Artie Vierkant
@avierkant.bsky.social
Death Panel podcast, wrote Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton
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In our latest, we discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike next year and how the structure of the ACA itself ensures we’re going to relive moments like the shutdown fight until we can replace it with something fundamentally better
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The ACA and the Looming Healthcare Crisis (11/24/25) | The Death Panel
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November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
In our latest, we discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike next year and how the structure of the ACA itself ensures we’re going to relive moments like the shutdown fight until we can replace it with something fundamentally better
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The abruptly surrendered shutdown fight shows “the ACA predictably failing, under predictable pressures” (@reallandsend.bsky.social) and begs the question “What exactly are you defending when you defend the ACA?” (@philiprocco.bsky.social)
In our latest, we discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike next year and how the structure of the ACA itself ensures we’re going to relive moments like the shutdown fight until we can replace it with something fundamentally better
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The ACA and the Looming Healthcare Crisis (11/24/25) | The Death Panel
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November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The abruptly surrendered shutdown fight shows “the ACA predictably failing, under predictable pressures” (@reallandsend.bsky.social) and begs the question “What exactly are you defending when you defend the ACA?” (@philiprocco.bsky.social)
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Incredible thread. Was also struck by this part of the @deathpanel.bsky.social Tribute to Alice @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and Leslie @leslieleeiii.bsky.social:
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Incredible thread. Was also struck by this part of the @deathpanel.bsky.social Tribute to Alice @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and Leslie @leslieleeiii.bsky.social:
Block It! A Mini Toolkit for Interrupting the Abduction, Detention, and Deportation Machine, from @interruptcrim.bsky.social
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Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
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November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Block It! A Mini Toolkit for Interrupting the Abduction, Detention, and Deportation Machine, from @interruptcrim.bsky.social
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Now unlocked: against a backdrop of the Trump administration’s attempted occupation of Chicago, we speak with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social about holding together in times of rising fascism and her new edited collection Read This When Things Fall Apart
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When Things Fall Apart w/ Kelly Hayes (Unlocked)
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November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Now unlocked: against a backdrop of the Trump administration’s attempted occupation of Chicago, we speak with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social about holding together in times of rising fascism and her new edited collection Read This When Things Fall Apart
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New @cmmonwealth.bsky.social paper from me on Medicaid’s political economy and the battle ahead.
Millions are to be kicked off of Medicaid.
Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
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Millions will see healthcare costs skyrocket as ACA subsidies expire.
In 2028, we must fight for universal healthcare.
Where should we concentrate efforts to build up working class power to advance this cause?
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Medicaid and the Struggle for Universal Health Care in the Trump Aftermath
How can organizers leverage the contradictions of Medicaid to build a movement for Universal Healthcare?
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November 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
New @cmmonwealth.bsky.social paper from me on Medicaid’s political economy and the battle ahead.
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To honor Alice—and all our disability ancestors—is to keep building that connective tissue she described. To love fiercely, politically, on purpose. To ensure the filaments they left behind continue to glow in us, and through us, long after the world has forgotten their names. We won’t.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
To honor Alice—and all our disability ancestors—is to keep building that connective tissue she described. To love fiercely, politically, on purpose. To ensure the filaments they left behind continue to glow in us, and through us, long after the world has forgotten their names. We won’t.
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Alice helped us see that legacy as ballast. A grounding force. A reminder that none of us are doing this alone, and none of us ever were. The future we fight for is stitched together with the lessons and loves of those who came before.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice helped us see that legacy as ballast. A grounding force. A reminder that none of us are doing this alone, and none of us ever were. The future we fight for is stitched together with the lessons and loves of those who came before.
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Disability ancestors aren’t gone; they accompany us. In our organizing, in mutual aid, in the awkward joy of surviving another day that wasn’t designed for us. They’re in every access met, every gentle reminder to slow down, every firm refusal to abandon one another.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Disability ancestors aren’t gone; they accompany us. In our organizing, in mutual aid, in the awkward joy of surviving another day that wasn’t designed for us. They’re in every access met, every gentle reminder to slow down, every firm refusal to abandon one another.
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Her work was a reminder that memory is not passive. It’s an active practice of tending to the filaments she described—those blazing threads that glow warm with the people who shaped us. To tend them is to extend them. To extend them is to refuse the isolation the system relies on.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Her work was a reminder that memory is not passive. It’s an active practice of tending to the filaments she described—those blazing threads that glow warm with the people who shaped us. To tend them is to extend them. To extend them is to refuse the isolation the system relies on.
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When we talk about disability ancestors, we’re not talking about some distant, abstract lineage. We’re talking about people who fought, organized, wrote, dreamed, and survived alongside us. People who left us tools, strategies, jokes, tenderness, and a politic were responsible for carrying forward.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
When we talk about disability ancestors, we’re not talking about some distant, abstract lineage. We’re talking about people who fought, organized, wrote, dreamed, and survived alongside us. People who left us tools, strategies, jokes, tenderness, and a politic were responsible for carrying forward.
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In disability communities, grief isn’t episodic. It’s cumulative. It layers. It reverberates. We lose people who should’ve had decades more time—because the world is engineered to wear us down. And yet, in that same world, disabled people keep building life with one another anyway.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
In disability communities, grief isn’t episodic. It’s cumulative. It layers. It reverberates. We lose people who should’ve had decades more time—because the world is engineered to wear us down. And yet, in that same world, disabled people keep building life with one another anyway.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.
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Alice leaves behind a body of work that will continue to shape movements for decades. But more importantly, she leaves behind communities and relationships she helped build and nurture—relations that will carry her clarity, her defiance, and her tenderness forward.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice leaves behind a body of work that will continue to shape movements for decades. But more importantly, she leaves behind communities and relationships she helped build and nurture—relations that will carry her clarity, her defiance, and her tenderness forward.
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Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
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Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
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Here are the words she left behind:
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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.
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Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
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Oh, my god. This is such a loss. Alice was a wonderful person who did so much to advance the cause of disability justice. The world is a much better place because she was here.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Oh, my god. This is such a loss. Alice was a wonderful person who did so much to advance the cause of disability justice. The world is a much better place because she was here.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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I’m heartbroken at the loss of Leslie & for YB who he loved deeply & fiercely. For seven years, I had the privilege of knowing him—his mind, his humor, his boundless creativity, & unflinching political clarity. The world is immeasurably poorer without his voice. All gfm will cover funeral & expenses
I've been struggling with Long COVID for about three years. I'm seeking support to access new treatments and daily maintenance. Please consider donating or sharing. Every bit helps, and thank you all so much for the support. It has meant the world to me. gofund.me/d0a10512b
Donate to Support Leslie Lee III's Long COVID Recovery, organized by Leslie Lee III
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November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m heartbroken at the loss of Leslie & for YB who he loved deeply & fiercely. For seven years, I had the privilege of knowing him—his mind, his humor, his boundless creativity, & unflinching political clarity. The world is immeasurably poorer without his voice. All gfm will cover funeral & expenses
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Louisiana’s Medicaid program stopped covering trans care. So Trans Income Project stepped in to become the defacto “payer” for that care at one key clinic in the state. Today we hear how and why the project came to be:
In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid
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November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I donate to this project monthly. If you are in a position to do so, please monetarily support trans lives.
Louisiana’s Medicaid program stopped covering trans care. So Trans Income Project stepped in to become the defacto “payer” for that care at one key clinic in the state. Today we hear how and why the project came to be:
In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid
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An Oral History of Trans Income Project w/ Natalie Rupp (11/13/25)
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Louisiana’s Medicaid program stopped covering trans care. So Trans Income Project stepped in to become the defacto “payer” for that care at one key clinic in the state. Today we hear how and why the project came to be: