• A FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing when one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot
• The UK says there are strong indications that Iran had a role in the security incident on their RAF base
• Iran says the US has responded to their proposal and are reviewing it
• Another vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday
• US troops are officially out of Iraq today after 23 years
• An Israeli strike on a bus in Gaza has killed 7 and injured 13
• Democrats have blocked the data center bill called the Ratepayer Protection Act
• The FTC is opening an investigation into the AI companies over potential AI risks
• A bill to limit stock trading in Congress was blocked in the Senate
• Senate Republicans and Fetterman blocked a resolution demanding a State department report on the killings of 9 Americans in the occupied West Bank
• Trump has finally given up on his appeal on the case with E. Jean Carroll
• A US Court of Appeals court has halted the execution of Christa Pike an hour before she was to become the first woman in 200 years to be executed in Tennessee
• Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her husband of 34 years
• Thank you to Carol for ensuring I had Hawaiian coffee yesterday for national coffee day!
• 842 days left

• Two Palestinians have been killed and 15 injured due to an Israeli attack on a residential building in Gaza
• The Iranian army confirms a small number of foreign vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz
• Iraq’s Defense Ministry says that US troops have left Iraq a day ahead of the deadline but Washington has yet to confirm
• Israel is threatening Hamas leaders living outside of Gaza
• Israeli attacks on Lebanon have destroyed homes, water wells and now has severed parts of its water network
• Russia struck an animal shelter in Ukraine killing 10 cats and 3 dogs
• Trump said the conflict in Iran will end very soon and suddenly oil prices plummeted
• Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Secretary Hegseth approved plans to reduce military positions for generals and admirals by 20%
• Supreme Court Justice Alito recused himself from a case to be heard next week on climate change
• In a Texas immigration court unaccompanied children as young as 2 years of age are representing themselves
• Measles in Pennsylvania are now at over 900 cases with 55 new cases since Wednesday
• Six Flags has permanently closed its ride X2
• Today the ban set forth by Trump went into effect on Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles
• Trump unveiled America.gov which is an AI powered website that simplifies public access to government information and services
• Nearly 2 million pounds powered sugar and light brown sugar are being recalled
• Dennis Haskins who played Mr. Belding the principal on Saved By The Bell has died at the age of 75
• Today’s National coffee day so cheers to 843 days left

• Iran’s foreign minister is meeting mediators in New York today
• Israeli forces are intensifying their attack in southern Lebanon
• Israel’s army is claiming to have killed another Hamas fighter in Gaza
• The five men arrested in the UK on charges of plotting against the RAF base have been released on bail
• New York prosecutors have reopened their investigation into the Cornell 7
• FBI co-deputy Andrew Bailey has resigned
• Senator Fetterman slipped up and said he’s a lifelong Republican
• Nvidia has launched a new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue
• Blue Cross Blue Shield has discovered AI is helping hospitals overcharge to the tune of almost $1B in two years
• SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit today and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet
• Major League Baseball has approached the White House about hosting a game in the Grand Teton National Park in 2028
• Ireland’s National soccer team wore black armbands and declined shaking hands with Israel’s players
• Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair wrote the names of slain Palestinian children on his black eye tape and was told it must be removed since it didn’t meet NFL uniform policies
• Trump made an appearance at the President’s Cup outside of Chicago yesterday

• US Treasury Secretary Bessent claims China has substantially reduced their assistance to Iran
• Five men have been arrested in the UK near the RAF Fairford Air Force Base
• Trump claims that last night the US transported a record amount of oil from the Strait of Hormuz
• The Israeli army is claiming to have killed another Hamas commander
• Two mass shootings in South Africa have left 27 people dead
• The White House has launched another TV ad funded by you and me
• Over 130,000 people are without power in the north east due to storms and a New York City Housing authority worker has died after a tree fell
• Trump attended yesterday’s Tennessee vs Texas college football game
• Sierra Nevada Cheese in Willows, CA has initiated a recall on it’s raw milk cheese after an e. Coli outbreak in 9 states has occurred

• Four Palestinian farmers were arrested while picking olives on their own land by Israeli forces
• Israeli forces have shot and killed another Palestinian in Gaza
• Iran has moved its part of their defense assets underground to shield military capabilities
• Iran is warning that US bases in the Middle East would be targeted if Washington makes a mistake
• Trump posted to Truth Social and image of "Trump Strait"
• Trump said he rejects Iran’s proposal for a 7 day ceasefire and he expects to resume bombing campaigns after the midterms
• The Pentagon has raised the Iran war injury toll by 37 without an explanation
• Yemen is facing a massive crisis as over 125,000 citizens have been forced to leave their homes in a matter of weeks making resources scarce
• US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says the public souring of opinion on Israel really stems from those who don’t believe there is a God, disinformation and propaganda and those who don’t know the Bible
• South Africa’s new ambassador to the US says white genocide does not exist
• Pope Leo is in France and receiving a warm welcome. He spoke about the risks of AI and Peter Thiel called him a "useful idiot" for the Chinese communist party
• The bots are trying to hack government websites without OpenAI’s knowledge
• The White house has barred CNN from flying on Air Force One
• The US deported LGBTQ migrants to countries where homosexuality makes them a target
• Trump is cancelling nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress using a rare power to cut funding for immigrant services and diversity focused initiatives
• Mississippi police say Tasia Fortune’s hanging was staged after her death in a drug dispute

• Yemen’s leadership is offering general amnesty to Houthi fighters and affiliates who leave the group
• The Lebanese army is saying they’ve defused two explosives left behind by Israeli attacks
• Pakistan is denouncing what they are calling Israel’s genocidal agenda in Palestine, and their aggression in Lebanon and Syria
• Classified documents provided to Congress reveal that American intelligence assesses Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing nuclear weapons
• Congressman Ro Khanna is calling for the release Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti who is serving 5 life sentences in Israeli prisons on charges of murder
• The Supreme Court has again sided with Trump and says the controversial database to check voter citizenship is allowed
• Ground cinnamon now has a recall on it for potential lead contamination
• New Jersey’s Lt Governor is resigning after Gov Mikie Sherrill demanded his departure following an ethics investigation
• Cornell University and seven Chi Pi fraternity members are facing a lawsuit over r*pe allegations
• Register to vote, check your voter status and start making your plans for voting day

• Iran proposed to the US a 7 day roadmap to ending the war
• All Iranian flights to and from Iraq have been suspended
• The Yemeni government has announced they have captured the summit of Mount Numan
• Another Palestinian has been killed by an Israeli drone attack in the Gaza Strip
• The Israeli Army have said two of their soldiers were killed by an army explosive drone in Gaza and they’ve now halted drone operations
• Yesterday China’s President Jinping told Trump that China’s position on national reunification remains clear and urged the US to oppose Taiwan independence
• Five sources have told CNN that Chinese satellite imagery and intelligence have boosted Iran’s ability to hit US targets
• The crypto platform BitGet was hacked for over $351M in assets
• Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee has introduced 26 articles of impeachment against Trump
• The nor’easter is expected to affect 40 million people and could dump a month’s worth of rain in parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island along with coastal flooding, Tropical Storm Nolo is now a hurricane and looks like it’s shifted south a bit from Hawaii but still has the potential to cause flooding
• The woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 now says that was a lie
• Tropical sea turtles have started coming ashore in California for the first time in recorded history
• Today, a reminder from Dolly. We can’t just hope for a brighter future. We have to work for a brighter future.

• France is sending troops to help Saudi Arabia
• Iran’s Parliament speaker is mocking the US amid reports that the 10-year US Treasury yield surged to 5.11 percent, the highest in nearly 2 decades and said 'Nobody told you Iran isn’t for arrogant amateurs?'
• Netanyahu spoke to the UN General Assembly
• Over 100 people were arrested at a pro-Palestine protest outside the UN including actress Susan Sarandon
• CNN, MS NOW and Politico are now allowed back into the White House
• The California Supreme Court has Sheriff Chad Bianco to return the over 650,000 ballots he stole for his “investigation” into unfounded voting improprieties
• Fox News and Newsmax are running 30 second ads with Trump that says America will never be a communist country paid for by tax dollars
• An investigation by Mother Jones reveals that the shooter in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada back in February where 8 people were killed was coached by ChatGPT
• Secretary Kennedy has disclosed $4M in book advances and $270K in gifts
• Macklemore has announced concerts to benefit Palestinian aid organizations
• Roxane Gay wrote in the New York Times reminding us all that opting out of taking political stands is in and of itself a political stand: a politics of self-interest

• An Israeli airstrike has killed one person and injured 14 others in Gaza City
• Greek military personnel have intercepted a ballistic missile and a drone in Saudi Arabia
• Egypt is saying it stands by Saudi Arabia
• Saudi Arabia has intercepted 6 ballistic missiles fired by Houthis in Yemen
• Media in Iran report that all flights by Iranian airlines to the UAE have been cancelled following newly announced US sanctions
• Saudi Aramco is working on building a 4th and 5th route for crude oil exports since the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea are disrupted
• Norway is going to provide $13M in aid to Palestinians
• Poland is saying that a fire at a Starlink station is sabotage
• A judge has ruled the ban unconstitutional and ordered the White House to reinstate media access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
• Senators Whitehouse and Schumer have issued a report on how Trump asked oil execs for a $1B donation in exchange for tax breaks
• VP J.D. Vance was the anonymous source on one of the articles that prompted the media ban in the White House
• Trump posted on Truth Social how he met President Jinping at the plane
• The family of Nolan Wells is planning on releasing cell phone records
• The Pentagon is investigating the misshipment of F35 parts that ended up in Hong Kong
• OpenAI gained unauthorized access to Australia’s government health website
• Hurricane Polo sending rain into Mexico, Hurricane Nolo nearing Hawaii and the East Coast is eyeing a nor’easter already
• Starbucks is closing 250 stores this week

• Israeli settlers have set fire to Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank
• Israeli airstrikes continue to strike Lebanon
• Israel’s ambassador to the US has said his son is a soldier who has been injured in a car ramming incident at a checkpoint in the West Bank
• An Indian crew member has been killed after a vessel was attacked off the coast of Oman
• Marco Rubio says that the US has a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and intends to uphold it
• China’s President Jinping has arrived in DC
• The heads of the major AI companies pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people in the form of somehow regulating the burgeoning technology that they have been designing
• US Navy Secretary has told Congress that 8 sailors assigned to the US carrier group attempted to commit suicide
• 167,000 lbs of beef, pork and goat has been recalled
• Mississippi police have arrested a 2nd person in the death of Tasia Fortune who was found hanging from a tree
• Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville gave a lie-filled Senate speech falsely claiming doctors secretly perform transition surgeries on kids and calling for mental institutions to house trans people
• Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual assault in 2006 in New York
• DoorDash invested $1.5M to try to get Andrew Cuomo to beat Mamdani
• It appears Trump was trading DoorDash stock at the same time as they appeared at the white house faking a delivery
• Walmart will have to pay California $16M after selling expired baby formula
• Paramount has been discussing bringing on Elon Musk to ease some financial burden

• Iran says the threats of Trump to annihilate them demonstrates America’s strategic dead end
• An elderly Palestinian woman was shot in Gaza by Israeli gunfire outside the area currently controlled by Israeli forces. Israeli forces have also at least 6 people today in attacks across Gaza
• There is also currently Israeli artillery fire in Lebanon
• Netanyahu claims Israel has killed Hamas’ head of finance
• The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations says it received a report of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz and there are two casualties
• The Houthis are warning they will strike US assets if the US joins the Yemen war
• Iran’s President is speaking this morning at the UN General Assembly
• Today the Board of Peace is unveiling a six month, $2.45B recovery and reconstruction plan for Gaza
• Secretary Hegseth removed gender differences from the fitness test for combat roles but women are still passing
• ICE mistakenly targeted a US citizen in Evanston, Illinois
• The DOJ is siding with Trump saying he can shut out reporters from the White House at his will for national security.
• First Lady Melania actually invited CNN and Politico to her press briefing
• Trump posted on Truth Social referring to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins as a third rate reporter with an addiction to him
• Over 100 lawsuits are being filed against Six Flags Magic Mountain after riders allege they have sustained traumatic brain injuries after riding X2
• Dolly Parton’s nephew had his security contract terminated by the estate and the estate was granted a restraining order against him

• Iran is saying explosions have been heard off Qeshm island
• Trump told reporters at the UN that the US had a very good meeting with the Iranian delegates
• Trump once again claimed Iran’s navy has been eliminated
• Trump is saying Artificial Intelligence should be changed to Super Intelligence because that’s what it is
• The FBI was hacked by a group called ShinyHunters
• Trump signed an agreement today with Denmark and Greenland to strengthen Arctic and North Atlantic security
• A judge has temporarily blocked the deportation of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez
• Hurricane Polo has turned into a Category 5 hurricane
• A Utah postal worker has been charged after it was discovered he threw away 300 mail in ballots
• The Mamdani administration has just secured New York’s largest ever labor settlement against Door Dash for $131.5M
• The administration is removing 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims or because the people simply don’t exist
• Thank you to John for providing me with a glass of wine tonight…I’m thinking it’ll be a Justin Sauvignon Blanc from Costco!
• Would you be interested in a virtual book club?

• The United Nations General Assembly has kicked off
• Yemeni forces are under attack as Houthi drones drop munitions
• Israel is threatening to displace all of Gaza City’s residents if Hamas takes a single captive
• Two Palestinians have been killed in another Israeli drone attack in Gaza City
• Iran says it will reverse engineer the underwater drone it seized from the US
• Iran also says they’re ready to open the Strait of Hormuz and lift blockades if the US eases military pressure
• Trump said media reports suggesting the US military is extremely short on weapons stocks after this war with Iran are cowards and traitors because it’s not true
• Trump spoke at the UNGA about Iran and AI
• No criminal charges will be filed in the death of Nolan Wells
• Under a new program from the Department of Justice, nonviolent offenders who were convicted of felonies can have their gun rights restored.
• Utah Republican Senator John Curtis is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the funding of Don Jr’s wedding by the Russian oligarch
• At least 6 major medical systems have entered formal agreements with the DOJ to end medical gender affirming care for youth under 19
• The White House has launched Trump TV
• VP JD Vance yesterday referred to the far left as the fart left
• A first edition To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was found in an Oxham shop
• A 6 year old girl in China has broken the women’s record for the Rubik’s cube twice in one day

• Iran says vessels and cargo owned by the US and Israel confiscated by Iran are up for sale
• The US Ambassador to the UN says the civilian casualties in Iran were unintentional and incidental
• Armed Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian homes in the West Bank
• Iran says what the US has done has only brought Iran and Pakistan closer together
• The UK has agreed to provide air to air refueling to Saudi Arabia
• Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $1.2B contract missile contract from the US Army
• Flights at major airports on the east coast have been delayed after there was a circuit failure on the primary cable that carries radar and communications data
• Trump used the new helipad today but there was no media to capture it
• Yesterday a helicopter crashed while fighting the current fire in Yosemite National Park killing 2
• Wilber Rafael Garces Perez who was shot by ICE is Austin, TX has been detained and still has the bullet in his back
• A hunter in Ellendale, Delaware mistook a woman who was walking in a field with a man and two children for a deer and he fatally shot her
• California has declared a state of emergency ahead of a potentially historic El Niño season expecting extreme storms and flooding
• Natalie wrote for Trump on Lies Social about clowns

• Israeli warplanes have attacked multiple towns across Lebanon
• Another Palestinian has been killed by a drone attack in Gaza
• On Saturday hundreds of thousands of students in Gaza returned to school for the first time in 3 years in makeshift tents and damaged buildings
• Saudi led coalition aircraft have carried out a strike in Yemen on Houthis
• A senior official with the Houthis is warning countries against joining Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s revived Civil War
• Iran says they are ready after the threats made by Trump
• The US is now threatening to ground Iranian airlines worldwide starting Wednesday
• Two crew members have been wounded after a cargo vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz
• Russia’s elections included Kremlin interference
• More than 1.9M people are being urged to evacuate in Japan due to a typhoon
• China is accusing Anthropic of sharing user data with US intelligence
• CNN, MS Now and Politico have filed a lawsuit against the ban on their access to the white house. In response to the ban, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and even Fox News have announced they will boycott press pool coverage of Trump
• An investigation revealed the United States has deported more than 25,000 people to 35 countries under secretive agreements with nations having no ties to the migrants
• Trump says he’ll create an AI force
• The FAA is rolling out a $875M AI traffic control tool today at DC airports
• Senator Ted Cruz said that in reference to the guy in the white house nicknaming him Lyin Ted, he’s an instinctual genius
• A Venezuelan DoorDash man is in serious but stable condition after ICE shot him in Austin, TX during a traffic stop
• Trump has said he’s going to demand drug manufacturers split certain childhood immunizations into five separate doses with 6 month intervals
• Converse put out a new ad in which the image evokes a KKK hood and lynching. They’ve apologized and said they got it wrong
• Paramount reached an agreement today with a group of states led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle the antitrust lawsuit
• Cindy Crawford’s son Presley Gerber has died at the age of 27
• Thank you to Pam for my Monday morning coffee!

• Israeli forces are launching an artillery strike in Syria
• Israel’s Far Right National Security Minister Ben Gvir stormed another mosque today with Israeli forces
• Israeli settlers backed by the military are stoning Palestinian cars south of Bethlehem
• Ukraine has launched its largest attack on Russia launching hundreds of drones
• Iran has sent the US 7 conditions to end the war through Qatari mediators
• The US Military claims 1B barrels of oil have been escorted through the Strait
• Fox News had Trump on today and e said it’s a question of when…and if…he will blow up all of Iran because they better behave themselves
• Secretary Hegseth is making the war in Iran a biblical one and is calling it the Send Me Tour straight from the Book of Isaiah
• Trump says the new arch will double as a military complex able to host drones and snipers while storing ammunition
• Ed Sheeran returned to the stage last night
• Trump has referred to the MAGA Inc PAC money as his money and now there’s an FEC complaint against him
• Health officials in California and across the Bay Area are warning of a possible measles exposure after an unvaccinated person traveled all over the state via trains and buses

• Germany is cutting their fuel taxes as oil prices continue to climb
• The US has issued a warning to allies that there is now a 5 year delay in key weapons deliveries
• The Israeli army is facing a severe troop shortage and is going to suspect leave for soldiers
• Another Israeli strike in Gaza City has killed one person
• The Israeli military set fire to a government hospital in Lebanon
• An AI chatbot claimed in an intelligence report that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components. It wasn't
• Trump says he’s banning CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House because of their unfavorable coverage
• The new cost of the war in Iran is $43.6B
• Trump announced today that he supposedly has a deal with Denmark to bolster the US military presence in Greenland and that it gives the US permanent control over security and all other needs
• Trump claims Don Jr is going to pay back the Russian oligarch for his wedding
• Usha Vance sits on the board of the Kennedy Center
• The Pentagon is moving forward with mandatory testosterone testing for most male troops
• Singer songwriter composter and actor Duncan Sheik passed away yesterday

• The Houthis have struck a ship in the Strait
• Armed Israeli settlers are attacking and assaulting farmers in the occupied West Bank
• Israeli airstrikes have wounded 2 people in Lebanon while Israeli gunfire has wounded 2 women at refugee camps in Gaza
• Israeli forces are advancing 9 military vehicles in Syria
• At least 16 people are dead after a vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque building in Pakistan
• 3 people are dead and 8 injured in a school shooting in the Philippines
• Poland is warning NATO that Russia is planning hybrid strikes on Ukrainian ally countries and will claim them to be accidents
• The US military is moving drones to South America ahead of anticipated counternarcotics operations
• The US is denying visas for Palestinian officials for UN meetings
• Trump is in North Carolina campaigning for Whatley who is running against Roy Cooper
• Trump told attendees at the outdoor industry dinner that he’s so powerful, he could ban fishing
• Chipotle is now partnering with Palantir
• Warren Buffet has stepped down as chair from Berkshire Hathaway
• The hold out juror on the Lindsay Clancy trial is speaking out
• The NFL season kicked off last night at the new stadium for the Buffalo Bills and the Barenaked Ladies led 60K fans in the national anthem for Canada
• Farmers have started to let people know if they’re Democrats and are seeing a surge in business
• Gas prices keep going up
• Claude was used to hack into ChatGPT as a test

• Israeli settlers have blocked a road to a Palestinian village and are throwing stones at cars and damaging properties. Israel is also carrying out massive explosions in Lebanon
• The IRGC says it has struck a Togo flagged tanker in the Strait
• The US is responding to the claims of committing war crimes calling it "nonsense"
• Netanyahu is campaigning for himself and claiming only he and his party can get the job done with Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza
• The US is granting visas for Iranian delegates to attend UN meetings in New York
• Brazil’s President says he’s going to the UN meetings just so he can tell Trump to stay out of Brazil’s elections
• The US State Department has approved the sale of 48 F-35 Fighter jets to Saudi Arabia
• Trump says he has a very big decision coming up on whether he wants to annihilate Iran or not
• A judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to provide 30 days notice before any physical changes are made
• An F-16 fighter jet crashed in Michigan during training exercises, the pilot ejected safely
• HHS Secretary Kennedy has told anti vaccine activists that they have a friend in the White House
• The US Fish and Wildlife Director signed an internal memo interpreting the Endangered Species Act to prohibit only intentional killing or wounding of protected animals
• The FBI internally warned that there’s a small group of women who were allegedly creating fake “tradwife” dating profiles to lure and dox ICE agents
• The Wall Street Journal has shared that Americans have spent $107B more on gas and diesel since the start of the war in Iran

• One person has been killed and two injured following a drone interception in Saudi Arabia
• Jordan has signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement with France
• Ireland is boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2027 due to the ongoing lives lost in Gaza
• Human rights experts commissioned by the UN says they have found reasonable grounds to believe the United States has committed war crimes
• The SEC has cleared the path for tokenized trading which brings the market closer to trading 24/7
• Trump is now saying the Kennedy Center could be ripped down if his name doesn’t get put on the building
• Macklemore has donated his $1M earnings from the Ed Sheeran tour to Palestinian aid efforts and challenged Robert Kraft to match it
• Japan now has over 100K people over the age of 100 and over 87% of them are women
• A school mom leaked a WhatsApp chat revealing Meghan Markle's personal information
• My current read is Murder At the Movies by Alicia Malone

• Israel is conducting explosions in 3 southern Lebanese towns
• Congressman Gregory Meeks of New York said he is placing a hold on the sale of bombs to Israel
• The DOJ has charged 5 people in a plot to murder a Russian dissident in the DC area
• The Feds have raised the interest rate for the first time in over 3 years
• The House voted unanimously to hold Leon Black in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas in the investigation of the Epstein files
• House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled tomorrows session and sent Congress home to campaign for the midterms
• Vice President JD Vance recorded a video begging voters for another chance
• Paramount is threatening to leave California if the antitrust suit against their merger isn’t dropped
• Charlie Kirk’s family is claiming there wasn’t enough security to protect him since he was a close friend of Trump
• Voter registration is the top trending topic in the US this week and “how do I register to vote?” is the top trending question. You can register at vote.gov
• Thank you to Alex for my wine tonight!

• Approximately 100 people have been killed due to the collapse of a 6 story building after it was damaged by an Israeli bombardment
• A number of Palestinians have been wounded by an Israeli shelling that was targeting those filling water vessels at a camp
• Over the weekend, the US has a secret meeting with Yemen’s Houthis in Oman
• Saudi Arabia is accusing Houthi rebels of attempting to attack Mecca
• CBS has now obtained new photos that show more aircraft destroyed that haven’t been disclosed
• The EU wants Canada to become their first associate member
• Yesterday the House voted for a third time to end the war in Iran by approving a war powers resolution
• The current administration has cut or frozen a total of $177B in grant access across all 50 states since Trump came into office
• $84K is about to be spent on signs to go around the Smithsonian's American History museum accusing it of ideological bias
• In Los Angeles, the helicopter used by NBC and Telemundo crashed last night while covering a bus accident. The reporter and pilot on board died along with a person on the ground
• Russia is flooding social media with celebrity deepfakes that claim to put down Democrats
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• Thank you to Robert, Steve, Barbara, Julie and John who went above and beyond to let me know I’m their cup of tea and provide me with coffee!

• The Israeli army claims to have killed another Hammas commander
• Israeli strikes on tents in southern Gaza have killed 2, including an 8 year old girl
• The US military says it open fired and destroyed two small Iranian boats who were trying to steal a drone ship in the waters off Iran
• The Pentagon has released their report on Operation Epic Fury aka the war in Iran and the total cost is $33.4B and they confirmed strategic inventory shortfalls
• The US is about to sell off $2.8B of bombs to Israel
• Oil prices in Europe are at $130 a barrel, while here it’s between $105 and $108 a barrel
• Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has filed articles of impeachment against Secretary Hegseth for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors
• The Senate blocked the Clarity Act after a procedural vote fell far short from passing
• The House killed the impeachment vote on Trump
• Kash Patel defended the recent policy change that allows some applicants who have engaged in prostitution and bestiality to be considered for employment
• The State Department has notified Congress that it will reprogram $52 million in foreign military financing from Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq to Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia
• Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are teaming up to sound the alarm on AI
• Trump's’s pick for Surgeon General has disclosed $270,000 in income from her own dietary supplement company along with investments in tobacco stocks
• The Kennedy Center has voted to close
• All of the opening acts for Ed Sheeran’s tour have quit

• Three more people have died in Gaza due to Israeli attacks bringing the total to 73,789
• Lebanon says they cannot afford the reconstruction costs that Israel’s offensive has cost them which is between $3-4B
• Iran says it has shot down the 4th MQ-1 drone
• The Supreme Court has rejected the plan by the guy in the office to restrict mail in ballots with Alito and Thomas dissenting
• Kash Patel is in the hot seat today facing the Senate Judiciary Committee
• The Federal Reserve is expected to raise the short term interest rate tomorrow for the first time in 3 years
• The Senate is set to vote today on whether to move forward with legislation to create a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrency
• The Gates Foundation is warning that AI could widen inequality and has pledged $1B to expand access
• The FBI arrested 20-year-old Jonathan Hunter Kramer on Monday in Pennsylvania. He is charged with obtaining a firearm and ammunition to support a planned ISIS attack
• Yesterday a U.S. District Judge blocked DHS’s rule that would have capped F and J visas at four years and limited journalist visas to 240 days
• The US has confirmed for the first time that they have deployed space weapons into orbit which is a shocking admission but one expert thinks they’re more likely space jammers and not actual weapons
• The National Weather system has started updating its forecasts and maps renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
• I shared with you yesterday how Don Jr’s wedding was funded by a Russian oligarch and now Congressman Robert Garcia is demanding an investigation
• Costco has started to ration motor oil and increased pricing on it
• Legendary costume designer Bob Mackie died yesterday at the age of 87
• Thank you to Julie in New Zealand for coffee

• Surprise! Mitch is alive!
• The Houthis say they have seized two islands in the southern red sea and Saudi jets have launched 54 air strikes in the last 24 hours
• Treasury secretary Bessent says his department will continue to target and disrupt those who provide material, technological or financial support to the Iranian regime
• A supertanker has caught fire after striking naval mines while attempting to pass through a restricted zone south of the Strait of Hormuz
• Israeli jets are striking two towns in southern Lebanon killing one and the Israeli army has expanded its incursion into southern Syria
• Congressman Al Green has announced he’s using a privileged resolution to force the House to vote on impeaching Trump
• Gavin says he’s not running if Kamala does
• The EPA announced today it is scrapping limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants saying it’ll save the US billions of dollars and reduce energy prices
• Trump is further dismissing AI concerns and says it’s all a hoax and a sick conspiracy
• Trump has nominated the wife of Lee Greenwood to be the US ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean
• For those of you wondering what we got out of Trump going to Ireland on our dime, he’s lifted tariffs on Irish Whiskey
• San Jose, an update on Lindsay Hansen. She had been out on bail after threatening to kill a former coworker and their children back in March. For last week’s incident she’s been charged with felony stalking and committing a hate crime and doing so while out on bail. Her request for bail was denied and she remains in custody until her next court appearance on Sept 29th to enter pleas in both cases
• Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour because he spoke up against the genocide going on with Palestinians

• The damaged Saudi oil pipeline will reportedly be down for several weeks
• Oil prices continue to surge and AI stocks are down
• The Israeli army have shot and killed a Palestinian man in southern Gaza and also attacked a makeshift camp wounding 10 others in Gaza City
• Houthi rebels have seized more key islands in the southern Red Sea
• The Houthis are claiming a large scale military operation on Saudi Arabia’s airbase
• The Kennedy Center is warning bankruptcy as early as this week unless the name of Trump returns
• Turns out the latest wedding of Don Jr was funded by a Russian oligarch named Umar Kremlev who is the head of the international boxing association
• DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin alleged that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother to facilitate immigration and could face deportation if investigators establish wrongdoing
• Yesterday Trump agreed to an ethics package for the crypto bill that authorizes state attorneys general to enforce provisions alongside the DOJ
• American officials secretly flew a diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children out of Britain last month, bypassing standard extradition procedures
• An adult woman has died from the measles in Pennsylvania
• Big thank you to Thom for ensuring I treat myself to an extra special bottle of wine this week!

• Israel continues to storm and raid Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank
• Israeli forces are also striking a southern town in Lebanon
• Israel is also expanding their incursion into southern Syria
• Saudi authorities say the danger has now passed
• Saudi Arabia has 5 to 7 days of oil stored in their port in the Red Sea. The attack on the pipeline has disrupted 4% of the global oil supply
• An Iranian cargo vessel was struck off Qeshm Island killing one and wounding 4. No official word on who struck it and the US isn’t commenting
• Trump wants Ukraine to stop targeting strikes on Russian diesel
• Trump isn’t happy about the talk of AI ruining humanity and is calling them negative forces that are unfounded
• President Barack Obama spoke about AI being dangerous if left unmanaged and urged Democrats to tackle it
• Trump said today that the US could just stay in Iran and keep the oil
• Speaker Mike Johnson said he would work through a proposal with the guy in the white house to make the $5,000 payments
• Thank you to Jaclyn for sharing with me about Dope Soul Village. This is an etsy like online marketplace but it’s a women-only marketplace with one fee and the Profits and vendor fees directly fund Finally Free CIC, a non-profit working to build long-term, trauma-informed domestic abuse shelters for women, children, and their pets
• A reminder from Tupac who died 30 years ago today: Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bull$hit.

• Israel continues to launch air strikes on southern Lebanon
• Emergency alerts are going off in Saudi Arabia warning of potential danger
• At least 10 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past 48 hours
• Ireland’s president has told the guy in the white house that the normalization of war and genocide is not acceptable
• Iraqi investigators are searching for the drone launch sites after Saudi Arabia’s main oil pipeline was attacked. The attack is being blamed on Iran backed militias in Iraq
• The July Iranian missile that killed 3 US troops in Jordan utilize Chinese satellite technology
• A federal judge has blocked the administration from requiring civil service job applicants to answer a loyalty question as part of the Merit Hiring Plan
• A federal judge has ruled that the plan by Trump to cut FEMA by 50% was unlawful
• Trump is in Ireland
• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claims the $5,000 Trump is promising American adults if Republicans win the midterms wouldn’t come from tax money
• Anthropic's CEO says the AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up
• Mississippi police have arrested one man in the murder of Tasia Fortune who was found last month hanging from a tree
• Ted Cruz was on ESPN’s College GameDay and you could hear the fans behind him chanting Ted you suck
• The conservative group called Defending Education has filed a complaint with the Dept of Education against an Oakland Unified program that offers mentorship and academic support to Latino male teenagers saying it discriminates against white students
• The CDC is claiming cyclospora is over
• A federal judge has just ordered ICE to halt construction on the proposed detention center in Gilroy
• For San Jose, I shared the arrest of Lindsay Hansen. She was arraigned yesterday and has a plea hearing on September 29th

• Yemen’s UN representative says that the drones and missiles used by the Houthis to target Saudi Arabia and threaten shipping from the Red Sea “emanate from a single military structure that operates outside the institutions of the Yemeni state and is militarily and technically supported by the Iranian terrorist regime
• Two unknown vessels have been hit by projectiles off Oman coast
• Iran’s parliament speaker sarcastically posted his predictions that the Trump administration plans to contain oil prices
• The IRGC says they have attacked a US unmanned vessel in the Strait of Hormuz
• 4 people have been killed and 60 injured in a Russian strike on a shopping center in Ukraine
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws today aimed at protecting children from the risks of technology, including social media and AI chatbots
• Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley opened a formal investigation yesterday into OpenAI's handling of the July Hugging Face breach
• Joe DiGenova who has been leading the DOJ investigation into whether former federal officials conspired against Trump has turned in his resignation
• Katie Miller has been posting negative things online about AI companies except for Elon Musk’s xAI and it turns out she owns $1M in stock
• LG smart TVs are secretly scanning users’ Wi-Fi networks to catalog connected devices, record conversations through built-in microphones, and track viewing habits, while appearing to be in standby mode and even when disconnected from the internet

• Nine US military aircraft were damaged in overnight Iranian missile strikes in Jordan at the military base
• Another Israeli strike in Gaza has a husband and wife and their two daughters
• Israeli troops have advanced into Syria
• Israel has launched 3 more air strikes in southern Lebanon
• Saudi Arabia’s crude oil transit is facing a new threat after the Houthi’s are gaining traction along the Red Sea port
• Netanyahu is claiming election interference and that he’s the victim
• Trump has now said he will give every adult American $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms
• Democratic Senator John Fetterman sent in a video to the Republican Trumpalooza convention
• Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on broadcast TV because the FCC threatened Kimmel, ABC and more
• SCOTUS has blocked the Republican drawn Congressional map in Missouri
• Anthropic identified yet another that took place in January that gave AI models access to the open internet
• Thank you to Sharon for providing me with coffee this week!
• Programming note for tomorrow, Friday September 11th, I will be getting my first colonoscopy so there won’t be a morning brief

• Israeli strikes have hit 3 more locations in Lebanon
• Marco Rubio is threatening to strangle Iran economically
• Iran’s foreign minister says Houthis are independent actors and not proxies of Iran
• Trump said that the war in Iran will end and oil prices will go down after the midterm elections
• Temporary Protected Status for about 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants was set to expire today but DHS didn’t make an announcement so technically right now protections remain in place
• Trump said he’d consider pardoning Michael Cohen
• Trumpalooza started today
• Elon Musk’s PAC has launched votersafe.org. DO NOT give your info to it
• The Tate brothers were denied bail
• South Park creators announced on Instagram that they will rename the show to South America
• Thank you to Susan for providing me with wine this week!

• Overnight the US destroyed five Iranian oil tankers and in retaliation Iran targeted two US vessels and 8 oil tankers and attacked a military base in Jordan that was hosting US troops. Jordan says they intercepted all 18 ballistic missiles
• Analysts are reporting a surge in construction at a suspected Iranian nuclear site
• Another person has died in Lebanon due to an Israeli strike
• Israel has decided to close the British consulate in Jerusalem
• Oil is up to over $100 a barrel
• Trump gave out some $45,000 holiday bonuses
• SCOTUS has declined to reinstate Missouri's Republican-drawn congressional map for the November 2026 midterms but overnight a federal judge ordered Missouri to do the opposite and it’s now going back to the Supreme Court on appeal
• Starting September 29th, the US is banning the import from Canada of some dairy products, motorcycles and most alcoholic beverages
• The Texas State Board of Education approved a new high school social studies curriculum that emphasizes radical Islam as the motivation behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
• Global reading scores have dropped by 14 points from 2022 which is one of the lowest since 2000
• An Anthropic employee has quit and is speaking out and others are backing his claim up that Anthropic and OpenAI are acting irresponsibly and creating superhuman technology that supposedly has over a 10% chance of wiping out humanity in the next decade if not sooner
• San Jose woman verbally accosted a man and his 6 year old daughter

• At least two Iranian tankers have been struck by the US and the Iranian navy has warned it will be targeting oil tankers in the vicinity of Kuwaiti and Bahraini ports in response urging crews to leave their tankers
• Iran claims it has captured one of the US’s smartest submarines in the Strait of Hormuz which is a $2.5M autonomous underwater vehicle
• Lonnie Bunch, the head of Smithsonian has announced he’s going to retire saying he has very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude
• Trump claims he was rescued by two firemen on 9/11 but he wasn't there
• The DOJ is demanding testimony before a Florida grand jury aiming to establish an intelligence community conspiracy against Trump and the claims that Russia interfered in the election
• New York Mayor Mamdani released 170K pages of documents related to the air quality in New York City after 9/11 that prove city officials knew the air was toxic
• Today marked 100 days of protests in Albania against the luxury development that Jared Kushner and Ivanka want to make happen
• Sapporo has announced they are shifting non-alcoholic beer brewing from Canada to the US because of the tariffs
• The TSA is launching Gateside by TSA PreCheck for PreCheck members to enter the secured area to the gates without a ticket
• President Joe Biden says his radiation treatment for prostate cancer has worked as intended

• The foreign ministers from 12 countries said they would back or consider curbing trade on goods from illegal Israeli settlements. The UK, France and Canada have said they will be banning goods while Marco Rubio says the US will not
• The UK’s Ed Miliband said the Israeli government “turned a blind eye” to the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by “settler terrorists”
• Israeli settlers killed 4 yesterday in the occupied West Bank
• Although Netanyahu is denying it, he was warned of the major Hamas attack of October 7th 10 days earlier by the UAE President and Egyptian intelligence
• Iran backed Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia igniting a fire at an oil facility and wounding 73 people
• The US military and CIA are having some conversations about potentially reducing personnel and facilities in the Middle East
• Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left Russia and claimed to have had encouraging conversations, then Russia struck Ukraine again killing 2 and wounding 7 more
• For the first time since the Nazi era, the far right party has won a state election in Germany
• Canada’s retaliatory tariffs take effect today and Trump is threatening to ban Bombardier business jet sales
• Hurricane Lowell has hit the island of Kauai and knocked out power for most of the island
• Thank you goes out to Cyndie for providing me with wine this week!

• The US is claiming full control of the Strait of Hormuz
• War planes have struck a prison in a Houthi controlled area of Yemen
• The Israeli air force claims to have killed another Hamas commander in their strike on Gaza City
• The UK is vowing to respond over the unacceptable expansion of illegal West Bank Israeli settlements
• Israeli air strikes in Lebanon over the past 3 days have killed 27 people
• Five people were killed yesterday when an Amazon cargo Boeing 767 overshot the runway in Miami
• Patrick Havas was arrested yesterday after injuring several people and attacking democratic Ohio governor candidate Dr Amy Acton
• Trump and Natalie are golfing and posting on Truth Social

• The Israeli army is blowing up several buildings in Lebanon today despite the ceasefire that hasn’t been adhered to by Israel at all. The death toll in Lebanon is now at 4,362
• The Israeli army has confirmed they bombed a hospital in Lebanon claiming it was no longer a medical facility and now a Hezbollah command center
• Two Palestinians including a child have been killed in an attack by an Israeli aircraft on a car in Gaza City and 6 others have been wounded.
• Iran is claiming to have struck a US ship in the Strait of Hormuz and the US says that’s a total lie
• Iran has lifted a ban on government agencies using foreign social media platforms so that they can respond and combat rumors directly
• Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have now arrived in Ukraine to talk to Zelensky
• The Justice Department is bringing mail-in voting to SCOTUS for the third time
• The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the US Constitution doesn’t provide a right to clean drinking water or accurate information from public officials
• The US embassy in Cuba is warning of surging illnesses since food is spoiling due to power outages caused by the fuel blockade implemented by the current administration 9 months ago
• The administration is again trying to bring Project 2025 to life with the drafting of this new rule that would allow married couples to receive child care and development fund subsidies when one parent stays at home. This would be $9,000 per child
• It is Read a Book Day! I'm reading The Memory of Borrowed Books by Meg Anderson and American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams

• The US has struck an Iranian supertanker and two other ships off Kharg Island. This came in retaliation to Iran fired ballistic missiles towards two US warships patrolling regional waters
• The IRGC says it has killed 2 people who they claim were planning to carry out attacks
• Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting large-scale detonations by Israeli forces in Lebanon
• Israel launched an interceptor drone at it’s own drone in Gaza today
• Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Moscow
• Two more people have been rescued from the floods in Nepal after being trapped for 10 days. Unfortunately, 5000 people are still missing
• The UN General Assembly has adopted a new world map that more accurately shows Africa’s size and the US was the sole vote against it
• Yesterday a judge ordered the administration to provide 48 hours notice before engaging in any activity at the proposed 250 ft arch site near Arlington National Cemetery
• MAGA Inc is investing $10M into ads to help back Ken Paxton
• Last night an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Newark was diverted to Baltimore after passenger Arthur Lundeen of Arizona became physical with staff and passengers and used racial and homophobic slurs

• Update to this morning. In the Clancy trial it was declared a mistrial. I misspoke when I said Missouri thanks to TMZ being my source, it was in Massachusetts
• Trump is saying the US might strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain very soon which is reported to host nuclear facilities
• English language certification company Pearson PLC and Pearson VUE has blocked Iranians from taking English proficiency tests required for international study after the suspension of a US sanctions exemption
• The US state department rejects Israel’s suggestion of removing Palestinians from Gaza
• Israel continues to strike Lebanon
• Israeli forces are raiding a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and have fired tear gas and concussion grenades
• A third person has died from the measles in Pennsylvania, this time a 6 week old infant
• A federal judge has extended the block prohibiting the restrictions on mail in ballots that the executive order Trump is seeking
• Trump posted on Truth Social to lower the interest rates or he’ll "STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT"
• For a decade, Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt has been the center of a Justice Department probe into a billion-dollar money laundering scheme that US prosecutors allege embezzled funds from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, but that's suddenly disappeared
• This week, the administration released an update to a major survey on civil rights in school and conveniently deleted all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity
• The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal from Republicans, clearing a legal roadblock for political parties to access discounted TV ad rates ahead of the midterm elections
• Maria Bartiromo's attorney is denying it that Fox News fired her for talking about Fox News’ business to Trump
• Tetris is mad that the White House used their name and game to Build The Wall and said they take copyright infringement very seriously

• Breaking news in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. It has been declared a mistrial
• Israel is striking southern Lebanon again and also claim to have killed another Hamas commander
• There are several civilian casualties being reported from the Houthis targeting a restaurant in the Red Sea port
• Another Palestinian has been killed in an Israeli drone attack on the Gaza Strip
• The price of diesel is now at an all time high
• Trump surprised everyone by selecting Adam Telle to replace Dan Driscoll as Secretary of the Army
• 2 men have been pulled alive from a Nepal power plant 9 days after the flood
• Romanian Prosecutors indicted Andrew Tate for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor, and witness tampering. Andrew’s brother Tristan is being charged as an accomplice
• A Wall Street Journal reports sharing texts and interviews with former staffers and others of Senator John Fetterman that make him look very checked out
• The Missouri Supreme Court is showing up for its people and has blocked a gerrymandered congressional map approved by Trump
• There is more algae in the Reflecting pool and the administration is paying another $2.65M to fix it
• OpenAI agents hijacked a German website that was previously undisclosed
• Trump said in an interview with New York Magazine that no one will build monuments for him when he’s gone so he’s building the ballroom and other things
• Delta Force soldiers refer to Secretary Hegseth as "No Tab Pete"

• The United Nations Human Rights Office for Palestine says Israel must end its unlawful presence and evacuate all settlers from the occupied West Bank under international law
• Vice President JD Vance had weird things to say about the US striking a residential building in Iran
• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed there have been no US deaths due to the war in Iran. Now he’s apologizing because he was wrong
• The House passed the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act which would strip federal funding from universities who boycott Israel or restrict student exchange programs with it. Now goes to the Senate
• The administration has filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to let it move ahead with restrictions on mail in ballots
• Federal prosecutors have charged ICE officer Christian Castro for shooting a Minneapolis man through his front door and lying about it
• The White House website unveiled Arcade, a new collection of 5 low resolution video games
• Fox News fired Maria Bartiromo today
• Liz Oyer, former federal pardon attorney, has filed a lawsuit against Todd Blanche and the DOJ for unlawfully firing her
• ICE is going to pay up to $5M to build out a voter database which is says it needs to investigate fraud
• New York City, the nation’s largest school system has banned AI through 8th grade
• A very special thank you to Claudia today for supplying me with coffee in memory of her son Roger who passed away from cancer

• Feminist, author, activist and journalist Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92
• 6 Iranian navy personnel and 3 pilots have been killed in the recent US attacks
• Israel is threatening to attack Iran’s energy facilities and civilian infrastructure again if they attack Israel
• 3 people are dead, including the suspect and 6 injured, 3 of them police officers, in a Minneapolis shooting last night
• Imported drones now have a 100% tariff imposed on them in an effort to thwart the Chinese drone industry
• Republican Senator Thom Tillis is calling on Trump to fire Secretary Hegseth
• Billionaire Leon Black has refused to show up for his deposition with the House Oversight Committee as part of their investigation into Epstein
• North Carolina Congressman Chuck Edwards has been censured after the House voted 413-2 for persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female staffers
• Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote a letter warning federal agencies that they cannot support the Smithsonian under current leadership and threatened to halt artifact loans, procurement assistance and discretionary grants
• Yesterday the Pentagon issued mandatory testosterone screening guidance for active-duty and reserve service members 30 years of age and older
• Trump posted on Truth Social this morning and if you say America doesn’t have unlimited amounts of ammunition, then you are treasonous scum
• Katie Miller had Secretary Duffy and his wife on her show and they all question the government and don’t trust it
• Mitch has been MIA for 80 days now
• Thank you to John and William for not only ensuring I’m caffeinated and hydrated but for also supporting my desire to inform more people

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• In 2024, UNRWA employed 32,000 people with 13,000 being in Gaza. A USAID report has come out that said it found 100 current or former UNRWA employees participated in the October 7th attacks
• At least 370 Palestinian children are being held in Israeli prisons
• Trump said he felt Russia behaved quite well with the Strait of Hormuz and claimed Iran isn’t paying their troops
• Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick warned today that chunks of the building of the Kennedy Center could simply fall off and hurt someone
• The Stars and Stripes employees who were fired are suing the Pentagon
• Meta is going to ban likes display and block usage after midnight on teen accounts
• Nvidia is launching an employee funded US Political Action committee
• Trump signed another executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America and directed the Interior Department to update US geographic records within 30 days
• Callaway has broken ties with Good Good golf. Good Good is also no longer the title sponsor of the PGA tour
• The Tate Brothers both took the stand today in court trying to defend themselves and said their online personas are not their true personalities
• The Cyclospora outbreak has now reached 20 states
• Tropical Storm Dolly has formed in the Atlantic Ocean
• Alabama Shakes is coming out with a new album for the first time in 11 years after they reunited to play the Druid City Brewing Company in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to help raise money for the brewery and a local food pantry

• The Israeli army says it has intercepted a Hezbollah drone in southern Lebanon
• A 13 year old girl and 38 year old woman are in stable condition after Israeli forces shot them both in the head in the occupied West Bank
• Iran and Qatar are to discuss a joint project to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz
• Israel is seeking to eliminate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
• The US Naval Institute says the USS Theodore Roosevelt is preparing for deployment in the Middle East that will last for more than 7 months
• More than 350 people have been killed and 1300 remain missing in Nepal and the rising lake is bringing fears of more flooding
• ICE officer Christian Castro who shot a man through his front door and lied about it in Minnesota was just released from a Texas jail
• The Tate brothers are back in court today seeking a release on bond
• The sailor who jumped overboard of the USS Abraham Lincoln and tried to take his life is now facing disciplinary action from the Navy and a potential dock in pay
• The administration is considering a new round of tariffs on semiconductors
• CIA Director John Ratcliffe who just had a secretive trip to Russia supposedly warned Russia not to attack NATO
• RFK Jr lied under oath when he said a trip he took to Samoa in 2019 had nothing to do with vaccines
• The OpenAI hacking of Hugging Face is now called an unprecedented cyber incident with the highest level of autonomy. CA Rep Ted Lieu and Texas Rep Nathaniel Moran have introduced a bill called the AI Kill Switch Act
• Speaking of Hugging Face, NvIdia has announced they will be buying them for $12.9B
• Data centers are bringing people together. Some Republicans are moving to the Dem side because them
• In Florida the DeSantis administration took $10 million in taxpayer money that was for health insurance for kids, and used it to defeat the 2024 marijuana legalization ballot measure

• Actor Tim Curry has passed away at the age of 80
• Two drones have been launched with one being downed in northern Iraq
• Israeli forces are firing artillery in Syria
• Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels are firing ballistic missiles targeted the Port of Mocha in Yemen on the Red Sea
• A federal judge has refused to order Texas to extradite ICE officer Christian Castro to Minnesota
• Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy said ICE agents were arresting parents at a school bus stop today
• The United States Justice Department announced that federal law enforcement disrupted a widespread Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage operation targeting the DOJ, NASA, the federal reserve and the senate
• Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced Tuesday that the province will impose a 50 per cent reciprocal fee on American alcohol products starting Sept. 8, responding to escalating trade tensions
• Maryland court rules Democratic-backed redistricting amendment cannot go on November ballot because it missed a July 1st public comment deadline
• General Mills announced it has removed artificial colors from all its U.S. cereals, including Lucky Charms and Trix, shifting to fruit- and vegetable-based dyes like turmeric and paprika
• The U.S. Army announced plans to install nuclear microreactors at five military bases spanning New York to Texas, including Fort Drum, to ensure energy independence from the commercial electric grid
• An American Airlines plane blew 2 tires before takeoff at Chicago O’Hare airport
• A lawsuit over the sexual assault of a female civilian engineer aboard a Navy transport ship by Captain Yamil Sanchez Padilla was dismissed and said it’s a workers comp issue
• 30K lbs of beef has been recalled that was imported by the administration from Argentina in Florida and Texas
• Trump shared posts about how much the GOP is f’ing up, construction photo updates, AI images of the guy in the white house, a photo of him at 18 vs President Obama at 18, him with his parents and more
• The White House is super busy posting AI images of a bald eagle crushing a Canadian Goose into ice

• Israel continues to carry out attacks in Lebanon and now occupies one-fifth of the country.
• At least one more person has been killed and a pregnant woman has been wounded in Gaza
• Israeli forces have arrested dozens of Palestineans in the West Bank including 3 children
• Netanyahu has promised to continue establishing settlements in the occupied territories. He said there have been 104 communities established and 160 farms with more to come
• The IRGC says Iran and Oman have reached an agreement on their shares of the Strait of Hormuz and revenue
• At least 31 people have been killed and hundreds are missing along with 291 foreign tourists after a deadly flash flood hit the border crossing of Nepal and Tibet
• Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline won the GOP primary and will be going against Dr Annie Andrews for South Carolina Senate
• This week public outrage helped action be taken by Target with a children’s Halloween costume with minstrel show features along with Callaway and Good Good Golf for their ad that portrayed domestic abuse
• Meta has reached a settlement agreement and will pay $16.68B
• Microsoft founder Bill Gates is alarmed by AI and released a memo urging urgent policy action on AI proposing a robot tax on companies using automation to replace human labor
• Yesterday the State Department announced a global pause on visa appointments at all embassies and consulates worldwide
• 42 of the Senate’s 47 Democrats signed a letter urging Netanyahu to rein in a surge of West Bank settler violence and mass arrests of Palestinians by Israeli security forces

• Today we lost one of the truly greatest human beings. Dolly Parton has passed away at the age of 80
• The US claims they have removed all mines from the Strait of Hormuz
• An Israeli drone attack on a refugee camp has killed 3 more people in Gaza
• The CIA Director, John Ratcliffe has arrived in Moscow for unannounced talks
• The Legal Accountability Center filed bar complaints against Attorney Jeanine Pirro alleging the former Fox News host violated ethical duties by seeking "meritless" indictments against six Democratic lawmakers
• The Hawk Fire in Reno, Nevada is currently at over 15K acres and 27% contained. The fire has destroyed at least 30 homes and 63K people are under evacuation orders
• The Ross Fire west of Fort Worth, TX has expanded to over 78 square miles forcing school closures
• Luis Manuel Aviles, the man who was arrested by ICE earlier this week, whose son has been serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has not only been released but the judge dismissed his case
• The Kennedy Center is projecting a $23M deficit after adding Trump's name
• The FDA is appointing two new deputy commissioners for drugs and another focusing on technology and the intersection of health and AI
• SpaceX is building a new rocket complex in Louisiana
• A big thank you to Kim on Facebook for inspiring this. For the last brief of every day, we will have the countdown until he’s no longer in office. 878 days left

• The White House says there are no talks planned or under way with Iran
• Another 7 people have been killed and 40 wounded by Israeli attacks throughout Gaza
• Trump is considering new tariffs on China for flooding the market with cheap goods
• Canada has imposed 50% tariffs on metals, foods, and motorcycles effective September 8th
• The Secret Service says they are aware of an Iranian state media video threatening Barron Trump's life along with a $10M bounty
• ICE has announced more than 1300 arrests in the last two weeks in Virginia and Maryland during Operation Safe Community and nearly 400 of them have been charged or convicted
• Two people in Pennsylvania have died from the measles
• Trump is posting on Truth Social an image renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
• A federal judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to have her conviction overturned
• The EPA has proposed a new rule that would kill the requirement for datacenters to publicly disclose the air pollution they release
• Power is still out in Gary, Indiana. The power is also out for 25,000 residents in Memphis, TN following storms from this past weekend
• Yesterday I spent time with California Congressman Sam Liccardo and we discussed AI data centers and ICE detention centers as both are news topics today. You can find the full episode on Beyond the Campaign on all podcast platforms

• The US has announced new sanctions on Iran to sever every economic lifeline that sustains Iran
• Netanyahu congratulated Trump on the sanctions
• Iran says the US sanctions will fail and that the US must correct its tone
• The US also says it’s prepared to use military force against in Iran in the Strait and elsewhere
• Trump is now also threatening to escalate things with Canada and threatened to impose a tariff hike on autos
• Transportation Secretary Duffy went on Fox News Sunday and falsely claimed that Canada “doesn’t have a military” and cited “record-high euthanasia rates”
• The Supreme Court has backed the order from Trump to curb mail in ballots
• MAGA Inc has spent $827k to back Darline Graham on the final day of the South Carolina GOP Senate runoff
• The administration has also revived its want for $100k for H1B visas
• Over a dozen major US companies, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Target, and Zillow, that signed a 2021 letter urging Congress to strengthen the Voting Rights Act are now donating to 527 political groups like the Republican Attorneys General Association that are actively working to undermine it
• Speaker Mike Johnson claims that staffers call him co-president because he’s always on the phone with Trump

• The Gaza death toll has increased by another 8 people including two children and Israel is launching more strikes across southern Lebanon
• Iran’s currency has dropped to a record low as the US is about to announce more sanctions
• Trump is posting on Truth Social claiming the radical left democrats are going crazy with fake polls to try to demoralize Republicans and get them not to vote
• Ontario Premier Ford threatens to cut off electricity and critical minerals to U.S. as trade woes worsen
• An 8 year old girl has died from a rare brain eating amoeba likely contracted from swimming in a Louisiana Lake
• A human caused fire near Reno, Nevada called the Hawk Fire is forcing over 90,000 people to evacuate and school closures in and around Reno
• Border Patrol arrested Luis Manuel Aviles in Key West, Florida despite having a permit to work in the US and being here for 19 years
• California has canceled talks that were set to happen today with Paramount over the Warner Brothers merger
• The US executed a lethal strike on an alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific killing 2 so-called narco-terrorists
• Last week, Florida based startup Powerus, which is backed by Donnie Jr and Eric signed a $22.3M contract to supply Guardian drone interceptors protecting oil and gas infrastructure across the Middle East
• On Friday, U.S. Postal Service published a final 95-page rule tightening mail-in voting requirements ahead of November’s midterms
• Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says we should be tracking our elementary students to towards trade occupations such as plumbing and electrical work
• 49ers owner Jed York was arrested yesterday morning at a mobile home community in East Palestine, Ohio

• Israeli forces and settlers continue to attack the occupied West Bank with drones and raids. Two more Palestinians have been killed, a 14 year old was shot and killed, and 7 more have been wounded. Dozens of settlers backed by Israeli forces are also breaking into mosque compounds to perform Jewish prayer rituals
• Iran has announced a major gas discovery worth tens of billions of dollars
• Trump is claiming to make freedom roar today with his IndyCar race that will have cars approaching speeds of 200mph around the National Mall
• We know that AI is here and it’s rapidly affecting our children. In Charleston, South Carolina, a group of educators are encouraging classroom experimentation in order to promote AI literacy and show students how to identify the pitfalls and know when not to use it
• Yesterday the Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians voted unanimously to authorize their first ever strike
• Jared Kushner met privately with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in New York City to discuss immigration and the high cost of living

• Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary says that the recklessness of the guy in the white house has only increased the desire of people around the world to acquire nuclear weapons
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon with drones, warplanes and tear gas
• The Israeli military claims it has killed a Hamas commander during an air strike on a home
• Canada has said no to the US and will be matching tariffs dollar for dollar
• A federal judge has vacated the administration’s policy of suspending the processing of visas from 75 countries based on the claim that those nationals would need public assistance
• California governor Newsom praised Trump accounts
• Trump is posting on Truth Social
• Karoline Leavitt confirmed she’s leaving the White House to go back to MAGA Inc
• Trump is making a ton of investment moves but the White House says we don’t need to worry about any conflicts of interest because the one in charge of making those decisions is his son, Eric

• The newest report from the Lebanese Ministry of Health says at least 4,348 people have been killed in Israeli attacks
• Israel continues to attack Lebanon
• Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts signed a temporary order allowing construction on the ballroom to continue
• DHS confirmed that only 185 noncitizens voted in Nevada
• The Pentagon fired the editor in chief and a top reporter of Stars and Stripes for insubordination
• Trump announced that Ed Martin is leaving the DOJ to focus on election legal battles.
• New documents show that National Park Service projects that were high priority were relegated to low priority so that repairs to the reflecting pool and other Freedom 250 projects could be prioritized
• Trump’s importing beef from his friends in Argentina
• More recalls and this time on nearly 40,000 bottles of Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief, over a “lack of assurance of sterility”
• Trump is heading to South Carolina to campaign for Darline Graham
• A shoutout and thank you to Angela for supplying me with wine for the weekend!

• Turkey has requested an Interpol red notice for Netanyahu and Moskovitch over the Gaza bound Global-Freedom Flotilla
• China says the new US sanctions on Iran will not resolve anything and is calling for dialogue between Iran and the US
• Israeli settlers shot and killed a 17 year old boy in the occupied West Bank
• The Israeli army is setting off massive explosions right now in Lebanon
• A charter plane has crashed at a remote site in western Alaska killing all 8 on board
• Residents in Gary Indiana are on their 10th day without power after storms on August 11th
• Trump announced he’s cutting tariffs on ground beef to help Americans
• The California Energy Commission approved the nation’s first energy-efficiency standards for replacement tires for passenger vehicles and trucks starting in 2029
• The biographer for Trump, Michael Wolff, shared letters from Natalie Harp to Trumpe and The Daily Beast has released them

• 94% of the population of Gaza are in need of shelter aid which is 1.98M Palestineans. Nearly 2/3s are living in tents or makeshift shelters
• The US is imposing new sanctions on Hezbollah and re-designating it as a global terrorist
• The US has told China to get with the program over the proposed sanctions on Iran
• Oil prices are up
• Russia has put Conor Kennedy, son of brain worm rot RFK Jr, on their wanted list for serving with Ukraine’s International Legion in 2022
• A new Ford class aircraft carrier is under construction and was set to be named the USS Doris Miller to recognize an enlisted Black sailor who helped carry wounded sailors to safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor. They Navy is now considering renaming it to Trump
• The US has quietly sent 2300 Mexicans to Guatemala and Honduras and is doing so to deter illegal immigration by sending Mexican citizens further away
• CNN’s Scott Jennings is rumored to be a favorite to replace Karoline Leavitt
• Secretary Hegseth’s wife has been traveling by his side to keep him out of trouble
• Federal agents seized devices today from former congressman Eric Swalwell at the San Francisco airport and his DC home in regards to the allegations of sexual assault
• And now alfaalfa sprouts are linked to food poisoning in Minnesota and Wisconsin

• 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
• Are you registered to vote?

• 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
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• 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