1/ Reality Winner receives her sentence today for an act of conscience she undertook on behalf of our public good. The fact that this decorated veteran's life appears 2 be beneath the interest of so many remains a puzzler 2 me, but I have a theory or 2 shadowproof.com/2018/08/21/rea…
2/ I think her one wild & precious life is lost in the constellation of competing interests/platforms/brands that controls the narrative(s) of the American barnyard. Imprisoned and denied the right to tell her story or hug her mother for over a year, she's been disappeared.
3/ Our risk aversion equals her crushed spirit. I wonder if her involvement in our gov't's drone program renders her a human being indefinitely consigned to dwell outside the sphere of what we're willing to know about ourselves. Not unlike soldier suicides. #PolicyIsLiturgy
4/ Maybe famous people avoid conflict for a living, mistake class for community, & avoid signalling awareness of any life that threatens their perceived standing. @Rosie & @johncusack & @jaketapper are the only exceptions I've spied over the last year.
5/ Anyway, I hope something turns around today. I hope she appears on @StephenAtHome or @kristatippett's show. I pray for her and her family (@bjwinnerdavis). & I hope our electorate wakes up to her witness.
6/ I encourage everyone who speaks of Russia or Putin or troops or elections or values or politics etc to pay her heed & amplify her plight. Here's the lonely but completely awesome coverage her existence received via the attentiveness of @KerryHowley nymag.com/daily/intellig…
7/ Five years. I pray my children live to see libraries named after her: theguardian.com/us-news/2018/a…
8/ "Winner spoke about her now-deceased father, who she said 'expected us to engage in intellectual discourse as soon as we were out of diapers...'” @trevortimm theintercept.com/2018/08/23/rea…
10/ Very helpful deepening of the narrative from @page88. Spoiler Alert: Diary As Evidence latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/…
11/ "They’re not going to let me go back to my life. Now it’s just been a battle of trying to keep the smallest portion of who I am.” rollingstone.com/politics/polit… @tessastuart
12/ "Winner also said she was 'looking forward to the day when compassion meets strategy.'” dailypublic.com/articles/08242…

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Hi. I have a PhD in Religion from @VanderbiltU. Justice Amy Coney Barrett is wrong. All schools DO NOT have to come from "some belief system." "Belief system" is a catastrophically unhelpful phrase for characterizing traditions that inform behavior. 1/2 c-span.org/video/?c499041…
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