Artie Vierkant

It was a lovely conversation ❤️

Really enjoyed this. I already knew how thoughtful and deeply informed @jonathanstegall.bsky.social is, but can report back that @reallandsend.bsky.social really does just open her mouth and speak in complete, theoretically sound units of brilliance like this; there's no editing magic at work.

Minneapolis Spring, the 2020 Uprisings and Beyond w/ Jonathan Stegall & Anne Kosseff-Jones (03/12/26) Beatrice speaks with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall and Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the last few months of anti-ICE organizing and mutual aid work in Minnesota built directly on the foundati

In our latest, we speak with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall & Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the 2020 uprisings laid the groundwork for the last few months of anti-ICE action in the twin cities and where we go from here

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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2026 The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why

The number of people detained by ICE rose by an astonishing 58% (25,200) between 2025 and 2026; expanded immigration detention accounts for virtually all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

South Burlington, VT supplies assembled during defense of neighbor from ICE.

People lock arms in front of house in South Burlington, VT, as community members mobilize in defense of neighbor against ICE.

"...a growing crowd linked arms and formed a human chain around the building. Activists appeared prepared to stay around the building for the long haul. One person brought a charcoal grill and began to roast hot dogs..."

Vermont Anti-ICE BBQ Commune enters the chat in South Burlington.

Teaser - Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152641029 Beatrice speaks with Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie about how we should understa

First ~20min here:

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Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police

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March 11, 2026 Minneapolis City Council 350 South 5th Street Room 370 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Council President Payne, Council Vice President Osman and Council Members: This letter is to inform you that I have vetoed Ordinance No. 2026-002 to extend the pre-eviction notice for renters to 60 days. I understand the authors’ intent, but the experience from COVID-19 and guidance from shelter and affordable housing providers shows that this strategy has not worked. We have heard over and over again from shelter and affordable housing providers that longer timelines produce worse outcomes for residents. In their words, when rental assistance isn’t available, time is a debt trap that becomes a barrier to securing future housing. I heard a call for more financial assistance, and I believe that is the best path forward. Rental assistance is working and getting to renters quickly – rent collections are better in 2026 than 2025. That’s why I’m proposing to spend $1 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund for emergency rental assistance administered through Hennepin County. While a 60-day pre-eviction notice period sounds good, there is no data to show that it does good. Pandemic era eviction moratorium allowed many renters to accumulate huge amounts of debt that they are still paying off today. When property owners carry the losses, the housing system experiences upward pressure on rents to replenish reserves, catch up on missed mortgage, insurance, utility, payroll, and property tax payments, and cover increased costs associated with deferred maintenance. I believe most landlords are working with tenants to develop payment plans and access rental assistance. But for bad actors, I worry that the proposal gives them reasons to report tenants to ICE or use minor lease violationswhich don’t require as much notice and are harder to expunge – to evict tenants. We will continue to monitor the data. If something substantially changes, I am committed to working with the City…

mayor jacob frey has vetoed the pause evictions, save lives bill the minneapolis city coucil approved that would've extended the eviction timeline from 30 days to 60 days temporarily to held families impacted by the ICE invasion catch up paying rent

Frey is taking all the wrong lessons away from the pandemic era eviction moratorium. Namely:

1. There is a presumption that all economic harms from 2020 are the result of one policy—not the crisis itself!

2. Instead of seeing an intervention as not enough, he’s assuming that it was too much.

Abolish ICE means Abolish the Police

📢 “Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police”

Support Phillys best autonomous social space! ORCA is having its second year fundraiser and you can win lots of amazing stuff through the raffles, including a copy of my upcoming book The Extended Universe! orcaphilly.noblogs.org/post/02/25/t...

I said to someone once that IDs are state violence and they looked at me like I’m a conspiracy nut and boy I wish I had this episode of Death Panel to support my clap back.

If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.

Wall Street Journal: “Prasad, who had left the University of California, San Francisco, to join the FDA, had intended to remain at the agency only as long as his one-year leave of absence from his university, Makary said in an interview.”

The Simpsons George Bush Sr. joke: “And since I'd achieved all of my goals as President in one term there was no need for a second.”

Kansas and the History of State Identification as Administrative Violence w/ Cassius Adair (03/03/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, we speak with Cassius Adair @cassiusa.bsky.social about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence

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oh shit it's out! I hope I sound smart

Teaser - Kansas and the History of State Identification as Administrative Violence w/ Cassius Adair (03/03/26) Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152164375 Beatrice speaks with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people

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This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

If you're curious about what it was like for trans people to be forced to access care through extra-conservative, cautious gender clinics OR obtain trans surgeries via medical travel to Southeast Asia, prior to 2010, read my book Mobile Subjects from 2018 www.dukeupress.edu/mobile-subje...

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

Hey Im really bad at self-promoting but The Extended Universe is out in a month and a half and if you havent pre-ordered it yet and want to support my work this is a really good way to do it!

about 30 people were arrested at whipple this morning for unlawful assembly, and many first hand reports say hennepin county sheriff's office were escalating. people were arrested when they were retreating, and people were knocked down by law enforcement

the war is not "aimless." It is corrupt, unjust and immoral.

Headed down to the emergency action in Times Square. NYC, join me! No to this war on Iran!

Death panel never misses

But it also requires excising a logic of “waste fraud and abuse” broadly, and not letting this kind of argumentation toward scarcity work in any political context, even and especially when dressed up as a putative attempt to “protect” programs for “people they’re designed to for”

We have an opportunity to make this backfire for them. In declaring a “War on Fraud” and echoing the language of war on drugs/terror, they’re mirroring language a lot of people already know is total bullshit

Trump’s Pardons Included Health Care Execs Behind Massive Frauds - KFF Health News Those walking away free were facing years in prison for crimes of “unbounded greed.”

The reality is “waste fraud and abuse” in welfare comes from above—companies that profit off the neoliberal state formation. In his first term Trump himself issued pardons exonerating a slew of executives accused of billions in Medicare and Medicaid fraud

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“Waste, fraud and abuse” works to sell these policies because it’s the right’s version of a corruption narrative: corruption from below. Useless eaters, benefits cheats, the infamous “welfare queen”

This is the central governing logic of the Trump administration from DOGE to ICE occupations: stir resentment, allege malfeasance, attempt to crack down in the way they already intended to do anyway