{"id":45681,"date":"2020-08-20T18:17:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=45681"},"modified":"2020-08-20T18:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T22:17:46","slug":"i-cant-pray-for-alexey-navalny-but-i-can-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=45681","title":{"rendered":"I can’t pray for Alexey Navalny but I can do this"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t believe in anybody’s god and I certainly don’t believe in prayer.<\/p>\n

But I do believe in Alexey Navalny and am horribly upset that this remarkably courageous person (with a sense of humor, yet) has probably been poisoned, probably by Putin.<\/a><\/p>\n

I first learned about him via a New Yorker story by Julia Ioffe, and then through Rachel Maddow. I was so knocked out I wrote about him, thanks to these two sources, in 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve been following his persistent challenge to Putin ever since.<\/p>\n

I have had very few heroes in my life. He is one and I’m helpless to do anything for him.<\/p>\n

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I don’t believe in anybody’s god and I certainly don’t believe in prayer. But I do believe in Alexey Navalny and am horribly upset that this remarkably courageous person (with a sense of humor, yet) has probably been poisoned, probably … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1175,1265],"tags":[4805,6082,2852,1097,1088,6081],"class_list":["post-45681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","category-voting-rights","tag-alexey-navalny","tag-julia-ioffe","tag-new-yorker","tag-putin","tag-rachel-maddow","tag-russian-oppression"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t