Clayton Oppenhuizen
@csoppenhuizen.bsky.social
I'm an erstwhile historian of Latin America. I am a communications consultant. I welcome book and article recs.
Before people start to think this is somehow contradictory to the FP of this administration you have to understand: their posturing on narcotrafficking is entirely a smokescreen to justify extrajudicial murder and goad 🇻🇪 into a war.
Breaking News: Juan Orlando Hernández, a Honduran ex-president convicted for drug trafficking, was freed from prison after a Trump pardon.
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon
Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Before people start to think this is somehow contradictory to the FP of this administration you have to understand: their posturing on narcotrafficking is entirely a smokescreen to justify extrajudicial murder and goad 🇻🇪 into a war.
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Breaking News: Juan Orlando Hernández, a Honduran ex-president convicted for drug trafficking, was freed from prison after a Trump pardon.
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon
Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Breaking News: Juan Orlando Hernández, a Honduran ex-president convicted for drug trafficking, was freed from prison after a Trump pardon.
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He looks like Cate Blanchett in Black Bag
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
He looks like Cate Blanchett in Black Bag
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Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol
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look I don't care how common the names "William" and "Smith" are, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air wrote Slow Horses and that's that
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
look I don't care how common the names "William" and "Smith" are, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air wrote Slow Horses and that's that
Just wait for AI to hallucinate soil types or any measurements related to the foundation or load-bearing walls.
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Just wait for AI to hallucinate soil types or any measurements related to the foundation or load-bearing walls.
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🤬🤬🤬
BREAKING NYT:
The Trump admin just fired eight immigration judges in New York City.
All the judges were dismissed from the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza — a building that houses the NYC headquarters of ICE and has become the epicenter of migrant arrests in the city.
The Trump admin just fired eight immigration judges in New York City.
All the judges were dismissed from the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza — a building that houses the NYC headquarters of ICE and has become the epicenter of migrant arrests in the city.
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
🤬🤬🤬
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The strikes are both a violation of international law but also the US Constitution - incredibly telling that Democrats refuse to stand up for either
If crimes against humanity are not an impeachable offense, what’s the point? www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The strikes are both a violation of international law but also the US Constitution - incredibly telling that Democrats refuse to stand up for either
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I do appreciate that in this whole Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK mess there's an unspoken agreement that people are just gonna break right through those assholes paywalls and post the good stuff for the real sickos.
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I do appreciate that in this whole Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK mess there's an unspoken agreement that people are just gonna break right through those assholes paywalls and post the good stuff for the real sickos.
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One of those classic McSweeney's where you know more than one person who is saying this out loud, proudly, so it's both comic and tragic.
"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."
I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers
I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
One of those classic McSweeney's where you know more than one person who is saying this out loud, proudly, so it's both comic and tragic.
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For the first time in it's 111 year history, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court.
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly/48KAPLm
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly/48KAPLm
For the first time, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For the first time in it's 111 year history, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court.
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly/48KAPLm
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly/48KAPLm
This is a good threat and a great way to understand what has happened, epistemically, in universities over the past 15 years.
One of my big gripes before leaving is that publishing dry (that is not theory heavy) history was not seen as a viable way to be retained or hired.
One of my big gripes before leaving is that publishing dry (that is not theory heavy) history was not seen as a viable way to be retained or hired.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this phenomena due in large part to my specific grad school experience (IYKYK), the ~2010s-2022 syllabus wars. But rather than cast it as a woke/anti-woke fight over canons, I see it as a product of generational turnover and failed institutional reproduction:
i miss believing, as i did as a grad student and for a few years following, that whitman was over-assigned, over-studied
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is a good threat and a great way to understand what has happened, epistemically, in universities over the past 15 years.
One of my big gripes before leaving is that publishing dry (that is not theory heavy) history was not seen as a viable way to be retained or hired.
One of my big gripes before leaving is that publishing dry (that is not theory heavy) history was not seen as a viable way to be retained or hired.
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So, like, this isn’t even my rant.
This is just, like, what is true. The annual salary of approximately 1,500 faculty members is caught up in buyout/guarantee money for two football coaches. This is happening in the midst of hiring freezes and dramatic budget cuts in academic units. It’s just true.
This is just, like, what is true. The annual salary of approximately 1,500 faculty members is caught up in buyout/guarantee money for two football coaches. This is happening in the midst of hiring freezes and dramatic budget cuts in academic units. It’s just true.
LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
SOURCES: Lane Kiffin is expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach. Kiffin is set to meet with his Ole Miss team this morning at 9 AM CT. As we reported yesterday morning, LSU has been very confident it was going to land Kiffin. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So, like, this isn’t even my rant.
This is just, like, what is true. The annual salary of approximately 1,500 faculty members is caught up in buyout/guarantee money for two football coaches. This is happening in the midst of hiring freezes and dramatic budget cuts in academic units. It’s just true.
This is just, like, what is true. The annual salary of approximately 1,500 faculty members is caught up in buyout/guarantee money for two football coaches. This is happening in the midst of hiring freezes and dramatic budget cuts in academic units. It’s just true.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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my book, Building For People, on how we plan and build housing and neighborhoods in the US is a complete anomaly - resulting in a low quality of life and poor public health outcomes v. peer countries
islandpress.org/books/buildi...
islandpress.org/books/buildi...
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
my book, Building For People, on how we plan and build housing and neighborhoods in the US is a complete anomaly - resulting in a low quality of life and poor public health outcomes v. peer countries
islandpress.org/books/buildi...
islandpress.org/books/buildi...
I've said it since its introduction: have AI replace the C suite. It saves the board headaches and it cuts the cost of 40+ (or more) employees at the expense of 1 person losing their job.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I've said it since its introduction: have AI replace the C suite. It saves the board headaches and it cuts the cost of 40+ (or more) employees at the expense of 1 person losing their job.
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a children’s birthday party.
BREAKING: Four people are dead and 10 are hospitalized after a shooting at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, officials say.
4 killed, 10 injured in shooting during family celebration in California banquet hall
Victims ranged from children to adults, a San Joaquin County Sheriff's spokesperson said. No information about the gunman has been developed, she said.
nbcnews.to
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
a children’s birthday party.
I think that TD was the epitome of being lucky as opposed to good.
Then again when you're 3-8 why arent you going for it on every down.
Then again when you're 3-8 why arent you going for it on every down.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I think that TD was the epitome of being lucky as opposed to good.
Then again when you're 3-8 why arent you going for it on every down.
Then again when you're 3-8 why arent you going for it on every down.
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Michigan was more worried about guarding the M logo on midfield after the game then they did about not getting their ass whooped 😂😂😂
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Michigan was more worried about guarding the M logo on midfield after the game then they did about not getting their ass whooped 😂😂😂
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It remains not only so shameful and such a profound betrayal but also just so EMBARRASSING that universities are signing things that are like:
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It remains not only so shameful and such a profound betrayal but also just so EMBARRASSING that universities are signing things that are like:
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education