On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the awful SCOTUS rulings, the big gravitional waves news, and which disease is spreading in the US.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Indiana Jones, Brooklyn 99, PowerWash Sim, Picross S9

B: Trails Into Reverie, Street Fighter 6, books, melting.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: The SCOTUS’s new rulings (Affirmative Action, Student Debt Relief, allowing a web designer to refuse to serve same sex couples, and Independent State Legislature theory)

Gov. DeSantis has signed that bill allowing the use of radioactive materials in road paving materials

Bud Light did jack shit to help Dylan Mulvaney in the controversy it created in hiring her to advertise a March Madness contest

Heroes of the Week: Judge blocks a Florida law punishing venues where kids can attend drag shows 

The French are holding massive protests in the wake of a police shooting of a teenager

Brazil court has banned former President Jair Bolsonaro from running for election until 2030

Russia has detained General Sergei Surovikin for his alleged role in the mutiny

Geraldo Rivera has left Fox News

More Canadian wildfire smoke blanketed much of the US midwest and south this week

Malaria is spreading slowly in the US for the first time since 2003

Astronomers finally hear the celestial hum of gravitational waves for the first time

Disney’s National Geographic has laid off the last of its staff writers

SAG-AFTRA and the Studios are extending talks to July 12 as a deal nears

People got mad that Titanic showed up on Netflix right after the submersible implosion

Ryan Seacrest will be the new host of Wheel of Fortune

We got an official trailer for Hulu’s Futurama

We got an official trailer for Dune: Part Two

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