Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025jewishpublicaffairs.org/news/newswee...jewishpublicaffairs.orgNewsweek Op-Ed: To Fight Antisemitism and Preserve Democracy, Educators and the Jewish Community Must Partner Closely - Jewish Council for Public AffairsOriginally published by Newsweek. By Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT, and Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs There is no question: Antisemitism is on the rise. From ac... 220
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Understand This www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o... #ForeignAid #trumpnytimes.comOpinion | You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Understand This 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Trump proposal to repatriate Ukrainians, Haitians would use foreign aid funds I think the people in the administration wake up every day and say, “What cruel thing can can I do that will make people’s lives miserable.” I truly cannot put myself in their place to try to think like they are thinking. 100
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025substack.com/@letsgetinto...substack.comLetsGetIntoIt2025 on SubstackBruce Springsteen is on tour in Europe. He’s doing his part to speak truth to power while keeping the American dream he sings of alive. 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025At the nation’s elite military academies, the library stacks are being emptied by executive order. Adults 18 and over attend these academies, not children. action.everylibrary.org/militaryunco... via @everylibrary.bsky.social This is not democracyaction.everylibrary.orgTrump’s Military Academies Are Becoming Laboratories for Unconstitutional Censorship, Not LeadershipAdults 18 and over attend these schools, not children. 000
Reposted by Jerry Paulson✨Indivisible West Hills✨❌👑 @indivisiblewhills.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Call things what they are. 216951
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 13/04/2025This, unfortunately, follows a pattern of defunding and denial of science. The trump administration is harming the lives of Americans, and some of that harm may lead to death. 100
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Law firms should know better than to give in to extortion. trump’s executive orders are illegal and should be opposed. It is disgraceful that law firms should bend the knee to the one who would be king 010
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Trump announces deals with more law firms for a combined $600 million Law firms should know better than to give in to extortion. trump’s executive orders are illegal and should be opposed. It is disgraceful that law firms should bend the knee to the one who would be king 020
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025The Alien Enemies Act is a notorious law last used during World War II to intern Japanese, German, and Italian nationals. It was used to deport individuals who are allegedly part of a Venezuelan gang. In addition at least two individuals have been incarcerated for speaking in favor of Hamas. 211
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian Next, they’ll be burning books on the national mall and confiscating degenerates art 050
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian JD Vance is totally unqualified to evaluate the Smithsonian Institution. This is so Orwellian! We will surely see the desecration of an internationally renowned institution #Orwell #Smithsonian 011
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Trump signed an Executive Order attacking Federal Funding for Libraries. Please send an email to your legislators and governors before it's too late! action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.socialaction.everylibrary.orgSEND AN EMAIL: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacking Federal Funding for LibrariesWe need your help TODAY to tell your governors and key members of the House and Senate that federal funding for libraries - the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - needs to be preserved! 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today! action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.socialaction.everylibrary.orgTake Action To Save Federal Funding for Libraries!Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. We need you to take action today! That's why we made it easy to contact your reps, sign petitions, and learn about the Institute of Museum... 010
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Edward R. Murrow, “We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men —open.substack.comThe Truth Dies with HimAnother voice didn’t toe the Trump line 110
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025EPA moves to dismantle dozens of Biden’s environmental rules Lee Zeldin, EPA Administrator said “… We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age.” #climatechange is not a religion #climatechange is a reality. 110
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Trump wants Guantánamo to hold 30,000 migrants. So far it has held about 300. This is so wrong, so cruel, and so #trump administration. #migrant 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The parents of these students are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home. action.everylibrary.org/dodschools via @everylibrary.bsky.socialaction.everylibrary.orgPETITION: Support the Right to Read in DOD K-12 schoolsThe parents of these students are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home. 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025There are a lot of dumb, stupid and illegal things being done by the so-called #trump administration. Telling the Dept of Defense to ignore climate change & stop all activities related to climate change has to right right up there on the list of stupid things. floridaphoenix.com/2025/02/27/n...floridaphoenix.comNew Defense secretary doesn’t recognize the danger climate poses for Florida’s military bases • Florida PhoenixWhen I was a kid growing up in Pensacola, I played “Army Man” a lot. I’d climb up in the persimmon tree in my backyard and pretend it was my fort. I’d shout “PEW! PEW!” and pretend to repel every kind... 210
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025#trump #Tarriffs = $2000 more per year out of your pocket! #trump #Tarriffs = $2000 more per year out of your pocket! #trump #Tarriffs = $2000 more per year out of your pocket! 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... #trump & #vance are leading this country into #autoracy. They want relations with #tyrants and to hell with our erstwhile #allies This is a terrible time for our country #RESISTANCEtheatlantic.comAt Least Now We Know the TruthIt’s ugly, but necessary to face. 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’ We need to end the #lawlessness of the #trump administration 000
Reposted by Jerry PaulsonEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The man who says he to want to make America healthy again dealt a death blow to NIH's climate change & health programs. A dangerous, reckless & pointless travesty! www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.socialmotherjones.comRFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programsHe pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health. 12316
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c... Having @LynnDekleva at #EPA doing chemical safety reviews is the definition of #conflictofinterest Yet another disaster appointment by the #trump administration #SaveEPAnytimes.comShe Lobbied for Formaldehyde. Now She’s at E.P.A. Approving New Chemicals.Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde. 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025grist.org/politics/tru... Typical administration disinformation #climateemergencygrist.orgRepublicans once embraced ‘green banks.’ Trump is trying to raid them.EPA chief Lee Zeldin has launched an attack on the agency’s $20 billion clean energy loan program. 000
Reposted by Jerry PaulsonGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23/02/2025Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.wbez.orgNIH funding cuts could have ‘devastating impact’ on medical advancements, Chicago researchers sayThe National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump announced this month that it was cutting payments covering overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants. 582462642
Reposted by Jerry PaulsonWuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 24/02/2025👑 Jane Fonda with a mic drop "Empathy is not weak or "woke." And, by the way, "woke" just means you give a damn about other people." 383299706892
Reposted by Jerry PaulsonSadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Good morning from rainsville - on this #worldhealthday I am updating slides on measles, rinderpest, CDV, and how to make vaccines, what successful elimination vs eradication is, and reflecting on how we can do these things if there's enough will. 0121
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025How Trump could be derailing a major global climate report Philanthropy needs to step up and fund this work. #climatechange #IPCC #NASA #trump 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Musk’s DOGE says it has saved $55 billion. Not so fast. #trump has always been a liar. Seems like #doge is doing the same! 110
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025www.motherjones.com/politics/202... #kennedy is a fraud. He lied at his confirmation hearings. It is no surprise that he would cancel #climate related programs at #NIHmotherjones.comRFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programsHe pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health. 001
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025People in #Virginia want #cleanair. Ban #fossilfuels #NoMethane for #electricty 032
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025#trump may think that he is #king. He is not. He is a #tryant intent on destroying our #Democracy. #Resistance 010
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025open.substack.com/pub/scilight... Our country is being irrevocably damagedopen.substack.comStories from Fired Federal ScientistsCritical work done on behalf of the public is being cut 021
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025This is what happens when stupid people do stupid things. #DOGE and possible-president #Musk doesn’t know what they are doing and doesn’t care. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...npr.orgTrump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weaponsThe National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to... 130
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Associated Press and the White House remain in standoff over access Suppressing the #press is unamerican #trump is a petty dictator 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next The idea that certain offices or people could have been corrupted by exposure to #DEI ideas sounds more like Russia than the US. #DOGE is illegal 010
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025open.substack.com/pub/scilight... President #Musk and his assistant #DonaldTrump are wrecking our #civilservice and every thing that the #civilservice provides to the #People of #America ☹️open.substack.comProbationary Employees Fired En MasseForget the “Meritocracy” Pretense - This is No Way to Treat People 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025How did Vance ever graduate from law school? Yale must be so embarrassed. 010
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025wapo.st/41aHcEf If the US really tried to "take over Gaza" we would be mired in an endless asymmetrical warfare with Hamas or its successor. This idea presents a clear and present danger to the US. This wold be an open invitation to terrorist operations in the US as well as in Gaza.wapo.stTrump proposes U.S. ‘take over’ Gaza, permanent displacement of residentsThe idea, a first indicator of Trump’s approach to the conflict, was sure to inflame the region given the history of Palestinians’ displacement from their territory. 140
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Sooo sorry, Lisa. You need this like a hole in your head 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025open.substack.com/pub/brennanc... Illegal. Unconstitutional. Unelected people (the DOGE folks aren’t even bureaucrats) who are untrained, unauthorized by any legal authority, are destroying our country in a criminal operation.open.substack.comBreaking the LawIn just a few days, the Trump administration has violated rules, laws, and the Constitution. 011
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025#vaccine #HHS For @RoberFKemmedy,Jr to sit in a Senate hearing and claim that he is not anti vaccine is just ludicrous. He is a liar. He is not qualified to lead HHS 000
Reposted by Jerry PaulsonEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Bravo! Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, MD & @lisapatel.bsky.social are calling for a large-scale health campaign to highlight the health harms of fossil fuels & the health benefits of a rapid transition to clean energy. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/... @docsforclimate.bsky.socialhealthaffairs.orgCritical Steps To Address Climate, Health, And Equity | Health Affairs JournalClimate change poses an unprecedented threat to human health and well-being in the United States. In this article, part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Car... 821042
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025www.propublica.org/article/davi.... Cry for #EPA Cry for all living beings on earth. #Trump’s appointments at #EPA are a disasterpropublica.orgDonald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution HarmDavid Fotouhi, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on asbestos, worked to roll back climate regulations and water protections while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s fir... 000
Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Salute or not, there’s so much support for antisemitism on X that no more information is needed about what Musk thinks. He is antisemitic! 000