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Steve Mullis

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Current: Roving news editor open to work; Former: Editor/producer on NPR's Morning Edition & Up First, NPR digital editor, Minnesota Public Radio digital editor, Orlando Sentinel digital editor. Other: Big fan of journalism, dogs, TTRPGs and nerdy stuff.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · May 23

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 21m

The Young Republicans group chat, the Border Patrol video and GOP staffer Nazi flag stories are all basically variations on this classic from @theonion.com

Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?
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October 28, 1998

Look, I’m not a hateful person or anything–I believe we should all live and let live. But lately, I’ve been having a real problem with these homosexuals. You see, just about wherever I go these days, one of them approaches me and starts sucking my cock.

Take last Sunday, for instance, when I casually struck up a conversation with this guy in the health-club locker room. Nothing fruity, just a couple of fellas talking about their workout routines while enjoying a nice hot shower. The guy looked like a real man’s man, too–big biceps, meaty thighs, thick neck. He didn’t seem the least bit gay. At least not until he started sucking my cock, that is.

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 41m

I know it's getting old to play "If You Saw It In Another Country," but, boy, if you saw it in another country

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1h

DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2h

What a fun chance to play D&D with some cool people!

Todd Stashwick @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social · 3h

Just 2 weeks left to get in on the sweepstakes and win a chacnce to play #dungeonsanddragons with me and some of my #startrek friends to
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3h

I'm guessing Seattle is one of them. Maybe I should get back into taking photos. The more documentation by everyone, the better.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3h

Do these goofs think that deeply-reported and thorough business profiles are FOR them? You and your friends aren't the audience, bud.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 3h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 4h

For more than 30 years, the CDFI Fund has stood as one of the nation’s most effective vehicles for expanding access to capital in rural and urban communities. Earlier this month, the Trump administration laid off the entire staff of the CDFI Fund.

What’s At Stake In The Unraveling Of The CDFI Fund?

As the Treasury’s CDFI Fund faces elimination, billions in community lending and decades of bipartisan progress on financial inclusion hang in the balance.

www.forbes.com

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 4h

The people who took these photos risked their safety to document what is happening. Please credit them.

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 4h

There are many harrowing and horrifying images right now, but this photo from @chicago.suntimes.com photographer Anthony Vazquez is seared into my brain. It makes me sick.

Story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Protesters gathered as ICE awaited the removal of its vehicle after it crashed during a pursuit. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 5h

An excellent summary of the insane Hasan Piker pileon by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social that makes two things clear for me: 1) never get famous, and 2) the conspiracy content industrial complex is a horrifying menace

Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For

The backlash that Piker is facing shows the consequences of a world where everyone is constantly being recorded and our internet is built to reward outrage and controversy.

www.usermag.co

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 6h

I'm old enough to remember this guy's predecessor as speaker calling into Fox News from a secure location on Jan. 6 to beg MAGA rioters to stop. "This is so un-American," he said, as the pro-Trump protesters attacked police.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 7h

How the hell am I just discovering @talkeasypod.bsky.social? So many great conversations to dig into now.

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 7h

Definitely naming an NPC in my D&D campaign "Rain Barkels"

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 7h

The White House's "Chicago is in chaos" video "is littered with outdated footage highlighting drug busts, arrests and deportation raids in other states, including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska"

White House's Chicago 'chaos' video uses footage from other cities

A dramatic voiceover video shared by the White House and US President Donald Trump claims to show immigration agents responding to the "mess" in Chicago as the Republican seeks to justify deploying Na...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 9h

New: senators warn that Saudi Arabia's acquisition of EA will be used for 'foreign influence'. Points to access to EA user data, AI tech, and the general direction of the company

www.404media.co/senators-war...

Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’

‘The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks.’

www.404media.co

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 18h

Amplify? It’s a story on a major broadcast network news show. It’s already amplified.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 18h

This resume does not at all match the piece — not the writing, not the level of thought and analysis, and not the grasp of technology it is framed around. It's baffling.

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 18h

WTF!?

Deni Ellis Béchard is Scientific American’s senior tech reporter. He is author of 10 books and has received a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, a Midwest Book Award and a Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism. He holds two master’s degrees in literature, as well as a master’s degree in biology from Harvard University. His most recent novel, We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine, explores the ways that artificial intelligence could transform humanity. You can follow him on X, Instagram and Bluesky @denibechard.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 18h

Wow. That's a great paint job. Just had the 80th session of our current campaign. Good times!

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 22h

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies.

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 22h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22h

This is the same Cory Mills who lives in a $20K a month penthouse in D.C., and paid his rent late for months.

The same Cory Mills accused of assaulting a woman in that Penthouse.

The same Mills whose arrest warrant interim U.S. attorney for D.C. Ed Martin wouldn't sign.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23h

A judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep. Cory Mills after he was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23h

This really works as a late-80s SNL character if you read it in the voice of Jon Lovitz

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23h

Republicans ALSO live in blue districts and cities. There is no doubt that people who support the president would have benefited from these projects, either directly or indirectly. I wonder how they feel about this?

GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Targets Democratic Districts By Halting Billions During Shutdown
By Tony Romm and Lazaro Gamio Oct. 14, 2025
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Two weeks into the government shutdown, the Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion that had been reserved for more than 200 projects primarily located in Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

Total amount of affected funding
By congressional district of grant recipient

Democratic districts
87 districts
$27.24 bil.
Republican districts
14 districts
$738.7 mil.

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