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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 23d

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 · 23d

Episode teaser here:

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Teaser - Beyond Do No Harm w/ Andrea Ritchie (09/15/25)

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/138979001 Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about why it’s now more important than ever f

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 29d

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 29d

happy birthday to @avierkant.bsky.social my partner and collaborator in basically everything—cohost, coauthor, and now coparent. grateful every day to be in this messy, beautiful struggle of life together 🖤

Artie holding baby Death Panel on his lap and feeding them milks in a bottle. The baby is wearing a spotted hat with dog ears and blue overalls.

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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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Dead Kennedys (09/08/25) | The Death Panel

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 8

A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Sep 8

Offline for a health thing. Please share. Yall have helped six families with food and shelter for 18 straight weeks.

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

You present yourself as ally, but in practice you are a gatekeeper, policing the boundaries of what counts as “reasonable” or “possible.” You betray the very people you claim to defend, substituting your paternalistic judgment for their lived knowledge & right to dream freely of a different world.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you don’t, then you are exactly who Freire was warning us about—someone who speaks of the people, but does not trust them. You may borrow their language & struggles, even drape yourself in the aesthetics of solidarity, but beneath it all lies a deep suspicion of our capacity to think and act.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

Family abolition doesn’t impose anything from above—it names and elevates what’s already being lived below. The question, then, isn’t whether family abolition is “too radical.” The real question is: do you trust the people? Do you believe in their desires, ingenuity, and will to build new futures?

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

Freire insists that trust in the people is the foundation of liberation. Without it, every gesture becomes paternalism dressed up as realism. And this is what the critics of family abolition cannot admit: that the people are already working out, in practice, new forms of kinship and survival.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

But if you actually listen—to parents exhausted by isolation, to disabled people forced to rely on families that cannot meet their needs, to children who long for stability and connection beyond what their households can give—you hear a demand for more care, not less. You hear abolition.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

To clutch your pearls at family abolition and say that the problem is that the people will turn against leftist movements because of it is to assume the people are naïve, in need of correction, incapable of dreaming outside the prescribed lines set for them by the oppressor class.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

When pundits defend the family form as if it were timeless/sacred, they reveal lack of faith in the ppl’s capacity to create something different, better. They cling to the idea that safety can only exist inside a unit sanctioned by the state, rather than in the solidarities ppl themselves generate.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

The nuclear family, as we know it, has always been a political project. It was constructed and reinforced under capitalism to contain care within private households, to naturalize women’s unpaid labor, and to offload the failures of the state onto individuals.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

Because if they trusted the people—parents, caregivers, children, the working class in all its forms—they would see that family abolition is about honoring what people are already building: mutual aid, chosen family, kinship structures that refuse to let anyone be abandoned.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

Critics of family abolition who reduce it to mere slogan & warn that people will not accept it (while ignoring the real political desires/practices of the ppl) posture as if they’re defending ordinary people against “academic extremism,” but what they’re really doing is exposing their own distrust.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

The self-appointed managers of the masses valorize the oppressed in the abstract, but when it comes to listening to their real desires, their real strategies, their real visions for the future—they recoil. That is exactly the dynamic at play when left pundits sneer at family abolition.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 7

There’s a passage in Pedagogy of the Oppressed that feels directly relevant to the way some people wag their tongues about “family abolition.” Freire warns about the oppressor-convert: the one who claims to speak for the people but cannot bring themselves to actually trust the people 🪡

Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Jul 18

Family abolition is about ending the state’s exploitation of family as a stand-in for public infrastructure. No housing? Rely on family. No healthcare? Family. No safety net? Family. The neoliberal family formation is privately subsidized state abandonment dressed with a sentimental smokescreen.

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · Sep 7

Re-upping this awesome thread on family abolition by Beatrice❤️
It (the discussion abt family abolition and so on) has genuinely renewed my understanding/vision of communism!

Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Jul 18

Abolition. Family abolition. Health communism. These aren’t fringe fever dreams of an anti-child too-radical left. They’re traditions specifically rooted in care, survival & futurity. They ask: what would it take for everyone (especially kids) to actually live a good secure life, not just scrape by?

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Sep 2

From Sameer Project, Sept. 1:

"Palestinians in Gaza are getting kidney diseases due to lack of water. Dehydration cases in hospitals are a daily occurrence. Support: chuffed.org/project/help...

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yglesias has the political imagination of a spreadsheet and the intellectual depth of a shallow bowl of skim milk 🙃

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is the Yglesias worldview in miniature: US funding mass death abroad & deadly austerity at home—but the real crisis is a post or two calling a Biden/Harris/Clinton voter a fascist. Liberal technocracy is a class project…protecting empire by laundering violence through appeals for “moderation.”

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · Sep 2

I would define Blueskyism as the habit of looking at a Clinton / Biden / Harris voter who happens to be somewhat more moderate than the poster on certain issues and deciding that person should be loudly condemned as a fascist and shunned.

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Ofurhe @ofurhe.bsky.social · Aug 30

In which @reallandsend.bsky.social schools us on the ‘hypothetical blind man’ and the work of Georgina Kleege.
Sending me deep into some googles, loving it

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)

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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · Sep 2

What does it mean to invoke the right to health without accounting for conditions of sustained persistent, overwhelming and abiding terror and violence? - Dr Danya Qato
Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Oct 11

Today we’re re-releasing our conversation with @danyaqato from last year on the intersection of colonial occupation and the pandemic in Palestine, alongside a brand new full transcript. New episode still coming tomorrow. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Public Health and Palestine w/ Danya Qato

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 22nd 2022, and we are re-releasing it today alongside a new transcript of the conversation. (This is in addition to our regular s

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