Justin Leinaweaver

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

Two notes:
1. Drop the question mark and make the argument the title
2. Put it on the front page and make it the banner headline

Venezuela doesn't produce fentanyl
Venezuela doesn't produce cocaine
Venezuela produces oil

Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

shoot this straight into my veins

I now hold office hours while cowering under my desk. It was awkward at first but I think the students are adjusting to it.

[sigh]
- We don't have the most
- We're just getting started on "update and renovation"
- Other countries aren't testing
- DOW (DOD) doesn't do that
- It's not happening immediately lol

This narcissistic attitude that sees a vote as a curated extension of your personal brand or a version of a celebrity endorsement is going to be the death of this nation.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Signs you are trying to turn America into a neo-confederate white ethnostate

A pardon "following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company." Unprecedented corruption.

I’m glad so many major universities are credulously reorganizing everything they do around products marketed with this acronym.

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

Knew this was coming. Great work, John Roberts!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

My most frequent comment on undergrad research proposals: "choose your fighter."

Whether it's mixed methods, too many cases, conflating causal mechanisms and confounders---they are all over the place. Rather than specifying how to refine their causal story, I give them feedback in their dialect.

Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day.

this tweet also remains the truest thing written about how the underlying architecture of the internet works

My note to the writer is this draft of the script is way too on the nose.

IMHO the best way to limit gerrymanders’ effects is neither process by which districts are drawn or characteristics of districts that result, but by mandating multi member districts and allocating seats by PR within them

The most upsetting part of this story to me is the line where the Times says it is “unclear” where the money came from.

Under our constitution,
it is either extremely clear where money comes from - a congressional appropriation - or an illegal channel. So so, @nytimes.com

#NoKings Miami!

This is probably wrong of me but I genuinely don’t think I’d know when those No Kings protests are if not for Republican Senators getting on tv and being like “Skeletor will be there, everyone who is there will get an abortion, the ceremony will raise the dread visions of Nyarlathotep”

Don't get me wrong, the Roberts court has lost its damn mind in pursuit of partisan goals. However, gutting the VRA at this point is putting a hat on a hat.

Our institutions failed in all the ways the founders feared they could and we'll need to rethink their fundamental designs moving forward.

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Apropos of everything, I find myself rereading V for Vendetta tonight and come across this panel on the second page.

My goodness that is on the nose.

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

Truly abhorrent and a mockery of the rule of law that Emil Bove is a federal judge.

👇🎯 Presidentialism was a mistake, and the institutions are not self-enforcing

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

“Alito has the opinion”

Giving Career Advice to Kids Has Never Been Harder Parents aren’t sure how to steer their teens in the face of AI workplace upheaval. “There’s a panic,” say experts.

"She and other experts say students should consider liberal arts degrees because employers value critical thinking skills. For some, the future of work has never been less clear."

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”