Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰

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Progressive, pro-democracy nerd. We can't control everything in this world. What we can control is what we focus on. As we confront a difficult reality, let's all stay present in our own lives and with our loved ones.

Classic wedge salad. A wedge of iceberg lettuce, smothered in bleu cheese dressing, bacon, and sliced cherry tomatoes.
The Razorback spaceship from The Expanse TV series.
Me in a motorcycle jacket, standing next to a red flat-bed Ford on the corner in Winslow Arizona, as the song goes.
Barnes and Noble book purchase confirmation screen.
Parody scene from Dune with Pete Hegseth and JD Vance in the background, and Donald Trump as Vladimir Harkonnen in a black pool of healing sludge looking unhappy. There is a blue map of Iran in the background with red crosshairs. The mentat JD Vance has blue spice-infused eyes, and his forefingers are extended in front of himself so they touch each other. He says, “My Lord… the Fremen have shut down the spice trade from Arrakis!”
Holy shit!!! I was almost certain he was still recovering from the biggest orgasm he’s ever had in his life.
Politico headline: John Bolton Sounds the Alarm on Trump’s Iran Gamble
Table of figures showing 44% drop in Tesla sales across France, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, and Norway.
Black and white cat chasing its tail
Phone screenshot showing Bloomberg headline”Trump Says He ‘Won’t Use Force’ to Take Greenland
Naomi Nagata, Amos Burton, and James Holden from The Expanse TV show.
Australian shepherd, 4 months old, with head close to the camera. Black, orange, and white.
Circled what appears to be the back end of a school bus ahead of a line of cars.
Two people facing the camera and dressed in burnt orange inflatable dinosaur costumes at a Yosemite viewpoint up high, with mountains in the background.
Photo of Trump with headline below, "Trump Says He Won't Rule Out Third Reich". Below that, it says "the ONION" (satire news company).
Reader mode Sometimes you just want to read the article on a website, not wade through ads, video embeds and other distractions. Orion gives you a one-click Reader mode (click the icon in the left side of address bar or press shift command R to activate it. The settings is remembered in website settings for return visits to the same website.
Image of a post by New York Times Metro reporter Jeffrey C Mays with partial quote from his article of today: > Monday's mass shooting may put concerns over gun violence back on voters' minds, and have already lead some to scrutinize Mr. Mamdani for his views on policing. "He clearly does not understand what public safety is all about," said Cuomo w/
About 15 protestors on the corner of the street in front of a monument reading “Fashion Island”.
Joe Garrelli, a handyman character on the show NewsRadio, played by Joe Rogan.
In regard to a discussion of the WW2 Navajo Code Talkers, someone says, "No, it's DEI, erasing White USA culture and history bc its 'evil and racist'"
The Battlestar Galactica spacecraft from the reboot series glows yellow and orange as it plummets through the atmosphere of New Caprica.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space movie poster
Tesla stock is down over 7% today at time of posting.
"Do Not Comply In Advance" - bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later. Instead, "Fuck You, Make Me" - leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a prostest or put on a banner.
Elon Musk to keep having kids until one eventually likes him
No Swastikars, with Tesla emblem crossed out.
Voters 53 - 39 percent disapprove of Elon Musk playing a prominent role in the Trump administration, similar to Quinnipiac University's December 18 poll.
Menacing looking ED-209 armed robot from the movie "Robocop".
Elon Musk behind a desk gazing at us, and wearing a dark navy full dress military uniform with many medals and a Nazi armband emblazoned with a swastika. In the background are a red furled Nazi flag, a chandelier, and a window framed by opulent red curtains with gold trim.
BINGO card titled “Trump Appointments to be Fired” and containing a grid of 24 names of Trump Appointees with a “free space” in the center. Vivek Ramaswamy is crossed out.
Johnny Fever at the microphone from the late 70s to early 80s comedy series WKRP in Cincinnati.
Photos of various commercial and military aircraft, each labeled as “drone”.
Diagram with Fairchild Semiconductors at the center and with lines radiating outward to the many spinoffs which came out of it, including Intel, National Semiconductor, Union Carbide, etc.