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Teaser - What We Burn w/ Marques Vestal (06/16/25) Jun 16, 2025

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/131635837 Against the backdrop of riotous anti-ICE actions in Los Angeles, Beatrice and Tracy speak with Marques Vestal about the history of property and place, eviction and forced removal in LA and how the state's policies of expulsion shaped mass evictions in 1907, the Watts Rebellion in 1965, and radical LA today. Runtime 1:41:30 Note: We're back! Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes and many kind messages during our parental leave. We have a lot coming together soon processing current events and reacting to some big developments that happened while we were away. As we ramp production back up we'll be prioritizing the patron feed first to make sure patrons get a full new episode every week. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent

Seizing the Means of Reproduction w/ Annie Powers & Tracy Rosenthal (Re-Air) Jun 12, 2025

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Note: This episode was originally released November 14th, 2024 and is being re-aired today in solidarity with the actions taking place in Los Angeles and elsewhere. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today. Annie Powers is an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, and a scholar of landless people’s political movements in the United States. She studies the history of housing and homelessness, and poor people’s urban land struggle, in the US and the world. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent Preorder Phil's new book, Counting Like a State, here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639687/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Sick Sad World w/ Vicky Osterweil (Unlocked) Jun 09, 2025

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Note: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released April 28th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time in solidarity with the protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Vicky Osterweil discuss what the first months of Trump’s second term tell us about the administration’s particular approach to fascism, the holes in their theory of power this time around, and how the field is ripe for mass movements to challenge not just Trump administration policies like mass deportation, but federal power itself. Find Vicky's writing and support her work at CAW Journal here: https://www.cawshinythings.com/ Find Vicky's 2020 book In Defense of Looting here or read it for free at The Anarchist Library: https://bookshop.org/p/books/in-defense-of-looting-a-riotous-history-of-uncivil-action-vicky-osterweil/14595474 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent Preorder Phil's new book, Counting Like a State, here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639687/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Mad World w/ Micha Frazer-Carroll (Re-Air) Jun 05, 2025

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Note: This episode was originally released August 31st, 2023 and is being re-aired today as we continue to adjust to our return from parental leave. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Micha Frazer-Carroll about her book Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mad-world-micha-frazer-carroll We will be returning to the Socialism Conference this year for our third annual collaboration with the conference organizers, in Chicago the weekend of July 4th—where Micha will also be a featured speaker. (Masking required!) Details at socialismconference.org/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent Preorder Phil's new book, Counting Like a State, here: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639687/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - The Pro-Infection Presidency w/ Jane Thomason (06/02/25) Jun 02, 2025

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/130544835 Beatrice speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the Trump administration’s disbanding of the CDC’s HICPAC committee, the body that oversees infection control practices across the healthcare industry — and a committee that Jane was briefly involved with as part of an advisory workgroup since last summer. We also discuss the Trump administration’s staggering cuts across NIOSH, a key agency for workplace health and safety protections, and their significance within the broader “MAHA” agenda. Jane Thomason is NNU’s lead industrial hygienist. She was last on the show in March 2024 and August 2023 to speak about a campaign against proposed infection control cuts being considered by HICPAC, after which she was added to a HICPAC workgroup that May. Jane returns today now that, with HICPAC disbanded, she’s once again able to speak more openly about committee deliberations. Find NNU's call to action letter about NIOSH here: https://nnu.org/saveniosh Runtime 1:09:48 Note: We're back! Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes and many kind messages during our parental leave. We have a lot coming together soon processing current events and reacting to some big developments that happened while we were away. As we ramp production back up we'll be prioritizing the patron feed first to make sure patrons get a full new episode every week. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent

Refusing Genocide, from Palestine to Pandemic w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Re-Air) May 29, 2025

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Note: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released September 27th, 2024 and is being re-aired today in solidarity with Palestine, and to be able to re-share Rasha's guided reflection near the end of the discussion (beginning 44:55). 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, as we near 11 months and 100+ years of genocidal settler colonial violence in Palestine, it is vital to remain steadfast in our demands for Palestinian liberation. We discuss turning away from despair towards patience and boldness in our actions, why our demands must push for and beyond “ceasefire,” and draw connections between settler colonialism here and in Palestine; inviting us all to become more skillful in keeping each other alive. This episode was originally recorded at the 2024 Socialism Conference. We will be returning for this year's 2025 iteration for our third annual collaboration with the conference organizers, in Chicago the weekend of July 4th. (Masking required!) Details at https://socialismconference.org/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - Here Come the Long Knives (05/26/25) May 26, 2025

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/129947873 Beatrice and Artie discuss the “GOP Murder Bill” just passed in the House of Representatives, with a particular focus on why adding work requirements to Medicaid is so dangerous, and how brazen the attacks on trans care are under the bill. Then we discuss Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary’s attempts to use the FDA to make it impossible to get a covid vaccine. Runtime 1:26:00 Note: We're back! Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes and many kind messages during our parental leave. We have a lot coming together soon processing current events and reacting to some big developments that happened while we were away. As we ramp production back up we'll be prioritizing the patron feed first to make sure patrons get a full new episode every week. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

RFK, Health Capitalism and the Myths of Wellness (Re-Air) May 21, 2025

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Note: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released for patrons November 18, 2024 and is being re-aired today with a new brief intro from Artie at the top of the episode. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Original description: Beatrice and Artie discuss Trump’s nomination of prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency overseeing healthcare, infectious disease, food safety, and more. We discuss some of RFK’s more unseemly beliefs, the responses to his nomination so far, and how his nomination doesn’t come out of nowhere, but instead follows decades of struggles over the political economy of health that have laid the groundwork for a figure like him to come into power. Find the episode "Health Fascism Descends" here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/health-fascism-128800850 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - There Is No Place For Us w/ Brian Goldstone (05/19/25) May 19, 2025

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/129388051 Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Brian Goldstone about how we intentionally undercount the homeless in America, and what life looks like for those that don’t make the official count; the myths of homelessness and personal responsibility that draw attention away from the demise of public housing and rise of neoliberalism; and Brian’s new book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Find Brian's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871/there-is-no-place-for-us-by-brian-goldstone/ Runtime 1:42:01 Note: We're back! Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes and many kind messages during our parental leave. We have a lot coming together soon processing current events and reacting to some big developments that happened while we were away. As we ramp production back up we'll be prioritizing the patron feed first to make sure patrons get a full new episode every week. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Nathan Tanks the Economy: An Oral History of 100 Days of DOGE w/ Nathan Tankus (Unlocked) May 14, 2025

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Note: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released May 5th 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Nathan Tankus to walk through an oral history of the early months of DOGE's ongoing infiltration of the Treasury payments system and Social Security, why the "Trump-Musk Payments Crisis" threatens a bigger fundamental threat of US economic breakdown than even Trump's tariffs, and why Nathan tried (and failed) to crash the stock market. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/doge-nathan-tankus Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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