by Chris SelogyIn this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the incredible primary win of Zohran Mamdani, Ron DeSantis’ dumb new concentration camp, and the many bad things SCOTUS did.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Squid Game S3, Pokemon Violet
- B: We Love Katamari Reroll, Shotgun King, Blue Prince, Babylon 5, the world is lava.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Trump admin bombed three of Iran’s nuclear sites late Saturday nightand it doesn’t seem like they obliterated it as Trump claimed. Trump claimed there was a ceasefire, but Israel kept attacking Iran right after that announcement
- Heroes of the Week: Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor over Andrew Cuomo, Trump had a meltdown over it
- SCOTUS End of the Term Dumpster
- They’re allowing states to prevent Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood
- They’re limiting nationwide injunctions over Trump’s birthright executive order
- They’re upholding a key measure in Obamacare on preventive care
- They’re allowing parents the right to keep their kids out of classes w/objectionable material
- They’re upholding the Texas law requiring age verification for porn sites
- They’re upholding a federal program providing subsidized rural internet/phone services
- They’re blocking a lower court order requiring time for those being deported to contest it
- They postponed a Louisiana redistricting case to the next term
- Judge approves Anthropic’s fair use of paid books for its model, but wants a trial for pirated books
- FX is working on a pilot for Very Young Frankenstein with the What We Do in the Shadows crew
- Johnny Knoxville will host Fox’s Fear Factor reboot
- Amazon hired Denis Villeneuve to direct their first James Bond film
- Aaron Sorkin’s directing a sequel to The Social Network
- Matt Reeves has finished his work on the script for The Batman’s sequel
- Disney’s working on a Lilo & Stitch 2 live-action sequel
- Stephen King’s The Stand is being adapted into a film with Doug Liman as director
- Park Chan-wook’s next film “No Other Choice” picked up by Neon
- We got a teaser trailer for Bugonia
- We got an official trailer for Roofman
- We got an official trailer for Splitsville
- We got an official trailer for Washington Black
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