is into a nonprofit that helped Carroll fund her case
• ICE Agent Christian Castro has been arrested and is facing Minnesota charges of 2nd degree assault and falsely reporting a crime stemming from the January 14th shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis
• A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump’s Anti-Weaponization fund
• Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket exploded during a ground test yesterday
• Pam Bondi has arrived on Capitol Hill to face questioning over Epstein. The hearing is behind closed doors but she is refusing to answer questions about Trump’s involvement in the release of the Epstein files. Nice how she continues to cover for him
• Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer says she will not run for President in 2028
• Musicians are bowing out of performing at Trump’s Freedom 250 concert which is great!
• Don’t forget to head to my Substack to subscribe and receive the day’s Kitchen Briefs every evening!

• The US and Iran have agreed to a framework for a 60 day ceasefire extension pending Trump's approval
• Iran claims it has shot down a US aircraft but the US military is denying it
• Another Israeli drone attack has killed 3 in southern Gaza
• Netanyahu announced today that he has instructed Israeli military to take over 70% of Gaza
• Despite a law that says living presidents images cannot be printed on currency, the White House is pressuring Congress to pass a law to put Trump's photo the $250 bill.
• At least $60M from National Park Entrance Fees has gone towards Trump's beautification projects
• Co-Founder of Students for Trump, Ryan Fournier was arrested on domestic violence charges
• Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has moved to Argentina because he's worried about the future of the United States
• Starting today, I will also be sending out a nightly Substack with a full wrap-up. Link is in my bio

• The US carried out new strikes in Iran targeting a site that US claimed posted a threat to US forces and commercial traffic. In return, Iran tried striking Kuwait but the US intercepted these missiles
• Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed another 16 and wounded 39 in the past 48 hours and in Lebanon they’ve killed another 2, including a child
• The DOJ has launched a criminal investigation for perjury into E. Jean Carroll
• Trump has also refiled his $10B lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over their printing of his birthday card to Epstein
• CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, an AI software for stealing over 17K of it’s stories to train its software
• A Federal judge has refused to block Trump’s order to create a federal voter list and limit mail voting
• California Governor Newsom has signed a law limiting federal agents from accessing voter rolls or election technology without a court order
• The US military struck another alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean killing one and alerting the Coast Guard to rescue 2 survivors
• Meta has rolled out new subscription plans
• This weekend there is a rare blue micromoon

• According to Trump, no one will control the Strait of Hormuz and there will be no ease of sanctions. He says he’s not satisfied with the deal yet and won’t be rushed
• Hamas has confirmed the killing of their newly appointed leader while Lebanon’s death toll is now at 3,269
• DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has zero empathy
• A federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against a media exec in a bribery case involving FIFA
• Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara has resigned
• New York and New Jersey are investigating FIFA’s ticket practices after World Cup tickets soar
• New York Knicks owner James Dolan has invited Trump to attend the NBA finals.
• The Simpson’s writer Dan Greaney who wrote the episode of Trump becoming president announced his own 2028 presidential bid as a progressive Republican

• The newest peace proposal between the US and Iran includes the complete reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days and the withdrawal of US troops from the vicinity. Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says the enemy has been defeated on the battleground and now moves to other means of warfare such as economic pressure, cyber attacks, weapons smuggling, assassinations and hostile media campaigns. And in he said she said, the US is calling it a complete fabrication
• Israel continues their attacks on Lebanon
• Five people were found alive in a cave in Laos after being trapped for a week due to flooding. Two more are still missing
• In Texas, Ken Paxton will be going against James Talarico for Senate
• DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is drafting plans to suspend international traveler and cargo processing at major airports within sanctuary cities due to his immigration crackdowns
• President Biden is suing the DOJ to block the release of audio and transcripts of the President’s interview with a ghostwriter for his biography
• Trump has just appointed Pam Bondi to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology which is an AI Advisory role. News this morning is also that Pam is recovering from thyroid cancer treatment
• News for California, job growth in California accounted for 92% of the growth of the nation’s job creation this year
• There has been a lot of recent talk of an ICE Detention center in Gilroy, CA. I received news last night that that facility will actually be a processing facility for an ice detention center that will be in Dublin, CA.
• ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an alarming rate
• The LEGO Foundation has donated $97M to expand the International Rescue Committee’s programs to bring play-based learning to more children in conflict zones
• A new study shows that dancing is a great way to stay healthy

• The Israeli Army is issuing more forced displacements in Lebanon telling citizens to flee for their lives. Israeli attacks have killed another 31 today, injured 10 and have killed at least 2 more in Gaza
• The Pentagon is knocking the DNC over their now deleted Memorial Day post calling it classless
• South Carolina Senate has rejected Trump’s call to redraw congressional maps
• Equipment is being set up on the White House lawn for the traditional July 4th UFC match
• Trump has announced that his physical today was perfect!
• A new video of RFK Jr shows him picking up two black racer snakes off Dr Oz’s patio
• Stephen Colbert has launched a YouTube channel
• Ball State University has to pay a former employee $225K and allow for work references to be made for violating her First amendment rights

• The US has struck Iran again claiming self defense. The US target missile sites and boats attempting to place mines
• A source on the Iranian negotiating team says that one point Iran wants is $24B in frozen assets to be released to them
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon and Gaza and Netanyahu vows to intensify strikes against Hezbollah…even since that means taking innocent lives along the way apparently
• Federal courts have blocked Alabama’s redistricting plans that would have helped Republicans
• The Trump administration doesn’t trust federal workers and is proposing NDAs to crack down on leaks to journalists
• Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill and Senator Andy Kim spent the day at the Delaney Hall detention center where detainees are on a hunger strike. Senator Kim was pepper sprayed by ICE agents
• Almost 90 drones fell from the sky in Sydney Australia after a light show malfunction
• Trump is going in for a physical and dental exam at Walter Reed today marking his 3rd for just this year
• It’s voting day in Texas

• Trump is posting a long rant about the Abraham Accords and demanding all middle eastern countries sign on to it
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon with more lives lost
• Thank you to Under The Desk News for bringing to light that the newest Trump family member, Bettina Anderson's father was Epstein's banker!
• AG Todd Blanche at the DOJ has just filed a new lawsuit to get the ballroom funded
• Pope Leo raises AI concerns and calls for regulation as he ponders the future of humanity. He also apologized for the Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery
• Have a meaningful Memorial Day. A reminder that Memorial Day isn’t a right or left day. It’s an American day

• Trump is instructing negotiators to not rush into a deal with Iran because apparently "time is on our side"
• Trump is positing more weird stuff on Truth Social
• Israel has carried out another 40 strikes in Lebanon today
• A 2nd Ebola treatment center operated by Doctors Without Borders has been set ablaze in Congo with 18 suspected cases fleeing
• Shooter suspect, 21 year old Nasire Best, was known to Secret Service and local police
• Today, 4 years ago was the mass shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, TX
• My friend Slade of The` Dad Briefs posted an incredible recipe called the Mango Mussolini Martini

• Breaking news between 20 and 30 shots were fired near the White House. Reporters on the lawn were rushed inside to the briefing room and secret service says 2 have been shot.
• Negotiations continue this weekend between the US and Iran with Iran saying it’s time consuming
• Israeli attacks in Lebanon have wounded 25 healthcare workers and killed at least 5 more civilians. In Gaza, attacks today killed 5 police officers
• Everyone is back in DC and Polymarket bets on Cuba are up
• France has joined Poland in banning Israel’s national security minister from entering their country after the abductions and torture of flotilla activists
• At least 82 people have been killed in a coal mine explosion in China
• Russia has launched a missile attack on Kyiv
• 40K people in Garden Grove, CA, have been evacuated due to a chemical tank leak in which authorities are trying to prevent a storage tank from exploding
• Yesterday an explosion at a Staten Island shipyard killed 1 and injured 36 others
• The DOJ has scrubbed its website of press releases concerning January 6ers saying it’s partisan propaganda
• New York Giants Quarterback Jaxson Dart introduced Trump at a rally in New York
• Trump is posting weird stuff on Truth Social today
• An FDA analysis found that no child deaths were linked to the covid vaccine
• Rapper Rob Base who is famous for It Takes Two has passed away at the age of 59 after battling cancer

• Tulsi Gabbard has resigned from being Director of National Intelligence
• A judge has dismissed the human smuggling charges against Kilmer Abgrego Garcia
• The Trump administration is now requiring non-citizens on temporary visas to return home to apply for green cards unless there are extraordinary circumstances
• Donnie Jr and Bettina got married today at her twin sister’s house in West Palm Beach
• OpenAI model has disproved Erdò's Geometry conjecture after 80 years. This is stunning mathematicians as the biggest breakthrough in mathematics yet
• California Gubernatorial Race
• As we head into this 3 day weekend which because of Memorial day, I’d like to remind you to find some time on Monday to remember those who have died for us
• My shirt is from Kind Cotton

• An Israeli attack in Lebanon today has killed six, including 2 rescuers and a Syrian child
• Flotilla activists who have been released are reporting rape and torture after their Israeli abductions. Several activists were hospitalized with 15 reporting sexual assault, being shot by rubber bullets, broken bones and being denied basic legal rights. 430 people from 50 vessels were abducted by Israeli forces this week in International waters
• Trump is sending 5,000 troops to Poland despite last week saying he was reducing troops in Europe
• According to ProPublica and the NY Times the IRS says Trump improperly claimed the same tax losses twice on his Chicago tower project which surprisingly flopped, potentially exposing him to more than $100 million in taxes, penalties, and interest
• Trump said he gave up a lot of money in “allowing” the Anti Weaponization Fund to go forward and he’s helping others
• CNN reported this morning that consumer sentiment is at the lowest of all times
• The Pentagon has released more videos and documents of UFO files
• Donnie Jr is getting married this weekend to Bettina Anderson
• Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is having to pay Brittany Brown $435K after they fired her over being alerted by Libs of TikTok that she had reposted a meme on her personal Instagram account that said Charlie Kirk wouldn’t care about children being shot in school

• Nascar driver Kyle Busch has died at the age of 41. Busch was hospitalized earlier today due to a severe illness. Kyle leaves behind his wife and two young children
• Marco Rubio says that Cuba is a national security threat to which Cuba says Rubio is trying to instigate military aggression
• Rubio also said he sees some good signs in talks with Iran but won’t say what they are.
• The US has lost or damaged at least 42 aircraft in the War in Iran
• Israel has struck a Lebanese hospital wounding at least 9 including 7 hospital workers
• Senators just left for recess without voting on the $70B bill to fund ICE and CBP because they’re at an impasse over The Anti Weaponization Fund
• Meta has settled the first case over school costs tied to youth mental health blamed on the addiction of social media with Kentucky’s Breathitt County School District
• The House Oversight Committee interviewed Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen who identified 3 more individuals previously unknown as alleged participants in the abuse
• The executive order I mentioned this morning no AI has been canceled
• A federal arts commission approved a revised version of President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery
• My current read is Emily Giffin's upcoming novel, Love You More

• Iran is currently reviewing the US’s response to a proposed ceasefire framework. A US intel report says that Iran is rebuilding their military faster than expected
• Italy is asking the EU to sanction Israel’s far right minister over the treatment of flotilla activists while Poland is banning him from their country. The US, the UK, France and Canada have also all expressed outrage. Israel says all activists have been deported
• Israeli attacks are hitting multiple towns in Lebanon today and at least 4 more Palestinians have died in attacks across Gaza
• World Central Kitchen says it is scaling back Gaza food operations over funding pressures
• Republicans are not aligning with the Trump ally fund
• Another executive order is expected today establishing voluntary government review of AI models before public release
• Elon Musk’s new $1B compensation plan from SpaceX requires him to establish a permanent human colony on Mars with at least 1M inhabitants
• Tonight the Late Show with Stephen Colbert show will air for the last time
• The DNC has released it’s autopsy report of what went wrong in the Presidential election
• Check out Under The Desk News’ LIVE from earlier with PoliticsGirl Leigh McGowan

• The ballroom fund is dead
• Iran’s chief negotiator says the US wants to restart the war and is carrying out overt and clandestine movements that signal a new attack
• Netanyahu is mad with the Israeli security minister for releasing the footage of their taunting of flotilla activists
• I am not traditional media
• The US has charged Cuba’s Raul Castro with murder over the 1996 downing of two planes
• The US Surgeon General today issues a recommendation that goes against the Trump administration which is that children’s screen time should be limited at school to improve their physical and mental health
• Two January 6 police officers have sued to block the Anti Weaponization Fund stating it violates the 14th Amendment
• Yesterday former Congressman Barney Frank passed away at the age of 86. He was a member of the House from 1981 until 2013 and the first member of Congress to publicly and voluntarily come out as gay
• A Tennessee man who was charged with a felony after he refused to take down a Facebook comment which used Trump’s words when it comes to school shootings in regards to Charlie Kirk’s death that said “We have to get over it” just won an $835K settlement
• SpaceX has officially filed for their IPO with a valuation of $1.75Trillion and tracked to the biggest IPO ever
• The Sandy Fire in Simi Valley is at just shy of 1700 acres and 15% contained
• Check out Emma Grey's new book, Start At The End

• Iran says it will extend the war far beyond the region if the US and Israel resume attacks while Russia is offering to me an intermediary
• Italy has summoned the Israeli ambassador over the treatment of activists on flotillas demanding an apology for the total disrespect
• Another person has been killed and one wounded in Lebanon due to Israeli attacks
• China has been hosting Putin this week
• Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie lost in his primary yesterday which leaves him 7 months to read the Epstein files
• Yesterday Trump signed another executive order, this one ordering banks to take a closer look at the citizenship status of their clients warning that deportations could put risk on the bank when it comes to mortgage loans and credit cards
• Trump spoke to reporters and said voting is rigged in California otherwise he would have won here. He also said Israel loves him so much that he might run for Prime Minister there
• Jeff Bezos said on CNBC that Trump is being more mature and more disciplined than in his first term
• Target reported an increase in annual sales growth of 4% for the first time in two year

• Trump says the US will attack Iran in 2 or 3 days while the Senate has just pushed the War Powers Resolution to committee. This was the 8th time Democrats have brought it to a vote and Senators Collins, Murkowski, Cassidy and Paul voted with them
• Today Admiral Brad Cooper avoided the US taking responsibility for the attack on the Iranian school that killed 73
• Trump has endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for Senate.
• Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune has split with the Trump administration over its creation of a $1.8bn saying he’s "not a big fan". Part of the settlement includes the DOJ has forever barred the IRS from ever auditing Trump or his offspring or his companies or any trusts for past tax issues prior to the settlement date
• Trump is pressuring Thune to fire the Parlimentarian who said the ballroom fund was unconstitutional
• Minnesota has become the first state to ban prediction markets
• Black political leaders and the NAACP are launching a new campaign called “Out of Bounds,” urging Black student athletes and fans to boycott major Southern college sports programs in response to Republican-led redistricting efforts they say weaken Black political representation.
• I’ll be working on a Senate video roundup and starting that weekly series next

• The US has slapped new sanctions on an Iranian foreign currency while Iran is prepared to confront any military aggression
• Lebanon’s death toll has reached 3,042 since March due to Israeli attacks
• Kuwait and Pakistan are talking about joining military forces while Lebanon and Syria are reshaping their ties
• A WHO doctor says the Ebola outbreak may be spreading faster than first thought
• Attorney General Todd Blanche will be on Capitol Hill today testifying before a Senate appropriations committee regarding the Anti Weaponization Fund . Senator Van Hollen asked if the DOJ will commit to not pardon anyone in the Epstein files and Blanche avoided the question
• It’s primary day in Kentucky and Rep Thomas Massie is hoping for a win while Hegseth is campaigning against him
• The Trump administration is proposing more White South Africans according to an emergency determination sent to Congress
• The Sandy Fire in Simi Valley which is north of Los Angeles is currently at 1385 acres with 5% containment. Check out Watch Duty
• The Long Island railroad strike has ended and an agreement has been made
• The US Treasury has just hit its highest level in 19 years
• Speaking of higher costs, Trump decided to have an impromptu press conference about his ballroom and he's lost his mind
• Donnie Jr’s business 1789 Capitol saw a 17x growth this year going from managing $200M to $3.5B

• Trump says he was going to attack Iran tomorrow but is holding off at the request of leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE
• Oil prices went up
• The DOJ has created a $1.76B fund called the Anti Weaponization Fund for those who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration
• The US has invoked Title 42 public health law which restricts entry to America from Ebola hit region
• A 2nd ICE agent faces several assault charges in connection with a January shooting involving two Venezuelan immigrants in Minnesota
• Three men were killed today in a San Diego mosque and the two teen suspects were found dead in a nearby car. This is being considered a hate crime
• Elon Musk has lost his case against OpenAI because the jury found it exceeded the statute of limitations
• The FDA made a hard pivot when it comes to vaping and took down guardrails that have limited the industry’s growth over the years
• Southwest airlines has banned robots aboard planes after a passenger brought a humanoid onboard which he purchased a seat for
• Check out my Substack today on authors getting when it comes to the podcast world

• Iran has submitted another 14 point peace proposal and Trump says the clock is ticking
• Iran is claiming that US and Israeli backed terrorist groups are operating in northern Iraq trying to smuggle weapons and ammunition
• Trump will be meeting with his security advisors on Tuesday after posting to lies social a bunch of AI images of himself
• Israeli forces have stopped another aid flotilla heading for Gaza and have detained the sister of the President of Ireland while 7 more have been killed by Israeli military in Lebanon
• China has agreed to purchase at least $17B in agricultural products through 2028 from the US. This is in addition to the renewed soybean commitments made last fall. A reminder that US exports to China fell 65.7% in 2025
• I shared that a US intelligence report said Cuba now has drones and Cuba is claiming the report is a justification for the US to be aggressive
• France is opening their investigation into Epstein and 10 more victims have come forward
• JD Vance is not only accusing democratic states of fraud but is now claiming some state officials could face prison time
• Trump phones will no longer be made in the US. Although, they will be made with "American values in mind"
• Trump has officially dropped his $10B lawsuit against the IRS but he did indeed talk about the fund he wants to create for his allies l
• Trump is considering a permanent helipad to the White House South lawn because newer helicopters could ruin the lawn
• Experts are warning that the Trump’s crackdown on deportations and immigration could lead to a loss of $479B in tax revenue
• There is a high end tornado threat that has been issued in Central US with severe storms peaking today
• 4 US Navy crew members safely ejected after their two jets collided at an Idaho air show on Sunday
• Anderson Cooper signed off 60 Minutes last night after 20 years on the program. He’ll remain a CNN anchor

• A drone strike has hit a nuclear plant in the UAE causing a fire at an electrical generator
• Israel is forcing more Lebanese citizens out of their homes and settlers have cut down more than 150 fruit and olive trees. Israel is also targeting organizations that are helping those displaced across Gaza including a community kitchen where 3 workers were killed
• Netanyahu claims Israel is close to eliminating those responsible for October 7th. He and Trump had a 30 minute call this morning to discuss China and Iran
• Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and has started discussing using them to attack the US base at Guantanamo Bay and possibly Key Key West, FL
• The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo an international emergency
• Congresswoman Julia Letlow who is backed by Trump will head to a runoff next month for Louisiana’s Senate after ousting incumbent Republican Senator Bill Cassidy who voted to convict Trump
• If you’re near the National Mall in DC today, there’s a day long prayer festival called Rededicate 25
• In good news, the $1B proposal to fund the ballroom fails to meet procedural rules in the Senate

• Israeli settlers are attacking the West Bank and the Israeli army says it has attacked 100 sites in southern Lebanon over the past two days. At least 2 civilians have been killed by an Israeli drone in Gaza city and multiple casualties in Lebanon
• Iranian hackers are suspected of breaching multiple gas stations in multiple states monitoring fuel storage
• US and Nigerian forces joined together to kill the second-in-command of ISIS in Nigeria
• The USS Gerald R. Ford returned to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday, ending a 326-day deployment—the longest for an American warship since the Vietnam War
• RFK Jr says he wont’ run for President in 2028
• The Long Island Railroad, North America’s largest commuter rail system is shut down after unionized workers went on strikes for the first time in 30 years
• Sean Duffy been filming a new reality tv show with his family called The Great American Road Trip
• The Supreme Court rejected Virginia's bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the House of Representatives.
• Two Bay Area USDA employees are among a group of federal workers suing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, alleging she violated the First Amendment by sending agency wide messages that promoted Christianity to thousands of employees
• Also in the Bay Area, work is starting on a planned ICE detention facility near Gilroy and Santa Clara County is suing to have it stopped
• On Tuesday, deputies documented vandalism at Old Memphis Cemetery in Palmetto, Fla., where 17 gravesites at the 122-year-old burial ground were damaged with cracked concrete and red spray paint
• Thousands of people today are in Mobile, Alabama, the birthplace of the civil rights movement attending the All Roads Lead to the South rally to defend Black political representation

• The ceasefire in Lebanon has been extended 45 days but Israel killed another 11 people and injured 3 more paramedics. Israel says they have killed Hamas’ top military commander in Gaza today
• A judge has declared a mistrial for Harvey Weinstein after the jury was deadlocked
• Turns out Elon Musk didn’t go alone to China…he brought along his son
• Those who were traveling on Air Force One to China were given basically burner phones to ensure China couldn’t use surveillance on them
• Trump announced that the ballroom is ahead of schedule and will be open by September 2028
• The Justice Department is seeking the death penalty for Elias Rodriguez who is accused of killing 2 Israeli embassy staffers in Washington DC last year

• Israel has issued new forced orders for 4 Lebanese villages making Lebanese citizens of nearly 100 villages displaced. New attacks today have killed another 6 Lebanese
• Trump is heading back to the US. He told reporters on Air Force One that in regards to Iran’s missile launchers, “we’re hitting them like pinatas”
• Congressman Ed Case told a Senate committee that the US has lost 39 aircraft in the War in Iran while the Pentagon Chief Financial officer declined to confirm
• The Trump administration tried to bypass competitive bidding for the proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch by leveraging an existing engineering contract
• A reporter asked Trump about US objectives in Iran and Trump told him he’s a fake guy and that what he writes is treason
• Trump is considering dropping his $10B lawsuit against the IRS and wants a $1.7B allie fund to compensate people targeted by the Biden administration
• Trump went on Hannity on Fox News and said he’s renaming Democrats to Dumocrats
• Trump also said the mission to recover highly enriched uranium from Iran is "more for public relations than it is for anything else"
• The hantavirus press conference was led by a penile implant specialist with no public healthy policy experience
• There is a new outbreak of Ebola in Congo and has killed 65 people

• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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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• 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

• 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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• 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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• 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

• 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
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• 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

• We are still awaiting Iran’s response to the 14 point proposal sent to them by the US
• Israeli strikes have killed 4 more in Lebanon
• Trump says Russia and Ukraine will observe a 3 day ceasefire during celebrations of the Soviet Union’s victory over nazi Germany
• A Virginia court has ruled their redistricting maps which citizens voted on are unconstitutional. This encouraged Alabama to quickly redraw their maps
• ABC is accusing the FCC of violating its first amendment rights over its scrutiny of The View
• Yesterday Trump did what he and all MAGA men are so good at which is showing how much they are intimidated by women with his remarks to ABC News reporter Rachel Scott
• Trump's planning to fire the FDA commissioner because of his handling of the abortion pill and quote undermining Trump and Vance’s pro life credentials
• And about those UFOs, Trump said he wants complete and maximum transparency
• California Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that hospitals will now give 400 free diapers to newborns. The program will launch at 65 hospitals who primarily serve low income patients

• The US is expecting a response to their proposal from Iran today while the US claims it’s blocked 70 ships from entering or exiting Iranian ports. The ships have the capacity to hold 166M barrels of oil and is worth over $13B
• Israel continues drone strikes in Lebanon and has arrested a renowned Palestinain activist Mohammad Abu al-Hummus. He has been repeatedly arrested and attacked by Israeli police over the years
• While we feel prices going up because of the war, BBC is reporting how banks, oil and gas companies and defense companies are actually profiting billions off the war
• The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs and says American people can make up their own minds on what they believe
• The platform Canvas which many schools. The cybercriminal group behind it claims to have stolen data from 275M users across 9K schools and is now posting ransom demands.
• Trump had his motorcade drive along the reflecting pool to inspect his $1.9M paint job

• The US has launched attacks on Iran again and please remember this is still day 69 of this war. Iran says attacks targeted two ships and civilian areas while CENTCOM claims American forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks. The US says this is not an end to the ceasefire or a restart of the war
• The CIA says the administration is wrong about Iran, they can economically survive the strait blockade for at least another 3 to 4 months
• Israel is targeting medics in south Lebanon and killed one paramedic, wounding another
• An appeals court appears ready to reject Hegseth’s bid to punish Senator Mark Kelly over his video about illegal orders
• A federal court ruled Thursday against the new global tariffs because they are “invalid″ and ”unauthorized by law”
• Republicans in Tennessee enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis, reshaping it to the GOP’s advantage. Trum’s puppet Gov Bill Lee signed it immediately
• The Trump administration is backing a proposal to allow handguns to be mailed through the US Postal Service. This hasn’t been allowed since 1927 and the DOJ says yeah that law violates the 2nd Amendment
• Defense Dept Inspector General will not investigate the flyover of Kid Rock’s Pool because Hegseth said it shouldn't be
• For anyone who is behind in child support payments of $100K you’ll be losing your passport. Shortly, that amount will go down to $2500
• In regards to hantavirus that I mentioned this morning, the group researching it had funding cut last year
• Kash Patel is ordering polygraph tests to find out who is leaking info on him
• Marco Rubio unveiled new sanctions against Cuba
• Pope Leo gifted Marco Rubio a pen made from an olive tree, the plant of peace. Rubio gifted him a crystal football

• A Federal Judge ordered the unsealing of Epstein’s alleged suicide note yesterday
• US Treasury Dept has issued new sanctions on Iraqi individuals and companies who they claim have ties to Iran backed entities
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon while Hezbollah says they hit an Israeli bulldozer with a drone
• Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo while Trump claims the Pope is endangering a lot of Catholics
• Trump is wanting to paint the Eisenhower building white. The National Capital Planning Commission is reviewing his proposal today
• Trump posted an AI image of a sleeping President Biden in the oval office surrounded by Obama, Hillary Clinton and had Hunter
• MAGA advice on hanatavirus
• James Murdoch is trying to buy Vox Media and New York magazine for $300M
• Karoline Leavitt has announced the birth of her baby girl
• Check out my podcast Beyond the Campaign because on today’s episode I got to interview my friend V of Under The Desk News

• Trump claims he had some very good talks with Iran and yet a US fighter jet shot out the rudder of an Iranian oil tanker today
• Israel is bombing Beirut’s southern suburb
• Trump said his autocorrect kept changing Melania to Melody and the military fixed it for him
• A massive crude oil short position worth roughly $920 million was reportedly placed about 70 minutes before Axios published a report suggesting the U.S. and Iran were nearing a deal to end the conflict giving that individual a $125M profit
• Dir of Economic Council Kevin Hassett argued that consumer spending remains strong despite rising fuel costs, saying, “Credit card spending is through the roof. They're spending more on gasoline, but they're spending more on everything else too.”
• RFK Jr has cleared the path for minors to use tanning beds.
• OpenAI board member said Elon offered her his sperm donations while she was advising OpenAI
• Pope Leo surprise video called 13 priests in Southern Lebanon to comfort them.
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• Project Freedom has been paused due to the great progress made in the Strait. Probably the best ever but Trump said if an agreement isn’t reached, the US will start "bombing Iran at a much higher level and intensity"
• Oil prices have dropped and stocks rose this morning
• According to the Washington Post, satellite images reveal Iranian attacks caused significantly more damage to US military infrastructure than the Trump administration has admitted
• Israel has killed at least 7 more in southern Lebanon
• The FBI is currently raiding the offices of Virginia Democratic Senator Louise Lucas who led redistricting changes
• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is going on Day 2 of closed door questioning with the House Oversight Committee over his relationship with Epstein
• A Canadian man has filed a lawsuit against DHS alleging they used an improper customs summons to obtain private data from Google following his online criticisms of our Trump
• DHS is ending their rapid training for ICE agents
• Trump took to social media to talk about his ballroom again
• Did you catch the CA Gubernatorial Debate on CNN last night? Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called out Sheriff Chad Bianco for being an oath keeper and he admitted it proudly.
• Ted Turner has passed away at the age of 87. He launched CNN, the first 24 hour news channel in 1980

• Russian attacks have killed 26 in Ukraine
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio played his hand today as Press Secretary
• A Newsmax reporter today asked Hegseth and Jt Chiefs of Staff Caine when Trump decided to capitulate on his promise to the Iranian people that they would have control of their government
• Iran is saying their attacks on the UAE were actually aimed for the US
• The East Potomac Links Golf Course has tested positive for lead, Chromium PCBs and Petroleum byproducts
• Trump has restored the Presidential Fitness tests for schools
• GameStop is making a bid of $56B to buy eBay hoping to rival Amazon
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• Israel is extending the detention of 2 activists they took from the Gaza bound mutual aid flotilla boat until at least May 10th. They are from Spain and Brazil
• The UAE says it has intercepted 15 missiles and 4 drones from Iran
• Israel continues its attack on Lebanon and launched raids on two more towns. Since the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 834 Palestinians
• Hegseth says the US has created a security dome for ships in the Strait
• Iran has allegedly attacked the US 10 times since the ceasefire but Hegseth that’s not enough to restart combat
• Trump says the war in Iran will probably last another 2 weeks, maybe 3 but time is not of the essence
• House Dems are suggesting Israel has a nuclear program
• Supreme Court allowed its recent Voting Rights Act of 1965 ruling to take effect immediately, bypassing the standard 32-day waiting period for Louisiana to redraw congressional maps
• The House Republicans put forth newest bill to fund $1B for the ballroom and $70B to ICE as a reconciliation bill which only needs 51 votes to pass
• At least $300K of tax dollars funded settling sexual harassment claims against 6 former Congresspeople or their offices
• Trump is trying to persuade Sen Fetterman to flipping sides
• Trump said he might do a 3rd term and leave office in 8 or 9 years
• Marjorie Taylor Greene is claiming Trump told her he has friends who would be harmed if the Epstein files were released and also threatened to harm her son if she was disloyal
• Trump is sending Marco Rubio to Italy to try to smooth things over with Pope Leo after now calling him weak
• The Department of Education has opened an investigation into the all-women's Smith College for allowing Trans-women in
• The VA conducted investigations into employees who attended the vigil for Alex Pretti
• Instagram will end it’s end-to-end encryption of messages on May 8th meaning they can see everything
• Find Out Media has just launched a new social media app called Find Out Social
• Last night at the Met Gala Bad Bunny showed up looking the way we all feel…like we’ve aged 50 years
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• Trump is hitting social media early today sharing posts about how his ballroom is necessary, AI images of how he’s a leader because he doesn’t kneel or bow and claims he’s made the US $45B with his intel investment
• There’s a new documentary called Everyone Is Lying To You About Money by Ben McKenzie
• Hegseth will be holding a press conference since the ceasefire is in jeopardy
• Chevron CEO says physical shortages of oil supply around the world are about to appear
• The US claims it has sunk 6 or 7 small Iranian boats while Iran says no. Trump responded with they better hope the ceasefire sticks or he’ll blow Iran off the face of the Earth
• Elon Musk has settled his SEC lawsuit over Twitter disclosures for $1.5M instead of the original $150M and without admitting wrongdoing
• Rudy Guiliani has pneumonia
• In regards to the East Potomac Links Golf course,Democracy Forward filed a suit last night to halt it
• The judge in the case of alleged White House Correspondent’s Dinner Cole Allen asked why the jail put him on suicide watch and they claimed because his manifesto said he didn’t think he’d get out of that night alive and apologized to him for the conditions
• The guy who invented the Roomba now has plans to invent an AI powered pet robot

• Project Freedom is what Trump is calling a naval mission guiding stranded ships out of the Strait. Iran says this is a breach of the ceasefire and claim two missiles hit a US frigate which is a warship. The US denies that.
• The UAE is responding to Iranian drone attacks and are reporting a fire at an oil facility
• Israeli strikes have struck 6 new Lebanese towns and 6 medics have been injured
• Oil prices are climbing
• Italy has opened an investigation into the treatment of the Gaza activists taken from the mutual aid boat
• The Supreme Court has temporarily restored mail access to the abortion pill
• Former Mayor of New York Rudy Guiliani is reportedly in critical condition in a Florida hospital
• Yesterday, Trump had a dentist appointment in Florida despite the White House having an in house dentist
• Trump took to his social media account again saying Rep Hakeem Jeffries is Low IQ and called for his impeachment for criticizing the Supreme Court and then referred to his perfect phone call that led to his own impeachment
• Trump is planning on doing an overhaul of the East Potomac Golf Links to help beautify DC

• Trump is reviewing Iran’s proposed plan in between posting about how low IQ Bill Maher is and comparing him to a less funny Jimmy Kimmel. The IRGC says Trump “must choose between an impossible military operation or a bad deal”
• Israel has approved a deal to buy F35 and F15 fighter jets from Lockheed and Boeing which equates to an approximately $118B deal
• Russian drone strikes have killed 10 in Ukraine as Zelensky says have struck oil tankers and a terminal
• Two US Servicemembers are missing in Morocco after military exercises. The two were on a hike after the day’s activities and a search and rescue operation has been launched
• US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, former Fox News host, claims she has proof the secret service member shot at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner was done so by the suspect
• Danco Laboratories filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court to immediately pause a lower court ruling that blocks mail-order access to mifepristone
• The $400M ballroom that would be paid for by donations from Meta, Apple, Google and so on with deductible donations might be paid by taxpayers. Lindsey Graham said he’s introducing legislation for you and me to pay for it instead. Don’t forget to vote him out by voting for Dr Annie Andrews
• Trump is promising very interesting UFO files
• In AI news, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said AI actors and writers will not be eligible for Oscars
• Kentucky Derby was yesterday and Golden Tempo defeating 23-1 odds and making trainer Cherie DeVaux the first female trainer to win the Derby
• Captain Jon Jackson who was supposed to fly his last Spirit Airlines flight and retire. His son mentioned to the Southwest pilots that it was supposed to be his last flight and when they landed in Baltimore, they were welcomed with a traditional water cannon, cheering employees and passengers in the terminal and a bottle of bubbly. Thank you Southwest!

• In Lebanon, the death toll after 2 months is now 2,659, with 8,183 people injured, another 41 in the last 24 hours. Israeli forces also killed 7 in Gaza in the last 24 hours with their current death toll since October 7, 2023 to 72,608. Since their so-called ceasefire in October, 828 people have been killed. Israel has also just carried out further air attacks in Lebanon and set fire to a number of houses
• Iran is working on a new law on managing the Strait of Hormuz and it includes preventing Israeli ships from passing
• Spirit Airlines has shut down.
• The US is withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany
• New York Archdiocese has offered $800M to settle sex abuse claims from approximately 1300 survivors
• Trump was all over social media posting AI images of himself and being a racist
• Trump says we might take over Cuba

• Federal Appeals Court has rejected access to abortion pills via mail
• Trump is not happy with the new proposal from Iran and said we might just not be able to get to a deal
• Trump also said today that the US has already won the war but he wants to win by a bigger margin
• Israeli attacks have killed 12 more in Lebanon
• Trump said he’s hiking tariffs on cars from the EU from 15% to 25% starting in July
• Spirit Airlines is set to fold but Trump confirmed today that he’s sent over a final proposal to them
• Pope Leo has appointing Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala to lead West Virginia Catholics
• Pizza Hut is bringing back it’s book program!
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- Republicans have said Trump can decide on whether he needs to ask for permission from Congress to extend the war

- Israel is intensifying their strikes against Lebanon. They have demolished a monastery and a nuns’ school. This after blowing up homes, shops, roads and various landmarks in the town

Iran has sent over a new proposal

- The Dept of Defense has signed agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection to integrate their AI models into the military. Note that Anthropic was excluded. Hegseth wants the US military to be an “AI first fighting force”

- According to Politico, the Department of Education is claiming the Biden administration was anti Christian and treated Christian universities unfairly but the the report did not mention Trump’s ties to these schools or that some of these efforts started during the first Trump administration

- The Dept of Education has opened an investigation against Stanford based on discrimination

- Elon Musk made over $158B last year

• The House has passed a budget to fund DHS and end the partial government shutdown did not include funding for ICE
• Donnie Jr and his finance have decided it wouldn’t able appropriate to have a big White House wedding with a war raging
• This afternoon Trump says he has not ruled out resuming attacks on Iran.
• This morning I said 14 people in Lebanon were killed and that’s now up to 32 because of Israeli strikes
• Hegseth is claiming that since there’s a ceasefire, the deadline for Congressional approval is on hold
• Congress has approved an extension allowing US intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless surveillance
• The Senate unanimously approved a ban on senators and their staff from trading on prediction markets
• Tennessee Governor Bill Lee spoke to Trump today and wants to do his part in gerrymandering his state
• E. Jean Carroll won a civil suit against Trump for sexually abusing her for $83M. He appealed and now wants his name removed and replaced with the Department of Justice

• Democratic Congressman Pat Ryan didn’t mince his words to Hegseth when he called for his resignation today over the death of 6 service members
• Trump and his top advisors want to continue with US blockades of the Strait of Hormuz and laying the groundwork for a longer term closure of it
• Trump is claiming that the timetables of the wars in Iran and Ukraine could end around the same time
• Trump says he’s considering reducing US troops in Germany
• Israeli military speedboats have blocked a Gaza bound aid ship
• James Comey has surrendered
• Teacher’s unions have spent $1B toward left-leaning activism

• Congress is hearing from Secretary Hegseth who is defending his $1.5T budget
• 5 more people have been killed in Lebanon from Israeli attacks
• Iran has been trying to get around sanctions by using Crypto and now Trump has frozen $344M in crypto assets
• The Supreme Court has tossed out Louisiana’s contested congressional map as an unconstitutional gerrymandering
• California Congressman Robert Garcia has announced a civil contempt resolution for former Attorney General Pam Bondi for her failure to comply when subpoenaed
• ICE agent Jonathon Ross who killed Renee Good has been moved to another state to do his job
• A new poll shows that Democrats are stressed out by the news but still won’t look away
• Another new poll shows that Americans think Republicans are more of a threat to free speech than Democrats
• The CDC is warning of a new strain of salmonella that is antibiotic resistant and it’s linked to backyard poultry
• Today in 1945 US soldiers liberated Dachau
• California Gubernatorial Debate - takeaways are that Sheriff Chad Bianco is not only not qualified but a bad human and Tony Thurmond, Xavier becerra and Matt Mahan all put him in his place

• Earlier today I mentioned that today is day 60 of the war in Iran. Under the War Powers Act of 1973, the President must terminate the use of Armed Forces in hostilities within 60 days of notifying Congress of military action unless Congress declares war, authorizes the use of military force, or grants a 30-day extension. Senator Adam Schiff of California is introducing the 6th war powers resolution tomorrow
• Lebanon’s Prime Minister says Israel’s killing of civil defense members is a new war crime
• An arrest warrant has been issued for ex FBI director James Comey
• Trump is putting his face and signature on US passports that will be issued around June through the summer to commemorate 250 years
• The FCC is reviewing Disney’s broadcast licenses
• The US soldier who has been charged with fraud after he made $400K on Polymarket with his bet on Maduro’s kidnapping has pled not guilty
• Good news: Mississippi middle schoolers stopped a bus from crashing after their bus driver blacked out. Also on Mississippi, I interviewed Scott Colom today who is running for Senator and ya’ll are going to be so lucky having him represent you
• A big thank you to Ayanna for buying me coffee tomorrow!

• Iran has opened 6 airports amid the ceasefire yet Trump posted that they called him and said they’re in a state of collapse
• UAE has left OPEC
• Two more people have been killed in Gaza city after Israeli attacks
• Kid Rock and Secretary Hegseth went on some Apache helicopter joy rides
• The DOJ has filed a motion overnight against the National Trust, the lawsuit trying to shut down the ballroom construction
• Trump is accelerating the deportation of unaccompanied migrant children, speeding up the process by weeks and even months. Children as young as 4 years of age are having to appear in court, at times without legal help. The spokesman for DHHS says many of the children were at risk for trafficking and exploitation, so this should disrupt those systems
• A series of raids on businesses are being conducted in the Minneapolis area as part of an ongoing fraud investigation
• I want to share with you a quote I read last night in Theo of Golden that I posted about: “Every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow, I fear, we own all of the world’s hurts together.”

• Katie Phang, who is an independent journalist, legal analyst and trial lawyer and whom I call friend is the first journalist to sue the DOJ for violating the Epstein files transparency act. The suit claims the DOJ missed deadlines, did excessive or improper redactions without explanation and withheld key documents. The suit calls for all documents released and all unnecessary redactions removed
• More good news is that National Trust will not back down on their suit against Trump and his $400M ballroom even after the DOJ pressured them
• Trump and his top security people are reviewing Iran’s proposal
• Shooting suspect Cole Thomas Allen was charged today with the attempted assassination of Trump. He was also charged with transportation of a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence
• Karoline Leavitt delayed her maternity leave to give a press conference and covered how Melania and Trump are upset over Jimmy Kimmel’s comments and how despicable it is that Americans refer to Trump as a fascist and compare him to Hitler
• King Charles and Queen Camilla have arrived for a 4 day visit kicking off with tea with Trump and Melania
• Taylor Swift has filed to trademark her voice and image after AI concerns

• Iran’s Foreign Minister has left Pakistan and is now in Russia visiting with Putin
• Iran has offered to open the Strait if the US lifts the blockade and ends the war
• Lebanon’s death toll due to Israeli attacks now stands at 2,521
• Melania Trump is now mad at Jimmy Kimmel and is urging ABC to take a stand after he made a joke about her being an "expectant widow"
• Shooting suspect Cole Thomas Allen is due to be arraigned in court today
• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is proposing a new House map for Florida in order to gain 4 seats
• A Trump lover has proposed renaming Immigration & Customs Enforcement to National Immigration & Customs Enforcement so that they are referred to as NICE agents and Trump is promoting the change
• Trump went on 60 minutes last night since CBS now bows down to him. He thinks social media has made people mentally sick

• Last night at the White House Correspondentss dinner, there was a shooter. The suspect arrested is Cole Thomas Allen.
• Iran’s top diplomat has returned to Pakistan and Israel continues to strike Lebanon with Netanyahu ordering the Israeli army to "vigorously attack" Hezbollah in Lebanon
• Republican Thom Tillis says he’ll approve the nomination on Kevin Warsh despite last week saying he wouldn’t.
• In financial disclosures, Trump bought $51M in bonds in March. He’s now invested in Meta, Boeing, Nvidia, Microsoft, and has equity stakes in Bank of America and Wells Fargo
• My latest read is Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

• The A team is heading back home per Trump’s orders. He said it’s too much traveling and too much work
• At least a dozen people, many children and women, have been wounded in south Lebanon due to Israeli strikes
• Technically Trump has until May 1st before he has to get approval from Congress to go past his 60 days of deployment under the 1973 War Powers Act yet there’s no actual clear legal avenue for Congress to force him to abide and past presidents have gone around it
• The US military has killed 2 more people and blown up a boat in Latin American waters claiming it was ferrying drugs. This brings their total to 183 people they’ve killed and yet they haven’t provided a single piece of evidence of actual drugs being trafficked
• Well, the Lincoln Memorial reflection pool has been drained and painting has begun.
• Tonight is the White House Correspondents dinner
• Many are gathering to honor the life of Virgnia Guifree on the one year marking her death. I’d encourage you to pick up Virginia’s Book, Nobody’s Girl in her honor

• The A team is enroute back to Pakistan
• A US Circuit of Appeals Court has blocked Trumps executive order which suspended asylum access at the southern border of the US. The court said that immigrants have the right to apply for aslyum at the border
• The DOJ has announced that they are bringing back federal execution methods that include firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation, saying it’s become too difficult to get the drugs for lethal injections
• TMZDC reporters attended a press conference with Secretary Hegseth and asked when the Dept of War would be called the Dept of Peace
• Today on my Substack I did a deep dive into AI and the recent video of Reese Witherspoon saying women need to learn AI so we aren’t left behind

• Overnight Trump was posting from after midnight until 3am calling for the arrests of Obama and Clinton for treason, reposting AI images and demanding Chuck Schumer resign
• Trump attended a dinner hosted by David Ellison
• Secretary Hegseth said that the War In Iran is a gift to the world
• Israeli strikes have killed 3 more people in Gaza and yet the ceasefire has been extended by 3 weeks
• Netanyahu has revealed he underwent treatment for prostate cancer
• The US has sent a 3rd aircraft carrier to the Middle East
• Iran’s Foreign Minister is heading to Pakistan for consultations over peace talks
• The DOJ has dropped its investigation into Jerome Powell over Trump’s accusations of improper costs to renovate a Federal Building
• Trump is now wanting to spend a couple million on redesigning the Lincoln Memorial reflection pool
• The FDA is now fast tracking psychedelics for mental health after Trump and his podcast bros pushed for it
• A marathon runner collapsed with just 1000 feet to go and two other runners helped him cross the finish line
• A baby koala hiding in it’s mom’s pouch at a Florida zoo
• In Palm Beach Florida, George Poncy is suing the State of Florida, Densantis and others for renaming Palm Beach airport to Trump

• Breaking News - Soldier arrested in Nicholas Maduro capture
• Trump claims to have total control over the Strait of Hormuz and rambles on about Iran
• The Gold Card visa program where you pay $1M you to become a citizen of the US has had one person do it
• At least 10 people have been injured during a shootout at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana mall
• Iranian media has released video footage of masked soldiers boarding one of the ships they seized earlier. It was staged
• The Justice Department’s inspector general’s office is launching an investigation on the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Epstein files
• Back in 2022 Zach Witkoff was arrested in Miami on cocaine possession charges. The bodycam footage was just released it's epic
• In 2005 the first YouTube clip was uploaded

• Warner Brothers shareholders approves the Paramount merger
• Lebanon says no deal without Israeli withdrawal while US and Iran talks stall.
• Trump has ordered the US Navy to fire on any Iranian boats placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz while the US has boarded a ship carrying Iranian oil
• Navy Secretary John Phelan has been fired
• The DOJ has reclassified state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug
• Senate Republicans have advanced a $70Billion to fund ICE and Border Patrol. It now heads to the House
• The price of condoms is about to increase 20-30% because of Trump’s War in Iran
• Ghislane Maxwell wants her conviction overturned and apparently some Republican Congresspeople think she should be pardoned
• Eric Trump went on Fox News and shared that one of his companies just landed a $24M Pentagon contract
• Kash Patel also went on Fox with Sean Hannity and in regards to his girlfriend said, “here’s the thing: me and mine are like you and President Trump. We’re as tough as we come.”
• Megyn Kelly had Russell Brand on her show and she’s now saying that Trump isn’t loyal to anyone and isn’t even a good husband

• Israel has killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry had earlier said Israel “pursued” journalists Khailil and Zeinab Faraj by “targeting” the house where they took shelter after an Israeli attack in a southern Lebanese town. Israel is intensifying their attacks on Lebanon
• The HHS rejects a new study that showed Covid 19 vaccines prevented hospitalizations
• Spirit Airlines is close to finalizing a a $500M bailout from the Trump administration
• Trump claims last night’s Virginia election results were rigged and now one of his Republican appointed judges has tossed out the results and claims the redistricting was unconstitutional and void from the start
• RFK Jr says that Trump has alternative ways of doing math, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was asked about how his comments and the administrations' insulting Canada are ok and he said but Canada doesn’t put US spirits on their shelves
• Florida Gov Ron DeSantis signed legislation which prohibits counties and cities from funding or promoting DEI initiatives
• I posted a video earlier about the shareholder vote taking place tomorrow for Warner Brothers and Paramount. This is dangerous especially when we also have FCC Chair Brendan Carr now wanting to issue warnings on children’s programming if any gender identity themes are in a show

• Iran has fired on 3 ships and captured 2 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The ships were flagged as from Panama and Liberia
• Lufthansa has cut more than 20,000 summer flights due to fuel prices
• Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is warning that emergency funds will be exhausted within the next couple of weeks and once again TSA workers will go unpaid
• Trump advisers are privately trying to strategize around a new midterm push claiming that Democrats would be worse
• Virginians came out yesterday and voted to redistrict adding 4 Congressional seats to their maps
• Israel has what they’re calling a yellow line in Gaza that marks safety zones and in the middle of the night, they’re just moving it and turning areas into free fire zones to strike
• Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is trying to get her conviction overturned again
• Yesterday the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms
• The Gates Foundation has hired an outside investigator to look into the Epstein ties
• A ping pong robot has beat top level human players

• Trump has said he’s going to extend the ceasefire until negotiations conclude
• The US used up nearly half of its Patriot missiles during this current war. It’ll take 3-5 years to replenish them
• Interim AG Todd Blanchard announced the indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center over all egged use of paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups such as the Aryan brotherhood and the KKK
• Trump is going to read 2 Chronicles 7: 14
• Hegseth says the flu vaccine is no longer mandated for US troops
• The Senate and House are back in session this week and in the Senate, they’ll looking at the war powers resolution and funding ICE and CBP.
• Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned Kevin Warsh today and asked him about his investment ties to Epstein
• Epsteinhad deep ties to Harvard both before and after his conviction.
• Next Substack will be on identifying AI

• Trump says he’s ready to back to war with Iran yet he’s also saying he thinks a deal will be reached
• The Guardian is reporting that Israeli soldiers are sexual assault violence and pressure to for Palestinians out of their homes
• President Zelensky says the A team has been traveling to Moscow on a number of times but hasn’t stopped in Kyiv and feels it’s disrespectful
• Federal chair nominee Kevin Warsh is being questioned during his confirmation hearing
• Starting today, Trump and otherswill be taking part in a marathon reading of the Bible
• Tucker Carlson is regretting his support for Trump and says he’s sorry for misleading people
• Trump is considering a currency swap with the UAE
• Per Scott MacFarlane there are 8 pieces of legislation being presented by Republicans to suck up to Trump

• Trump says a deal with Iran is going to come quickly while Iran says they’re not going to accept negotiations under the shadow of threats. The current ceasefire ends Wednesday evening and Trump says it’s highly unlikely that he’ll extend it.
• 6 people have been wounded in an Israeli air strike in Lebabnon
• Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down
• Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down and will become the executive chairman of the board while John Ternus will take over.
• In the California Governor’s race, Betty Yee has dropped out
• Today in history we remember those in the Columbine shooting in 1999. In 1912, Boston’s Fenway park held the first MLB game in front of an estimated 27,000 fans. In 1971 the Supreme Court upheld busing to achieve racial desegregation and in 2021 Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter for the killing of George Floyd

• The A team is enroute to Pakistan for peace talks, Iran says there are no such talks planned, this after the US struck an Iranian ship yesterday and seized it
• Trump says Israel didn’t talk him into this war
• The families of over 100 children who the US killed during strikes on an Iranian school sent a thank you letter to Pope Leo for speaking out
• A photo emerged this weekend of an Israeli soldier in Lebanon taking a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus
• The BBC has been investigating the fact that there have been a number of spikes in trading ahead of announcements made by Trump
• Kash Patel has filed a $250M defamation suit against The Atlantic
• Trump will be reading a Bible verse from the Oval office on Tuesday and Sean Hannity turned in his Catholic card
• The Supreme Court will be deciding if preschools that decline children of same-sex couples may receive state funding.
• This weekend President Obama and Mayor Mamdani sang Wheels on the Bus to preschoolers
• A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Japan and triggered tsunami warnings
• It is National Library Week

• Trump says a peace deal will happen one way or another, the nice way or the hard way even if he has to blow up the entire country.
• Representative Jamie Raskin and Senator Jon Osoff are wanting to investigate Kushner’s involvement as it seems to be a direct conflict of interest with his business investments in the Middle East
• On Saturday night a Woodland Hills, CA resident was arrested at LAX on suspicion of trafficking weapons on Iran’s government’s behalf including drones and bomb fuses destined for Sudan.
• Satellite images show that Israel is building permanent military bases in Gaza as US backed plans to rebuild the area are simply nonexistent
• 8 children were killed this morning in a domestic disturbance in Shreveport Louisiana. The suspect who was also related to some of the children was killed by police during a pursuit
• Overnight, there was also a shooting near the University of Iowa with 5 people shot, 3 of which were students. No word on where the gunman is
• In Beijing a humanoid robot beat the human half marathon world record
• A lawsuit filed this week states that Madison Square Garden has been using a surveillance program since 2018 using facial recognition to scan 40 people per minute and compile dossiers including Social Security numbers, tax records, and family photos. The system has banned 900-1,500 lawyers whose firms sued MSG, ejected fans who criticized owner James Dolan, and tracked individuals' bathroom visits and social media posts across MSG venues including Radio City Music Hall.
• In the California Governor’s race, Tom Steyer has spent over $115 million on his campaign. As a reminder, you can head to my Substack to download a breakdown of the top candidates in the race: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194138603