Death Panel

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We discuss Center for American Progress head Neera Tanden's nomination to run the Office of Management and Budget, Anthony Fauci's claim that Santa Claus has innate immunity to COVID-19, and the implications of last week's Supreme Court decision on state public health orders limiting religious gatherings.

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DP EP 207, 30 November 2020

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We discuss the Tyson COVID betting scandal and the Times op-ed “I Traced My Covid-19 Bubble and It’s Enormous.” Then (40:45), Bea and Phil sit down with Marshall Steinbaum to discuss Biden's rather limp student debt plan, the origins of the myth that student debt relief is regressive economic policy, and why it's time for a debt jubilee.

Marshall Steinbaum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute. Follow him on twitter @Econ_Marshall

Referenced in this episode:

Marshall Steinbaum, "The Student Debt Crisis is a Crisis of Non-Repayment" - https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/crisis-of-non-repayment

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DP EP 205, 23 November 2020

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We discuss the War on Thanksgiving and fresh controversies over school closures, then go in depth on the week's news on the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccine candidates.

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The full Panel is joined by K Agbebiyi to discuss the challenges a Biden / Harris administration poses to the abolition movement, their records on incarceration, and why reformers are so mad about "Defund the Police."

K is a macro social worker based in Brooklyn, a co-creator of 8 to Abolition, and a member of Survived & Punished's New York chapter. You can follow them on twitter @sheabutterfemme and find more of their work at kagbebiyi.com.

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DP EP 203, 16 November 2020

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We discuss the US election coup rumors, then take a close look at some of the people the Biden/Harris staff has tapped for its COVID-19 Task Force and its transition 'Agency Review Teams,' including the author of a highly questionable whitepaper.

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We discuss the Democratic Party's immediate war on the left following Biden's victory, Rudy Giuliani's ill-fated Philadelphia press conference, and Pfizer's much-hyped announcement today of early results for its COVID-19 vaccine.

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DP EP 201, 9 November 2020

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We discuss the protracted outcome of the U.S. presidential election and the passage of Prop 22 in California.

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With the election at hand, we turn to the second chapter in one of our favorite COVID conspiracy theories so far, and review the documentary film Plandemic 2: Indoctornation [sic].

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DP EP 199, 2 November 2020

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In this very spooky Halloween special, we're unlocking Phil's performance of "The Black Gondolier" by Fritz Leiber, remastered and presented with a new, seasonal introduction from the whole Panel.

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Bea and Artie speak with Dean Spade about his new book “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next),” dismantling the nonprofitization of political activity in the U.S., and the limits of fighting movement battles in the courts and on the field of law.

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He works as an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law.

Buy his book “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next),” out this week from Verso Books, here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3713-mutual-aid

We also touch on his first book, “Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law,” available here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/normal-life-revised

Episode TRANSCRIPT: https://www.dropbox.com/s/krtbh0gygd8ulu3/DP_EP_198_Mutual%20Aid%20with%20Dean%20Spade%20TRANSCRIPT.pdf?dl=0

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