Last month, Ben and I published our projection of the LA mayoral race, analyzing LA as 11 political neighborhoods. Now, presenting: After the Count. What do the per-cluster results say about Los Angeles' voting coalitions? How well did our project do? What do Raman and Bass need to do by November?

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

Huge shoutouts to GDQ. There's no org in video gaming that I respect more

The language app Duolingo reported that roughly 296,000 people around the world are studying Yiddish as of this year. An estimated 60% of them are under 25 years old. n.pr/4yfNTTT

The stream is live for the biggest fighting game tournament in Italy! Tune into Only The Best on Team Spooky for TEKKEN 8, 2XKO, and GBVSR at the times below! twitch.tv/TeamSp00ky

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump ADMITTED to doing 9/11 live on the air, as he calls for war on Israel. 🚨 Hear the stunning confession now!!!

I'm hype for ICFC this weekend! This will be the first time we have FOUR simultaneous streams for grassroots events, and in multiple different countries no less! Big thanks to all the TOs, our partner channels, the players showing up, & all you viewers watching. Let's keep the grassroots growing!

From the North American east coast, to the Caribbean, to Europe, there's so many events to watch! Get your fill of fighting games supporting grassroots events on ICFC!

Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...

just when you think it couldn't get any worse 💔😭

Tokon Storm is BB Rachel with a command grab?? Uhhh ok I need it??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFK_...

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

i'm not playing the new doom right now, and honestly it's tough. it's tough to not be playing it. what if i just didn't do chores like eating & sleeping and just practiced spear movement & falter combos for a couple two three four days straight, y'know. it's tough. it's a real toughie tbh

Oh man Doom The Dark Ages Revelations is an instant all-timer to me. I really feel I could play this game forever. Eternal movement + DTA movement + Eternal combos + DTA parries/blocking, all with sick art & music? Masterpiece 🤌👄 Travesty what Microsoft did to the devs. Absolute travesty about id

UPDATE: A WARN notice filed in Texas indicates 136 employees have been laid off at id Software, with another 22 people roles being cut at Bethesda Game Studios' office in Austin. Out of those 158 workers being laid off in Texas, 146 are represented by labor union Communication Workers of America.

"Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump and paid its CEO $96 million," Sanders said. "This year, it's raising the price of an Xbox by $150 and eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down."

ICFC events are ramping up this month with a handful of regionals, as well as our recurring locals! Support grassroots events by tuning into ICFC on Team Spooky, Majin「O」bama , FunkyP, and tenomedia!

can you imagine anyone believing that the blackwater merc who had a nazi tattoo for nearly 20 years didn't know that he had a nazi tattoo for nearly 20 years. can you imagine the dumbassery needed to believe that. i hope none of you believed that. it's some real dumbass behavior from anyone who did

I had a person in my locals discord looking for meetups in Maine. There's none? Maine folks, please let us know! Add your locals to the list! bsky.app/profile/ultr...

Fuck a business kingdom. A system in which capitalists are royalty and CEOs are royal governors is not livable. Ownership must not allow for such arbitrary command over so many other people's lives

This studio holds some of the most veteran FPS developers in the history of the industry. The folks who know the most about engine optimization, too. Livelihoods ruined for no goddamn reason and the damage from these layoffs will be felt for years.

The first Doom The Dark Ages DLC comes out TOMORROW 😢 It looks sick. It looks like it mixes the parts of TDA I love most with some of my fav ideas in Eternal, aka peak. To me the modern Doom series is among the greatest release runs of all time. If even id can get gutted, what can possibly be safe?

listen to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfB3...

In The Midst Of The Horrors, SGDQ Is Here To Remind Us That Games Can Be Good:

Even now there's misinformation floating around, so let me make this clear: Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs, or 20% of the organization. 1,600 jobs will be eliminated today, and then another 1,600 (including the studio divestments) in the next 12 months. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I was checking the SRK archives to jog my memory about all this as someone who was in the Bay Area FGC in the early-mid 2000s, & man did it get jogged lol "They are claiming that I run bad tourneys... For one to clear up rumors I don't rig brackets" - Dr.B, March 2005 The allegations are old, man

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

Idk why I'm seeing a bunch of people I follow talk about Thomas Paine on my feed today, but I will never miss an opportunity to talk him up. You're my boy Tom. Long-time fan here

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

I love my yearly Hubble deep field view of July 4 fireworks in Los Angeles. The horizon is so full of exploding stars that there's nowhere you can zoom and not find even more. I love this city very much

São Paulo's hub for anime fighters Mini Major Brasil is today! Today's event is unique because not only are they running UNI2, GBVSR, & GGST, they're also running a beta tournament for @avatarfighters.bsky.social, and first place wins a copy of the game! Tune in now on Majin「O」bama !

100 years ago.

"The conservatives of our times, who, to-day, are making the most ostentatious demonstrations of their veneration for the Declaration, are filled with distress and horror at the thought of 'radicalism'.... Blind, selfish, besotted idolators of the past!" William Lloyd Garrison, #otd, 1854

I'm open to the idea certain kinds of complex games, esp on console & PC, may come to be seen as old- or wealthy-coded. Our economy & legal regime are obv bad for gaming (among many other things), but even if that got fixed, idk. Media rise & fall, new media come along. Games can't be on top forever

Sorry Dustloop was slow the past few days. We were getting absolutely roflstomped by Claude AI (30,000+ requests per hour). I just spent the past couple hours doing some heavy tweaking on the server side to try to get our performance back to normal. Please ping @szego.ca if you need to report issu

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Massive Earthquake happened in Venezuela during EVO weekend. The Venezuelan FGC is doing their part to help spread awareness and receive support to rebuild their homes and save loved ones. Please help our FGC brothers and sisters.

we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system

This is not today's most important news but THAT IS THE POINT. Anyone who doubts that the Roberts Court deliberately hides their most partisan rulings with careful timing should consider how little reporting there is today on NRSC v. FEC. It gives Republicans a major boost in November's elections.

I read the SCOTUS takes (I will refer to SCOTUS opinions as takes from now on) on birthright citizenship. Thomas & Alito dissent because they're xenophobes. Their takes use more words than that but only because they're dishonest hacks who don't want to be explicit about the animus that animates them

i will never vote for gavin newsom

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court's second opinion is NRSC v. FEC. By a 6–3 vote, the court guts another campaign finance statute and overturns a 2001 precedent that upheld restrictions on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Fuck the Supreme Court and long live our trans friends and family

First case is West Virginia v. PBA. "Coach" Kavanaugh --who famously touts that he coaches girls basketball even though he's been accused of attempted rape-- writes WVA is allowed to exclude trans girls from sports.

For sure Sam Alito wrote or signed onto an opinion to kill the good, very clear, longstanding, strongly historically rooted birthright citizenship provision of the 14th amendment. Only question is whether it's majority opinion or dissent

Women are forced into great injury and death because of what's "deeply rooted." Guns are the number one killer of children in America and nowhere else because "first part don't count." But its cool, they have a very serious degree in a serious discipline that's totally real and not just yapping!