Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8
Mark Harris
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Yes75%
No25%
Present0%
Not Voting0%
Party align93%
Cross-party1%
Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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Mark's ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 17 sponsored · 75 cosponsored
Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.
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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Sure, maybe dozens of people are lying, in perfect coordination.
Or maybe one is.
A lot of people could stand to read this until they have it memorized.
Thread.
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!"
I'll just add that if the way you're taught to read texts when you're young is predicated entirely on "relatability" and right v. wrong rather than on empathetic leaps of imagination and the exploration of mixed motives, you're not going to be well prepared to encounter icky things like ambiguity.
"Social identity" and "fan spaces" are completely different concepts in the internet age than they were during most of the 20th century, before fans could communicate with one other daily or hourly in ongoing, publicly visible forums.
Right?! Of all the shows! I was so struck by the "Nobody knows who Noah Wyle is" section because it really brought home to me that what you and I think of as a "traditional" show is actually not part of a tradition that that set of viewers has experienced.
A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.
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Voting History613 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
613 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-09 | S. 356 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-04 | H.R. 1049 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-04 | H.R. 1069 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 1005 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 4305 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 2965 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H. Res. 916 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H. Res. 916 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H.R. 4423 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-01 | H.R. 5348 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 1949 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 3109 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H. Res. 893 (119th) | Motion to Refer | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 6019 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 4058 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 5107 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 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 |
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.