This is an interesting interview with Graham Platner. Here's a gift link. If you are inclined to scream at me about it or about him, please direct your energy elsewhere. Thanks!
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/m...
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8
Mark Harris
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Yes76%
No24%
Present0%
Not Voting0%
Party align92%
Cross-party1%
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Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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LOL that the general reaction to this is "Bad Alex Bores is hot, I would do him." Never change, BlueSky.
You can Google "campaign against Alex Bores" for some interesting stories about how this has become a hugely funded battle against his drive to regulate AI. I don't entirely know how I feel about Bores but on that particular issue, he's on the right side.
Heads up, NYCers: The heavily funded campaign against Alex Bores, who is running to replace Jerry Nadler in Congress, has now reached the "Let's darken his skin to make him seem swarthy and foreign and scary" phase. Left: A Bores mailer. Right: An anti-Bores mailer.
This is not a "controversy" or a "dispute" about casting. It's a racist position being echoed and amplified by other racists. Journalists need to learn to use the word "racist" much more freely; right now, too many publications treat it as unprovable unless self-reported.
This is about eight thousand red flags in one story. I hope my district is not dopey enough to fall for Jack Schlossberg, but with so many Democrats in the race, it's possible.
Wow—Jack Schlossberg is an even more wildly unfit candidate for Congress than I feared. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...
Fortunately, however…
LOL thank you! In this case, at least, I am confident in my advice.
Theater people--start the day right! From MCC's 2026 Miscast, in which Broadway folks sing songs they could never get cast for, go to 1:26:30 and watch the great Brian Stokes Mitchell sing "Back to Before" from Ragtime and blow the minds of the other actors on stage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=feXE...
That's fine. They can talk to each other; they're good at that.
One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.
This gives me a lot to catch up on--thanks!
What current comedy do you laugh at the most? Genuine question, and I'm not asking what you think the best one is, just the one that sparks the most laughs from you (if you're a laugher).
Yes, I've seen The Bear. My sides still hurt!
Just caught up with the series finale of The Comeback. That might be this year's comedy Emmy.
YouTube dropping its big ugly influencer-ass-looking black spaceship of a tent directly on top of the Lincoln Center fountain is as vivid a representation of old culture versus new as you will see this year.
(Bonus touch: YouTube has also blacked out the doors and windows of Geffen Hall with ads.)
I just don't have the patience anymore to do the extra post at the end of every thread where I explain that I know that the bad things people do and say are bad and that I disapprove of them. If you follow me, I believe you already know that and don't need to hear it.
A lot of young gay people don't get the degree to which cruelty was not just aimed at gay men, but was the language gay men spoke to each other. I don't mean "The library is open!", I mean demolishing viciousness. So I don't excuse the worst of Reed's work. But I do consider the world that made him.
Working on the book I've been researching and writing over the last five years has made me think a lot about what it must have been like to be a gay man born in 1938, and thus a criminal, essentially. The armor you needed, the vulnerability you had to hide, and what that effort cost. >
If you want to read something Reed wrote when he had the juice, here's a 1966 story he reported when he visited the shoot of Otto Preminger's Hurry Sundown in Louisiana. I came across it 20 years ago and have never forgotten it. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/1966/08/21/a...
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Voting History535 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
535 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-31 | H.R. 997 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-31 | H.R. 517 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-27 | H.R. 1048 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-27 | H.R. 1048 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-03-27 | H.R. 1048 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-03-27 | H.R. 1048 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-03-27 | H.R. 1048 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-03-27 | H.J. Res. 75 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-27 | H.J. Res. 24 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-25 | H. Res. 242 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-25 | H. Res. 242 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-25 | H.R. 1534 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-03-24 | H.R. 1326 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-03-24 | H.R. 359 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-11 | H.J. Res. 25 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-11 | H.R. 1968 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-11 | H.R. 1968 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-03-11 | H.R. 1156 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-11 | H. Res. 211 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-11 | H. Res. 211 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-10 | H.R. 993 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-10 | H.R. 901 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-10 | H.R. 495 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-06 | H. Res. 189 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-06 | S.J. Res. 11 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-05 | H. Res. 189 (119th) | Kill the motion | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-03-05 | H.J. Res. 42 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-05 | H.J. Res. 61 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-04 | H. Res. 177 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-04 | H. Res. 177 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-04 | H.R. 758 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-03 | H.R. 856 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-27 | H.J. Res. 20 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H.J. Res. 35 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H.R. 695 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H. Con. Res. 14 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H.R. 804 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H.R. 788 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-25 | H. Res. 161 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-25 | H. Res. 161 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-25 | H.R. 818 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-02-25 | H.R. 832 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-24 | H.R. 825 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-13 | H.R. 35 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-12 | H.R. 77 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-12 | H.R. 77 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-02-11 | H. Res. 122 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-11 | H. Res. 122 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-10 | H.R. 736 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-10 | H.R. 692 (119th) | Fast-track 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.