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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12h

Trump won 55% of the vote in Miami Dade in 2024!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23h

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 14h

oh my god just hook it to my veins.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 15h

Also, how do you pray for a divine being who walks the earth?

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 15h

No no
NO.

John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

people talk about ideological innocence, but we need to talk more about ideological depravity.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

i want to emphasize that any pollster can be wrong, but Wason is one of the few left in the state working to hit high standards and be transparent af

Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 1d

I know everyone has moved on

But according to new CNU Virginia poll

Spanberger is up +13% on handling trans issue

It is top of mind for only 3% of voters

After GOP spent 2 months and millions pushing message

Perhaps why they have shifted focus in recent days…

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda surprising in the new Wason Center poll: Spanberger leads Earle-Sears on who "would do a better job handling....transgender policy” - by 13 points! But only 3% say “transgender policy” is "top of mind" for them, so simply not a big issue. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/new-...

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

"Dr." Crowley.

Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation

An examination of the dissertation and the sources it cites identified more than a dozen sections of text that have been lifted, with little to no changes, from other scholarly works without proper at...

www.politico.com

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

Oh and if I left your name off my list and you’re not yascha mounk apologies. If you are yascha mounk I hope you get a paper cut and have to cut up a lemon later

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

If they give it to Yascha Mounk I’m going to commit crimes

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

This reminds me: my MacArthur fellowship prediction is that once again no political scientists will receive one. Just kind of the most relevant field but no not Jamila, Candis, Chryl, Lily, Steve, Adam, Mirya, Dave, Chris, Charles, fucking NONE of us. God forbid we have anything to contribute.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

This was discussed and I was outvoted but yes!

John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

She’s the last political scientist to be awarded a MacArthur fellowship. A living legend.

They all betray you in the end.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

Me: we should burn Harvard to the ground
Trump: ok
Me: no not like that
Danielle Allen: no backsies

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

Ok everyone family debate: is Muppets Titanic
A. all muppets except Jack
B. all muppets except young rose
C. all muppets except old rose
D. all muppets except Bill Paxton
E. all muppets except present day characters and Pepe is the ROV

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile Marty Meehan went on GBH today and said basically universities shouldn’t be mouthpieces of the state.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

So what do I put in my 401k? Precious metals?

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

I know you all don’t talk to your colleagues but if Steven “How Democracies Die” Levitsky were in *my* department I wouldn’t put this on the internet in one million years.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

Is this satire?

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

AIPAC money in an open Democratic primary will be the proverbial albatross around the neck of a candidate.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

I would not call this issue fast-moving. A majority of self-identified Democrats in Michigan reported holding a variety of pro-Palestinian beliefs more than a year ago www.uml.edu/docs/MI-topl...

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

My rothys have lasted for YEARS including through 7 days at disney world.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

LYON: so tell me more about the importance of stock
ROSNER: well, stock, or bone broth, has so many benefits. and with DOUBLE STOCK, we said, why not just double them?
LYON: you know, when I talk to patients about muscle-centric health, it’s the same idea: science can be rigorous and delicious.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

if more billionaires were actually into good food you'd have your own line of double-strength "bone broths" that have well-advertised but scientifically questionable benefits.

DOUBLE STOCK MAX BRAIN™️

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