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John Cluverius

@johncluverius.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science @ UMass Lowell. “If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.” They call me “Bow tie Karen” in these skeets All statements are personal opinions, not reflective of university positions.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 55m
one thing about America is that we're actually really good at turning weirdos into warriors.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1h
clankers don't have rights clankers don't vote don't poll them
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3h
Saying it again: the destruction of the service academies as actual universities is a very importany piece of the Trump administration's undermining of both higher ed and the civilian-military constitutional order. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 5h
No one wants to be a poster child for data centers anymore, least of all Sen. Jon Husted. He will get a chance to avert that fate with a vote to pass a largely symbolic bill aimed at protecting consumers from the facilities.
washingtonsun.com
Republicans Confront a Data Center ‘Shitstorm’ in the Midterms
They hope a vote in the Senate Wednesday on a Jon Husted bill will provide an umbrella.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 18h
Wait hold up Hillman is supposed to be in Hampton Roads, right? So does this new student not know area codes, or did I misread the lore?!
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 20h
Obama lost 13 House seats and 9 Senate seats that year
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 20h
“Also he lives in Florida” - this is not a specific joke a bunch of these dudes live in Florida
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2026 MacArthur Fellows were announced today. Yet another class with zero political scientists. In the 21st Century, more cellists have been awarded MacArthur Fellowships than political scientists.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having Gen Alpha kids is weird bc they’re like dad do you know about memes what’s your favorite meme and then you have to explain Distracted Boyfriend to an eight year old child
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026
Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
you also cannot be nonbinary in the 2025 sample. no literally the options are "male," "female," and then you know, terminate the survey.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)
Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am not going to poll about the bar in Greenfield.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@samsteindc.bsky.social my man, UMass Lowell is not UMass Amherst
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Anthony Anderson: There's A Difference
ALT: Anthony Anderson: There's A Difference
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not a lot of polls with close races show one candidate's favorables above water with the other's below.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gender results in our Maine Poll show: Lots of women undecided in Senate race Lots of women not firmly committed to Jackson Lots of women not firmly committed to Collins All told these "wavering women" are about 12% of the sample, 91 unweighted, 79 weighted, enough that I'm ok taking a look 🧵
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New from @umlcpo.bsky.social / @today.yougov.com in Maine: 8/28-9/14 U.S. Senate Jackson 48% Collins 43 Another candidate 1 Undecided 6 Will not vote 1 So much to unpack in this, check it all out via the link for topline, methodology, etc.
uml.edu
Center for Public Opinion Polls | Research
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
great day for my POLLING IS NOT A CRIME shirt from @raygunsite.com
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
guys i have a great idea, six weeks before the election we throw 750,000 people off of the insurance rolls. Then, THEN we crash an already rickety-ass economy into a mountain.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
STOP QUOTE TWEETING THE POLL ACCOUNTS THAT NEVER LINK BACK TO THE POLLS THEY'RE MENTIONING thank you
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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I talked to @gintautasd.bsky.social about why I, like almost all of us who study political parties, think top-two electoral systems are a bad idea. And stay for a little Mass. politics inside baseball: www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
wbur.org
Mass. mayoral elections use all-party primaries. So what do mayors think of Question 3?
Question 3 supporters have pulled in a growing number of mayors who’ve witnessed top-two elections up close. But not everyone agrees that the system would translate well to state elections.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
still true
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s so cool that every American elite is desperate to stop having to think for themselves or learn anything
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Show us their Kalshi/Polymarket accounts?
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Where are there going to be courts if it destroys the world? The moon?
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have to keep saying this. Trans rights are very unpopular on face but extremely sensitive to persuasion and question wording. In other words very few people care deeply about them, one way or another. Electorally, there is no advantage or penalty for Democrats to take one way or another.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Glaring error in “free speech” rankings is they exclude Dartmouth’s use of state swat team w/ long guns to in some cases violently arrest peaceful Gaza protesters obstructing nothing. But the elephant now is AI, college’s embrace of it, & what I’ve encountered as student dismay & self-censorship.
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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Midterm voters are more concerned about gas prices than vaccines. BUT, as I discuss with @usatoday.com, vaccines are becoming an increasingly important litmus test for figuring out which candidates will stand up to the Trump admin, and who will not. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
usatoday.com
Vaccines become a 2026 midterm election issue amid measles outbreak
A measles outbreak and the Trump administration narrowing childhood immunization recommendations have made vaccines a midterm election issue.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Silicon Valley philanthropists who *aren’t* evil need to become a lot more willing to take personal and political risks by loudly condemning their fellow SV overlords who have leapt into bed with Trump and Musk - who *created* the aid crisis that (some) of their charitable efforts are aimed at.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
a great day for massive glowing orb enthusiasts.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The problem with sports gambling is not that it gives antisocial losers an excuse to harass athletes, but that it constantly creates new antisocial losers. The population of American sports bettors is… a self-replenishing orchard of bad apples.”
defector.com
There's Always More Angry Problem Gamblers Where Those Came From | Defector
This week, five sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLS) and their associated players’ unions sent letters to gambling regulators in 35 states requesting that something be done to curtail the incr...
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Data centers are 30% support / 70 oppose, high salience, and Dems can gain a lot of midterm voters on the issue. Trans people playing sports is 35% support / 65 oppose, low salience, and no one can gain a lot of midterm voters on the issue. Dems losing ‘24 on trans rights is centrist headcanon
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Stephen Clermont @sjclermont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can we see some metrics on what votes and races these AI PACs have moved before pre-emptively surrendering on one of the few issues driving public opinion right now? www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it is wild to consider a national scenario where Ds pick up NC and TX, hold GA, but somehow lose NH
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
every day this guy says stuff that would cause any other president to lose 100 house seats
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
there was something really special about the Kennedy Center. Also, the rooftop brunch *ruled*
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
blue dot fever outbreak imminent
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I get that some Dems might not want to go here during this election, but there's a big opening to harness public anxiety about AI data-centers to make a case for powering the AI future we actually want with sun and wind. I think Dems should connect these dots. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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KPD Max von Sydnow @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's really fun to see people discover why everyone hates the Patriots.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026
In a campaign ad released Monday, Seth Bodnar—an Independent candidate running for U.S. Senate in Montana—warns viewers that Flock Safety cameras are tracking Americans. He then sets a surveillance camera on a tree stump, pulls a shotgun from his car, and just absolutely blows the thing away.
motherjones.com
Meet the candidates putting bullets in Flock cameras
Some political hopefuls aren't just opposed to surveillance cameras—they're shooting at them.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👇🎯 This last point, especially. Democrats pretending we can have nice things without broad taxation is neither serious policy nor good politics: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?
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Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026
i would like to have a lot fewer high-breathlessness low-details confessional letters/essays/tweets/resignations from big ai and a lot more specificity & transparency
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ah yes, cheap talk
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
concentrating buying power in the top 10% of earners was a ghastly economic mistake
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/09/2026
Occasional reminder that the right-wing attack on higher ed, including the push for "viewpoint diversity" and "civic education," is largely a racist backlash against an increasingly non-white college-going demographic.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sure this matters, but actually countering the unprecedented corruption & ending the lawless authoritarianism must be at the center of the Democratic agenda, & I continue to find maddening the ways in which Obama chooses to re-insert himself into the National Conversation™️ bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i swear to god these people spent a month hanging out with bunch of super cool algerians and now they're quoting ahmed ben bella and making "pottawotamie creek was a good start" football hype videos.
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