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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 4d

hello, my reading group for Workshops4Gaza is starting a new book: "Health Communism" by @avierkant.bsky.social and @reallandsend.bsky.social

please buy the book ASAP (or get it *some other way*, and try to support Palestinians however you can)

Reading Group (Thought Soup) - Health Communism

Hi everyone, welcome to a new book. For the next few weeks, we're going to be reading Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Support...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

The convo we had with Beatrice @deathpanel.bsky.social clarifies how we understand universities in the imperial core and contextualizes our call for boycott of conferences like the Association for Asian American Studies next in occupied Hawai'i. (we see you too, ASA in PR!)

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

We are calling on ppl to boycott colonial conferences and institutions that normalize settler colonialism in Palestine and beyond, and to donate their resources instead. open.substack.com/pub/workshop...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for getting that ours is a political project, for which supporting Palestinian mutual aid work in Gaza AND freeing political prisoners in Palestine and the imperial core are inextricably linked.

We plan to continue working until liberation, which isn’t granted by colonizers, but is won.

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 2d

In our latest, we speak with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social about their work redirecting funds to keep people alive in Palestine, the need to stand up to free the movement’s political prisoners, and more

on.soundcloud.com/NNw9iO7ABgX9...

Workshops for Gaza

Note: This episode was originally released October 6th for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Bea

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 2d

Transcript for our episode with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social here:

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Workshops for Gaza (10/06/25) | Death Panel Podcast

Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with “L,” “B” and Rosa from Workshops for Gaza about their work trying to redirect funds to keep people alive in Palestine, the importance of surv...

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 2d

In our latest, we speak with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social about their work redirecting funds to keep people alive in Palestine, the need to stand up to free the movement’s political prisoners, and more

on.soundcloud.com/NNw9iO7ABgX9...

Workshops for Gaza

Note: This episode was originally released October 6th for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Bea

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 4d

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[W4G] Adler-Bolton, Beatrice & Artie Vierkant: Health Communism

Verso, paperback Publication Date: July 29, 2025 Publisher Marketing:A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast "Death Panel" In this fiery, theoretical t...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 4d

More on this soon, but join @deathpanel.bsky.social Patreon for early access to the podcast we recorded with them recently 💕

Support Sameer Project by getting Beatrice and Artie's Health Communism from our curated online bookstore (which we discuss in the episode).
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nafis @cannafis.bsky.social · 10d

@deathpanel.bsky.social
and Health Communism have been essential in shaping my understanding of sickness under capitalism. An honor to be able to talk about my book on this podcast!

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 11d

In our latest, we speak with Nafis Hasan @cannafis.bsky.social about how cancer research priorities were shifted from environmental and industrial exposures to theories about individual genetic susceptibility, and his book Metastasis

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Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care w/ Nafis Hasan (09/29/25) | The Death Panel

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 11d

In our latest, we speak with Nafis Hasan @cannafis.bsky.social about how cancer research priorities were shifted from environmental and industrial exposures to theories about individual genetic susceptibility, and his book Metastasis

www.patreon.com/posts/140036...

Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care w/ Nafis Hasan (09/29/25) | The Death Panel

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 11d

First 20min here:

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Teaser - Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care w/ Nafis Hasan (09/29/25)

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140036403 Beatrice speaks with Nafis Hasan about how cancer research priorities shifted fro

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 25d

In our latest, @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people the care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm

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Beyond Do No Harm w/ Andrea Ritchie (09/15/25) | The Death Panel

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Sep 8

In our latest, we break down the Trump administration's latest attacks on covid vaccines, key moments from RFK's Senate testimony last week, and why calls to force RFK out of HHS need to include removing many of the figures he's managed to bring in with him

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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now unlocked: we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice

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Not Your Rescue Project w/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam (Unlocked)

Note: This episode was originally released August 11th 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

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reprolegalfund @reprolegalfund.bsky.social · Aug 28

Listen.

Then do.

The bare minimum is to refuse, reject, and upend a status quo that renders Palestinians as disposable and deserving of premature death.

Support direct aid: linktr.ee/thesameerproject, lifeline4gaza.com, mogaza.org/campaign/2
Disrupt, boycott, pressure, act: tinyurl.com/USCPRAct

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Aug 28

In our latest, we discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in Gaza—and genocide deaths themselves—can be invalidated by showing that the victims had “pre-existing conditions” or “underlying health conditions”

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Can the Subaltern Starve? (08/28/25)

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Artie discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Aug 28

In our latest, we discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in Gaza—and genocide deaths themselves—can be invalidated by showing that the victims had “pre-existing conditions” or “underlying health conditions”

soundcloud.com/deathpanel/c...

Can the Subaltern Starve? (08/28/25)

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Artie discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Aug 28

In our latest, we discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in Gaza—and genocide deaths themselves—can be invalidated by showing that the victims had “pre-existing conditions” or “underlying health conditions”

soundcloud.com/deathpanel/c...

Can the Subaltern Starve? (08/28/25)

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Artie discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Aug 25

In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social & @city.bsky.social speak with @rebeccaburns.bsky.social about how Trump’s threats to invade cities to combat “endemic vagrancy” echo the policies of the Cicero Institute, a right wing think tank run by a co-founder of Palantir
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The Cicero Institute and the Making of the Fascist City w/ Rebecca Burns (08/25/25) | The Death Panel

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · Aug 26

What do Trump’s threats to “invade” cities & expand encampment sweeps have to do with Palantir-linked think tank the Cicero Institute?

On the @deathpanel.bsky.social podcast, In These Times investigative reporter @rebeccaburns.bsky.social breaks it down.

🎧 Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/137338...

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Aug 25

First ~20min here:

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Teaser - The Cicero Institute and the Making of the Fascist City w/ Rebecca Burns (08/25/25)

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/137338165 Beatrice and Tracy speak with journalist Rebecca Burns about how Trump’s takeover

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Aug 25

Patrons keep Death Panel alive. Every contribution goes directly into making and sustaining the show—time, labor, research, production, hosting costs. At least 100 hours of work go into each episode. If you can spare it and want Death Panel to keep going, join us: patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Aug 25

If Death Panel has given you new ways to think, language for your politics, or a sense of solidarity in hard times, consider becoming a patron. That support is what keeps us going 🖤

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Aug 4

In our latest, we discuss a new Trump executive order that threatens to dramatically expand involuntary psychiatric commitment, criminalize harm reduction, and make it easier to disappear people off the streets, allegedly in the name of “compassion”

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Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions (08/04/25) | The Death Panel

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~ @asynchronia.bsky.social · Aug 19

The handling of yellow fever in New Orleans is one of the most illuminating and specific case studies relevant to the 2021-present moment one can find in recent annals of history

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Aug 19

In today’s episode, we revisit our discussion with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that shaped it

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Immunocapitalism w/ Kathryn Olivarius (Re-Air) | The Death Panel

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Aug 19

In today’s episode, we revisit our discussion with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that shaped it

www.patreon.com/posts/136779...

Immunocapitalism w/ Kathryn Olivarius (Re-Air) | The Death Panel

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · Aug 18

What if healthcare weren’t a job perk or a profit scheme, but a human right?

That’s the vision of Health Communism. A 🧵1/4

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Definition of "health communism" as a noun, described as a framework that separates healthcare from profit, productivity, and judgments of worthiness.

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