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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.
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Gavin Newsom just gave a strong speech laying out the stakes for democracy in blunt language that too few powerful Democrats have been willing to use. I know the huge problems with him. But at this awful moment, playing the "Sorry, he's dead to me" game with Democrats seems an unaffordable luxury.

submitted 3 hours ago • 65 comments

If these people persist in seeing me as less than human, I will respond in kind. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Moran is 65 and his contract was reportedly set to expire on Friday, so whatever this performative toadying by ABC News derives from, it will not buy the network what it hopes to obtain, any more than the $15 million in extortion the network paid to the Trump "foundation" will.

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

I'll be about 30 miles from the nearest protest on Saturday. When I saw Trump's statement, we made driving plans.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

I'm starting to believe that this result will be determined by turnout, and I give you my blood oath that the Cuomo-rankers in my UWS neighborhood who "liked his father" and have voted in every primary since 1948 will show up to vote. So young(er) people, PLEASE: Do your thing and nullify them!

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

One thing I've come to believe is that Democratic leaders have to start talking about Republicans the way Republicans talk about Democrats. No more "Our friends on the other side of the aisle" more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger pieties, which everyone hates. Say what they are over and over. It matters.

submitted 14 hours ago • 30 comments

oh my god 😆 iykyk (sound on)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Not sure I believe a poll that has Cuomo at +8 with women and -6 with men, but this is still encouraging. Early voting starts Saturday! Don't rank Cuomo!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Jesus Christ! The "distraction" argument has become absolutely pathological. What is happening is real. Human lives are at stake. Democracy is imperiled. Attempting to minimize it as a feint or a maneuver because you want to talk about something else is morally and politically indefensible.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

"The Tonys are never going to attract a mainstream audience with content like that" is the pop-culture version of "Democrats need to move to the center to reach real Americans" and should be handled with the same skepticism.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

[quietest possible voice] don't use your phone for this

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Well, Cole Escola winning a Tony and thanking someone from Grindr just vaulted into my ten favorite moments in Tony history. Actually, in history.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

If you didn't watch the Tonys pre-show, you missed the announcement of the Gavin Creel Fellowships, to help struggling young actors without means on their arrival in New York City. Text GAVIN to 44321 to support.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

My God, that Hamilton cast. What a number!

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Fix your mics, Tonys!

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Tonight my husband fulfilled a lifelong dream--to utter the words "getting railed" on the Tonys pre-show. It was for a good cause!

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Learning, alongside so many other gay men today, what Pluto TV is.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Journalists have to make judgments based on the available evidence all the time--about character, about honesty, about consistency, about motivation. It's disingenuous to pretend that doing so is wildly outside the bounds of a reporter's job, or that "objectivity" means never expressing an opinion.>

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Important to know that the very footage that is appalling all of us--rows of faceless men in riot gear, protestors running, clouds of gas--is what Trump and Miller and the MAGA-sycophant anti-city press have had a collective hard-on for since the campaign. This will be wall-to-wall on Fox all week.>

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

For many decades in mainstream journalism, gay people and lesbians were seen as a "them"--a problem (societal, cultural, moral, municipal, religious) that needed to be solved by an "us" (straight people and publications) I don't mean hateful press--this was the approach of SYMPATHETIC publications.>

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

My deeply researched box office theory for this weekend: If you want to make a ton of money, maybe don't call your hardcore action movie BALLERINA.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Regardless of your position on Palestine and Israel, I think we would all benefit from less focus on this issue in US political races that do not directly affect it. The mayor of New York has little influence over foreign policy! There's no reason to be talking so much about this!

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Out-and-out racism from the head of the Anti-Defamation League. What a disgrace.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

When the dust has settled, we should probably take a look at A) the incel right's sweaty eagerness to masculinize the Trump/Musk split as the way gladiatorial men with great big weenies fight and B) the speed with which just about everyone else compared them to women or gay men.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Serious question: Why would Trump ever "make up" with Musk? He was already kind of done with him, Musk is not especially popular among his supporters, and any truce would only last until the next drug-fueled mental-health episode.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Murphy is very addicted to "If you're not talking about the thing I want you to talk about, you're talking about the wrong thing." No. Nobody in the world, including Trump, has had more of a negative impact on American life this year than Musk. His behavior deserved to be today's lead story.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments