Ian M Hartshorn
@ianmhartshorn.com
Professor of Political Science. Current project: international labor solidarity after trade liberalization. Cases and texts, international and domestic institutions, qualitative data. Part-time rancher, with one head of (cat)tle. Union guy.
I know we’re doing academic job discourse again. Less noted is that *we’re all just guessing* and it’s really hard to predict who will do well. It’s a crappy market shot through with terrible information asymmetries and straight up gaps.
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I know we’re doing academic job discourse again. Less noted is that *we’re all just guessing* and it’s really hard to predict who will do well. It’s a crappy market shot through with terrible information asymmetries and straight up gaps.
The US. It was fun (sometimes) while it lasted.
absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The US. It was fun (sometimes) while it lasted.
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At last we have created the Hunger Games from the classic dystopian novel Don’t Create The Hunger Games
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
At last we have created the Hunger Games from the classic dystopian novel Don’t Create The Hunger Games
When I lived in Egypt the gas lines that connect the countries were bombed so frequently it was a running joke.
Netanyahu approves $35 billion gas deal with Egypt under U.S. pressure
Netanyahu approves $35 billion gas deal with Egypt under U.S. pressure
Netanyahu wants a summit with Sisi, and the U.S. offered to help if he approved the deal.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
When I lived in Egypt the gas lines that connect the countries were bombed so frequently it was a running joke.
If you have to do grading during the holiday I do recommend doing it bar side at an inn and pub you’re staying at in England.
December 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you have to do grading during the holiday I do recommend doing it bar side at an inn and pub you’re staying at in England.
Eric Adams is one of the oddest characters in American politics. You’ll read a normal article about Mamdani’s transition and then it’ll be like “the outgoing mayor says the house is full of ghosts”
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Eric Adams is one of the oddest characters in American politics. You’ll read a normal article about Mamdani’s transition and then it’ll be like “the outgoing mayor says the house is full of ghosts”
Bust it open when you need stuff to get really really weird.
Mayor Adams has new walk-on music for a press conference at City Hall billed as an "end of term update" on his admin's initiatives. He pulls out a cigar from his jacket pocket. There's also an "Adams administration time capsule" on hand that'll be buried outside City Hall later.
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Bust it open when you need stuff to get really really weird.
“The everyone’s has to drink pee now bill is a DISTRACTION we’re focused on healthcare for all Americans!” Schumer probably
I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
“The everyone’s has to drink pee now bill is a DISTRACTION we’re focused on healthcare for all Americans!” Schumer probably
Pretty sure I just graded an essay responding to the prompt I wrote for this class two years ago. Not the one I wrote this year.
So….my old exam got passed around and they walked in and copy and pasted an old answer they got not even noticing it was a different question.
Freshmen are undefeated
So….my old exam got passed around and they walked in and copy and pasted an old answer they got not even noticing it was a different question.
Freshmen are undefeated
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Pretty sure I just graded an essay responding to the prompt I wrote for this class two years ago. Not the one I wrote this year.
So….my old exam got passed around and they walked in and copy and pasted an old answer they got not even noticing it was a different question.
Freshmen are undefeated
So….my old exam got passed around and they walked in and copy and pasted an old answer they got not even noticing it was a different question.
Freshmen are undefeated
It’s always weird when students are cheating (near identical wrong things) but you have no idea how (not from class, not what ChatGPT says, in an in class essay).
December 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It’s always weird when students are cheating (near identical wrong things) but you have no idea how (not from class, not what ChatGPT says, in an in class essay).
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
I’ll believe sports have the proper place in my university when I can email a coach to get students out of a game for an important test instead of vice versa.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I’ll believe sports have the proper place in my university when I can email a coach to get students out of a game for an important test instead of vice versa.
Our future in the US (though we’re weaker on several of those)
The distinguishing pattern of Chile’s politics since 2010 has been voters voting against the incumbent party in every election despite the economy, political stability, rule of law, and social cohesion being pretty strong the whole time.
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Our future in the US (though we’re weaker on several of those)
It’s a good reminder that if you’re brave and willing you’ll do it without a gun (this guy who tackled the Bondi shooter) and if you’re a coward you won’t no matter how many guns you have (Uvalde cops)
December 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It’s a good reminder that if you’re brave and willing you’ll do it without a gun (this guy who tackled the Bondi shooter) and if you’re a coward you won’t no matter how many guns you have (Uvalde cops)
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Still always in awe of how many apartments Canada builds compared to the US
In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!
In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Still always in awe of how many apartments Canada builds compared to the US
In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!
In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!
Jesus was persecuted by the state. This isn’t particularly controversial theologically.
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery. n.pr/4rTabaD
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Jesus was persecuted by the state. This isn’t particularly controversial theologically.
He’s def gonna win isn’t he?
Before I listened to Gavin Newsom's interview on Ezra Klein's podcast, I was convinced that man had no juice.
However after listening, I've changed my mind: That man has negative juice. He neutralizes the juice of others around him.
However after listening, I've changed my mind: That man has negative juice. He neutralizes the juice of others around him.
December 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
He’s def gonna win isn’t he?
I can’t wait for the wokelash.
WE’RE SAYING BLACK AGAIN. WE’RE SAYING TRIBAL AGAIN. THEY TRIED TO STOP US. CROOKED DON IS GONE.
WE’RE SAYING BLACK AGAIN. WE’RE SAYING TRIBAL AGAIN. THEY TRIED TO STOP US. CROOKED DON IS GONE.
NPR: “Head Start early childhood programs are being told to remove a list of ~200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied— "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" "women…” www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I can’t wait for the wokelash.
WE’RE SAYING BLACK AGAIN. WE’RE SAYING TRIBAL AGAIN. THEY TRIED TO STOP US. CROOKED DON IS GONE.
WE’RE SAYING BLACK AGAIN. WE’RE SAYING TRIBAL AGAIN. THEY TRIED TO STOP US. CROOKED DON IS GONE.
We love to see it.
This ain’t your grandpappy’s south man. Came into my tiny neighborhood bar for a nightcap and it’s *packed* in here with lefties. Gay black men and grad students and uber drivers and lesbians organizing their chemical plants.
This can’t be good for the good ole boys nor the democratic machine.
This can’t be good for the good ole boys nor the democratic machine.
December 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
We love to see it.
Their high numbers on 'the border' and low numbers on 'immigration' suggest to me that a lot of Americans think that violent anti-immigration action can be confined to some imagined, depopulated 'other' place.
My somewhat dark take on the administration's tanking numbers on immigration is that voters mostly don't know what they want, they just know it's not what they have
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Their high numbers on 'the border' and low numbers on 'immigration' suggest to me that a lot of Americans think that violent anti-immigration action can be confined to some imagined, depopulated 'other' place.
I grew up pretty poor in a pretty rough place getting rougher thanks to opioids. I log on to Facebook like every 3 months and it's just absolutely packed with obituaries for people (mostly men) I went to high school with. It sucks. I want better things for people in this country.
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I grew up pretty poor in a pretty rough place getting rougher thanks to opioids. I log on to Facebook like every 3 months and it's just absolutely packed with obituaries for people (mostly men) I went to high school with. It sucks. I want better things for people in this country.
The thing that’s funniest about this is that he’s describing the system that already exists.
Hospitals opting out (or shutting down) ✅
Expensive fees ✅
GP before specialist ✅
Insurance won’t cover things ✅
Rich people get a different level of care ✅
That’s already what we’ve got!
Hospitals opting out (or shutting down) ✅
Expensive fees ✅
GP before specialist ✅
Insurance won’t cover things ✅
Rich people get a different level of care ✅
That’s already what we’ve got!
[David Attenborough voice] Observe the Democratic billionaire in the early stages of its metamorphosis. As the whispers of Bluesky ratios rustle the air, its initial Republican chrysalis is formed, made up of angry left-leaning replies and appreciations for reductions in regulations.
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The thing that’s funniest about this is that he’s describing the system that already exists.
Hospitals opting out (or shutting down) ✅
Expensive fees ✅
GP before specialist ✅
Insurance won’t cover things ✅
Rich people get a different level of care ✅
That’s already what we’ve got!
Hospitals opting out (or shutting down) ✅
Expensive fees ✅
GP before specialist ✅
Insurance won’t cover things ✅
Rich people get a different level of care ✅
That’s already what we’ve got!
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NEW: Israeli settlers allegedly beat a young American as she defended one of the last Palestinian families left in their way of stealing more land.
They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land.
She says the US hasn’t responded to her.
They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land.
She says the US hasn’t responded to her.
Israeli Settlers Beat US Citizen, Threatened to Burn Palestinian Grandmother and Kids Alive
The attack in the West Bank comes as Donald Trump maintains he brought peace to the Middle East.
zeteo.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
NEW: Israeli settlers allegedly beat a young American as she defended one of the last Palestinian families left in their way of stealing more land.
They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land.
She says the US hasn’t responded to her.
They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land.
She says the US hasn’t responded to her.
If I sign my email “respectfully” I’m incandescent with rage.
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If I sign my email “respectfully” I’m incandescent with rage.
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Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."