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Ian M Hartshorn

@ianmhartshorn.com

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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.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 7h

My affiliation to the Boy Scouts is far more embarrassing than my fraternity. One was a quasi fascist brotherhood that indoctrinated sexism and racism. The other mostly drank beer.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 13h

Folks are saying this is bad but you can’t fly if someone in an exit row is noncompliant. I saw and old woman who kinda babbled when they asked for the “verbal yes” and the removed her with the quickness.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 14h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 14h

Yikes.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 14h

(*bug my Alma mater, typos are how you know I’m human and not an OpenAI experiment)

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 14h

This is actually a good flex and next time I buy my Alma mater about something I’m putting all my fraternity titles (I have several)

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Please sign if appropriate.

I included my fraternity affiliation and everything so they know they are losing the bros too

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 1d

In Egypt they used an “anti-terrorism law” to repress a media report about the President’s health because a person said they were “terrified” to hear it. This is pretty much that.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Reposted by Ian M Hartshorn

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3d

I demand a union representative.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 3d

This is a good idea for all academics even if you, like me, find the idea of a podcast to be terrifying (I’ve done public radio twice and that was scary enough)

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 3d

Historians who write books, please a) set up your own author website, independent of your university profile and b) get some professional headshots taken. Love, your friendly neighborhood podcaster.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 3d

I kinda knew he had gone full pundit brain when he started talking about (his own? but maybe not?) sexuality in weird ways.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 3d

There is a lot going on that I don't understand, but mostly he's just nasty to folks and does borderline brigading shit.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 3d

(I like pop music and enjoyed Taylor Swift’s pandemic era albums. Some other albums not so much. And a lot just aren’t for me and that’s ok. But man people’s parasocials with her are unhinged.)

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 3d

It’s 2006. People say Taylor Swift is corny and talks about her boyfriends too much.

It’s 2012. People say Taylor Swift is corny and talks about her boyfriends too much.

It’s 2018. People say Taylor Swift is corny and talks about her boyfriends too much.

It’s 2025…..

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 3d

I like Pritzker but he’s going to need to get his own law enforcement to stop aiding this before we can take it seriously.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 3d

between this guy (econ phd) and the guy (econ phd) who used his massive platform and publications to say 'one good thing about AI actresses is you can be sure they are virgins' econ phds are having a real weekend here on Al Gore's internet.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 3d

Once on the other site I said we should “interrogate” and idea and this guy said I was weird and dramatic to his hundreds of thousands of followers who take him very seriously.

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 3d

Okay now we’re really poasting

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 4d

Huge part of Japanese concentration camps in the US as well. Lots of folks profited.

M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 4d

I did my undergrad thesis on the European witchcraze, and a key motivator in accusations and arrests was to seize the property of the accused

Stoking the moral panic to continue the arrests was very profitable for those in positions of authority.

I say this for no reason …

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 4d

It's really hard to tell before the fact which orgs are principled and which are full of shills, but I'm glad that it seems like some of the folks at Cato are actually libertarians and actually scared of governmental abuse. That's a useful voice to have.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 5d

“Put out” also sounds extremely ESL.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 5d

I enjoy the idea that we can meme our way into weird monthly proof of life displays. It’s not like he’s doing good stuff when he is working.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 5d

I've decided to commit to the President-Trump-has-died bit.

It isn't misinformation if they aren't proving otherwise.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 5d

I used to be obese. It did not make me unfit to be President. The fact that I have limited emotional regulation and seek the downfall of my enemies made me unfit to be President. Just like Donald Trump.

THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 5d

Respectfully, the President’s weight has absolutely nothing to do with his moral failings and poor leadership.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5d

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 5d

I know the “he’s dead!” stuff is silly. But I do wonder if they are dialyzing him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 6d

Somebody is going to jump in your replies talking about mastodon and “federation” and it always sounds like Star Trek technobabble to me.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 6d

Occasionally they try to claim me as an alum which is appreciated but inaccurate. Lol.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 6d

Weirdly I don’t know that department well because I was a Religious Studies major. I was an RA in it my senior year but the profs I worked with are mostly retired.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 6d

*you. Weird typo made me sound like I’m from Pittsburgh.