Mark Harris
@markharris.bsky.social
Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Untitled gay cultural history (2026). Journalism: New York, NYTimes Style Mag, etc. A long time ago: EW, Grantland, younger.
Fair.
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Fair.
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
How badly do you have to have screwed up for Indivisible to say "Actually, no, divisible"?
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How badly do you have to have screwed up for Indivisible to say "Actually, no, divisible"?
Sometimes I see a post that I am at least four different words away from remotely comprehending and it feels oddly soothing, like listening to grownups chatting in the next room must have felt when I was in my crib. Just a nice hum.
(I know. Something sports something. Please do not explain.)
(I know. Something sports something. Please do not explain.)
The only surprise about atalanta firing juric is that Fiorentina sacked pioli first
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sometimes I see a post that I am at least four different words away from remotely comprehending and it feels oddly soothing, like listening to grownups chatting in the next room must have felt when I was in my crib. Just a nice hum.
(I know. Something sports something. Please do not explain.)
(I know. Something sports something. Please do not explain.)
Did we check with Dem Senate leadership on this? Because, bear with me because this is some deep thinking, if we end same-sex marriage, voters in '26 will remember who did it and that could help us. How about if we nullify gay marriage in exchange for a floor vote on legalizing it? Just spitballing!
NEW: Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn ruling that legalized gay marriage:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Did we check with Dem Senate leadership on this? Because, bear with me because this is some deep thinking, if we end same-sex marriage, voters in '26 will remember who did it and that could help us. How about if we nullify gay marriage in exchange for a floor vote on legalizing it? Just spitballing!
Maybe Zohran Mamdani should have come out for ending the shutdown so Democratic Senators could have opposed it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Maybe Zohran Mamdani should have come out for ending the shutdown so Democratic Senators could have opposed it.
Senate Democrats had the power to do one thing: This shutdown. And this is what they did with it. Maybe this is some brilliant political calculus, in which case I'll happily eat my words. But right now, it feels like the beginning of the end of the party in its current form--and by its own hand.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Senate Democrats had the power to do one thing: This shutdown. And this is what they did with it. Maybe this is some brilliant political calculus, in which case I'll happily eat my words. But right now, it feels like the beginning of the end of the party in its current form--and by its own hand.
Well, that's certainly one theory about what Americans will remember.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Well, that's certainly one theory about what Americans will remember.
Schumer's curse has always been that he is an average politician who believes himself to be a strategic genius.
Schumer: "I must vote no. I can not, in good faith, support this CR. ... Make no mistake about it, the American people know who is inflicting this pain on them."
He stops short of urging his colleagues to vote "no."
He stops short of urging his colleagues to vote "no."
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Schumer's curse has always been that he is an average politician who believes himself to be a strategic genius.
Can't wait for tomorrow's fundraising email from the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Can't wait for tomorrow's fundraising email from the Democratic Party.
Waitwaitwait....Nick Fuentes isn't gay?
Loving women is gay. Being attracted to women is gay. Enjoying consentual sex with women is gay.
Is anything straight anymore?
Is anything straight anymore?
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Waitwaitwait....Nick Fuentes isn't gay?
A brutal, precise, and delightful dismissal.
Politicians like Cuomo are a relic of the past. (Did I want to title this one “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out”? Yes, I did.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | It’s Not Just Cuomo Who Lost. It’s Cuomoism.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A brutal, precise, and delightful dismissal.
I live in a very pro-Cuomo precinct in a pretty pro-Cuomo neighborhood within Nadler's district. Many of my neighbors voted for Cuomo for mayor. And I guarantee you that, presented with this option, every one of them will say, "We can do better."
holy cow, I might actually get a chance to vote against him a third time 😌
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I live in a very pro-Cuomo precinct in a pretty pro-Cuomo neighborhood within Nadler's district. Many of my neighbors voted for Cuomo for mayor. And I guarantee you that, presented with this option, every one of them will say, "We can do better."
This parade float of pre-existing conditions is only alive because of healthcare that he doesn't pay a dime for.
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This parade float of pre-existing conditions is only alive because of healthcare that he doesn't pay a dime for.
Oh no that’s terrible somebody do something
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Oh no that’s terrible somebody do something
One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.
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Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.
Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.
Peter Hujar's Day opens in NYC today and I hope some of you will treat yourselves to this beautiful, thoughtful escape into a vanished world. It's a small-scale, large-brained movie that blooms beautifully on a big screen. One of my favorites this year.
I saw a special film at the #NYFF: Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs's meditative recreation of a 1974 interview with the photographer. Vividly evocative of a lost gay New York, and Ben Whishaw, using only a transcript, goes so deep; he does the kind of work that should be up for awards but rarely is.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Peter Hujar's Day opens in NYC today and I hope some of you will treat yourselves to this beautiful, thoughtful escape into a vanished world. It's a small-scale, large-brained movie that blooms beautifully on a big screen. One of my favorites this year.
This would be great--and I don't mean "Here's why that thing you like is actually terrible and bad for The Cause," which is what it too often slips into. You can offer a progressive take on culture without being the giant scold who ruins every Thanksgiving!
broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now
it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This would be great--and I don't mean "Here's why that thing you like is actually terrible and bad for The Cause," which is what it too often slips into. You can offer a progressive take on culture without being the giant scold who ruins every Thanksgiving!
Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
If I lived in Los Angeles, nothing would keep me from this. Not inertia or traffic or a cloud of locusts. NOTHING.
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
If I lived in Los Angeles, nothing would keep me from this. Not inertia or traffic or a cloud of locusts. NOTHING.
For non-Jews/non-NYers: It's crucial to understand that Jews in NYC have always been treated as a uniform political bloc, and Jews who oppose Israel's policy toward Palestinians have always been treated as marginal/dismissable. A public breaking-off of 1/3 of NY Jews from that history is monumental.
This is a stunning political realignment--Mamdani lost Jews, Catholics, and Protestants but won by sweeping "Other" and "None."
As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.
As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For non-Jews/non-NYers: It's crucial to understand that Jews in NYC have always been treated as a uniform political bloc, and Jews who oppose Israel's policy toward Palestinians have always been treated as marginal/dismissable. A public breaking-off of 1/3 of NY Jews from that history is monumental.
Reposted by Mark Harris
The survey question should be "What do you do when the Lubavitchers come up to you on Sukkot and ask 'Are you Jewish?'"
- say no
- say no and later feel guilty
- say yes and shake the lulav
- say yes and keep walking briskly
- say no
- say no and later feel guilty
- say yes and shake the lulav
- say yes and keep walking briskly
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The survey question should be "What do you do when the Lubavitchers come up to you on Sukkot and ask 'Are you Jewish?'"
- say no
- say no and later feel guilty
- say yes and shake the lulav
- say yes and keep walking briskly
- say no
- say no and later feel guilty
- say yes and shake the lulav
- say yes and keep walking briskly
I'm getting a lot of pushback along the lines of "How dare they not break down 'Other' by religion!" but none whatsoever complaining that LGBTQ+ is an umbrella category. (Both represented 14% of the electorate.)
This is a stunning political realignment--Mamdani lost Jews, Catholics, and Protestants but won by sweeping "Other" and "None."
As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.
As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm getting a lot of pushback along the lines of "How dare they not break down 'Other' by religion!" but none whatsoever complaining that LGBTQ+ is an umbrella category. (Both represented 14% of the electorate.)
This is a stunning political realignment--Mamdani lost Jews, Catholics, and Protestants but won by sweeping "Other" and "None."
As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.
As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is a stunning political realignment--Mamdani lost Jews, Catholics, and Protestants but won by sweeping "Other" and "None."
As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.
As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.