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Clayton Oppenhuizen

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I'm an erstwhile historian of Latin America. I am a freelance translator, editor, and writer.

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I'll use this as an excuse to say: the ppl running the valley village chevron and the mobile station on cahuenga right by the 101 aren't gas station owners they're extortionists.

Case in point, they're outliers today at $6 and $5.80 respectively.

06.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're between $4.80-$5.50 in the east side of the valley (studio city to burbank) right now.

Good time to buy an Ioniq or some other EV.

06.03.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Every day, I read the news and wonder why the hell I gave up smoking 9 years ago.

06.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a black and white photo of a man in a bathtub with his mouth open . ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a bathtub with his mouth open .

"your choice is between continued random price spikes or buying solar from the chinese once."

06.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a whole book on this!

06.03.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.

Icymi
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06.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the biggest coverup of the biggest scandal in Presidential history

06.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 342 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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In 1971, the LA Dept. of Airports still had high hopes that an international airport would be built in Palmdale.

This promo is like something out of The Simpsons. Left to right, you have busy LAX, then Ontario, then regional Van Nuys, then bare-ass tumbleweed desert in Palmdale.

06.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 808 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 5

I had a similar experience with Night of the Hunter about 2 years ago.

06.03.2026 06:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

06.03.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 5752 πŸ” 333 πŸ’¬ 307 πŸ“Œ 100
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

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Which fictional characters do you think were having the nastiest sex off-screen? With the understanding that it's obviously a contest for second-place after these two freaks from Andor

06.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 580 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 138

Anyone else having server issues on here or issues with their cell service in general?

05.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

β€œNo front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

05.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 4202 πŸ” 2112 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 76

My sentiments exactly.

05.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm nearing 40 and looking at pillows that appear less rectangular and more like Jean Jacket from Nope with each passing week.

05.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sadly, I feel vindicated when I said a year ago that they're going to use WoT more than resurrect Monroe doctrine to intervene in Latin America.

That seems to be the move in Ecuador.

05.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Sadly, I feel vindicated when I said a year ago that they're going to use WoT more than resurrect Monroe doctrine to intervene in Latin America.

That seems to be the move in Ecuador.

05.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you played a lot of metal gear in the early 00s, current events seem like light work.

05.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Born too late to watch Star Trek TOS in first run

Born too early to see warp drive

Born just in time for the Eugenics Wars

05.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Are they a performer or fan of Nu Metal?

05.03.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What with oil tankers being scuttled half a world away - i think it might be high time we take those ethanol fields and make them solar fields and battery stations.

There's no reason not to invest fully in renewable energy.

05.03.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

04.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 7158 πŸ” 2602 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 36

Finally, somebody with huge public reach making the case for the inextricable intertwining of emotion and judgment, and it’s the literal worst person for the literal worst reason.

04.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to GutΒ Their Political Clout Black Mississippians won a key ruling last year in a case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But the U.S. Supreme Court may soon weaken the Voting Rights Act and erase their victory.

If the U.S. Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act, the fallout would extend beyond Congress. β€œA lion’s share of Section 2 litigation that has succeeded has been at the local and state levels,” says a legal scholar.

04.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

From the perv who brought you "how fo I build at website to date hot chicks?" It's "how do I give these camera glasses to hot chicks?"

Digital innovation is porky's and revenge of the nerds all the way down.

04.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All this independent automation from self driving cars to filtering photos is just exploited labor of the global south.

The more things change the more they stay the same...

04.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not specifically Kenya, but somewhere in the Global South.

04.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I sort of assumed this.

04.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats

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