Marakesh 𓅦

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Last Notes

2026-07-10 14:17:18 UTC

I asked a 90 year-old yesterday "What's the secret to a long life?"
She said "Think happy thoughts."
And she elaborated that this means taking a break from the news at times.

2026-07-10 04:26:16 UTC

Just saw this today, but still true.
Unfortunately the American Revolution just exchanged one ruler (King George III) for another (the U.S. government). True self-government would mean YOU really govern yourself. Let's wake up and stop falling for the deceptions...
#nevent1q…5rrk
#voluntarism #anarchy #libertarian
The US #GovtIsTheProblem

2026-07-09 23:18:52 UTC

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And often women unilaterally make that decision to murder the child... 😩

2026-07-09 23:17:26 UTC

> "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
--Thomas Paine, *Common Sense* (1776)
And not only the palaces of kings but also the halls and buildings of governments.
#voluntarism #anarchy

2026-07-08 13:41:03 UTC

Wordle 1,845 2/6* 😲
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2026-07-08 01:04:37 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/0d5b2fb4eea434a35d44bbd1b0bc50f80e8932cd4587dab0f03349c3b25548ac.jpg

2026-07-07 20:35:37 UTC

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I guess they'll keep having votes until they get the outcome they want

2026-07-07 20:29:10 UTC

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A life for a life.

2026-07-07 18:56:59 UTC

Someone told me in that in the prisons in Bahrain they don't feel an obligation to feed you. It's on your family or friends to make sure you get to eat. 😳

2026-07-05 07:22:21 UTC

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https://fountain.fm/clip/aiLwAqNfWHrzoVconTzt

2026-07-04 17:39:43 UTC

> "The American Revolution was not only the first great modern revolution, it was a #libertarian revolution as well."
--Murray Rothbard
https://tinyurl.com/bd6d4ypb #USA250 #4thOfJuly

2026-07-04 16:02:13 UTC

> "...all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. **But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.**"
-The American Declaration of Independence
https://blossom.primal.net/bd2c8ad5b1c89b788d4639c10223a06e7ec87a4839a7f0757714cb45c8ba5911.jpg
Happy #4thOfJuly #USA250

2026-07-03 16:27:15 UTC

Hebrews 12:14 NIV
[14] Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
https://bible.com/bible/111/heb.12.14.NIV

2026-07-02 22:20:16 UTC

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Would you take away some of the deep state's key tools for controlling elections?

2026-07-02 21:04:04 UTC

Was reading this passage today and it struck me that it is a type and shadow of Jesus:
#nevent1q…z0v7
Israel's purpose was to bring about the Messiah, and in that they succeeded:
#nevent1q…mwjz
The word translated "dwelt" there, referring to Jesus, literally means in Greek "tabernacled" or "lived in a tent".

2026-07-02 20:52:27 UTC

> The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
--John 1:14

2026-07-02 20:51:30 UTC

> "So all the work for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses."
--Exodus 39:32

2026-07-02 20:04:12 UTC

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Without reading the story, because they knew they made it up?

2026-07-02 19:45:14 UTC

> The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of #America.
I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.
>
> It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty.
>
> It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
-- John Adams, letter to his wife Abigail (July 3, 1776) 😆
#USA250

2026-07-02 14:13:13 UTC

> “Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” — Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788)
>
> "Byles feared a government of 3,000. Today, the feds employ close to 3 million." — Andrew Napolitano
https://tinyurl.com/4rdr32nc
The US #GovtIsTheProblem

2026-07-01 16:11:27 UTC

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I don't want to go round and round and waste time and energy pointlessly. Have you earnestly sought to find God with all of your heart? If you haven't done that yet, start there. So often "atheism" it's not a matter of insufficient information or facts, it's a matter of the heart.

2026-07-01 15:37:29 UTC

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I've had many of these discussions online with atheists in the past and we've gone round and round, and in the end it seems like we didn't get anywhere. It's like trying to convince Jehovah's Witnesses that Jesus is God.
I'll leave it at this: if you truly seek to know the truth, if there is a God, He will reveal Himself to you. God said "If you seek Me you will find Me when you search for Me with all your heart." But obviously it's conditional.

2026-07-01 13:40:57 UTC

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Check your premise, that the resurrection of Jesus is only mentioned in the Bible. How do you know *that* is true?

2026-07-01 12:27:52 UTC

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I don't have time for a longer explanation right now, but in short it would be because of the resurrection of Jesus.

2026-07-01 12:22:03 UTC

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At the start of Jesus' public ministry, when He was about 30 years old, God the Father testified from heaven that "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased."
Jesus later asked who was able to convict Him of any sin (John 8:46), and no one could.
By raising #Jesus from the dead God vindicated His life and testimony. If He were not the spotless lamb of God, He could not have taken away the sins of the world.
Incidentally, I don't believe babies are born guilty of Original Sin, as Augustinian/Roman #Catholic doctrine holds. I believe babies are born innocent until they know right from wrong. So I don't believe that babies that die or are aborted, etc. automatically go to hell, as some believe. So they may also be sinless persons. But the only way to the Father for them is still through Christ.

2026-06-29 16:48:34 UTC

I rag on its government all of the time, but I love my country!
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZmy9CgB0_5/ God bless America!
"A good man loves his country, but hates his government." -Thomas Paine, attributed

2026-06-29 16:24:17 UTC

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https://lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2026/06/1-2.jpg

2026-06-29 16:05:53 UTC

I've seen a few banners hanging up on freeway overpasses that state "She was 13".
My assumptions are that these relate to allegations that #Trump engaged in pedophilia.
Perhaps the deep state is prepping people for when they move to dump Trump.
However, I also find the argument of somewhat convincing that if #Israel had compromat on Trump, they would have released it by now to keep him in line regarding the #Iran War.

2026-06-26 21:56:56 UTC

What's a hidden talent you have that not many people know about?
#asknostr

2026-06-26 13:41:29 UTC

#TodayILearned Thomas Massie lost his congressional primary after 10,854 absentee/mail-in votes came in, 💯% for his opponent, and just enough to defeat Massie.
And still people have faith in elections...
#TIL

2026-06-26 13:15:54 UTC

> "Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on her last day in office released 4.7 million pages that prove conclusively that the Covid pandemic was an orchestration by the American government."
-Paul Craig Roberts
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ0QKoflKLU/?img_index=1

2026-06-25 19:53:57 UTC

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Which state?

2026-06-25 19:44:05 UTC

## The Sixth Republic of America ##
> "Then came September 11, 2001. The attacks of that day and the wars that followed were accompanied by a series of transformations at home. The most obvious manifestations were the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the expansion of surveillance powers, the normalization of endless military interventions, and the growth of the intelligence bureaucracy. But the deeper transformation concerned the organization of political power itself.
>
> "Congress became increasingly marginal to governance. Major policy decisions migrated toward executive agencies, courts, intelligence institutions, emergency declarations, and presidential directives. Budgeting devolved into perpetual crisis management conducted through enormous omnibus bills that few legislators read and even fewer genuinely shaped. Presidents of both parties increasingly governed through executive orders, administrative guidance, emergency powers, and regulatory interpretation.
>
> "The legislature remained. Its constitutional forms survived. Yet its practical role steadily diminished. This is precisely the sort of “revolution within the form” that Garet Garrett described nearly a century ago. The shell remained intact while the substance changed.
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> "The defining institution of the Fifth Republic was the administrative agency. The defining institution of the Sixth Republic is the security-administrative state: a fusion of bureaucratic governance, executive power, intelligence institutions, permanent emergency management, and increasingly symbolic legislative oversight."
https://mises.org/mises-wire/sixth-republic#:~:text=Then%20came%20September,symbolic%20legislative%20oversight
The US #GovtIsTheProblem #USA250

2026-06-25 18:30:00 UTC

> "Prior to 1913, most Americans had little direct interaction with federal authorities. Afterward, Washington increasingly inserted itself into citizens’ economic lives."
https://tinyurl.com/4x2neyhp
This time period (ca. 1870-1910) is often called "The Gilded Age". It could also be called the Third American Republic.
#nevent1q…8fu9

2026-06-25 18:02:00 UTC

I, for one, welcome the creation of a super-app.
Actually, several, that would compete to be the best.
#nostr-ideas

2026-06-25 17:18:31 UTC

Reminds me of a time in my early 20s when my boss was telling me about something from the past and I told her "I don't know anything about that. That was before my time." And she was like "That's no excuse! Pick up a book. READ!" 😂
#nevent1q…l6sx

2026-06-25 17:17:42 UTC

Reminds me of a time in my early 20s when my boss was telling me about something from the past and I told her "I know anything about that. That was before my time." And she was like "That's no excuse! Pick up a book. READ!" 😂
#nevent1q…l6sx

2026-06-25 02:23:59 UTC

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Do you want to make Amethyst the browser for the new Web?

2026-06-25 02:04:25 UTC

Very cool! Thanks for doing this! 🚀
#nevent1q…0gdz

2026-06-23 23:17:48 UTC

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Okay, how would you like me to like it?
On Zapstore?

2026-06-23 20:11:45 UTC

Imagine you're in the men's room at a restaurant and on the wall above the toilet is this:
https://blossom.primal.net/d3574f926568ecc88e5bb1ac735cbb3a98b8ba828aae246873ef457b108c492f.jpg
And on the door behind you see this:
https://blossom.primal.net/48bbe86741e17d0783d8a7a8e8b691db0cd2e4724112ca67c263aa9edb1cedc7.jpg
😂

2026-06-22 13:31:35 UTC

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Thieves gonna thieve.

2026-06-18 21:10:43 UTC

He's got his dad's mannerisms down 😄
#nevent1q…c7qq

2026-06-18 21:02:36 UTC

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I also learned there was a Korean holocaust centuries ago, committed by the Mongols, that killed an estimated 80 million Koreans! 😳

2026-06-18 18:30:27 UTC

An old lady in the store just said to me "Hi handsome."
When you're old, you can just say what you feel! 😄

2026-06-18 15:00:30 UTC

> "Imagine:
>
> No income tax or IRS. Americans were free to keep 100 percent of their income, and there was nothing the federal government could do about it.
>
> No Social Security or welfare state. People took care of their own retirements out of the money they saved over their lifetimes from not having to pay income taxes. Those seniors who were unable to take care of themselves relied on children or voluntary charity.
>
> No Medicare or Medicaid. No government provision of healthcare.
>
> No Federal Reserve or paper money. Gold coins and silver coins were the official money, as established by the Constitution. Thus, no government-induced inflation or debasement of the currency.
>
> Minimal immigration controls. Millions of immigrants flooded into the United States, adding to the enormous surge in economic prosperity.
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> No national-security state — i.e., no Pentagon, CIA, or NSA. No state-sponsored assassinations, coups, or regime-change operations. Instead, a limited-government republic with a minimally sized army.
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> No foreign wars, except the Spanish American War that statists foisted onto America in 1898.
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> No sanctions, embargoes, or blockades.
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> No drug laws or drug war and therefore, no drug lords, drug cartels, or drug-war violence.
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> No regulation of economic activity, including minimum-wage laws.
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> Virtually no occupational-licensure laws.
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> Hardly any public-school systems and mandatory-attendance laws. Education was mostly a voluntary seeking process rather than a mandatory cramming process.
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> One fact is undeniable: This was the most unusual and the freest — from an economic standpoint — period of time in the history of man. It was also the most prosperous and the most charitable period that mankind had ever seen."
What America was like, ca. 1870-1910
https://www.fff.org/2026/06/15/a-great-documentary-on-the-gilded-age/#:~:text=Imagine%3A,had%20ever%20seen.

2026-06-18 07:17:59 UTC

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#TodayILearned that movable-type printing was originally developed in Korea centuries before the Gutenberg press.
#TIL #Korea
https://fountain.fm/episode/qOtukUG3NwrNmnMXEXFZ

2026-06-18 01:08:15 UTC

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Can you show me? 🤑

2026-06-17 16:39:31 UTC

So you don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, but do you want your country to have one (or several thousand)?

2026-06-17 16:19:37 UTC

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Is Dan Van vorhees also on Nostr?

2026-06-17 16:17:12 UTC

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I wonder if they did the same for the Jehovah's Witnesses? 🤔

2026-06-17 16:06:13 UTC

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#TodayILearned that the Department of War recently re-categorized the LDS religion as not #Christian.
Shout out to Nostrich @npub1yjx…8prh who produces this podcast. #TIL
https://fountain.fm/episode/9wgbqONXk2I4onZDo5zi

2026-06-12 02:07:15 UTC

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These were basically the two rules the Roman Emperor Constantine gave to his subjects. In less vulgar terms.

2026-06-12 01:54:37 UTC

#TodayILearned the US government once considered detonating a nuclear weapon on the moon, to beat the Soviets from doing it first.
And Carl Sagan was involved.
https://fountain.fm/episode/D4ulPQLcFUePV5VzQGxj
The US #GovtIsTheProblem #TIL

2026-06-10 05:26:35 UTC

> "Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
>
> "In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.
--Robert Higgs, attributed
#anarchy

2026-06-09 20:20:59 UTC

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Those would be "other stuff" apps, right?

2026-06-09 02:20:05 UTC

> "...in the ancient world free citizens didn’t usually pay taxes. Generally speaking, tribute was levied only on conquered populations. This was already true in ancient Mesopotamia, where the inhabitants of independent cities did not usually have to pay direct taxes at all. Similarly, as Moses Finley noted, “Classical Greeks looked upon direct taxes as tyrannical and avoided them whenever possible.” Athenian citizens did not pay direct taxes of any sort, though the city did sometimes distribute money to its citizens, a kind of reverse taxation—either directly, as with the proceeds of the Laurium silver mines, and indirectly, through generous fees for jury duty or attending the assembly. Subject cities, however, did have to pay tribute. Even within the Persian Empire, Persians did not have to pay tribute to the Great King, but the inhabitants of conquered provinces did. The same was true in Rome, where for a very long time Roman citizens not only paid no taxes but had a right to a share of the tribute levied on others, in the form of the dole—the “bread” part of the famous “bread and circuses.”
--David Graeber, *Debt: The First 5000 Years* (2014), ch. 3
#TaxationIsRobbery #WeAreNotFree #bookstr

2026-06-08 03:43:07 UTC

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The "Iranian terror regime" 😂
You can say the same thing about Israel

2026-06-08 03:37:28 UTC

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This makes it plausible:
#nevent1q…283j

2026-06-08 03:11:22 UTC

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"Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves." (Romans 14:22)

2026-06-08 01:11:48 UTC

A look at the dystopian nightmare coming our way, brought to you by A.I., digital cash, digital I.D., and technology...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bantamjoe/p/life-in-2030-the-rise-of-the-permission

2026-06-07 19:42:26 UTC

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True, but that's not how totalitarian governments think. They even consider it a privilege that they even let you drive your car on the streets.

2026-06-07 13:37:44 UTC

#TodayILearned West Germany paid billions of dollars in reparations to #Israel for the Holocaust. The two nations signed a historic pact called the [Reparations Agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany) (also known as the Luxembourg Agreement) on September 10, 1952. Under this treaty, West #Germany agreed to pay the state of Israel and Jewish organizations to help resettle Holocaust survivors and compensate for stolen property. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The agreement was highly unusual because neither country existed during World War II. It marked a major step in West Germany's effort to rejoin the global community. [5, 6, 7, 8]
## 💰 What Was Paid
West Germany paid a massive sum of money over a 12-year period, which entered into force in 1953: [1, 9, 10]
* 3 billion Deutsche Marks ($7 billion today) was paid directly to the state of Israel. [9]
* Goods, not cash, made up most of these payments. West Germany sent steel, ships, machinery, and trains. This helped build Israel's early economy and infrastructure. [9, 11, 12, 13, 14]
* 450 million Deutsche Marks went to the [Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany](https://www.claimscon.org/about/history/). This group distributed the funds to help individual Jewish survivors living outside of Israel. [1, 9, 15]
* Indemnification laws were also passed by West Germany to give monthly pensions directly to individual survivors for their trauma and loss of livelihood. [1, 9]
## ⚖️ The Controversy
The deal was deeply controversial in both nations and sparked fierce public debates. [4, 16]
* In Israel: Many citizens were furious about accepting what they called "blood money" from the "land of the murderers". Massive protests and violent riots broke out. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion argued that the young, financially broke nation desperately needed the funds to house half a million poor refugees. [9, 17, 18, 19]
* In West Germany: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer faced pushback because the German public was not consulted. Many regular Germans felt they were the victims of the war and did not want to send money away. Adenauer pushed the deal forward to fix Germany's international image. [8, 11, 18, 20]
* In East Germany: The communist government of East Germany completely refused to participate. They denied any responsibility for Nazi crimes and never paid reparations to Israel. [5, 21, 22]
## 🔄 Ongoing Payments
The 1952 agreement was just the beginning. The German government continues to negotiate with the Claims Conference to this day. Over the decades, Germany has paid more than $90 billion in total to survivors worldwide, and billions are still paid out every year from the German federal budget. [3, 15, 23]
[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany)
[2] [https://www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5pd4qy/were_financial_reparations_to_israel_for_the/)
[3] [https://www.bbc.com](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22707483)
[4] [https://www.sun-sentinel.com](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/events/#!/details/paying-for-the-holocaust-the-controversial-reparations-agreement-between-israel-and-west-germany-and-the-plot-to-kill-adenauer/9737091/2022-01-13T15)
[5] [https://www.ebsco.com](https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/diplomacy-and-international-relations/germany-agrees-pay-reparations-israel)
[6] [https://academic.oup.com](https://academic.oup.com/book/26106/chapter/194116376)
[7] [https://www.jpost.com](https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-734910)
[8] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkdpStbJrHs&t=7)
[9] [https://americangerman.institute](https://americangerman.institute/2019/11/the-september-1952-reparations-agreement-between-west-germany-and-israel-the-beginning-of-a-remarkable-friendship/)
[10] [https://remember.org](https://remember.org/guide/facts-root-aft-lib-aft)
[11] [https://jacobin.com](https://jacobin.com/2020/11/postwar-west-germany-support-israel-whitewashing)
[12] [https://www.history.com](https://www.history.com/articles/poland-wwii-reparations-germany)
[13] [https://www.nytimes.com](https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/world/israel-s-ties-with-germany-elude-us-jews.html)
[14] [https://www.thedial.world](https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-3/holocaust-reparations-wassenaar-agreement)
[15] [https://www.claimscon.org](https://www.claimscon.org/about/history/)
[16] [https://www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ub3ql2/what_level_of_support_did_west_german_citizens/)
[17] [https://www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/1k64t91/our_honor_shall_not_be_sold_for_money_our_blood/)
[18] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCxdU3l-WY&t=67)
[19] [https://www.independent.ie](https://www.independent.ie/world-news/germany-marks-70-years-of-compensating-holocaust-survivors/a/133468462.html)
[20] [https://www.lockdownuniversity.org](https://www.lockdownuniversity.org/lectures/1177-abomination-of-abominations-the-germany-israel-reparations-controversy/transcript)
[21] [https://www.israelhayom.com](https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/01/31/before-capitol-riot-there-was-the-1952-knesset-insurrection/)
[22] [https://www.latimes.com](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-13-mn-1205-story.html)
[23] [https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de](https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aussenpolitik/laenderinformationen/israel-node/israel-228212)
[Source: Google Gemini](https://share.google/aimode/7SCjRe2VbPuuHN2gq) #TIL

2026-06-06 11:58:58 UTC

The U.S. Government's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran is the reason we are paying higher gas prices. It costs Iran an estimated $6 billion; how much has it cost you?
https://blossom.primal.net/ec2c92bebefec0087317352713a07ed77313db1dfe3a391d4243d10a618da2a2.jpg
The US #GovtIsTheProblem

2026-06-05 16:43:48 UTC

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Today's episode might interest some of our #Orthodox brethren as it concerns the "Triumph of Orthodoxy."
I don't know though, icons, a material thing, seem to be given a little too much importance...
https://fountain.fm/episode/UM8vOBgFHRs8DwnNdfUu

2026-06-05 05:48:52 UTC

Those of us who partake... 😉
https://blossom.primal.net/6604300d1c836bb8b605b37a449adb42941060d7cebc6e42974eb853045cb28a.jpg

2026-06-05 03:01:21 UTC

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I've heard that myself. I've read that Muhammad was influenced by a lot of heretical Christians that had fled into Arabia, and that's who he learned his New Testament from.

2026-06-05 02:18:24 UTC

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I saw one of these flags atop a church sign, and I thought to myself that is Satan, claiming his territory. There was a message stating something like "No matter where life's journey has taken you, you are welcome here." And I thought, the only reason Satan would feel it's ok to send people to a church and not feel threatened by that is because they don't preach the Gospel.

2026-06-02 04:47:41 UTC

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If he's lying, yes.

2026-06-01 15:03:55 UTC

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2026-05-30 23:47:52 UTC

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If he had said anything less would he have been fired?

2026-05-30 23:46:59 UTC

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And the bigger they are, the harder they fall 😂
I love the use Freebird as the sound track

2026-05-30 20:10:05 UTC

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How is All Follows different from Global, then?

2026-05-30 20:06:38 UTC

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Chat GP-me says Buddha left his wife and kid to "go seek enlightenment" and sat under a tree so long, starving, until his buttocks looked like a camel's hoof.

2026-05-30 19:58:24 UTC

In #Amethyst, what's the difference between "All Follows" and "All User Follows"?
And what is the "Default Follow List"?
@nprofile…vhl6 #asknostr
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2026-05-30 16:23:41 UTC

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Such a disappointment, probably meant to make ancaps look foolish.

2026-05-30 15:12:07 UTC

> "The #Bible has a sentence that the #Quran does not have: “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” It has another: “God is love.” Not God loves. God is love. Love is not an attribute activated by human performance. It is what He is."
#nevent1q…5gyd

2026-05-30 15:08:16 UTC

> "The question that changed everything was structural. It is this: in Christianity, the founder is the standard against which the institution is measured. When the church falls short, the accusation is always: you are not living like Jesus. The standard itself is not in question. Jesus did not order raids. He did not arrange marriages with children. He did not authorize the execution of apostates. He was executed by the state, not empowered by it. Everything the church has done wrong can be measured against what #Jesus actually did and found wanting. The standard holds.
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> "In Islam, the founder is the standard. When you examine the primary sources and find things that trouble you, you are not finding a gap between #Islam and Muhammad. You are finding Muhammad. The hadith I cited about apostasy is not a corruption of the tradition. It is from the most trusted collection in the tradition. The Banu Qurayza massacre is not a later invention. It is in the Sira, narrated with approval by the companion who participated. The marriage to Aisha [age 9] is not a smear. It is defended by the tradition."
#nevent1q…5gyd

2026-05-30 14:56:10 UTC

> "The Quran’s treatment of #Jesus also surprised me. He is treated with more dignity in the #Quran than most Christians realize. He is born of a virgin, confirmed by the Quran. He performs miracles, confirmed by the Quran. He is called the Word of God and a spirit from God. He is listed among the greatest of the prophets. The Quran states explicitly that he was sinless. I found that striking. Muhammad, by contrast, is told in the Quran to seek forgiveness for his sins. Jesus is not. The text treats their moral standing differently, and it does so in Jesus’ favor, and most Muslims I have spoken to have never noticed that."
#nevent1q…5gyd

2026-05-30 14:48:18 UTC

Excellent piece on the #Quran and Muhammad!
This author has done what I have tried and failed to do on a few occasions, and that is read the entire Quran. I recommend it to every #Muslim and anyone trying to understand what Muslims believe.
https://open.substack.com/pub/acrosenthal/p/i-read-the-entire-quran-all-the-hadiths #Islam

2026-05-29 16:40:34 UTC

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I like it, but all of these Twitter-clones are just variations on the same theme. What were you trying to do differently? Simply implement your own UX/UI preferences?

2026-05-29 16:24:06 UTC

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Nice use of a footnote in a note!

2026-05-29 16:12:15 UTC

I'd love to see a #Christian version of this, and a Taoist version of this. I'm sure there'd be some overlap.
#nevent1q…rtxv

2026-05-29 10:19:27 UTC

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Why not put Trump's face on 100 trillion dollar bank notes, like they had in Zimbabwe?

2026-05-29 05:20:06 UTC

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Indubitably.

2026-05-29 04:25:57 UTC

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Doug Casey makes the point that the so-called American Civil War was not a civil war fighting for control of the U.S. government, rather it was a war of secession. I'm going to start calling it the War of Secession. You've got to start calling things what they are.
It could be argued that the American Revolutionary War was not really a revolution, it was actually a war of secession from the British Empire. Therefore, we could call it the first war of secession, which would make the so-called Civil War the second war of secession. The first war was successful, of course, and the second was unsuccessful.
https://fountain.fm/episode/NRRpoOz0MIL8KVfW8teu

2026-05-29 03:38:34 UTC

@nprofile…0e67 got it right, and anyone who selected 😉
On the Mount of Transfiguration, in the land of Israel, Moses and Elijah appeared there with Jesus and three disciples.
I believe it was partially symbolic that Moses was not allowed to lead Israel into the Promised Land /rest. Moses represented the Law/works, and God's point was to demonstrate that the Law and works (and thus Judaism), cannot get you the Promised Land /rest.
Joshua, which is the same name as #Jesus in Hebrew, is the one that leads God's people into the Promised Land and rest. Joshua (Iesous/Jesus in Greek) is symbolic of Jesus, the Messiah, who would lead God's people the Promised Land. Then, and now, Jesus is the Way.
#nevent1q…nflt

2026-05-28 17:47:17 UTC

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This sucker would love to be a king; t's a good thing he's old.
And yet believe it or not, monarchy is actually a better form of government than democracy 👀
https://mises.org/library/book/democracy-god-failed

2026-05-28 17:28:53 UTC

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So then King Ahab exercised "eminent domain", so to speak.
#bible

2026-05-28 17:26:28 UTC

> "Then He [Jesus] said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
--Luke 12:15
#nevent1q…xstw
#bible

2026-05-28 17:16:19 UTC

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"That is what an unbelieving world
simply finds unbelievable."

2026-05-27 18:02:06 UTC

I just saw a bumper sticker that read:
"Drive carefully. There is no heaven."
I might be more inclined to believe there is no heaven if there has never been anybody testifying to have seen it or been there. But we do have such testimonies. So I guess you just have to decide whether you will believe them or not.

2026-05-27 12:53:44 UTC

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Is there a government relay out there somewhere that you know of? Or are you just imagining a scenario like this?

2026-05-27 06:03:56 UTC

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Don't be like Tycho Brahe.
If you don't know who he is, look him up and how he died... 😬

2026-05-27 05:56:10 UTC

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> Jesus responded, “Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin." (John 8:34, CSB)

2026-05-27 05:48:36 UTC

I support support Alberta secession from #Canada
#nevent1q…udvt

2026-05-27 01:24:14 UTC

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> If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say, “We have not sinned,” we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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> 2 My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the righteous one. (1 John 1:8–2:1, CSB)

2026-05-27 01:01:58 UTC

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Hey, people say Nostr for enemies too.

2026-05-27 00:52:31 UTC

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That would be great, but you put more trust in politicians than I do. And have more confidence in Trump than I do. Trump and USrael have started the war with Iran. It looks to me like he's part of continuing the cycle.

2026-05-26 19:57:42 UTC

#FortuneCookieSay:
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