Artie Vierkant
@avierkant.bsky.social
Death Panel podcast, wrote Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton
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Louisiana’s Medicaid program stopped covering trans care. So Trans Income Project stepped in to become the defacto “payer” for that care at one key clinic in the state. Today we hear how and why the project came to be:
In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid
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November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I donate to this project monthly. If you are in a position to do so, please monetarily support trans lives.
Louisiana’s Medicaid program stopped covering trans care. So Trans Income Project stepped in to become the defacto “payer” for that care at one key clinic in the state. Today we hear how and why the project came to be:
In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid
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An Oral History of Trans Income Project w/ Natalie Rupp (11/13/25)
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Beatrice speaks with Natalie Rupp of Trans Income Project about their work providin
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Louisiana’s Medicaid program stopped covering trans care. So Trans Income Project stepped in to become the defacto “payer” for that care at one key clinic in the state. Today we hear how and why the project came to be:
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"Mutual aid is embedded in the life work of almost every marginalized community [...] We know that the power of government has never and will never be used to support those folks without power" @deathpanel.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...
An Oral History of Trans Income Project w/ Natalie Rupp (11/13/25)
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November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Mutual aid is embedded in the life work of almost every marginalized community [...] We know that the power of government has never and will never be used to support those folks without power" @deathpanel.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...
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In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid
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An Oral History of Trans Income Project w/ Natalie Rupp (11/13/25)
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Beatrice speaks with Natalie Rupp of Trans Income Project about their work providin
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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid
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Will be weighing in on the ACA debacle when we can but today’s show feels quite topical: a liberal party rushes to the right, abandons its base and its own interests, and puts care in jeopardy for the people whose health is already most harmed by capitalism
In our latest, we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social
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The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine (11/10/25) | The Death Panel
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November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Will be weighing in on the ACA debacle when we can but today’s show feels quite topical: a liberal party rushes to the right, abandons its base and its own interests, and puts care in jeopardy for the people whose health is already most harmed by capitalism
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In our latest, we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social
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The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine (11/10/25) | The Death Panel
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November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In our latest, we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social
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I got to talk with two of the smartest people I know -- @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social -- about BORN IN FLAMES. Check out the latest @deathpanel.bsky.social here
In our latest, we speak with @benchansfield.bsky.social about “riot prone areas,” moral hazard, how landlords burned the Bronx in the 1970s, and their new book Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
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Born in Flames w/ Bench Ansfield (11/03/25) | The Death Panel
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November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I got to talk with two of the smartest people I know -- @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social -- about BORN IN FLAMES. Check out the latest @deathpanel.bsky.social here
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In our latest, we speak with @benchansfield.bsky.social about “riot prone areas,” moral hazard, how landlords burned the Bronx in the 1970s, and their new book Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
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Born in Flames w/ Bench Ansfield (11/03/25) | The Death Panel
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November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In our latest, we speak with @benchansfield.bsky.social about “riot prone areas,” moral hazard, how landlords burned the Bronx in the 1970s, and their new book Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
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In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social & @city.bsky.social are joined by Lara Sheehi & @reproutopia.bsky.social of @wawog.bsky.social to discuss withholding cultural production and why they organized a boycott to refuse to write for New York Times Opinion
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No Opinion w/ Lara Sheehi & Sophie Lewis (11/06/25)
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November 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social & @city.bsky.social are joined by Lara Sheehi & @reproutopia.bsky.social of @wawog.bsky.social to discuss withholding cultural production and why they organized a boycott to refuse to write for New York Times Opinion
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On the hit podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social, @benchansfield.bsky.social discusses their new book, *Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City.*
Born in Flames w/ Bench Ansfield (11/03/25) | The Death Panel
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November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
On the hit podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social, @benchansfield.bsky.social discusses their new book, *Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City.*
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I think there's a lot of people on bsky today that weren't ready to learn that "conservative feminism" exists.
Luckily I listen to the Death Panel and already knew about it so I didn't need to sit down when I saw that headline.
Luckily I listen to the Death Panel and already knew about it so I didn't need to sit down when I saw that headline.
In today’s episode, we speak with @reproutopia.bsky.social about the history of “fascist feminisms” and what this history can tell us about the current state of US politics
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Enemy Feminisms w/ Sophie Lewis (02/20/25)
Beatrice speaks with Sophie Lewis about the history of “fascist feminisms,” what this history can tell us about the current state of US politics, and the need to embrace more radical and liberatory fo
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November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I think there's a lot of people on bsky today that weren't ready to learn that "conservative feminism" exists.
Luckily I listen to the Death Panel and already knew about it so I didn't need to sit down when I saw that headline.
Luckily I listen to the Death Panel and already knew about it so I didn't need to sit down when I saw that headline.
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Find Bench’s book, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City, here:
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
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November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Find Bench’s book, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City, here:
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This is also why we've been organizing with health care workers through our Beyond Do No Harm Network—workers can and should refuse to participate in criminalizing and harming people in the context of care. Our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social discusses this in this @deathpanel.bsky.social episode
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is also why we've been organizing with health care workers through our Beyond Do No Harm Network—workers can and should refuse to participate in criminalizing and harming people in the context of care. Our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social discusses this in this @deathpanel.bsky.social episode
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These are prisons.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
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October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
These are prisons.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
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"As students and members of Beyond Prisons, a teaching and learning initiative that addresses the injustices caused by mass incarceration, we were shocked to learn last week that the University’s budget cuts would lead to the ending of our program."
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Slashing Beyond Prisons Is a Political Choice
The University’s budget cuts to the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture will end the educational initiative by the end of the quarter.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"As students and members of Beyond Prisons, a teaching and learning initiative that addresses the injustices caused by mass incarceration, we were shocked to learn last week that the University’s budget cuts would lead to the ending of our program."
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This is a wonderful conversation to listen to, especially if you are combating your own despair or the fatalism of the people around you.
Now unlocked: we speak with William C. Anderson about taking action now and not being led to despair or resignation by the churn of the electoral cycle, and his recent essay, “Another way out: Fighting back against inaction”
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Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson (Unlocked)
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October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is a wonderful conversation to listen to, especially if you are combating your own despair or the fatalism of the people around you.
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This was a great conversation and I appreciate @deathpanel.bsky.social for giving me the space to say a lot of what I’m feeling at this moment. Check it out if can!
Now unlocked: we speak with William C. Anderson about taking action now and not being led to despair or resignation by the churn of the electoral cycle, and his recent essay, “Another way out: Fighting back against inaction”
on.soundcloud.com/Dvx4pAxbaeDi...
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Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson (Unlocked)
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October 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This was a great conversation and I appreciate @deathpanel.bsky.social for giving me the space to say a lot of what I’m feeling at this moment. Check it out if can!
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This was a great episode and a wonderful salve if you're feeling run down by certain aspects of the recent discourse. Very happy to see it in the main feed so I can recommend it to folks.
Now unlocked: we speak with William C. Anderson about taking action now and not being led to despair or resignation by the churn of the electoral cycle, and his recent essay, “Another way out: Fighting back against inaction”
on.soundcloud.com/Dvx4pAxbaeDi...
on.soundcloud.com/Dvx4pAxbaeDi...
Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson (Unlocked)
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October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This was a great episode and a wonderful salve if you're feeling run down by certain aspects of the recent discourse. Very happy to see it in the main feed so I can recommend it to folks.
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Now unlocked: we speak with William C. Anderson about taking action now and not being led to despair or resignation by the churn of the electoral cycle, and his recent essay, “Another way out: Fighting back against inaction”
on.soundcloud.com/Dvx4pAxbaeDi...
on.soundcloud.com/Dvx4pAxbaeDi...
Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released June 23rd 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 patro
on.soundcloud.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Now unlocked: we speak with William C. Anderson about taking action now and not being led to despair or resignation by the churn of the electoral cycle, and his recent essay, “Another way out: Fighting back against inaction”
on.soundcloud.com/Dvx4pAxbaeDi...
on.soundcloud.com/Dvx4pAxbaeDi...
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In our latest, we speak with @lalouverouge.bsky.social about what it means to build solidarity with young people at a time when the right demands we "protect" children by denying their trans identities, censoring their educations, banning books, and more
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Solidarity with Children w/ Madeline Lane-McKinley (10/20/25) | The Death Panel
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October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
In our latest, we speak with @lalouverouge.bsky.social about what it means to build solidarity with young people at a time when the right demands we "protect" children by denying their trans identities, censoring their educations, banning books, and more
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Was a pleasure to talk to @reallandsend.bsky.social about my book last week!
In our latest, we speak with @lalouverouge.bsky.social about what it means to build solidarity with young people at a time when the right demands we "protect" children by denying their trans identities, censoring their educations, banning books, and more
www.patreon.com/posts/141679...
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Solidarity with Children w/ Madeline Lane-McKinley (10/20/25) | The Death Panel
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October 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Was a pleasure to talk to @reallandsend.bsky.social about my book last week!
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I would rather get a daily push notification from whoever it is you think is the most annoying person making you feel the worst about not masking than ever having to deal with long Covid, which I’m still recovering from.
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I would rather get a daily push notification from whoever it is you think is the most annoying person making you feel the worst about not masking than ever having to deal with long Covid, which I’m still recovering from.