Death Panel

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."

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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

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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.”

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Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/164370496

Beatrice speaks with Da'Shaun L. Harrison about their book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness and the joined histories of eugenics and racial capitalism.

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Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

This episode was originally released March 12th and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall and Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the last few months of anti-ICE organizing and mutual aid work in Minnesota built directly on the foundations laid during the 2020 uprisings, why the twin cities still need support even after the announcement of a “draw down,” and lessons to take forward with us.

Read Jonathan and Anne's piece at Truthout here:

https://truthout.org/articles/minneapoliss-2020-uprising-laid-an-abolitionist-groundwork-for-ice-resistance/

MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at 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: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/163701602

Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the long history of RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) being used as a tool of repression against left movements, and what we can learn from the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists.

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Today's episode originally aired September 25th, 2023 and is being re-aired today in light of the Prairieland sentencing, the 'Minnesota 15,' and other developments. We'll be back next week with a new episode!

Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

This episode was originally released April 6th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how mutual aid allows us to reclaim and collectivize the labor of survival itself, how the practice is much more radical than it’s often been portrayed since it became a topic of mainstream press discussion, and the new second edition of Dean’s 2020 book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).

If you appreciated this episode consider checking out our interview series All Care for All People; the first episode aired here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157359074

Find the new edition of Dean's book Mutual Aid here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781836742555

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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/162983378

Beatrice speaks with Hadley, Tina and Beau from the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac Editorial Collective about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work and the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac, described as "a journal of anti-colonial agriculture; an almanac for the end of the world."

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This is the eighth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed.

MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch

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

Show links:

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

This episode was originally released November 21, 2024. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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 our other recent episode with John and China Mills (discussed in this episode) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/115294795

Find John’s book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9780745349893

MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at 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: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/162399538

Beatrice, Artie and Tracy discuss the potential impacts of a 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.”

Runtime 1:51:47

Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523