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Arbella Odishoo Parrot,PsyD

@drarbella.bsky.social
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Clinical psychologist, writer, mom, first Gen American, lover of German chocolate cake and irrational fear of coyotes

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h
Amazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If there'd been just one man in that room or that chat who’d been raised to believe in consent, who’d been taught to see women as equals, who’d been told by their fathers how good men speak when no one else will, it would all have been different for her... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/cornells-j...
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Cornell’s Jane Doe Needed One Good Man In That House And That Group Chat. She Would Find None.
Warning: this piece includes references to sexual assault, as well as words many may find offensive.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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semperloquatius.bsky.social @semperloquatius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (again) and hands the GOP senators' butts to them.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This morning, the Justice Department went after nearly an entire state's federal bench, all at once. The judges had said the government wasn't following court orders. The response was to try to remove the judges. Here's why every American should be paying attention. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pappas: It’s a golden age if you’re Don Jr. getting a Russian oligarch to pay for a wedding reception, but for the rest of us, it doesn’t feel like that. They can put out whatever numbers they want. The American people know that this is a totally incompetent president who is estranged from reality.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."
Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Absolutely. 👇
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 30/09/2026
NEW: Starbucks repeatedly violates labor law, refuses to bargain with its union @sbworkersunited.org, and just announced it's closing 250 stores. Yet CEO Brian Niccol alone took home $31 MILLION last year. End CEO greed. Listen to workers. Boycott Starbucks.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republicans keep saying Congress doesn’t need to regulate AI because Big Tech can regulate itself. This is just another form of deregulation under Trump, where financial gains go to the top while the risks and losses trickle down to the rest of us.
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Who Wins in Trump’s Deregulation Spree?
Protecting us from financial predators. Keeping our air and water clean. Making sure our food won’t make us sick.Regulat
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Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · 30/09/2026
Exhausted by intrusive memories? Shift your focus from fighting the bad to growing the good through the power of grateful mental visualization. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/grat...
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What Gardening Can Teach Us About Our Intrusive Memories
Exhausted by intrusive memories? Shift your focus from fighting the bad to growing the good through the power of grateful mental visualization.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot by ICE 10 days ago. The bullet is still lodged in his back. He’s been forced to sleep on the floor and hasn’t been given medication, according to his attorney. Now DHS is claiming he assaulted an agent. Can we trust anything DHS says given its track record?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The midterms are being flooded with dark money & Trump is doing everything he can to suppress the vote. But remember — WE THE PEOPLE outnumber Trump and his billionaire backers. Keep phoning. Keep canvassing. Keep getting out the vote for candidates on the side of working people. It is essential.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now is the moment for us to reach down and pick up the power we have as citizens and rebuke these abuses so decisively that no president will try anything like this again for centuries.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · 27/09/2026
Many young men are struggling mightily today, but it's not entirely clear what's behind it or the best ways to help. The results of a major new survey may get to the heart of both challenges. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-...
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The Context of the Crisis Facing Young Men
Young men are straining to find their footing because the institutional pathways that once guided the transition to adult roles have gone missing.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe if you don’t make your former golf caddie the Deputy White House Chief of Staff then he wouldn’t be in a position to do dumb shit that can hurt your entire party right before the midterms. But hey, Caligula made his horse a senator.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US Ambassador to Greece has to be one of the greatest jobs you can get. You can represent your country in a beautiful place with great people and amazing food. But Guilfoyle had to go straight to plotting, scheming, and generating controversy. Because of course she did.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need to get a full accounting of every dollar each media company accepted of our money stolen by Trump to run his partisan political ads on their channels. Companies who accept these ads are receiving property stolen from the American people & are a disgrace for accepting them
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republicans correctly deduced that having Trump campaign in Maine for Susan Collins was a terrible idea given how unpopular he is here but then they inexplicably sent Vance twice, who may be even less popular. Who’s next, Stephen Miller in Portland?
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American Psychiatric Association @apapsychiatric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Understanding the Silent Crisis of Paternal Postpartum Depression ow.ly/e4qE50ZRas8
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Understanding the Silent Crisis of Paternal Postpartum Depression
Paternal postpartum depression in men presents with anger and withdrawal, requiring targeted screening and psychotherapeutic care.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · 26/09/2026
What if our imperfections are not something to avoid but to embrace? Here’s how our flaws actually make us beautiful and uniquely ourselves. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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The Beauty of Being All of You
Discover how honoring your authentic self can transform your perceived imperfections into your greatest strength.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to revive the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for the midterms also suggests the justices may be eager to weaken one of federal law’s most important safeguards against last-minute voter purges." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In SAVE ruling, Supreme Court signals path to weaken key protection against last-minute purges
A crucial voter protection could hinge on whether the Supreme Court wants to narrow the definition of “systematic” as applied to purges. And there’s reason to fear that it does.
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Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · 26/09/2026
You've probably experienced this truism: The harder you fight unwanted thoughts, the louder they get. There's a proven, if counterintuitive, solution. Get out of the way and let yourself heal. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxi...
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Stop Fighting Unwanted Thoughts
You don't stop unwanted thoughts by trying to stomp them out. Healing is not a subtraction. You do not get better by removing the bad. You heal by building something else.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The controversial plan to gerrymander Missouri’s congressional map to help Republicans has finally been squashed by the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS), which on Friday ruled against it. It was the Court’s third time rejecting it in two weeks. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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SCOTUS Missouri gerrymander ruling praised by pro-voter groups, attacked by GOP officials
“People, not politicians, will be the final deciders on this DC power grab," says group opposing Missouri Republican gerrymander.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Network solidarity against Trump's attack on the 1st Amendment lasted less than one week. Pathetic. On the bright side for CNN, moving forward Bari Weiss can make changes to ensure there is no more friction with the White House. Support independent media. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As I predicted on my podcast weeks ago, Grassley won’t run in 2028 if Rob Sand wins the governor’s race. It’s probably the only thing that will finally get him to leave.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s a cult. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ll be generous in the prenup?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The party never ends at the WH, as no expense will be spared at the latest lavish dinner since we are paying.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The love affair continues …
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another brilliant Trump endorsement.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Does Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon know the difference between federal election monitors and observers? As head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, which oversees the federal elections monitoring program, she definitely should. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Is DOJ laying the groundwork to expand the powers of its 1,000 election monitors?
Assistant AG Dhillon claimed she plans to deploy federal “observers” across the country — an authority she does not have.
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American Psychiatric Association @apapsychiatric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Previous research has found that states with comprehensive parity implementation have a robust mental health workforce and higher spending—but do these system-level improvements translate to better patient care? ow.ly/7loh50ZQkbx
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Factors Other Than Parity, Mental Health Spending Affect Patient Outcomes
People living in states with comprehensive mental health parity laws did not experience improved outcomes overall compared with people in states with less investment in mental health.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 22/09/2026
The Paramount deal would put CBS and CNN under one roof—the kind of concentrated media power Lewis F. Powell Jr.'s 1971 memo urged corporate America to build around institutions shaping public opinion. CBS executives later joined the Chamber effort to act on it.
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Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · 22/09/2026
Difficult people are virtually impossible to please. The real breakthrough often comes when you stop trying to change them and start changing how you respond to the dynamic. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
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How to Handle Difficult Bosses, Employees, and People
Have you ever run into a family member, boss, or employee who seem impossible to please? They may fall into the category of "difficult people." It's a complex personality trait.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
While you struggle to afford groceries, Melania is planning a lavish state dinner this week for the leader of China, where Trump can regale him with stories about his ballroom, Qatari jet, helipad, triumphal arch, and brag about how much he’s scammed off crypto & insider trading.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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