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Elisa Braver, PhD

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

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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If 800,000 people each contribute $10, you might get the torso. But then you’d have to allow 1,095 visitors a day for the next 2 years. 😆
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alcohol and drugs multiply the effects of toxic masculinity.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finances are the primary factor driving university decisions. Columbia University has been hit hard by the restrictions on visas for international students. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Trump visa policies weigh on Columbia journalism program as admissions pause
The Trump administration's changing visa policies caused a sharp drop in international applications to Columbia University ​and contributed to the university pausing admissions to one of its journalis...
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every nonprofit opera company struggles to stay afloat. Firing staff should be reserved for cases of misconduct or incompetence.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That was fluff, but Post @washingtonpost.com journalists have been doing an outstanding job of reporting on ICE, Trump’s attempts to muzzle the free press, the official undercounts of dead/wounded in Iran war, AI dangers, how top military warned Trump about risks of Iran war, but were disregarded.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hilariously brilliant. “Remember the morning of your own wedding, when you were scrambling to make sure you had something borrowed, something blue, and somebody’s oligarch paying for you?” 😆
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Those who opposed removal of Confederate monuments, citing erasure of history, should have no problem with a future National Park site at Alligator Alcatraz. Americans need to learn about the human rights violations and how GOP politicians reveled in the prison’s cruelty.
Donald Trump (wearing red cap saying Gulf of America), Ron DeSantis (smiling), and Kristi Norm (white cap) standing next to small cages at Alligator Alcatraz, 2 bunk beds per cage, in a  room full of small cages next to each other. There is no room for prisoners to walk within the small cages.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
EPA is looking for traces of these safe medications, while simultaneously getting rid of all the regulations protecting our air quality from burning coal and gas. The GOP regime’s hypocrisy has no bounds.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Preparing us for Phantom $5,000 checks
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good news: The NTSB does not answer to Sec. of Transportation Duffy because it is set up to make independent safety recommendations. Bad news: NTSB Vice Chair Alvin Brown was removed without cause in 2025, part of a broader pattern of this GOP regime firing Black officials.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We can’t risk Fetterman switching political parties. We Democrats need to start flattering him as with as much sincerity as we can manage.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I support your candidacy. Please apologize again wholeheartedly for your comments on the Michigan synagogue attack without saying: “To anyone who feels like my comments might have been hurtful.” They were hurtful, period. Glad you said that contextualizing wasn’t the right response. wapo.st/4cir6xm
wapo.st
El-Sayed apologizes for March comments about Michigan synagogue attack
The Democratic Senate candidate said he regretted comments in which he linked the synagogue attack to a broader cycle of violence. "You don’t ever want to trample somebody’s pain," he said.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Knuckles on desk, knuckles on ground. Mission is unknown to human or beast.
Black-furred chimpanzee with long arms is facing forward while walking on knuckles.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The 2024 tax return for the John F. Kennedy Center showed that it was making a profit of tens of millions that could be plowed back into center programs. The GOP regime has repeatedly lied that the Kennedy Center was losing money and falling apart before they took over.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How about we call them both “sore losers” and “election deniers?” Both are true. And Mrs. Betty Bowers deserves our thanks for bringing levity to these horrifyingtimes @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Best to leave well enough alone. The Democrats benefit by not having McConnell’s vote. Any GOP politician appointed in McConnell’s place would have the benefit of incumbency.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Because prosperity means longshoremen being unable to afford shoes?
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump attacked Iran because he felt invincible, not because he was doing Netanyahu’s bidding. Trump ignored the warnings of his own generals that winning a war with Iran would be hard to pull off. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Trump hits out at reports that top US general warned against attacking Iran
General Dan Caine has warned that strikes against Iran could be risky, potentially drawing the US into a prolonged conflict, US media report.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Of course Iranian leaders want to assassinate Trump. This is nothing new. He killed their leader and other citizens. I wouldn’t blame Netanyahu for Trump’s actions - Trump is responsible. He could have ignored him the same way he ignores other foreign leaders and U.S. generals.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
GOP politicians who say they’ve “talked to McConnell” may be referring to the kind of monologues we have with unconscious family members on ventilators in the Intensive Care Unit after the nurses have told us that our relatives might possibly hear us.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The-Maine-Senate-Race
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The National Guard was sent to low-crime-rate tourist areas rather than DC neighborhoods with the highest violent crime rates. Violent crimes are about the same as in 2025. What’s terrifying is that the GOP regime is loosening gun safety regulations. www.niskanencenter.org/washington-d...
niskanencenter.org
Washington, D.C.’s crime decline and its lessons for American policing - Niskanen Center
Washington, D.C., offers a rare opportunity to study how police departments throughout the country might, and in fact must, do more with less.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If we are able to save our democracy and our education system, U.S. high school students will be taught in the future about how the Everglades detention center violated U.S. and international standards for treatment of prisoners.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“Tuner” and it was terrific!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I’d prefer that we know the outcomes as soon as they are decided. The 14th Amendment’s wording is clear, so I am dreading what tortuous arguments the court’s fringe conservatives will use to argue against its meaning.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In 2025, U.S. farmers lost $2 billion due to cuts in international food aid and $1 billion in due to cuts in aid to food banks and schools. Farmers will lose $3 billion per year due to massive cuts in SNAP (food stamps). GOP regime doesn’t care about hunger or farmers. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
cbpp.org
As Millions Lose SNAP, Senate Farm Bill Proposal Ignores Urgent Need to Protect Food Assistance for Low-Income Families
The farm bill proposal released today by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman ignores the rapidly worsening hunger crisis in the wake of the 2025 Republican reconciliation law (H.R. 1).
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Reliable news source, BBC, confirms Hegseth said this in 2019. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
bbc.com
Fox host says he 'hasn't washed hands in 10 years'
Harvard and Princeton graduate Pete Hegseth says germs don't exist because he can't see them.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Destroying the East Wing of the White House also was a tangible metaphor for this GOP regime.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Source is a satirist, Dash Macintyre, who has a Threads account, @thehalfwaypost
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We need more public fact-shaming.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It’s satire, but, sadly, some on the left blame antisemitic hate crimes, such as attacks on Jewish schools, on Mossad, despite zero evidence.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
That is unconscionable.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hope that the leaders of AMA realize that giving into bullying by this GOP regime just leads to further bullying. AMA should be fighting for America’s patients, who are losing access to medical care due to cuts in health insurance subsidies and Medicaid.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Bravo, House of Delegates for the American Medical Association! They understand that giving into bullying by this GOP regime just leads to further bullying. @jama.com
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Glad for any wins! ADA said they’d do an investigative report. My guess is that someone in ADA panicked and feared retaliation from the GOP Administration. What organizations need to understand is that giving into bullying by this regime leads to further bullying. @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Glad for any wins! ADA said they’d do an investigative report. My guess is that someone in ADA panicked and feared retaliation from the GOP Administration. What organizations need to understand is that giving into bullying by this regime leads to further bullying. @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Good news: the American Diabetes Association has apologized to the researchers evicted from the annual meeting and vows not to repeat this error. ADA supports robust medical research funding. @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Hoping that Emma Lazarus’s poem stays on the pedestal of the Statue. www.nps.gov/stli/learn/h...
nps.gov
The New Colossus - Statue Of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
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Michael Teague @eugaet.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Here's the editorial they were handing out copies of. You know what to do.
diabetesjournals.org
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
@amdiabetesassn.bsky.social https:// To American Diabetes Association: Ejecting eminent researchers from your annual conference for daring to criticize the Trump Administration’s cuts to medical research was a grave error. Apologize and beg them to return.
nytimes.com
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Pearl Jam @pearljam.com · 05/06/2026
No other peer nation allows gun violence to steal the lives of so many of their citizens. Today, we #WearOrange on National Gun Violence Awareness Day to honor every life stolen or forever changed by gun violence. Take action with @everytown.org! Find an event near you pj.lnk.to/wearorange
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I assume USA is paying. Why is Mexico going along with this cruelty?
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Misplaced priorities: The House voted today, 6/4/26, to cut $141 million in food aid (WIC) for children and pregnant mothers during a time of rising food costs. This aid helps families afford fruit, vegetables, milk, eggs, and other nutritious foods. #Health #Nutrition No paywall: wapo.st/4g7mKf0
wapo.st
House bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, children
Millions of WIC recipients would have less money for fruits and vegetables under the legislation, which funds the Agriculture Department and other agencies.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nicholas Kristof writes thoughtful columns after 40 years at NYT.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I blame the wellness influencers for spreading misinformation about the nutritional value of raw milk while downplaying its risks. These same people are causing deaths and disabilities with their anti-vaccine messages. Some are truly ignorant, but they do this to sell their snake oil products.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The Kennedy Center made millions in profits in 2024 before Trump took over and had completed a major extension to their building in the past few years. Trump is brazenly lying about both the prior finances and the state of the buildings at the Kennedy Center.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Elisa Braver, PhD @ebraver.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thank you for bringing us light and laughter on Bluesky. 🏙️🌠 And for taking over InfoWars.
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