Bryan Waterman
@waterman.bsky.social
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.
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the 6% is the WaPo editorial board
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
the 6% is the WaPo editorial board
I told someone I'm teaching a short, intensive J-Term class on Empathy over the next two weeks and they asked if I'd seen Pluribus. I hadn't. So I watched the first episode tonight and holy shit. I also teach a Contagion class...how has no one forced me to watch this yet?
January 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I told someone I'm teaching a short, intensive J-Term class on Empathy over the next two weeks and they asked if I'd seen Pluribus. I hadn't. So I watched the first episode tonight and holy shit. I also teach a Contagion class...how has no one forced me to watch this yet?
When it comes to year-in-review shows and whatnot, there are few people whose lists/shows I look forward to more! #np
We're live!
#nowplaying:
1. Wednesday Knudsen & Willie Lane - Last Flight to Eden - Hello Sunshine: A Tribute To Relatively Clean Rivers (Raven Sings the Blues, 2025)
#nowplaying:
1. Wednesday Knudsen & Willie Lane - Last Flight to Eden - Hello Sunshine: A Tribute To Relatively Clean Rivers (Raven Sings the Blues, 2025)
January 4, 2026 at 4:14 PM
When it comes to year-in-review shows and whatnot, there are few people whose lists/shows I look forward to more! #np
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I can’t believe they invented a worse George W Bush.
January 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I can’t believe they invented a worse George W Bush.
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My boss when he calls a meeting during lunch
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
My boss when he calls a meeting during lunch
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It’s all just a tv show to him.
But the “violence” is real human lives, not make believe.
The international norms being broken are just as real.
But the “violence” is real human lives, not make believe.
The international norms being broken are just as real.
The Republicans who control Congress are the only ones right now who can hold him accountable.
They are letting Trump violate international law and start wars as though he’s directing a TV program.
They are letting Trump violate international law and start wars as though he’s directing a TV program.
Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."
January 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
It’s all just a tv show to him.
But the “violence” is real human lives, not make believe.
The international norms being broken are just as real.
But the “violence” is real human lives, not make believe.
The international norms being broken are just as real.
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One cannot help but wonder if the attack on Venezuela is an attempt to distract from this devastating testimony about Trump’s culpability for 1/6 as well as a reminder about his ability to act with apparent impunity.
Jack Smith: The evidence made clear that President Trump was, by a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol as part of this case does not happen without him.
January 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
One cannot help but wonder if the attack on Venezuela is an attempt to distract from this devastating testimony about Trump’s culpability for 1/6 as well as a reminder about his ability to act with apparent impunity.
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Mike Lee, who fancies himself an intellectual, advances the premise that US agents can walk into the Venezuelan president’s rooms in Caracas at any time and exercise a plenary police power, and if anyone in that sovereign state might get in their way the military can just start blowing shit up.
January 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Mike Lee, who fancies himself an intellectual, advances the premise that US agents can walk into the Venezuelan president’s rooms in Caracas at any time and exercise a plenary police power, and if anyone in that sovereign state might get in their way the military can just start blowing shit up.
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Mayor Mamdani already delivering results to his city
January 2, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Mayor Mamdani already delivering results to his city
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New York City has a new mayor
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
New York City has a new mayor
HAPPY NEW MAYOR!!!
January 1, 2026 at 5:08 AM
HAPPY NEW MAYOR!!!
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i can’t believe it has been 2016 for ten years
January 1, 2026 at 1:21 AM
i can’t believe it has been 2016 for ten years
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It's sad to see us memory-holing the agrarian re-education camps from 2018 to 22 when Biden was president
Oh wow you were forced to apologize for being white. How did you phrase your apology? Where were you? Who demanded it of you, and what law compelled you? Was it a local ordinance? State level? Was it court-mandated? Tell me more about this apology you made for being white.
December 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It's sad to see us memory-holing the agrarian re-education camps from 2018 to 22 when Biden was president
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Following this logic, any creative artist fleeing Germany in the 1930s was failing in their duty as a public artist to perform for all the people
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Following this logic, any creative artist fleeing Germany in the 1930s was failing in their duty as a public artist to perform for all the people
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The People scorned the ferocity of kings.
December 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The People scorned the ferocity of kings.
These guys would have loved the Von Trapp Family Singers.
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
These guys would have loved the Von Trapp Family Singers.
December 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Trump cares so deeply about Nigerian Christians that last week he banned them from getting any business, tourist, student, or immigrant visas. Merry Christmas!
December 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Trump cares so deeply about Nigerian Christians that last week he banned them from getting any business, tourist, student, or immigrant visas. Merry Christmas!
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RIP Amos Poe :( www.threads.com/@amos.poe/po... youtu.be/6m4ltYuOjuQ?...
TV PARTY N.Y.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
RIP Amos Poe :( www.threads.com/@amos.poe/po... youtu.be/6m4ltYuOjuQ?...
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Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz | Andrews McMeel
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz | Andrews McMeel
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the banality of evil
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
the banality of evil