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Kenyon Zimmer

@kenyonz.bsky.social
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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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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/08/2026
"The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary," EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @reason.com.
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Rubio uses terrorism law to ban secure email service
The State Department doesn’t accuse Autistici/Inventati of doing anything more than providing surveillance-free email accounts. But that’s enough to declare it a terrorist organization.
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc). This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New career first: having my research cited in an amicus brief!
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Now is the time of monsters
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.
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Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate
A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/07/2026
It's really important to emphasize this: the reason that conservatives are arguing for increased teaching loads is that they want to END mainstream humanities research
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2026
I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.
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The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency
A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...
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Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Activists Sentenced to Decades in Prison on ‘Terrorism’ Charges
Federal judges in Fort Worth handed down maximum sentences to eight people...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 08/06/2026
ICE Reports 19th Death of 2026: Georgian National Mamuka Artmeladze dies at Winn. Mamuka was not a public safety threat, may not have broken a single law, couldn't be deported, and shouldn't have been arrested. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-report...
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ICE Reports 19th Death of 2026: Georgian National Mamuka Artmeladze Dies at Winn Correctional
Mamuka was not a public safety threat, may not have broken a single law, couldn't be deported, and shouldn't have been arrested. ICE forced taxpayers to pay $18,000 detaining him anyway.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.
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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Looking forward to this book: "Translation and Anarchism: Resistance, Expansion, and Renewal", ddited By Fruela Fernández, Laura Galián www.routledge.com/Translation-...
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Translation and Anarchism: Resistance, Expansion, and Renewal
This innovative collection explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between translation and anarchism, showing how the circulation of key authors and theories on a global scale has been unde...
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Bad Religion The White Stripes Sonic Youth Cowboy Junkies Tori Amos Pearl Jam Ani DiFranco Rage Against the Machine Neil Young Grand Buffet
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Against all authority... Except my mama". Happy Mother's Day!
"Against all authority... Except my mama".
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/05/2026
#OtD 9 May 1866 Jewish-Russian anarchist poet, David Edelstadt, was born in Russia. Moving to New York to escape pograms, he joined the first Jewish anarchist group in the area, The Pioneers of Liberty. Working in sweatshops, he died aged 26 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1255...
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
From @jesse-roth.bsky.social
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The Jews Who Ate Pork ’Till the Pigs Were Called
What the contemporary left can learn from anarchist Yiddish organizing
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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
Alt: A cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee while the room burns, with the words this is fine. This is ironic, because clearly it is not fine. Nothing is fine. Everything is on fire and we are all f*cked.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 23/03/2026
This has never, ever, ever worked in workers’ favor in the history of labor automation and it’s incredibly foolish and self-destructive to think you’ll be the exception.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/03/2026
I don’t understand why it all has to be so bad all at once??
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Maybe, just maybe, people should start to understand that there is no such thing as non punitive detention. And so the entire premise of immigration law— that this is civil and isn’t meant to punish or coerce— is a tremendous lie
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We are trialling the new, update version of the List of Digitized Anarchist Periodicals (LIDIAP). In the future, it will be easier to suggest new periodicals to add to the database. LIDIAP is an invaluable database for anyone working on the history of anarchism. lidiap.ficedl.info?fbclid=I
screenshot of new database.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Also just now posting this great conversation I had with Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer about the history, and present, of Jewish anarchism and its role in building an alternative vision for American Jewish life. maiseh-review.ghost.io/re/
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Rediscovering the Jewish Anarchist Movement
A conversation about the rich and lasting history of Jewish anarchism in America, and how it built the growth of the Jewish left today.
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 01/12/2025
The good folks at Antidote Zine have meticulously transcribed a wonderful event we did earlier this year after @akpress.org published "The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America." Featuring editor @kenyonz.bsky.social with guests Anna Elena Torres and @shaneburley.bsky.social!
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Rediscovering a History of Jewish Anarchism | Antidote Zine
Handcrafted transcript, including presentation slides and images, of an information-rich March 2025 online event hosted by Firestorm Books exploring Joseph ...
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/09/2025
Morning walk
Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/07/2025
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...
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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?
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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...
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Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
A fantastic and long needed book
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 06/05/2025
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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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.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 09/03/2025
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
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Ernestina is a well-read cat
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/02/2025
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...
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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...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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/
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Immigration Policy Tracking Project
A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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...
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“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 ...
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I’m dubious, but I’ll take it.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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.
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Later today!
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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
Event poster featuring a photograph of Joseph Cohen overlayed with the quote: "Our goal is the reconstruction of all relevant social institutions on the foundation of anarchist principals."
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Half off titles including www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... and www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Immigrants against the State
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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a man in a suit stands in front of a sign that says " fox "
Alt: Gritty spins around creepily behind the words “it me”
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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...
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Milwaukee Fourteen - Wikipedia
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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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
Photograph of a man wearing a hatPhotograph of a man, portrait length, 3/4Newspaper article
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Kenyon Zimmer @kenyonz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I approve this message!
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
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*
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