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Jerry Paulson

@jerrypaulson.bsky.social
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Climate activists. Volunteer @ Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action. Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and of Environmental & Occupational Health George Washington University All options are my own

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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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Newsweek Op-Ed: To Fight Antisemitism and Preserve Democracy, Educators and the Jewish Community Must Partner Closely - Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Originally 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...
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Understand This www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o... #ForeignAid #trump
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Opinion | You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Understand This
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Trump 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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LetsGetIntoIt2025 on Substack
Bruce 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
At 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 democracy
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Trump’s Military Academies Are Becoming Laboratories for Unconstitutional Censorship​​, Not Leadership
Adults 18 and over attend these schools, not children.
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✨Indivisible West Hills✨❌👑 @indivisiblewhills.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Call things what they are.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This, 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump 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
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian Next, they’ll be burning books on the national mall and confiscating degenerates art
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Trump 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
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Trump 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.social
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SEND AN EMAIL: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacking Federal Funding for Libraries
We 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!
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today! action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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Take 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...
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
open.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 —
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The Truth Dies with Him
Another voice didn’t toe the Trump line
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
EPA 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Trump 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
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The 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.social
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PETITION: Support the Right to Read in DOD K-12 schools
The parents of these students are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
There 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...
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New Defense secretary doesn’t recognize the danger climate poses for Florida’s military bases • Florida Phoenix
When 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...
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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!
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
www.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 #RESISTANCE
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At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’ We need to end the #lawlessness of the #trump administration
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
#climatechange is real
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
#climatechange is real
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The 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.social
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RFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programs
He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.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 #SaveEPA
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She 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
grist.org/politics/tru... Typical administration disinformation #climateemergency
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Republicans 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.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23/02/2025
Freezing 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.
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NIH funding cuts could have ‘devastating impact’ on medical advancements, Chicago researchers say
The 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ban all fossil fuel
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
So sad
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @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."
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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Good 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
How Trump could be derailing a major global climate report Philanthropy needs to step up and fund this work. #climatechange #IPCC #NASA #trump
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Musk’s DOGE says it has saved $55 billion. Not so fast. #trump has always been a liar. Seems like #doge is doing the same!
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
www.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 #NIH
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RFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programs
He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
People in #Virginia want #cleanair. Ban #fossilfuels #NoMethane for #electricty
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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
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/scilight... Our country is being irrevocably damaged
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Stories from Fired Federal Scientists
Critical work done on behalf of the public is being cut
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This 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...
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Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons
The 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...
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Associated Press and the White House remain in standoff over access Suppressing the #press is unamerican #trump is a petty dictator
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Records 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
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
open.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 ☹️
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Probationary Employees Fired En Masse
Forget the “Meritocracy” Pretense - This is No Way to Treat People
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
How did Vance ever graduate from law school? Yale must be so embarrassed.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
wapo.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.
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Trump proposes U.S. ‘take over’ Gaza, permanent displacement of residents
The 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.
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Sooo sorry, Lisa. You need this like a hole in your head
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
open.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.
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Breaking the Law
In just a few days, the Trump administration has violated rules, laws, and the Constitution.
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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
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Bravo! 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.social
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Critical Steps To Address Climate, Health, And Equity | Health Affairs Journal
Climate 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...
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
www.propublica.org/article/davi.... Cry for #EPA Cry for all living beings on earth. #Trump’s appointments at #EPA are a disaster
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Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
David 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...
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Jerry Paulson @jerrypaulson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Salute or not, there’s so much support for antisemitism on X that no more information is needed about what Musk thinks. He is antisemitic!
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