Je suis Link (kaelyn)
@kaelynski.bsky.social
She/her. Chicago. Metalwork & Preservation. Community Care.
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Profile: photo of me, a white woman with dark hair, standing sideways, braid facing the camera.
Banner: light blue/green sky with me looking down from the right side of the frame.
🏗️ 🇵🇸
Profile: photo of me, a white woman with dark hair, standing sideways, braid facing the camera.
Banner: light blue/green sky with me looking down from the right side of the frame.
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This is how you know it’s authentic CPD data:
“Police baked their own contempt into the data, listing people’s occupations as “SCUM BAG,” “TURD,” or simply “BLACK.” Neither arrest nor conviction was necessary to make the list.”
“Police baked their own contempt into the data, listing people’s occupations as “SCUM BAG,” “TURD,” or simply “BLACK.” Neither arrest nor conviction was necessary to make the list.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is how you know it’s authentic CPD data:
“Police baked their own contempt into the data, listing people’s occupations as “SCUM BAG,” “TURD,” or simply “BLACK.” Neither arrest nor conviction was necessary to make the list.”
“Police baked their own contempt into the data, listing people’s occupations as “SCUM BAG,” “TURD,” or simply “BLACK.” Neither arrest nor conviction was necessary to make the list.”
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"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
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Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.
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If there's anything liberals seem to love, it's being allowed to do a little transphobia as a treat.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
If there's anything liberals seem to love, it's being allowed to do a little transphobia as a treat.
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
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UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Trying to figure out what "docked" means in this context, aren't they already not getting paid
Wait did...they not get what they wanted last night? What is happening?
*TRUMP OFFICIALS SAY SUPREME COURT SHOULD KEEP FOOD AID ON HOLD
*TRUMP: ALL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS MUST GET BACK TO WORK, NOW
*TRUMP: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS NOT WORKING WILL BE 'DOCKED'
*TRUMP OFFICIALS SAY SUPREME COURT SHOULD KEEP FOOD AID ON HOLD
*TRUMP: ALL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS MUST GET BACK TO WORK, NOW
*TRUMP: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS NOT WORKING WILL BE 'DOCKED'
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Trying to figure out what "docked" means in this context, aren't they already not getting paid
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Abolish the Senate.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Abolish the Senate.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
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Current* conditions near Petoskey, MI:
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Current* conditions near Petoskey, MI:
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A 50-mortgage already exist. It's called student loans.
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A 50-mortgage already exist. It's called student loans.
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Here are some nice mushrooms
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
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I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
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I got laid off, I utilized SNAP, and I was able to remain in my chosen field of profession. The program is incredibly effective in mitigating the effects of unemployment, and that’s precisely why they want to gut it.
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I got laid off, I utilized SNAP, and I was able to remain in my chosen field of profession. The program is incredibly effective in mitigating the effects of unemployment, and that’s precisely why they want to gut it.
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This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
Border Patrol is out and about in Little Village this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
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Afternoon! I've been reporting a lot these past few weeks on the Trump admin's assault on Chicago rolling from the streets into the courts.
I love this work, but being freelance atm, I'm relying on community for support.
If you like my reporting, I'd appreciate any tips you'd care to send my way:
I love this work, but being freelance atm, I'm relying on community for support.
If you like my reporting, I'd appreciate any tips you'd care to send my way:
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Afternoon! I've been reporting a lot these past few weeks on the Trump admin's assault on Chicago rolling from the streets into the courts.
I love this work, but being freelance atm, I'm relying on community for support.
If you like my reporting, I'd appreciate any tips you'd care to send my way:
I love this work, but being freelance atm, I'm relying on community for support.
If you like my reporting, I'd appreciate any tips you'd care to send my way:
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A friend’s uncle was detained by federal agents while working as a landscaper in Chicago. Here is the GoFundMe if you’d like to support the family. He leaves behind a child with autism.
Donate to Support Family, organized by Khiabet Gonzalez
Hello,
a close family friend was detained by ICE while working as a landscaper. H… Khiabet Gonzalez needs your support for Support Family
www.gofundme.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A friend’s uncle was detained by federal agents while working as a landscaper in Chicago. Here is the GoFundMe if you’d like to support the family. He leaves behind a child with autism.
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he posted this every time he killed someone that way
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
he posted this every time he killed someone that way
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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PLEASE share. In the next 14 hours, continue the incredible, collective project of helping these six families & a camp survive annihilation.
That is no small thing. It also isn’t undoable. You’ve done it for six months.
Anything helps + click "weekly." 10/1000
That is no small thing. It also isn’t undoable. You’ve done it for six months.
Anything helps + click "weekly." 10/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
PLEASE share. In the next 14 hours, continue the incredible, collective project of helping these six families & a camp survive annihilation.
That is no small thing. It also isn’t undoable. You’ve done it for six months.
Anything helps + click "weekly." 10/1000
That is no small thing. It also isn’t undoable. You’ve done it for six months.
Anything helps + click "weekly." 10/1000
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
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bluesky mods retire bitch
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
bluesky mods retire bitch
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.