American patriots love trump’s tiny boomer dick too freaking much

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No risk of force closure?

Hearing about the arrests in Iran for having anything non-pro government on your phone has gotten me to believe in the imperative that you might need to ditch your phone at a moment’s notice.

The idea in the ad below, is that the woman’s pendant is actually a #nostr #safebox nfc card, when she gets through the police checkpoint, she can pick up a burner device and continue as before. All data is encrypted and stored on relays.

Cypriot newspaper Politis: The phenomenon of Israelis buying land and property in Cyprus has increased, especially since the recent conflict between Israel and Iran began.

Amid the growing activity of the Jewish Chabad movement, the number of Israelis on the island has reached approximately 15,000.

GM!!

My childless friends complain about sleeping through their alarm.

I haven’t slept through mine in years - hard to sleep through an alarm when the alarm is a person!

#plebdad

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has confirmed that the Pentagon, in coordination with the FBI, has opened an investigation into the leak of a classified report assessing the impact of last weekend’s U.S. airstrikes on Iran. The report, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and based on a battle damage assessment from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), was allegedly shared with multiple media outlets—including CNN, FOX, NBC, and The New York Times—which published details from the assessment on Monday.

Logically it is not possible to keep 2000 usd on a lightning network

She's posting from Mastodon. She can't see and hear us. 🥲

MORE - Germans increasingly feel that they can no longer express their opinions freely, as recent surveys have shown.

Accurate

What really matters is that the Empire of Chaos, in a single – spectacularly criminal – raid, bunker-busted the UN charter (again); international law (again); the NPT (perhaps for good); the US constitution; the “international community”; and Trump’s own MAGA base.

I was just gonna run it on my own computer

How can users verify the security of MapleAI?

i laugh he cuts their funding

Trump Puts Powell in No-Win Scenario

BY NICK TIMIRAOS

The Wall Street Journal

Jun 24, 2025

President’s repeated calls to lower rates complicate decision for Fed chief, board

President Trump has escalated his long-running public attack on the Federal Reserve, creating a lose-lose situation for the central bank as it navigates the risks of higher prices and weaker growth from tariffs.

The assault has little modern precedent and forces the Fed to confront a dreadful choice: It could cut rates sharply as Trump wants and risk fueling inflation that damages its credibility with markets. Or it could maintain its current wait-and-see stance, and face further bullying that would weaken its standing if the economy slows sharply and the administration is validated in its view that inflation shouldn’t be a worry.

The presidential pressure is being applied at the same time that a divide is opening up among Fed policymakers that could further complicate Chair Jerome Powell’s effort to balance political and economic hazards in the months ahead.

Among Fed officials who have spoken since last week’s meeting, the first to signal any appetite to cut rates at the Fed’s next meeting in late July have been the two appointed by Trump in his first term.

Michelle Bowman, the Fed’s vice chair for bank supervision, said in a speech Monday she was more worried about risks of weaker employment than higher inflation—a meaningful shift for a policymaker who was previously highly focused on inflation worries.

Fed governor Christopher Waller said in a CNBC interview Friday that he could support a rate cut next month because he worries about allowing too much labor market weakness.

Powell faces Congress Tuesday for regularly scheduled testimony on monetary policy. How lawmakers regard Powell’s performance will be a key gauge of support for Fed independence. The central bank has in recent decades operated with a measure of independence in order to set monetary policy free of direct political control, which Powell has worked assiduously to defend.

High stakes

The stakes extend far beyond current policy debates. Powell’s term expires in less than a year. Trump could establish a template for presidential influence that reshapes the central bank, with his relentless criticism serving as both a warning to Powell’s successor and a casting call for replacements who signal they will appease him.

If future central-bank leaders feel more compelled to consider political preferences alongside economic data, decades of credibility that anchor global confidence in U.S. monetary policy could be degraded.

On Friday, Trump called on Powell to reduce the central bank’s policy rate, currently around 4.3%, to between 1% and 2% to lower rising costs to service the federal debt.

Other Trump advisers, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, have amplified the president’s criticisms of monetary policy by arguing that worries about tariff-driven inflation are being exaggerated.

Since meeting with Powell privately in the Oval Office last month, Trump has unleashed a torrent of insults. “I don’t know why the Board doesn’t override this Total and Complete Moron!” said Trump in a socialmedia post on Friday.

Powell has said the Fed makes its decisions based on its best analysis of the economy. “From my standpoint, it’s not complicated. What everyone [at the Fed] wants is a good, solid, American economy,” he said last week.

In speeches in the past two months, former Fed governor Kevin Warsh has said the central bank is to blame for attacks on its conduct. “I read breathlessly in the newspapers how mean these politicians are to the central bank. Well, grow up! Be tough,” said Warsh, a leading candidate for Fed chair, at a panel discussion last month.

Nixon mischief

Presidential pressure over Fed chairs isn’t new, but it used to happen in private. In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson physically intimidated his Fed chair, William McChesney Martin Jr., after summoning him to his Texas ranch; seated together on the porch, they later played down any conflict to reporters.

In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon and his advisers planted a false story in the press that chair Arthur Burns was seeking a pay raise while arguing for price and wage controls. Burns ultimately yielded to White House pressure.

The high inflation that followed in the 1970s was cured by punishing recessions in the early 1980s. Ever since, central bankers in the U.S. and other advanced economies have tried—and largely succeeded— in building support among the government for greater independence, arguing that it leads to better economic outcomes.

“It is normal for presidents to put pressure on the Fed chair, but Trump’s feel different. His attacks are more vicious, constant, and public,” said Mark Spindel, an investment manager who co-wrote a history of Fed independence.

Powell became Fed chair in 2018 after Trump appointed him, and the president frequently bashed Powell for being too slow to support the economy by lowering interest rates.

Trump’s critiques over the past week have been different. Republicans in Congress and Trump’s White House have found it more difficult than expected to cut spending and reduce deficits. That has led the president to press for lower interest rates to bring down growing payments on the federal debt, which this year could exceed what the U.S. spends on the military.

The attacks put the Fed in a communications bind. If the Fed isn’t seen as acting in the country’s best interest, it will be harder for the institution to make the at-times difficult but necessary decisions to slow the economy to control inflation.

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You're apparently forgetting the jihadist beliefs of the Mullahs. They think they are on a divine mission to make the world submit to Islam. Their track record of exporting terror around the world and their rhetoric does not evidence a defensive mindset.

I hear you. I like it. Both sides have to want to co-exist. I'm not sure I see that.

I think my whole view here is we have done that to death now. Consistent cycles of cease fire, talks, agreements, then back to business as usual.

Both sides as bad as each other. I'm not sure how to resolve that.

any suggestions?

didn’t the message say this? and you specifically have to go to opening a channel with onchain?

#NotYourKeysNotYourCoins

There is effectively no difference between using the LN and the existing banking system.

Probably won’t make the leap to Proton wallet.

Question from relative newbie. I was setting up Alby Hub and went to open my first channel which it said needed payment of $19 and a bit of change. So I deposited on chain sats worth $24. Then I went to open channel and received following message

You currently have 24,000 sats. We recommend depositing 230,000 sats to open this channel.

WTH? I can't open a channel for less than $100?

Next question. Do I need to open a chanel to receive sats here from zaps?

you should not deposit onchain.

the first one was about buying a channel with incoming liquidity from a lighting service provider. it gives you best connectivity and the ability to instantly receive.

when you use onchain funds you can open an outgoing channel.

channels should be big to be able to send/receive some amounts.

you used a different interface there.

if you’re interested learn a bit about channels, there are links to guides

Now you know why people like Bitcoin Cash. No Lightning channels, no high fees, no monkey business. Just Bitcoin being used as Satoshi designed it.

#Bitcoin Cash is lightning fast!

Trumps favorite kill Qassem was known as the isis killer,

So he had to killed.

US is daddy terrorist but American citizens can’t come to accept that for a few reasons.

Remember that all this was made while there was the Soviet Union. Funding terrorists was better than letting the Soviets conquer the planet. They already too east Europe, south America, China and many Asian countries. That was the devil at that time

Until someone zaps 21 sats and calls it a statement on monetary policy. 🤣

nevent1qqsgeef3js9qvqw8r2vwnzl89v4qdfjnnxgpmthpfq3z8lg49pvj57cpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wc7a4xad

I would also say government mandates to buy healthcare which destroys any free markets.

What has changed since then!?

As was very easy to predict, mass deportations are not happening.

Now Trump floats the idea of giving $1000 to people who supposedly self-deport.

Here’s the IRON LAW of government giving tax money away…

A majority of the money goes to fraud.

One day in the future, a report will come out that 75% of the money given away was fraudulent.

Privacy isn’t a crime. But hiding exculpatory evidence is. Drop the Samourai case. 🫡

USA will continue to be richest and the most powerful nation in the world. On a geopolitical level we are in a perfect location and 1 language.

Where Europe fails is they have too many languages.

Idk, no mention of it in the source link

strong words, George Bush looks much older than I remember but hey, who am I to judge.

Fiat is broken yes, but we'll still have broader money in the form of credit and IOU's on a Bitcoin standard

I suppose base money (m0) can be fixed.

Broader money (m1, m2 and m3) I think cannot be fixed. I don't think they need to or should be either.

I'm smirking at this, but maybe this bill is more of a statement than something concrete to be executed.

Lot of dominoes are falling.

'An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.'