Death Panel

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/55839379 Beatrice speaks with Charlotte Shane about the Texas abortion ban and why a politics that stops at "access" and "choice" is insufficient to meet the needs of the moment. Read Charlotte's piece "Stop Being Stupid About Abortion" here: https://www.gawker.com/politics/stop-being-stupid-about-abortion Charlotte Shane is the author of Prostitute Laundry, and a co-founder of TigerBee Press. Follow her on twitter @CharoShane. Runtime 1:02:55, 7 September 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/55537032 We discuss the Supreme Court's move to strike down the eviction moratorium, the state of rent relief programs in Louisiana following Hurricane Ida, and read from the court's memorable, if bizarre, written decision. Runtime 1:03:19, 30 August 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/55253198 We discuss reporting from over the weekend that Abbott Laboratories, makers of a widely used covid test, systematically destroyed hundreds of thousands of tests; new details on the prevalence of consulting groups in the White House and in state public health responses; and how to make it look like you're responding to a pandemic when you're going about business as usual. Runtime 1:22:55, 23 August 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/54980742 (Teaser) We discuss the FDA and CDC's decision last week on booster vaccine doses for immunocompromised people, the state of the pandemic, and of course: the resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Runtime 1:07:31, 16 August 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/54439324 (Teaser) We discuss the expiration of the eviction moratorium and what the leaked internal CDC presentation tells us about the delta variant and the next few months of the pandemic. Runtime 1:13:21, 2 August 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/54144257 (Teaser) We mark the occasion of Jeff Bezos' spaceflight with a look at the last few decades of increasingly pro-capitalist space policies that made it possible, and the lobbying efforts of the so called "NewSpace" movement that won them. Runtime 1:19:32, 26 July 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/53875622 (Teaser) We discuss the Biden administration's new line that we have a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" fueled by "the disinformation dozen," and how to understand the rise in covid cases. Then we take a closer look at New York City's attempt to rapidly expel unhoused people from midtown hotels. Runtime 1:02:06, 19 July 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/53570806/ (Teaser) We discuss the CDC's latest guidance change for fall school reopening and the implications of Pfizer's lawsuit to get around a long-established drug pricing norm. But first, we break out the calipers to look at one research team's quest to determine whether certain genetic traits made some people more susceptible to covid than others. Runtime 1:06:19, 12 July 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/53339178 (Teaser) We take advantage of the holiday weekend to survey the extremely messy history that led to the passage of original Medicare, the role private insurers and other industry groups played in its creation, and some of its unintended consequences we live with to this day. Runtime 1:16:49, 5 July 2021 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/52967262/ (Teaser) We discuss Britney Spears' testimony from last week over her conservatorship and what so much of the public debate around it has missed. Runtime 1:15:24, 28 June 2021 🧬