Geeted Rivalry

If any of you have ever dealt with PG&E, you know how awful it would be if LA ended up going that direction

Wishing a joyous and colorful Holi to all who celebrate! May you be surrounded by festive community, vibrant color drenches, laughter, play, sweet treats, and dhol beats.

I met with many people who have seen the impacts of the ICE raids and the police brutality in our streets firsthand over the last year. What I heard was shocking.

A full video will drop soon about my lessons from these conversations, and how I’ll take concrete action as mayor to remedy the harm.

today was the day john mccain finally became president

85 schoolgirls. just one is a world, a future of infinite possibilities, a universe. that america has done this atrocity to 85 of them, that it will continue to do even worse... i don't even know what to say. i condemn this with every fiber of my being, but that doesn't feel like enough.

The Trump regime claims that if we get immigrants out of subsidized housing, those units will go to help solve our housing crisis. This isn’t true, but the words are in the right order to make people who should know better take them at face value.

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It’s essential that we flood HUD with letters opposing their cruel ban of mixed status families from public housing.

This Black History Month, we're shining a light on icons local to Los Angeles.

Today, we’re honoring the late Reverend James Morris Lawson Jr. (🧵)

Its official... RAE HUANG IS ON THE BALLOT! [Image of Rae Huang]

We are officially on the ballot.

Our campaign will continue to fight for the Angelenos who are the cornerstone of our diverse and radiant city.

Election Day is on June 2, 2026. See you at the polls 🌞

An image of LA mayoral candidate Rae Huang in a white T-shirt, standing outside in a park smiling and talking to two canvassers. One canvasser on the left is wearing a hat and holding a clipboard. Rae for LA Canvass Mar Vista Saturday, February 28th from 11:00am - 2:30pm at Mar Vista Recreation Center

Come knock on doors with us all end of the month; this Saturday February 28th from 11am - 2:30pm we’ll meet at Mar Vista Rec Center in the westside!

First time knocking doors? No problem; we’ll train you and make sure you’re paired with one of our seasoned volunteers! 🌞

Sign up: luma.com/qekzik7d

This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

happy birthday chris!

February is Black History Month, a time for us all to reflect upon the struggles, resilience, and triumphs of our Black neighbors. Join us in celebrating Black Excellence across Los Angeles history as we reflect on their legacies.

Today, we want to honor the story of Geronimo Pratt 🧵

A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

50 Years On: How Angela Davis' Focus Changed in Jail - JSTOR Daily In a 2012 interview published in Social Justice, Angela Davis spoke about her detention in jail and how it informed her work on abolition and feminism.

On February 23, 1971, Angela Y. Davis released on bail.

"How Angela Davis’ Focus Changed in Jail"

Also, in jail, Davis wrote "Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves" to engage George Jackson, and took up yoga/self-care to survive the cell.

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Prisons, Prose & Protest - #12 Rants, Musings & More

I've written about the effort to secure bail for Angela Davis before: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu... - Aretha Franklin had promised to pay it but was out of the country so a white California farmer did.

This video gives me so much hope. Community power is the way through

Los Angeles is ready for bold, transformational change. Join the movement at raeforla.com

All pregnant migrant girls sent to Texas shelter where abortion is banned: report Children as young as 13 are ‘trapped’ in a state with no access to abortion, lawyers and advocates say

"It’s beyond cruel to trap these girls — some are victims of sexual assault — in a state where they have no choice over whether to remain pregnant. Everyone deserves the right to make these fundamental decisions for themselves.”

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Roundball Rock would be such a goated JRPG battle theme

Rae Huang inside the Wiltern in Los Angeles talking with her hand on her chest, amongst a small crowd of fellow organizers, one on their phone to the left, and another to the right jubiliantly making an exclamation, a red table is in the background

LA mayoral candidate Rae Huang smiling towards the camera with the Wiltern stage in the background, other people nearby are standing, many photographers are present. The banner onstage reads Billionaire Tax Now - Vote Yes 11/3/26 - billionairetaxnow.org

Closeup of Bernie Sanders onstage giving a speech at the Billionaire Tax rally at the Wiltern, he is raising his right hand and talking into a mic while standing at a podium

It was so inspiring to be together with fellow Angelenos who are fighting for the livelihood and dignity of working families. We have enough wealth in our state for everyone to thrive. It’s time we share that wealth.

I'm fully endorsing SEIU-UHW's Billionaire Tax for California. Tax the Rich!

Sometimes when I’m meetings with brands and organizations about how to encourage participation and raise the levels of talent in different sports, and I hear all about the most amazing innovations, I usually suggest greater access by making it free or cheaper and then everyone gets weird about it.

Discovering I was trans was the greatest blessing of my life. A simple explanation for a sense of wrongness I'd felt so long I thought that wrongness was me.

I credit the trans community for bringing society to the point where I could understand what was wrong and get help.

let’s play? why not Let’s Pray

I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast?

The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

The devastating floods citywide this week highlight the need for local government to focus on what matters. When street infrastructure upgrades are blocked and killed by a mayor and city council that answer to a NIMBY real estate lobby and not people, we all pay the price.

Jesse Jackson announcing his candidacy in 1983, he is speaking at a podium with his '84 campaign's banner behind him

Today, we are mourning and honoring the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Our campaign would not exist without his influence; the impact he made not only as a civil rights leader but during his presidential bids remains a blueprint for what is possible and what demands can be made as a justice candidate.

Happy Lunar New Year (in English and Chinese) Rae for LA Illustration of a horse leaping rightward into the air with sparkles

Wishing my Chinese community and everyone that celebrates a very Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 ✨ This is the Year of the Fire Horse 🔥🐎 Bold, fearless, and ready to usher in a new era of change.

Let’s meet this call for courage with confidence and fearlessness, charging together. Join us at raeforla.com 🌞

Our communities are not safer with an LAPD that chooses to not enforce a mask ban but encourages arresting the parents of students who protest against ICE.