John Pavlovitz

With the absolute worst of history repeating here in our homeland, we can either allow it or rewrite it.

Friends, fifty years from now, what you and I do today will be a lesson for the world we leave behind.

What will we choose to teach them?

And they will have no tolerance for excuses or rationalizations as to why we did what we did or for what we failed to do.

They will not let us off the hook for falling asleep, for giving up, for shutting up.

The Americans the World Will Remember Fifty years from now, we will be judged for who we choose to be in these moments

As I look around at America outside my window, here’s what I know:

Just as with Germany, a few decades from now, people will gather in classrooms all around the world to view these days and this nation.

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ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

A Jesus Follower's Apology for MAGA Christians I’m not with them.

... to know that the exponential rise in aggression toward immigrants and people of color and outsiders flows from alleged followers of a dark-skinned, Middle Eastern Jewish Jesus who they would fully abhor.

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A Jesus Follower's Apology for MAGA Christians I’m not with them.

As a twenty-five-year local church pastor, the most tragic part of the rapid erosion of decency and empathy in America is seeing that it is all coming from people who most loudly declare that a supposedly loving God is their motivation....

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Trump voters,

Is this what you voted for?

You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy.

Choose.

Now That Fascism is Here... Fascism isn’t coming to America; it’s here.

We cannot let the myth of American exceptionalism numb us into imagining we are above devolving into inhumanity.

We have every ingredient in place to become something historically monstrous.

It will happen here unless we refuse to allow it.

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'Congratulations, Trump Supporters, You've Owned the Libs'

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Congratulations, Trump Supporters, You've Owned the Libs Well, Trump Supporters, as a member of the woke radical Left, it kills me to say this, but you win.

Congrats, Trump supporters, you’ve owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability, inexpensive groceries, affordable healthcare, qualified leaders, and global standing.
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The I.C.E. Atrocities Should Be the Final Straw for Decent Human Beings. This should be the final straw for us, America.

What I.C.E. and this Administration are doing to brown-skinned people is a crime.
It’s a sin.
It's inhumane.
It's not pro-life.
It’s not Christian.
It’s not making America great.
It's wrong by any measurement decent people use.
And it’s time we said it.

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Project 2025 and the End of America The Conservative plan to eliminate Democracy in the coming year

If only someone had warned about the Republicans and #Project2025...

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Donald Trump is an Insult to Those Who Died Serving This Nation Picture someone you love who died serving this nation, or even someone you’ve never met.

We should be livid at the insult he is to those who truly loved and love America, we should grieve our part in this mockery that is being made of their sacrifice, and we should openly and loudly stand in opposition to him as a way of properly honoring them.

Donald Trump is an Insult to Those Who Died Serving This Nation Picture someone you love who died serving this nation, or even someone you’ve never met.

Trump's kleptocratic Administration, populated by an unqualified sycophant like Pete Hegseth, serves as a strident “f*ck you” to the millions who lost years and futures and limbs trying to protect a Republic that is now teetering on the edge of the abyss.

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MAGAs, you voted for the carnival barker. Now, we all have to live in the circus.

FACT: undocumented immigrants are/would be ineligible for ACA subsidies and most federal programs like Medicaid.

Republicans are flat-out lying to escape culpability for controlling the presidency/Congress and having the government shut down in their watch.

This is what you wanted, MAGA voters.

Bad Bunny and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism Sometimes you don’t have to work to figure out where the racists are.

In these days, we are in a brutal battle for an America where everyone will find opportunity, safety, and welcome.

It’s time we all got in the game.

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It’s about the cost of standing up to the bullies, of rejecting racism, of being intolerant of intolerance.

This is about what we will demand and what we will not accept when it comes to the rights and voices of people of color.

Bad Bunny and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism Sometimes you don’t have to work to figure out where the racists are.

This isn’t about Bad Bunny.

This isn’t about a halftime show.

It’s about who we collectively want to be, the kind of nation we dream of living in, and the future we want those who follow us to inherit.

ANTIFA is more American than MAGA.

The Shameful Christian Idolatry and Fraudulent Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk As news of his shooting broke, the Jesus-washing of Charlie Kirk’s life by Conservative Christians began almost immediately.

The invented martyrdom of Charlie Kirk is one of the greatest collective acts of blasphemy in the history of Christianity in America.

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YouTube video by John Pavlovitz Official A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JOHN PAVLOVITZ!

You can also join us live on YouTube!

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Super exciting news to share!

Join me and a friend LIVE on FB and IG Monday, October 6th, at 8 pm ET.

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MADISON, WI!

Heading your way on Sat, Oct 25th, 2 pm at First Congregational UCC.

We'll be talking about the threat of Christian Nationalism and how people of faith, morality, and conscience can pull us back from theocracy.

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I can't wait to see you!

I AM (not) CHARLIE KIRK. I am Charlie Kirk.

The only responses I get are a toxic cocktail of culture war posturing, personal threats, phobic prejudice, anti-woke slurs, and Evangelical religious-speak, which, sadly, makes their performative rally cry of affinity with Kirk’s messaging quite accurate.

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I’ve invited people to help me understand what they mean by the now ubiquitous sentence whenever it shows up; precisely what statement they’re making, the specific cause they’re claiming solidarity with, the particular people they’re declaring war on.

I AM (not) CHARLIE KIRK. I am Charlie Kirk.

'I am Charlie Kirk.'

The phrase has quickly become a catch-all display of performative Conservative virtue signaling.

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The Shameful Christian Idolatry and Fraudulent Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk As news of his shooting broke, the Jesus-washing of Charlie Kirk’s life by Conservative Christians began almost immediately.

Jesus’ central command was to love. How exactly did Kirk love immigrants and people of color and women and Trans teens and Muslims and Democrats and atheists? Precisely what of his work and words made them feel more seen, heard, respected, valued?

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The Republican Party Condemned Cancel Culture. Now They're Cancelling Culture. (Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

If irony were deadly, every Republican would expire right now.
The party that has spent years in performative histrionics decrying the evils of supposed “Cancel Culture” is now literally cancelling culture...

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