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Tom Goyens
@tomgoyens.bsky.social
Professor of History @ Salisbury University, MD | Author and historian of anarchism | Belgian beer lover
https://txgoyens.wixsite.com/tomgoyens
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November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!

We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!

(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)

#DefendHighEd

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October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Gonna be on @democracynow.org this morning (8 est)
October 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Now the script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film is to be published, having been pieced together from drafts, storyboards and sketches, on which he had been working before his death in 1977, at the age of 88. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published
Exclusive: Fantasy about ‘a beautiful creature with wings’ has been compiled from drafts, storyboards and sketches
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Boycott Disney everywhere.
September 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Coming in December 2025 from Univ of Illinois Press!!!
September 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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if fascists are targeting your community i've written 3 guides to help. plz share!
"40 Ways to Fight Fascists" spencersunshine.com/2020/08/27/f...
"Six Things to Do If You Become the Target of Online Harassment"
www.patreon.com/posts/85220523
A guide to 30 more Guides
www.patreon.com/posts/101459...
“40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists”
Exciting news! In conjunction with Portland, Oregon’s PopMob, the new edition of 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists is now out. It’s a completely re…
spencersunshine.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The release of personally identifiable information that was not relevant to the government’s Title VI investigation was improper. The Trump admin is investigating how the UC responded to claims of antisemitism, not the individuals named in the complaints. The AAUP condemns this move by UC Berkeley.
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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An appeal to help preserve a unique archive of recorded scientific talks.
Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
Roger Penrose & Friends Appeal for Unique Archive
To digitise and restore the worlds largest collection of audio and visual recordings within the scientific community, spanning over 50 years
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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The Resistance Is Inevitable.

We’re sick & tired of ICE & FBI agents profiling, harassing, & violently arresting our neighbors.

#wearealldc

Incredible turnout in DC yesterday, including a strong AAUP contingent.

@aaupmason.bsky.social
@gwaaup.bsky.social
@afthighered.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Nice advance in origin-of-life research: scientists get RNA and amino acids to spontaneously attach to each other (RNA aminoacylation).

Also, @404media.co is doing good work!

www.404media.co/scientists-m...
Scientists Make Breakthrough in Solving the Mystery of Life’s Origin
For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.
www.404media.co
August 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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A podcast on the path of a mysterious translation published in the first anarcho-communist newspaper run by women in Buenos Aires in 1896. The journey takes us from the Central European region of Silesia to 1840s Paris and the Haymarket massacre in Chicago in 1887. blogs.uoc.edu/anarchist-tr...
Podcast «Travelling texts / Textos viajeros» - The Anarchist Translation Flows and World Literature Project
A podcast from ARGOT Project In this episode, we trace the path of a mysterious translation published in the first anarcho-communist newspaper run by women in Buenos Aires in 1896… The journey takes u...
blogs.uoc.edu
August 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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An audio documentary about Colin Ward which tells the story of anarchy in the UK through his life and work, and an alternative history of the 20th century seen from an anarchist perspective. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/cl...
August 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Apollo 11.
Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969.
Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!
July 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Humanity is not governed to prevent its ruin; rather, it is ruined because it is governed."

--Johann Most (1887)
July 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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✨ Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos is now available in a new edition from @detritusbooks.bsky.social with a slick new cover art by @krime.bsky.social!

See what else is new right now at AKPress.org!
June 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Interested in old political cartoons about anarchists? Check out my "anarchists in cartoon" feature on my website (click on "research"). Great as a teaching tool!
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Tom Goyens anarchist history
Research on transatlantic anarchist history, its movements, peoples, and places, by Tom Goyens
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June 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
June 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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May 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM