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Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

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Man Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock You

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 11(source)

25 years ago today, I was in Canada covering the Toronto Film Festival with five cherished colleagues. In the days before we could get back to New York, the kindness and empathy of Torontonians sustained us. Today I'm thinking of everyone we lost that day, and everything we have squandered since.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 11(source)

Good morning. I am furious.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 10(source)

As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...

The dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 10(source)

This was always going to end in an attempt at literal vote-buying--apparently to the tune of $1.35 trillion.

Trump: "Only I can make this promise to you: If the Republicans win the House and Senate, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000"

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 10(source)

Absolutely not. No. Under no circumstances. NO.

The egregious "WOAH" makes its way into The New York Times.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 9(source)

It's just not that hard to answer by saying, "I'm not playing this game. Next question."

Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 9(source)

Trying to remember that far back.

Karen Attiah

@karenattiah.bsky.social

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 9(source)

This is kind of beautiful, honestly.

Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ

@dreyesceron.bsky.social

the ending of the Frances Tiafoe vs. Alex Michelsen match with Tiafoe giving a long hug to Michelsen after the final tiebreaker point #USOpen

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 8(source)

It's crazy to me that this is not leading the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, etc. If you're that numb, maybe think about a field other than journalism.

Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 8(source)

This did not happen. This is a lie.

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 8(source)

2014: Me working on a book. 2026: Much grayer hair. Otherwise no changes in mood or attitude.

Me clutching my face, peering at my draft through one eye, not happy.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 7(source)

I started watching a big new Netflix movie that opens with a father and son driving to a new town, and the dad says, "Okay, A NEW START!" to make sure I got it just in case I wasn't looking at the TV screen, which, to be fair, I wasn't, because I knew he was going to say something dumb like that.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 7(source)

Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie.

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump claims that after 9/11, "I went down, I was building a building in New York, and I went down there very shortly thereafter -- the following day, you couldn't go down the same day -- and we worked long and hard"

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 7(source)

All of White House life now seems to be "Just keep grandpa happy. He likes pictures."

Ron Filipkowski

Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

The government of the United States of America. The idiots are in charge.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 7(source)

Greatest Hits of 2016! This drives me mad. Progressives should not be telling large groups of people who actually understand what voting is for and are consistently screwed by those who don't that their suffering will lead to growth. That said, no pile-ons, please. Things all bad enough.

My post: We talk a lot about the importance of voting but in doing so, we romanticize it, and I've come to believe that's a mistake. It's not romantic, it's not glorious, it's not an expression of your ideals or your identity. It's selecting the best outcome for the most people. That's all it is. Do that.

The quote post: What if suffering is required for actual change and growth?

Because the lesser evilism we’ve had for decades ( and that you appear to be championing ) seems to be running out of road.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 6(source)

Paul Schrader has been doing "AI isn't going away so get used to it" on his Facebook feed for sometime now--but this is so, so, so much worse. I don't think we'll ever see this movie. I hope we don't. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 6(source)

Everyone have a nice two days and get it out of your system, because between Tuesday and Election Day, we are not doing the Bsky "You have to EARN my vote" and "I live in a blue state so my protest vote is fine" and "The two parties are the same" thing. Take all that look-at-me shit somewhere else.>

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialSep 5(source)

what in the name of Sy Sperling