Artie Vierkant
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Death Panel podcast, wrote Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton
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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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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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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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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
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For years, people have asked me if I have plans to collect some of my best essays - together with several new ones - in an essay collection. So here you go! Femmephilia's cover design is by Vivian Rowe. haymarketbooks.org/books/2758-femmephilia. It'll be published by @haymarketbooks.org in June 2026
Femmephilia
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December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For years, people have asked me if I have plans to collect some of my best essays - together with several new ones - in an essay collection. So here you go! Femmephilia's cover design is by Vivian Rowe. haymarketbooks.org/books/2758-femmephilia. It'll be published by @haymarketbooks.org in June 2026
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Do yall realize how much incredible work Sophie produces constantly? She will casually just be like "oh yeah I wrote this thing today lmk what you think teehee" and its like an epochal analysis of a piece of art and if you look at a whole year of her work youd probably go blind (complimentary)
Thread of 2025
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Do yall realize how much incredible work Sophie produces constantly? She will casually just be like "oh yeah I wrote this thing today lmk what you think teehee" and its like an epochal analysis of a piece of art and if you look at a whole year of her work youd probably go blind (complimentary)
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One of my favorite podcast episodes of the year. Give it a listen. Extended teaser: m.soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of my favorite podcast episodes of the year. Give it a listen. Extended teaser: m.soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...
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here we go, again:
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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December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
here we go, again:
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“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.”
December 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“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.”
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“MAHA is a seductive process because it speaks to real pain—the pain of being abandoned. But it offers no solidarity only self management, not justice only blame, not transformation only cruelty disguised as wellness.”
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“MAHA is a seductive process because it speaks to real pain—the pain of being abandoned. But it offers no solidarity only self management, not justice only blame, not transformation only cruelty disguised as wellness.”
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People are angry, and that anger is real. But MAHA redirects it away from the structural forces that create this crisis towards conspiracy and scapegoating.
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
People are angry, and that anger is real. But MAHA redirects it away from the structural forces that create this crisis towards conspiracy and scapegoating.
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On the surface, MAHA sounds like it’s about healing, about fixing a broken system. Its appeal is rooted in a widespread, deeply felt experience of abandonment by our health care system—a system that feels extractive, cruel, expensive and overall indifferent to everyday suffering.
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
On the surface, MAHA sounds like it’s about healing, about fixing a broken system. Its appeal is rooted in a widespread, deeply felt experience of abandonment by our health care system—a system that feels extractive, cruel, expensive and overall indifferent to everyday suffering.
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“MAHA works in large part because it promises sweeping change and improved health even when in practice what it delivers is benefit cuts, deregulation, and increased spread of contagious disease.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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December 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“MAHA works in large part because it promises sweeping change and improved health even when in practice what it delivers is benefit cuts, deregulation, and increased spread of contagious disease.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Death Panel is one of my favorite podcasts out there, and I listen to a lot of podcasts. Episode after episode are straight fire. Give them a listen and hear it for yourself:
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