John Pavlovitz
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
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Author, pastor, activist, fighter for the common good.
I've never seen a party and president more terrified of American voters. Let's make them right to be afraid.
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A reminder for alleged MAGA Christians: Jesus’ central command was to love. How exactly did Charlie Kirk love immigrants and people of color and women and Trans teens and Muslims and Democrats and atheists?
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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.
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'Bad Bunny, Kid Rock, and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism'
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The Turning Point "All-American" Super Bowl Halftime Show, like every venture in the MAGA/Trump ecosystem, is a grim, sinister, mean-spirited fight against progress, evolution, and diversity disguised as sincere virtue...
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Bad Bunny, Kid Rock, and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism
Sometimes you don’t have to work to figure out where the racists are.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/bad-bunny-kid-rock-and-magas-super
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Good people, we can’t allow ourselves to grow so acclimated to the relentlessness and frequency of the viciousness we are seeing that it no longer turns our stomachs, boils our blood, and pierces our hearts...
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Refuse to Normalize This, America.
Something often happens to people exposed to repeated trauma.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/refuse-to-normalize-this-america
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Any adult who tells you they don't know what is going on in our country right now is telling you they know what's going on in our country and either agrees with it or is too cowardly to say anything about it. *cough*, Jelly Roll, *cough*
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We American Progressives, Liberals, and Left-leaning Moderates love the things the Right incessantly claims to...
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The Truth About the Patriotism and Faith of the American Left
There’s a common assertion about those of us on the Left by our critics across the aisle or the pew: We don’t love America or God as they do.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-the-patriotism-and
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Have you ever noticed that even though they have their guy in the White House, control of Congress, the Supreme Court, and a weaponized Military force, MAGAs are still miserable? I have.
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Trump Supporters Are Miserable People. Let's Not Become Like Them.
Miserable.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/trump-supporters-are-miserable-people
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It's America Vs. ICE, and we ain't losin.'
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I stand with Bad Bunny.
add a skeleton here at some point
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I'm proud to have been on record for the last decade calling out this revolting, festering, traitorous cesspool of a man and everyone who has partnered with him and voted for him.
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The Kennedy Center will reopen in two years. Hopefully, so will America.
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What is painfully obvious in these moments isn't simply that the person allegedly leading this country is a terrible human being; it is that anyone left still defending him, applauding him, justifying him, and celebrating him probably is too...
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No, Good People Don't Still Support Him
Everyone believes they're essentially a good human being.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-good-people-dont-still-support
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These miserable Boxtox Barbies are willing to deny sexual assault survivors justice, exacerbate their trauma, and stand in the way of justice—all to line their own pockets, keep their party in power, and protect the Predator-In-Chief.
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The Powerful Women Who Protect A Predator
I can understand why Conservative men support a serial predator like Donald Trump.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-powerful-women-who-protect-a
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This Sunday across this nation, self-identified followers of Jesus will fill churches and declare a love for God and God's people, while knowingly supporting a serial rapist and doing nothing to stop the brutal violence he is inflicting on their neighbors.
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Things MAGA Christians Can Pray About In Church This Sunday
If you’re a professed Christian currently still supporting this President and this Administration, and you’re on your way to church on Sunday, here are a few things you might talk with God about in be...
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/things-maga-christians-can-pray-about
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Tom Morello's opening in Minneapolis. Fire.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMK...
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Tom Morello - Intro + Killing In The Name Of
YouTube video by Kyle Matteson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMKAxFtjB8
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But perhaps most stomach-turning of all of Trump’s sycophantic defenders are women like Karoline Leavitt, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Megyn Kelly, Tulsi Gabbard, Maria Bartiromo, and Laura Ingraham...
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The Powerful Women Who Protect A Predator
I can understand why Conservative men support a serial predator like Donald Trump.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-powerful-women-who-protect-a
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Imagine weaponizing ICE, terrorizing communities, beating people, deporting them at random, executing American citizens, throwing this nation into chaos, all to protect your rapist leader. Republicans all need to fall.
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Don't turn away MAGAs, don't you dare f*ckin' turn away!
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You know what's really gross? It's women like Kristi Noem, Karoline Leavitt, Megyn Kelly, Laura Loomer, Maria Bartiromo, and Laura Ingraham who know damn well that Donald Trump is a rapist and a pedophile...
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We are the vast majority. It's time to wield it. MAGA needs to be driven back to the hell it came from.
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Hopefully, the complete Epstein files will be released so that every sick and violent predator will be made accountable, having their long-concealed darkness revealed...
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The Epstein Files Have Fully Exposed the Right.
The Jeffrey Epstein files, once fully released, will expose Epstein, detailing his prolific atrocities once and for all.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-have-fully-exposed
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Donald Trump is a rapist and a pedophile and every Republican in Congress and everyTrump support is complicit.
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Catherine O’Hara was a genius, a light, and a joy-maker. What a loss to the world.
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An American citizen is in far more danger from an ICE agent than from an undocumented immigrant and it isn’t even close.
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Arresting the black and brown reporters and not the white executioners. That tracks...
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The Department of Justice is working harder to harass people of faith and conscience who protest a State-sponsored execution of an American citizen than to bring to justice those who performed the execution.
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WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? Conservative Christians don't really want to know. Jesus would stand in the street between ICE and those it seeks to terrorize. Jesus would defy the politicians openly preying upon God’s people...
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Jesus Turned Over Tables. He Would Have Interrupted That Minneapolis Church Service, Too.
What Would Jesus Do?
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-turned-over-tables-he-would
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If we are going to salvage our Republic from this massive wrecking ball of cruelty, it is going to be necessary for the good people of this nation to sever ties with those still loyal to him...
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For the Sake of The Nation and Humanity, His Supporters Must Be Shunned
At this point, decent people need to face a painful truth:
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/for-the-sake-of-the-nation-and-humanity
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The complete disregard for Alex Pretti's life by those morally inverted thugs cosplaying as soldiers is beyond comprehension. The utter contempt for his memory by this Administration is unrepentantly evil.
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ICE Destroyed Alex Pretti's Body. The Trump Administration Assassinated His Character. Conservative Americans Are Fine With That.
Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE, in cold blood, without cause, and with giddy joy from his assassins.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/ice-destroyed-alex-prettis-body-the
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Full video out now.
youtu.be/GDaPdpwA4Iw?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/GDaPdpwA4Iw?si=pYN2rN36gTJTXHtv
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Seriously, if you're still supporting ICE, you're failing the human test.
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We're just sayin'...
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It’s exhausting to give a damn, isn’t it? To be a person of compassion in a time and place when compassion is in such great demand? Day after day, these legions of sorrows begin to take up residence in your body...
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A Letter to Those Who Still Give a Damn
It’s exhausting to give a damn, isn’t it?
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-those-who-still-give
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If there’s a hell, it will be filled with people who claimed faith in Jesus, while trying to strip the sick of care, the terrified of refuge, and the vulnerable of protection, and reveled in it as if it were a righteous victory.
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If Hell Exists, It Will Be Filled With Congressional Republicans
Growing up in the Church, I believed in Hell.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-hell-exists-it-will-be-filled
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Had a great time with the incomparable
@joyannreid.bsky.social
tonight! We talked Christian nationalism, white Jesus, and why hope is still in the windshield. My portion comes up around the 1-hour and 22-minute mark, though the whole show is amazing.
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Minneapolis and The Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory | The Joy Reid Show LIVE!
YouTube video by The Joy Reid Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ukzdH2WvU
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ICE: Incels who should be in cells.
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More amazing protest music from Everlast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Xy...
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Everlast x WLPWR - "Blood on the Wheel" (FUCK ICE)(Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Everlast Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9XyCpdJ7SY
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Stunning words by Michael Dubois.
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Bruce being amazing, as always.
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w&t=16s
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Republican Christians would have murdered the Good Samaritan.
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Minnesota is showing the way forward in the streets and at the polls.
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Friends, catch me today at 1 pm ET on the
@thomhartmann.skystack.xyz
! At 7:20 pm ET, I'll be joining
@thereidout.bsky.social
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This is no longer a political conversation; it’s a moral one. It's not about a policy difference, not a simple disagreement on the responsible way to deal with collective national challenges...
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Politics Isn't Worth Ending Relationships Over, But Authoritarianism Is.
“You shouldn’t let politics get in the way of your relationships.”
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/politics-isnt-worth-ending-relationships
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'A Pastor's Warning: We're Not in a Civil War, But a Christian Nationalist Holy War—And They Must Not Win.'
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This is what these people are, all of them, It's a death cult. We have to defeat them.
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What’s happened and is happening in Minneapolis is a personal question to all of us, regardless of where we live, asking how much we’re willing to do to preserve the America we call home and claim to love.
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America, We Are All Minneapolis
Denial is a powerful drug.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-we-are-all-minneapolis
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As a former pastor, I can’t make this any clearer: White Evangelical Christians are the source of everything afflicting our nation: all of this violence, chaos, dehumanization, and suffering...
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A Pastor's Warning: We're Not in a Civil War, But a Christian Nationalist Holy War—And They Must Not Win.
I’m not sure Americans really understand what we’re facing right now.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-pastors-warning-were-not-in-a-civil
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Bovino is just the beginning. Keep up the fight. Things are shifting.
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