by Chris SelogyOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the town halls that happened this week, the Amy Coney Barret hearings, and mummified penguins.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Early Voting, Hubie Halloween, Better Call Saul, Timespinner, Rocket League, Fall Guys
- T: ACNH, Kingdom 2 Crowns, more Among Us, Archer Season 11, ST Discovery, Bobiverse–finished All These Worlds, began Heaven’s River
- B: TitS Second Chapter, books, anime.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week:
- Trump refused to denounce QAnon conspiracy theorists at his town hall
- CA GOP puts out fake ballot dropboxes to trick voters
- SCOTUS grants Trump admin request to end census count early
- Russian suspected toxic spill in far east peninsula has killed 95% of marine life on surrounding seabed
- Former NC GOP lawmaker assaulted election worker while poll watching
- Heroes of the Week: Protestors spray foamed doors of Brooklyn Housing Court shut to block them from evicting more people
- COVID-19 Dump Truck
- 39.6 million cases WW, 1.1 million deaths, 8.1 million cases US, 219k deaths
- There’s a rise in cases via small gatherings in US
- Tennessee Mayor Lonnie Norman died of COVID-19
- Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly paused vaccine trials for unexplained illnesses
- WHO study finds remdesivir and other drugs have little to no effects for patients
- Oxford scientists developed a 5-minute COVID-19 antigen test
- Mitch plans a smaller relief bill for when Senate returns on October 19
- Promoters behind Chainsmokers concert will be fined $20k
- 2020 US Election Watch
- Amy Coney Barret Senate Hearing
- Failed to disclose two 2013 talks to two anti-abortion student groups
- Refused to answer most questions about her opinions on hot topics
- Claims she has no firm views on Climate Change
- Sen. Whitehouse did a great job explaining how dark money changes SC
- Sen Hirono calls her out on using the term “sexual preference” for LGBTQ
- Federal judge in PA denies GOP request to make drop boxes unconstitutional
- Dr. Fauci not happy about Trump using out of context statement for campaign ad
- Trump defended his conspiracy RTs during Town Hall, then fell for satire today
- Twitter, Facebook take big steps to block/limit spread of false Hunter Biden story
- Amy Coney Barret Senate Hearing
- Scientists found mummified penguins on Antarctica coast from ancient colony
- YouTube is cracking down on QAnon content by banning some videos targeting people
- Mad Max spinoff Furiosa with George Miller directing
- Disney Plus adds better content warning message to the front of classic animated films
- We got a new trailer for Soul
- Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com
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