Steve Mullis
@stevemullis.net
Roving news editor based in Seattle; D&D DM // Former: NPR's Morning Edition & Up First, NPR digital, Minnesota Public Radio, Orlando Sentinel. Other: Big fan of dogs, TTRPGs and nerdy stuff.
Currently reading: Peripheral; How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Currently reading: Peripheral; How to Stand Up to a Dictator
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It's a very strong piece. Very human. And I just realized in mentioning the "went to j-school" that that was nearly 20 years ago. WTF!?
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It's a very strong piece. Very human. And I just realized in mentioning the "went to j-school" that that was nearly 20 years ago. WTF!?
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For Long Lead's latest feature, DOUBLE MEANING, photojournalist Sarah Rogers and filmmaker Kate Bennis attend the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, OH to find out what we can learn from a community of twins. twins.longlead.com
What do twins know that the rest of us donโt?
Amid an epidemic of loneliness and social isolation, a gathering of twins celebrates the power of connection, companionship, and community.
twins.longlead.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
For Long Lead's latest feature, DOUBLE MEANING, photojournalist Sarah Rogers and filmmaker Kate Bennis attend the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, OH to find out what we can learn from a community of twins. twins.longlead.com
Going to give a more directed shoutout to @sarahnrogers.bsky.social, who I went to j-school with. What a great piece of journalism!
Read it: twins.longlead.com
Read it: twins.longlead.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Going to give a more directed shoutout to @sarahnrogers.bsky.social, who I went to j-school with. What a great piece of journalism!
Read it: twins.longlead.com
Read it: twins.longlead.com
The presentation and art direction on this piece are fantastic, as is the excellent reporting.
In 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a devastating advisory about the persistent loneliness epidemic, declaring social isolation and lack of connection to be a public health crisis. twins.longlead.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The presentation and art direction on this piece are fantastic, as is the excellent reporting.
She's waiting for the casting call
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
She's waiting for the casting call
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NEW: A @propublica.org & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social analysis found dozens of cases in recent months which officers deployed "less lethal" weapons in ways that flout the governmentโs own rules โ like aiming at someoneโs head, spine or groin and deploying chemical agents near children.
Trumpโs Immigration Forces Deploy โLess Lethalโ Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agentsโ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW: A @propublica.org & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social analysis found dozens of cases in recent months which officers deployed "less lethal" weapons in ways that flout the governmentโs own rules โ like aiming at someoneโs head, spine or groin and deploying chemical agents near children.
haha, holy shit
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
haha, holy shit
The Washington Post editorial board is now just stealing from old Andy Rooney bits
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The Washington Post editorial board is now just stealing from old Andy Rooney bits
I really hope all this coverage doesn't make people think they need to read her book and inadvertently turn it into a bestseller. Everyone will get the dirt from reviews and social media. No one needs to buy it and contribute more to these fiends.
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I really hope all this coverage doesn't make people think they need to read her book and inadvertently turn it into a bestseller. Everyone will get the dirt from reviews and social media. No one needs to buy it and contribute more to these fiends.
Same! Though I just got a real diagnosis last year, I slowed down and essentially stopped drinking a year before. It's been quite a learning experience.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Same! Though I just got a real diagnosis last year, I slowed down and essentially stopped drinking a year before. It's been quite a learning experience.
Two reporters I am working with today are leaving public media for other opportunities. It's understandable, but no less depressing. #SavePublicMedia
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Two reporters I am working with today are leaving public media for other opportunities. It's understandable, but no less depressing. #SavePublicMedia
This feels like something that'd be written in Ye Olde English and circulated in a pamphlet advertising "Dr. Snyder's Miracle Tonic"
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer โis fit for a kingโ:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This feels like something that'd be written in Ye Olde English and circulated in a pamphlet advertising "Dr. Snyder's Miracle Tonic"
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X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
Americaโs Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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wrote about the "hemp ban" that Congress snuck into the government-reopening bill, the impact it's already having on angry farmers and brewers and small-biz owners across the country, the misconceptions around the plant, and the lobbies that agitated for this crackdown: slate.com/business/202...
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
wrote about the "hemp ban" that Congress snuck into the government-reopening bill, the impact it's already having on angry farmers and brewers and small-biz owners across the country, the misconceptions around the plant, and the lobbies that agitated for this crackdown: slate.com/business/202...
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We submitted a ridiculous fake ad to Facebook for a free sub-orbital trip to space. They approved it and took our money. They're making billions of dollars this way, and they know it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We submitted a ridiculous fake ad to Facebook for a free sub-orbital trip to space. They approved it and took our money. They're making billions of dollars this way, and they know it.
In a draft memo to Congress, which sources shared with NPR but which has not yet been sent, Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In a draft memo to Congress, which sources shared with NPR but which has not yet been sent, Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
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We found that 11 of Trumpโs DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
How Trumpโs Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administrationโs DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Expe...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We found that 11 of Trumpโs DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollarsโ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Constantly making "who is the richest boy" a headline every time the stock market shuffles the deck of richest boys is one of the reasons these megalomaniacs focus so much energy on accumulating wealth. It's a game, and they want to get the highest score and win.
The Google parentโs stock has accelerated over the last week and is now valued more than Microsoft.
Larry Page Becomes No. 2 RichestโBumping Larry EllisonโAs Alphabet Shares Rally
The Google parentโs stock has accelerated over the last week and is now valued more than Microsoft.
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Constantly making "who is the richest boy" a headline every time the stock market shuffles the deck of richest boys is one of the reasons these megalomaniacs focus so much energy on accumulating wealth. It's a game, and they want to get the highest score and win.
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The @sltrib.com has budgeted nearly zero subscription income in 2026 because of its plans to drop its paywall and adopt a membership model.
How The Salt Lake Tribune spent 2025 preparing for a 2026 without subscription revenue
Personally, my favorite form of journalistic impact is when the reporting becomes a central plot point on a Real Housewives franchise. In the Season 6 premiere of The Real Housewives of Salt Lakeโฆ
www.niemanlab.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The @sltrib.com has budgeted nearly zero subscription income in 2026 because of its plans to drop its paywall and adopt a membership model.
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Many nonprofit newsrooms worry that selling ads could jeopardize their tax-exempt status. But IRS records show that rarely happens. buff.ly/6tdMPny
Nonprofit news outlets are often scared that selling ads could jeopardize their tax-exempt status, but IRS records show thatโs been rare
Nonprofit news outlets face pressure to find new sources of revenue from their funders.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Many nonprofit newsrooms worry that selling ads could jeopardize their tax-exempt status. But IRS records show that rarely happens. buff.ly/6tdMPny
I'm convinced he's been coasting for decades on the fact that he's loud and that whole "Ragin' Cajun" persona makes good TV
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I'm convinced he's been coasting for decades on the fact that he's loud and that whole "Ragin' Cajun" persona makes good TV
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is: