Let’s Weekend #365 – Don’t Listen to Marco Rubio

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk the latest terrible actions of the GOP, the LA Dodgers' big mistake, and Disney's latest attack on Ron DeSantis.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Fast X, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Tears of the Kingdom, Rocket League

B: Zelda TOTK, reading Blood Meridian, truck shenanigans.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: North Carolina GOP House Reps overrode the Governor’s veto of their 12-week abortion bill thanks to an attention-seeking Democrat that switched parties last month

Nebraska GOP couldn’t get a trans healthcare ban passed, so they tacked on an abortion ban to get it passed

10 Oregon GOP Reps will not be able to run for reelection because they’ve reached their 10th unexcused absence to block pro-abortion, gun control, and trans healthcare bills

The LA Dodgers canceled invite of a drag nuns group for their pride night due to pressure from Marco Rubio and the Catholic League that has led to other groups pulling out

Florida is investigating a teacher that showed Strange World to her class

House GOP blocked Democrat resolution to expel George Santos from Congress

Heroes of the Week: Penguin Random House and 5 authors are suing a Florida school board over its book bans

Martha Stewart is the oldest cover model for a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

Turkey President Erdogan is heading to a runoff election after failing to reach at least 50% of votes 

The IRS is working on its own tax filing system that is making the tax companies angry

House Rep. Cori Bush has introduced new legislation calling for $14 trillion in reparations

Disney has canceled plans for $1 billion Florida campus

Disney’s also shutting down its extremely expensive Star Wars hotel

Dancers at a topless bar in LA unanimously voted to unionize to become the only one in the US

Google will be deleting old accounts that haven’t logged in during the past 24 months

Scientists have done a full-sized digital deep sea scan of the Titanic shipwreck

SAG-AFTRA is calling for strike authorization vote ahead of its June 7 negotiations with studios

Disney’s pulling a bunch of movies and series from Disney+ & Hulu

Avatar: The Way of Water is coming to Disney+ and Max on June 7

What We Do in the Shadows Season 5 debuts July 13

The Futurama revival will debut on Hulu July 24

Disney+’s Loki Season 2 debuts October 6 and Echo series debuts November 29

Conan’s “Conan O’Brien Must Go” travel series has been ordered at Max

We got a teaser trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon

We got a teaser trailer for Five Nights At Freddy’s

We got a teaser trailer for The Creator

We got an official trailer for Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Extraction 2

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Nimona

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