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vee.soy

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ph.d, msw. perpetually horizontal. writer, researcher, simmer. pfp: brown skin lady with dark curly hair wearing a tan dress smiles, seated in wheelchair. banner: same lady holds megaphone wearing a cops off campus shirt at protest

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 5d

just finished watching the Severed documentary and panel event with Mohamed, it was really beautiful

Watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILWT...

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Severed: The Story of a Boy From Gaza

YouTube video by The Nation

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 2h

i loathe tech bros bad & this shidd is outta pocket

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 2h

The audacity to quote Paul while being this demonic is so funny. Paul would've sailed the seas to rebuke Thiel in-person then would've followed up w a 40 pg letter about all the ways the devils is in him like lmao these ppl play around with the Lords word tew much. cant wait to wave to u from heaven

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 4h

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Screenshot text from The Guardian:
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 2h

i wish it could be a statewide thing so baaad

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 3h

My spouse pulled data from the CDC’s MMWR team on a weekly basis for her company to include with public health reports. That entire team has just been RIFed by Trump.

No more public health reports.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 5h

we gotta help out mentees do their own research so they can be first authors

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 5h

i just wrote up a three page guide for my mentee (w his permission) that discusses what a theoretical framework is, why we conduct a lit review, and some specific readings omggg, im so type a its bad yall. but hes never done research b4 and fresh out of undergrad phasing into a ma/msw program

The theoretical framework connects the researcher to existing knowledge. Guided by a relevant theory, you are given a basis for your hypotheses and choice of research methods.
Because I’m a little familiar with your work, I have a sense that your theoretical framework may be intersectional and/or abolitionist. Feel free to think about this broadly or specifically. IE: A specific thinker/thinkers within the abolitionist scope of literature, Asian-American feminists or Filipinx/a/o scholars, anti-carceral feminists, queer scholars etc. Up to you!

Some questions to get you started:
What or who inspired you to ask this specific question about safety?
Do you know of scholars or thinkers who have a similar approach to this line of thinking, or approach to research in general?
These questions will help point you to what bodies of literature you will want to peruse or revisit.

Once you’ve thought about what type(s) of literature you want to review, you can dive in! You’ll want to see what the/their literature says about the thing you’re studying. That means you will want to look for scholarship that is relevant to the specific sample of the larger study, in this case sexual violence, as well as sexual violence on college campuses. This will help you write the literature review. You’re seeing what’s out there.

Some questions to help guide you:
Who has written about safety and sexual violence, and sexual violence on campus?
What have those who coincide with your theoretical framework written about this?
What about scholars in sexual violence on campus in general (do they take up abolition/anti carceral feminism/etc in their work?)
What/how do the authors think about safety?
What does it look like for a community or person to be safe (in the context of sv and sv on campus, but maybe even broadly how is it connected to carceral violence? This will depend on your theory.)

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 8h

btw yes its possible to live when you cant eat or drink on your OWN aka meaning you need help (IE: feeding tubes, manual feeding). someone was getting fed droplets out of a syringe until they died due to lack of access to care. soooo

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 8h

congrats, you figured out why so many ppl w the disease die in bed

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 8h

Teyana Taylor is so downplayed it doesn’t even make sense 😭 this album is ridiculous it’s so good. Shes top tier. Face card eats, singing eats, dancing eats. Unmatched tbh

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 8h

My neighbor has woken me up at five am every day this week and I hope they’re enjoying country grammar blasting all afternoon

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 8h

Does 2+2=3?

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you Emily!

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 9h

I liked my outfit today, although it’s giving spring lol

I wish you could see this skirt it’s thrifted armani and sooooo cute it was like $20 I got it last year

Brown skinned lady sitting in wheelchair. She has curly black and brown chest length hair and is wearing a floral silk scarf as a shirt and baby pink skirt

Brown skinned lady sitting in wheelchair smiling. She has curly black and brown chest length hair and is wearing a floral silk scarf as a shirt and baby pink skirt

Brown skinned lady sitting in wheelchair. She has curly black and brown chest length hair and is wearing a black and multi colored floral silk scarf as a shirt

Brown skinned lady sitting in wheelchair. She has curly black and brown chest length hair

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 12h

he never downplays my work or the work of my mentors and i just wish more tenured yt men were like this. like you dont even have to fake be radical or like my work just dont be harmful and help where you can lol. its that simple

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 12h

maaaaaaan. i just had a meeting with my grad school advisor (who was chair of my committee) and can i just say its nice to have a yt man in your corner of academia lol. he will never agree w my work either. i mean we are miles away & yet he has never impeded my progress. i appreciate him for that

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 13h

This is an old podcast but transcripts are now available for it!

dointhework.com/51-abolish-t...

Abolish the Family Policing System (”Child Welfare”) – Joyce McMillan & Victoria, MSW

Abolition of the family policing system: Joyce McMillan & Victoria (MSW) discuss justice, parental rights, and alternatives to child welfare systems.

dointhework.com

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 13h

me internally screaming when I see every unmasked Myalgic Encephalomyelitis event lol

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14h

2025 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

2025 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

www.democracynow.org

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 14h

The global activists of @palyouthmvmt.bsky.social applied sufficient pressure to Maersk to enact real, meaningful change: the company agreed to halt its work providing commercial shipping for enterprises that operate in illegal Israeli settlements.

Palestinian Youth Movement Vows to Make Genocide Support Too Costly for Maersk

Global activists aim to halt the Gaza genocide by interrupting the flow of arms to Israel.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 14h

As I tell myself and my dear friends, the problem isn’t that YOURE pacing incorrectly. You are not to blame because you accidentally spent too much time looking at something. You are sick because scientists and practitioners decided that the loss of a segment of the population was okay.

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 14h

Did you know that to access care what is most urgently needed is an open minded physician, proper preparation, flexible communication, and accessible transport where folks can be horizontal. And even then we fail? At the most basic parts?

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 14h

I am just so weary supporting my friends across the country and across the world who have been in bed for years, some post-COVID, some prior to COVID. My friends are blaming themselves for thinking, talking to feeling too much when the issue is lack of access to quality healthcare.

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 14h

We cannot talk about alternatives to the health system we have, and our future of medicine — without talking about some of the most severe illnesses. That includes Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. This disease remains one of the least funded by health burden. And yet, people don’t even know it exists.

vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 14h

Do you all think it’s inhumane to leave people rotting in bed (literally, not metaphorically)? Im talking about people who cannot tolerate light and sound, and maybe even touch. People who can’t drink or chew on their own. For decades.

If so then you should look up Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.