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Charlie Hunt

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Polisci Prof at Boise State and RI native. Congress, elections, and representation are my things. Dogs are my actual things. I co-host the podcast "Scandalized" on the NPR Network: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1259047598/scandalized

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · Jan 6

This is my favorite slide to open up my U.S. Congress courses with to quantitatively prove to my students how much I unironically care about Congress. It's my daily average heart rate from my Apple Watch over a 5-yr period. The #1 highest day in that period is circled in red.

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 1d

Gob is not on board

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It was a rare moment of joy in this interminable year to get to revisit Marco Rubio's Tiny Watergate with @jaclynkettler.bsky.social.

Boise State Public Radio @boisestatepublicradio.org · 2d

The culinary journey continues with some more food fails in very public political spaces.

A president gets sick in the lap of another head of state; Marco Rubio learns about the fine art of drinking from a water bottle; and U.S. Senators school us on the finer points of hot dogs and tuna melts.

S 1.5: Teeny Tiny Watergate

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 2d

I know there's a lot going on right now and this is a small thing, but can we please scrub "trade barbs" as an idiom from all future political news coverage?

Or alternatively, we start applying it to all high-profile white-knuckle conflicts, e.g. "Kendrick and Drake traded barbs"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 5d

Truly the most exquisite losers ever to grace the earth

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government

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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 6d

You know the old saying: the side that uses the most explicit possible domestic abuser language wins the shutdown

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Leavitt: "Democrats should know that they put the White House and the president in this position. And if they don't want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It's very simple."

Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 6d

just fyi Ted the band that did the Macarena is from Spain, but you’re an embarrassing clown either way so don’t sweat it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Ted Cruz just posted a video montage with photos of every Democratic senator altered to make them wear sombreros and mustaches. It’s set to the song Macarena.

What the fuck are we doing here?

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The 44 Senate Democrats who voted for Schumer's Shutdown should know that the Sombrero posting will continue until they re-open our government.
Hey, Macarena!

[photo of Amy Klobuchar that’s been altered]

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 6d

There are no real winners in a #governmentshutdown, says congressional expert Charlie Hunt.

But the longer it drags on, the more funding programs — often backed by Democrats — stand to lose.

Q&A with Charlie: theconversation.com/why-a-quick-...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6d

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 7d

Between 2014 and 2019 I took probably a thousand plus rides on the metro and never once felt truly unsafe. I really think these folks believe that "a guy sitting next to you hasn't showered in a few days" counts as assault and battery

Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 7d

Rep. Lisa McClain, on CNN, praising President Trump for deploying the National Guard to Washington:

"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."

[Her daughter is 22]

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 7d

House Republicans are refusing to seat Dem Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election more than a week ago. She's the last signature needed to force a vote on the Epstein files.

The soonest the GOP will act is Oct. 7. In three prior specials this year, the winners were all sworn in a day later.

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 7d

That oughtta do it

Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 7d

I'm super thrilled to share that Scandalized, which I co-host with @jaclynkettler.bsky.social, is back this week with the first of five new episodes! This is a mini-season we worked on this summer to tide listeners over while we work on Season 2. www.npr.org/podcasts/125...

Scandalized

In each episode of Scandalized, political scientists Charlie Hunt and Jaci Kettler unpack a political scandal from American history: the story, its scandalous details, the political meaning and motiva...

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 8d

Getting increasingly worked up about "disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable," "quiescence," "cowardly desperados," and "indelible obloquy"

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8d

(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)

And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape
history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 8d

I am feeling really low today about, well everything. I desperately needed a lift, and this opinion gave me one. The document — aside from being obviously right — is an honest-to-god creative work of art.

Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 8d

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States –- you and me --
have our magnificent Constitution.
Here’s how that works out in a
specific case –- "

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 8d

It might be a net plus to force serious military professionals to confront just how debased and degenerate their leadership is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to a room of generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 8d

All for it. I went camping this weekend in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho and had an absolute blast.

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Don House @donniemarvelous.bsky.social · 8d

David Cross folks.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 9d

Poll after poll shows corruption is THE issue voters care about. And Jeffries goes out of his way to praise Adams, whose public corruption charges were dropped after Trump’s DOJ unceremoniously shut the case down?

Democrats have the winning hand right in front of them. Wild that they won’t play it.

statement titled “Leader Jeffries Statement on Mayor Eric L. Adams.” It says Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries thanked Adams for decades of service as an NYPD officer, state senator, Brooklyn Borough President, and New York City’s 110th mayor. The statement highlights achievements under Adams, including reduced violent crime, more affordable housing, and recovery from COVID-19. Jeffries acknowledges ongoing challenges like the high cost of living but says meaningful progress was made. He thanks Adams for his service and says that in the coming days his focus will shift to Republican healthcare and government funding issues, and that he will comment on the remaining mayoral candidates before early voting begins.

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Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 9d

"Old Noby"

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 9d

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 11d

Which would be tragic btw

Charlie Hunt @charlesrhunt.com · 11d

Right - Sinclair isn’t the consumer, they’re the facilitator. It would be like a grocery store “boycotting” Eggos by refusing to supply them

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