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.
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...
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Social Media Stadium … whirlpool in the middle’
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Social Media Stadium … whirlpool in the middle’
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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
The Chair Company makes the point about conspiratorial epistemic practices and power that critics think Bugonia made, but much better
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The Chair Company makes the point about conspiratorial epistemic practices and power that critics think Bugonia made, but much better
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
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The latest report came hours after the RSF agreed to a three-month humanitarian truce.
Sudan’s RSF committing war crimes in Darfur, says Amnesty
The latest report came hours after the RSF agreed to a three-month humanitarian truce.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The latest report came hours after the RSF agreed to a three-month humanitarian truce.
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Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
Who remembers Intel caving to Gamergaters over ads on Kotaku? Apparently none of the people in a position to do anything about it 🫠
Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Who remembers Intel caving to Gamergaters over ads on Kotaku? Apparently none of the people in a position to do anything about it 🫠
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Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Eagerly awaiting the spin from plan trusters about how the Comey and James dismissals prove that patriots are in control
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Eagerly awaiting the spin from plan trusters about how the Comey and James dismissals prove that patriots are in control
Shot, chaser 🔥🔥🔥
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Shot, chaser 🔥🔥🔥
Omg MTG just now: “Executive orders are temporary, Q memes have not obliterated the deep state” 🤭
QAnoners (e.g., Jordan Sather) were coping over the weekend about her “there is no plan to save the world” line, btw.
Also, MTG sucks and in a just world would be shunned from public life hereafter
QAnoners (e.g., Jordan Sather) were coping over the weekend about her “there is no plan to save the world” line, btw.
Also, MTG sucks and in a just world would be shunned from public life hereafter
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Omg MTG just now: “Executive orders are temporary, Q memes have not obliterated the deep state” 🤭
QAnoners (e.g., Jordan Sather) were coping over the weekend about her “there is no plan to save the world” line, btw.
Also, MTG sucks and in a just world would be shunned from public life hereafter
QAnoners (e.g., Jordan Sather) were coping over the weekend about her “there is no plan to save the world” line, btw.
Also, MTG sucks and in a just world would be shunned from public life hereafter
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Jimmy Cliff, the iconic Jamaican reggae star who helped transform the island's rhythmic music into a global cultural phenomenon, has died, his wife said on Monday. He was 81. ➡️ u.afp.com/Shqq
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Jimmy Cliff, the iconic Jamaican reggae star who helped transform the island's rhythmic music into a global cultural phenomenon, has died, his wife said on Monday. He was 81. ➡️ u.afp.com/Shqq
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"Among these lower orders of society the soul pines and withers away from constant anxiety, forgetting that it too possesses wings. Restricted to the earth forever, it can never raise its eyes toward the sun."
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"Among these lower orders of society the soul pines and withers away from constant anxiety, forgetting that it too possesses wings. Restricted to the earth forever, it can never raise its eyes toward the sun."
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ICE now using punitive GPS ankle monitors in almost highest numbers since 2021, nearly 35,000 people monitored this way compared to less than 5,000 in 2023.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i...
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
ICE now using punitive GPS ankle monitors in almost highest numbers since 2021, nearly 35,000 people monitored this way compared to less than 5,000 in 2023.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i...
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Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
A movie that takes place where you’re from
Obvs there’s, like, every Stephen King movie, but Cider House Rules has a scene shot on Sand Beach in Acadia. I remember when the filming happened; it was a HUGE deal on MDI lol
Obvs there’s, like, every Stephen King movie, but Cider House Rules has a scene shot on Sand Beach in Acadia. I remember when the filming happened; it was a HUGE deal on MDI lol
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
Obvs there’s, like, every Stephen King movie, but Cider House Rules has a scene shot on Sand Beach in Acadia. I remember when the filming happened; it was a HUGE deal on MDI lol
Obvs there’s, like, every Stephen King movie, but Cider House Rules has a scene shot on Sand Beach in Acadia. I remember when the filming happened; it was a HUGE deal on MDI lol
Fascinating short piece from 1942 about Howard Scott and the technocracy movement, and how it was an on ramp to fascism that appealed directly to "the middle class."
Fun fact: Joshua Haldeman backed the movement in Canada in the late 30s/early 40s. Haldeman is Elon Musk's maternal grandfather
Fun fact: Joshua Haldeman backed the movement in Canada in the late 30s/early 40s. Haldeman is Elon Musk's maternal grandfather
A. Roland: Technocracy Evolves Openly Toward Fascism (28 March 1942)
A. Roland: Technocracy Evolves Openly Toward Fascism (28 March 1942)
www.marxists.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Fascinating short piece from 1942 about Howard Scott and the technocracy movement, and how it was an on ramp to fascism that appealed directly to "the middle class."
Fun fact: Joshua Haldeman backed the movement in Canada in the late 30s/early 40s. Haldeman is Elon Musk's maternal grandfather
Fun fact: Joshua Haldeman backed the movement in Canada in the late 30s/early 40s. Haldeman is Elon Musk's maternal grandfather