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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 8h

RALEIGH AREA FRIENDS!

I have the honor of speaking this Saturday, October 11th at Wake Forest's second PRIDE FEST!

It's going to be special!

More info: www.wakeforestpride.org/2025-wfp-fest

I hope to see you there!

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 10h

Help me launch my first-ever children's book called 'HERE and NOW and SMALL and CLOSE!'

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HERE and NOW and SMALL and CLOSE

An empowering, inspiring, and boundlessly hopeful book for children of all ages who want to create a more compassionate planet

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 21h

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?

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 21h

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.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 21h

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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The Americans the World Will Remember

Fifty years from now, we will be judged for who we choose to be in these moments

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

... 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.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

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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A Jesus Follower's Apology for MAGA Christians

I’m not with them.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

Trump voters,

Is this what you voted for?

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d

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

Choose.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d

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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Now That Fascism is Here...

Fascism isn’t coming to America; it’s here.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 4d

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

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 5d

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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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.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 5d

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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The I.C.E. Atrocities Should Be the Final Straw for Decent Human Beings.

This should be the final straw for us, America.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Project 2025 and the End of America

The Conservative plan to eliminate Democracy in the coming year

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 5d

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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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.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 6d

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

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 7d

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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Bad Bunny and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism

Sometimes you don’t have to work to figure out where the racists are.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Bad Bunny and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism

Sometimes you don’t have to work to figure out where the racists are.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 8d

ANTIFA is more American than MAGA.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 8d

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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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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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 8d

You can also join us live on YouTube!

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A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JOHN PAVLOVITZ!

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