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.

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.
An empty shelf with hanging label with “the edge of space-time” written on it
A plate of smoked, sauced, and cut St. Louis style pork spareribs.
Photograph of political theorist Lisa Wedeen, with laser eyes.
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.
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!
Picture of Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
Screenshot of a tweet from REI Ami telling a hater to Suck It.
picture of an ornate break-barrel shotgun + rifle combo with a total of four barrels
A picture of Herbert Simon, who created the theory of using information shortcuts to make decisions.
Screenshot of app showing John Boehner’s book On the House. He’s holding a large glass of wine.
List of times Punxatawney Phil appears in the Epstein files.
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.
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.
A street sign with a man walking that reads "push button for" and there's a button underneath.
terrible AI rendering of a PELOSI HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, monstrously towering over the U.S. Capitol Complex
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.
A prime rib with the bones tied to the side on a smoker.
Pope Leo XIV, in white vestments, holding a black wooden baseball bat.
Minnesota governor Tim Walz, holding pen and a phone, still wearing a Hamilton Murph
Gray haired man with chyron “Tim Berners-Lee / Web Developer.” This is funny because web developer is a common job title and profession, mostly thanks to Tim Berners-Lee developing the World Wide Web.
Photograph of Sergeant Major (Retired) Mike Vining.
man holding pamphlet titled "you do the meth!" how important is tooth retention to you?
Sign with slogan, ONLY GRITTY IS ABOVE THE LAW
Famous new yorker cartoon by Paul Noth of sheep standing in a field. One sheep has an open mouth. They observe a billboard with a picture of a wolf in a suit with the caption I AM GOING TO EAT YOU. The cartoon is captioned in quotes "Nah, he won't really do that." when the original was "he tells it like it is."
A skeet of a middle aged political scientist making another joke about Josh Kraft’s consultants buying boats with all the money they squeezed out of him.
One large animated anthropomorphic dog and two small animated anthropomorphic dogs eating ice cream.
Map of results of the 1995 Iraqi Presidential Referendum, showing all dark green across provinces, indicating 95-100% support for Saddam Hussein
A photograph of a bearded 26-year-old Indian man, Zohran Mamdani, wearing a t-shirt that reads, “I’m a Miranda and I’m voting for Cynthia”
photo only from one of the greatest headlines from satirical news outlet The Onion: De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’
Photograph of Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States. In your heart, you know he's right.
A picture of the cover of a magazine with the phrase “against sunscreen absolutism” on the background of sunburned white skin with a white smiley face drawn in it.
text box on a journal review site. Below a header "comments to the Author," there is a button for special characters. In the text box, the reviewer has written "Let's go, bitch!"
A bearded man clearly in the upper right quadrant of the hot-crazy scale, arms outstretched casting the fury of the almighty upon the hated enslavers
Grid of numbers showing results from a poll question asking whether it is safe to open schools for face to face instruction. It’s standard text on a white background, can your screen reader OCR it without me having to describe every cell in the crosstab? Go to UML dot edu slash polls for more information or to complain about this bad alt text.
Wunmi Mosaku in a stunning orange dress
Cover of New York post the day after Rex Tillerson was fired
A pink liquid in a champagne coupe in front of a bowl of lemons.
Two legs of lamb rubbed with green herbs.
Barney Gumble, upon being awarded a lifetime supply of Duff Beer, proclaims, "Just hook it to my veins!"
Goose screaming "which babies" and "which babies motherfucker" while chasing a man.
graph showing declining admissions rates for children of higher income parents but huge advantages for the wealthy and ultra-wealthy