Mo Pelzel
@mopelzel.bsky.social
Director of Academic Technology @GrinnellCollege | #Catholic | husband | dad | runner | cantor | #Texan | puzzle/games geek
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I want to be crystal clear about tariffs:
The consumer will pay for them. If we get hit, we will 100% be passing this on, as will most industries.
The consumer will pay for them. If we get hit, we will 100% be passing this on, as will most industries.
April 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I want to be crystal clear about tariffs:
The consumer will pay for them. If we get hit, we will 100% be passing this on, as will most industries.
The consumer will pay for them. If we get hit, we will 100% be passing this on, as will most industries.
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there are plenty of cryptic crosswords out there by Americans -- you just need to know where to find them (start with @mossdef.bsky.social) slate.com/culture/2025...
The British Figured Out the Perfect Kind of Crossword. Where You At, Americans?
How to get started with cryptic crosswords, the most rewarding kind of puzzle.
slate.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
there are plenty of cryptic crosswords out there by Americans -- you just need to know where to find them (start with @mossdef.bsky.social) slate.com/culture/2025...
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My latest in Reading Re/Marks, my recently launched newsletter about our annotated words and world.
Re/Marks on 16th St NW, or commentary on annotation as a simple act of public affirmation and necessary form of resistance.
Please read, subscribe, and share:
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-1...
Re/Marks on 16th St NW, or commentary on annotation as a simple act of public affirmation and necessary form of resistance.
Please read, subscribe, and share:
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-1...
Re/Marks on 16th St NW
Simple acts of public affirmation are a necessary form of resistance. Everyday text can be visibly reinterpreted by re/marks to interrupt status quo convictions.
www.readingremarks.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My latest in Reading Re/Marks, my recently launched newsletter about our annotated words and world.
Re/Marks on 16th St NW, or commentary on annotation as a simple act of public affirmation and necessary form of resistance.
Please read, subscribe, and share:
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-1...
Re/Marks on 16th St NW, or commentary on annotation as a simple act of public affirmation and necessary form of resistance.
Please read, subscribe, and share:
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-1...
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Many people don't know that Pope Pius XII's final act as pope was to order the US bishops to publish a statement against racism that they had been dithering over for months
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
February 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Many people don't know that Pope Pius XII's final act as pope was to order the US bishops to publish a statement against racism that they had been dithering over for months
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
January 31, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 31, 2025
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
January 31, 2025
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open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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NOT enjoying this morning trying to calm the panicked students staring down cuts to funding, summer internships, federally funded programs. I'm glad to be here for them, but sickened by the circumstances!
January 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NOT enjoying this morning trying to calm the panicked students staring down cuts to funding, summer internships, federally funded programs. I'm glad to be here for them, but sickened by the circumstances!
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I can't believe (or maybe I can?) the feds canceled a talk about historical complicity with fascists
I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
January 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I can't believe (or maybe I can?) the feds canceled a talk about historical complicity with fascists
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"Post it on your social media." Thank you, Mr. Acosta.
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Post it on your social media." Thank you, Mr. Acosta.
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Colombia President Gustavo Petro says he will impose a reciprocal 50% tariffs on US goods: “I resisted torture, and I resist you”
January 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Been thinking about this cartoon.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
January 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Been thinking about this cartoon.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
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You’ve certainly seen the controversy and cruelty over the last three minutes of this sermon.
But watch the entire thing. It is less than 15 minutes. You'll be inspired and strengthened for theological and spiritual resistance.
The First Sermon open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
But watch the entire thing. It is less than 15 minutes. You'll be inspired and strengthened for theological and spiritual resistance.
The First Sermon open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
The First Sermon
The parts you probably didn't hear
open.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
You’ve certainly seen the controversy and cruelty over the last three minutes of this sermon.
But watch the entire thing. It is less than 15 minutes. You'll be inspired and strengthened for theological and spiritual resistance.
The First Sermon open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
But watch the entire thing. It is less than 15 minutes. You'll be inspired and strengthened for theological and spiritual resistance.
The First Sermon open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
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Preaching truth. Preaching compassion. Preaching decency. In today’s world, that takes courage. Thank you Rev Mariann Edgar Budde.👇
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Preaching truth. Preaching compassion. Preaching decency. In today’s world, that takes courage. Thank you Rev Mariann Edgar Budde.👇
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Welcome to the political opposition! It's Day One of a new phase of saving our democracy: lucid.substack.com/p/its-day-on...
It’s Day One--Of a New Phase of the Fight to Save Our Democracy
Welcome to the Political Opposition
lucid.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Welcome to the political opposition! It's Day One of a new phase of saving our democracy: lucid.substack.com/p/its-day-on...
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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame...
January 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame...
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The chair of the Texas GOP said Tuesday that church-state separation doesn't exist as Republican lawmakers vowed to give the Legislature "back to the Holy Spirit" and pastors promised to continue attaching the Johnson Amendment and weed out "cowardly" clergy who wont politick from the pulpit.
Texas GOP chair denies church-state separation as lawmakers, pastors prep for ‘spiritual battle’
Abraham George’s comments are the latest sign of the state GOP’s embrace of fundamentalist ideologies that seek to center public life around their faith.
www.texastribune.org
January 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The chair of the Texas GOP said Tuesday that church-state separation doesn't exist as Republican lawmakers vowed to give the Legislature "back to the Holy Spirit" and pastors promised to continue attaching the Johnson Amendment and weed out "cowardly" clergy who wont politick from the pulpit.
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Started //// going
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
January 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Started //// going
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
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This is what "taking the Lord's name in vain" actually looks like.
Next up: Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota). He apologises for what's "been happening" to Hegseth. He also thanks him for his faith in Jesus Christ.
I thought wow, this is a guy who in today's culture is willing to put Jesus Christ first. You're going to be a great SecDef, Cramer says.
I thought wow, this is a guy who in today's culture is willing to put Jesus Christ first. You're going to be a great SecDef, Cramer says.
January 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is what "taking the Lord's name in vain" actually looks like.
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Educators: AI is not inevitable. Sure, we can't put the horse back in the barn, but we also are not required to use it in our teaching and I think there is an ethical framework, as Chuck and others have laid out nicely, for resisting its presence in our courses.
Just in time for the AI policies to go into my syllabi - I've cleared my brain of all of its frustrations regarding generative AI.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
The ethical case for resisting AI
I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…
chuckpearson.wordpress.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Educators: AI is not inevitable. Sure, we can't put the horse back in the barn, but we also are not required to use it in our teaching and I think there is an ethical framework, as Chuck and others have laid out nicely, for resisting its presence in our courses.
My choice as well ...
I switched to Pocket Casts, pocketcasts.com, for my podcast listening last year, and I really like it. It gives me so much control over how I listen to podcasts. (And I am very picky about such things.)
Listen to podcasts with the best free podcasting app - built by listeners, for listeners.
Pocket Casts provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. Find your next obsession with our hand curated podcast recommendations, and seamlessly enjoy and manage all your shows no matter...
pocketcasts.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My choice as well ...
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Love this @tcarmody.bsky.social! “HTML is somehow simultaneously paper and the printing press for the electronic age […] It makes perfect sense that it was developed to serve as a library—an archive, a directory, a set of connections—for all digital knowledge.” www.wired.com/story/html-i...
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Love this @tcarmody.bsky.social! “HTML is somehow simultaneously paper and the printing press for the electronic age […] It makes perfect sense that it was developed to serve as a library—an archive, a directory, a set of connections—for all digital knowledge.” www.wired.com/story/html-i...
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“The enemy”
“Stephen Miller is the leader”
A lot of troubling things here 👇🏽🫤
“Stephen Miller is the leader”
A lot of troubling things here 👇🏽🫤
January 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“The enemy”
“Stephen Miller is the leader”
A lot of troubling things here 👇🏽🫤
“Stephen Miller is the leader”
A lot of troubling things here 👇🏽🫤