I'm not saying this approach is all bad or never necessary. But it is the default now, and so it is losing any ability to surprise except when it is in expert hands.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8
Mark Harris
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Voting Record — 497
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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I will hand a Peabody Award to anybody who writes a streaming limited series without flashbacks, jumpbacks after an in medias res opening, or parallel timelines.
"I am suspect about it."
Jesus or @bcdreyer.social, take the wheel!
So all of the women, and all of their families, and all of their friends, and all of the text messages and records that have been produced, and all of the reporters who investigated it, are part of a coordinated op that has been months in the making? Okay, you go with that.
Everyone saying "I'm suspicious about the timing" re Swalwell should pause to consider that if a MAGA op wanted to derail the Democrats in California, breaking this story a month from now--or right after the primary, if he won--would have been far more damaging. Not everything is a conspiracy.
A very strong thread about what good journalists do. I urge people to read the whole CNN story (linked earlier), not just the headline. A lot of people who are unwisely leaning into "I dunno, there's something fishy about this" might change their minds.
Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:
This...is not going to help.
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A lot of people could stand to read this until they have it memorized.
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I assume that Swalwell is currently on the phone being told exactly how the end of his political life is going to go and will exit either tonight or tomorrow. Longer than that and it's going to get much uglier for him.
You can't spell antisemite without met! But you also can't spell semite without met. So it's hard to know what to think.
Understood; my argument was not with you.
So to return to my point--which, if you reread it, was not "games are bad"--people whose PRIMARY growing-up narrative experience is with games sometimes struggle with other forms of narrative. You're free to disagree, but not to disqualify my experience of talking/listening to those people.
In a narrative game, you are largely enacting something rather than simply observing it. The dissonance btw you and your avatar may be interesting or may barely exist, but in either case it is materially different from the experience of entering a story over which you have no control or authorship.>
Historically, do most players consider themselves to be the default good guys in the games they’re playing? I seem to remember reading a great deal about how the choices players had to make in The Last of Us subverted that. Was the idea that there was something to subvert inaccurate?
Of course there are counter-examples. If there weren’t examples of what I’m talking about, then you wouldn’t need to call them counter-examples.
And if your idea of narrative derives not primarily from books or movies or TV shows but from games in which you ARE the main character, then main characters who are not behaving the way you imagine you would are really going to baffle you. That's how we get to "It's bad that Dr. Robby turned mean!"
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Voting History497 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
497 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-21 | H.R. 6945 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-21 | H.R. 6945 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-21 | H. Res. 1009 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-21 | H. Res. 1009 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-21 | H.R. 5764 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-20 | H.R. 5763 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-15 | H.R. 2988 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-15 | H.R. 2988 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-15 | H.R. 2988 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2026-01-14 | H.R. 7006 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-14 | H.R. 7006 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-14 | H.R. 7006 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-14 | H. Res. 992 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-14 | H. Res. 992 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 4593 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 4593 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 2312 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 2270 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 2262 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 2262 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H. Res. 988 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-13 | H. Res. 988 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 6504 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 6500 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2026-01-12 | H.R. 2683 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2026-01-09 | H.R. 5184 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 1834 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H. Res. 780 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 131 (119th) | Passage, Objections of the President To The Contrary Notwithstanding | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 504 (119th) | Passage, Objections of the President To The Contrary Notwithstanding | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Retaining Divisions B and C | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Retaining Division A | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 780 (119th) | Motion to Discharge | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 977 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 977 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-06 | — | Call of the House | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 498 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 498 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 845 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 845 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 1366 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 1366 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3492 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3492 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
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.