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Let’s Weekend #469 – The LA Situation

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In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the wild stuff going on in Los Angeles, the awful stuff going on between Israel and Iran, and the deaths of two of music's brightest geniuses.

  • Intro
  • What Are We Up To?
    • C: Captain America: Brave New World, King of the Hill, Mario Kart World, Wind Waker
    • B: Mina the Hollower demo, Arcade Paradise, books, the air is choking me.
    • Brandon’s Random Factoid
    • Assholes of the Week: Israel attacked Iran and its nuclear and military sites in Tehran
      • Protesters faced off against the LAPD and ICE. The Trump admin got angry and sent the CA National Guard to help them. Then the Trump admin brought in some Marines. Federal judge temporarily rules against Trump’s use of National Guard in LA, which is on hold until a hearing can be held on Tuesday
      • Sen. Alex Padilla tried to attend DHS press conference in LA to ask questions, but was detained and removed by security
      • Israel seized a boat with Greta Thunberg and others hoping to bring aid to Gaza and have detained the crew
      • RFK Jr. has booted all members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee after promising not to do so during his hearing and replaced them with vaccine skeptics
      • Rep. McIver has been indicted on federal charges related to that tussle at the NJ ICE facility
      • Heroes of the Week: SCOTUS unanimously approved family being able to sue federal cops over a wrong house raid
      • RIP Brian Wilson
      • RIP Sly Stone
      • RIP Harris Yulin
      • Trump Dump Truck
        • The NPS is required to post signs inviting feedback about misrepresented negative history
        • Trump’s EPA plans to repeal all climate pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants
        • Elon Musk said some of his posts “went too far” in criticizing Trump
        • Dozens of states are suing to stop the sale of 23andMe’s personal genetic data
        • Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two companies
        • Disney closed their Hulu deal with Comcast for less than NBC Universal wanted
        • Disney and Universal filed suit against Midjourney over copyright infringement
        • The next adult animation DC Studios show is Mister Miracle
        • Pixar announced a new film called Gatto
        • Pixar has Elemental’s director on Incredibles 3
        • A Minecraft Movie will be available to stream on HBO Max June 20
        • Spaceballs 2 is officially happening with Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis returning
        • We got an official trailer for Eddington
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