Artie Vierkant
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avierkant.bsky.social
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant.bsky.social
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)

Minneapolis

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it is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day
February 5, 2026 at 3:52 AM
student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities
February 5, 2026 at 3:12 AM
here or where all good piracy is to be had
Health Communism
Check out Health Communism - <b>A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast &ldquo;Death Panel&rdquo; </b><br><br>In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, ...
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February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
“This has not only justified organized state abandonment and enforced the poverty of the poor, sick, elderly, working class, and disabled; it has tied the fundamental idea of the safety and survival of humanity to exploitation.”
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“The political economy demands that we maintain our health to make our labor power fully available, lest we be marked and doomed as surplus. The surplus is then turned into raw fuel to extract profits, through rehabilitation, medicalization, and the financialization of health. …
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
lmao
February 4, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Artie Vierkant
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
Reposted by Artie Vierkant
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