Clayton Oppenhuizen
I'm an erstwhile historian of Latin America. I am a freelance translator, editor, and writer.
- I think season 1 of Fallout felt more cohesive because they were world building and it dropped all at once. Season 2 felt a bit odd. Like it was supposed to be 12 episodes. And the first half of the season saw a lot of fan service because they have to address the elephant in the room (FNV).
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenIf you did not read Audrey Lee's dispatch from the Portland ICE facility protests yet, I highly recommend it www.liberalcurrents.com/what-its-rea...
- I'll no longer argue with people about renewables and just send them this youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...
- Reposted by Clayton Oppenhuizenit's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!
- Perhaps it's too glib of me but seeing Scott up in arms now after the guy he endorsed did Haitianism on the campaign trail and maintains it to this day...
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenSo. Abolish ICE is the message that won this primary and Rep Grijalva won on the Epstein Files discharge vote. All the proof you need that the Senate Dems who fold on anything but abolish are not representing the voters. Pretty clear message here.
- INBOX: the Democratic National Committee is forced to delete a premature congratulatory message to former Rep. Tom Malinowski in the #NJ11 special election primary to succeed Gov. Mikie Sherrill this morning. DSA member Analilia Mejia, running on abolishing ICE, took the lead late last night.
- I'm waiting for the personal AI ad set to Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus. We're so on the nose I'm confident it wouldn't register with most.
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenBecause we're talking about the New Fire ceremony tonight, they get to play with this site. It's a fantastic reconstruction of the city of Tenochtitlan. It'll really help the students visualize a place they're just freshly learning of and will maybe never get to see. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenBetter people than I will have to be understanding/forgiving if you voted for this creature, or voted third-party, or sat it out. 🤷🏻♂️
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenThis guy wasn't an investor, he was the cruise director for the largest pedo cult in the world. He didn't need to make money, he just needed to connect the most powerful people on earth and get some leverage on them. He baited them in with underage girls and it worked. Gross.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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- Idk man, no one with my surname was in those files so that's a couple thousand who aren't.
- Don't succumb to identity reductionism. There are many books about this, Ramos's is perhaps the most recent popular one.
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenProbably a good chance to remind people that the identity reductionism that became common in the 2010s is as hazardous as class reductionism, and for many of the same reasons.
- 1. Turns out the Border Patrol officers who murdered Alex Pretti are of Hispanic lineage. Their names are Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, according to Pro Publica. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenThe next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But a funny thing has happened with Miller’s authoritarian fever dreams .... Even parts of Red America are saying no. trib.al/SO2ZFfU
- Reading Lasch's Revolt of the Elites...
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenMy criticism of oligarch-owned news outlets does not stop at Jeff Bezos' gutting of The Washington Post. For the regime and right-wing billionaires, the value of national media is what it *doesn't* produce. bsky.app/profile/alex...
- BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth. The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenThe Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
- Reposted by Clayton Oppenhuizenhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenIn an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
- Reposted by Clayton Oppenhuizenholy shit
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenDHS, ICE and CBP lie 100% of the time: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenThis is genocidal language
- Trump: "Minnesota is a mess. There's something in the water up there. I won the 3 three times but I got no credit for it. It's a rigged state. Really rigged badly w/ the Somalians, and the Somalians & the theft. We gotta get 'em out, most of them. 92% don't work. Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes."
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenThis morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenFWIW the majority of players liked it, and one gave this quote:
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenToday on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
- Defectors was my first (bridged) read of February. And I need more people to read this book. It will help you make sense of how and why Latinos become invested in RW politics.
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenCan't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenWe don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.
- Growing up means knowing Rob Bryden had the better of the two Michael Cain impressions.
- My story graph audiobooks of January. Clearly, AI and horror were the most salient themes.
- A few things: I hope this house has good issues in perpetuity; I hope the project is very late and far over budget; and this is why I don't get pleased when I hear "have ICE and local law enforcement coordinate" in the aftermath of Minneapolis. It just means the latter runs cover for the former.
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- I am pleasantly surprised at how much prestige cinema is on the free steaming services (Tubi, Kanopy, and Plex. mention others if you know of them).
- Reading these leaks like
- Reposted by Clayton Oppenhuizen"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics
- Reposted by Clayton Oppenhuizenit's all an elite reproduction crisis, imo
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenGot caught up in a really good book last night. I didn't stop coloring till 2 o'clock this morning.
- As a historian/history lover, it's hilarious to see a modern example of a logistics snafu. 1840s: We've overextended and run out of meat, wheat as well. We're subsisting on assorted offal. 2020s: we've lost the doordashers. The B-dubs too. All we've left is Campbell's. God help us.
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- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenUntil 9/11, you could cross into Canada from Detroit with a driver's license. You're supposed to show your birth certificate or passport, but 9 times out of 10, they'd wave you through. 9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
- The author disabled quotes.For a very long time you did not need a passport to cross back and forth to Mexico and Canada. I am Gen X and El Paso folks my age remember crossing to drink in Mexico for the night and then coming back home. There are families who continued living in the same place when the border moved.
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenWhen anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
- I'm not a screenwriter but if I were...
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- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenSo an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
- 28 Years Later: Bone Temple was directed phenomenally (obviously, it's DiCosta) and had excellent acting from the main leads. Importantly it also proved that drugs will get you there; the performance arts are alive; and even in the postapocalypse there will be quizzes. #filmsky
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- Just as Gen Z was discovering them via TikTok.
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- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenYou can read the news and its sober people just straight up saying, “oh yeah the president of the United States is probably going to steal that oil money and we all kind of know it.” And apparently that’s just how it is now.
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- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenThey said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices
- Reposted by Clayton Oppenhuizenbtw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
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- I would watch a cat and mouse (dog and cinnamon twist) cop short film about the taco bell chihuahua.
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- Reposted by Clayton Oppenhuizeninterested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenGeorgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
- Reposted by Clayton OppenhuizenOne of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.
- Reposted by Clayton Oppenhuizenwhen they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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