Scene on Radio
@sceneonradio.bsky.social
2-time Peabody-nominated podcast made and hosted by John Biewen with collaborators, from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke U. and PRX.
Season 7: CAPITALISM, on its history and how we might do better.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/KeepingScOR
Season 7: CAPITALISM, on its history and how we might do better.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/KeepingScOR
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· Dec 11
New in your feed: Capitalism bonus episode, taped live at Motorco Music Hall -- with @emcg.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, live audience members, and Camryn Smith and Courtney Smith of Communities in Partnership. Post-Season 7 and post-election, can we find hope and a way forward? @prx.org
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They sang “American Idiot”
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
A rocking start to the Super Bowl.
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February 8, 2026 at 11:35 PM
They sang “American Idiot”
In honor of February, I'm going to recommend this podcast by @sceneonradio.bsky.social for making me aware of just of how whiteness has driven the Black and Indigenous experience in America.
It is what allowed me to understand Baldwin, Lourde, hooks, Crenshaw...
sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
It is what allowed me to understand Baldwin, Lourde, hooks, Crenshaw...
sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
Seeing White
Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity pol
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February 2, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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I didn't say it. The Germans did.
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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Opinion | While the end of NATO would be tragic, it's a price that must be paid so I can win my next Republican primary.
January 20, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Opinion | While the end of NATO would be tragic, it's a price that must be paid so I can win my next Republican primary.
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Related: This episode of Season 4 of the @sceneonradio.bsky.social podcast titled "American Empire." Essential listening on this topic.
S4 E9: American Empire
“America” and “empire.” Do those words go together? If so, what kind of imperialism does the U.S. practice, and how has American empire changed over time? By host and producer J
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January 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Related: This episode of Season 4 of the @sceneonradio.bsky.social podcast titled "American Empire." Essential listening on this topic.
Hey, I wrote a post about the bleak start to this new year, about one year of Keeping ScOR, and about some of the media response to the Venezuela invasion.
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New Year's Devolution: Keeping ScOR #19
As of this month it’s been one year of Keeping ScOR. I wasn’t sure what this newsletter would be when I birthed it at the start of 2025. I only knew I wanted...
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January 12, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Hey, I wrote a post about the bleak start to this new year, about one year of Keeping ScOR, and about some of the media response to the Venezuela invasion.
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
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"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know
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About 230 male and female medical students from Gaza’s various colleges of medicine held a graduation ceremony in front of the ruins of the Al‑Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City on Saturday. The event was organized by Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Video: Abdulruhman Ismail via X (@a_abdulruhman)
Video: Abdulruhman Ismail via X (@a_abdulruhman)
January 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
About 230 male and female medical students from Gaza’s various colleges of medicine held a graduation ceremony in front of the ruins of the Al‑Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City on Saturday. The event was organized by Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Video: Abdulruhman Ismail via X (@a_abdulruhman)
Video: Abdulruhman Ismail via X (@a_abdulruhman)
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"None of these stories of 'apologizing for being white' involved any apology for being white, by the way—or any apology at all. The act of other people bringing awareness to what whiteness does is deemed a de facto apology for whiteness—and an obvious aggression." www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
www.the-reframe.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
"None of these stories of 'apologizing for being white' involved any apology for being white, by the way—or any apology at all. The act of other people bringing awareness to what whiteness does is deemed a de facto apology for whiteness—and an obvious aggression." www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
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"The USPS posted a $9 billion loss" is an interesting way to phrase "The USPS cost each american $25.94 last year."
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"The USPS posted a $9 billion loss" is an interesting way to phrase "The USPS cost each american $25.94 last year."
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Whatever you think of the bombings, I don’t know how it’s possible to write a full editorial about Trump and Africa and completely ignore the devastating DOGE policies.
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The Washpost edit board calls Trump’s bombing in Nigeria “a welcome change in a part of the world that has always been little more than an afterthought for the president” — and has zero mention of the thousands in Africa facing starvation because of USAID cuts
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Why West Africa is worth worrying about
Strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria are welcome but insufficient.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Whatever you think of the bombings, I don’t know how it’s possible to write a full editorial about Trump and Africa and completely ignore the devastating DOGE policies.
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bsky.app/profile/bgru...
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Bari Weiss doesn't want you to see this unless it includes "the other side" from an administration official
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Bari Weiss doesn't want you to see this unless it includes "the other side" from an administration official
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MY LATEST: Dollar General will pay at least $15 million to settle claims that it overcharged shoppers at many of its 20,000 stores. Earlier, @jocelynzuck.bsky.social and I reported that the chain failed 4,300+ price-accuracy inspections over four years. @theguardian.com @michaelwhudson.bsky.social
Dollar General agrees to pay $15m to settle price-gouging claims
Company settles allegations it failed to honor shelf prices in multiple states, and customers anywhere in US may be eligible for repayments
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
MY LATEST: Dollar General will pay at least $15 million to settle claims that it overcharged shoppers at many of its 20,000 stores. Earlier, @jocelynzuck.bsky.social and I reported that the chain failed 4,300+ price-accuracy inspections over four years. @theguardian.com @michaelwhudson.bsky.social
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
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I am very comfortable not knowing much of anything about Olivia Nuzzi.
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I am very comfortable not knowing much of anything about Olivia Nuzzi.
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How and when exactly did a president acquire the authority to rule in all matters great and small by diktat?
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
How and when exactly did a president acquire the authority to rule in all matters great and small by diktat?
Hey, wrote a new newsletter post. "We have to make it socially unacceptable — again? — to behave as a thuggish manchild."
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Revenge of the Manbabies: Keeping ScOR #17
Reductionist theories about the state of the world are deeply appealing, lord knows. I empathize with people who feel they can wave a hand at society’s many...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Hey, wrote a new newsletter post. "We have to make it socially unacceptable — again? — to behave as a thuggish manchild."
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“Might” is doing heroic work here
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“Might” is doing heroic work here
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Hey, if you're in the US, you may have time in a car or on a plane this week. Do yourself a favor...download and binge the "Capitalism" season of @sceneonradio.bsky.social It made me hopeful that there IS a life after this *** waves hands around *** that is possible and maybe even BETTER.
Capitalism
Capitalism moves mountains, sometimes literally. It’s unchallenged as the world’s dominant economic system. And yet, in its current form, capitalism is on trial as it hasn’t been for at lea
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November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵