Steve Crist
@steve.thecrists.com
Mostly a lurker. Following predominantly politics, law, computer science, retro gaming. Father and certified wife guy. ♾️
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this is the headline
Donald Trump interrupted national tv today to promise a million people (with guns!) two billion dollars he doesn’t have on a timeline he cannot meet to buy Christmas gifts he has personally fought to make less affordable
he doesn’t and the most likely outcome of this is that it doesn’t happen
December 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
this is the headline
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I was wavering on this Administration but that Address won me over.
December 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I was wavering on this Administration but that Address won me over.
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What the fuck was the point of that.
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
What the fuck was the point of that.
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Meanwhile you can get real analysis from this former ABC employee
trump is panicking because democrats have a huge lead on affordability right now www.gelliottmorris.com/p/affordabil...
December 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Meanwhile you can get real analysis from this former ABC employee
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The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.
What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.
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he was terrible at his job and hated every minute of it and that makes me happy
BREAKING MS NOW:
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on
Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
he was terrible at his job and hated every minute of it and that makes me happy
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Labor markets weakness is all about uncertainty, not AI.
www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Labor markets weakness is all about uncertainty, not AI.
www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
www.richmondfed.org/research/nat...
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What exactly is the point of this?
I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
It's Time for a Moratorium on Data Centers | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What exactly is the point of this?
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Ball-knower.
Likewise, look at this answer and tell me a 60-year-old man *didn't* snatch the phone away from his staff and answer this himself lol
Likewise, look at this answer and tell me a 60-year-old man *didn't* snatch the phone away from his staff and answer this himself lol
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Ball-knower.
Likewise, look at this answer and tell me a 60-year-old man *didn't* snatch the phone away from his staff and answer this himself lol
Likewise, look at this answer and tell me a 60-year-old man *didn't* snatch the phone away from his staff and answer this himself lol
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Seriously, why, why why why, is all reporting on this one topic filled with such obviously insane framing decisions?
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Seriously, why, why why why, is all reporting on this one topic filled with such obviously insane framing decisions?
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david duke probably wouldn't have shut down most of the CDC
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
david duke probably wouldn't have shut down most of the CDC
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Lmao, larian was talking about exactly how they use AI, in depth, this spring, but the headline said machine learning so nobody lost their minds
www.gamespot.com/articles/bal...
www.gamespot.com/articles/bal...
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Embraces Machine Learning For "Tasks That Nobody Wants To Do"
Here are all the reasons why Larian believes machine learning-powered automation is the future.
www.gamespot.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Lmao, larian was talking about exactly how they use AI, in depth, this spring, but the headline said machine learning so nobody lost their minds
www.gamespot.com/articles/bal...
www.gamespot.com/articles/bal...
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“There is no obvious legitimate reason for ICE to be compiling what appears to be a covert roster of immigration lawyers.”
ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/
ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
This is... disturbing.
abovethelaw.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“There is no obvious legitimate reason for ICE to be compiling what appears to be a covert roster of immigration lawyers.”
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11/20: Coast Guard classifies swastikas as "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
NEWS: Coast Guard enacts policy downgrading swastikas, nooses to ‘potentially divisive’
New, from Tara Copp and me
and me
wapo.st/4540Xi5
New, from Tara Copp and me
and me
wapo.st/4540Xi5
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
wapo.st
December 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
11/20: Coast Guard classifies swastikas as "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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File this under "high crimes & misdemeanors" because this is *exactly* how the Founders meant it
Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
File this under "high crimes & misdemeanors" because this is *exactly* how the Founders meant it
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"Cuomo isn't Jewish, Adams isn't Jewish, Trump isn't Jewish. But they all are delighted to weaponize antisemitism, to weaponize Jewish fear, against Muslims especially."
Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander.
My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...
Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander.
My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"Cuomo isn't Jewish, Adams isn't Jewish, Trump isn't Jewish. But they all are delighted to weaponize antisemitism, to weaponize Jewish fear, against Muslims especially."
Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander.
My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...
Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander.
My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...
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Wiping out Oracle's IP--all of it--with a quick Congressional bill at the start of a new admin--would more than suffice to make everyone realize that liberals, when sufficiently angry, are scarier than reactionaries.
And it would destroy a parasitic copyright troll of negative economic value.
And it would destroy a parasitic copyright troll of negative economic value.
this will only change when democrats punish or threaten to punish
Also, I get why the networks caved and agreed to air a clearly political speech not related to breaking news: They're scared, it's his first year back, and it's not worth the blowback. But the same networks refused to run Biden's Democracy speech and Obama speeches on health care + immigration.
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Wiping out Oracle's IP--all of it--with a quick Congressional bill at the start of a new admin--would more than suffice to make everyone realize that liberals, when sufficiently angry, are scarier than reactionaries.
And it would destroy a parasitic copyright troll of negative economic value.
And it would destroy a parasitic copyright troll of negative economic value.
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The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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One of my favorite running bits is that Donald Trump over the past decade has repeatedly indicated that he believes stealth aircraft are physically invisible.
Absolutely world-class stupidity. You’ve never met someone this stupid. He’d be the stupidest person in any room you’ve ever been in.
Absolutely world-class stupidity. You’ve never met someone this stupid. He’d be the stupidest person in any room you’ve ever been in.
Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
December 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
One of my favorite running bits is that Donald Trump over the past decade has repeatedly indicated that he believes stealth aircraft are physically invisible.
Absolutely world-class stupidity. You’ve never met someone this stupid. He’d be the stupidest person in any room you’ve ever been in.
Absolutely world-class stupidity. You’ve never met someone this stupid. He’d be the stupidest person in any room you’ve ever been in.
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🚨 Wrestling legend Mick Foley quits WWE over ties to INCREDIBLY CRUEL Trump
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🚨 Wrestling legend Mick Foley quits WWE over ties to INCREDIBLY CRUEL Trump