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Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s State of the Union address—from the “illegals” moment to Biden’s attempt to co-opt “ceasefire”—as well as the many media reactions to the speech, and what it all tells us about how the Biden administration are trying (and failing) to pretend they can’t hear their critics.

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Runtime 1:04:57, 11 March 2024

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Beatrice speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the CDC’s recent abrupt decision to drop its 5-day covid isolation guidance and the latest developments in the campaign to stop the CDC from dramatically weakening infection control practices in healthcare settings.

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Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/nnu-hicpac-3

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Beatrice, Phil, and Jules speak with Claire Dunning about the complex history of how nonprofit organizations became so pervasive in US political life and the issues with how the non-profit system promises to address big, structural problems while at the same time structurally constraining what these groups are and aren't allowed to do.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/nonprofit-neighborhoods

Find Claire’s book, “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State” here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo159872695.html

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Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together.

Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives

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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.”

Transcript:

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell

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Bea, Artie and Jules discuss the last few weeks of pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.”

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Runtime 1:19:39, 26 February 2024

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Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how we respond to crises, from climate collapse to covid, and how the state’s primary response to these crises is to try to narrow the possibilities for political action around them.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/dean-spade-collapse

Read Dean’s piece, “Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us” here:

https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-disaster-ecological-crisis-deluge-ministry-markley-robinson-gelderloos

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Bea, Artie and Phil discuss why the fact that a record 20 million people are now on ACA (Obamacare) plans is not the unequivocal good news that Democrats are portraying it as, how to understand those numbers in the context of the ongoing Medicaid unwinding, and why it’s long past time to move beyond the ACA.

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Runtime 1:06:48, 19 February 2024

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Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss this week’s news that the CDC is planning to drop its covid isolation guidelines, and how the proposed change is emblematic of the Biden administration’s long running practice of undoing pandemic policies as a form of labor disciple.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/cdc-says-back-to-work

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Note: In this episode, Artie mentions an old episode, from January 2022, that shares the same title with this episode (“CDC Says Back to Work”). We decided to use that title again, for this episode, because it felt appropriate. You can find the old episode here https://www.patreon.com/posts/60691090

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss Pamela Paul's recent piece in the New York Times, "As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do."

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Runtime 1:45:28, 12 February 2024

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