by Filippo DinolfoOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend: It’s still a trying time. We talk about the protests this week, along with a few good things to come of them.
6/12/2020 – Seattle Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Act 1
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- F: Decisions, random games, trying not to melt.
- P: Stocks, unsuccessfully coping with the end of vacation, trying not to melt
- T: MCU, FFXIV, fooling with expensive toys
- C: She-ra, Fuller House, The Last of Us, ACO, Rocket League
- B: PS Now games, books, netflix.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Two Buffalo officers that shoved the old man down charged with assault
- Trump tweeted OAN conspiracy that the old man was Antifa provocateur that baited the cops and had a scanner to block police communications
- Trump’s holding his first rally after COVID-19 breakout in Tulsa on Juneteenth
- Trump celebrates Pride month by finalizing rule that removes nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people when it comes to health care
- Man charged with felony assault after trying to drive into Seattle protesters and shooting one
- Crossfit CEO stepped down after audio of Zoom call where he shared conspiracies about George Floyd
- Amazon announced one-year moratorium on selling facial recognition cams to cops
- Heroes of the Week: Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand pledge to donate $100 million to racial inequality organizations
- Minnesota City Council announced commitment to disbanding MPD and investing in community-led public safety initiatives
- MPD’s withdrawing from union contract negotiations
- Louisville, KY metro council unanimously voted to ban no-knock warrants
- Seattle activists captured PD and neighborhood from the police
- CNN teamed up with Sesame Street for a town hall about the protests for kids and families
- That fence around the White House became a canvas for memorials and protest signs
- Protestors, Smithsonian museums save art when WH took down fence this week
- New Zealand has beaten COVID-19 as last case recovered
- NASCAR banned the confederate flag from its races and a NASCAR truck driver quit over the ban
- A&E cancelled Live PD amid George Floyd protests
- Cops also cancelled by Paramount Network
- Statues Being Removed
- UK Slave trader Edward Colston statue dumped into Bristol Harbour
- UK Slave trader Robert Milligan removed from outside London museum
- Columbus statue in Camden, NJ and Boston lost their heads, VA tossed into lake
- Columbus statue in Richmond, VA was tossed into a lake
- House Speaker Pelosi wants 11 Confederate statues removed from Congress
- Joe Biden clinches Dem presidential nomination
- Trump’s RNC speech is moved to Jacksonville, FL
- It sure looked like Georgia had some voter suppression going on with the primary
- Cuomo signs a series of police reforms for NY, including banning chokeholds
- Here we go again, a recession officially began in February
- Starbucks is closing up to 400 stores in NA while expanding takeout business
- After Wichita St cancelled Ivanka’s commencement speech, she released it on YT
- Treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains a decade ago by millionaire has been found
- San Diego Comic-Con @Home is taking place July 22-26 with online panels
- MLS is returning with an interesting plan for a World Cup style tournament
- HBO Max temporarily removed Gone with the Wind from library for racial prejudices
- Russell Westbrook will EP a docuseries about the Tulsa Race Massacre
- We got a trailer for Bill & Ted Face The Music
- Visit https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ to find ways to help the #BlackLivesMatter cause
- Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com
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