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Advancing holistic health and wellbeing: Consultant | Speaker | Trainer | Researcher | Clinician | Scholar-Practitioner | Founder and CEO: Integrated Care Counsel, LLC www.integratedcarecounsel.com

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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Go Blue!!
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
NEW: Judge Sullivan isn't buying Todd Blanche's excuses for refusing to hand over handwritten FBI notes underlying four Epstein survivor FBI interviews. He's ordered Blanche to hand them over for in camera review by 9/24. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just a random reminder that it's a moral outrage we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.dw.com/en/turkey-16...
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Turkey: 162 arrested in LGBTQ+ raids
Turkish authorities have arrested at least 162 people in a weekend crackdown on the country's LGBTQ+ community. Ankara says police raids on gay bars and other venues are aimed at protecting family val...
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Iran war is costing each of us: iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hillary Is Spot On.......
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Love the Irish🇮🇪
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MDOr...
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BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience
YouTube video by RoadtoResilience
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Indeed: “incorporating neuroscience into the DSM as the research advances will provide clinicians a more scientific and broader perspective on mental health.” theconversation.com/im-part-of-t...
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I’m part of the team writing the next bible of psychiatry – for the first time, the DSM will use biology to understand mental disorders
Despite advances in neuroscience, the underlying biology of mental illness has remained elusive. The DSM-6 will attempt to integrate neurobiology into how clinicians diagnose and treat psychiatric con...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The best measure of how America is doing isn’t the stock market, or GDP growth. It’s how well most Americans are living — and right now most are struggling.
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The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is quite informative - it would be helpful for all disciplines to create a similar Watch Program Tracker americananthro.org/anthropology...
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Anthropology Watch - American Anthropological Association
Anthropology Watch Program Tracker displaying closures and changes to anthropology programs at universities.
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He Should Be Fired Immediately and Investigated…..
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phoenix509.bsky.social @phoenix509.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
💙💙💙NJ Town pulled $91 Million from Citizens Bank ➡️because they fund ICE Detention Centers (aka Camps) Great job for taking a stand against the inhumanity 👏👏
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This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026
Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2026
The best way to get to the bottom of the McConnell question is for the governor to appoint a replacement. The GOP legislature passed a law stripping him of that power, but it goes against the state constitution. If they refuse to seat the replacement, take them to court. There’s zero downside.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
One of the first things Trump did after returning to office was gut the CFPB, the agency that protects Americans from financial predators. That sabotage has cost Americans an estimated $26.5B and counting. Trump is making his corporate donors even richer by letting them swindle you.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 14/07/2026
135k+ signatures delivered. 🙌 @govjayinslee.bsky.social and representatives of the nationwide "No Immunity for Big Oil" campaign recently met with @corybooker.com, @raskin.house.gov, and other congressional leaders urging them to reject legislative proposals to put Big Oil above the law.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We cannot accept the reckless use of deadly force by federal agents as normal. There is a pattern of this administration misleading the public and withholding key facts after these killings.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Curious to hear Mitch McConnell's comments on the passing of Lindsey Graham.
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Madelyne 🌴 @madelynerants.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I was raised to not speak ill of the dead. In therapy, I learned that speaking honestly about the harm done is more important than protecting the dead. Lindsey Graham caused more harm to this state than anything else in my lifetime. His legacy is hatred and brutality. Now, SC can move forward.
Lindsey Graham, warmonger, dead at 71
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PhillFoss @phillfoss.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Not sure if true…..
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Watch.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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DrBalestrery @drbalestrery.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Cheers!!!! To Cheryl!!!!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Abbott Laboratories donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Trump bought around $500,000 worth of shares in Abbott stock last year. His DOJ just dropped a years-long criminal investigation into Abbott for potential deadly misconduct. Everything is for sale.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’m all for people being able to work remotely and being able to prioritize their health but if you can’t even release a statement that you’re alive then you definitely aren’t fit to serve in the US Senate
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Three egg producers will pay $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofits to settle a price-fixing lawsuit with the DOJ. None of the producers have to admit any wrongdoing. Is this really justice? Or just the cost of doing business?
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Egg companies made $1.22 billion in profit off a $6 carton — now they’re buying their way out of a price-fixing case with 53 million donated eggs | Fortune
None of them admitted wrongdoing.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2026
Didn’t see this coming. Another Senate race to watch closely. Lindsey Graham spent years acting like South Carolina belonged to him. The voters might have other plans. Dr. Annie Andrews is at 45%, and among informed voters, she leads Graham 46% to 43%.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 01/07/2026
Breaking: E. Jean Carroll moved to the collect $5,779,783 from the bond Trump deposited in the court's registry, since that verdict reached the "end of the line" at SCOTUS. Trump's lawyers are still trying to delay, per the filing.
The Court should enforce the plain language of the existing Stipulation and Order and
direct immediate disbursement of funds held in the CRIS. Defendant Trump obtained a stay of
execution pending appeal only by explicitly agreeing that the funds placed in the Court’s account
would be disbursed upon the conditions set out in the Stipulation and Order. Those conditions
were satisfied when the Supreme Court denied his petition for certiorari. Nothing in the Stipulation
and Order, the Federal Rules, or the Supreme Court’s Rules permits him to disregard the parties’
agreement subsequently so ordered by Your Honor based on the fact that he is considering seeking
reconsideration of the denial of certiorari.2 Accordingly, the Court should direct the Clerk to
disburse to Carroll the value of the judgment including post-judgment interest, which amounts to
$5,779,783.00 in total as of the date of this filing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Art of the Steal. readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bou…
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Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally
The trades weren't made public until yesterday, more than a year later than required by law.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I was proud to join @jonesforar.bsky.social in Little Rock to send a message that there is no such thing as a permanently red state, especially when so many people are seeking leaders who will improve everyday life and make Washington more accountable.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/06/2026
Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.
Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Fewer than half of Americans can afford healthcare, the lowest rate since 2021. We’re saddled with the highest healthcare costs with the worst health outcomes among other rich countries. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All? We do not have to keep living like this.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"A Mississippi farmer who paid higher wages and favoured white South African guest workers has been taken to court by five black American workers alleging a pattern of racial and citizenship-based discrimination and 'wage theft'."
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US farmer faces legal pushback for paying white South African guest workers higher wages
Five black American workers are taking a Mississippi farmer to court because they allege he is favouring and paying white South African guest workers higher wages. …
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