Bryan Waterman

Not really into X, unless you mean the band.

I write about lit, hist, & stuff & teach @NYUEnglish. Missing me one place search another: @

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

"i would not want t be bach. mozart. tolstoy. joe hill. gertrude stein or james dean / they are all dead." -- Bob Dylan, 1965.

[Covie @covie_93]

Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

https://t.co/rAQKmbpJWW

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

I'm going to be in Abu Dhabi in Nov. for the first time since 2022, there for @NYUAbuDhabi alumni weekend. So I'm revisiting capstone videos for classes of 2015 and 2020, who will hit their 10- and 5-year anniversaries. Still blown away by these people. https://t.co/QGlU4o1YS2

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

@GregAbbott_TX Fascist says what?

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

I don’t know why this has me cheesing so hard, but I think I just love seeing New Yorkers happy, man. Finally, a leader whose charm and aura are so real and wholesome that everyone wants a moment with him. Our city deserves this.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

How about we stop defunding education.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

"literal" i'm in tears

[8-Bit Eric @8biteric]

Superman is NOT an immigrant.

He’s a literal alien from another planet. Crash-landed here as a baby. No passport. No visa. No green card.

People calling him an “immigrant” are confusing metaphor with reality.

Yes—writers have used Superman as a symbol for the immigrant experience…
But that doesn’t make him one.

Let’s not rewrite the character just to score points.

Metaphor ≠ fact.

#Superman #DCComics #TruthJusticeAndLogic #ComicBookFacts #KalElNotAnImmigrant #ClarkKent #ImmigrationDebate #StopTheStretch

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

We're talking about a bit of literary imagination based on Moses in the bulrushes. The figurative potential is baked in from the very start. It was never not political. Jeesh.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

Parents: start by teaching your children the difference between literal and figurative.

[8-Bit Eric @8biteric]

No, that’s not what I said at all.
Superman is an extraterrestrial, not an illegal alien. Big difference.

The term “illegal alien” refers to human immigration law: people crossing borders without legal documentation.

Superman didn’t immigrate to Earth. He was sent here as a baby from another planet, no passport, no intention, no legal system to process it. That makes him sci-fi alien, not someone violating immigration policy.

The point I made is that people are misusing metaphor. Saying Superman “is an immigrant” is poetic, not literal.

So no, I’m not saying he’s “illegal.” I’m saying he’s not an immigrant at all.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

@BasedMikeLee You voted for a Russian stooge spreading Faux propaganda that's completely divorced from the reality we live in? Yes. Yes, you did.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

@theunread As they haul me and the rest of the English professors off to the camps I'll yell: "Damn you to hell, Rob Bresnahan! You made me search my Twitter archive so I could remember your name!"

[Marlow Stern @MarlowNYC]

some of our elected officials aren’t at a fifth grade history level

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

@theunread I'm bookmarking for future reference. 😂

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

We won't forget.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Republicans dancing after Speaker Johnson signs the OBBB

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Republicans are celebrating the passage of the largest Medicaid cut in U.S. history to pay for the largest tax break for billionaires in American history.

51,000 Americans will die each year so that the top 1% can get a $1 trillion tax break.

This bill is a death sentence.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

@lukaske She needs to apologize. Not just to him, but to all New Yorkers and all Americans. What's the polar opposite of moral clarity? Because that is where she's been stuck for a while.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

@LauraAGillen Wrong answer ❌

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

I knew his dad. I can't imagine his dad would want anything to do with who Mike Lee is now.

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

Hard to believe @BasedMikeLee is the same person who released this statement in 2016: https://t.co/5EfqlDh2qx

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Wish my dad, Rex Lee, were here to celebrate Father’s Day

He was a good man

We miss him

[Bryan Waterman @_waterman]

@BasedMikeLee He was a good man. You, though, are an embarrassment to his good name. What a warped, terrible person you’ve become. Can’t you see it when your kids look in your eyes and you know they know how twisted you’ve become?