Mel Orr
@melorriii.bsky.social
Photographer, prolific reader, sci-fi nerd, physics geek, all-around weirdo. Black Lives Matter. He/him. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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97.5% of the people Trump arrested in Chicago had no criminal record
100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records
The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit
100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records
The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
97.5% of the people Trump arrested in Chicago had no criminal record
100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records
The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit
100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records
The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit
Any and all Democrats who are in the Epstein files should burn along with everyone else.
It's astonishing (yet unsurprising, if that makes any sense) to me that these assholes really think "Oh, but Bill Clinton is on that list!!!" is a legitimate scare tactic against liberals.
Let them ALL burn.
It's astonishing (yet unsurprising, if that makes any sense) to me that these assholes really think "Oh, but Bill Clinton is on that list!!!" is a legitimate scare tactic against liberals.
Let them ALL burn.
Breaking: Trump on AF1 says he 'doesn't care' about the Epstein files getting released.
He then adds: 'You have to go into Epstein's friends.' He lists Reid Hoffman and Bill Clinton but not himself.
He then adds: 'You have to go into Epstein's friends.' He lists Reid Hoffman and Bill Clinton but not himself.
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Any and all Democrats who are in the Epstein files should burn along with everyone else.
It's astonishing (yet unsurprising, if that makes any sense) to me that these assholes really think "Oh, but Bill Clinton is on that list!!!" is a legitimate scare tactic against liberals.
Let them ALL burn.
It's astonishing (yet unsurprising, if that makes any sense) to me that these assholes really think "Oh, but Bill Clinton is on that list!!!" is a legitimate scare tactic against liberals.
Let them ALL burn.
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Teenagers are “too young” to make decisions on gender affirming care.
They’re “too young to vote”.
They’re too young to drink.
But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?
Be serious please.
They’re “too young to vote”.
They’re too young to drink.
But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?
Be serious please.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Teenagers are “too young” to make decisions on gender affirming care.
They’re “too young to vote”.
They’re too young to drink.
But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?
Be serious please.
They’re “too young to vote”.
They’re too young to drink.
But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?
Be serious please.
There are many horrendous reasons why I despise the Republican Party but this particular hypocrisy has always disgusted me the most.
Republicans: Every life is sacred! Children are a miracle. Abortion is a sin!
Also Republicans:
Children don’t need food or healthcare
Children don’t need housing
Parents can’t provide? They should have better parents!
It’s not really rape if they’re “barely legal”.
Also Republicans:
Children don’t need food or healthcare
Children don’t need housing
Parents can’t provide? They should have better parents!
It’s not really rape if they’re “barely legal”.
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
There are many horrendous reasons why I despise the Republican Party but this particular hypocrisy has always disgusted me the most.
This makes me so damn angry.
This is rape culture.
This is why so many people don’t come forward.
A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her.
She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it.
Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:
This is why so many people don’t come forward.
A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her.
She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it.
Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:
A Louisiana girl hit a boy who was sharing deepfake nude photos of her. She was expelled.
“This girl was abused,” one of the family’s attorneys said, noting that she endured sexual exploitation and harassment. And the expulsion “was like pouring salt in the wound.”
www.nola.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This makes me so damn angry.
As a man, I cannot fathom how truly horrifying and disgusting this is.
But it still utterly sickens me.
But it still utterly sickens me.
Wisconsin Republicans have put forward a bill demanding pregnant people have “catch kits” to take their miscarriages to the doctor or hospital.
This is happening at the same time they gut healthcare.
It’s an egregious violation of bodily autonomy… and who pays for their hospital trip?
This is happening at the same time they gut healthcare.
It’s an egregious violation of bodily autonomy… and who pays for their hospital trip?
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
As a man, I cannot fathom how truly horrifying and disgusting this is.
But it still utterly sickens me.
But it still utterly sickens me.
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Remember that Nimarata Nikki Randhawa ran as Nikki Haley
Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal
Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz
Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani ran as Zohran Mamdani, and MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics
Every MAGA accusation is a confession
Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal
Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz
Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani ran as Zohran Mamdani, and MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics
Every MAGA accusation is a confession
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Remember that Nimarata Nikki Randhawa ran as Nikki Haley
Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal
Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz
Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani ran as Zohran Mamdani, and MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics
Every MAGA accusation is a confession
Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal
Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz
Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani ran as Zohran Mamdani, and MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics
Every MAGA accusation is a confession
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So the woman who insisted Santa is only white and then insisted Blackface is not racist is now insisting Epstein raping children isn’t rape.😐
These are the same folks who have spent the last decade calling to ban immigration because immigrants are “rapists.”
Every MAGA accusation is a confession.
These are the same folks who have spent the last decade calling to ban immigration because immigrants are “rapists.”
Every MAGA accusation is a confession.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
So the woman who insisted Santa is only white and then insisted Blackface is not racist is now insisting Epstein raping children isn’t rape.😐
These are the same folks who have spent the last decade calling to ban immigration because immigrants are “rapists.”
Every MAGA accusation is a confession.
These are the same folks who have spent the last decade calling to ban immigration because immigrants are “rapists.”
Every MAGA accusation is a confession.
It wouldn't make up for all of the misery hr has caused but that schadenfreude would be sweet.
If Donald Trump is taken down by emails and a child sex ring...
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It wouldn't make up for all of the misery hr has caused but that schadenfreude would be sweet.
Absolutely fucking batshit insane that we have to rely on the stubbornness of Boebert, Mace, and Greene to ensure the release of the Epstein files.
New York Times reporter Annie Karni on Rep. Lauren Boebert and the Epstein files.
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Absolutely fucking batshit insane that we have to rely on the stubbornness of Boebert, Mace, and Greene to ensure the release of the Epstein files.
LET'S FUCKING GO.
BREAKING
Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva has now signed the Epstein discharge petition which means it has received the 218 signatures it needs.
Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva has now signed the Epstein discharge petition which means it has received the 218 signatures it needs.
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
LET'S FUCKING GO.
The Democrats in a nutshell.
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Democrats in a nutshell.
This is my shocked face.
Please resign, Chuck Schumer. For the sake of the country.
Please resign, Chuck Schumer. For the sake of the country.
UPDATE: Now that 8 Senate Dems folded to Trump—Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds.
What? Moving goal posts? Lucy and the football? Who Could Have Seen This Coming??
This is why you don't back down from a bully! My God! My kingdom for a spine for Democrats.
What? Moving goal posts? Lucy and the football? Who Could Have Seen This Coming??
This is why you don't back down from a bully! My God! My kingdom for a spine for Democrats.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is my shocked face.
Please resign, Chuck Schumer. For the sake of the country.
Please resign, Chuck Schumer. For the sake of the country.
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More Senate Democrats folded to let Trump gut our healthcare than House Republicans folded to release the Epstein files.
This is example of why we can't have nice things.
This is example of why we can't have nice things.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
More Senate Democrats folded to let Trump gut our healthcare than House Republicans folded to release the Epstein files.
This is example of why we can't have nice things.
This is example of why we can't have nice things.
This is absolutely how we should do in the States.
But it'll never happen. The love of "power" of governmental shutdown and the self-aggrandizing of election cycles is far too potent.
But it'll never happen. The love of "power" of governmental shutdown and the self-aggrandizing of election cycles is far too potent.
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is absolutely how we should do in the States.
But it'll never happen. The love of "power" of governmental shutdown and the self-aggrandizing of election cycles is far too potent.
But it'll never happen. The love of "power" of governmental shutdown and the self-aggrandizing of election cycles is far too potent.
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As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
Fuck. YEAH.
I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Fuck. YEAH.
This is beyond horrifying. The only coverage of his imprisonment since *January* has been local news with very little traction.
Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is beyond horrifying. The only coverage of his imprisonment since *January* has been local news with very little traction.
The police have been doing this to autists for years, but that doesn't make ICE's actions any less horrific.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The police have been doing this to autists for years, but that doesn't make ICE's actions any less horrific.
How the Democrats aren't *hammering* this point on a daily basis is beyond me.
The GOP Shutdown premise is basically this: “If you don’t let us kill you by gutting your healthcare, we will starve you to death by blocking your SNAP. Sure you’ll die either way, but hey, at least we’re letting you decide how.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
How the Democrats aren't *hammering* this point on a daily basis is beyond me.
Perfection.
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Perfection.
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.
To give full context: These are two statewide elections for a commission that regulates telecommunications, transportation, electric, and natural gas services.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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.
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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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"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."
"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
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"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."