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This recording is from a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. To hear Beatrice's recent interview with Lamble about their book Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash, find it here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/173479189 Full session description: The struggle over trans healthcare is one of the clearest expressions of how medicine, incar...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/174190297/ In today's episode, Beatrice conducts an oral history interview with members of Tucson Food Share about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work, and what the project of Tucson Food Share has taught them. This episode is an extension of the series w...

This episode was originally released September 14th for Death Panel patrons 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 https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Artie and Da’Shaun L. Harrison discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week, and how the media dogpile from Joe R...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/173479189 Beatrice speaks with Lamble about how narratives around “safety” and carceral punishment were used to bolster the anti-trans “gender critical” movement in Britain and why challenging the notion of safety as dependent on carceral responses requires us to reject a politics of dis...

This episode was originally released August 10th for Death Panel patrons 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 https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with John Washington about how detention camps are at once essential pieces of the immigration enforcement regime and also one of its most...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/172836747 Beatrice and Artie discuss what it means when we’re told to “be normal,” especially in the domain of politics, and walk through the short history of the term and a few key points on why we should resist having our political demands constrained to what is already “normal.” Runti...

This episode was originally released March 9th for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie about how we should understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, lessons in resistin...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/172178479 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s announcement that it has unilaterally kicked 760,000 people off of their health insurance, why they were able to do so to shockingly little outcry, and what it means as an escalation in their so-called "War on Fraud."...

This episode was originally released October 16th, 2023. We are re-airing it today as we mark three years in the ongoing escalation of genocide in Palestine. If you can, donate to the Sameer Project here: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Original episode description: Beatri...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/171514403 In today's episode, we revisit a conversation from last year on the Trump administration's intent to attack federal disability protections in order to expand involuntary commitment and psychiatric incarceration—now with a new intro from Artie on Trump's recent attacks on Sectio...

This episode was originally released August 31st for Death Panel patrons 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 https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Artie discusses what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in, how to think about data centers and AI as mec...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/170643206 Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about how the concept of “gerontocracy” points us away from structural conditions while at the same time reinforcing dominant ideas about disposability being tied to ability, capacity and age, and why it is so important for the left to critical...

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the second recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. If you are looking for our response discussion to the right wing / Fox News outrage over one of our other sessions this year, find it at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169919130 Beatrice speaks with Gabriel Winant about the idea popular in some circles that we live in a “gerontocracy” and whether and how age could be understood to act as a mediator of class. Runtime 1:13:52 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the second recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. If you are looking for our response discussion to the right wing outrage over one of our other sessions, find it at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050 Ful...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050 Beatrice, Artie and Da’Shaun L. Harrison discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week, and how the media dogpile from Joe Rogan to Ben Shapiro to Fox News proved our point. Runtime 1:29:15 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/978...

This episode was originally released July 27th for Death Panel patrons 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 https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fa...

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the first recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. We're posting it ahead of our usual schedule as clips from this session have started circulating online and kicking off a round of discourse on health, health fascism and "fi...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/168217967 Beatrice speaks with "Bitch" from Mutual Aid Street Solidarity Chicago about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This episode is an extension of the series we ran over the summer, All Care for All People (ACAP), and one of the final episodes re...

This episode was originally released October 20th, 2025 for Death Panel patrons 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 https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Madeline Lane-McKinley about what it means to build a politics of solidarity with young people against the pervasive right wing...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/168215562 Artie discusses what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in, how to think about data centers and AI as mechanisms of social murder, and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral...

This episode was originally released August 3rd for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to shift the definition of “medical frailty” under Medicaid to explicitly redefine health as your ability to work, and how this change threate...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/167584830 Beatrice speaks with R.H. Lossin about how early criminal syndicalism laws were weaponized against the IWW in the early 20th century to criminalize their political education around industrial sabotage, and how those acts of repression have continued to shape how certa...

Beatrice speaks with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about how the fight to abolish prisons touches other movements, what abolitionist movement wins tell us about taking the long view in organizing work, and their new book How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment. Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888900833 This episode was originally released Sept...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/166952827 Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about how intellectual property has become central to global capitalism, what led the Disney corporation to send lobbyists to defend covid vaccine patents, and her new book The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and To...