Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

Dave: About The Americans or about another show you have in mind?

Enraging. Grateful that @modernlanguage.bsky.social, @historians.org, @acls1919.bsky.social and Authors Guild are fighting back.

CBS’ Mamdani Mania Under Bari Weiss’ leadership, CBS News staffers are increasingly worried the network’s editorial priorities are mirroring The Free Press, particularly in coverage of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Some CBS News staffers worry Bari Weiss is steering coverage toward The Free Press’ priorities, particularly on Mamdani

“It feels pretty clear that Bari Weiss views her role…as being a political adversary to the mayor,” a source close to Mamdani told Status

www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

CBS’ Mamdani Mania Under Bari Weiss’ leadership, CBS News staffers are increasingly worried the network’s editorial priorities are mirroring The Free Press, particularly in coverage of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani.

A person close to Mamdani told @nataliekorach.bsky.social that Bari Weiss "doesn’t even have the dignity to pretend to be unbiased."

"The lack of journalistic integrity, and blatant hostility, could make Fox News blush," the person added.

Much more here: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

I was concerned about Scott MacFarlane, an upstanding journalist, being stuck inside Bari Inc. Not surprised that he's leaving. Grab him, @msnownews.bsky.social

Opinion | Cracking down on graduation speeches won’t solve the problem on campus Universities need to do a better job of preparing students to engage civilly in the real world.

This is rich. Bezos' #BrokenPost lecturing universities about preparing students to "engage civilly" while it promotes the most uncivilized government in American history.
Cracking down on graduation speeches won’t solve the problem on campus www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Congressional Republicans on a few House committees spent years investigating Hunter Biden trying to find something, anything, to prove this kind of thing to no avail... Years.

Will Comer & Jordan be intellectually consistent and investigate this?

A wartime presidency defined by Trump’s unique political style President Trump is recasting the role of wartime leader in his image, breaking from generations of practice as he attacks his domestic enemies and revels in memes.

WTF #BrokenPost! New low: "A wartime presidency defined by Trump’s unique political style...recasting the role of wartime leader in his image...precedent-smashing style of politics...Trump is embracing Trump." Not journalism; masturbation in text.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Exclusive | Trump Sons Back New Drone Company Targeting Pentagon Sales Powerus says it plans to acquire Ukrainian drone technology to sell to the U.S. military.

There's the military-industrial complex. Now there's the military-Trump complex (drones and golf courses). Pure corruption.
Trump Sons Back New Drone Company Targeting Pentagon Sales
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Thanks, Trump.

How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine

You don't say...
How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

A refresher on what Rubio once said about the Jan. 6 insurrection that Tarrio helped provoke:

"3rd world style anti-American anarchy"

“disgusting”

“unpatriotic"

“inexcusable”

"national embarrassment"

"one of the saddest days in our history"

A Russian-language promotional poster for the tv show “Americans.” It shows stark black-and-white photos of the two main characters, each holding a gun, with only Phillip’s tie and Elizabeth’s lipstick in bright red. The tagline, in Russian, reads, “Americans: Root for our side.”

That is delightful; I've been looking for an excuse to watch it again.

As a little tidbit to recognize the time in which it originally aired: it was shown in Russia at the time. Here's a promotional poster for one of the seasons, with the tag line "root for our side."

When they tell you who they are...

YouTube video by The Mayday Network The Illegals: The Americans Rewatch Podcast | TRAILER (New Episodes Thursdays)

My Breaking the News podcast mates @julieroginsky.bsky.social and @michellekinney.com have organized a rewatch party for The Americans. I'm honored to in the conversation. It'll be weekly. The trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL0t...

YouTube video by PatchouliHaze Country Joe McDonald - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag

RIP, Country Joe. Tragically as relevant as ever.
And it's 1-2-3, what're we fightin' for?
Don't ask me; I don't give a damn.
Next step is Teh-ran.
youtu.be/3W7-ngmO_p8

Well said

The federal government is using it prosecutorial discretion to punish protesters with no significant chance of actual guilt. The prosecution is the punishment. This is an unconstitutional constraint of our right of assembly.

I get that nothing matters until the NY Times reports it, but some of us more independent outlets had this story a month ago...

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Gift link:
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

WSJ finds that of 279 arrested for attacking ICE in what it unfortunately labels an "aggressive public-relations tactic," 181 were US citizens; none was convicted. But onviction isn't the point; harassment is.
Americans are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

indeed

Social-Media-Verbot: Öffnungszeiten für das Internet Bei der Debatte um Social-Media-Verbote wurde bislang ein altbekanntes Konzept vernachlässigt: Öffnungszeiten. Wie würde diese Welt aussehen?

Mein Gott, this is dumb. The Süddeutsche Zeitung proposes that social networks should have mandated closing hours.
Kommen Sie morgen wieder
www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/socia...

Or spikes

Hot Type Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of…

Well, then, I hope you enjoy my new book, Hot Type: www.bloomsbury.com/us/hot-type-...

Then my wife would *really* kill me.

I respond

I used to love to stand over the machine with a feeling that I was getting the absolute latest news from the world. Come the internet, I then set up a means for our users to read the AP wire directly themselves. The AP hated that.

In my next book, Hot Type, I write about how the founder of Gannett newspapers got these teletype wires to hook up directly to linotype machines to set type without human typesetters. That was a huge labor fight.

That's a beauty. An AP AP wire machine. It was a basically a receive only teletype machine. This is how we got all of our wire stories. Curious how much they're asking. My wife would kill me if I bought it.