stuff that needs to be said
Dear Karoline, Well, here we are, or more accurately, here you are. I’d like to say I’m surprised, though that would be a lie. We all saw this coming for you (well, those of us not indoctrinated into a treasonous predator’s mindless death cult). Like Pam and Tulsi and Kristi, and countless women before, you [ ] The post Dear Karoline Leavitt, Was It Worth It? appeared first on John Pavlovitz .
Photo: Will Weissert, Associated Press Lindsey Graham is dead, and it gives me no joy. This is not a celebration; it is a lament. The moment any human being leaves this planet, it is almost always an occasion to mourn. When death arrives, it is a permanent interruption, an unexpected or unwanted end to a [ ] The post This Week, Death Took Lindsey Graham s Body. Trump Took His Soul Long Before…
Hatred is a slow poison. Once it finds its way into the bloodstream, it gradually begins destroying a human being from the inside out. It does its work almost imperceptibly, driving out critical thinking, eradicating empathy, and hardening the heart. Since October 7, 1996, hundreds of millions of the people we love and live alongside [ ] The post Fox News Poisoned America and Killed The Goodness…
Dear Former President Barack Obama and Former First Lady Michelle Obama, History has a way of revealing the truth, eventually. Like the sun gradually coming up over the horizon and burning away the darkness concealing everything around it, the unfolding years chase away the noisy bombast of social media rhetoric, knee-jerk think pieces, and in-the-moment [ ] The post Thanks, Obamas. appeared first…
Are you feeling this, America? What is unfolding at the Kennedy Center: This joyous subtraction. This glorious removal. This is the collective jubilation of watching a vile disfigurement reversed, a terrible stain erased, a brutal injury repaired. With the smallest restoration of justice unfolding on a massive wall of white marble, we are experiencing on a [ ] The post First, the Kennedy Center,…
Hey, America. I get it: this feels like it’s never going to end, like this oppressive darkness will never lift, like the disorienting chaos of these days is now our default setting. This is understandable. For the last decade, we’ve been living in dog years, friends; pummeled by a century’s worth of Constitutional crises, systemic [ ] The post Take Heart, America, We re Going to Outlive Him.…
Hey there, we’re the Republican Party, and we’re pro-life! You are? Yup! Cool… so you’re for affordable healthcare for everyone? Umm, well, not exactly; we can’t just take care of everyone. Can you imagine the cost of that? I see. But at least you’re in favor of health benefits for the elderly? Now, that’s a bad example. People are living longer, [ ] The post Hi. We re the Republican Party, And We…
I was talking with a few friends recently about the state of the nation, and as it often does, the conversation turned toward people we know who still support the current president. Someone mentioned their frustration with their neighbors who are still unrepentantly MAGA, saying, “But the thing is, they’re good people . I gently pushed [ ] The post Don t Mistake Nice People For Good People…
Picture someone you love who died serving this nation, or even someone you’ve never met. Imagine them wherever they took their final breath on this planet: Jumping into churning, frozen foreign seas in a screaming storm of artillery fire. Shivering in a filthy trench in the terrifying blackness of an insect-blanketed jungle floor. Leaping from [ ] The post On Memorial Day and Every Day, Donald…
To all the white Republican professed Christians across this country: to hell with you. To hell with you, as you have the unmitigated audacity to fill churches throughout this nation on Sunday, after celebrating the silencing of your black and brown neighbors all week, as you’ve applauded the erasure of six decades of civil rights [ ] The post To Hell With You, White Republican Christians (A…