Episodes

  • Teaser - 760,000 (10/12/26)

    Teaser - 760,000 (10/12/26)
    12 Oct 2026
    Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/172178479 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s announcement that it has unilaterally kicked 760,000 people off of their health insurance, why they were able to do so to shockingly little outcry, and what it means as an escalation in their so-called "War on Fraud." Runtime 1:24:52 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179
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    21 min
  • Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (Re-Air)

    Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (Re-Air)
    16 Oct 2026
    This episode was originally released March 9th for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie about how we should understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, lessons in resisting proposed “reforms” that would actually give more power to ICE, and how community care and community defense help build a world toward abolition. Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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    1 hr and 38 min
  • Teaser - The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash w/ Lamble (10/26/26)

    Teaser - The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash w/ Lamble (10/26/26)
    27 Oct 2026
    Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/173479189 Beatrice speaks with Lamble about how narratives around “safety” and carceral punishment were used to bolster the anti-trans “gender critical” movement in Britain and why challenging the notion of safety as dependent on carceral responses requires us to reject a politics of disposability. Runtime 1:13:43 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179
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    19 min
  • Teaser - 5 Things About “Be Normal” (10/19/26)

    Teaser - 5 Things About “Be Normal” (10/19/26)
    19 Oct 2026
    Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/172836747 Beatrice and Artie discuss what it means when we’re told to “be normal,” especially in the domain of politics, and walk through the short history of the term and a few key points on why we should resist having our political demands constrained to what is already “normal.” Runtime 1:16:40 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179
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    24 min
  • The Death Panel vs Fox News w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison

    The Death Panel vs Fox News w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison
    29 Oct 2026
    This episode was originally released September 14th 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 patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Artie and Da’Shaun L. Harrison discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week, and how the media dogpile from Joe Rogan to Ben Shapiro to Fox News proved our point. Find Da'Shaun's book, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781623175979 Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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    1 hr and 30 min
  • Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (DP x S26)

    Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (DP x S26)
    24 Sep 2026
    To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the second recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. If you are looking for our response discussion to the right wing / Fox News outrage over one of our other sessions this year, find it at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050 Full session description: Our violent border regimes produce illness, debility, and death while destroying the relationships that people rely on to survive. Families are separated, communities destabilized, and care networks fractured through the constant threat of detention. Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Silky Shah and A. Naomi Paik discuss border policing as a counterinsurgent attack on health, and how to defend and rebuild collective care in an era of escalating state repression and criminalization, from Prairieland, to the Minnesota 15, to the US State Department’s call for a new Red Scare. Speakers: Beatrice, Silky Shah, A. Naomi Paik Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179
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    1 hr and 9 min
  • Teaser - On “Gerontocracy,” Part 2: Age and Capitalist Disposability w/ Nate Holdren (09/28/26)

    Teaser - On “Gerontocracy,” Part 2: Age and Capitalist Disposability w/ Nate Holdren (09/28/26)
    28 Sep 2026
    Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/170643206 Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about how the concept of “gerontocracy” points us away from structural conditions while at the same time reinforcing dominant ideas about disposability being tied to ability, capacity and age, and why it is so important for the left to critically analyze how that disposability is produced and reproduced. Runtime 2:09:28 This episode is the second of two episodes responding to Samuel Moyn’s book “Gerontocracy in America.” It is a standalone conversation that does not require having heard the first episode. You can find the first episode, a discussion with Gabriel Winant, here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/on-gerontocracy-169919130 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179
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    20 min
  • Indifference Engines

    Indifference Engines
    1 Oct 2026
    This episode was originally released August 31st 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 patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Artie discusses what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in, how to think about data centers and AI as mechanisms of social murder, and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral panic." Find the companion blog post (referenced in this episode) here: https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/indifference-engines This episode was recorded prior to our participation in the Socialism Conference this year and contains reference to those sessions as upcoming; all sessions are now available in the patron and public Death Panel feeds and you can find our response discussion to the right wing / Fox News outrage over one of our sessions here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050 Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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    1 hr and 7 min