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Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the latest updates on the Medicaid "unwinding"—the months-long process that has already led to 1.3 million people being kicked off of Medicaid—and the extremely lax response the media and the Biden administration have taken towards it so far.

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Bea and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the medication abortion case that made its way to the Supreme Court last week, and discuss the long and sordid history of the Comstock Act, a 19th century “anti-obscenity” law that continues to shape the modern US state’s regulation of sexuality.

Melissa Gira Grant is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work and the forthcoming book A Woman Is Against the Law: Sex, Race, and the Limits of Justice in America.

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Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss the impact of Florida's sweeping anti-trans bill, SB 254, and why the federal judge's injunction against it that made news last week as a "stinging rebuke to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis" is a little more complicated than it may appear.

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Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss some of the impacts of the end of the public health emergency one month out, and share listener stories that directly contradict the prevailing narrative that the pandemic "tools" are still free and readily accessible.

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Submit comments to CMS by June 9th here: bit.ly/cmscomment

If you want to submit stories like the ones we share in this episode, you can do so here: bit.ly/adminburden

Links to future CMS public comment periods here: bit.ly/morecmscomments

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Bea speaks with Marshall Steinbaum about the debt ceiling deal and the provisions in it—from student loan repayments to new work requirements—that amount to a recommitment to austerity.

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Bea speaks with Andrea Ritchie about the movement to defund and abolish policing, how police budgets sap resources from state and local governments, and how to understand abolition as a core principle that advances the goals of so many other movements.

Find Andrea's book, co-authored with Mariame Kaba, "No More Police: A Case for Abolition" here: https://thenewpress.com/books/no-more-police

Find more information on Interrupting Criminalization and the "Beyond Do No Harm" project here: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no-harm

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Bea speaks with Lily Sánchez about Ricardo Nuila's popular new book "The People's Hospital," which purports to paint a compassionate picture of how to fix the US healthcare system, while ignoring—and reinforcing—the structural issues that make the system so bad in the first place.

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Bea, Artie, Phil, and Abby break format to talk through a major drug denial that has put Bea's care in jeopardy, why private Medicare Part D plans are able to deny necessary care to people with rare diseases, and what it says about the US welfare state.

CW: Some bummers around the 45:00 mark.

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Bea, Phil, and Abby speak with Gabe Winant about the faux class politics of Republican Senator J.D. Vance, how his 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy pathologizes the poor, and his adherence to the work of inveterate race scientist Charles Murray.

Read Gabe's piece for n+1, "J.D. Vance Changes the Subject" here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/

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Bea speaks with Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes about their new book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, released this week.

Find Let This Radicalize You here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you

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TRANSCRIPT: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/let-this-radicalize-you-mariame-kaba-kelly-hayes