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Lauren L. Wheeler

@fightingwords

Poet, drummer, habitual tech infiltrator and gadfly, mama. Author, IN BETWEEN PLACES (Black Lawrence Press). laurenwheeler.com

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Gavin Newsom sweating like old dynamite watching Labour's 'transphobia & bigotry' strategy eat shit tonight lol

27.02.2026 05:34 πŸ‘ 3409 πŸ” 575 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 27

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

26.02.2026 05:42 πŸ‘ 3105 πŸ” 794 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 22
stanley tucci with members of the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team

stanley tucci with members of the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

26.02.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 10648 πŸ” 1641 πŸ’¬ 130 πŸ“Œ 291

Dang. Congrats to you. Sad I can’t find tickets

27.02.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' . ALT: a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .
27.02.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cat dressed as a pirate with a sword Alt: a cat dressed as a pirate with a sword
27.02.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
logo for famous BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay

logo for famous BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay

looks like it's time to go back to tha old me

26.02.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 383 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

26.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 9581 πŸ” 3151 πŸ’¬ 524 πŸ“Œ 116
Image of David Hasselhoff in a sleeveless hoodie, nearly horizontal on a tire swing

Image of David Hasselhoff in a sleeveless hoodie, nearly horizontal on a tire swing

And out of nowhere, it’s David fucking Hasselhoff

27.02.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Omg yes

27.02.2026 05:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes

27.02.2026 04:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I came here for this

27.02.2026 04:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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27.02.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot explain the degree to which I needed this. *rolls up sleeves*

27.02.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A thing of beauty

26.02.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

South Korea: President does an insurrection, gets arrested, tried, sentenced to life in prison. South Koreans are mad he didn't get the death penalty.

USA: President does an insurrection, nothing happens to him. Americans vote him back into office less than four years later.

I hate it here.

21.02.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Man, fuck Tyra Banks.

21.02.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Girl, fuck Tyra Banks.

17.02.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

NextDoor first made me realize I lived among people who would have turned in Anne Frank and her family.

21.02.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 1959 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 12
Figure skater Alysa Liu holding up her 2026 Olympics gold medal grimacing and exposing her teeth.

Figure skater Alysa Liu holding up her 2026 Olympics gold medal grimacing and exposing her teeth.

Oakland rap legend Mac Dre popping his chain and collar simultaneously while grimacing and showing his teeth (colloquially known as a "thizz face").

Oakland rap legend Mac Dre popping his chain and collar simultaneously while grimacing and showing his teeth (colloquially known as a "thizz face").

Alysa Liu. A proud product of Oakland.

19.02.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 3595 πŸ” 527 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 42

when I learned she was from Oakland I was like, "yeah. of course. this tracks. i'm both scared of her and want to be her at the same time."

20.02.2026 02:36 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" πŸ—£οΈ

19.02.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 8700 πŸ” 1918 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 530

Could everyone please stop using Substack? It’s not news that it platforms far right, anti-trans, and neo Nazi folks. There are alternatives like @buttondown.com

07.02.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

After the shooting, I watched as agents unloaded tear gas onfurious protesters who had assembled at the site of the shooting. Heavily armored law enforcement faced off against a crowd of unarmed protesters carrying signs and screaming for justice and retribution.

www.propublica.org/article/minn...

01.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

22.01.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 4655 πŸ” 1285 πŸ’¬ 206 πŸ“Œ 273
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

27.12.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 47052 πŸ” 14489 πŸ’¬ 953 πŸ“Œ 3138

It's really too bad Ken Starr is dead because this would have killed him.

13.11.2025 05:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do not for one second believe that Californians are united behind Newsom as a presidential candidate regardless of our support for prop 50

05.11.2025 05:31 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One tore his achilles and was in to see a podiatrist in 3 days, in surgery in 7. Another was scheduled for an MRI when she complained of neck pain in a week.

So why does @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social not provide appropriate care for all their patients, making some of us wait weeks or months? 12/12

04.11.2025 01:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0