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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh damn, I am thinking of a Tribune Tower-type competition, imagining all the visions that point the way to 21st-century architecture. But before anything else, I thought "what would Venturi Scott Brown's submission look like?"

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

By coincidence, I got to write about Harding's death today. He had a heart attack and suffered for a couple days; his handlers claimed it was indigestion due to bad crab on a West Coast trip. Then he had another one and died. West Coaster + Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover was on the trip with him.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Nice little L surprise appearance on this account.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I have been working on a book on race and real estate for a few years (Property Wrongs) and am in the course of revisions on it. One of my challenges (as with any book) is that there are SO MANY really excellent moments and people that I want to write about. Today I am going over... 1/n

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It was a really fun project to work on and my colleagues at the DSL are the absolute best in the business.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This was my old post office, a block from the apartment where my late wife and I lived for 4 years. I love this place. Whenever I think of Vonnegut's story about going to the post office for an envelope, I imagine my doing the same and seeing him here. www.insidehook.com/wellness/kur...

insidehook.com

Kurt Vonnegut's Advice for Making the Most of Your Day

Go buy some envelopes. It'll change your life.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Jesse White Tumblers were my absolute favorite part of the Evanston July 4th parade, my absolute favorite of all civic celebrations. Super good and entertaining, a real gem.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"He's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he's gone" is a very good line of attack against Trump.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

One of the things I love about Stephen Colbert is that the guy is just a great entertainer, well trained at Northwestern. He would probably do jokes and sing and dance super well for an audience of 20.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

the-downballot.com

How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court

The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

One of the pieces of my students' writing I am most proud of: an obituary for Harold Kahen, who helped the NAACP defeat covenants in a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court challenge. He died six years ago at age 101 and had just a one-sentence obituary. www.chicagocovenants.com/blog/z06l44s...

chicagocovenants.com

Harold I. Kahen, Civil Rights and Corporate Lawyer, Dies at 101 — Chicago Covenants

Lawyer played key role in fight against racial covenants

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'm moonscrolling

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

do not dream of being America's top retailer if you are not willing to do this: bsky.app/profile/good...

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Great news. Note how the party that sued here was not the University of California but its faculty and staff unions.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'll read any interview with @tj-stiles.bsky.social. Here's a good one for a Sunday morning.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Cake was a great late-90s band with a wide range of styles featuring guitar that I will remember all the rest of my days. Rest in Peace, Greg Brown.

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The Redistrict Network (mirror 🤖) @redistrictnet.bluesky.bot · 27/01/2026

#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026). Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I am just a simple small-town lawyer but I really can’t think of a more toxic and self-defeating political strategy than telling your constituents the things they care about are “a distraction.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026

"the state of the commonwealth is everyone is tired of my sorry ass" www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

vpm.org

Youngkin set to deliver final State of the Commonwealth Address

How to watch the 2026 Virginia State of the Commonwealth address

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is the most correct take. It is extremely heartening to see someone in a leadership position say "I will continue to do my job and will not concede to bullshit."

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Hey, Chicago! @historians.org panel on civic engagement yesterday and a big public research session today for @chicagocovenants.bsky.social. It’s great to be back.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

An extremely ill-advised acceptance that is not only tone-deaf and nakedly ambitious, but actively undermining the expressed will of Virginians and the incoming governor. I get why Republican hacks want to undercut the governor...

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I always said that the humanities couldn't save your life, but that it could make it worth living. I am going to amend that proposition -- it can save your life.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 30/11/2025

Savage! 🎄 Lake Street Church of Evanston creates a nativity scene with gas masks to remind us that Jesus was a refugee. "This installation is not subtle. The crisis it addresses is not abstract. We ask viewers to confront the disconnect between professed religious or moral values & immigration."

Jesus wrapped in the thermal blankets they give children in ICE facilities

This installation reimagines the nativity as a scene of forced family separation, drawing direct parallels between the Holy Family's refugee experience and contemporary immigration detention practices.

By placing the Christmas story (Christianity's central narrative of refuge, sanctuary, and sacred family) within the visual language of immigration enforcement and detention, this work asks viewers to confront the disconnect between professed religious or moral values and immigration policies. The emergency blanket references the actual materials used in detention facilities. The zip ties on the infant's wrists directly reference the children who were zip-tied by agents during a raid on a Chicago apartment building earlier this year, where most residents were U.S. citizens: a stark reminder that enforcement terror does not discriminate by documentation status.

The gas masks worn by Mary and Joseph reference the documented use of tear gas and other chemical weapons deployed by ICE agents against peaceful protesters, journalists, and community members advocating for immigration reform and bearing witness to human rights abuses within the system.

This installation is not subtle because the crisis it addresses is not abstract. We hope viewers will join the conversation about what sanctuary means when families fleeing violence are met with separation, detention, and dehumanization. We further hope that conversation will move people to action, regardless of faith or philosophical background.

The Holy Family were refugees. This is not political interpretation, this is the reality described in the stories our tradition has told and retold for millenia. By witnessing this familiar story through the reality faced by migrants today, we hope to restore its radical edge, and to ask what it means to celebrate the birth of a refugee child while turning away those who follow in his footsteps.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Among all the Edmund Fitzgerald coverage, this record of the radio transmissions from 50 years ago posted on Threads is the one that has affected me the most deeply: www.threads.com/@visitthesau...

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This would be amazing. Tom Perriello had one term 2009-2011 and it has been all right wingers since.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Back in grad school I worked for HABS, the Historic American Building Survey, an office in the NPS. Staff had just finished a long documentation project on the White House, creating measured drawings and photographing everything. It was documented because of course the WH was historic but ... 1/n

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It's time for me to finish revisions for _Property Wrongs_; aiming to wind things up this semester. I have a Tuesday afternoon Zoom writing group you might like to join -- 1-3pm Eastern. Longtime participants are urban historians and landscape studies people. DM for Zoom link.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Hard agree. I feel that the books and articles and things they buy are the heart of the learning. I feel this as a writer and as a reader, and also as a person who converses with others to learn about their experiences. The readings are the key things, the core elements, not add-ons or expenses.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

www.latimes.com/politics/sto... I'm extremely interested to see if Olympic athletes will respond to the certain enshittification of the LA Games. Swimmers, especially, are super excited for the LA Games to showcase the sport. Will they be excited to have the Games ruined by the President?

latimes.com

Trump names himself chair of L.A. Olympics task force, sees role for military during Games

Trump’s news conference may prompt questions about whether a president with a penchant for showmanship might assume an unusually active role in planning the Olympics.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Can confirm that, in my just-concluded trip to Europe, many friends and family who have visited the US previously or had it on their list of travel goals are not coming because of word of tourist detentions and overall state of upheaval.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Well, he resigned, and I cannot possibly see the logic. It will protect no one and nothing at UVA; it in fact emboldens the bullies. There is no golden parachute worth protecting at the cost of a university. A final act of extremely middling leadership.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I cannot emphasize enough how dumb it would be for Ryan to resign. There might be enough Youngkin stooges on the BOV to fire him (I'm not sure, even though it has tipped more right-wing with Youngkin appointees), but you've got to make them fire you.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Today's No Kings protest march in Chicago's Loop was extremely impressive -- for its normie energy, for its size, and for the quality of the witticisms on various signs.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Geez, it’s like when the Chicago Cubs were hiring an archivist.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

UVA's acquisition of this site is a classic shitty university move. It was awarded to the city school system for a pre-K site; in the course of application, the city asked UVA to withdraw its competing application. It didn't; the DofEd then rescinded Cville's award + gave the site to UVA.

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Mike Ryan @mikeryan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Robert Smigel’s tribute to George Wendt is really great

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oconn270.bsky.social @oconn270.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

RIP George Wendt, aka "Norm!" but I know him best as Bill Swerski of the Superfans

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