Also, I want to be honest: I'm sure there are people who saw Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love, and Travesties and never once thought, uh-oh, I should've read up beforehand. I am not one of them. Sometimes, what I didn't know frustrated me. But there is joy in racing to keep up. >
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
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Stoppard also had a huge (and largely unchronicled) film legacy. Obviously, just the work for which he was credited--Shakespeare in Love, Empire of the Sun, Brazil--is major, but he was also one of the most in-demand rewriters, fixers, and polishers in movies. We still don't know everything he did.
I saw Mike Nichols’s production of Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway when I was 19. It starred Jeremy Irons, Glenn, Close, Christine Baranski, Peter Gallagher, and Cynthia Nixon. Which is insane. No single production did more to shape my understanding of what modern theater could be.
I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.
I don't wish this job on anyone, but someone should do a history of how Trump's social-media pronouncements get particularly rageful/hateful/insane on holiday weekends. Maybe there's something about being alone while others celebrate, or vague, in-and-out awareness that he's waning and hated, etc.
There are many kinds of responsibility, and editorial boards should not ignore them. Driven by hatred, racism, and contempt, Trump and his team created the conditions that put National Guard reservists--as well as entire urban populations--at risk. And now a young woman they used as a prop is dead.
There's a weird collective self-justification among reporters on this beat that their job is not to push back but to be stoic in order to observe an endlessly fascinating natural phenomenon. It's all nonsense. He is a public servant. Demand decency, and slap back hard and fast when you don't get it.
I'm thinking of the National Guard shooting victims today, and hoping for the best for them. And I am also thinking about the craven politicians who decided to put them in harm's way because they choose to govern by menacing and by staging stunts. May the fates they deserve befall every one of them.
We're hosting 12 people for Thanksgiving but they are all nice and sane and normal, so I guess we'll just talk about movies! I wish all of you a happy day of easy discourse, and if you can't have that, I hope you win every fight. I'm thankful for almost all of you! Exceptions have been blocked. xox
World AIDS Day was cofounded by an American journalist--James Bunn, a San Francisco reporter who was the first person at a local TV station to make the AIDS crisis his beat, in 1983. An administration that did not loathe the press, history, and knowledge itself might have considered honoring that.
The number of people who have said "I don't know who you're talking about" (and whose eyes have said "nor do I care") when I've brought up the Nuzzi-Lizza story is one thing that gives me hope that we can rebuild civilization after All This has come to an end.
There has always been a type of person who becomes a journalist because they want to get next to power or success or fame. It is dumb to be reflexively cynical and suggest that that is all, or most, journalists. But they're the dangerous ones, and what's frustrating is, they're not hard to spot.
Caring about and remembering other human beings is just too woke for the GOP, which, not coincidentally, did its very best to usher them into the grave.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Take a moment today to check in with older people who seem disconnected from reality and may be unwell.
The whole song sounds to me like what passive-aggressive eighth-grade girls write in each other's yearbooks. "Even though we did not get along and there was that kickball incident, I truly respect your inability to fit in. Although we are going to different schools next year I will always" etc.
Yes! Also, how is that going "to clear the air"?
Ugh, just texted “Thanks.” to someone when I meant “Thanks!” No recovering from that.
No, but I'm moving it up my list!
The idea that this, of all companies, could take over Warner Brothers is just...horrific and insane. It's like saying, "Hey, I have a great idea--what if the Discovery Channel took over HBO?"
Wait.
Oh shit.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Retaining Divisions B and C | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Retaining Division A | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 780 (119th) | Motion to Discharge | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 977 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 977 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-06 | — | Call of the House | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 498 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 498 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 845 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 845 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 1366 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 1366 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3492 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3492 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 6703 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 6703 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3616 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Con. Res. 64 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Con. Res. 61 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Res. 953 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Res. 953 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3632 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3632 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 4371 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 4371 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-16 | H. Res. 951 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H. Res. 951 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3187 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-15 | S. 284 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-12-12 | H.R. 3668 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-12 | H.R. 3668 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 2550 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H. Res. 432 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3898 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3898 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3638 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3628 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H. Res. 939 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 432 (119th) | Motion to Discharge | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | S. 1071 (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.