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Steve Mullis

@stevemullis.net
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Editor @ Marketplace.org based in Seattle; D&D DM // Former: NPR's Morning Edition & Up First, NPR digital, MPR News, Orlando Sentinel. // Big fan of dogs and bookstores. READING: Bee Speaker

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1h
The top 1 percent holds 31.0 percent of total wealth – just slightly less than the entire bottom 90 percent of U.S. households. inequality.org/facts/wealth...
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Wealth Inequality - Inequality.org
The United States exhibits has more inequality and disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3h
the best way to push back against this "death of reading" nonsense is to just, read a book. talk about books. buy someone a book. share a book. support your local indie booksellers.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 5h
wondering which news organization will be the first to use "super intelligence" sted "artificial intelligence" unironically.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 18h
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 7h
Five years ago in the middle of a reckoning over abuse and misconduct, the players of the NWSL were debating if they should save the league or burn it down. They picked both. On the last five years, free to read at @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Five years ago, the NWSL was in crisis. Thanks to its players, it’s flourishing (Gift Article)
Amidst a reckoning over sexual misconduct in the NWSL, players faced a difficult choice. The action and change they forced saved the league.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 18h
The first round of the #WNBA playoffs being a best-of-3 is lame. There's no reason it shouldn't be a best-of-5 series.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 20h
*finger to ear* I’m being told that gas and food prices are suddenly plummeting. … … Oh, wait. That’s not right. Turns out I made a mistake. And that’s on me.
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brendan @schlage.town · 22h
FYI for folks looking for a good substack alternative :)
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 29/09/2026
There is some marketing strategist in Silicon Valley making a mint out of telling all of these companies to make cutesy avatars for their AI agents.
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Introducing dots
Dots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 29/09/2026
Pablo Torre going for that second Pulitzer
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 28/09/2026
Filming these movies when you're not the lead must be a nightmare
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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Star Alan Cumming Says ‘I Don’t Fully Understand the Plot’ and Only Acted With Florence Pugh’s Stunt Double
Alan Cumming says he has no idea what the "Avengers: Doomsday" plot is and he only acted with Florence Pugh's stunt double.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah see that’s the problem you tried to see the movie without purchasing the Day One Ultimate Edition, you can’t expect it to have all the movie in it
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 28/09/2026
i maintain that this site would be a lot healthier if people quote-replied less and replied directly to those they have a beef with
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Florida Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel destroy a long-hidden state report detailing property insurers’ payments to sibling companies whose profits remained secret. Now we are publishing the complete report. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/09/25/n...
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News organizations publish Florida’s secret examination of insurer profits
The Florida Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel destroy a hidden state report on insurers’ secret sibling company profits. Read it here instead.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 28/09/2026
If I opened someone's fridge and it looked this I would run immediately b/c they are a serial killer
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 28/09/2026
As their parents are detained & deported en masse, thousands of children are being shuffled among anxious temporary caregivers. There are so many family crises unfolding right now across the U.S., and @caitlindickerson.bsky.social takes us inside three: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 28/09/2026
I found this in a book I had on the shelf and my wife and I had a dark laugh as we struggled to recall WHICH of the many incidents outside of our house in DC this was from.
A business card from a DC homicide detective 

Metropolitan Police Department
Detective Bryan Adelmeyer
Homicide Branch
bryan.adelmeyer@dc.gov
101 M Street SW | 202-645-6364 (Desk)
Washington, DC 20024|
202-430-8924 (Cell)
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 27/09/2026
Seattle, why are we not forming a posse?
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 27/09/2026
👍 China liked this
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 26/09/2026
I'm guessing it's Dr. Doom
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 26/09/2026
Can my toaster feel pain? It can, if I slam the door, anthropomorphize it, and make a little voice come out of it saying, "Ow, ow, please, sir, that hurts."
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 26/09/2026
Defended our castle ⚔️
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 26/09/2026
🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 26/09/2026
just another oopsie doodle www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
With the Education Department, OpenAI’s technology tried to hack the website to gather data from the department’s civil rights office but failed, researchers from the A.I. research firm Transluce said. The A.I. also pulled data from the Census Bureau website, which is housed at the Commerce Department, using login credentials it found online. Separately, OpenAI’s agents shared public data from the S.E.C. website on an online forum.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 26/09/2026
A cross-section of the Mechanical Turk, showing how Joseph Racknitz thought the operator sat inside as he played his opponent. Racknitz was wrong about both the operator's position and the dimensions of the automaton.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Created to help socially disadvantaged farmers, the Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers was halted unexpectedly. Growers are calling on congressional leaders to hold the USDA accountable. bit.ly/3VwcXqI
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A Key Voice for Farmers of Color at USDA Has Gone Silent Under Trump
Growers are calling on congressional leaders to hold the USDA accountable for ignoring the Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 25/09/2026
Level 8-3
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 25/09/2026
"We assembled a team ..." ??? Is the Make It Make Sense team running the whole paper now?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 25/09/2026
Lordy. Not sure if there is a less important thing the NYT could ask Zuckerberg about right now.
NYT image of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Text:

"I think if I started wearing suits to work, people would freak out."
In an exclusive interview with The New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, talked for the first time about his style evolution.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 25/09/2026
yeah. that about sums it up.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 24/09/2026
Wall Street just hanging out, playing cards today
A screen shot of the major stock indexes at nearly 3 pm ET showing almost no movement in the market at all
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 24/09/2026
I wonder why Caitlin Clark (and Sophie) are the only WNBA players they "care" about or talk about. What could it be????
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said. with @veritenews.org
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 24/09/2026
The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting (Gift Article)
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 24/09/2026
One of my D&D players left these at my house. The flavor is both precise and nauseating. Like a jelly belly in hell.
A photo of a can of “Italian Meatball” Pringles
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23/09/2026
Sooooo, you're saying it isn't "economic anxiety" that drives their support. Hmmm, wonder what else it could be.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23/09/2026
Lance Oppenheim's camera/style + Nathan Fielder's whole deal is such a perfect pairing. If you like weird docs and you have not seen "Ren Faire" or "Some Kind of Heaven" yet, I strongly recommend them both.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wild scenes out of Springfield, Missouri. Two people were arrested for trying to voice concerns about Flock cameras. Video of it is in the story
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Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council...
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23/09/2026
🎯
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23/09/2026
“As long as I’m enjoying it, as long as I can do it, why do I need to stop?”
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Gymnast Chusovitina, 51, targets ninth Olympics after reaching Asian Games final
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23/09/2026
The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate is now 7.12%
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US fixed 30-year mortgage rate jumps to 7.12%, MBA says
By Ann Saphir Sept 23 (Reuters) - The rate on the most popular US home loan rose last week to its highest in more than two years, after the Federal Reserve lifted short-term interest rates to combat
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 22/09/2026
The Seattle Police Department, responding to the Bite of Seattle shooting on July 26, say their response was hindered by then-Chief Shon Barnes inappropriately giving orders from a distance, and by the mayor’s staff delaying any statements to the press.
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Seattle Police say meddling by absent chief, mayor’s staff complicated shooting response
The Seattle Police Department, responding to the Bite of Seattle shooting on July 26, say their response was hindered by then-Chief Shon Barnes inappropriately giving orders from a distance, and by the mayor’s staff delaying any statements to the press.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22/09/2026
Lame
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026
NEW: A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the hacking group told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse.
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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