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reallandsend.bsky.social
co-host Death Panel Podcast | co-author Health Communism with Artie Vierkant | blind/sick/surplus www.deathpanel.net www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod www.beatriceadlerbolton.com
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Hell yeah

such a great one, with moments of real hope

Now unlocked: @reallandsend.bsky.social & @vickyacab.bsky.social on the holes in the Trump administration’s grip on power and how the field is ripe for mass movements to challenge not just Trump administration policies like mass deportation, but federal power itself on.soundcloud.com/LOH0A3aRSSuI...

For those who missed it the first time, this episode with @vickyacab.bsky.social is going to be unlocked later today. A great meditation on why the conditions are so ripe to go off in a 2020 uprisings or beyond way. Kept thinking about it all weekend www.patreon.com/posts/131100...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

free books on abolishing borders

re-listening to this important book omw to an insurance-mandated appointment so I can keep my meds…for a lifelong, incurable disease. The meds suppress my immune system—and I have to go into this pit of communicable disease where nobody masks. 😡 @reallandsend.bsky.social @avierkant.bsky.social

I wrote about the confusion created by disgruntled voters who believe that voting is enough, and the trouble many have visualizing an alternative. Fear, frustration, and the work of those who came before us are not an excuse to promote inaction or resignation. prismreports.org/2025/06/03/i...

This right here. This whole episode has been a tremendous display of weakness in the form of a show of strength.

chinga la migra May the spirit of rebellion grow & multiply!! I absolutely reject the logic that comrades are ever responsible for any increased state repression. We are living in fascist time, they don't need "excuses." Be ungovernable, maintain solidarity, & keep tactical differences internal

In our latest, we speak with Jane Thomason of @nationalnurses.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s dissolution of CDC’s healthcare infectious control committee (HICPAC) and their broader attacks on worker safety under the banner of “Make America Healthy Again” www.patreon.com/posts/130544...

The last time Jane was on was March 2024, weeks before the Biden admin caved to NNU’s campaign and brought her and others into an advisory workgroup to HICPAC. Now that the committee itself has been dissolved by the Trump administration, we were finally able to have her back to see how that went

The MAHA fantasy of “health freedom” is just that, a fantasy. The wishful dream of health under capitalism is of being the exception. MAHA flatters into believing that if you hustle hard enough, if you’re not like them, you’ll survive. That’s not empowerment—it’s a trap.

"Fascism thrives when people really stop believing that solidarity is possible. [...] It does feel like we're being asked to accept death as the cost of participation [in society]." I appreciated this a lot. (I ALSO appreciated every Baby Death Panel noise, each one made my day better. 💕)

Unfortunately more timely than we realized considering RFK, Makary and Bhattacharya’s announcement this morning that they’re pulling the vaccine recommendation for children and pregnant people

We unpack the GOP Murder Bill’s historic cuts to Medicaid, bans on trans care, and then we discuss the FDA sabotage of COVID vaccines. Also: just for fun—Who do you think gets booted first from Trump’s health fascist clown car? RFK, Makary, Bhattacharya, Means, Oz or Prasad?

In our latest, we discuss the GOP “Murder Bill,” explain the enormity of its cuts to Medicaid and brazen attacks on trans care, and how Trump’s FDA is trying to eradicate the covid vaccines www.patreon.com/posts/129947...

Additionally, they were never “boosters” to the kids getting the vaccines for the first time. As someone with a small infant I’m extremely worried about when, how, or whether they’ll be able to get the shot once they hit 6 months

With cruel work requirements threatening to strip millions of Medicaid, I joined Death Panel to talk about the rise of the "working homeless"—and how policy violence, disguised as reform, masks a brutal truth: in America, grinding labor doesn't guarantee even the bare essentials of survival.

Homelessness is not a bug of the US housing system, it is a feature. It is a very profitable feature that investment capital takes advantage of.

This despicable move is in many ways the logical endpoint of lines like “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” of “you do you,” of the endless narrowing of covid to personal risk and individual responsibility, as we and others warned about www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/h...

No Cop City, No Cop World is officially out today :) it was a massive collective effort, not to give a definitive account of a movement that could never be fully captured in a book, but to document tactics tried, lessons learned, & successes & failures. Order supports @workshops4gaza.bsky.social:

“Homelessness is the product of collaboration between the state and real estate” — @city.bsky.social

In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social speak with ‪Brian Goldstone about how we systematically, and intentionally, undercount the homeless, and Brian’s new book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America www.patreon.com/posts/129388...

Tomorrow (5/20) we are streaming with Dave Anthony and @reallandsend.bsky.social. We're talking badass grads + MAHA madness, don't miss! Watch LIVE on Youtube: youtube.com/live/OULQPwZ...

Excited to finally share our big “while we were out (healthcare edition)” featuring an incredible litany of examples from the last two months of government officials saying all the quiet parts about the relationship between health and capitalism out loud

New episode is out analyzing the first 100 days of health fascism under the second Trump administration

In our latest, we survey the early months of the second Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, its attacks on Medicaid and Social Security, and why it is that health is such a particular target of the administration this time around www.patreon.com/posts/128800...

🍾🍾 HAPPY OFFICIAL LAUNCH DAY CAW 🍾🍾 So incredibly excited to start making this dream a real reality. As so many things are falling apart it feels like such a gift to be building something with some of my favorite people in the whole world.

last day for early bird registration for the 2025 Socialism Conference (July 3-6 in Chicago) —so excited to be back this year with 4 amazing @deathpanel.bsky.social sessions feat. @melissagiragrant.com @reproutopia.bsky.social @city.bsky.social @avierkant.bsky.social @deanspade.bsky.social & more...