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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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
🧵
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If you haven't turned on the "Capitalism" season of @sceneonradio.bsky.social co-hosted by the awesome Ellen McGirt, well. Episodes 2-6 cue you up for the face punching of episodes 7-12, and shine a light on alternatives to whatever this is **waves hands around ** sceneonradio.org/capitalism/
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 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you haven't turned on the "Capitalism" season of @sceneonradio.bsky.social co-hosted by the awesome Ellen McGirt, well. Episodes 2-6 cue you up for the face punching of episodes 7-12, and shine a light on alternatives to whatever this is **waves hands around ** sceneonradio.org/capitalism/
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One of the ways I started shifting my thinking on the revolution came from @sceneonradio.bsky.social's season 4: The Land That Never Has Been Yet.
@chenjerai.bsky.social doesn't miss.
Worth the listen, and captures the essence quoted here.
sceneonradio.org/the-land-tha...
@chenjerai.bsky.social doesn't miss.
Worth the listen, and captures the essence quoted here.
sceneonradio.org/the-land-tha...
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of the ways I started shifting my thinking on the revolution came from @sceneonradio.bsky.social's season 4: The Land That Never Has Been Yet.
@chenjerai.bsky.social doesn't miss.
Worth the listen, and captures the essence quoted here.
sceneonradio.org/the-land-tha...
@chenjerai.bsky.social doesn't miss.
Worth the listen, and captures the essence quoted here.
sceneonradio.org/the-land-tha...
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According to new Reuters poll, only 29% of Americans support using the U.S. military to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge or court being involved. 51% oppose. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
www.reuters.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
According to new Reuters poll, only 29% of Americans support using the U.S. military to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge or court being involved. 51% oppose. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Watch to the end
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Watch to the end
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We have lessons at the ZEP site on the topic that you could link to, including "The Thingamabob Game: A Simulation on Capitalism vs. the Climate" www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
The Thingamabob Game: A Simulation on Capitalism vs. the Climate
The Thingamabob Game simulation helps students grasp the essential relationship between climate and capitalism.
www.zinnedproject.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We have lessons at the ZEP site on the topic that you could link to, including "The Thingamabob Game: A Simulation on Capitalism vs. the Climate" www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
Thanks for the response, re-upping one more time:
Dear educators! We’re creating a curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM.
If you've used any part of the series in your teaching, we'd love to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you!
Dear educators! We’re creating a curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM.
If you've used any part of the series in your teaching, we'd love to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you!
docs.google.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thanks for the response, re-upping one more time:
Dear educators! We’re creating a curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM.
If you've used any part of the series in your teaching, we'd love to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you!
Dear educators! We’re creating a curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM.
If you've used any part of the series in your teaching, we'd love to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you!
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guy just loves peace, what can you say
Trump threatens to invade Nigeria "guns-a-blazing.”
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!”
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!”
November 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
guy just loves peace, what can you say
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All of this cruelty is being done in our name.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
All of this cruelty is being done in our name.
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Excellent essay on renunciation (and shame) as it relates to the past and our moment in this country (and world - Gaza and on and on) … he points to repair as the next step
New Keeping ScOR newsletter -- me (John Biewen) on historical forgetting and acknowledgment in my hometown, Mankato, MN.
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
Mankato Grows Up: Keeping ScOR #15
The other week I had reason to visit my hometown in the Upper Midwest. Some of you will remember that I was raised in Mankato, Minnesota, a college town 80...
buttondown.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Excellent essay on renunciation (and shame) as it relates to the past and our moment in this country (and world - Gaza and on and on) … he points to repair as the next step
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Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.
October 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
New Keeping ScOR newsletter -- me (John Biewen) on historical forgetting and acknowledgment in my hometown, Mankato, MN.
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
Mankato Grows Up: Keeping ScOR #15
The other week I had reason to visit my hometown in the Upper Midwest. Some of you will remember that I was raised in Mankato, Minnesota, a college town 80...
buttondown.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New Keeping ScOR newsletter -- me (John Biewen) on historical forgetting and acknowledgment in my hometown, Mankato, MN.
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
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Republican Mike Johnson is metaphorically standing in the doorway of the House of Representatives, blocking a duly-elected Latina from entering the House as a representative & denying representation to her nearly 800,000 constituents in Arizona, nearly 60% of whom are Hispanic.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Republican Mike Johnson is metaphorically standing in the doorway of the House of Representatives, blocking a duly-elected Latina from entering the House as a representative & denying representation to her nearly 800,000 constituents in Arizona, nearly 60% of whom are Hispanic.
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Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.
I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
October 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.
I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
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A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
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A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
n.pr
October 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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The third-country removal tracker has been updated to add three Honduran nationals removed to Guatemala yesterday.
hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...
hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...
Tracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of)
Bookmark this post, it will be updated.
hardghistory.ghost.io
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The third-country removal tracker has been updated to add three Honduran nationals removed to Guatemala yesterday.
hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...
hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...
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Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died
A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism
www.kare11.com/article/news...
A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism
www.kare11.com/article/news...
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
www.kare11.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died
A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism
www.kare11.com/article/news...
A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism
www.kare11.com/article/news...
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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It's happening right in front of you.
Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.
It's happening in plain sight.
Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.
It's happening in plain sight.
October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It's happening right in front of you.
Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.
It's happening in plain sight.
Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.
It's happening in plain sight.
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Great to hear. While working on it, we recommend checking out "Economics for Emancipation: A Course on Capitalism, Solidarity and How We Get Free" from the Center for Popular Economics ⬇️and the (out of print) high school guide "Teaching Economics As If People Mattered" economics4emancipation.net
Economics for Emancipation
A Course of Economics for All
economics4emancipation.net
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Great to hear. While working on it, we recommend checking out "Economics for Emancipation: A Course on Capitalism, Solidarity and How We Get Free" from the Center for Popular Economics ⬇️and the (out of print) high school guide "Teaching Economics As If People Mattered" economics4emancipation.net