Beatrice and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the Trump administration’s anti-trans executive orders in the context of their broader attack on “wokeness” and DEI. We discuss what the broader impact of these orders could be, what elements are a retread of longstanding rightwing attacks on trans life, and what parts of them seem like a new and evolved form of attack.

Read Melissa's piece "Why Are Hospitals Bowing to Trump’s Illegal Gender-Affirming Care Ban?" here:
https://newrepublic.com/article/191084/hospitals-childrens-national-trump-gender-affirming-care-ban

And find more of her recent reporting here:
https://newrepublic.com/authors/melissa-gira-grant

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 562 Theatre of the Austere w/ Melissa Gira Grant (02/06/25)

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Theatre of the Austere w/ Melissa Gira Grant (02/06/25)

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Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss how Trump and Musk’s DOGE increasingly seems poised to go after Medicare and Social Security, how the constant refrain that Republicans are looking to cut “waste, fraud and abuse” in social spending is a lie meant to obscure their real agenda, and why the open plot to add work requirements to Medicaid would be a tremendous disaster.

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Teaser - "Waste, Fraud and Abuse" (02/10/25)

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We present our 2024 year in review, taking a look back at the last year in the ongoing social and political consequences of normalizing the covid pandemic and rushing to bring the federal covid response to a close.

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Covid Year Five (Unlocked)

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With RFK’s Senate confirmation complete, hearings for Kennedy’s handpicked agency heads like Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makary loom. In preparation, Beatrice speaks with Dr. Jonathan Howard—himself a frequent subject of both Bhattacharya and Makary’s scorn—about both of their records on the pandemic, their claims that criticism of their work amounts to “censorship” and “attacks on science,” and what disasters await us with health agencies under their watch, and RFK at the helm.

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Teaser - MAHA vs "The Ministry of Truth" w/ Jonathan Howard (02/17/24)

Beatrice speaks with Sophie Lewis about the history of “fascist feminisms,” what this history can tell us about the current state of US politics, and the need to embrace more radical and liberatory forms of feminism.

Sophie’s new book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation is out this week from Haymarket:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminisms

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel 565 Enemy Feminisms w/ Sophie Lewis (02/20/25)

Enemy Feminisms w/ Sophie Lewis (02/20/25)

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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 in dark times like these.

Find Kim and Maya’s book, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-we-grow-the-world-together

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Teaser - We Grow the World Together w/ Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson (02/24/25)

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Hi listeners — Beatrice and Artie are currently on parental leave. (We were planning to be able to telegraph the announcement more this week, but "baby death panel" had other plans, and came early!). While we're away, we'll still have episodes in the feed, like today's episode; a mix of some old favorites we haven't revisited in a while and some unlocks. We’ll be back as soon as it’s safe and reasonable for us to do so, because with everything going on right now we want to make sure we’re here for everyone.

We also want to thank each and every one of you, because without support from our patrons it wouldn’t be possible for us to take this kind of time. So if you can, now is a great time to support the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod — either by becoming a patron or increasing your membership.

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Beatrice and Phil speak with Gabe Winant about the birth of the contemporary care economy and its relationship to deindustrialization, the shaping of the "private welfare state" in the 20th century, and resisting the temptation to look back uncritically toward the "golden age" of organized labor.

Find Gabe's book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674292192

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Death Panel Teaser - Death Classic: Islands of Security w/ Gabriel Winant

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Teaser - Death Classic: Islands of Security w/ Gabriel Winant

Hi listeners — Beatrice and Artie are currently on parental leave. (We were planning to be able to telegraph the announcement more this week, but "baby death panel" had other plans, and came early!). While we're away, we'll still have episodes in the feed, like today's episode; a mix of some old favorites we haven't revisited in a while and some unlocks. We’ll be back as soon as it’s safe and reasonable for us to do so, because with everything going on right now we want to make sure we’re here for everyone.

We also want to thank each and every one of you, because without support from our patrons it wouldn’t be possible for us to take this kind of time. So if you can, now is a great time to support the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod — either by becoming a patron or increasing your membership.

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons November 27th, 2023.

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Beatrice and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the history of the Lavender Scare, the anti-gay campaign that overlapped and ran in parallel with the Red Scare, how it shaped the politics of gender and sexuality today, and whether we're experiencing a new Lavender Scare today or if instead the Lavender Scare never ended.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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The New Lavender Scare w/ Melissa Gira Grant (Unlocked)

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Hi listeners — Beatrice and Artie are currently on parental leave. (We were planning to be able to telegraph the announcement more this week, but "baby death panel" had other plans, and came early!). While we're away, we'll still have episodes in the feed, like today's episode; a mix of some old favorites we haven't revisited in a while and some unlocks. We’ll be back as soon as it’s safe and reasonable for us to do so, because with everything going on right now we want to make sure we’re here for everyone.

We also want to thank each and every one of you, because without support from our patrons it wouldn’t be possible for us to take this kind of time. So if you can, now is a great time to support the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod — either by becoming a patron or increasing your membership.

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In today's episode, we survey the extremely messy history that led to the passage of original Medicare, the role private insurers and other industry groups played in its creation, and some of its unintended consequences we live with to this day.

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Teaser - Death Classic: A Death Panel History of Medicare

Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the pervasive, perennial myth that the Medicare and Social Security trust funds are on the brink of imminent collapse, a myth that feeds austerity in policymaking and false panic that the programs "won't be around" when younger generations grow old--and that Trump and Musk's DOGE are currently taking advantage of to press for cuts.

This episode was originally released for patrons on April 17, 2023, as Artie explains in a brief note at the top of the show. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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Death Panel 425 Trust Falls

Trust Falls

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. 

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