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Seat
Representative for North Carolina District 8
Born
April 24, 1966
Age 60
Phone
(202) 225-1976
Office
126 Cannon House Office Building, Washington 20515
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8

Mark Harris

Mark Everette Harris is an American Baptist pastor and politician from North Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, he is the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 8th congressional district since 2025.

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Voting Record — 551
Yes76%
No24%
Present0%
Not Voting0%
Party align93%
Cross-party1%
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Congressional District 8

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Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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Mark's ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 14 sponsored · 70 cosponsored
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Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.

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Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.socialDec 22(source)
Just watched the 60 Minutes segment. Basically it debunks the fundamental claim used by Trump admin that the detainees it sent there are “terrorists” and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 22(source)
To everyone following the Bari Weiss story and struggling with the question of whether this is rank incompetence or malignity: Doesn't matter, because rank incompetence plus arrogance IS malignity, so even if you give her the benefit of the doubt (btw, there's no reason to), that's where you end up.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 22(source)
For anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating, here is a direct quote from Weiss: "Of the 252 Venezuelans sent to CECOT, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories. We should spend a beat explaining this."
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 22(source)
Hiring Bari Weiss was the first major decision that the Ellisons made after acquiring Paramount. Neither father nor failson should get his hands anywhere near Warner Brothers Discovery.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 22(source)
Two problems with this frantic "The story wasn't ready" statement are 1) When a story isn't ready, you know it days, sometimes weeks in advance, not hours and 2) Bari Weiss' idea of how "to do more" has already been made public, and it was to call Stephen Miller. In short, she's lying.
Ben Mullin
@benmullin.bsky.social
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NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 22(source)
This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.
Mike Masnick
@masnick.com
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Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
Ms. Weiss said in a statement late Sunday: “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom. I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready.”
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 22(source)
Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 22(source)
Some of the best (I think) material in Five Came Back is there because a librarian saw what I was working on over 3 days and asked me if I'd like to take a look at a box of old George Stevens papers that had not been catalogued yet. So no, for a ton of reasons, AI cannot "do the research for you."
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 21(source)
"Look, in fairness, I was talking to a group of racists and Nazis, and I needed to sound like them to get them on my side because no one has ever loved me, probably due to my lack of anything approaching human decency or a moral core. But what we should really be talking about is Joe Biden's failed
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
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JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 21(source)
I saw this tonight--it's a fantastically sharp, thoughtful, tough and uproariously funny take on Austen (btw one that doesn't smirk at Pride & Prejudice but attests to its brilliance), with the best comic cast I have seen in ages. This richly deserves more life in NYC and elsewhere.
Helen Shaw
@helenshaw.bsky.social
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Much to my regret I only saw Emily Breeze's "Are the Bennet Girls OK" at Bedlam last night--they close on Sunday, and so the tickets are now TIGHT and also, lbr, pricy. But it's gorgeous! I had clocked it was an Austen-in-modern-idiom project and thought, oh, we've seen those already...(1/7)
Lizzie (Elyse Steingold), wearing blue, and Kitty Bennet (Violeta Picayo), in mauve, sit by a staircase reading a letter that is about to disappoint them, perhaps because it says the remaining tickets to their show are one hundred and eighty nine dollars.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 20(source)
I've spent the last 5 years on a book about the complex relationship between pop culture and the gay rights movement. This thread is a good reminder that art can do a great deal, but it's slow and cumulative. It gives people new ways to think, but it's not its job to "fix" things, and it doesn't.
Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
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Again, I truly *loved* this week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, but IT IS A WISH FULFILLMENT ROMANCE. The success of a gay hockey romance TV show, largely watched by people who are neither hockey players nor hockey fans, is not “proof that the world is ready and all we would do is love you”
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.socialDec 19(source)
It's so weird that the "surprise" "vote" happened yesterday but they had the external lettering, tarps, and crew all ready to go.
The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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Breaking News: Workers began adding President Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center, despite no action by Congress to legally rename it. This sparked outrage among the Kennedy family, since it was built to be a living memorial to the 35th president.
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Voting History
551 total votes
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DateBillQuestionPositionParty MajAlign?Result
2025-01-03—Call by StatesPRESENT——Passed

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