Artie Vierkant

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In our latest, we speak with Lamble @slamble1.bsky.social about how carceral narratives around “safety” were used to bolster the anti-trans “gender critical” movement and why challenging those narratives requires us to reject a politics of disposability www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

I usually enjoy "that word does not mean what you think it means" deep dives and Death Panel is great at it. "Normal" is such a pernicious bit of vocabulary, as this episode makes quite clear. Absolutely worth a listen, either now or when (I hope) it eventually gets released to the main feed.

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discoursin again

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In our latest, what it means when we’re told to “be normal” www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

The only reason folks are talking about the French uprisings, ongoing for over a month, is because they escalated to rioting. The idea that that rioting and property destruction are bad for movement perception is just false, even if your goal is something as impoverished as media attention

Reminder: during the most riotous parts of the George Floyd Uprising the movement was at its most popular, with the destroying of the 3rd precinct polling much higher than either presidential candidate, and it was only after months and years of revision that ppl talk like they werent

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In our latest, we discuss the Trump administration’s announcement that it has unilaterally kicked 760,000 people off 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." www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

In today’s episode, we return to our conversation about Trump’s early push to expand involuntary commitment, with a new introduction on the administration’s recent attacks on Section 504 and Olmstead www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

unlocked my diatribe on data centers and AI

In today’s episode, we walk through what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral panic”—now unlocked on.soundcloud.com/J2547t8ONj0C...

for scheduling reasons we recorded this long before the latest spate of people telling parts of the left to be “normal,” but as I was editing it even I kept catching myself assuming Beatrice and Nate were talking about stuff that hadn’t happened yet

Teaser here; in this clip we discuss why it is so important for the left to critically analyze how disposability is produced and reproduced soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

This is the second and final episode in a two part response to Samuel Moyn’s book “Gerontocracy in America.” You can find Part 1, a discussion with Gabriel Winant, here:

In our latest, we speak with Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social about how the concept of “gerontocracy” points us away from structural conditions while at the same time reinforcing dominant ideas about disposability www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

a strategically useful way to think through border policing and detention is as an attack on the infrastructures people need to survive. @silkys13 and @ANaomiPaik joined us at the @socialismconf to talk ICE, counterinsurgency, care, abolition, migration, and what tf is to be done❤️‍🔥

really proud of this conversation from our @socialismconference.org session w @vickyacab.bsky.social & @slamble1.bsky.social about trans care in the age of health fascism—especially the discussion of how frame of protection/safety can become a means of imposing prohibition, coercion & deprivation

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one of the hardest strategic questions we routinely face is how to organize across/in spite of real material conflicts of interest without denying that they exist. I really enjoyed having @gabrielwinant.bsky.social back on to talk about gerontocracy, class, age, care & what mass politics requires

New in the public feed: our live discussion with Silky Shah & A. Naomi Paik on how border policing intersects with health fascism and how to build collective care in an age of escalating repression, from Prairieland to the Minnesota 15 @silkys13.bsky.social @naomipaik.bsky.social

The 2030 Census is now squarely in the Trump admin's crosshairs. But states, cities, counties, NGOs, and (yes) you can fight back. New from me in @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/2153...

Wild that I spent ~15min at the end of this episode walking through a causal chain of how the Trump admin was using AI to set a process in motion ending in people losing their health insurance — and today they basically said they’ve done just that but without all the extra steps

Funny you should say that @deathpanel.bsky.social

the frame of Health Fascism moves away from individual MAHA behaviors and towards how our health care and social welfare systems, such as they are/aren't, were fertile ground for a far right power grab. @deathpanel.bsky.social has been exploring this for a long time. the full panel chuds clipped:

You should read the report (link in thread). This is not just police repression and fraud. With the evidence of refusal to document ICE excessive force incidents, it also shows collusion with DHS -- via a show of excessive force to intimidate memorial attendees, residents and rapid responders.

We finally got around to talking about that gerontocracy book

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In our latest, we speak with Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

Hear the panel whose title was so scary to Fox News they read it aloud on air multiple times before it even happened

New in the public feed: our live discussion with Vicky Osterweil & Lamble about trans care in the age of health fascism, connecting struggles across the US and Britain @vickyacab.bsky.social @slamble1.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

Logged on to say 15 years goddamn. OWS was extremely important and powerful and its effects continue to spread, all because a bunch of us refused to leave a pretty shitty corporate pseudo-park in the financial district for a while. Just a handful of randos literally like three dozen of us to start

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In our latest, we’re joined by Da’Shaun L. Harrison to 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State, with @reallandsend.bsky.social and Da’Shaun L. Harrison, hosted with @deathpanel.bsky.social

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and find the full discussion that became the subject of this episode here, on any other podcast platform, or on the @haymarketbooks.org YouTube channel: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/h...

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fuck joe rogan. support @deathpanel.bsky.social

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