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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have a Forno Bravo pizza oven and sometimes throw in steak, veggies, have done bread and bagels, and some thin desserts like galettes and tarts. The heat range is amazing and can be super creatively stimulating.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's cool and looks like it was designed by The Rural Studio.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Those look great, but the dough there really seems to be the key -- how long do you ferment and how much kneading/mixing/flipping?

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That peel implies you do this on the regular. For me, the margherita is the true classic, but simplifying back to neapolitan style also opens up all sorts of ingredient combinations and possibilities.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The pizza steel is immeasurably better. The marketing about conducting the heat to the dough/crust more efficiently is absolutely true. Nothing beats a pizza oven, but during the winter months and for small groups, a pizza steel in a household oven does the job.

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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 · 02/08/2026

That started out interesting and ended up stupendously fascinating. I'd be willing to watch a documentary or a Netflix series about that pool cue.

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

of a self-fulfilling prophecy I could imagine. Otherwise, it bordered on fraud, a conspiracy in favor of white homeowners. And Wright drew it all out there on the record. 12/12 These kinds of finds sustain me.

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

Wright then illustrated several instances in which Black residency pushed rents and values UP (often because Black renters and buyers were desperate to break out of segregated districts and have more housing options). It was the most egregious ignorance 11/n

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

with opposing witnesses under oath, how hollow the logic of race and real estate was. The Louisville assessor admitted that when a white resident asked for a lower assessment because a black neighbor moved in, HE ALWAYS GRANTED IT. No questions asked. 10/n

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

which meant that he knew real estate well, as banks and insurance companies were often the only sources of capital for Black mortgages and real estate investments. I came across this transcript a few years ago and I am happy to sing Wright's praises through the ages for illustrating 9/n

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

William Wright was a Howard-trained attorney who was not a civil rights attorney (that era didn't come until Charles Hamilton Houston transformed Howard Law in the 1920s) but since he was one of the few Black attorneys in KY represented a Black client. Wright was an insurance and bank executive 8/n

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

Anyways, the Harris case was included in the Supreme Court record and while Buchanan was not decided on real estate logic, it's got this amazing record of not only the racial superstition that guided real estate practice for generations, but this masterful takedown by a super skilled attorney. 7/n

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

Buchanan is particularly notable because Moorfield Storey, a Boston Brahmin, former secretary to Senator Charles Sumner and one of the founders of the NAACP, won. Not by arguing about civil rights, but that the segregation ordinance violated property rights. 6/n

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

The Buchanan v. Warley case was an absolutely brilliantly constructed test where city segregationists were forced to represent the interests of Warley, a Louisville civil rights activist, and the NAACP represented Buchanan, an Indiana real estate guy. 5/n

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

The case was Louisville v. Harris and it was bundled with Buchanan v. Warley, the NAACP challenge to the Louisville segregation ordinance. The ordinances (starting in Baltimore) designated blocks white or Black and residents of the opposite race could not move into the block 4/n

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

The Black lawyer (William Wright) defending his client absolutely destroyed the real estate guy by asking him several detailed questions that illustrated the lawyer knew as much about real estate as the expert and got him to admit his premises were contradicted by actual sales data. 3/n

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

the trial transcript from a Louisville KY case on their segregation ordinance from the 1910s. The city of Louisville called a white real estate expert to testify that Black residents led to property depreciation of 25-50 percent on white blocks. 2/n

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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 · 26/07/2026

But I am super disappointed that Van Aert had to drop out -- it looked like Jonas was in unprecedented shape but just did not have the team behind him without Wout. Would have been a really great battle.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The last five years have been nothing short of amazing, not least of which was that the greatest threat to Pogacar this year came AFTER Vingegaard's crash.

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

I now often travel overseas in July so don't get to see them, but I looked forward to them every summer and will sing their praises until my dying day.

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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 · 23/07/2026

I think it's also pretty clear he's painfully oblivious to the truism that if you're going to have that hairstyle, you've gotta have a pencil-thin mustache to complete the look. His whole aesthetic screams "I don't know what I'm doing."

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

Read up on Lord Buckethead, too -- really an excellent British tradition.

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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 · 25/05/2026

I immediately thought of Victor Horta.

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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 · 09/05/2026

The dude did such an important thing and he deserves to be remembered for it. So amazing he lived so long and so disappointing that circumstances meant that he got so little recognition.

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

In our senior seminar at VT we hosted Maureen O'Donnell, the @chicago.suntimes.com obituary writer, who talked about researching and writing obituaries. Then Reagan went out and researched and wrote such a good one, talking to family members and finding tons of details on Kahen's early life.

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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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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Under the "hold" scenario, you stay in the neighborhood you have known and can afford the payment for and maybe clean a couple extra rooms every couple weeks. I cannot tell if this is a reporter fishing for some perennial complainers (found em!) or people for whom $3 million is simply not enough.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"For example, if a California home was purchased in 1997 for $500,000 and sells for $4 million today, that homeowner would likely owe around $1 million in taxes." Also wild how bad people are at arithmetic. Under the "sell" scenario, you end up with $3 million dollars and can move where you please

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

A truly great book with the truly great line: "And then there was the flatulence."

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Basically the last week of classes every year; nothing beats it.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's not a technical issue -- it's an issue of human nature, speedup culture, and not being dedicated to craftsmanship.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

... and I'm sure everyone thinks it does such a good job, no one will notice, and they get swamped with whatever, that they just use the slop.

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LaDale Winling @lwinling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

So sloppy and lazy as to be professional malfeasance. Attorney is out of a job and I'd put this as Exhibit A in a class on where using AI will take you. Everyone starts out saying "I just use it to draft such and such then tailor and check it" ...

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