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. 🔗 bryanwaterman.org Missing me here search the WFMU comments board.
This better be a key talking point in every single contested congressional seat come November.
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
nytimes.com
Evidence of the great benefits of AI: it used to take a huge amount of time and effort to make yourself look this stupid; now AI allows you to humiliate yourself almost instantly.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
Why are the @democrats.org not running ads every day from now to midterms asking why he and his friends don’t have to pay taxes like the rest of us? Scream it from the rooftops!
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
I dunno what the solution is, but I’m pointing this out because I think we all feel very smug about it, since to us it looks like he got owned. But that’s absolutely not how they see it. This has been the last ten years of American politics and no one has a solution, least of all me
Unfortunately a big part of American society is rooted in a sort of squirming glee at men yelling at women and part of it is just that simple
Happy Monday, I’m going to say something that sucks: it’s worth understanding that the clips of RFK on CNN are circulating in MAHA / MAGA world as an absolute fucking victory lap. Looks bad to us, but to them, it’s aura farming content gold. We have no idea how to counter that so far tbh
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so palpably insane in a role like this. Stupid people, awful people, but not this
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
Electr-O-Pura I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
Incredible. In normal circumstances this whole thing would be a massive embarrassment to the DOJ and the US Attorney in charge of the case.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5d agoBREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.
Why does it feel like we’re still experiencing the social aftershocks of COVID? In this paper (finally in print!) we offer an explanation: in crises people change how they think and act to try to make their lives predictable again. This work of repair isn’t always successful, or always constructive.
Repertoires of repair: managing ontological insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic
Abstract. This article examines the practices used by people who, while in a state of crisis, attempt to restore the sense of continuity and dependability
academic.oup.com
And if a middle-aged cishet tenured white guy was getting these, imagine what's showing up in the email of faculty who are, for example, early-career women of color. Or faculty here on a visa. Or adjunct faculty. This kind of shit should not be "just part of the deal," but here we are. 🫤
One day several years ago, I got an anonymous handwritten, threatening letter delivered to my campus mailbox, and then someone (the same person? someone else?) DM'd me on twitter from a burner account, with a photo of my driveway with my car parked in it. This is real and it's dangerous
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d agoThere are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
Not part of the Russian botfiltration of Bluesky, I promise!
Bryan Waterman@waterman.bsky.social · 6d agoMy wife and I were asked by a friend at American Center Moscow to represent her home state, WA, as part of their 50 state series. They highlight one US state/wk and have done around 30 so far. It's a fun series. We only live here for a few weeks each summer but the family roots are pretty deep.
My wife and I were asked by a friend at American Center Moscow to represent her home state, WA, as part of their 50 state series. They highlight one US state/wk and have done around 30 so far. It's a fun series. We only live here for a few weeks each summer but the family roots are pretty deep.
50 States: Washington
YouTube video by American Center Moscow
youtube.com
Followed closely by people who @ you for calling the original CBGBs bands punk.
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 7d agoI found the most annoying type of guy: someone who scolds you for calling it the American Revolution
If there’s one thing Alexander Pope taught us, it’s that translators of the Odyssey are a calm bunch who never pick public fights with anyone
everyone in the odyssey hearing that white lady call them tropes and underutilized
Researching today, I came across a tiny textile scrap in an 1800 writ of attachment. (Details on the case in alt text). Any fashion, fabric, dress, or material culture historians know what textile it might be? Thanks! 🗃️
In 2020, a new plague swept across the Earth, killing millions. Before that year was even over, wizards working in an invisible world had devised a shield that everybody could use. The result wasn't a new era of scientific appreciation but of preening frauds lying more shamelessly than ever before.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can
I had a visceral physical reaction to this story that is hard to describe. Just destruction of everything I hold dear. Monstrous garbage oligarchies.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
This Fauci thing is such a farce. They don't even think COVID was real, why would it matter if it came from a lab or not. Why would it matter if he changed the recommendations for masking and social distancing? They did neither! Most of what he did was *UNDER TRUMP.* I feel like I'm going insane.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rand Paul loses it when Fauci's attorney tries to say something, and he eventually directs security to kick him out of the hearing room
The Times has two stories abt Fauci’s diary. One of them is responsible journalism, but it’s not the one promising to give you the real deal about his “innermost musings.”
