In our latest, @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people the care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

Episode teaser here: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

happy birthday to @avierkant.bsky.social my partner and collaborator in basically everything—cohost, coauthor, and now coparent. grateful every day to be in this messy, beautiful struggle of life together 🖤

In our latest, we break down the Trump administration's latest attacks on covid vaccines, key moments from RFK's Senate testimony last week, and why calls to force RFK out of HHS need to include removing many of the figures he's managed to bring in with him www.patreon.com/posts/138451663

A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.

Offline for a health thing. Please share. Yall have helped six families with food and shelter for 18 straight weeks. That’s pure hope. Don’t stop. & click “weekly.” 1425/2500 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope...

There’s a passage in Pedagogy of the Oppressed that feels directly relevant to the way some people wag their tongues about “family abolition.” Freire warns about the oppressor-convert: the one who claims to speak for the people but cannot bring themselves to actually trust the people 🪡

Re-upping this awesome thread on family abolition by Beatrice❤️ It (the discussion abt family abolition and so on) has genuinely renewed my understanding/vision of communism!

From Sameer Project, Sept. 1: "Palestinians in Gaza are getting kidney diseases due to lack of water. Dehydration cases in hospitals are a daily occurrence. Support: chuffed.org/project/help...

This is the Yglesias worldview in miniature: US funding mass death abroad & deadly austerity at home—but the real crisis is a post or two calling a Biden/Harris/Clinton voter a fascist. Liberal technocracy is a class project…protecting empire by laundering violence through appeals for “moderation.”

In which @reallandsend.bsky.social schools us on the ‘hypothetical blind man’ and the work of Georgina Kleege. Sending me deep into some googles, loving it

What does it mean to invoke the right to health without accounting for conditions of sustained persistent, overwhelming and abiding terror and violence? - Dr Danya Qato Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.

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Listen. Then do. The bare minimum is to refuse, reject, and upend a status quo that renders Palestinians as disposable and deserving of premature death. Support direct aid: linktr.ee/thesameerproject, lifeline4gaza.com, mogaza.org/campaign/2 Disrupt, boycott, pressure, act: tinyurl.com/USCPRAct

In our latest, we discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in Gaza—and genocide deaths themselves—can be invalidated by showing that the victims had “pre-existing conditions” or “underlying health conditions” soundcloud.com/deathpanel/c...

‼️THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL DEMAND THAT THE PRISON TAKE T TO THE HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY, AS THEIR HEALTH HAS DETERIORATED. CALL AND EMAIL AND DO NOT STOP!! Call HMP Peterborough urgently: ☎️ 01733 217500 follow prisoners4palestine freethefilton24 cageinternational for updates on T Hoxha's situation.

Email and call the contacts below!

The phrase “prisoners are the compass of our struggle” is a meaningless slogan unless it is made real and material through tangible action!

Meanwhile Casey’s status as a Type 1 diabetic means that they are undertaking their own hunger strike at extreme risk to their physical health.

T. Hoxha’s loved ones report that she has now developed a fever, experienced a persistent headache, vomited after taking vitamins, and noticed skin discoloration. A nurse practitioner has announced that T is in the “danger zone” and that her life is at risk.

T. Hoxha is entering Day 18 of her hunger strike at HMP Petersborough to demand the release of her mail and the restoration of her library job at the prison.

ALERT!!! Casey Goonan is entering DAY TWO of their hunger strike at Santa Rita in solidarity with T. Hoxha, who has entered critical condition 🚨🚨🚨🚨

In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured media outlets to make (some more willing than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy.

important update from Sameer: "For the longest time, a parcel like this would’ve been a dream and cost a fortune. With trucks coming in, staples are available and prices dropped - but keep in mind that only 15% of the amount Gaza needs is being allowed in. Donate: chuffed.org/project/1132...

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What do Trump’s threats to “invade” cities & expand encampment sweeps have to do with Palantir-linked think tank the Cicero Institute? On the @deathpanel.bsky.social podcast, In These Times investigative reporter @rebeccaburns.bsky.social breaks it down. 🎧 Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/137338...

In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social & @city.bsky.social speak with @rebeccaburns.bsky.social about how Trump’s threats to invade cities to combat “endemic vagrancy” echo the policies of the Cicero Institute, a right wing think tank run by a co-founder of Palantir www.patreon.com/posts/137338...

If Death Panel has given you new ways to think, language for your politics, or a sense of solidarity in hard times, consider becoming a patron. That support is what keeps us going 🖤

Being disabled/chronically ill means constantly balancing two impossible tasks: convincing the state/doctors that you’re “disabled/sick enough” to deserve help and convincing everyone else that you’re “well enough” to be worth keeping around.

A truly global, materialist disability politics has to account for the unevenness of who survives long enough to age into disability, and who is systematically killed before that horizon.

People call disabled folks “burdens,” but I’ve never met anyone more resourceful, patient, and relentless than sick and disabled people practiced at keeping each other alive.

Disability isn’t just a body or health status—it’s a political relation produced by capitalism. Under capitalism, disability is a mechanism for managing surplus labor. It’s not marginal to class struggle. It is class struggle.

A fishing expedition designed to terrorize these providers and these families. The subpeonas could be (and likely are) baseless and lawless, but what DOJ wants is to frighten hospital boards enough to drop these patients altogether

Let’s take apart this Free Press hit piece on children in Gaza: “They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.” This thread will explain why its harms go way beyond just bad reporting—it’s ableist, eugenicist & pro-genocide propaganda 🧵

Some great grabs from the lovely @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

Trying to read 1 book/month, these are next

already read just needed copies (usually get my baldwins used but there was a sale)

In today’s episode, we revisit our discussion with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that shaped it www.patreon.com/posts/136779...

Let's do this.

Care shouldn’t be rationed. Sickness shouldn’t be punished. No one should have to prove their worth to live. That’s health communism. (4/4) 🔗 inthesetimes.com/article/heal...

Medicare for All ≠ enough. 👉 Stop means-testing 👉 Stop judging who “deserves” care 👉 Make care unconditional 3/4 🔗 inthesetimes.com/article/heal...

Under capitalism, the sick, disabled & elderly are treated like surplus populations. Health communism says: their liberation is everyone’s liberation. 2/4 🔗 inthesetimes.com/article/heal...

What if healthcare weren’t a job perk or a profit scheme, but a human right? That’s the vision of Health Communism. A 🧵1/4 🔗 inthesetimes.com/article/heal...

This month’s @inthesetimes.com features Health Communism in @leftiecowboy.bsky.social’s Big Ideas column—we appreciate the care taken in engaging our work & translating it into such a great distillation (no easy feat lol)—health communism is the antidote to MAHA & is needed now more than ever 🖤

Today, @leftiecowboy.bsky.social explains the necessity of "ending a system in which only those deemed ​'productive' or ​'deserving' are allowed to live well." inthesetimes.com/article/heal...

rocking the baby? nope. white noise? no. more milk? useless. Pedagogy of the Oppressed audiobook? out cold in 30 seconds (Baby Death Panel refuses to rest until the conditions of oppression are clarified)

When I say workplaces are designed to break bodies, I don’t mean capitalists sit around drafting blueprints for injury in the abstract. I mean the very organization of labor under capitalism presupposes and incorporates bodily damage as a cost of doing business.

Mass disablement is not an accident. It is manufactured. By war. By work. By poisoned air and water. By pandemics allowed to rage because prevention doesn’t make line go up. Capitalism needs broken bodies in that our political economy is built to factor in expected impairments.

The fight to re-key institutionalized people teaches us how to re-key public health. This demands sustained political struggle, on multiple terrains. Re-keying is a long and ongoing process that requires much more than theorizing about why “public health has lost trust”