LaDale Winling

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

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

I am too!

My optimism comes from a crisis of confidence I had a few years ago. I realized I couldn't keep up with the technology and didn't want to, and didn't want to keep speeding up, so I tried to re-think what I could still be good at if I could require less volume in my teaching, but could do better.

What is your wife's discipline?

I just don't believe that adding layers and layers of control and surveillance and whatnot is the answer. I think it comes down to learning and doing -- my discipline and work has fundamental value and I think we can still deliver that.

200 would seem pretty hard, but maybe do-able. In the survey I have blue books and reading quizzes. But I think of an intro to python course of about 100 that I took a few years ago. That course must be absolutely dead, basically non-viable in the way it was taught.

In some of the upper level classes that are supposed to be 30 to 40, it might be a bit harder, because you would normally ask for more writing (out of class) but it's large enough that you can't give the close attention of a smallish seminar.

In the U.S. history survey we had 100 (which also had discussion sections of ~33). I basically ran it like a mid-90s history survey with blue books, reading quizzes, and Friday discussions.

I agree with you that you cannot put everything in digital form and then also put in a bunch of digital infrastructure to prevent cheating and use of AI. But I think you can emphasize fundamentals and make sure students document their process in ways that undermine the use of AI.

The readings are in hard copy, as well. In this course (U.S. maritime history) the students are super eager because of the topic, but in my U.S. survey course and my U.S. urban history course, they are also handling it pretty well when I put on some guardrails.

We (historians) have been dealing with that for a while and I have been slowly reeling my materials back from online course management systems. This semester I have a course that is all analogue, with only in-class writing and no screens out during class. The students are super engaged.

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

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.

#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

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.”

Youngkin set to deliver final State of the Commonwealth Address How to watch the 2026 Virginia State of the Commonwealth address

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

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw' A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

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."

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.

I realized we had 6 NU PhD students in the group today and wanted to get the "brains trust" together for a photo.

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.

I would have thought someone would take the lesson from UVa and U-M that elite public universities are tension-filled entities with constituencies that cannot be bullied, ignored, or papered over with money. But that might be because I never made a living in the consultant class.

One of the most rewarding points of university presidential politics of the past few years is the collapse of Santa Ono. He abandoned principles of equity at Michigan and tried to flee to Florida. The UF's conservative board had bent him to their will and then rejected him. Good riddance.

I can only conclude Beardsley either wants to do the same or is so politically insensitive that he thinks he can take this position in this way without consequences.

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...

God, the Bentley is so good.

Look at that burlap!

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.

Mary with a gas mask

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

An ICE agent

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.

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."

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...