Artie Vierkant
@avierkant.bsky.social
Death Panel podcast, wrote Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton
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"Health fascism" @deathpanel.bsky.social
it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants
Dr Oz threatens to pull Medicaid support for Minnesota: "Sticking to the narrative that's cold in Minnesota -- this is the tip of the iceberg"
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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11/ @cemicool.bsky.social of @commjusticeexch.bsky.social on their excellent new resource, “If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure”
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Best of 2025: Against Carceral Infrastructure w/ Mon Mohapatra | The Death Panel
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January 8, 2026 at 6:05 PM
11/ @cemicool.bsky.social of @commjusticeexch.bsky.social on their excellent new resource, “If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure”
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finally got around to listening to this and, holy shit, so good. so inspiring. one of the best podcast episodes i have heard in a long time; also i believe those were ryoji ikeda interstitials between the segments and damn they fit the vibe.
this should be required listening for everyone, it’s good
this should be required listening for everyone, it’s good
Death Panel Presents: Health Fascism and the Anti-State State. A close analysis of the first year of Trump and RFK’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” the damage it’s caused, and how to stop it
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Health Fascism and the Anti-State State (12/22/25) | The Death Panel
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January 8, 2026 at 4:59 PM
finally got around to listening to this and, holy shit, so good. so inspiring. one of the best podcast episodes i have heard in a long time; also i believe those were ryoji ikeda interstitials between the segments and damn they fit the vibe.
this should be required listening for everyone, it’s good
this should be required listening for everyone, it’s good
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When the cop murdered Philando Castile his girlfriend and her 4 year old daughter were also in the car.
January 8, 2026 at 1:44 AM
When the cop murdered Philando Castile his girlfriend and her 4 year old daughter were also in the car.
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Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
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“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
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Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
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January 7, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
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Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.
Emotional vigil held for man killed by off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve
Sunday evening, a crowd of about 50 gathered at the Village Pointe apartment complex in Northridge to grieve Keith Porter Jr., who was fatally shot on New Year's Eve by an off-duty ICE agent.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.
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To plug into local rapid response and mutual aid networks, ask your neighbors for connections, or fill out the form at Defend612.com to get connected.
Remember that we keep our communities safe.
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Remember that we keep our communities safe.
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December 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
To plug into local rapid response and mutual aid networks, ask your neighbors for connections, or fill out the form at Defend612.com to get connected.
Remember that we keep our communities safe.
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Remember that we keep our communities safe.
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The same MPD that blockaded the scene and let dozens of masked and aggressive federal walk right in, while they kept gathering protesters out. The same MPD that killed George Floyd. They’re all cops.
MPD said they turned the investigation over to the FBI. Why in the sam fuck would you do that?
January 7, 2026 at 6:52 PM
The same MPD that blockaded the scene and let dozens of masked and aggressive federal walk right in, while they kept gathering protesters out. The same MPD that killed George Floyd. They’re all cops.
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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
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I’ve been binging @deathpanel.bsky.social the last few days and getting so much strength and determination from the wisdom of @reallandsend.bsky.social. Also, I’m so excited and happy to learn of their baby. What joy, all around!
“MAHA says don’t change the system, change yourself. Purify your body. Deny your kid vaccines. Blame the sick for their sickness. It’s magical thinking for the carceral state.”
January 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I’ve been binging @deathpanel.bsky.social the last few days and getting so much strength and determination from the wisdom of @reallandsend.bsky.social. Also, I’m so excited and happy to learn of their baby. What joy, all around!
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10/ Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people they care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm @interruptcrim
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Best of 2025: Beyond Do No Harm w/ Andrea Ritchie | The Death Panel
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January 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
10/ Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people they care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm @interruptcrim
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3/ @realLandsEnd & @city.bsky.social spoke to Bench Ansfield @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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Best of 2025: Born in Flames w/ Bench Ansfield | The Death Panel
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December 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
3/ @realLandsEnd & @city.bsky.social spoke to Bench Ansfield @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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Extremely proud to be a Best of 2025 pick from @deathpanel.bsky.social. I think this is some of the best thinking I did all year and the analysis from April has held up wrt the many dangers and failures of the fascist situation on.soundcloud.com/TIEwJGTTOkCj...
Best of 2025: Sick Sad World w/ Vicky Osterweil
As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2025 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. Each of these will also be posted in the
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December 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Extremely proud to be a Best of 2025 pick from @deathpanel.bsky.social. I think this is some of the best thinking I did all year and the analysis from April has held up wrt the many dangers and failures of the fascist situation on.soundcloud.com/TIEwJGTTOkCj...
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2/ @reallandsend.bsky.social @city.bsky.social & @avierkant.bsky.social on a Trump executive order that threatens to dramatically expand involuntary commitment, criminalize harm reduction, and points to a desire to reopen mass psychiatric incarceration
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Best of 2025: Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions | The Death Panel
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December 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
2/ @reallandsend.bsky.social @city.bsky.social & @avierkant.bsky.social on a Trump executive order that threatens to dramatically expand involuntary commitment, criminalize harm reduction, and points to a desire to reopen mass psychiatric incarceration
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I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)
In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.
Three Meanings of Political Economy: Reflections on Intellectual History, Marxism, and Capitalism’s Unthought
by Nate Holdren
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
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December 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)
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First up: @reallandsend.bsky.social and @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
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December 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
First up: @reallandsend.bsky.social and @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
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Today begins our annual best of selection, looking back at some of our favorite episodes of 2025. We’ll be back early January but until then thank you to all our patrons for supporting the show. None of what we do would be possible without you 🖤 Join here:
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December 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Today begins our annual best of selection, looking back at some of our favorite episodes of 2025. We’ll be back early January but until then thank you to all our patrons for supporting the show. None of what we do would be possible without you 🖤 Join here:
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Transcript in progress currently. Hoping to finish by this evening, then it's off to @reallandsend.bsky.social for final editing before it goes live ❤️
In our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies.
It’s Covid Year Six.
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It’s Covid Year Six.
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Covid Year Six (12/15/25) | The Death Panel
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December 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Transcript in progress currently. Hoping to finish by this evening, then it's off to @reallandsend.bsky.social for final editing before it goes live ❤️
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What a great episode
🔥🔥🔥 "We fight by demanding what is politically acceptable. We cannot let the boundaries of what is feasible or electable define our demands. We don't need means tested scraps or access to broken programs. We need universal care, no strings attached." - @reallandsend.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥 "We fight by demanding what is politically acceptable. We cannot let the boundaries of what is feasible or electable define our demands. We don't need means tested scraps or access to broken programs. We need universal care, no strings attached." - @reallandsend.bsky.social
Death Panel Presents: Health Fascism and the Anti-State State. A close analysis of the first year of Trump and RFK’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” the damage it’s caused, and how to stop it
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December 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What a great episode
🔥🔥🔥 "We fight by demanding what is politically acceptable. We cannot let the boundaries of what is feasible or electable define our demands. We don't need means tested scraps or access to broken programs. We need universal care, no strings attached." - @reallandsend.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥 "We fight by demanding what is politically acceptable. We cannot let the boundaries of what is feasible or electable define our demands. We don't need means tested scraps or access to broken programs. We need universal care, no strings attached." - @reallandsend.bsky.social
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“…a classic fascist formulation: it doesn’t need to internally cohere in order to propagate order and discipline. The message merely needs to remain constant.”
Death Panel Presents: Health Fascism and the Anti-State State. A close analysis of the first year of Trump and RFK’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” the damage it’s caused, and how to stop it
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December 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“…a classic fascist formulation: it doesn’t need to internally cohere in order to propagate order and discipline. The message merely needs to remain constant.”
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Death Panel Presents: Health Fascism and the Anti-State State. A close analysis of the first year of Trump and RFK’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” the damage it’s caused, and how to stop it
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December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Death Panel Presents: Health Fascism and the Anti-State State. A close analysis of the first year of Trump and RFK’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” the damage it’s caused, and how to stop it
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You ever get so hot a world historical empire kamikazes itself in an attempt to stop being so turned on by you? If not can I recommend hrt
December 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
You ever get so hot a world historical empire kamikazes itself in an attempt to stop being so turned on by you? If not can I recommend hrt
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It has been a bracing moment for American federalism, with both unprecedented efforts to extend executive control over state and local govts, novel forms of subnational resistance. Where is federalism going? Paul Nolette and I have edited a new issue of Publius on that question. Short thread:
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It has been a bracing moment for American federalism, with both unprecedented efforts to extend executive control over state and local govts, novel forms of subnational resistance. Where is federalism going? Paul Nolette and I have edited a new issue of Publius on that question. Short thread:
1) pay doctors a living wage but not so much their class interest is more aligned with the elite than the working class
2) nationalize the hospitals and open more; reopen hospitals that have closed due to our current privatized system (the actual culprit)
3) doctors can’t opt out if they want to
2) nationalize the hospitals and open more; reopen hospitals that have closed due to our current privatized system (the actual culprit)
3) doctors can’t opt out if they want to
How much are you going to pay doctors?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Half the amount that everyone currently pays could provide universal healthcare. Private health companies don’t need to exist. Eliminate them. And use your collective buying power and economies of scale to get it done. Every cent of their profit is healthcare denied.
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
1) pay doctors a living wage but not so much their class interest is more aligned with the elite than the working class
2) nationalize the hospitals and open more; reopen hospitals that have closed due to our current privatized system (the actual culprit)
3) doctors can’t opt out if they want to
2) nationalize the hospitals and open more; reopen hospitals that have closed due to our current privatized system (the actual culprit)
3) doctors can’t opt out if they want to