Let’s Weekend #420 – Supreme Jerks of the United States

Let's Weekend

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the various bad decisions by SCOTUS, the end of the WikiLeaks ordeal, and how scientists made upsetting faces for robots.

• Intro
• What Are We Up To?
  • C: That 90s Show, Rising Impact, GLOW, Fallout 76
  • B: Apollo Justice trilogy, Trails Through Daybreak demo, books, old Men’s magazines.
• Brandon’s Random Factoid
• Supreme Assholes of the Week: SCOTUS overturned the Chevron deference ruling from 1984 that gave the federal government’s agencies power to enforce regulations
  • SCOTUS allows cities to punish homeless people for sleeping in public places
  • SCOTUS has declared the way the SEC imposes fines for fraud unconstitutional
  • SCOTUS limited which January 6 defendants can be charged by federal prosecutors over obstructing Congress and could impact two of Trump’s four felony charges in his DC case
• Heroes of the Week: President Biden issued a blanket pardon for all LGBTQ+ service members that were removed from the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity
• RIP Martin Mull
• More SCOTUS opinions
  • SCOTUS allows the White House to request removal of social media misinformation
  • SCOTUS has rejected the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy deal
  • SCOTUS denied Steve Bannon’s plea to stay free during his appeals
• The WikiLeaks ordeal is finally over as Julian Assange struck a plea deal with the US
• Tractor Supply Co. slashes its DEI and climate change goals in response to right wing campaign
• Amazon is the 5th US company to reach $2 trillion in stock market value
• Another of those weird monoliths that have been showing up since 2020 was found near Vegas
• Scientists used engineered living skin tissue & human-like ligaments to give robots a creepy smile
• WB Discovery is rebranding their upcoming tentpole shows as HBO Originals
• Hallmark and NFL are teaming up for a football-themed Christmas movie
• We got an official trailer for Here
• We got an official trailer for Heretic
• We got an official trailer for Red One
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