John Cluverius
@johncluverius.bsky.social
Political scientist, professor, pollster, parent, partner. Pro-choice, pro-union, and pro-orca.
“If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.”
All statements are personal opinions, not reflective of university positions.
“If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.”
All statements are personal opinions, not reflective of university positions.
it was a deliberate strategy of the pork industry.
The bacon boom was not an accident
In the past decade, bacon has grown into an industry generating more than $4 billion in annual sales.
finance.yahoo.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
it was a deliberate strategy of the pork industry.
I'm 100% sure.
The bacon boom was not an accident
In the past decade, bacon has grown into an industry generating more than $4 billion in annual sales.
finance.yahoo.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I'm 100% sure.
it's really beef vs. seed oils. dairy always wins.
January 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
it's really beef vs. seed oils. dairy always wins.
i can't speak to which diet is ideological, and there are many people and movements we would associate with fascism that reduce beef and dairy consumption. i'm merely saying this was a long-term influence operation.
January 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
i can't speak to which diet is ideological, and there are many people and movements we would associate with fascism that reduce beef and dairy consumption. i'm merely saying this was a long-term influence operation.
tallow, whey, collagen, colostrum, bone meal, bone broth...
January 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
tallow, whey, collagen, colostrum, bone meal, bone broth...
i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
New federal dietary guidelines give federal approval to beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the U.S. government told Americans to avoid for nearly half a century.
Beef Tallow Rises to the Top of the U.S. Food Pyramid
The new dietary guidelines give federal approval to a fat that has slowly caught on with consumers, even as doctors have warned against it.
nyti.ms
January 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
I worked with the American Academy and they were very much like "don't use that abbreviation, that's not us" but rubes like me confuse them all the time.
January 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I worked with the American Academy and they were very much like "don't use that abbreviation, that's not us" but rubes like me confuse them all the time.
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When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier www.statnews.com/2026/01/09/c... via @statnews.com @helenbranswell.bsky.social
When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier
A STAT analysis of vaccine recommendations in 38 countries suggests the U.S. is now an outlier.
www.statnews.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier www.statnews.com/2026/01/09/c... via @statnews.com @helenbranswell.bsky.social
This is the American Association for the Advancement of Science, not to be confused with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
I could see a situation where tone of "science is doing ok" would be out of context, but I want to be really clear, science is in *crisis.*
I could see a situation where tone of "science is doing ok" would be out of context, but I want to be really clear, science is in *crisis.*
This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!”
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This is the American Association for the Advancement of Science, not to be confused with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
I could see a situation where tone of "science is doing ok" would be out of context, but I want to be really clear, science is in *crisis.*
I could see a situation where tone of "science is doing ok" would be out of context, but I want to be really clear, science is in *crisis.*
the best deals
E.U. and South America to Form Free-Trade Zone With 700 Million People www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...
E.U. and South America to Form Free-Trade Zone With 700 Million People
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
the best deals
She was promoting something there
January 10, 2026 at 3:07 AM
She was promoting something there
I mean, the dairy industry has always been up in the dietary guidelines; that’s why there’s a big glass of milk on MyPlate. But the last 5 years of MAHA and MAHA adjacent influencer culture has been one big beef & dairy marketing ploy
January 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
I mean, the dairy industry has always been up in the dietary guidelines; that’s why there’s a big glass of milk on MyPlate. But the last 5 years of MAHA and MAHA adjacent influencer culture has been one big beef & dairy marketing ploy
Oh you don’t say
Several of Kennedy’s Dietary Advisers Have Ties to Meat and Dairy Interests www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
Several of Kennedy’s Dietary Advisers Have Ties to Meat and Dairy Interests
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Oh you don’t say
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No. Square the circle. "He's spending money on invading other countries. The only money he's spending here is to kill you."
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
January 8, 2026 at 2:31 AM
No. Square the circle. "He's spending money on invading other countries. The only money he's spending here is to kill you."
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They don't like Vance. They don't want him succeed. Vance is dumb and arrogant enough to think any time on camera for any reason helps him.
January 8, 2026 at 11:30 PM
They don't like Vance. They don't want him succeed. Vance is dumb and arrogant enough to think any time on camera for any reason helps him.
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There's one more piece to this. It happened almost simultaneously to the state opening its public evidence portal for its case. Maybe agents don't use it, but it becomes leverage within the FBI against funny business. "Hmm, that report is wrong. It'd be a same if BCA got the original data."
You leak to the Times, it immediately becomes political.
January 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM
There's one more piece to this. It happened almost simultaneously to the state opening its public evidence portal for its case. Maybe agents don't use it, but it becomes leverage within the FBI against funny business. "Hmm, that report is wrong. It'd be a same if BCA got the original data."
sorry, i'm really excited to see it.
January 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
sorry, i'm really excited to see it.
“O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!”
Huge, sprawling vigil for Renee Good in Minneapolis tonight, with faith leaders the main speakers.
January 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
“O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!”
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I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.
January 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.
Did they get comment from the insurance industry? to make sure the story is fair?
January 10, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Did they get comment from the insurance industry? to make sure the story is fair?
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
@slotkin.senate.gov I will knock on doors until my hands bleed to help campaign against you being re-elected. Shame on you.
January 10, 2026 at 12:47 AM
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
democracy is really fucking wild, when you think about it.
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
democracy is really fucking wild, when you think about it.
hated. she's dead. after RFK Sr. was shot she emotionally abandoned her children.
January 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
hated. she's dead. after RFK Sr. was shot she emotionally abandoned her children.
I had the same experience, but then in 2016 I stood in line to vote behind a half-dozen Cambodian-American women who were of the age that they survived the Killing Fields to come here. So it's nuts that *my* vote counted the same as *theirs.*
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I had the same experience, but then in 2016 I stood in line to vote behind a half-dozen Cambodian-American women who were of the age that they survived the Killing Fields to come here. So it's nuts that *my* vote counted the same as *theirs.*
this is something he and RFKJr have in common.
January 9, 2026 at 10:04 PM
this is something he and RFKJr have in common.