Morning walk

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...

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...

A fantastic and long needed book

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

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

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...

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...

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!

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

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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.

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...

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

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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*

If anyone said the phrase "emotional salary" to me, I would simply start throwing things at them

Who’s the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.

Enfin une étude approfondie, érudite et enlevée comme il se doit, sur l’histoire comparée et transnationale du sabotage! A brand new, excellent and beautiful illustrated comparative and transnational of sabotage. I do hope to see it in translation before too long!

Post a scene from a film you’ve seen more than 10 times.

This is the kind of energy I want to project on Bluesky.

Christ, everything is so stupid. Yet I persist!

It’s here! All 590 pages and 1,000+ footnotes of it. www.akpress.org/the-jewish-a...

The Haymarket Martyrs, from the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime, November 7, 1900. This is one of more than 30 images reproduced in my edited edition of Joseph Cohen's The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America, due out on June 4 (www.akpress.org/the-jewish-a...)

Today in on-the-nose photojournalism.

SHOT IN MY CAR, AND SERBS TO BLAME YOU GIVE SARAJEVO A BAD NAME

"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

Happy Army of Northern Virginia Surrender Day to all who celebrate

Coming in June, after many years of work between other projects! You can save $8 when you preorder: www.akpress.org/the-jewish-a...