Ken Jennings
American game-show host and author; won 74 straight Jeopardy! games in 2004, has hosted the show from 2021 to 2026, and co-hosts the podcast Omnibus with John Roderick.
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Their wordsYou’d get even less migration at the federal level, but my guess is these will still be pretty effective at the state level. There’s a reason why “Fine, I’ll just move to Texas then!” is not a sentence you hear much in real life.
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Their wordsI said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
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Their wordsBut it doesn't do anybody any good to conflate actual trauma with "things that make me feel sad." We all have that! You weren't actually "scarred" by the horse dying in Neverending Story. You just felt big, grown-up emotions (maybe for the first time). And it happened in a safe, low-stakes setting.
- 8 weeks earlier
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Their wordsFor the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on the other.
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Their wordsOur institutions are literally trying to erase trans people right now, and it pisses me off.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAnybody who remembers these campaigns knows that Obama was getting attacked in ways 10x grosser than McCain/Romney were. Nobody was spreading conspiracy theories about where they were born. (Even McCain, lol.)
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Their wordsGovernment is expensive mostly because of waste” is verifiably wrong, and generally the mantra of yo-yos who want all the current benefits of society or more AND yet are sure their taxes are too high.
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Their wordsA vendor was going car-to-car in my ferry line today for petition signatures to “repeal the income tax.” (WA does not have a conventional income tax, but a new law imposes a tax on 7-figure annual income.) I asked if I could sign one INCREASING millionaire taxes but he didn’t have one of those.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsSecond, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.
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Their wordsFirst, it's factually wrong. There will be elections in 2026 and 2028 under Trump, just like there were elections last year under Trump and during his first term. This despite one of the two major parties now harboring a lot of anti-democratic elements and ideas.
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Their wordsIf you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsSince you're saying dumb things in my mentions: let me just jump in to say, with all the authority of my game show office, that you are wrong and "lack of AI" is not contributing to any housing crisis. No one with any expertise in any zoning, real estate, or construction related field would say that
- 20 months earlier
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Our reading
Their words"Octopi" is a legitimate English word. Whether it represents an accurate legacy of the original Greek root words is a different, more boring question. Nobody has to be an annoying, contrarian pedant! Nobody is twisting your arm!