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Teaser - Title 42 w/ Silky Shah (05/16/22) May 17, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/66509165 We speak with Silky Shah about the Trump-era border restrictions the Biden administration has held onto, including deporting migrants under the pretense of keeping covid out of the US. Silky Shah is executive director of Detention Watch Network. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:17:34, 16 May 2022 🧬

An Incalculable Loss (05/12/22) May 12, 2022

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We discuss the Biden administration's increasingly ambivalent attitude toward the pandemic as the US reaches one million deaths, and revisit the CDC's data on breakthrough deaths to try to get a better picture of what happened this past winter. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Teaser - Post-Roe w/ Melissa Gira Grant (05/09/22) May 10, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/66210099 We speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the Supreme Court's draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the many ways pregnancy and reproductive care is already policed, surveilled, and criminalized, and what to expect in a post-Roe United States. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:23:24, 9 May 2022 🧬

Roe Decayed w/ Abby Cartus (Unlocked) May 04, 2022

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In light of the draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn abortion rights in the US, this week we're unlocking our deep dive on the oral arguments presented in that case, in an episode that was previously available only to patrons. This episode features a brief new introduction, with the original recording starting at 6:30. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Teaser - Social Murder w/ Nate Holdren (05/02/22) May 02, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/65905776 We speak with Nate Holdren about Friedrich Engels' concept of "social murder" and the social and political processes that have enabled the pandemic to be portrayed as if nothing more could be done. Read Nate's piece "Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic" here: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/21/depoliticizing-social-murder-covid-pandemic/ TRANSCRIPT: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/social-murder-with-nate-holdren Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:05:32, 2 May 2022 🧬

Thinking Like An Economist w/ Elizabeth Popp Berman (04/28/22) Apr 28, 2022

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Elizabeth Popp Berman joins us to discuss how what she calls the "economic style of reasoning" came to dominate US political debates in the 20th century, and the way it continues to constrain what is understood to be politically possible. Elizabeth Popp Berman is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan. FInd her new book, Thinking Like An Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167381/thinking-like-an-economist# As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Teaser - Breakthroughs (04/25/22) Apr 26, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/65598734 We discuss a troubling new report that, according to CDC data, 40 percent of U.S. covid deaths in January and February were in people who were fully vaccinated. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:08:11, 25 April 2022 🧬

"We Have the Tools" (04/20/22) Apr 20, 2022

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We discuss the abrupt end of the transportation mask mandate, what people really mean when they assert that "We Have the Tools," and Benjamin Mazer's awful new Atlantic piece, "It’s Just Scaring People, and It’s Not Saving Lives." As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2 This episode was recorded prior to the CDC's decision to appeal the ruling we discuss in the episode; our points stand.

Teaser - A Death Panel History of 504, Part Two (04/18/22) Apr 19, 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/65302819 Part Two of our story of Section 504 continues with a look at the sit-in action itself—the longest occupation of a federal government building in U.S. history—and the key role played by the Oakland Black Panthers and other groups in assuring the occupation's success. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:13:07, 18 April 2022 🧬

A Death Panel History of 504, Part One (04/14/22) Apr 12, 2022

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We tell the story of Section 504, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for disabled people in the U.S., and how it very nearly didn't happen because of concerns that passing it would be "too expensive." This is Part One of our conversation on Section 504. Find Part Two on our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65302819 Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

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