I would like to believe that for Trump and his death cult of a party, threatening to annihilate a civilization is the equivalent of focus-group-testing an idea, and that they are aware of the negative results. Because as degraded a country as we are, that is literally the better alternative.
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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Mark's ATmosphere Activity
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Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.
Hey, @bsky.app, you seem really broken right now. I mean literally broken, not just emotionally like all of us. What's up?
An important thread about a big story that the press is under-covering.
This is now on Netflix and if you haven't seen it, you're in for a treat.
Related: I am now in Year 16 of never quite remembering which Hemsworth that is. This movie has the Thor one.
Just watched Crime 101--a totally viable, more-than-acceptable Sunday night movie that is trapped in a slightly uncomfortable intermediate tonal place between Michael Mann existential-despair crime thriller and oddball Carl Hiassen everybody-has-a-quirk storytelling. Great cast, polished filmmaking.
Over the last decade, I got as tired as anyone of reading one post after another from people on Twitter and then on Bluesky shouting, "Don't normalize this!" about everything. But the people shouting it were right.
It's not primarily about profanity. It is the open contempt for an entire religion, the threat to send a population to hell, the uncertainty about whether he's the one even posting, the conducting of foreign policy via posts on a for-profit site. I think journalism is too numb to much of this.
This morning, he mocked the dominant religion of a region in which we presumably need allies, essentially using it as a sign-off for a promise of destruction and mayhem. I think that is an action at least as grave as his specific threat, and too many reporters just treat it as hot air.
It's not just AP, as Bluesky has made pretty clear this morning, and we have seen this over and over and over since 2016, in bulletins and stories, in updates and in headlines. It's calmwashing--I, the levelheaded person, will translate objective lunacy into a policy statement.
If you're a journalist looking at what Trump posted this morning and asking, "How do I filter out the noise and get at what he's actually threatening?", with respect, you're missing the fact that the noise--the rage, the profanity, the sneering Islamophobia, the war-movie bluster--is the meaning.
There's a news principle that what someone says matters more than how he says it. Not true with Trump. What he says is made-up, inconsistent, &/or subject to swift reversal. How he says it--in erratic/offensive language, for profit, out of rage, on a site he owns--is the substance of his presidency.
Painful to write, too.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tricked Into Thinking He Might Be Dead
I'm not up to the infamous haircut yet, but getting there!
This is fascinating!
This is so real! But I'd learn a lot about the scary and weird adult world from my grandmother's side monologue: "That's Iris...she's rich but she's not happy...she's locked herself in her bedroom with her scissors...they're afraid she's going to hurt herself but she's just going to cut her hair..."
Oh God, I loved that show. Every other recipe was, "....and you want to round out the flavors with a splash of..." and then he would pour a solid half-bottle of red wine into a stewpot and the rest into a giant goblet.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 5214 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H. Res. 888 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-11-19 | S.J. Res. 80 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H.J. Res. 131 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H.J. Res. 130 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 888 (119th) | Motion to Refer | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 878 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 879 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 879 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H.R. 4405 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 878 (119th) | Kill the motion | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-11-18 | H.R. 2659 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-17 | H.R. 1608 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-13 | H.R. 5371 (119th) | Accept Senate changes | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-12 | H. Res. 873 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-19 | H. Res. 719 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-19 | H.R. 5371 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-19 | H.R. 5371 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-18 | H.R. 1047 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-18 | H.R. 3015 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-18 | H.R. 3062 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H. Res. 713 (119th) | Kill the motion | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H.R. 5143 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H.R. 5125 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H. Res. 722 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H. Res. 722 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-16 | H.R. 5140 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-16 | H.R. 4922 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-16 | H.R. 2721 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-16 | H. Res. 707 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-16 | H. Res. 707 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-15 | H.R. 3400 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-09-15 | H.J. Res. 117 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-11 | H.R. 3486 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-11 | H.R. 3944 (119th) | Instruct negotiators | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
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.