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Death Panel podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social patreon.com/deathpanelpod wrote Health Communism (Verso, 2022) with Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social // forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket, 2027) 😷
In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police
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In our latest, we speak with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall & Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the 2020 uprisings laid the groundwork for the last few months of anti-ICE action in the twin cities and where we go from here
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Listening to this today and I think it really is a gem of an exploration. Even though I was there I’ll hear something @reallandsend.bsky.social or @annekosseffjones.bsky.social said and I’m nodding, like yeah that’s good stuff, great framing! And then there’s my own voice. Wild.
It was a lovely conversation ❤️
Really enjoyed this. I already knew how thoughtful and deeply informed @jonathanstegall.bsky.social is, but can report back that @reallandsend.bsky.social really does just open her mouth and speak in complete, theoretically sound units of brilliance like this; there's no editing magic at work.
The number of people detained by ICE rose by an astonishing 58% (25,200) between 2025 and 2026; expanded immigration detention accounts for virtually all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
"...a growing crowd linked arms and formed a human chain around the building. Activists appeared prepared to stay around the building for the long haul. One person brought a charcoal grill and began to roast hot dogs..."
Vermont Anti-ICE BBQ Commune enters the chat in South Burlington.
mayor jacob frey has vetoed the pause evictions, save lives bill the minneapolis city coucil approved that would've extended the eviction timeline from 30 days to 60 days temporarily to held families impacted by the ICE invasion catch up paying rent
Frey is taking all the wrong lessons away from the pandemic era eviction moratorium. Namely:
1. There is a presumption that all economic harms from 2020 are the result of one policy—not the crisis itself!
2. Instead of seeing an intervention as not enough, he’s assuming that it was too much.
Abolish ICE means Abolish the Police
📢 “Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police”
Support Phillys best autonomous social space! ORCA is having its second year fundraiser and you can win lots of amazing stuff through the raffles, including a copy of my upcoming book The Extended Universe! orcaphilly.noblogs.org/post/02/25/t...
I said to someone once that IDs are state violence and they looked at me like I’m a conspiracy nut and boy I wish I had this episode of Death Panel to support my clap back.
If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.
In our latest, we speak with Cassius Adair @cassiusa.bsky.social about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence
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oh shit it's out! I hope I sound smart
This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.
If you're curious about what it was like for trans people to be forced to access care through extra-conservative, cautious gender clinics OR obtain trans surgeries via medical travel to Southeast Asia, prior to 2010, read my book Mobile Subjects from 2018 www.dukeupress.edu/mobile-subje...
Hey Im really bad at self-promoting but The Extended Universe is out in a month and a half and if you havent pre-ordered it yet and want to support my work this is a really good way to do it!
about 30 people were arrested at whipple this morning for unlawful assembly, and many first hand reports say hennepin county sheriff's office were escalating. people were arrested when they were retreating, and people were knocked down by law enforcement
the war is not "aimless." It is corrupt, unjust and immoral.
Headed down to the emergency action in Times Square. NYC, join me! No to this war on Iran!
Death panel never misses
But it also requires excising a logic of “waste fraud and abuse” broadly, and not letting this kind of argumentation toward scarcity work in any political context, even and especially when dressed up as a putative attempt to “protect” programs for “people they’re designed to for”
We have an opportunity to make this backfire for them. In declaring a “War on Fraud” and echoing the language of war on drugs/terror, they’re mirroring language a lot of people already know is total bullshit
The reality is “waste fraud and abuse” in welfare comes from above—companies that profit off the neoliberal state formation. In his first term Trump himself issued pardons exonerating a slew of executives accused of billions in Medicare and Medicaid fraud
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“Waste, fraud and abuse” works to sell these policies because it’s the right’s version of a corruption narrative: corruption from below. Useless eaters, benefits cheats, the infamous “welfare queen”
