Death Panel
Death Panel is a left-leaning podcast covering politics, culture, and public policy. Hosted by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco, and Jules Gill-Peterson, it aims to help listeners make sense of current events and political issues. The show also has a Patreon for community support and additional content.
Episodes
Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (Re-Air)
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 resisti
Teaser - 760,000 (10/12/26)
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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."
Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (October 2023)
This episode was originally released October 16th, 2023. We are re-airing it today as we mark three years in the ongoing escalation of genocide in Palestine.
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Teaser - Trump's Push to Expand Involuntary Commitment / Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions
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In today's episode, we revisit a conversation from last year on the Trump administration's intent to attack federal disability protections in order to expand involuntary commitment and psychiatric incarceration—now with a new intro from Artie on Trump's recent attacks on Secti
Indifference Engines
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 me
Teaser - On “Gerontocracy,” Part 2: Age and Capitalist Disposability w/ Nate Holdren (09/28/26)
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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 critica
Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (DP x S26)
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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/deathpanelp
Teaser - On "Gerontocracy," Part 1: Age and Class w/ Gabriel Winant (09/21/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Gabriel Winant about the idea popular in some circles that we live in a “gerontocracy” and whether and how age could be understood to act as a mediator of class.
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Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (DP x S26)
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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 outrage over one of our other sessions, find it at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050
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Teaser - The Death Panel vs Fox News w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison (09/14/26)
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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.
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Trump’s New Red Scare w/ Vicky Osterweil
This episode was originally released July 27th 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 speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “f
Teaser - ACAP 09: Mutual Aid Street Solidarity Ohio (09/07/26)
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Beatrice speaks with "Bitch" from Mutual Aid Street Solidarity Chicago about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.
This episode is an extension of the series we ran over the summer, All Care for All People (ACAP), and one of the final episodes
Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (DP x S26)
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This is the first recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. We're posting it ahead of our usual schedule as clips from this session have started circulating online and kicking off a round of discourse on health, health fascism and "f
Solidarity with Children w/ Madeline Lane-McKinley
This episode was originally released October 20th, 2025 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 speaks with Madeline Lane-McKinley about what it means to build a politics of solidarity with young people against the pervasive right win
Teaser - Indifference Engines (08/31/26)
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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
“Medical Frailty” and the War on Fraud (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released August 3rd for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to shift the definition of “medical frailty” under Medicaid to explicitly redefine health as your ability to work, and how this change threat
Teaser - Property, Sabotage and the Origins of Anti-Left Repression w/ R.H. Lossin (08/24/26)
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Beatrice speaks with R.H. Lossin about how early criminal syndicalism laws were weaponized against the IWW in the early 20th century to criminalize their political education around industrial sabotage, and how those acts of repression have continued to shape how cert
How to Abolish Prisons w/ Rachel Herzing & Justin Piché
Beatrice speaks with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about how the fight to abolish prisons touches other movements, what abolitionist movement wins tell us about taking the long view in organizing work, and their new book How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment.
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Teaser - I.P. the Killer w/ Vicky Osterweil (08/17/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about how intellectual property has become central to global capitalism, what led the Disney corporation to send lobbyists to defend covid vaccine patents, and her new book The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and T
Corridors of Contagion w/ Victoria Law (Re-Air)
Note: This episode was originally released September 9th, 2024 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Victoria Law about her book Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration.
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Teaser - How to Close a Camp w/ John Washington (08/10/26)
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Beatrice speaks with John Washington about how detention camps are at once essential pieces of the immigration enforcement regime and also one of its most vulnerable sites to a variety of forms of public resistance, and about his new book, How to Close a Camp: Dispat
Not Your Rescue Project w/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam
Note: This episode was originally released August 11th 2025 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice and the solidarities required to organize at the intersection o
Teaser - “Medical Frailty” and the War on Fraud (08/03/26)
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Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to shift the definition of “medical frailty” under Medicaid to explicitly redefine health as your ability to work, and how this change threatens not just the healthcare coverage of countless people,
Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Re-Air)
This episode was originally released December 1st, 2025 for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. We'll be back in the patron feed on Monday with a new episode on the fight over Medicaid and the Trump administration's new definition of "medical fragility."
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Teaser - Trump’s New Red Scare w/ Vicky Osterweil (07/27/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fatal cancer to civilization,” and a threat to “normal, healthy, ordered living.”
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Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions
This episode was originally released August 4th 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, Artie and Tracy discuss the potential impacts of a new Trump executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” which threatens to dramatically expand involuntary psychia
Teaser - Belly of the Beast w/ Da'Shaun L. Harrison
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Beatrice speaks with Da'Shaun L. Harrison about their book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness and the joined histories of eugenics and racial capitalism.
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Minneapolis Spring, the 2020 Uprisings and Beyond w/ Jonathan Stegall & Anne Kosseff-Jones (Re-Air)
This episode was originally released March 12th and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall and Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the last few months of anti-ICE organizing and mutual aid work in Minnesota built directly on the foundations la
Teaser - RICO w/ Dan Berger
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Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the long history of RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) being used as a tool of repression against left movements, and what we can learn from the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists.
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Mutual Aid w/ Dean Spade (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released April 6th 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 speaks with Dean Spade about how mutual aid allows us to reclaim and collectivize the labor of survival itself, how the practice is much more radic
Teaser - ACAP 08: Earthbound Farmer's Almanac (07/06/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Hadley, Tina and Beau from the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac Editorial Collective about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work and the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac, described as "a journal of anti-colonial agriculture; an almanac
The Human Cost of Welfare Reform w/ John Pring (Re-Air)
This episode was originally released November 21, 2024. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with John Pring about how welfare privatization and calls to cut benefits in the name of reducing waste, fraud and abuse hollowed out the welfare state in the UK and directly led to the deaths of welfare recipie
Teaser - Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions
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Beatrice, Artie and Tracy discuss the potential impacts of a Trump executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” which threatens to dramatically expand involuntary psychiatric commitment and make it easier for the government to disappear pe
Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie
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 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 propo
Teaser - ACAP 07: Below Sea Level Aid (06/22/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Jack from Below Sea Level Aid about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.
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This is the seventh episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of
Born in Flames w/ Bench Ansfield (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released November 3rd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice and Tracy speak with Bench Ansfield about their new book charting the rise of the FIRE economy (finance, insurance, real estate) in the 1970s and how this new evol
Teaser - ACAP 06: Philly Childcare Collective (06/15/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Ona, Renya, and Zara from Philly Childcare Collective about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.
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This is the sixth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie des
Against Carceral Infrastructure w/ Mon Mohapatra
This episode was originally released June 30th 2025 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra of Community Justice Exchange (CJE) about their new resource “If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure,” a resource looking at the
Teaser - ACAP 05: [redacted], A Free Clinic (06/08/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Alice, Fish, and Caris from a Turtle Island-based Free Clinic about care as a site of struggle, abolishing the medical industrial complex, and their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.
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This is the fifth episode in a new seri
Hospicing the Law w/ Mohini Mookim & Veryl Pow (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released March 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 patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow about practicing what they call “prefigurative lawyering” to support movements and protect mutual aid work, and ho
Teaser - Body Fascism w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison
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Beatrice speaks with Da’Shaun L. Harrison about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back.
Read Da'Shaun's piece here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/
Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution w/ Karen Tani and Katie Eyer
This episode was originally released May 6th, 2024 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice and Phil speak with legal scholars Karen Tani and Katie Eyer about how the Supreme Court used cases related to disability and deinstitutionalization in the 1970s and 1980s as an opportunity to remak
Teaser - ACAP 04: People's Health Education Program (05/25/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Lentil Soup of People's Health Education Program, now known as Action Readiness Collective of NYC (ARCNYC), about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.
This is the fourth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as
The Anti-State State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore (Re-Air)
This episode was originally released January 26th for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
In the shadow of the federal occupation of Minneapolis and a year of catastrophic expansion of the carceral state, Beatrice speaks with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about
Teaser - ACAP 03: Southern Solidarity (05/18/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Jasmine of Southern Solidarity about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.
This is the third episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode
Health Fascism and the Anti-State State (Re-Air)
This episode was originally released December 22nd 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
In this special presentation, Beatrice and Artie discuss the damage done by the first year of Trump's agenda to "Make America Healthy Again," how the state's re
Teaser - ACAP 02: Community Liberation Programs (05/11/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Raju, Silvia and Marguerite of Community Liberation Programs about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.
This is the second episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top o
The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine
This episode was originally released November 10th, 2025 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
National Health Service (NHS) evolved under the neoliberal turn and what the recently released NHS 10 year plan tells us about the future of health struggle not just in Britain but internationally, pro
Teaser - ACAP 01: A Kensington-based harm reduction group (05/04/26)
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Beatrice speaks with the members of a Kensington-based harm reduction group (name redacted to preserve anonymity) about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.
This is the first episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes
"The Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline" w/ Liz Jackson and Rua Williams
This episode was originally released April 11, 2024 and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Liz Jackson and Rua Williams about the history and ongoing practice of design objects ostensibly created for accessibility being repurposed into tools of war.
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Teaser - Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor
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Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms
Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released February 16th 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Alberto Toscano about what characteristics second Trump term fascism shares—and doesn’t share—with prior historic formations of fascism, th
Teaser - Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar
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Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility.” We discuss how events like the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the bombings in 2014 are often descri
Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson
This episode was originally released June 23rd, 2025 for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with William C. Anderson about the liberal tendency to limit political action to voting while simultaneously blaming victims of the electoral system for their ow
Teaser - Lifemaking in the Margins of Urban Space w/ Kate Brown (04/13/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Kate Brown about the history of mutual aid agriculture projects in the US and Europe after the enclosure of the commons, how autonomous community agriculture has historically been met with expulsion or co-optation by the state, and her book Tiny Gardens Every
Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Re-Air)
This episode was originally released January 22nd and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about their work organizing Crips for eSims for Gaza, a mutual aid project which has facilitated keeping countless people connected in Ga
Teaser - Mutual Aid w/ Dean Spade (04/06/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how mutual aid allows us to reclaim and collectivize the labor of survival itself, how the practice is much more radical than it’s often been portrayed since it became a topic of mainstream press discussion, and the new second edition of Dean’
An Oral History of Trans Income Project w/ Natalie Rupp
This episode was originally released November 13, 2025 and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Natalie Rupp of Trans Income Project about their work providing cash transfers, meals, medication and more to trans people in Louisiana and how Trans Income Project is stepping i
Teaser - "No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater
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Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about her award winning article on the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alaba
Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released March 9th 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 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 o
Teaser - Hospicing the Law w/ Mohini Mookim & Veryl Pow (03/23/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow about practicing what they call “prefigurative lawyering” to support movements and protect mutual aid work, and how to work towards what they call “hospicing the law.”
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Kansas and the History of State Identification as Administrative Violence w/ Cassius Adair (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released March 3rd 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight as an expression of administrative violence, a
Teaser - Body Fascism w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison (03/16/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Da’Shaun L. Harrison about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back.
Read Da'Shaun's piece here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/
Minneapolis Spring, the 2020 Uprisings and Beyond w/ Jonathan Stegall & Anne Kosseff-Jones (03/12/26)
Beatrice speaks with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall and Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the last few months of anti-ICE organizing and mutual aid work in Minnesota built directly on the foundations laid during the 2020 uprisings, why the twin cities still need support even after the announcement of a “draw down,” and lessons to take forward with us.
Note: Shortly after this episode was reco
Teaser - Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26)
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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 comm
ICE OUT w/ Members of LATU (Re-Air)
Beatrice and Tracy speak with Zoie and Kevin of the LA Tenants Union about their work organizing community defense against raids by ICE and Border Patrol, how they came to set up the first Centro de Defensa Communitaria, and lessons they can share for other organizers wanting to take on the same work as ICE raids expand across the US.
This episode was originally released December 4th and is being
Teaser - Kansas and the History of State Identification as Administrative Violence w/ Cassius Adair (03/03/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight as an expression of administrative violence, and about the long history of state identification documents being used as a tool to enforce norms and surveil and pun
Resisting Carceral Sanism w/ Liat Ben-Moshe & Leah Harris (Re-Air)
This episode was originally released in fall 2023 and is being re-aired today in light of discourse surrounding carceral approaches to public space and recent attacks on the term "carceral sanism" itself. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice, Liat Ben-Moshe, and Leah Harris discuss the increasing wave of polic
Teaser - The Politics of “Risk Assessment” w/ William Boyd
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Following a new introduction on the Trump administration's decision to invoke the Defense Production Act to increase the production of glyphosate, Beatrice speaks with William Boyd about how “risk assessment” became a central focus of health safety and environmental law since the
The Anti-State State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released January 26th 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
In the shadow of the federal occupation of Minneapolis and a year of catastrophic expansion of the carceral state, Beatrice speaks with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and C
Teaser - Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano (02/16/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Alberto Toscano about what characteristics second Trump term fascism shares—and doesn’t share—with prior historic formations of fascism, the driving concepts behind Make America Healthy Again that we at Death Panel have been calling “health fascism,” and Alber
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border w/ Silky Shah & Harsha Walia (Live) (02/12/26)
Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Silky Shah and Harsha Walia discuss the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls for the abolition of much more than ICE.
This episode was recorded live on February 12th 2026 in collaboration with Haymarket Books. You can watch the original livestream on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9YJqx1zY2c
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Teaser - Late Empire Life Extension w/ Ayesha Siddiqi (02/09/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Ayesha Siddiqi about “anti-aging” trends and longevity influencers as symptoms of imperial decline and the role the wellness industry has played in producing this moment of heightened fascism.
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Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released December 1st 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about why deportation is wrong, period, and about what we lose when we limit our demands to appeals about "legality."
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Teaser - We Grow the World Together w/ Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson
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After a brief introduction on the ongoing situation in Minneapolis, Beatrice speaks with Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson about care work and parenting as part of abolitionist practice, lessons from integrating abolitionist values into everyday life, and how we show up for each other
Dispatch from Occupied Minneapolis w/ Melissa Gira Grant (01/29/26)
Beatrice is joined by Melissa Gira Grant to discuss what’s happening on the ground in Minneapolis, the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the broader currents of fascism nationally producing the context for the battle going on in the streets of the twin cities.
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Teaser - The Anti-State State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore (01/26/26)
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In the shadow of the federal occupation of Minneapolis and a year of catastrophic expansion of the carceral state, Beatrice speaks with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about their concept of “the anti-state state,” the process of the state’s transition from supporting social
Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26)
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Beatrice speaks with Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about their work organizing Crips for eSims for Gaza, a mutual aid project which has facilitated keeping countless people connected in Gaza over the past years of genocide and heightened blockade, and about lessons a
Teaser - Political Imagination and Appeals to the Law w/ Nate Holdren
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Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about how we approach the law in political struggle, the way legal framings create the bounds of “justifiable” violence, and why deportation is wrong no matter the legal status of the person detained. Presented today with an introduction on the IC
Health Fascism and the Anti-State State
This episode was originally released December 22nd 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 www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
In this special presentation, Beatrice and Artie discuss the damage done by the first year of Trump's agenda to "Make America Healthy Again," how the state's re
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