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Rachel Laing

@rachellaing.bsky.social
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Proud member of a team working toward a San Diego with enough homes for its people; a thriving local economy that supports entrepreneurs, artists and creators; and streets good for walking/rolling, cycling and driving.

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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It “espouses” white supremacist messaging; it “echoes” Nazi propaganda.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
He couldn’t win the award himself, so he had to debase it. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
He also holds ceremonies to “sign legislation” created by other agencies to which he doesn’t belong, gives out “keys to the movement,” and has a “chief of staff” who emails that I’m pretty certain is just himself. It’s deeply weird and low-level fraud. But media play along so maybe it’s smart?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is so mortifying. I’m sweating with second-hand embarrassment at these dudes who can’t fathom people finding someone wholly unlike themselves appealing.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Fantastic analysis.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The billionaires aren't afraid Mamdani will be a disaster. They're terrified he'll be successful.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Everything You Need To Know About SB 79
…but were too afraid to read about in the actual bill.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Between this & zero traffic deaths in Helsinki last year.... The simple truth that's somehow utterly unintelligible to capitalism & those in its thrall is that doing the right thing by the vulnerable (be they houseless, pedestrians, or anything else) makes the world BETTER FOR EVERYONE.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
People who brag about being able to travel for a long time with one small bag - just know that some of us view that as a lack of imagination. 😉
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
White American women have been primed for this role advancing fascism. We rebellious ones will need to get even rowdier to disrupt it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Two words: Coastal Commission.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The best protest the left could do right now is a one-week total social media blackout -- all of us simultaneously resting, recharging, and getting out of the grip of the rage algorithm to reset while starving the MAGA types of the fuel of our attention. Any influentials wanna make this a thing? 🙏
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"Respond" to what? Brazil applying its own laws to a Brazilian in a fair and transparent process?
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Monster
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
NIMBY tears! 🥳
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TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Not to mention, sprawl creates fascists. Who’s more likely to be aggrieved and vengeful? The guy who walks to the store and has a drink at the bar and chats with people, or the guy who sits in traffic all day and views other people as obstacles in his way?
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 07/08/2025
Protesters in Chicago are bravely interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel right now, where US Customs and Border protection is recruiting today. They are distributing these trifolds that we published. You can print them out yourself here: crimethinc.com/zines/8-thin...
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Oh thank goodness they’re removing this danger to the players.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Not the point at all I know but “Thank you for your attention to this matter” has such Memo from the Assistant *to* the Regional Manager energy.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I love you, Derek 🤣
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Adam Johnston: Elmwood Fietser @adamjwpg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Worth a read folks. If you are a cyclist here is some mythbusters you can use against car brained folks. #Winnipeg #ActiveTransportation momentummag.com/your-comebac...
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Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year
Anti-bike arguments aren’t just frustrating—they’re outdated, inaccurate, and often repeated without a shred of evidence.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This is the post in question btw. Totally normal!
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Simpsons creator Matt Groening dealing with his new-found success at the 21st annual San Diego Comic Con in August 1990. This was the first time The Simpsons team appeared at #SDCC. Sam Simon introduces Matt at the panel where @aljeansimpsons.bsky.social can also be seen.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Not “allegedly.” She was convicted! She is serving time for it!
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Alex Cole @acnewsitics.com · 17/07/2025
These Coldplay concerts are getting out of hand.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The reason you'd have to be "living under a rock" to not know Cuomo lost a primary that "only 13% of New Yorkers voted in" is that Mamdani is an absolute star and staged a huge upset. Not sure I would have called this out!
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Or Sean Duffy!
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Found it: web.archive.org/web/20250128...
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Who Goes MAGA?
In 1934, a courageous, flawed, complicated journalist named Dorothy Thompson was kicked out of Nazi Germany for reporting with relentless, brutal accuracy on...
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
boycott! also boycott all red states vying for their own concentration camps!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/07/2025
He literally forced his coders to make his AI into a nazi. How could you possibly satirize this?
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Śẻήơɼ Wơƙẻ Ảś Pɦưƈƙ 🇺🇲 ✌️ ❤️ 🚴 🤿 🚣‍♂️ 🌈 🇺🇦 @senorwokeasphuck.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
👇 👇 👇 👇 👇
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
*Excerpts 😒
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Apparently now deleted from Substack but Talia Levin did an excellent update called “Who Goes MAGA?” Some excerpys here: frasersherman.com/2025/02/17/w...
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Who goes MAGA?
Who Goes Nazi? is a classic essay by Dorothy Thompson dissecting the different types of people willing to sell out to fascism: “The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared…
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A truly historic day in California: a clean CEQA exemption for environmentally friendly infill housing has just passed the California legislature via the budget bill! No other way to put it: this is the most transformative positive shift in land use policy in this state of the last 50 years!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The problem here isn't just the answer but the question. Mamdani has denounced antisemitism and clarified his position on this random slogan *other people* chanted at a protest numerous times. This is only a "tough question" if you think it's your job to repeat bad faith Republican attacks.
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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“As bipartisan mayors we get it, we understand this is not the right path forward,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, along with Rochester Hills Mayor Bryan Barnett, unpacks how President Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico are impacting their communities.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2025
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Without saying your age, who was your first animated crush?
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bugs bunny is holding a bowl of carrots in front of a sign that says " e. coyote huis "
ALT: bugs bunny is holding a bowl of carrots in front of a sign that says " e. coyote huis "
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
www.insidesandiego.org/mayor-gloria...
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Mayor Gloria Keeps City Budget in Balance While Preserving Additional Library, Recreation Center and Lake Hours
Mayor Todd Gloria today announced he will support restoring hours at recreation centers, libraries, and two reservoirs, while exercising his line-item veto authority under the City Charter to refine a...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
stealing our money from us and ruling over us like conquered territory. intolerable.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought
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Rachel Laing @rachellaing.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I mean, it’s not exactly rocket sci— eh, close enough. Congrats!
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