🐈Rex Parker🐈⬛ ✏️ 🧐
@rexparker.bsky.social
Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University / 2025 ACPT Pairs champion (w/ Penelope Harper) / https://letterboxd.com/realrexparker
“We Bought* a Zoo**”
*invaded
**Venezuela
*invaded
**Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 3:08 AM
“We Bought* a Zoo**”
*invaded
**Venezuela
*invaded
**Venezuela
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My neighbor plays his music too loud, and besides his windows get nice light, so I have arrested him. I’ll be running his apartment for the next while.
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 PM
My neighbor plays his music too loud, and besides his windows get nice light, so I have arrested him. I’ll be running his apartment for the next while.
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Red meat campaign issues always hide policy aims to some degree, but the possibility that some of the most unhinged imperial aspirations of the past hundred years were hiding under the blanket of "stopping wokeness" is wild.
January 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Red meat campaign issues always hide policy aims to some degree, but the possibility that some of the most unhinged imperial aspirations of the past hundred years were hiding under the blanket of "stopping wokeness" is wild.
Watching RAN (1985). Feels … relevant.
January 3, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Watching RAN (1985). Feels … relevant.
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An 80 year old pervert going on TV to slur monotonously about the illegal invasion he just did. The logical endpoint of our political development over the last 50 years
January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
An 80 year old pervert going on TV to slur monotonously about the illegal invasion he just did. The logical endpoint of our political development over the last 50 years
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Ah okay so this kind of thing is, historically speaking, a whole different thing.
Live updates: Trump says the U.S. is "going to run" Venezuela until transition of power. There are no visible signs the U.S. is controlling the country.
Live updates: US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured
President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. had struck Venezuela early Saturday and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country.
bit.ly
January 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Ah okay so this kind of thing is, historically speaking, a whole different thing.
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It’s almost like the FIFA Peace Prize meant nothing
January 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
It’s almost like the FIFA Peace Prize meant nothing
I prefer to think of Blue Sky not so much as an Echo Chamber as a Commiseration Palace
January 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
I prefer to think of Blue Sky not so much as an Echo Chamber as a Commiseration Palace
My god you’re weak. Retire. Please.
My statement on the capture of the brutal, illegitimate ruler of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and need for a transition to democracy:
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM
My god you’re weak. Retire. Please.
May you all be as excited by anything as my coffee roaster was by seeing that I was reading Len Deighton. Normally taciturn guy just Lit Up. Offered to lend me all his Deighton novels. And Follett novels. And Le Carré novels. It was all so sweet.
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January 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM
May you all be as excited by anything as my coffee roaster was by seeing that I was reading Len Deighton. Normally taciturn guy just Lit Up. Offered to lend me all his Deighton novels. And Follett novels. And Le Carré novels. It was all so sweet.
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Moby looking at some snowflakes this morning.
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Moby looking at some snowflakes this morning.
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Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by
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let's hear more about this "b-movie mania"
January 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM
let's hear more about this "b-movie mania"
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Worth checking trump tower because you know this guy not subtle
January 3, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Worth checking trump tower because you know this guy not subtle
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
Conservatives, for a long time now: “We are not the world’s police force! (… unless there’s oil to be stolen)”
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Conservatives, for a long time now: “We are not the world’s police force! (… unless there’s oil to be stolen)”
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Good morning ☀️
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Good morning ☀️
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As ever, the only appropriate response is impeachment and removal from office.
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
As ever, the only appropriate response is impeachment and removal from office.
Mmm, love to eat at Star Cow Lunch Dinner!
January 3, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Mmm, love to eat at Star Cow Lunch Dinner!
Me after guess 2: “oh come ON!”
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January 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Me after guess 2: “oh come ON!”
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X screenshots are a crime pls stop
January 3, 2026 at 12:14 AM
X screenshots are a crime pls stop
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Nobody living in America has ever been asked, directly or implicitly, to apologize for loving America.
This "value" is based on a false premise about a non-existent enemy and tells you they're liars from the jump.
This "value" is based on a false premise about a non-existent enemy and tells you they're liars from the jump.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Nobody living in America has ever been asked, directly or implicitly, to apologize for loving America.
This "value" is based on a false premise about a non-existent enemy and tells you they're liars from the jump.
This "value" is based on a false premise about a non-existent enemy and tells you they're liars from the jump.
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