Kenyon Zimmer
@kenyonz.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th century migration, labor, and radicalism. Author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. kenyonzimmer.com
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A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.
I'm horrified.
I'm angry.
A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm horrified.
I'm angry.
A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.
I'm horrified.
I'm angry.
A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm horrified.
I'm angry.
A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Morning walk
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So many well-meaning Americans have a reasonable view of immigration—but not enough understanding about how the system actually works.
(Another reason to read austinkocher.substack.com.)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
(Another reason to read austinkocher.substack.com.)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Biggest Myth About Immigration That Even Well-Meaning Americans Believe
Can workers who lack permanent legal status really self-deport and jump the line back in?
slate.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
So many well-meaning Americans have a reasonable view of immigration—but not enough understanding about how the system actually works.
(Another reason to read austinkocher.substack.com.)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
(Another reason to read austinkocher.substack.com.)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad.
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal
spectrejournal.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad.
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
A fantastic and long needed book
COMING SOON! My new book--a long-overdue biography of socialist and then anarchist Johann Most--will be released on September 12, 2025 from University of Illinois Press. Get a copy, spread the word!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
My substack: tomgoyens.substack.com
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
My substack: tomgoyens.substack.com
Johann Most
www.press.uillinois.edu
May 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A fantastic and long needed book
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Philadelphia was once an epicenter of the national anarchist movement, supported by the city's Jewish immigrant community. A media studies professor explores his great-grandfather’s role in this forgotten chapter in U.S. history: buff.ly/jisLaxb
Philly’s forgotten history as a hub of anarchism with a thriving radical Yiddish press
Philadelphia was the birthplace of Bread and Freedom, a weekly anarchist paper published by Jewish immigrants who felt their peers in New York were too moderate.
theconversation.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Philadelphia was once an epicenter of the national anarchist movement, supported by the city's Jewish immigrant community. A media studies professor explores his great-grandfather’s role in this forgotten chapter in U.S. history: buff.ly/jisLaxb
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the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps
block the path
block the path
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps
block the path
block the path
Ernestina is a well-read cat
March 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Ernestina is a well-read cat
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Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars
Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...
www.wheresyoured.at
February 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
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Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
Immigration Policy Tracking Project
A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.
immpolicytracking.org
January 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
Thanks Chelsea Gibson at the SHGAPE (Society for History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era) Blog for interviewing me about my current book research and accompanying digital history project! blog.shgape.org/faces-of-the...
“Faces of the First Red Scare”: Documenting Red Scare Deportees - SHGAPE Blog
Below is an interview with Dr. Kenyon Zimmer, a historian of transnational radicalism. Recently, as I was editing a piece for our blog, I stumbled across his personal website where he has published a ...
blog.shgape.org
January 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Thanks Chelsea Gibson at the SHGAPE (Society for History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era) Blog for interviewing me about my current book research and accompanying digital history project! blog.shgape.org/faces-of-the...
I’m dubious, but I’ll take it.
January 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I’m dubious, but I’ll take it.
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forgot to get your bubbe a Hanukkah gift? well you have 7 more days to get the just-released English translation of Joseph Cohen's "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America." Originally published in Yiddish in 1945, it's translated by Esther Dolgoff & edited by Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social
December 25, 2024 at 11:49 PM
forgot to get your bubbe a Hanukkah gift? well you have 7 more days to get the just-released English translation of Joseph Cohen's "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America." Originally published in Yiddish in 1945, it's translated by Esther Dolgoff & edited by Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social
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Let the University of Illinois Press holiday sale begin! 🎁
From now until December 31, please treat yourself and your loved ones to 50% off ALL UIP books with code HOLIDAY50 at check out.
From now until December 31, please treat yourself and your loved ones to 50% off ALL UIP books with code HOLIDAY50 at check out.
December 17, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Let the University of Illinois Press holiday sale begin! 🎁
From now until December 31, please treat yourself and your loved ones to 50% off ALL UIP books with code HOLIDAY50 at check out.
From now until December 31, please treat yourself and your loved ones to 50% off ALL UIP books with code HOLIDAY50 at check out.
Later today!
Online event: This Thursday at 7:00pm EST I'll be discussing Joseph Cohen's 1945 'The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America,' a book that I edited and annotated as part of a multigenerational translation project and that has now been published by AK Press. Registration and info at bit.ly/496ZLLC
December 12, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Later today!
Online event: This Thursday at 7:00pm EST I'll be discussing Joseph Cohen's 1945 'The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America,' a book that I edited and annotated as part of a multigenerational translation project and that has now been published by AK Press. Registration and info at bit.ly/496ZLLC
December 10, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Online event: This Thursday at 7:00pm EST I'll be discussing Joseph Cohen's 1945 'The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America,' a book that I edited and annotated as part of a multigenerational translation project and that has now been published by AK Press. Registration and info at bit.ly/496ZLLC
Half off titles including www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... and www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
December 2, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Half off titles including www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... and www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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i need a shock collar that punishes me for trying to do more research once i’ve decided it’s time to start writing.
December 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM
i need a shock collar that punishes me for trying to do more research once i’ve decided it’s time to start writing.
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Crowd sourcing this in the off chance any other FOIA person has come across these files floating in the ether...I'm looking for FBI files related to the Milwaukee 14.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwauk...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwauk...
Milwaukee Fourteen - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 19, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Crowd sourcing this in the off chance any other FOIA person has come across these files floating in the ether...I'm looking for FBI files related to the Milwaukee 14.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwauk...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwauk...
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109th Anniv of judicial murder of Joel Emmanuel Hägglund (pen-name 'Joe Hill'), Salt Lake City. One of emigrants who passed through Hull.
@northumbriaiww.bsky.social @iwwmanchester.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social
I wrote a piece for the HDM in 2012. #OTD #JoeHill
@northumbriaiww.bsky.social @iwwmanchester.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social
I wrote a piece for the HDM in 2012. #OTD #JoeHill
November 19, 2024 at 11:09 AM
109th Anniv of judicial murder of Joel Emmanuel Hägglund (pen-name 'Joe Hill'), Salt Lake City. One of emigrants who passed through Hull.
@northumbriaiww.bsky.social @iwwmanchester.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social
I wrote a piece for the HDM in 2012. #OTD #JoeHill
@northumbriaiww.bsky.social @iwwmanchester.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social
I wrote a piece for the HDM in 2012. #OTD #JoeHill
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Recommended reading
Wobblies of the World:
A Global History of the IWW
#anarchism
#marxism
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Wobblies of the World:
A Global History of the IWW
#anarchism
#marxism
worldcat.org/title/wobbli...
November 18, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
September 2, 2024 at 12:02 AM
lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*