Elisa Braver, PhD

@ebraver.bsky.social

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Epidemiologist: Interests are food insecurity, injury prevention and control, drug safety, and psychiatric illnesses.

Chart compares Emergency Department (ED) visits for tick bites in 2026 compared with 2022-2025 and it shows there are 3 times more visits in April 2026, 114 per 100,000 ED visits. Tick bite visits usually peak in the summer.
Photo by Doug Mills is of bullet whizzing by Donald Trump’s head during the assassination attempt on Trump on 7/13/2024 at the outdoor campaign rally in Butler, PA. Trump is wearing a red MAGA baseball cap and standing at a podium with blue MAGA decor.
ANOTHER FINE MESS: USA-UGANDA DEHUMANISING "DEPORTATION" AGREEMENT CHALLENGED IN COURT Kampala, Uganda - 2 April 2026: The Uganda Law Society and East Africa Law Society have learnt about an advanced plot to forcibly remove (in the name of deportation) a dozen people from the United States and effectively dump them in Uganda through an undignified, harrowing and dehumanising process that has reduced them into little more than chattel, for the benefit of unnamed, private interests on either side of the Atlantic. We have been informed that the privately-owned aircraft carrying the deportees is or will soon be airborne and will be touching down at Entebbe International Airport today. Our research indicates that none of the mandated institutions, such as the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control, the Parliament of Uganda, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been engaged regarding this matter. Moreover, no policy document or legislation has been promulgated to stipulate the procedures relevant to the transfer of people from one country to another.Typical of such suspicious arrangements, we have also learnt about private contractors who are falling over themselves to cash in on the suffering of fellow human beings whose crime is to have been arbitrarily deemed as undesirable and as such disposable to the most willing takers, regardless of whatever fate awaits them. This development and the attendant illegalities that accompany it are reminiscent of a dark past that the global family of humanity supposedly put behind itself in pursuit of the ideal that every human being is born equal in dignity and rights.
Photo shows headline of column by Maureen Dowd titled “Trump’s Slavish Stupidity” and dated August 23, 2025. There also is a photo of Donald Trump standing in the White House Oval Office behind a bust of Abraham Lincoln.
Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing 
The de facto Saudi ruler was branded an outcast after the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
 November 18, 2025

Photo of President Donald Trump walking with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday at the White House. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) 
By Susannah George, Michael Birnbaum and Natalie Allison 
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying “things happen” and that he did not hold the Saudi leader responsible for the 2018 murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.”
This is the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York to mark the third anniversary of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. There is a semi-circular green stage, 2 jumbo screens showing the speaker from Ukraine (diplomat Mariana Betsa), a giant golden backdrop, and golden desks.