John Cluverius (@johncluverius) · DIRTY

John Cluverius

@johncluverius

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· 25d

Yeah when this guy shows up in the app…

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Jul 6

Comrades and friends, the winner of this simulated contest is Shenna Bellows. Key from fake round 1: Pingree first-choice ballots: 21,107 Transferred to Bellows: 7,161 Transferred to Shah: 5,625 Transferred to Jackson: 2,718 Transferred to King: 2,680 Exhausted after removing Pingree: 2,923

Bar chart of a simulated three-round ranked-choice tabulation of Maine's 2026 Democratic gubernatorial primary with Pingree removed. Round 1: Shah 72k, Bellows 62k, Jackson 53k, King 24k. Round 2: Shah 81k, Bellows 68k, Jackson 56k. Round 3: Bellows 100,532 beats Shah 94,662. Inactive ballots shown separately each round, distinguishing 6,035 ballots that ranked only Pingree from exhausted and blank ballots.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Jun 20

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John Cluverius@johncluverius· Apr 20

Bestseller sold out at my local @chanda.blacksky.app - luckily I pre-ordered.

An empty shelf with hanging label with “the edge of space-time” written on it

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Apr 14

As Barack Obama once said, “gotta have them ribs…”

A plate of smoked, sauced, and cut St. Louis style pork spareribs.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Apr 11

here is the "Nasio Royale" - a casio AE-1200 custom modded for Reid Wiseman

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Apr 5

There are people responsible for fewer deaths in the fucking HAGUE right now

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Mar 31

Photograph of political theorist Lisa Wedeen, with laser eyes.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Mar 23

Someone posted this about how people feel about transit but it is also how the median voter thinks about immigration

Scene of Agnes Skinner saying "I Want Everything In One Bag But I Don't Want the Bag to Be Heavy" - reflecting the cross-pressured attitudes of the American electorate. As someone whose first job was bagging groceries, I should have been using this meme much more.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Mar 20

This is @trahan.house.gov ‘s bracket for Women’s March Madness. She has chosen to Fudd Around & Find Out.

A bracket of the 2026 NCAA women’s basketball tournament filled out by hand. Abbreviations use capital letters. Notably, the author refers to the university of South Carolina as “S. Carolina,” an appropriate way to refer to a school that no matter how hard they try is not “Carolina” or “USC”. The bracket has the university of Maryland Terrapins, a bum squad from a goon university, defeating the sainted university of North Carolina Tar Heels. Also playing it very safe with almost no first round upsets. TCU is also some blonde ambition, HVL graduated!

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Mar 17

I’ve seen things…

Picture of Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Mar 16

Her character is canonically from Burbank, but everyone from the northeast knows a version of this woman

Screenshot of a tweet from REI Ami telling a hater to Suck It.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Mar 2

lol you're right. double-double barreled!

picture of an ornate break-barrel shotgun + rifle combo with a total of four barrels

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Mar 2

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Feb 14

Let’s goooo

Screenshot of app showing John Boehner’s book On the House. He’s holding a large glass of wine.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Feb 8

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Feb 2

Listen if Phil plays this right, he could be a CBS contributor next week. Uh oh…

List of times Punxatawney Phil appears in the Epstein files.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Jan 25

Black and white Photograph of American sociologist Todd Gitlin, author of The Whole World is Watching (1980). Gitlin is one of the scholars who identifies dependence on official sources as a source of media bias, largely in how they have the power to frame protest movements. Are you still reading the alt-text? Cool. Remember that they can't kill all of us.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Jan 18

“All white all winter, even snow in the summer / The high fallin' from the sky / Are you the hunted or the hunter?”

Photograph of a woman at a lectern behind two microphones and an obstructed seal of Virginia. The woman has white hair, pale white skin, and a white overcoat and scarf. She is Abigail Spanberger, the governor of Virginia.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Jan 13

A street sign with a man walking that reads "push button for" and there's a button underneath.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Jan 13

I'm a cube root guy; I want 692 seats, baby!

terrible AI rendering of a PELOSI HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, monstrously towering over the U.S. Capitol Complex

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Jan 1

One day I’ll tell you all how I learned what “hayati” means.

From right to left:
The Senior United States Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders; a VCU graduate and artist who bears the look of a woman who removed her intrauterine device within the last 24 hours, Rama Duwaji, and the 112th mayor of New York City and generational political talent, Zohran Mamdani.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Dec 29

Tomorrow I am starting on an online course. Here is my syllabus section on GAi:

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Dec 28

tfw someone thinks getting lost on a drive is no big deal

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Dec 26

This “heat shield” method for prime rib is the *truth*

A prime rib with the bones tied to the side on a smoker.

Perfect medium rare prime rib, with minimal gray meat.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Dec 18

Pope Leo XIV, in white vestments, holding a black wooden baseball bat.

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Dec 6

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Minnesota governor Tim Walz, holding pen and a phone, still wearing a Hamilton Murph

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Dec 6

They let me say *this* about RFK Jr in an *official press release*

John Cluverius@johncluverius· Nov 27

Happy HUNTR/XMAS to all who celebrate! My youngest made this paper balloon for the parade today