Lyle Muller
@lylemuller.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, retired; professional adviser for Grinnell College’s Scarlet & Black. Hawkeyes. Grandpa. "A MESSY CHURCH: An Iowa Church’s Journey Through United Methodist Celebrations, Controversies" author, buy it here https://bit.ly/46YXQbh
Hold off before you criticize the internet too much for destroying culture. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinio...
Internet culture could be a gathering place for the arts | Opinion
Dismissing 6-7, aura farming and other trends as nonsense misses something important in this form of human expression, writes Fernanda Japa.
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Thank you, Cedar Rapids Gazette, for running my piece on 9/11. www.thegazette.com/our-brains-w...
Our brains went numb 25 years ago so we could do what needed to be done
Twenty-five years later, it’s interesting to me that my memory of the day ends at 1:59 p.m., after talking with our daughter in Chicago. A national tragedy really numbs your
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“I don’t know what to do. I can’t help you. We’re going to be OK.” My inadequate advice 25 years ago to my daughter. lylemuller.substack.com/p/our-brains...
Our brains shut down 25 years ago so we could do what needed to be done
One Gazette newsroom editor’s 9/11 experience tested his role as a parent
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Update: two people were injured when a Grinnell College building under construction collapsed. Here is the latest.  thesandb.com/56018/news/f...
Film and Media Studies Center partially collapses, two workers reported injured
The facade and front roof of the Knapp Center for Film and Media Studies collapsed this afternoon. No casualties have been reported. The Knapp Center is located downtown, at 1013 Broad St. Workers pr...
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This story has been updated this afternoon -- Film and Media Studies Center partially collapses thesandb.com/56018/news/f...
Film and Media Studies Center partially collapses
The facade and front roof of the Knapp Center for Film and Media Studies collapsed this afternoon. No casualties have been reported. The Knapp Center is located downtown, at 1013 Broad St. Workers pr...
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Film and Media Studies Center at Grinnell College partially collapses. No reported injuries. The campus paper, The Scarlet & Black, is on the story. thesandb.com/56018/news/f...
Film and Media Studies Center partially collapses
The facade and front roof of the Knapp Center for Film and Media Studies collapsed this afternoon. No casualties were reported. The Knapp Center is located downtown, at 1013 Broad St. Workers present...
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Those words I told my daughter — “I can’t help you” — haunted me for a long time. Later I learned that the Sears Tower in Chicago was on an alleged 9/11 target list. My daughter lived three miles from there. lylemuller.substack.com/p/our-brains...
Our brains shut down 25 years ago so we could do what needed to be done
One Gazette newsroom editor’s 9/11 experience tested his role as a parent
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Data provides a snapshot of agricultural drone use as the federal government changes the economics of buying the technology, Monica Cordero, of the Iowa newsroom, reports at @investigatemidwest.bsky.social Your donations support this reporting. investigatemidwest.org/2026/09/09/t...
Trump drone tariffs target a technology still used unevenly across US farms - Investigate Midwest
Drone use remains limited among most U.S. farms, but larger farms have adopted the technology at a higher rate than small farm operations, federal data show. In 2023, 12% of large-scale family farms ...
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Special rural Mass coming up in northeast Iowa. From @patkinney.bsky.social patkinney.substack.com/p/historic-w...
Historic Waterloo farm to host large Mass
Lichty farm south of Waterloo to host Archdiocese of Dubuque Rural Life Mass Sept. 18.
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Starting to feel like Jim Ross Lightfoot’s campaign, when the state GOP got fed up with his incompetence and focused on all other Republicans instead. 2026 strategy might be same.
Laura Belin@laurarbelin.bsky.social · 3d agoWow: The Iowa Association of Business and Industry PAC is NOT endorsing a candidate for governor this year. Iowa ABI is a powerful lobby group—technically nonpartisan but its PAC typically endorses Republicans in every competitive state race. #IAGov www.iowaabi.org/news/press-r...
It ain’t over. Immigration control tactics remain aggressive and harmful to Iowa families. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Des Moines family calls ICE detainment of father violent, excessive
Juan Lopez was detained on Sept. 9 in Des Moines while on his way to work. Advocates are calling for his release while questioning ICE's use of force.
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Our brains shut down 25 years ago today so we could do what needed to be done. lylemuller.substack.com/p/our-brains...
Our brains shut down 25 years ago so we could do what needed to be done
One Gazette newsroom editor’s 9/11 experience tested his role as a parent
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OPINION: Short-form, long-reach: Can nonsense bring us together? emergingjournalistcorps.substack.com/p/opinion-sh...
OPINION: Short-form, long-reach: Can nonsense bring us together?
Internet culture could actually be a gathering place for the arts
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Another year. The Scarlet & Black orientation meeting at Grinnell College today. Getting to know the new staff.
How 17 Iowa lawmakers and their rich friends can raise your taxes but keep theirs from going up, by @EdTibbetts edtibbetts.substack.com/p/the-tyrann...
The Tyranny of the 11%
How 17 Iowa lawmakers and their rich friends can raise your taxes but keep theirs from going up.
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Feel this about Copilot “stories”: “If you can’t put any thought into word choice or sentence structure, choosing to delegate all effort to a computer program utilizing the stolen efforts of others, why should I give a shit about what you say?” @lyzlenz.bsky.social www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post...
Charlie Kirk; it matters if you use AI; leave trans people alone; and more | Men Yell at Me
Let them fight September 10 marks a year since the death of Charlie Kirk, a man who is more famous in death than he was in life. I’d intervi
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OPINION: Short-form, long-reach: Can nonsense bring us together? emergingjournalistcorps.substack.com/p/opinion-sh...
OPINION: Short-form, long-reach: Can nonsense bring us together?
Internet culture could actually be a gathering place for the arts
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OPINION: Short-form, long-reach: Can nonsense bring us together? emergingjournalistcorps.substack.com/p/opinion-sh...
OPINION: Short-form, long-reach: Can nonsense bring us together?
Internet culture could actually be a gathering place for the arts
emergingjournalistcorps.substack.com
The levels of dumshittery exposed in this gem have no bounds. www.thegazette.com/news/regents...
Regents: UI center interim director can’t attend conferences
Despite criticism from a committee overseeing the University of Iowa-based Center for Intellectual Freedom, the Board of Regents has blocked center interim director Luciano de Castro from attending a ...
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My pitch for you to read my book: Just buy the book, already. At Ice Cube Press.
A Messy Church - Ice Cube Press
A Messy Church: An Iowa Church’s Journey Through United Methodist Celebrations, Controversies | Lyle Muller | 222 pages | Paperback | $24.95 A MESSY CHURCH: An Iowa Church’s Journey Through United Met...
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Here is where you can find a solid Sunday news report from Iowa. Top stories. substack.com/@juliegammac...
Julie Gammack (@juliegammack)
We are on the grow….
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Your football game day report from @mikehlas.bsky.social mikehlas.substack.com/p/iowa-and-i...
Iowa and Iowa State are as rough on their Week 1 football guests as their state is on its rivers and lakes
The Hawkeyes’ and Cyclones’ season-starting wins had less drama than a Will Ferrell film festival
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Football Saturday backstory of how a Simpson College student journalist covered an important story about a deaf football player who needs an interpreter.
PODCAST: How Simpson College’s student newspaper led coverage of a deaf football player who fought to regain his interpreter
The Simpsonian editor-in-chief Savannah Robinson broke coverage while working a summer internship.
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We need more young people involved in journalism to do in-depth, fact-based news and to promote news literacy among young people so they consume this news. lylemuller.substack.com/p/seeking-su...
Seeking support for emerging journalists on one-year anniversary in the collaborative
The Iowa Writers’ Collaborative’s Emerging Journalist Corps needs your support
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For all of us reflecting on our lives, and where we want to be. substack.com/@forrestmeye...
Grown Here, But Home Here?
A story about my sense of place, and the quest for a final resting place
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Don't get too excited. The replacement will follow Fox's party line. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Maria Bartiromo exits Fox Business
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Iowa has an Emerging Journalist Corps that supports college student journalists who want to learn how to do this right. Will you support their efforts? lylemuller.substack.com/p/seeking-su...
Seeking support for emerging journalists on one-year anniversary in the collaborative
The Iowa Writers’ Collaborative’s Emerging Journalist Corps needs your support
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The Iowa Writers’ Collaborative’s Emerging Journalist Corps needs your support lylemuller.substack.com/p/seeking-su...
Seeking support for emerging journalists on one-year anniversary in the collaborative
The Iowa Writers’ Collaborative’s Emerging Journalist Corps needs your support
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