Artie Vierkant
@avierkant.bsky.social
Death Panel podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social
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wrote Health Communism (Verso, 2022) with Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social // forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket, 2027)
Minneapolis
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patreon.com/deathpanelpod
wrote Health Communism (Verso, 2022) with Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social // forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket, 2027)
Minneapolis
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A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
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February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
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Death Panel continues to be essential listening during these unprecedented times. Don’t let the law set the horizon of your political imagination.
In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal”
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Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
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February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Death Panel continues to be essential listening during these unprecedented times. Don’t let the law set the horizon of your political imagination.
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In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal”
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released December 1st for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pa
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February 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal”
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
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You notice how with elections liberals describe the left as simultaneously all-powerful and singularly decisive to the outcome, while also being pathetic idiots who don't understand the first thing about how the world actually works? That remind you of how anyone else describes another group of ppl?
i always love it when liberals critique me for being part of some leftist hive mind when like, I voted exclusively for Democrats. I told other people I thought it was best to vote for Democrats.
The Democrats lost. And they didn't lose because leftists refused to vote for them.
The Democrats lost. And they didn't lose because leftists refused to vote for them.
February 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
You notice how with elections liberals describe the left as simultaneously all-powerful and singularly decisive to the outcome, while also being pathetic idiots who don't understand the first thing about how the world actually works? That remind you of how anyone else describes another group of ppl?
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Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps.
There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral
There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral
February 6, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps.
There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral
There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral
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Appreciate that folks lift up the Panthers. Black groups pre-dating the Panthers were also doing community patrols. See one example here: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...
Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.
Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.
February 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Appreciate that folks lift up the Panthers. Black groups pre-dating the Panthers were also doing community patrols. See one example here: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...
Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.
Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.
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Listen to this!!!
In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal”
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released December 1st for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pa
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February 6, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Listen to this!!!
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We're all we've got. Best to spend time figuring out how to live into this truth.
February 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
We're all we've got. Best to spend time figuring out how to live into this truth.
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Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery.
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Against The Border Power
As I’ve mentioned while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it as something like slavery and...
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February 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery.
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
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so I spend up to 80% of the time I work on a story on research and reporting, which you don’t see but get evidence of in the published story—which is not unlike the ratio of political education, relationship building, and planning to the action you see that I’ve seen in organizing and movement work
February 5, 2026 at 12:42 AM
so I spend up to 80% of the time I work on a story on research and reporting, which you don’t see but get evidence of in the published story—which is not unlike the ratio of political education, relationship building, and planning to the action you see that I’ve seen in organizing and movement work
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Re-upping this episode today because it feels so resonant in a time of profound state violence against children and for anyone currently choosing how to talk to young people in their life about abolition
In today’s episode, after a brief introduction on children as a target of state violence by ICE, we speak with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social & Kim Wilson about care work and parenting as part of abolitionist practice and how we show up for each other in dark times
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We Grow the World Together w/ Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson | The Death Panel
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February 3, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Re-upping this episode today because it feels so resonant in a time of profound state violence against children and for anyone currently choosing how to talk to young people in their life about abolition
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Yes!!
Six Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, have been cleared of all charges over a break-in at Elbit.
Free the Filton 24! Shut down Elbit! Lift the ban on Pal Action!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Six Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, have been cleared of all charges over a break-in at Elbit.
Free the Filton 24! Shut down Elbit! Lift the ban on Pal Action!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site
None of the six activists were convicted of any offence over break-in at Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in 2024
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Yes!!
Six Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, have been cleared of all charges over a break-in at Elbit.
Free the Filton 24! Shut down Elbit! Lift the ban on Pal Action!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Six Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, have been cleared of all charges over a break-in at Elbit.
Free the Filton 24! Shut down Elbit! Lift the ban on Pal Action!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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We've paid 32 families rent today.
Thank you to the random one of you who paid like half of those.
Thank you to the random one of you who paid like half of those.
I said we were done asking for rent money. But today I heard the horrifying fact that there are zero family shelter beds in the entire state of Minnesota. So we are going to try something new.
We are going to do peer to peer funding. You take on urgent‼️ funding for one family. You send to them.
We are going to do peer to peer funding. You take on urgent‼️ funding for one family. You send to them.
February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
We've paid 32 families rent today.
Thank you to the random one of you who paid like half of those.
Thank you to the random one of you who paid like half of those.
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My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante
Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning
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February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
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One in Schulykill too, two concentration camps right outside Philadelphia
February 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
One in Schulykill too, two concentration camps right outside Philadelphia
From Health Communism: “The worker/surplus binary solidifies the idea that our lives under capitalism revolve around our work. Our selves, our worthiness, our entire being and right to live revolve around making our labor power available to the ruling class. …
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
From Health Communism: “The worker/surplus binary solidifies the idea that our lives under capitalism revolve around our work. Our selves, our worthiness, our entire being and right to live revolve around making our labor power available to the ruling class. …
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We've paid 12 families rents in less than two hours.
I will keep taking signal requests for people that want to do this because it's the first thing that is working pretty seamlessly.
I will keep taking signal requests for people that want to do this because it's the first thing that is working pretty seamlessly.
I said we were done asking for rent money. But today I heard the horrifying fact that there are zero family shelter beds in the entire state of Minnesota. So we are going to try something new.
We are going to do peer to peer funding. You take on urgent‼️ funding for one family. You send to them.
We are going to do peer to peer funding. You take on urgent‼️ funding for one family. You send to them.
February 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
We've paid 12 families rents in less than two hours.
I will keep taking signal requests for people that want to do this because it's the first thing that is working pretty seamlessly.
I will keep taking signal requests for people that want to do this because it's the first thing that is working pretty seamlessly.
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journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
February 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
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Every single Minnesotan I know risks death for doing an incredibly normal and legal thing, we do not tell our children this, we just keep doing it
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Every single Minnesotan I know risks death for doing an incredibly normal and legal thing, we do not tell our children this, we just keep doing it
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can’t not hear and see:
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
can’t not hear and see:
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Fighting fascism requires a realistic analysis of power and force. The right-wing shouldn't feel they can reward their killers and motivate others to kill for them without any consequences. I wrote about the importance of unrelenting actions for @prismreports.org.
prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...
prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...
Another way out: Power, force, and far-right rewards for killing
The far-right’s celebration of killing and the state’s complicity in it show that violence is one of America’s sustaining forces
prismreports.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Fighting fascism requires a realistic analysis of power and force. The right-wing shouldn't feel they can reward their killers and motivate others to kill for them without any consequences. I wrote about the importance of unrelenting actions for @prismreports.org.
prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...
prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...
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Become ungovernable
The free-roaming turkeys of Saint Paul, Minnesota:
- are enormous
- don’t know where they’re going
- have no plans or motivations
- don’t understand roads
- or anything at all, really
- are enormous
- don’t know where they’re going
- have no plans or motivations
- don’t understand roads
- or anything at all, really
February 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Become ungovernable
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there was a campaign in early 2020 called “free them all for public health” that demand hasn’t stopped being necessary and it is only more so now
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
there was a campaign in early 2020 called “free them all for public health” that demand hasn’t stopped being necessary and it is only more so now
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It’s like you’re almost there, but the correct answer is “abolish ICE and let everyone go” not increase funding to DHS via the carceral medical industrial complex. @victorialaw.bsky.social’s ground breaking book Corridors of Contagion should be required reading
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
It’s like you’re almost there, but the correct answer is “abolish ICE and let everyone go” not increase funding to DHS via the carceral medical industrial complex. @victorialaw.bsky.social’s ground breaking book Corridors of Contagion should be required reading
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heartbreaking to see public health people people get as far as “ICE detention is a driver of disease” only to call for increased funding for ICE medical services not “free them all for public health”
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
heartbreaking to see public health people people get as far as “ICE detention is a driver of disease” only to call for increased funding for ICE medical services not “free them all for public health”