Orrrrrr....maybe we just take joy in other things. Listen, nobody's stopping you from having the great time you clearly hope to have, so go to it!
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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Maybe it'll be a huge hit and I'll eat my words (I've been wrong a lot!), but if the Sunday box office stories contain phrases like "surprising underperformance," it will be worth asking a couple of questions: Who exactly was this for, and what was supposed to make them leave their houses to see it?
When I talk about big-studio dead-end thinking, this is what I mean: Masters of the Universe trades entirely on presumed nostalgia for a bit of 1980s debris that has been monetized so relentlessly over decades that nobody's had the chance to miss it. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Agree 100%. I think one difference, though, is that I'm not sure that Kane Parsons would even be interested in a visit to the Criterion Closet. I hope he would. I want to get him interested!
I'm not posting this in some fit of "Oh god, if this is the future of filmmaking we're all doomed" esthetic despair. It's more enthrallment. I'm looking at someone who does the thing I've spent my life writing about and loving, but shares no language about it with me. It's fearful and humbling.
He doesn't know movies and doesn't care about them much. He gazes at rolling green fields--real ones--and thinks they look like a screen saver, but also knows they're there bc some rich guy wants them to be, and that data centers are in the near distance. His allegiances: YouTube, games, Mr. Robot.>
This profile of Backrooms director Kane Parsons, 20, by @kylebuchanan.bsky.social is fascinating. In some ways it's the story of so many filmmaking prodigies (Scorsese)--an indoor kid w/ a physical issue & tech mastery. But his references and politics are pure 2026. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/m...
Happy Pride month to all of us. Maybe we can all be a little louder than usual this June--and a little kinder to one another.
It takes strength to look the person who could fire you in the eye and tell them that both they and their boss are giant pieces of trash. You usually don't win, but you definitely leave a mark, and you write your place in history. That's what Scott Pelley did today.
Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down!
"You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock."
www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
Those were my faves to plan and work on--thank you!
There has never in the 75-year history of network news been someone who has done a worse job than Bari Weiss at CBS News. It's one thing to have no integrity, ability, or self-awareness; to add reprehensible politics and a skill for finding like-minded minions is breathtaking.
But it's a lead, don't you think?
Not all stories are summarizable in a headline or a blurb--neither of which writers control. All of us who do this are used to our work getting trashed unread, or dismissed, or mischaracterized. Forgive me when I say that to stay sane, we have to care only about those who bother to read what we do.
Just going to reiterate that this story is sharp, thoughtful, appropriately funny and appropriately disdainful-alarmed-disgusted. A number of people here seem to need a depiction-is-not-endorsement refresher course.
Just saw The Christophers tonight and I loved it--Soderbergh working in the service of an exceptionally sharp, witty, original, adult screenplay by Ed Solomon and performances by Ian McKellen (spectacular!) and Michaela Coel that, like the script, deserve to be remembered at year's end. Do not miss.
And fucking lazy.
Sincere question for you: Do you have any faith at all that this will be the last set of "Uh-oh" headlines about this guy between now and November?
I'd hate to see your definition of "a lot." To me, a Totenkopf tattoo, a sexting scandal, and a basement-dweller's Reddit history qualifies. The people who are pissed off about this want the same win you do. They're also sick of "authenticity" being used to justify inadequacy. He was a bad call.
If anyone would like to interview me about the awards I haven't won, I wish to announce that I am available.
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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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