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I miss my grandfather the most this time of year, but it’s great seeing his legacy being remembered 🙏🏾
Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr. was the first African American Foreign Service Officer to become a U.S. ambassador. Read more about his accomplishments here
#SIA
#BlackHistoryMonth
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After voting I give my ballot to a poll worker…
Her: nooooo, place it through the machine — I CAN’T touch ballots!
Me: oh right, this ISN’T Bridgeport!
Poll worker and her colleagues:
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Sooo yesterday had to be the best day for me professionally in a long time... Provost approval for tenure, promotion; summer research grant approval and a new downtown policy teaching gig 😏
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“Republicans will now control 102 of the 169 cities and towns in Connecticut, a state where Democrats currently hold every statewide and Congressional seat, and large majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly.”
Blue state, red towns: Why the CT Republicans win so many local races
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@eugenejohnson_
Jonathan Wharton. Ph.D. in political science (state and local government),
@HowardU
. TT prof at
@SCSUPoliSci
. Research/publish urban politics and state governance, specifically about economic development public policy (NYC tristate area).
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My paper was just accepted for the American Political Science Association conference!!! I haven’t presented there in 8 years — I’m soooo freakin excited, y’all!!! 🥳
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When I’m riding the 7:21 Metro North and someone behind me says, “hey, what are you doing here!”
@bobforgovernor
no less.
@amystef
, go figure!
#GoodMorning
🌞
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I was honored as
@officialsigep
’s distinguished alumnus at tonight’s Carlson banquet. Thank you sooooo VERY much
@SigEpNJA
,
@SigEpMIT
,
@SigEp_UConn
! ❤️💜💛
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It’s official — the department secretary and I dropped off my tenure files to my dean’s office. After the week I’ve had, can someone PLEASE buy me a drink?!
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After signing paperwork for the gig downtown and ordering biz cards with the new associate prof title, I’m treating myself to my first beer outside this year
#HappyHour
🍺
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BIG news, y’all — the MPA program proposal has been submitted!!! Me, walking into the dean’s office this morning…
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When you’re on a Sunday politics show BUT they cast you as a prof from your sister (and rival) college. My college’s admins will have a field day with this tomorrow
#GULP
😨
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My chairman’s congratulatory email...
“I just received your letters from the provost recommending both promotion and tenure...I hope you find time to celebrate this weekend.”
Me this weekend:
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Teaching — especially outdoors — is the heart of me. I appreciate
@SCSU
writing this up in their magazine:
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The department secretary’s order came in — my NEW name tag and title! 😯
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Guest lectured for a history class this afternoon and a student says…
Him: you’re Jonathan Wharton?!
Me: yeaaaaaah —
Him: I’m Jonathan Norton!
Class: 😯😯😆😆🤭🤭
Us:
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“Drop the most iconic pic of you.”
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“In terms of his service to the university and the Political Science profession, Dr. Wharton has proven to be a dynamo” states my dean’s letter recommending me for tenure and promotion
#HappyFriday
👏🏾
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My graduate professor said I wouldn’t make it as a professor. Got tenure and promoted last month. Eff you Professor Jim Livingston 👋🏾
Name a time you proved someone wrong who doubted you. Be as petty as you like.
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“Unfortunately, race has been used too often as a reason for multifamily housing and zoning reform practices especially in Connecticut’s suburbs. And many officials conflate race with class.”
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For the first time in several years, I’m
@Amtrak
-ing it down to Washington for Thanksgiving. I forgot I can get work done!
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@juliacmarchese
5 films you think are PERFECT. You wouldn't change a line, a shot, an actor.
1. Airplane!
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3. The Blues Brothers
4. Caddyshack
5. The Jerk
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Got my own Modern Pizza clam tonight. No one judge as no one wanted any with me 🤗
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So a student emails this Easter evening asking for a reference letter. But “it’s due today so hopefully you can get back to me. Also I hope you have a wonderful Easter.”
Have students lost their freakin minds?!
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Students emailing if I’ll be in my office today so they can drop off papers that were due yesterday. I’m grading from home and I won’t be in until next week. There’s something called a “deadline.”
#GradingHell
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My freshman inquiry class this AM...
Freshman1: I did a Facebook search of you —
Me: YOU Facebook stalked me?!
Class: 😂😆😅😯😮
Freshman2: well I looked him up on ratemyprofessor. 4.5 stars. Not bad.
Me:
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Yes, I did an old school preppy move. Go off Twitter folk, hate on the double popped 💅🏾
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I’m in my office today (don’t ask — work to do) and I got some mail. A journalism prof took a pic of me at graduation. Great pic. But he writes, “who is behind those Foster Grant’s?” First off, I’m a
@ray_ban
guy 😎
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Two of my former students are going to primary each other for town council and made the newspaper about it. Why am I teaching local politics again?! 🙇🏾♂️
Hamden’s Farmer may face new Democratic primary challenger in 5th District
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So it’s official — I’ll be giving a campus lecture next month about my earlier research of Cory Booker!
(for so many of my CT students who’ve never heard of him, he’s a Jersey boy — GASP)
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There are entirely too many Boomers in local politics…where the hell are Zoomers?! 🤔
What’s a local government opinion that will have you like this?
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An overdue meet up with
@beatnikprof
&
@SCSU
’s Twitter Profs
@1DrGeography
,
@joemilone
and I at Pepe’s today 😚
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Flying out of
@FlyTweed
this afternoon — and it’s entirely too easy. I am serious.
#Impressive
✈️
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And soooo it’s official — I’m now a cog within a state political party machine.
@tyseymour
, miss you
#Cheers
🍸
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When I asked my class this morning...
Me: how many of you all smoke?
[3 hands go up]
Student: do you just mean cigarettes?
Me: ok — marijuana too
Class:
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Former students texting about tonight’s news interview…I look like somethin’ outta Jersey🤦🏾♂️
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Staying preppy in seersucker and loafers under my graduation gown. It’s warm 🌞
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Tonight’s traffic or a Republican dream? It’ll be the most red Connecticut will get on a map in a long time 😤
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The moment I walk into the faculty senate meeting a prof speaks, “there needs to be new blood and someone younger so I nominate Jonathan Wharton for president”
Elections chair: do you accept?
Me:
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Y’all, THE Gilmore Girls episode is on tv…
Dean: soooo I’m applying to Southern Connecticut State —
Rory: Wow! That’s exciting. Southern Connecticut State
(cc
@SCSU
:)
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.
@romank112
officially nominated me — and I’m now CT Republican State Central Committee’s 10th district member. Thanks Roman and
@tyseymour
! 🙌🏾
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It’s a grading and grading calculating weekend. Go on and judge me, but ol’ reliable has been with me since Bill Clinton was President 🧮
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Our new
@SCSU
public administration professor for the new MPA program! 👏🏾
My 1st day as Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Political Science, Southern Connecticut State University
@SCSU
. Coordinating a new MPA program & teaching Public Management & Research Methods this semester. Cheers to an exciting journey ahead!
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Sounds like Connecticut Republicans 🙃
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hmmmmm that “Local Politics” textbook looks familiar 👀
Read, archive, create, write and study -- the possibilities are endless!
Happy
#NationalBookLoversDay
📚!
#BeMoreInspired
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Uhmmmm YEAAAAAH. Is the media officially stalking me on campus?! 🤣
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Grateful that several prof colleagues last week gained some clarity that I can (and I will) apply for tenure AND promotion next month! I stayed up a lot this past weekend going back to rewriting my tenure file 🎓
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Kissinger died — in Connecticut?! 🫨
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dies at his home in Connecticut aged 100
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Ok twitter — go on and hate since I’m back on the beach at sunset 🍸
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My department took me and two profs (who also got tenure) out for apps and drinks and passed along some gifts — and this is what I got. My chairman said “that question mark’s an added bonus!”
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I know y’all Twitter folk will judge my self-care, but I deserve this after long meetings and leading a grad student talk: laps at high tide and hammock time with an Italian🍷
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All I want for Christmas is…to finally crack 3K followers. This is ridiculous, y’all 😭
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Life in Connecticut 😒
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Being attacked on twitter about my party being anti-weed, anti-gay, anti-whatever. NOT everybody in my party is anti-whatever-you-think 👋🏾
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Considering this time last year I ate alone and was recovering from covid, I’m so very thankful this Thanksgiving to spend it with my cousins and aunt again — along with their great homemade dishes and wine
#CheersYall
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I forget how you could be in Washington and our Capitol just appears out of nowhere 🤩
#GoodEvening
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Retweet with a photo that proves you were a fashion icon in your youth.
Retweet with a photo that proves you were a fashion icon in your youth.
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A former student texts they’re going onto teaching and I’m so teary-eyed, y’all…“I want to have an impact on peoples lives the way you do and enjoy what I do”
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The number of interview requests and press calls about Bridgeport’s elections has been off the actual hook this afternoon 📞
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Wooow — my granddad and JFK 👀. Thank you,
@JFKLibrary
For
#TravelTuesday
, meet Clifton R. Wharton Sr., who was the first African American to enter the Foreign Service in 1925 and served as US Ambassador to Norway from 1961-1964. He accompanied the Norwegian PM in his visit to the US in 1962.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Forget beer. After hearing these Senate hearings, I need vodka 🍸
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Soooo I had the oldest Mac (5 years) on my office floor and now have the newest one — monitor and MacBook ☺️
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When at UConn, one must visit the Dairy Bar for ice cream, which I did TWICE today…
Cashier: good to see you — AGAIN
Me, and my ice cream lovin’ self:
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Me, STILL trying to examine voting data about Connecticut’s elections BUT also getting texts, calls and emails about NJ’s election results. Jersey folk, leave me be. We’ve got enough going on up here! 🤯
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“In 2016, he supported his daughter Mpho’s marriage to a woman, despite the South African Anglican Church’s teachings that marriage was a union between a man and a woman. ‘I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven,’ he said.”
Desmond Tutu, the Anglican archbishop who won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end apartheid, has died. ?
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Soooo my college freshman cousin returned home last night and over dinner admitted his favorite class this semester is POLI SCI! 😯
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It’s uncanny the similarities between my Twitter profile pic and an actual pic — same smile and sunglasses 😏😎
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A new student in my night class described her city’s politics…
Me: you’re in Bridgeport, right?
Her: EXACTLY!
[she then describes her neighborhood]
Me: ah you’re on the east side!
Her: YES!
Me [to the class]: you guys aren’t even impressed I knew her local politics?!
Also me:
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After a crazy busy working morning, late lunchtime! I deserve it, no? 😋
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Got sung “happy birthday” at midnight by 60 fraternity guys in a hotel bar 🍸
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I’ve been done with 2020, 2021 and with 2022 at this rate. Can we fast forward to another decade like 2030 or nah?! 🤔
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I just got
@catietalarski
’s daughter’s Girl Scouts cookie order. Now I get to eat cookies this weekend
#Thanks
🤗
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Soooo a WNPR producer mentioned I was one of the top ranked listeners’ favorite frequent guests in 2018 😽
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“His office hours always see a full house. When he arrives students are normally waiting to sit in his office and discuss class, life, etc. Often there are so many students they stand outside and lean in or grab chairs and sit near the door” wrote my chairman in my tenure file 😆
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DAY 4 of lobster roll sampling for my buddy’s family lobster truck business
#NewEnglandProblems
😛
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At the beginning of class, I went over material from the last time and asked…
Me: what was the name of Connecticut’s first constitution?
Class: THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS
Me: oh my God, y’all remembered!
Also me and my Connecticut loving self:
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“West of Manhattan” is called New Jersey, Madam Governor
#Geography101
🗺️
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit west of Manhattan and has been felt throughout New York.
My team is assessing impacts and any damage that may have occurred, and we will update the public throughout the day.
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At fraternity chapter exec meeting...
Bro1: what do we do about this fraternity sweetheart business?
Me: it’s always about the girlfriends. Man, I’m glad I’m gay
Bro2: ladies too often get in the way
Bro3: wait, guys. Wharton’s gay?!
Me:
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Sooo y’all twitter nosey folk wanted to know my new gig? I’ve officially joined
@KurtMiller23
’s
@KurtforCT
team as his political director!
#KurtForCT
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I have several students emailing today they don’t have the textbook, can’t do their papers for Thursday and asking for extensions. Sooo they haven’t read this semester, have a paper due and email me NOW about it?!
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So I always gift myself after Christmas (for post-Christmas sales:) and went back to a classic I used to sport in prep school: a J. Crew cable knit crew neck sweater 😚
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“Everyone MUST vote Democrat for Connecticut’s election!” shouts a senior prof at the faculty senate meeting...
“On that note, I’m leaving!” I shout and walk out...
I hear nothing but “bye’s” behind me
#Academia
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Can’t Pelosi just retire at her vineyard?!🍷
BREAKING: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 83, said she will run for reelection in Congress as Democrats work to win back the majority in 2024.
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