Meegan, MT-BC, MM, MA 🎶DIVA 🎶
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Meegan, MT-BC, MM, MA 🎶DIVA 🎶
@MJH_MT
Music Therapist, PhD Candidate (ABD), International Psychology+Trauma Focus; CPP & Advocate, Humanist, Intersectional Feminist, Work in Progress
Pale Blue Dot Katılım Kasım 2014
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@Mofoman360 There are millions of Shamima Begums living in the United Kingdom. However, more of them have penises.
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In 2016, a dog fell into a reservoir in Almaty and could not escape the steep concrete walls and strong current. A man tried to help but was unable to reach it on his own. Seeing this, several strangers stepped in and formed a human chain, reaching down into the rushing water and saving both the dog and the man.
Ten years later, this moment was turned into a sculpture unveiled on March 18. Funded privately and approved by the city, it stands as a symbol of kindness, unity, and people coming together.
More than a tribute to a single rescue, it reflects something simple and real: in urgent moments, strangers can help one another and save lives.
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I’ve always believed that one of our jobs as leaders is to pass the baton on to the next generation –– and to give them the resources and support they need to lead us forward. On National Run for Office Day, check out @RFSCivics for the resources you need. runforsomethingcivics.net
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@Simemeulation @Rainmaker1973 Yep. And unfortunately, most states/insurance companies deny pain medication for the millions of chronic pain patients suffering from myriad, complex diseases. Where are those “cures” in development? I’m not holding my breath 😑
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@Rainmaker1973 New York routinely denied sickle cell patients pain medicine...
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A 21-year-old man from Long Island has made medical history as the first person in New York State to be cured of sickle cell disease.
Sickle cell disease is a painful genetic disorder in which red blood cells become rigid, crescent-shaped, and prone to clumping. These deformed cells block blood vessels, triggering intense pain crises, organ damage, strokes, and a significantly reduced life expectancy. The condition affects approximately 100,000 people in the United States.
The breakthrough treatment, called Lyfgenia (lovotibeglogene autotemcel), is a one-time gene therapy developed by bluebird bio. The process begins by collecting the patient’s own bone marrow stem cells. In the laboratory, scientists use a lentiviral vector to insert a functional gene that enables the production of healthy hemoglobin. After the patient undergoes chemotherapy to eliminate the faulty cells, the genetically modified stem cells are infused back into the body.
Once engrafted, these corrected cells start producing normal, flexible red blood cells that flow smoothly through blood vessels without causing blockages.
For Sebastien Beauzile, who had lived with severe sickle cell disease for over two decades, the results were transformative. Chronic pain that had defined much of his life vanished, and his blood parameters normalized. Doctors now consider him cured.
While the therapy is complex, requires intensive preparation, and remains extremely expensive, it represents a major shift in how sickle cell disease is approached — moving from lifelong symptom management to a potential one-time curative solution. As more patients gain access, Lyfgenia and similar gene therapies could offer hope for a future where sickle cell is no longer a lifelong burden.
This milestone at Cohen Children’s Medical Center marks an important step forward in genetic medicine and personalized cures.

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@ImAaronEColyer He is @patrickspicers
His work is available on Instagram as @/patrickspicer
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Comedian — What do you do?
🇮🇱 Israeli — I am a war crime investigator
Comedian — What are you investigating?
🇮🇱 Israeli — War crimes in Ukraine
Comedian — Why don’t you first investigate the war crime in Gaza? Start with criminals at home 🤣
This comedian has a bigger SPINE than 190 countries combined 🔥
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top House Dem appropriator, says DHS is actively choosing not to pay TSA workers while paying employees at ICE, CPB, Coast Guard and Secret Service.
And that the TSA administrator confirmed this herself on Weds. huffpost.com/entry/latest-n…
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@lisa_cashiola @EPotterMD With what money? When the “billion dollar corporations” have the literal billions to DRAG OUT THE PROCESS???
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I’m fighting every day to take care of patients at @redbudsurgerycenter and work with insurance. We’re doing complex DIEP flap reconstruction safely in an outpatient setting with incredible outcomes.
When I’m not in-network yet, we use a gap exception → insurance agrees to cover the surgery at in-network rates.
For one patient, we got the approval. Everything documented.
We took her to surgery… and while we were in the operating room, they sent an email reversing the coverage in real time.
We still took care of her, of course.
But how is this allowed? How can doctors keep their doors open when billion-dollar companies can change the rules after the work is done?
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@Bug618079476733 @BenjiBacker When you see it the first time, you start to see it everywhere. It’s maddening, depressing, infuriating…
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@BenjiBacker Every time I bring up environmental restoration projects in America, the American says “but that wouldn’t make money, why would we do that” and im left at a loss of words.
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@TeamTalaricoHQ @urdeal59 @jamestalarico These guys are pathetic examples of a superior race.$ All they accomplish is to confirm being white bears no relationship with being intelligent, wise nor morally coherent. They only confirm that such people are unworthy to hold power or to determine our collective future.
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.@JamesTalarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Frederick Douglass?
Republican: I am
Talarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Republican: Yes
Talarico: Yet this bill still includes the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even an American. Could that be because he's a white man?
Republican: N-not exactly…
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Don't forget they are dying from medical condition collapse, medical complications such as excessively high blood pressure that is non-responsive to BP meds, heart attack, stroke, and of course suicide. All KNOWN increased risks of forced-tapers, sudden discontinuation, and complete loss of access to proper, appropriate opioid pain relief. Torture and murder by fiat decree, based on fraudulent claims about "prescription opioid medications" perpetrated by a minority group with a medical OPINION, not scientific facts, with zero accountability.
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Chronic pain patients are dying by suicide because they can’t get their pain treated
@joerogan, give me 30 minutes and I will explain what’s happening
OxyContin saves lives
Not everyone abuses OxyContin
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@ClaudetteGGibs1 The trash took itself out 🤷🏼♀️ and good. This is waaayyy too close my hood.
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Former Morton cop 38 year old Francis Collier was killed by police this morning who serving a warrant on his on charges of raping a child. Sources tell me Collier was facing charges for raping family members about 20 years ago after the victim reported the rape to police in December. The two victims were about 5-6 at the time of the sexual assaults. According to charging documents, a victim came forward after seeing pictures of Collier as a cop with young children and became concerned. Collier was most recently a Morton police officer. He was also a member of the Delaware county child abuse and exploitation task force. He was placed on leave and then resigned during the investigation. The AG’s office charged him yesterday with rape. Police in Lower Merion went to serve a warrant on him this morning at his home. The DA’s office says Collier shot and police who shot back and killed him. 6abc Action News
6abc.com/post/police-in…

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My final salute to Black Women:
Susie King Taylor (August 6, 1848 - October 6, 1912) was born a slave at a plantation in Liberty County, Georgia. She became the first Black Army nurse in United States. She tended to an all Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, where her husband served, for four years during the Civil War.
Despite her service, like many African American nurses, she was never paid for her work. As the author of "Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops", she was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences. She was also the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia. At this school in Savannah, Georgia she taught children during the day and adults at night.

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@DrKloser7777 @ChristopherHale Who can tell the difference between who is the “devil”? Or the “martyrs” and “saints”?
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@ChristopherHale Some people may desire peace with the devil while martyrs and saints are fighting evil. Follow your own conscience as Thomas Aquinus would say.
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There has been no harsher critic to U.S. military action in Iran than Pope Leo XIV:
“War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.
“Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself, or in the pursuit of the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men and women.”
“Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion.
“This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence.”
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@archeohistories @MsGo This is one of the most exciting, inspiring, yet upsetting stories I’ve yet to have learned about. Upsetting because this story is not known more widely across the US. These are the stories that should be taught in our history books.
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John Horse (1812–1882) carved an extraordinary path through one of America's most turbulent periods. Born of mixed African and Seminole ancestry in Florida, he became a translator, warrior, and diplomat during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). His linguistic skills in English, Spanish, and Hitchiti made him invaluable to both Seminole leaders and American military commanders. After fighting against U.S. forces, he eventually surrendered under promises of freedom for Black Seminoles who ceased resistance.
The Indian Territory years revealed Horse's true leadership. When relocated westward, Black Seminoles faced new threats from Creek slavers who raided their settlements. Despite being freed three times—by General Jesup's decree, by General Worth for services rendered, and by the Seminole tribal council—Horse watched as Attorney General John Mason retroactively invalidated these freedoms in the late 1840s. The ruling declared that Black Seminoles, as descendants of fugitive slaves, remained legal property despite their military service and wartime promises.
Facing re-enslavement, Horse orchestrated a daring exodus in 1849. Alongside Seminole leader Coacoochee (Wild Cat), he led over 100 Black Seminoles and numerous Seminole Indians south through Texas. Pursued by slavers and Texas Rangers, they fought Comanche warriors and crossed desert terrain. In a dramatic finale at Las Moras Springs, they fled just ahead of Rangers, rafting across the Rio Grande as their pursuers arrived at the riverbank.
Mexico granted them land in Coahuila in exchange for border defense service. Horse served as a Mexican Army captain, protecting settlements from raiders for decades. His tactical brilliance remained sharp—once dispersing an attacking war party by aiming an empty rifle at their chief, his marksmanship reputation alone breaking their charge. In his seventies, he rode to Mexico City to defend his people's land grant against local seizure. He never returned, presumed dead in 1882.
John Horse's life illuminated the broken promises that characterized U.S. expansion. His story demonstrates how legal manipulations stripped Black Seminoles of hard-won freedom, forcing them to abandon American territory entirely. The Mexican settlement he established in Coahuila survives today as the Mascogo community, while his people's service as U.S. Army scouts after the Civil War created the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts—one of the most decorated units in frontier history. Horse's exodus established a permanent Black Seminole presence in Mexico and Texas, preserving a unique Afro-Indigenous culture that might otherwise have been erased by re-enslavement.
#archaeohistories

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@proud_native_am It is absolutely stunning, just like she is!
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