Most of you will hate this, but Turner inventing CNN was a legacy accomplishment and a net positive; he was one of the first people to understand that the world was too big and moved too fast for people to wait for a brief summary of events on the 6:30 p.m. news.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8
Mark Harris
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Voting Record — 567
Yes75%
No24%
Present0%
Not Voting0%
Party align93%
Cross-party1%
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Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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20 recent posts · 14 sponsored · 73 cosponsored
Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.
Malone loves power; I don't think he loves the spotlight.
The most damning thing I can say is that Turner's direct media-cultural heirs are David Zaslav and Jeff Bezos. That's not his fault, but also, it kind of is.
Ted Turner had an instinct for mergers, a lot of charm, an inhuman level of self-confidence, AND a wildly overinflated sense of what he could pull off, and if I were to pick a single deal that represented all of those qualities, it would be "I think I can turn Jane Fonda into a trophy wife."
I'm so old I remember when Ted Turner was America's big media-titan villain. RIP.
Father Flynn: Where's your uncensored take on today's Tony nominations?
Sister Aloysius (icily): Nowhere YOU can get at it.
Tell them about the time you identified a picture of a giraffe--they will be dazzled!
I can think of one thing that would get a lot of people off of them
Thanks very much!
It's all I ask.
Maureen Stapleton
Just gonna keep saying it: Drastic SCOTUS reform should be a central part of the 2028 Democratic Party platform, and for Presidential candidates...I don't love litmus tests, but for me, this is becoming one.
Yes, if there's one thing it's unfair to do, it's to judge what people wear to the Met Gala.
Looks like a board game with a 16-page rulebook.
[sobbing Brando voice] look how they massacred my boy
I took some time out from writing a book to read one! I got asked to write about John of John, the new novel by Douglas Stuart (Booker winner for Shuggie Bain). I almost fled before p. 1 (for reasons detailed below)--but it's wonderful, and very much worth your time. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/b...
It's very painful to me to see so many people speaking ill of Rudy Giuliani. Don't they know they're jinxing it?
The rationale is that every international submission deserves to be seen by voters who care about the process, and I think that has resulted in much more interesting nominations than was the case 25 or 30 years ago. Also, to be clear: No committees. No volunteer knows who any other volunteer is.
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Voting History567 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
567 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-16 | H.R. 30 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-16 | H.R. 30 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 33 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 144 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 164 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 28 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 28 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 153 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 152 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-13 | H.R. 192 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-09 | H.R. 23 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-07 | H.R. 29 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | Motion to Commit with Instructions | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Election of the Speaker | NOT_VOTING | — | — | Johnson (LA) |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Call by States | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.
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