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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 9h

"If you're not sick of me already--"

I imagine that sentence had an end. I will never know for sure.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11h

Well, the joke will be on them, because I don't know how to drive!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13h

Found out this evening that rats are living in our car's engine and have chewed through all the wiring, how was your day?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20h

They will insist that this an overstatement, that this isn't the same as APPROVING conversion therapy, that it's "not what the case is about." But if you are an adult with a functioning moral core, you cannot divorce your actions from their consequences. This will kill kids, period, the end.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20h

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22h

I think the right move here is the same as the right move for any journalist working for a suspect new boss (which has happened to almost all of us): Do exactly what you would ordinarily do, exactly the way you would ordinarily do it, until you are told point-blank that you can't. Then ask why.

David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 23h

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

One bad and unfortunately influential part of Kael's legacy is that she knew how to phrase assertions that do not hold up to two seconds of scrutiny so confidently that you could mistake them for wisdom. (This one was about The Arrangement, a movie you never have to think about again.)

pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 1d

But Kazan used to know how to help us feel. Perhaps he undervalues that gift, but it's his only true one. Is it really a penance for a big movie director to try to think small? In movies, the worst sellout has always been thinking big. (1969)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

I'd be so scared to wear this. I just don't look great in bulky sleeves.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

“Ready-to-wear?” I am ready to wear this, but I don’t know if the world is ready for me to do so

A dude in a long-sleeve V-neck French cut bodysuit with shoulder pads and sandals

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

okay, this made me laugh

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here in Chicago I even see it on signs that you SHOULD obey in advance.

A homemade “do not obey in advance” sign attached to an overpass height sign.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

...and I really do know how eager some of you are to reply "Not yet, anyway! It will be soon!" but there are ways in which that is not necessarily a perfect analogy, and one is that this is going to play out in daily ways that are publicly visible, among people who know how to leak. So...we'll see.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I don't mean this as optimism (on Bluesky? God forbid) but taking a leadership job for which you're unqualified in a medium you haven't worked in with nothing but experienced journalists under you...is not necessarily going to go the way one thinks it might. CBS News is not a cabinet dept.>

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

I get tired of reading "Do not obey in advance" here over and over--endlessly repeating something like that can turn it into a form of self-soothing rather than a galvanizing call to action. But I hope every single CBS News employee is hearing it from someone important to them today.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

So weird and smug. "I found a bunch of cliches in TV shows and AI couldn't be worse than that, so do whatever feels good, but, you know, human screenwriters are still important, I guess."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

but I was promised the city was burning

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

I honestly get stuck at "I'm a screenwriter." Buddy, I'm sorry, you're not. You want to have a particular job without having to do it.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

This is a question from a screenwriter who wants to know if it's okay to have AI write entire scenes for him. My answer would be exactly two letters long, which I guess is why I am not an "ethicist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/m...

I’m a Screenwriter. Is It All Right if I Use A.I.?

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

I am pretty sure younger me would not have listened to older me.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about all of the truly dire things that are happening in the world, and then I come here and the debate that's raging is apparently "Is it racist-adjacent to be mean to robots?"

J.

F.

C.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

It's a good time to start thinking about what makes you happy, and not just what you're sure WOULD make you happy if you could only get it.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

(Seriously, the original is a beautifully made and acted but wildly imbalanced movie that is very much a product of its moment. Read @michaelschulman.bsky.social's Her Again for a great account of how Meryl Streep took that famous courtroom scene in her teeth and dragged it into shape.)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

If Kramer vs. Kramer were made today, Ted Kramer would have started and monetized a single-dad blog by the fourth day he had to take care of his kid and Joanna would have come back from Cal. to NYC for meetings with publishers who bid on her manuscript about emotional labor. I would watch.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

"Has had such a good life in this country," yes, ever since she was granted the privilege of coming here from her birth nation, Brooklyn.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Also, just from a business standpoint--the film clip and music licensing on this is mind-blowing. They got EVERYTHING. That just never happens with documentaries about movies or moviemakers.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Hugo!

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