Kenyon Zimmer

I was excited when I first stumbled upon this article, for exactly the reasons you mention—Johnson was a completely forgotten figure. Glad to see somebody else picking up that thread and seeing where it lead!

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

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

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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

Morning walk

Quicksilver is somehow simultaneously set in both NY and San Francisco at the same time…

I’m in!

Me!

I have copied hundreds of NARA files from the Red Scare, but unfortunately not that one. However, this account from one of the Deer Island detainees also exists: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/10169...

Truth

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?

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.)

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Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal

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! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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The legal chicanery that makes it possible is a patently bad-faith legal ruling from the 1800s that pretends deportation is not a punishment, but simply an administrative civil procedure, and therefore the 8th Amendment (and most of the rest of the Bill of Rights) does not apply

The IISH in Amsterdam scanned it for me (search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/1331624 ), but I don’t think I have the file any more. But their rates for scans are very reasonable

A fantastic and long needed book

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.

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

I second the nomination. Great book!

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

Ernestina is a well-read cat

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...

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.
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I have a bit of info on Sedov and Shatuka here: kenyonzimmer.com/red-scare-de... and
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Immigration Policy Tracking Project A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.

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/

“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 ...

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.

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

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.

Later today!

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."

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