Artie Vierkant

This afternoon, as Trump prepares to sign the GOP murder bill into law, @realLandsEnd & I spoke alongside Vicky Osterweil at @socialismconf about the bill and the fight for health & disability justice under the current regime. Here are Bea and I’s remarks: blindarchive.substack.com/p/where-is-the…

We also get into the longer history of the Everglades which the Trump admin is portraying as empty wastes, the role of settler colonialism in shaping who is made disposable, and how environmental disaster and carceral expansion are being fused into a single governing logic.

A devastatingly important book, for both my own thinking + to assign to students. Purchase from @Workshops4Gaza to support @sameerproject

If you’re planning to get the new Health Communism paperback, please get it here & add an additional donation to @sameerproject if you can! 👇

Health Communism is now in our bookstore and all proceeds will go to the @sameerproject …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-a…

Just few days ago kitchens were warning us that they’ll run out and we were expecting prices to go up further but instead Gaza ran out of rice completely. Up to this point, amount of rice given out was according to the amount available on the day. Donate: chuffed.org/project/help-u……

Why is it so hard to imagine a world where care is free, universal & unconditional? Because the current system teaches us that care must be earned, health is a private matter, and dependence is failure. Health Communism traces the roots of that lie and how people have fought it.

Water distributions by the Sameer Project continue. We did 215,000 liters in the South of Gaza with @Reviving_gaza over 10 days that ended today. The Reviving Gaza team distributed 20,000 liters a day for 10 days and finally today did an additional 15,000 liters in Khan Younis…

This is an excellent discussion! I especially loved the attention to the physical & conceptual landscape of the concentration camp: its place in the Everglades, the spectral terror of alligators. I would add one thing to the framework that @realLandsEnd & @melissagira use here:

On this week’s patron episode of Death Panel, I talk with @melissagira about her recent reporting on the new ICE camp just opened in the Everglades, and how it fits into a longer story of racialized detention, carceral infrastructure, and the theatrical production of cruelty.

“It’s not just a symbol, it’s a threat; it’s an echo of every settler fantasy, every white supremacist dream that imagines the land itself as a weapon against the people that they want to disappear” — @realLandsEnd

First ~20min here: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/tea…

In our latest, @melissagira joins to discuss “Alligator Alcatraz”: what it means under swelling ICE budgets, how it reflects a fascist fantasy of the landscape itself as an arm of carceral enforcement, and the long history of resistance on the same land patreon.com/posts/134133903

New Episode of @DeathPanel_ —Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution w/ Karen Tani and Katie Eyer (Unlocked) ift.tt/31SzkcU

the way COVID, policing/incarceration and genocide overlap is not abstract. the people most targeted by state violence are also most at risk from the worst COVID outcomes and that's not a coincidence. there's real harm in treating these as disparate struggles fought separately.

Where is the site of struggle in healthcare? What the fight for health communism looks like under the current regime, and what strategies may help us move forward blindarchive.substack.com/p/where-is-the…

The total required cuts to Medicare as a result of this bill is $490 billion over the next 10 years.

New Episode of @DeathPanel_ —There Is No Place For Us w/ Brian Goldstone (Unlocked) ift.tt/SsvnGT4