Beatrice and Artie discuss the impact that some of Trump's most recent picks to lead major federal agencies will have on the state of welfare programs and healthcare in the US, and why the whole slate of names should be raising as much alarm as Trump's pick of RFK. We walk through how Dr. Oz stands to personally benefit from privatizing Medicare, w…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116717109Beatrice 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 Commun…

Beatrice speaks with John Pring about how welfare privatization and calls to cut benefits in the name of reducing waste, fraud and abuse hollowed out the welfare state in the UK and directly led to the deaths of welfare recipients, and about his new book The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence.Find …

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116273220Beatrice 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…

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 mo…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/115816956Beatrice, Artie, Phil and Jules discuss the outcome of the 2024 election and how Palestine, the pandemic response, and the swift removal of pandemic welfare supports played a part.Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4…

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 21st. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Sarah Jaffe about the politics of grief and grieving: who is allowed to grieve and how, what we are allowed to grieve and aren’t, and ho…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/115294795Beatrice speaks with China Mills and John Pring about how the structure of welfare benefits in the United Kingdom leads to the death of disabled people, the difficulties in documenting such administrative violence and the process of …

Phil reads "The Black Gondolier" by Fritz Leiber.Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communismFind Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogynyDeath Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merchAs a…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114867221Beatrice speaks with Maryam Jamshidi about how US law has been shaped in recent decades to specifically guard against Palestinian self-determination, and the direct role that Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, and other settler o…

Beatrice speaks to Nour and Sarah, two members of Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), about the role the New York Times has played in portraying the genocide in Palestine as just and reasonable, the campaign to get NYT readers to unsubscribe from the paper and for writers to boycott them, and the counter-propaganda project “New York War Crimes…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113880253Beatrice speaks with Sarah Jaffe about the politics of grief and grieving: who is allowed to grieve and how, what we are allowed to grieve and aren’t, and how taking the time to experience grief and loss are anathema to capitalism.Sa…

Jules speaks about her book A Short History of Trans Misogyny, the need to integrate material analysis into trans politics, and how it is that such a (relatively) small population of people have become the subject of such a high degree of political ire.Transcript forthcoming.This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113747049Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent article called “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?” that earned enormous backlash from the disability community for arguing that young people are faking or exaggeratin…

Liat Ben-Moshe, Sasha Warren, and Leah Harris discuss the political economy of psychiatric incarceration and strategies for resisting surveillance and carcerality that center liberatory care and international solidarities.Transcript forthcoming.This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September, under the …

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113438086Today, Death Panel are joining the calls of organizers around the world to strike for Palestine. As such, today's Death Panel is an episode in two parts:Part One — One Year (0:00:00 - 0:20:45)A statement on one year of genocide from …

Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra, Tracy Rosenthal and Victoria Law about how the rhetorics of “care,” support, and empathy are often deployed to expand and reinforce carcerality—to make carcerality appear innocuous, or even an expansion of social welfare and public health.Transcript forthcoming.This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113089961Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the deeper problems behind JD Vance’s recent comments that Trump wants to separate the sick into their own “risk pool,” and how the US’s system of private healthcare itself generates resentment toward…

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,” a…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112625641Beatrice and Jules discuss an amicus brief Jules co-authored for the upcoming Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti, a case being heard next month that could have a dramatic impact on young people’s access to medical transitio…

Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about the demands of the growing tenants movement, why so-called “affordable housing” policies fail to keep people in their homes, and why we need to abolish rent once and for all.Tracy and Leonardo are the authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, out next week: https…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112179324Beatrice speaks with Ja’Loni Owens about what we can learn from the discussion of abortion in last week’s Harris/Trump debate and how much of the subsequent fact checking of debate statements leaned into anti-abortion stigma.Find Ja'…

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the political economy of the pandemic and how organizing around covid and long covid intersects with priorities in movements across the left, including labor struggles and economic justice, disability justice, and abolition.Transcript forthcoming.This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Ch…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/111673467Beatrice speaks with Victoria Law about how prisons and jails have acted as vectors of covid transmission throughout the pandemic, the experiences of people on the inside from early in the pandemic through fights happening now over l…

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 15th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier form…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110969806Beatrice 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 Abo…

Beatrice speaks with Betsy Ladyzhets of The Sick Times about what wastewater surveillance does—and doesn’t—tell us about the level of covid spread and how the rise of covid wastewater monitoring fits inside the larger picture of the privatization of both covid risk and covid data.Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/promises-and-perils-of-was…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110836544Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer, the historical and material links between the rise of the immigration detention system and mass…

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and h…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110415159Beatrice speaks with October Krausch about how the cultural imaginary of covid and covid risk has shifted from some of the earliest interpretations of the pandemic, how social pressure amongst liberals to place trust in institutions …

Beatrice and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care.Transcript forthcoming.This episode was origin…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109988706Beatrice speaks with Kareem Rabie about how capitalist visions for “the day after” ceasefire often rely on economic development projects that act as an extension of settler colonialism, Rabie’s research on housing development project…

Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.”Note: intro from Artie ends at 0:03:30Transcript:www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnellThis episode was originally relea…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109524186Beatrice speaks with William Boyd about how “risk assessment” became a central focus of health safety and environmental law since the 1970s, and how the political and economic factors that structure how those risks are assessed have …

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on July 8th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she ca…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109069424Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the sudden ascendance of Kamala Harris as the new Democratic Party nominee and take a close look at her record and early stances on Palestine, policing, and her (not quite) Medicare for All platform …

Beatrice and Jules mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as part of the broader story of welfare state retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s, and the broader story of how it got this way.Transcript:https://www.death…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108630596Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s decision to step down, break down last week’s Republican National Convention, and how fitting it is that the last straw in Biden’s reelection campaign was a covid infection.Get Health Communis…

Bea, Artie and Jules discuss pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.”This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on February 26th, 2024. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pat…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108202947Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the Trump assassination attempt before diving into the weeks-long discourse on whether Biden should step down and the many assumptions and conjectures being made about Biden’s health and capacity.Fin…

We tell the story of Section 504, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for disabled people in the US. In Part One, we look at the politics leading up to the 504 sit-in and how the implementation of Section 504 very nearly didn't happen because of concerns that it would be "too expensive." In Part Two, our story continues with a look at the …

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/107751168Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against…

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 23rd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Brian Nam-Sonenstein about two recent briefs he wrote for Prison Policy Initiative focused on a few key intersections of housing, …

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/107278315Beatrice and Jules are joined by Charlie Markbreiter to discuss how liberals dismiss protest as merely “performative”—youthful, “inauthentic,” or “virtue signaling”—and how allegations of performativity turn the act of politics into …

Beatrice speaks with Maryam Jamshidi about a number of new laws, and amendments to existing laws enacted at the onset of the war on terror, that Congress is currently drafting in order to crack down on actions in support of Palestinian liberation. We talk through what these laws do, how they target actions like the solidarity encampments seen at Un…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106825394Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss a recent piece by Freddie deBoer in New York Magazine that attempts to present a "left" case for supporting involuntary commitment policies and the expansion of the carceral state—claiming that “the d…

Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss New York Democrats’ plan to ban masks on the subway and beyond, and take a close look at the latest updates on North Carolina’s anti-mask bill HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” which state lawmakers managed to make significantly worse since we last talked about it on the show at the end of May.Transcript: www.d…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106371913Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent resurgence of debates over social distancing guidance in 2020 and 2021 brought on by former NIH Director Anthony Fauci’s comment to Congress that six feet of social distancing “sort of just…

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 22nd. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Micah Khater about her award winning article on the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105955239Beatrice and Jules are joined by Sophie Lewis to discuss how last month NYU disciplined students involved in Palestine solidarity encampments by compelling them to write confessional “reflection papers” and complete so-called “Integr…