LaDale Winling

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...

Agreed -- I was like "shut up! no predictions or countdowns! Just straight up play-by-play!"

An Air Canada flight right now

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

Co-sign. Really great book.

I guess staff from the 2000s didn't know how prescient they were.

I never got to see the documentation, because (if I remember correctly) it included some secure areas that could not be shared publicly, as is the usual HABS practice. 3/3

it was also so that, in case of some kind of catastrophe like a fire or terrorist attack, the damaged part of the WH could be rebuilt to its exact conditions. That's one of the great things about HABS documentation, they are so detailed they can be used for reconstruction purposes. 2/n

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

An intro to _Property Wrongs: The Forty Year Battle Over Race and Real Estate_ is available here: www.ladalecwinling.com/work#/proper...

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.

Damn, Ned, putting those two in the same sentence is like putting a dagger in the heart of our society.

We must always keep in the back of our minds, never forgetting, that Chuck Schumer is bad at politics.

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.

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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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?

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.

Did ChatGPT write this?

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.

Oh, I think it would have been only a matter of days, but opposing the federal government would have galvanized the university community. Instead he took a complicit action that only legitimizes the power of the DOJ to bully the university and will give UVA a collaborationist stooge next.

I think of Clark Kerr’s dismissal from the presidency of the University of California at the behest of Reagan. Kerr said he left as he began: “fired with enthusiasm.”

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.

He also ran for governor to try to change state politics and to clear out the Board but lost in the primaries in 1946. But politics came around and UT now has a building named for him, among other honors. Pretty much the definition of the right side of history and sticking to his principles.

By lost his job, I mean Rainey wrote a long screed, a goddamned *rant* detailing all of the Regents' bullshit (eg they objected to Dos Passos' USA being assigned in English class) and they fired him. He did not remain a UT education professor, but landed at a much smaller college.

I think of the University of Texas in the 1930s and 40s, where Homer Rainey was fairly progressive and opposed the meddling of the board in personnel decisions (firing defenders of New Deal policies) and in reading assignments. He lost his job but was so right that the university *now lauds him*.

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.

Counterpoint: this completely ignores the spread collar, for which the Windsor knot is perfect.

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.

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

This may never make headlines outside of Charlottesville, but it stinks of a collaborationist payoff between higher ed and the administration.