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@karenkaz.com

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Chicago: Belmont Cragin, #bikechi, CTA rants Personal: greyhounds, cats, homeownership, sometimes sports (F1 and Tottenham Hotspurs and *sigh* the White Sox) Work: data, analytics, nonprofits, city planning nerd

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 5h

The zine PDF is from www.pilsenartscommunityhouse.org. Whistles are procured wherever you can find them (my understanding is they are harder to find because so many people are buying them). If you need a demo for how to fold the zine I posted one this afternoon!

Pilsen Arts & Community House

PACH is an art gallery and community center providing space and creative community engagement through arts and culture.

www.pilsenartscommunityhouse.org

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 8h

If you’re printing the Pilsen Arts & Community House zines for whistles and folding them yourself, here’s a little folding demo. No sound, so hopefully you can follow along.

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 9h

Yes! It’s from www.pilsenartscommunityhouse.org

Pilsen Arts & Community House

PACH is an art gallery and community center providing space and creative community engagement through arts and culture.

www.pilsenartscommunityhouse.org

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 10h

Why are songs so good and why is catch these fists by Wet Leg the best one

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Grayson (he/him) @graysongoal.bsky.social · 1d

Happy world mental health day

A photo of a skeleton (who is on fire) holding a sword. Text on the image says:
state of the world? bad
mental health? also bad
but still, we charge forward

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 13h

I feel weird being nitpicky about this because it’s still terrible and wrong that she was detained, but the WGN employee who was grabbed by ICE is not a journalist? Any media employee =/= journalist and I think the accuracy is important just so we don’t get accused of misinformation.

kaz @karenkaz.com · 14h

Idk how a person rubs off a gel manicure with just paper and cardboard but I managed it.

kaz @karenkaz.com · 14h

Apparently I also folded so many zines that I ruined my nails lol

My hand palm up with fingers curled in to reveal my translucent black manicure is rubbed off the tips of my pinky, ring, and middle fingers revealing my natural nails underneath.

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 16h

what the hell?

kaz @karenkaz.com · 16h

I was at a table in the back of the patio with my back to the bar so I had no chance to see/find anyone lol

kaz @karenkaz.com · 16h

I thought last week was impressive, but last night was truly a feat! Emily has done incredible work here and I hope others will step up to help with organizing.

Made new friends, saw @jessrock.bsky.social and @jwolfe73.bsky.social and @veryimportant.lawyer and it was a perfect night.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 16h

This is only a small portion of the whistles & zines from last night. The bar and the patio at the Nighthawk were packed with volunteers.

Jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social · 23h

Week two of gathering at our local bar for the whistle project. The turnout was incredible.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

Appears the Trump admin’s reduction in force has hit housing hard this evening.

Reports that all CDFI fund staff have been let go. HUD appears to have lost 442 staff.

Yet another federal cut that will make providing affordable housing in the US all the more challenging.

Reports that all staff of CDFI Fund have been let go

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The Cola Corporation @cola.baby · 1d

Check ur inboxes

Graphic of black tee. Two blue stripes in background at top and bottom. White and red text reads Protest at top and Chicago at bottom. In middle is a diptych of black and white photo of Chicago protests 1968 and a color photo of man carrying USA flag amid tear gas at Broadview Illinois in 2025.

Close up of text on inside sleeve

1. "¿Soy libre de irme?"
Si no: "¿Me están deteniendo?"
2. "Deseo permanecer en silencio. Quiero hablar con un abogado."
3. "No doy miconsentimiento
ara un registro"
4. Ademas de 1-
de 1-3, cállate.
5. En serio, cállate
5. En serio, cállate.
Gremio Nacional de
Abogados
(872) 465-4244

1. "AmI free to go?"
If not: "Aml being detained?"
2."i choose to remain silent.
"I want to speak to a lawyer."
3."I do not consent to a search."
4. Besides 1-3, STFU.
5. Seriously, STFU.
6. National Lawyers
Guild Chicago

Close up of tag inside tee collar.

UNION MADE IN THE U.S.A
100% COTTON
SMALL

In background is image of Chicago flag

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Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org · 1d

If you want to help protect your neighbors by patrolling your neighborhood, we've got your back. Send us a message if you'd like to be connected to a patrol group. There are groups in:

-Lincoln Square/Ravenswood
-Albany Park
-Pilsen/Little Village
-Andersonville/Uptown/Edgewater
-Logan Square (1/2)

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 1d

If anyone wants to be our neighbor on the best block in Belmont Cragin: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

www.zillow.com

kaz @karenkaz.com · 1d

I thought I was pretty good at my personal AI image detection from using Pinterest to look for nail inspo, but oh my god it’s SO MUCH worse for hair.

kaz @karenkaz.com · 1d

I just realized that while I don't have an inflatable frog costume I do own a unicorn onesie.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 1d

A ball of puffy inflated letters forming five words. Each word is a different color for legibility purposes and streams of color are running out of the letters onto those below and dripping off the roughly spherical mass. The entire thing reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 16d

We can’t go downtown without checking in on the Cultural Center.

A very colorful and detailed mosaic tile panel at the Chicago Cultural Center with the Chicago municipal symbol at the center surrounded by what we call lake creatures, but are probably dolphins.

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 2d

OMG that Tennessee Holler account also shared it (I didn't see it originally because I have them muted.)

Seriously some of these accounts are as bad as the Alt-gov ones. Not even sure I believe they are who they say they are.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like the amount of misinfo happening regarding events in Chicago is ramping up, even if it's just confusion about when or where exactly things happened, and even if it's shared with good intentions. We gotta be vigilant and check the source, everybody.

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 2d

The misinformation and lack of reading comprehension and healthy skepticism on this site is out of hand.

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 2d

I replied to someone else today trying to correct
@unraveledpress.com (of all people!) saying that the pastor getting shot by a pepper ball at Broadview was recent. That person also didn't seem to be from Chicagoland yet was very sure they were more correct than local journalists on the ground.

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 2d

Yes we are mobilizing to protect parents and families on their way to and from school because of course I wouldn't put it past these jagoffs, but it's also bad for kids to be held out of school and miss education (and being fed!) if it's based on inaccurate videos going viral.

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 2d

It hurts nothing and no one to wait and verify. I know we're all scared. I'm scared. This is my community, my neighbors, and I want to protect them. But sharing misinformation is not helpful. To date no one in a school pickup/dropoff line has been abducted.

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