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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.

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Bea, Artie, and Abby look at how mainstream discourse surrounding the murder of Jordan Neely on May 1st devolved into victim blaming, and how New York Mayor Eric Adams is using the moment to push for the expansion of involuntary hospitalization.

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Runtime 1:08:32, 15 May 2023

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With the public health emergency declaration ending today, May 11th, we turn back the clock to early 2021, mere days into the Biden presidency, and the moment it became clear the US was going to "end the pandemic" not by stopping covid, but by re-narrating its social and political meaning.

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Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss how the end of the public health emergency has become an opportunity for pundits and media organizations assert some interpretations of the last three years over others, making—and denying—the meaning of the pandemic as a result.

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Runtime 1:16:32, 8 May 2023

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With one week until the official end of the public health emergency, Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's long-promised and newly unveiled plans to continue providing free covid vaccines and therapeutics to the uninsured, and just how remarkably their announced plans fall short.

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Bea speaks with Zoé Samudzi and M.E. O’Brien about the first issue of Parapraxis Magazine: “The Family Problem,” the anti-trans “groomer” panic, and the evangelical promotion of adoption as a policy replacement for abortion.

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Runtime 1:07:45, 1 May 2023

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Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss Eric Adams' initiative to broadly expand involuntary hospitalization law and policy in New York, and the dark history of psychiatric institutionalization he appears to want to bring back.

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Read Bea and Artie's piece about this in The Nation (from December) here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/adams-forced-hospitalization/

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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.

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Runtime 1:44:30, 24 April 2023

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Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss the end of mask mandates in healthcare settings, why masking in places like hospitals was a good idea even pre-pandemic, and the one US agency that could put the brakes on this development——but isn't.

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Read Bea's essay on Eric Adams "mask off at the door" policy proposal here: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/04/09/mask-off-at-the-door-policies-undermine-our-rights-as-disabled-people/

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Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the pervasive, perennial myth that the Medicare and Social Security trust funds are on the brink of imminent collapse, a myth that feeds austerity in policymaking and false panic that the programs "won't be around" when younger generations grow old.

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Runtime 1:19:30, 17 April 2023

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