by Chris SelogyIn this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about Trump’s dumb funding bill, the new comet visiting our solar system, and the fun time that Dr. Phil is having these days.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Sinners, Get Out, Squeakross, Death Stranding 2
- B: Deus Ex, Shotgun King, Babylon 5, July 4th stuff.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill was passed by the Senate and House, so it’s just awaiting Trump to sign it, ICE will be supercharged with more funding than any other police or military force in the US government, Trump celebrated by using an antisemitic term about bankers that he claimed he didn’t know was antisemitic
- Armed man in Idaho created a fire to lure firefighters to a location that he fired upon and killed two of them and injured another before he was found dead later that night
- Paramount settled with Trump for $16 million
- NYT used some dubiously-sourced information from a Columbia hack that originated from a race science Nazi on Twitter
- Penn announced a deal with the DoE to settle case over transgender athletes like swimmer Lia Thomas to erase records and post apologies
- The DOJ plans to prioritize denaturalization cases to strip Americans of their citizenship
- Hero of the Week: The Dalai Lama announced that he will reincarnate and have a successor that will be found by his office after his death in spite of what China would like to happen
- RIP Michael Madsen
- Good Riddance to Jimmy Swaggart
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers filed a new doc in his case about the abuse he endured at CECOT
- SCOTUS will take on a case about whether states can ban transgender girls in sports next term
- WIsconsin’s Supreme Court ruled that it’s 1849 law does not ban abortion
- The killer of 4 Idaho students back in 2022 has plead guilty in plea deal with life sentence
- Trump wants to host UFC matches on the White House lawn for America’s 250th birthday
- Judge okays sale of 23andMe and its trove of DNA data to a nonprofit led by its founder
- NASA spotted a new comet flying through our solar system from a distant star system
- The WNBA is expanding to Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia from 2028 to 2030
- Dr. Phil’s cable TV network files for bankruptcy and is suing its former partner TBN
- Neil Druckmann & Halley Gross are stepping back from The Last of Us show to go to Naughty Dog
- Sinners producers says their costumes were purchased from Mavel’s Blade reboot that stalled
- There’s going to be a standalone second season of Cyberpunk Edgerunners
- We got a teaser trailer for Troll 2
- We got an official trailer for Project Hail Mary
- We got an official trailer for Sentimental Value
- We got an official trailer for The Cat in the Hat
- We got an official trailer for The Running Man
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