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Stephen C. Rea

@stevierea.bsky.social

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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.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 7h

Same street corner

A small sticker—white block font on black—affixed to a gas pump: “TAX THE FUCKING RICH”

A partially torn down poster on a lamppost: a drawing of two ICE agents from behind leading away the Statue of Liberty with her hands cuffed behind her back. Below it reads “FUCK ICE”

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 7h

“‘See what horror! A gang of stupid people, protesting their pernicious power over the people, beat, stifle, oppress everybody. Savagery grows apace; cruelty becomes the law of life. A whole nation is depraved. Think of it! One part beats and turns brute; from immunity to punishment, sickens itself with a voluptuous greed of torture—that disgusting disease of slaves licensed to display all the power of slavish feelings and cattle habits. Others are poisoned with the desire for vengeance. Still others, beaten down to stupidity, become dumb and blind. They deprave the nation, the whole nation!’”

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 7h

"'Sometimes the authorities compel you to beat, and you do beat. Maybe you weep inside yourself with pity, but still you beat. People don't dare decline from beastliness--they'll be killed themselves for it.'"

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 7h

Local news is *crucial*

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 17h

a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a cup .

Alt: a white woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a cup and does a spit take while laughing GIF.

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Will Carless, USA TODAY @willcarless.bsky.social · 19h

For context: When a group of protestors stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, a crew of Oath Keepers was standing by, waiting for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act so they could go get their stash of weapons, hidden across the Potomac.

This is far from normal.

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 19h

When can the president invoke the Insurrection Act? What does invoking it allow the military to do? Is it the same as declaring martial law? A Brennan Center explainer has the answers. bit.ly/3GsFBhL

The Insurrection Act Explained

The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

www.brennancenter.org

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 20h

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 19h

More, from this same QAnoner’s channel (note: they’re blaming companies, not Trump or tariffs, but there is “dissatisfaction” to say the least)

A Telegram post from a QAnon conspiracy theorist and some replies: “Groceries Check in...
How much are your groceries on a weekly basis?
Drop your state and costs.
MD here... and wow.. just went grocery shopping and we're close to $350
every week.”

“Expensive. Too expensive....”

“Dose that include baby food and products?”

“About $75 a week but l'm a Homesteader so”

“Too much.
We dont import food. Why are prices still soo high?”

“Omaha Nebraska just for me and two cats average is $180 a week”

More replies:

“North Carolina, 2 people, 2 cats, and one dog about 400 per week”

“Michigan probably 500 a week but we are all organic nothing processed”

“Family of four, N. Florida, $400-450/week.”

“two person household is still about $200+ per week
i don't feel like these companies are ever going to lower the prices”

“My husband and I are both retired.were blessed if we can spend 300.00 a month”

“$300 / wk or $1200 / mo here in Idaho”

More replies:

“Family of two in Texas about $150 per week”

“About $300. And I'm SICK OF IT!!”

“In Los Angeles California, everything is expensive”

“Are they keeping them high to spite Trump? Are they "adding" in any tariff costs? I don't get it.”

“Just me and 1 child, so about $75/week. In PA. I shop the discount stores though.”

“To damn expensive”

“At least 300$ a wk for just two of us. Indiana. BUT, we purchase organic produce and local meat, dairy.”

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

"'What is it that's wanted nowadays? What's wanted is that the people should be stirred up to revolt. Of course! Everybody thinks about it, but privately, for himself. And what's necessary is that he should speak out aloud. Some one person must be the first to decide to do it.'"

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

Just randomly remembered Yung Joc

Yung Joc - Dope Boi Magic

YouTube video by ThrdDegree

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

"'The people want to go straight, and they fear no loss and no harm--you see?--all life is harmful to them; they have no place to turn to; they have nothing all around except "Stop!" which is shouted at them from all sides.'"

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1d

Once again, I will note this claim from Ken is completely untrue and does not comport with causality or the forward motion of linear time.

The term was developed while Biden was in office.

ZADROZNY: Yeah, for sure. You just mentioned nihilistic humor. Does that play into nihilistic violent extremism, the FBI’s terrorism classification that replaced the Biden-era focus on Jan. 6-style anti-government extremism?

KLIPPENSTEIN: Yeah, I won’t pretend not to be proud that I was first to report on this. It’s the Trump administration’s designation.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

True

Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere, this guy is ecstatic

a man wearing a hat and a blue shirt is standing in front of a speaker .

Alt: Jason from The Good Place wearing a Blake Bortles Jaguars Jersey and a baseball cap with a white front and black brim is standing in front of a speaker and dancing wildly GIF.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

Football, man, what a concept

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

My Macedonian friend would just buy a small-ish cup of Danone smetana and house it. Apparently this was a normal snack in Eastern/Central Europe and the Balkans? Or maybe he just wanted me to think it was. It was delicious, and should be socially acceptable everywhere

Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

Lime Jello and cottage cheese is delicious. Do other people find that weird, or is it normie white people food?

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

PICK SIX!

Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa, wild Travis Hunter catch!

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

Extras from Carnivale

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 1d

biblically accurate couch

A round couch (or very large chair) in a gross burnt orange velour with like 20 small pillows arranged along the back

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

This aged poorly. Still time! But, uh, not looking good for a competitive series

Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 6d

Dodgers-Phillies is gonna be a great series (I hope)

Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1d

A spraypainted, wheatpasted street art poster: a silhouette of a head in a balaclava with “ICE” across the forehead and the words “TRAITOR COWARD” below

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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