As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 3rd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Bea and Artie speak with Nate Holdren about a recent court ruling in California that denied a cov...
Jan 02, 2024•1 hr 29 min
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 16th, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in thi...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 44 min
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released on May 18th, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Bea speaks with Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes about their new book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution o...
Dec 31, 2023•1 hr 33 min
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on November 13th, 2023, and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss what it means...
Dec 30, 2023•1 hr 28 min
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This two-part episode was originally released on February 16th and 22nd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: In this two-part series, we speak to a few people engaged in organizing and political education pro...
Dec 29, 2023•2 hr 43 min
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 30th, 2023, and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Beatrice and Abby speak with epidemiologist El...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 44 min
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on February 27th, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Bea and Abby speak with Adia Benton about how neoliberalism constrains what public health int...
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr 30 min
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on February 20th, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Bea and Jules speak with Vicky Osterweil about the recent open letter to the New York Times c...
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 57 min
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 3rd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Original description: Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yell...
Dec 25, 2023•1 hr 42 min
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on December 12th 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod We take a look back at the last year of major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2023. Full Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/covid-year-four Timecodes: 00:05:30 — Introduction 00:11:53 — Part One: Fall/Winter 2022 00:39:27 — Part Two: 2023, ...
Dec 21, 2023•3 hr 28 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94887548 Beatrice and Abby speak with Robert Chapman about their new book, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, and discuss the close relationship between the fields of statistics and eugenics through five thinkers—Adolphe Quetelet, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Ronald Fisher, and Thomas Szasz—whose ideas continue to influence how the state manages neurodiversity and disabil...
Dec 19, 2023•20 min
Beatrice, Abby, and Phil discuss how A.I. tools are used to lend a veneer of objectivity to medical rationing, and how tools like “Gospel” A.I. and UnitedHealth’s “nH Predict” are used to obscure inherently moral, political, and ideological actions. Transcript forthcoming. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Deat...
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94486770 We take a look back at the last year of major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2023. A full transcript of this episode, including links to almost everything referenced, is also now live on our patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94486514 Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 03:31:05, 12 Decembe...
Dec 13, 2023•23 min
As we prepare to record "Covid Year Four," Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss what is left of national covid data following the end of the public health emergency, how what's left has become so thoroughly abstracted, and how the CDC prioritizes representing deaths as an abstract percentage even as the official death count has been over 1,000 a week since August. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/economic-endemicity-blue Find the NVSS data sheet mentioned early in the episode here: https:...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94076448 Beatrice speaks with Astra Taylor about how the capitalist state constructs and reproduces insecurity, the eugenic logic of austerity, and Astra's new book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:34:10, 4 December 2023 🧬
Dec 05, 2023•7 min
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on September 25th 2023. We'll be back with a new episode Monday in the patron feed. Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists and the long history of RICO being used as a tool of repression against left movements. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 26 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/93637981 Beatrice and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the history of the Lavender Scare, the anti-gay campaign that overlapped and ran in parallel with the Red Scare, how it shaped the politics of gender and sexuality today, and whether we're experiencing a new Lavender Scare today or if instead the Lavender Scare never ended. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4...
Nov 28, 2023•7 min
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 16th 2023. We are re-releasing it today, alongside a new transcript (with links to referenced material), because of news of an inadequate four-day "humanitarian pause" that fails to meet demands to stop the genocide and to free Palestine, and because many of Rasha's observations from a few weeks ago have now come to pass. We'll be back with a new episode Monday in the patron feed. Full transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/93226703 Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that echo our current pandemic. Note: This episode is a re-air, as Artie explains in a brief clip at the beginning of the episode. We'll be back with a brand new patron episo...
Nov 21, 2023•4 min
Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about working to build abolitionist futures in the face of rising fascism and unrelenting state violence, resisting the ongoing annihilatory campaign on Gaza, and her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. Transcript forthcoming. Find Andrea's new book here: https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html And two links Andrea mentions early in the episode: "Stop Gaza Genocide," a public toolkit: https://bit.ly/StopGazaGenocide An...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92818714 We’ve gotten a lot of requests from patrons for an update on where things stand with the Medicaid “unwinding,” so today Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss what it means that so far this year over 10 million people have lost their Medicaid coverage, and how it is that—with a full 2/3 of the “unwinding” still to come—politicians have continued to avoid blame and the media has treated i...
Nov 14, 2023•5 min
Beatrice and Jules speak with Mariame Kaba and Melissa Gira Grant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contemporary US life, and how left organizers are fighting back against right wing attacks on public space. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/library-mariame-kaba-melissa-gira-grant Join up with For the People: A Leftist Library Project here: https://www.librariesforthepeople.org/ And find ...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92418379/ Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the ongoing escalation of violence on the people of Gaza and the many proxy discourses that have kept US media and politicians busy talking about everything except what’s actually happening. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:10:36, 6 November 2023 🧬
Nov 07, 2023•9 min
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on November 21st 2022. We are re-releasing it today, alongside a new transcript of the conversation, because in the past few weeks we have found Jasbir’s work tremendously useful in understanding the enormity of what’s happening in Gaza. Episode description: Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility...
Nov 02, 2023•2 hr 15 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91950097 Beatrice and Abby speak with epidemiologist Ellie Murray about how the many arguments against masking tend to repeat the same set of misunderstandings about how population health works and who health interventions are for. We also discuss why universal masking is so effective, the issues with dropping mask mandates in healthcare settings in particular, and how dynamics within the ...
Oct 31, 2023•6 min
Phil reads an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's 1938 novel "Murphy." Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/73396…l-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91515360 Beatrice speaks with Brian Nam-Sonenstein about two recent briefs he wrote for Prison Policy Initiative focused on a few key intersections of housing, disability, incarceration, and the administrative state. The first concerns how "failure to appear" laws add additional layers of criminalization into the court system, and the second concerns Housing First programs. Get Health Comm...
Oct 24, 2023•5 min
Beatrice and Abby speak with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the latest in an ongoing campaign to stop the CDC from further weakening infection control guidance, how newly revealed documents show the CDC prioritizing employer costs and profits over public health, and how you can help lend pressure to NNU's campaign. Sign onto the letter and sign up to testify here—if you signed on last time, please sign on again!: https://bit.ly/DPNNU2 Our previous episode with Jane can be fo...
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Listen to this week's patron episode free in its entirety on our patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91121697 Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in this moment, the importance of refusing the idea that the genocide of Palestinians is inevitable, and how the language we use to resist the colonial project can sometimes fail to meet the scale of our demands. Rasha Abdulhadi is a writer, editor, and cultural organizer, and a queer Palestinia...
Oct 17, 2023•14 min
Beatrice speaks with Liat Ben-Moshe, Leah Harris and Vesper Moore about increasing calls to "reopen the asylums" and why the dark history and enduring legacy of psychiatric incarceration mean we should never go back. We look at recent statements by politicians Eric Adams, Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, and Vivek Ramaswamy and discuss how carceral sanism is not exclusively the domain of the right. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/reopen-asylum This episode stands alone, but also func...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 55 min
