Really appreciate the coverage from @washingtonpost.com and @gene.meme covering Ludovic's story! Especially in advance of a potential summer surge, showing the power of community and how we can fight for our loved ones is incredibly important. #FreeLud until he is truly free and FREE THEM ALL!!

H/T to @gene.meme for asking these questions for the announcement! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Ludovic Mbock was detained in Feb. during a check-in at the ICE office, a routine appointment he said he has kept for 20 years. But his friends and a network of video game players raised $10,000 to retain an immigration attorney.

this is my local community member ludovic. he came to every xanadu local. he helped coordinate carpools to get other people to the venue for street fighter. he represented DMV at majors. he respected all TOs. he IS fgc personified. if you don't have the funds to donate, pls just repost & share.

Please share this story! Everytime official media and articles are shared about #FreeLud, we force the current administration to rethink their attack on Lud! 🥰 Let's make sure they know the FGC protects theirs!

We are incredibly grateful to @gene.meme and the Washington Post for covering Lud's story and the movement to #FreeLud and make sure he is truly free. Community is the only way we will make it through this and the FGC is something beautiful that's worth protecting and fighting for. Free them all!

A quiet kid from Cameroon became one of America's top Chun-Li players, building a community along the way. When ICE detained Ludovic Mbock in February, that community came back for him and refused to let him go. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

I interview Ludovic Mbock, the famed competitive fighting game player who was detained by ICE after a routine check in. I learned how someone initially shy and in a new world connected with a community who refused to let him disappear. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

@gene.meme🗣🗣🗣 www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

I used to be a WaPo Opinions video editor, and if a video didn't have 100 views within the first five minutes of publishing on Youtube, I would've considered it an embarrassing failure. Fortunately didn't happen much!

This Washington Post Opinions podcast episode has 470 views on YouTube.

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

We have archives of the Bluesky account being attributed to the WHCD shooting suspect over at @openmeasures.bsky.social and it is remarkable how... unremarkable?... this guy seemed to be. Never in a million years would have been the kind of person I'd think to have a concern about?

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

Worth reading.

I understand why it’s confusing to people who don’t realize there’s a whole ton of events at the Hilton and everyone who enters the Hilton gets shuffled through the same WHCD-branded step and repeat. My bad for taking a photo I guess but *everyone* enters through the same doors and the same walkway!

This is from my local news late last night. They were at the suspect from the Correspondents’ Dinner’s home even before the FBI showed up. Cole Allen is registered as having no party affiliation. Self-described as a mechanical engineer, independent game developer, and a tutor. So many questions…

I have been assisting reporting on the WHCD suspect Cole Tomas Allen. If anyone in game dev or the gaming community knew him, we would love more info. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

new episode of kill the computer where we talk to @bencollins.bsky.social about the long battle to takeover infowars from alex jones

bidding safe journey and aloha to my good friend and former colleague @travislylesnews.bsky.social. the ATL media scene is about to level up

Talked to Ohio police about the 91-year-old woman they found gaming when she didn’t respond to welfare checks Flexed old crime journalism muscles and had fun writing this like a police procedural. At least the only thing in danger here was her high score www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

pragmata goes hard against AI’s unreliability and suzi illustrates this perfectly

finally a much needed explanation for Zeno

My Resident Evil Requiem Story Analysis is available now! In today's FBI case study we're taking a look at all the evidence! If you're confused about certain characters or events, check out my vid! As always RTs appreciated! youtu.be/O-_kFpyGOho

The secret to Mario’s infinite lives. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

back in remission. thank you so much to everyone who helped make this possible.

I hope Sony condemns the White House for using PS5 imagery to promote its administration.

It's me and Gene out here waving the flag for Starfield, an earnest GOTY pick I'll be defending forever, seems like.

D.K.Y. :: STARRING SUZI HUNTER :: @thespherehunter.bsky.social :: WATCH NOW :: i.hlth.band/dkymv

amazing!!!

BIG JUEVES

I think this video does a good job explaining the viewpoints of the team but I wanted to make sure it was clear that I wasn't feeling up to participate yet thus not in the video. I will share my own thoughts soon but my opinions largely mirror what Alex says in this video! Check it out...

I double down on my love for Starfield, as I played it as the AAA cozy game in space. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

no matter what happens, i have been so proud of Kat, who is a wonderful true friend.

This is written by the person who knows me better than anyone, who has been by my side and cheering me on through this last wild, scary, exciting year. If you want to know more about me, us, and why I started this campaign in the first place… you should give it a read.

I am leaving the Washington Post to join a new journalistic venture backed by Politico founder Robert Allbritton that will be both the hometown publication the D.C. region sorely needs and a scrappy and fearless national news organization. I hope you'll join us.

I got my invite the same day AOC joined from my good buddy @gene.meme, who is one of the kindest people and best journalists in the world. I wanted one as soon as I could get one because the idea of a new Twitter but without the mastodon nonsense was very interesting!

thanks to Jim Sciutto of CNN for having me on

going live on cnn to talk pokémon’s 30th anniversary

Metacritic has only become more important as algorithms flatten and fracture the internet, but its authority relies on quality inputs from sources that are being hallowed out at an alarming rate.

SCOOP: A White House staffer appears to be operating the anonymous pro-Trump X account JohnnyMAGA with nearly 300,000 followers. More here: www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

I finished Resident Evil Requiem NINE times. This is my definitive review. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

it is deeply unfortunate that so many of our best thinkers are now at the mercy of their ability to sell their ideas through video in order to reach the widest audience, and I do not see any signs that the trend is going to reverse this is how people want to consume content now

I've known this guy my whole life

This AI-loving newspaper editor is teaching young journalists a valuable lesson: editors can be dumbasses www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

(me, commentating the winter olympics) aren't they cold

Technically poor and hurried, devoid of the original's charm, and full of filler content and baffling changes, Yakuza Kiwami 3 is a 20/100, a 2/10, a one-star game. It's a seismic miss that left me questioning my love for the series. My review: www.gamerguides.com/yakuza-kiwam...

Kiwami 3 makes a poor first impression, especially if you are playing in English where during the recap of Kiwami 2 Yong Yea clearly flubs a line read and says "hingering" instead of "hindering" and they use that take.