Stephen C. Rea
@stevierea.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him/his. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
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Stephen C. Rea
@stevierea.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Hey new followers! However you found me, glad you’re here. I post a lot about my work researching networked incitement (check out our project linked in the reply), but also about rap, sports, Star Trek, 19th century Russian literature that I’m reading, and general shitposting.
I did my PhD research thanks to a DDRIG through SBE. This is infuriating and while not quite a death blow, a giant obstacle to up and coming social scientists
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I did my PhD research thanks to a DDRIG through SBE. This is infuriating and while not quite a death blow, a giant obstacle to up and coming social scientists
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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I hear stuff like this in the context of everything else Trump v2 is trying to roll back and remember that the national Thanksgiving holiday was resisted by the former Confederate States for a surprisingly long time. This extended to actual dishes associated with the meal
For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression
In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I hear stuff like this in the context of everything else Trump v2 is trying to roll back and remember that the national Thanksgiving holiday was resisted by the former Confederate States for a surprisingly long time. This extended to actual dishes associated with the meal
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Uh oh; Voidzilla is on their ass? It's over.
NW
NW
"we are not enron"
YouTube video by voidzilla
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Uh oh; Voidzilla is on their ass? It's over.
NW
NW
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everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
Ugh, Jessica Reed Kraus has entered the saga now? To learn about that MAHA influencer, here’s @annamerlan.bsky.social’s reporting on her from last October
Meet the conspiracy-peddling gossip blogger who’s cast herself as a Trump-RFK player
After defending Ghislaine Maxwell and Johnny Depp, Jessica Reed Kraus built a platform in paranoid politics.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Ugh, Jessica Reed Kraus has entered the saga now? To learn about that MAHA influencer, here’s @annamerlan.bsky.social’s reporting on her from last October
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Regimes of state repression & violence breed violence every damn time without fail.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Regimes of state repression & violence breed violence every damn time without fail.
Re: Honduras… (this was under Obama)
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Re: Honduras… (this was under Obama)
The other part of this I’m sick of is the “all citizens are bastard” rapid response squad, i.e., the influencers who scour social media for anyone “celebrating” shootings. Posobiec is already amplifying accusations about a TikTokker, FYI
And I’m really getting sick of knowing exactly what the playbook will be on social media, who will be blamed first, etc. after every one of these events. I miss the days when people couldn’t just broadcast their speculations and accusations and wildly
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The other part of this I’m sick of is the “all citizens are bastard” rapid response squad, i.e., the influencers who scour social media for anyone “celebrating” shootings. Posobiec is already amplifying accusations about a TikTokker, FYI
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Soulja (Magnolia) Slim - From What I Was Told DVD Rip
YouTube video by SouljaHors
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TIP: Anyone who posts wild speculation as something that is “almost certainly” the case right now is ~almost certainly~ someone you should not rely on in moments where news is breaking and a story is rapidly developing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Looks like now Morissey is going back on this, says they’re getting conflicting info
NEW: The governor of West Virginia says that two members of the state National Guard shot today in DC have died.
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Looks like now Morissey is going back on this, says they’re getting conflicting info
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NEW: The governor of West Virginia says that two members of the state National Guard shot today in DC have died.
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
NEW: The governor of West Virginia says that two members of the state National Guard shot today in DC have died.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I wrote something for everyone to discuss around the dinner table when the pie is passed around and everyone proposes specific measures to seize the wealth and break the anti-democratic power of the tech oligarchy.
How To Expropriate An Artificial Intelligence Oligarchy
An industry whose bubble is set to burst is crucial to U.S. national security, you say?
www.forever-wars.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! I wrote something for everyone to discuss around the dinner table when the pie is passed around and everyone proposes specific measures to seize the wealth and break the anti-democratic power of the tech oligarchy.
And once again
Oh man, I feel sick
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
And once again
This is like when Selina Meyer defended Danny Chung against torture allegations while the word cloud was displayed behind her at Clovis
This mailer being sent out in #NY17 is WILD.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is like when Selina Meyer defended Danny Chung against torture allegations while the word cloud was displayed behind her at Clovis
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"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
Best Thanksgiving movie: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, or Addams Family Values?
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Best Thanksgiving movie: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, or Addams Family Values?
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Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation reut.rs/3KpybRU
Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation
Dutch public broadcaster NOS on Tuesday said it had stopped posting on Elon Musk's social media platform X, as it said it did not want to facilitate the spreading of disinformation.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation reut.rs/3KpybRU
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Update on the Blaze story defaming the Capitol officer as the J6 pipe bomber from CBS.
What's scary here is that ODNI sounds like crazy town...they drafted a memo with confidential info based on Steve Baker's nutso hallucinations that even Tulsi Gabbard is embarrassed by? And did similar re: Kirk /
What's scary here is that ODNI sounds like crazy town...they drafted a memo with confidential info based on Steve Baker's nutso hallucinations that even Tulsi Gabbard is embarrassed by? And did similar re: Kirk /
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Update on the Blaze story defaming the Capitol officer as the J6 pipe bomber from CBS.
What's scary here is that ODNI sounds like crazy town...they drafted a memo with confidential info based on Steve Baker's nutso hallucinations that even Tulsi Gabbard is embarrassed by? And did similar re: Kirk /
What's scary here is that ODNI sounds like crazy town...they drafted a memo with confidential info based on Steve Baker's nutso hallucinations that even Tulsi Gabbard is embarrassed by? And did similar re: Kirk /
RFK Jr. is doing untold harms in his role at HHS, but don’t sleep on the damage Lee Zeldin is doing 👀
The EPA is abandoning a rule that would strengthen limits on fine-particle pollution, a move scientists and experts say could lead to dirtier air and more deaths.
Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths
The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
RFK Jr. is doing untold harms in his role at HHS, but don’t sleep on the damage Lee Zeldin is doing 👀
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The EPA is abandoning a rule that would strengthen limits on fine-particle pollution, a move scientists and experts say could lead to dirtier air and more deaths.
Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths
The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The EPA is abandoning a rule that would strengthen limits on fine-particle pollution, a move scientists and experts say could lead to dirtier air and more deaths.
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This is the context you have to keep in mind when you see these people hyperventilating about addressing this system. This is what they are demanding we preserve literally at any and every cost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is the context you have to keep in mind when you see these people hyperventilating about addressing this system. This is what they are demanding we preserve literally at any and every cost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...