Chiara Durant 🌈🦓✍💓
@chiaradurant.bsky.social
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The greatest strength one can possess is the ability to embrace the discomfort of challenging one's own perspective then changing it.
The greatest strength one can possess is the ability to embrace the discomfort of challenging one's own perspective then changing it.
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If KOSA passes, dont expect Dems to win another election
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December 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Theres Someone Worse Than Trump
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December 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Call me crazy but maybe if a military and government spend two years nonstop killing children and screaming "this is for all Jews, all Jews support this" at the top of their lungs, people might believe them and do awful things to Jews as a result, and that's yet another reason why genocide is bad
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Call me crazy but maybe if a military and government spend two years nonstop killing children and screaming "this is for all Jews, all Jews support this" at the top of their lungs, people might believe them and do awful things to Jews as a result, and that's yet another reason why genocide is bad
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The next time someone asks me "but how is that possible? Isn't that illegal?" I'm going to start printing "illegal does not mean impossible" bumper stickers.
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The next time someone asks me "but how is that possible? Isn't that illegal?" I'm going to start printing "illegal does not mean impossible" bumper stickers.
Laws are nothing but words on paper until they're enforced equally & without loopholes.
Show me any law that this has been done with.
Poor & marginalized people are forced to follow laws, have bastardized versions of those laws used against us, & can't afford to use laws to protect ourselves.
Show me any law that this has been done with.
Poor & marginalized people are forced to follow laws, have bastardized versions of those laws used against us, & can't afford to use laws to protect ourselves.
Anyway one of the reasons I hate the question "how is this allowed?" is because it's a thought terminating passive voice cliché.
Do the papers the laws are printed on have arms and legs so they can enforce themselves? No? Then it's allowed because law enforcement officers are letting them do it.
Do the papers the laws are printed on have arms and legs so they can enforce themselves? No? Then it's allowed because law enforcement officers are letting them do it.
December 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Laws are nothing but words on paper until they're enforced equally & without loopholes.
Show me any law that this has been done with.
Poor & marginalized people are forced to follow laws, have bastardized versions of those laws used against us, & can't afford to use laws to protect ourselves.
Show me any law that this has been done with.
Poor & marginalized people are forced to follow laws, have bastardized versions of those laws used against us, & can't afford to use laws to protect ourselves.
Neither side of the US political mobius strip will ever save us. They're ALL corrupted. Even if they're not doing harm, they're glad the harm is happening.
Class consciousness is how we fix the damage all lawmakers have done for generations. Us pawns need to throw their gameboard out the window!
Class consciousness is how we fix the damage all lawmakers have done for generations. Us pawns need to throw their gameboard out the window!
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Neither side of the US political mobius strip will ever save us. They're ALL corrupted. Even if they're not doing harm, they're glad the harm is happening.
Class consciousness is how we fix the damage all lawmakers have done for generations. Us pawns need to throw their gameboard out the window!
Class consciousness is how we fix the damage all lawmakers have done for generations. Us pawns need to throw their gameboard out the window!
@lucyrehm.bsky.social See this incredible thread, which includes how these abuses are existing in MN. This is absolutely relevant to the HF2381 MHRC Bill of Rights you're co-authoring!
Sheryl is an incredible IL lawyer who knows this stuff far better than most.
Sheryl is an incredible IL lawyer who knows this stuff far better than most.
A couple of years ago, a client of mine was attacked in their apartment by an abusive partner. The police were called. Charges were pressed against the abusive partner, who later pleaded guilty.
The landlord filed an eviction action against Client for *allowing* a crime to occur in their unit.
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The landlord filed an eviction action against Client for *allowing* a crime to occur in their unit.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@lucyrehm.bsky.social See this incredible thread, which includes how these abuses are existing in MN. This is absolutely relevant to the HF2381 MHRC Bill of Rights you're co-authoring!
Sheryl is an incredible IL lawyer who knows this stuff far better than most.
Sheryl is an incredible IL lawyer who knows this stuff far better than most.
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A couple of years ago, a client of mine was attacked in their apartment by an abusive partner. The police were called. Charges were pressed against the abusive partner, who later pleaded guilty.
The landlord filed an eviction action against Client for *allowing* a crime to occur in their unit.
1/
The landlord filed an eviction action against Client for *allowing* a crime to occur in their unit.
1/
November 15, 2024 at 7:32 PM
A couple of years ago, a client of mine was attacked in their apartment by an abusive partner. The police were called. Charges were pressed against the abusive partner, who later pleaded guilty.
The landlord filed an eviction action against Client for *allowing* a crime to occur in their unit.
1/
The landlord filed an eviction action against Client for *allowing* a crime to occur in their unit.
1/
Studies came out in 2020-21 showing people w/ glasses were less likely to get covid.
Telling most people, even pharmacists & doctors, this leads to them saying "so it enters the eyes not the lungs."
🤦♀️
If you don't wear your mask correctly your glasses fog up!
Critical thinking skills matter.
Telling most people, even pharmacists & doctors, this leads to them saying "so it enters the eyes not the lungs."
🤦♀️
If you don't wear your mask correctly your glasses fog up!
Critical thinking skills matter.
I will never understand people who go to get a COVID vaccine but don’t wear a mask while getting one.
It takes a while for COVID vaccine protection to kick in, you are still at risk while you are getting vaccinated and several days afterwards.
It takes a while for COVID vaccine protection to kick in, you are still at risk while you are getting vaccinated and several days afterwards.
September 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Studies came out in 2020-21 showing people w/ glasses were less likely to get covid.
Telling most people, even pharmacists & doctors, this leads to them saying "so it enters the eyes not the lungs."
🤦♀️
If you don't wear your mask correctly your glasses fog up!
Critical thinking skills matter.
Telling most people, even pharmacists & doctors, this leads to them saying "so it enters the eyes not the lungs."
🤦♀️
If you don't wear your mask correctly your glasses fog up!
Critical thinking skills matter.
ADA: society can deem anyone disabled even w/o a disability
www.ada.gov/resources/di...
SCOTUS: disabled excluded from Equal Protections Clause of 14th Amend
www.abajournal.com/news/article...
Fascists in both parties never challenged this so they could take rights from others, climbing the caste.
www.ada.gov/resources/di...
SCOTUS: disabled excluded from Equal Protections Clause of 14th Amend
www.abajournal.com/news/article...
Fascists in both parties never challenged this so they could take rights from others, climbing the caste.
Ngl, it's a bit disconcerting going about one's day when sitting legislators are calling for your entire community to be incarcerated and forcibly destroyed
www.erininthemorning.com/p/two-republ...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/two-republ...
Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People
Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
ADA: society can deem anyone disabled even w/o a disability
www.ada.gov/resources/di...
SCOTUS: disabled excluded from Equal Protections Clause of 14th Amend
www.abajournal.com/news/article...
Fascists in both parties never challenged this so they could take rights from others, climbing the caste.
www.ada.gov/resources/di...
SCOTUS: disabled excluded from Equal Protections Clause of 14th Amend
www.abajournal.com/news/article...
Fascists in both parties never challenged this so they could take rights from others, climbing the caste.
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Here are the first vaccine recommendations issued by the West Coast Health Alliance, which includes California, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii:
September 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Here are the first vaccine recommendations issued by the West Coast Health Alliance, which includes California, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii:
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Can't go into details but I have spent the day listening to what is currently happening to immigrants, Muslims, Black women, and trans people in the blue state of Illinois. People are being doxxed, fired, and threatened with death.
For existing.
It's bad.
For existing.
It's bad.
September 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Can't go into details but I have spent the day listening to what is currently happening to immigrants, Muslims, Black women, and trans people in the blue state of Illinois. People are being doxxed, fired, and threatened with death.
For existing.
It's bad.
For existing.
It's bad.
FYI:
If you still want to watch media paramount makes w/o giving them profits GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. Many series are on DVD w/i a year & your library either can buy it (buy once for hundreds+ to watch for free) or they can order it from another library!
Support your library, not hate for profit.
If you still want to watch media paramount makes w/o giving them profits GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. Many series are on DVD w/i a year & your library either can buy it (buy once for hundreds+ to watch for free) or they can order it from another library!
Support your library, not hate for profit.
This is for two reasons.
First, this week Paramount snidely dismissed the concerns of almost 4,000 artists and actors who CORRECTLY refuse to work with Israeli film studios whilst the country continues to engage in its genocide in Occupied Palestine.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
First, this week Paramount snidely dismissed the concerns of almost 4,000 artists and actors who CORRECTLY refuse to work with Israeli film studios whilst the country continues to engage in its genocide in Occupied Palestine.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Paramount Condemns Israeli Film Boycott After Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix and 3,900 Industry Names Sign Pledge: ‘Silencing’ Artists Does Not Promote Peace
Paramount released a statement condemning a boycott of the Israeli film industry after 3,900 industry names signed the pledge.
variety.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
FYI:
If you still want to watch media paramount makes w/o giving them profits GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. Many series are on DVD w/i a year & your library either can buy it (buy once for hundreds+ to watch for free) or they can order it from another library!
Support your library, not hate for profit.
If you still want to watch media paramount makes w/o giving them profits GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. Many series are on DVD w/i a year & your library either can buy it (buy once for hundreds+ to watch for free) or they can order it from another library!
Support your library, not hate for profit.
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My memoir comes out on June 3, just TWO WEEKS from now!! There's still time to pre-order or enter to win your very own FREE signed copy! Details below!
My memoir, "I Was An Abomination," releases with @tehomcenter.bsky.social on June 3! Pre-order through the Apple, Booktopia, or Amazon links below!
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May 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My memoir comes out on June 3, just TWO WEEKS from now!! There's still time to pre-order or enter to win your very own FREE signed copy! Details below!
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*A marginalized person on the left recounts a thing they experienced in a leftist space that shows a needed area of growth*
Online Leftists: This didn't happen because no real leftist would do that and if it did happen it was liberals who did it, not leftists
Online Leftists: This didn't happen because no real leftist would do that and if it did happen it was liberals who did it, not leftists
April 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
*A marginalized person on the left recounts a thing they experienced in a leftist space that shows a needed area of growth*
Online Leftists: This didn't happen because no real leftist would do that and if it did happen it was liberals who did it, not leftists
Online Leftists: This didn't happen because no real leftist would do that and if it did happen it was liberals who did it, not leftists
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So let me get this straight.
We can't oppose genocide or support immigrants or defend trans people because that's "purity politics" but it's okay to use slurs and be ableist or racist or transphobic because that's "fighting back" against Republicans?
Help me understand.
(That's rhetorical.)
We can't oppose genocide or support immigrants or defend trans people because that's "purity politics" but it's okay to use slurs and be ableist or racist or transphobic because that's "fighting back" against Republicans?
Help me understand.
(That's rhetorical.)
April 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So let me get this straight.
We can't oppose genocide or support immigrants or defend trans people because that's "purity politics" but it's okay to use slurs and be ableist or racist or transphobic because that's "fighting back" against Republicans?
Help me understand.
(That's rhetorical.)
We can't oppose genocide or support immigrants or defend trans people because that's "purity politics" but it's okay to use slurs and be ableist or racist or transphobic because that's "fighting back" against Republicans?
Help me understand.
(That's rhetorical.)
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If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who and what we really are. Let's be loud and proud and unapologetic, right until whatever end comes, whenever it comes.
They can never break our spirit unless we let them.
They can never break our spirit unless we let them.
April 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who and what we really are. Let's be loud and proud and unapologetic, right until whatever end comes, whenever it comes.
They can never break our spirit unless we let them.
They can never break our spirit unless we let them.
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Periodic reminder that ICE administrative warrants do NOT give ICE (or anyone else) legal authority to enter your home (or anywhere not open to the public) without your consent.
Unless law enforcement has a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, they do not have a legal right to nonconsensual entry.
Unless law enforcement has a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, they do not have a legal right to nonconsensual entry.
March 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Periodic reminder that ICE administrative warrants do NOT give ICE (or anyone else) legal authority to enter your home (or anywhere not open to the public) without your consent.
Unless law enforcement has a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, they do not have a legal right to nonconsensual entry.
Unless law enforcement has a JUDICIAL WARRANT, signed by a judge, they do not have a legal right to nonconsensual entry.
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The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
March 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
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Remember in 2023 when Very Serious People told me Israel would never bomb a hospital? Anyway, once again tonight Israel bombed a hospital.
www.huffpost.com/entry/palest...
www.huffpost.com/entry/palest...
Israel Bombs Southern Gaza's Largest Hospital As Palestinian Death Toll Climbs
The military offensive has killed least 50,000 Palestinians, hundreds of whom were treated at Nasser Hospital after Israel broke the ceasefire last week.
www.huffpost.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Remember in 2023 when Very Serious People told me Israel would never bomb a hospital? Anyway, once again tonight Israel bombed a hospital.
www.huffpost.com/entry/palest...
www.huffpost.com/entry/palest...
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Did you know Netanyahu was due in court today for his corruption trial?
It was postponed because to the resumption of the war.
How many children have to die to keep one man out of prison?
It was postponed because to the resumption of the war.
How many children have to die to keep one man out of prison?
March 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Did you know Netanyahu was due in court today for his corruption trial?
It was postponed because to the resumption of the war.
How many children have to die to keep one man out of prison?
It was postponed because to the resumption of the war.
How many children have to die to keep one man out of prison?
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No I will not debate you on Palestine. It's a genocide. The UN, the Special Rapporteur, OxFam, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, multiple US state department officials, the Lemkin Institute, and B'Tselem all say it's a genocide. I don't debate flat earthers either.
March 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
No I will not debate you on Palestine. It's a genocide. The UN, the Special Rapporteur, OxFam, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, multiple US state department officials, the Lemkin Institute, and B'Tselem all say it's a genocide. I don't debate flat earthers either.
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This is getting ridiculous. Stop looking for a savior. You know who needs to stop this? YOU. All of us. The people who give a shit in this country. Anonymous is still leaking info and taking action. We never stopped. It’s not enough. People aren’t listening. It’s up to all of us.
March 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is getting ridiculous. Stop looking for a savior. You know who needs to stop this? YOU. All of us. The people who give a shit in this country. Anonymous is still leaking info and taking action. We never stopped. It’s not enough. People aren’t listening. It’s up to all of us.
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Everything is tied back to disability. When people are dehumanized, many do what they can to tie it to disability somehow and make it so that they don't get treated with decency. "That person is mentally ill." "They are lazy." "They're stupid." By fighting ableism, you're fighting dehumanization.
March 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Everything is tied back to disability. When people are dehumanized, many do what they can to tie it to disability somehow and make it so that they don't get treated with decency. "That person is mentally ill." "They are lazy." "They're stupid." By fighting ableism, you're fighting dehumanization.
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Keep in mind when you talk about marriage equality that until disabled people can get married without losing access to benefits, marriage equality doesn't exist.
March 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Keep in mind when you talk about marriage equality that until disabled people can get married without losing access to benefits, marriage equality doesn't exist.