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Death Panel podcast, wrote Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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Now unlocked: we speak with Brian Nam-Sonenstein about two of his recent briefs for Prison Policy Initiative, the first on the compounding harms of “failure to appear” practices in courts, and the second on the debates surrounding Housing First programs

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“We have barreled so far forward into pandemic denial that the Democratic Party has gone from being the party of mask mandates to the party of mask bans in just over four years.”

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"Masks did not become a symbol of solidarity overnight...There is still much work to be done. But if you ever stopped masking, there has rarely been a better time to start again. Mask up and show your solidarity. Eric Adams will hate it."

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we were not aware of the image before it was published, but we have contacted the editor to get it changed

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we didn’t get to pick the photo, but I agree that I would not have picked one with a surgical mask

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“We have barreled so far forward into pandemic denial that the Democratic Party has gone from being the party of mask mandates to the party of mask bans in just over four years.”

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In our latest, we explore an odious attempt by Freddie deBoer to make a case for involuntary commitment, in which he claims “the disability activist community and their enablers in the media have done everything in their power to obscure the truth.”

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In our latest, we look at the rise of anti-mask legislation in New York and North Carolina: how North Carolina managed to make its mask ban worse, why New York Democrats are trying the same thing, and how the rise of bans is an attempt to break solidarity

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In our latest, we discuss recent attempts to portray social distancing guidance as a “costly” overreach with no science to support it, and how this new round of controversy omits significant context about 2021’s political battles over social distancing

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Now unlocked: Micah Khater joins us to discuss her work documenting how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabama prisons in the early 20th century, and the intersection of racial capitalism, carcerality, and disability

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talking with Death Panel folks in these moments (and phew we've been weathering a lot of them) is so clarifying—I hope this conversation helps you, too!

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In our latest we take a close look at the recent Atlantic piece that asserted “it is possible to kill children legally” and how the piece’s surrounding argument attempts to launder justification for genocide through a veneer of statistics and “objectivity”
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Find Afnan’s letter, “A Palestinian Healthcare Worker on the Water Crisis in Gaza | عاملة صحية فلسطينية تتحدث عن أزمة المياه في غزة” which ⁦Beatrice‬⁩ reads in the episode, here:

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We had a plan for an entirely different episode for today, but put that to the side this morning to talk about the last 24 hours and Rafah. Fuck the IOF. Free Palestine.

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We were also able to get audio of two of the NC Senate sessions from last week where they discussed HB237 (they don’t have an accessible web archive). They sent it to us via snail mail and it arrived just in time for the episode. Full audio here:
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We recorded this yesterday afternoon, and while it appears increasingly likely the house may address some of the public health issues with the bill, there’s a whole lot more at stake that needs pushback and bodes poorly for future expansions of criminalizing masking and protest:

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In our latest, we discuss the wave of anti-mask sentiment and laws criminalizing masking in public space, with a close look at North Carolina’s HB237, a bill that perfectly illustrates the links between covid activism, abolition, and Palestinian liberation

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The entire episode above is structured around trying to boost Gaza Muni’s fundraiser to provide water, waste management, and sewage treatment in Gaza City—things that are desperately needed right now, as explained in the episode. Donate here or boost:

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In our latest, we discuss the destruction of Gaza’s water infrastructure as a tool of genocide, why humanitarian aid frameworks are insufficient to capture the gravity of the water crisis in Palestine, and one small but impactful thing we can do about it:

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In our latest, we speak with historian Jiya Pandya on how the Bhopal gas leak, often described as the worst industrial disaster in living memory, remains a crisis 40 years on, and what the crisis reveals about the relationship between debility and global capitalism

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In our latest, what the end of the requirement to report US covid hospitalization data says about the state’s current approach to the pandemic, and about the relationship between the state, science, and data itself

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In our latest, Tracy Rosenthal returns to discuss the Supreme Court case that could dramatically strip the rights of unhoused people in the US and how the laws at the center of the case are the same being used to police and sweep solidarity encampments

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In our latest, @kmtani.bsky.social and Katie Eyer join us to discuss the under-examined role disability rights cases played in shaping “New Federalism” & how the Supreme Court of the 1970s and 1980s used these cases as an opportunity to quietly expand their own power

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In our latest, Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter join to discuss the encampments at CUNY and Columbia that were subject to a coordinated simultaneous raid last night and to share a May Day call to action

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In our latest, we discuss the Cass Review, the recently released report that has media and political figures convinced trans care for young people is a mistake built on weak evidence. But the report, and the debate, are asking all the wrong questions

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