Mel Orr
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Mel Orr
@melorriii.bsky.social
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Photographer, prolific reader, sci-fi nerd, physics geek, all-around weirdo. Black Lives Matter. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi are blue states now, y'all!!! 🥳
Bye-bye, $20+ million! 👋
I was greatly encouraged to see I was voter 115 at 9:15 in midtown Savannah. The turnout felt much higher than I expected.
You and me both. I had hoped they win but I never dreamed they would win by this massive of a margin.
For Georgia:
This is an extraordinary outcome for the two members that ran for the Georgia Public Service Commission!

To give full context: These are two statewide elections for a commission that regulates telecommunications, transportation, electric, and natural gas services.
So I guess Georgia is a blue state now?
This is an extraordinary outcome for the two members that ran for the Georgia Public Service Commission!

To give full context: These are two statewide elections for a commission that regulates telecommunications, transportation, electric, and natural gas services.
No Democrat has held *any* of these seats in nearly two decades. The fact that Democrats OVERWHELMINGLY flipped both of these seats in a non-presidential, non-mid-terms election year is amazing!

Source: results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...
Election Results
results.sos.ga.gov
This is an extraordinary outcome for the two members that ran for the Georgia Public Service Commission!

To give full context: These are two statewide elections for a commission that regulates telecommunications, transportation, electric, and natural gas services.
"After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power."
FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win
YouTube video by ABC News
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"Or maybe they are embittered and resentful that where their calculated, cynical, focus-grouped campaign strategy of insincerity and manipulation has failed, Mamdani’s unabashedly sincere campaign of joy and principle has succeeded."
"They do not like his progressive politics, certainly; they are perhaps not comfortable with a rising star in their party being a Muslim, immigrant man of color, perhaps."
"With the notable exception of Barack Obama, who reportedly recently called Mamdani to express admiration for the younger man’s campaign, the attitude among national Democrats towards Mamdani’s victory seems to linger somewhere between distaste and alarm."
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
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Here’s something that isn’t getting a lot of attention:

Young women in VA, NJ, & NY all broke for Democrats at nearly 80% or HIGHER. Young men did slightly better than 2024, with the majority of them breaking for Democrats.

There is hope. Keep rallying your young folks
It's real rich of him to day we need to work together when he refused to work with Mamdani during the campaign.
Fuck YES.
Bucks County ousts ALL Republicans from the Central Bucks and Pennridge school boards after both school boards were ground zero for anti-trans policies in 2021.

The wave is receding.
💯💯💯💯💯
AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
I cannot love this enough!
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
💯
America's Mayor is an American Muslim Immigrant.

That's it. That's the post. Carry on.
This is vitally important. Standing with the trans community should be fully embraced and not feared. The sooner the Democratic Party recognizes this fact the better.
Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
THIS is the biggest takeaway from tonight's victories. We can and MUST hold out for better candidates. No more "settling for the lesser of two evils."
and we don't have to settle for shitty candidates a year out from the midterms. we can hold out for better. we can always hold out for better
Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
I don't know how it's for y'all, but I was number 115 at 9:15 this morning. Feels like turnout is going to be pretty high.
That's a damn good reason!
Local elections are especially vital. Every election matters. Please research your ballot and GO VOTE today.