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Teaser - Property, Sabotage and the Origins of Anti-Left Repression w/ R.H. Lossin (08/24/26) Aug 24, 2026

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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 certain demands are dismissed as “too radical” or as “adolescent” today. Runtime 1:38:04 Read R.H. Lossin's piece in LPE blog here: https://lpeproject.org/blog/property-sabotage-and-the-origins-of-anti-left-repression/ Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

How to Abolish Prisons w/ Rachel Herzing & Justin Piché Aug 20, 2026

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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 September 2nd, 2024 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Teaser - I.P. the Killer w/ Vicky Osterweil (08/17/26) Aug 17, 2026

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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 Took Over the World. Runtime 2:22:00 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Corridors of Contagion w/ Victoria Law (Re-Air) Aug 13, 2026

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Note: This episode was originally released September 9th, 2024 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 speaks with Victoria Law about her book Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration. Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902561 Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Teaser - How to Close a Camp w/ John Washington (08/10/26) Aug 10, 2026

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/166214339 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 vulnerable sites to a variety of forms of public resistance, and about his new book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention. Runtime 1:31:42 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Not Your Rescue Project w/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam Aug 06, 2026

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Note: This episode was originally released August 11th 2025 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 speaks with Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice and the solidarities required to organize at the intersection of sex work, migrant justice, and disability justice. Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888900864 Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Teaser - “Medical Frailty” and the War on Fraud (08/03/26) Aug 03, 2026

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/165668581 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 threatens not just the healthcare coverage of countless people, but an impending blow against the Medicaid program and the healthcare system itself. Runtime 1:28:52 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Re-Air) Jul 30, 2026

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This episode was originally released December 1st, 2025 for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. We'll be back in the patron feed on Monday with a new episode on the fight over Medicaid and the Trump administration's new definition of "medical fragility." To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about why deportation is wrong, period, and about what we lose when we limit our demands to appeals about "legality." Find Nate's recent essays (mentioned at the top of the episode) here: Hands Off! (Spectre Journal) - https://spectrejournal.com/hands-off/ Deportation is Wrong, Period (Little Village) - https://littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-the-editor-deportation-is-wrong-period/ FInd Nate's book, Injury Impoverished, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781108448666 Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Teaser - Trump’s New Red Scare w/ Vicky Osterweil (07/27/26) Jul 27, 2026

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/165004076 Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fatal cancer to civilization,” and a threat to “normal, healthy, ordered living.” Runtime 2:27:45 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions Jul 23, 2026

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This episode was originally released August 4th 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, Artie and Tracy discuss the potential impacts of a new Trump executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” which threatens to dramatically expand involuntary psychiatric commitment and make it easier for the government to disappear people off the streets, allegedly in the name of “compassion.” MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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