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'What followed the killing was as revealing as the act itself.
The machinery of the federal government engaged with startling speed, not to slow events down, not to question, not to acknowledge the gravity of what occurred, but to foreclose the narrative before it could breathe.
The language arrived pre-hardened, pre-accusatory, preordained. She was dangerous. She was a threat. She was a domestic terrorist. Her death was framed not as a loss, but as a necessity—didactic, exemplary,'
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'The distance between New Year’s Eve and now can’t be measured in days; it feels more like years of attrition. The onslaught has been unrelenting, a gauntlet of images and violations that refuse to stop.
And still—astonishingly —many of us continue to wake, to pour coffee, to pack lunches, to answer emails, to move through the rote choreography of daily life.
Each step taken with unconscious calculation. You sense the danger everywhere, humming beneath the surface, yet you keep moving.'