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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