Michael

Spent a long weekend in Carcassonne, France soaking up inspiration for my next book.

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

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After nearly 7 years working with the team at Nintendo Life, I'm stepping away to try something new ✨

I'll miss my colleagues, this community, and the freedom that Nintendo Life gave me to cover whatever I found important. It's truly been a dream come true, so thank you ♥

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

This photo just about sums it up

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are prepared to roll over to avoid a shutdown. That cannot happen, because it is exactly what Trump wants. Now is the time to fight. Call their offices and tell them.

@schumer.senate.gov : (202) 224-6542
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social : (202)-225-5936

It gets better.

Zion's about as good as it gets

There's so much cynicism in games media but this guy just wanted to talk about the stuff that made him happy. His documentary work is some of the best Nintendo Life's had in its entire run

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

I really couldn’t agree more. I look back on my life grateful for all the people I connected with in person who supported me through the years. Also memories of all the places seen and lingered over with my eyes instead of endlessly reflected back at me on my phone as I take another selfie.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hard Drive Has Been Sold to Shinra Electric Power Company in 100 Trillion Gil Deal

BBC Newscast on this was absolutely baffling. It was the most out-of-touch couple of minutes of insiderish politics stuff I’ve ever heard – no actual voter is going to care about a field bought so the PM’s dying mother could look at donkeys. Could be the best press Starmer has had since election.

Al poses with Elijah Wood

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

Genuine gutted to learn about Zion’s departure from Nintendo Life. You’ve made a huge impact on my relatively new video gaming obsession. People matter. Hope we can still get our Zion fix whatever you choose to do in the future. So long as your planning to stay Earthbound.

Video gaming takes another step away from being an art form and another step towards being a commodity. No judgement, it just it doesn’t align to my view and probably means I’ll be playing fewer triple AAA games in the future.

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.

It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."

Because that's not how America works.
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God bless Jon Stewart.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

This is good.

This past Sunday, Brad and I celebrated 17 years of marriage together. That’s 6,209 days of love, laughter, and levity through it all. Happy Anniversary, Bradder! Here’s to many more.

Political violence from any party or any ideology is a direct assault on the foundations of democracy and the rule of law; it seeks not to persuade but to intimidate, not to debate but to destroy.

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Dramatic skyline on journey into work this morning.