Patrick Michels

Patrick Michels

@patrickmichels.bsky.social

Podcast maker, writer and reporter in Austin

940 Followers 1,359 Following 11 Posts Joined Jul 2023
1 month ago
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What’s the Matter With Texas A&M? Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake a great university.

For two years, I've been investigating claims that Texas A&M University has been overtaken by the forces of gay race communism. The truth is a little more complicated: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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7 months ago

Love this one! Been listening a lot to Hayden's work lately, and this conversation helped me appreciate it even more.

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10 months ago

you are most welcome, wife

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10 months ago

if there ever was a time to support independent media like @theflytrapmedia.com, here we are!

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11 months ago

Our latest @texasmonthly.bsky.social podcast series is the story of one woman's search for her father, a pilot who went missing in Vietnam at the end of the war. It's publishing a couple weeks from today — check out the trailer here! www.texasmonthly.com/press-room/a...

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1 year ago
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A Deadly Passage It's been two years since the worst immigration-related disaster in American history, when 53 migrants were killed in San Antonio after being trapped in a sweltering tractor trailer. We spoke with the...

More than two years after the worst immigration-related disaster in American history, traffickers involved in the deaths of 53 migrants are set to stand trial.

The Quintana Road tragedy was decades in the making. www.texasmonthly.com/interactive/...

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1 year ago
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Viva Tejano Music Commentary Podcast · 2 Episodes · Updated Weekly

For the past few months I've been working on a podcast about Tejano music—its history and its influence on current stars like Grupo Frontera—and it's out today!

It's hosted by JB Sauceda and made by the whole awesome team at Texas Monthly. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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1 year ago

oh I haven't seen Psych but he is absolutely delightful and wacky in Evil! His character takes him to some very strange places.

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1 year ago
The "Evil" psychiatrist Dr. Kurt Boggs, a middle-aged white man with a short white beard and a blue tie, seated at his desk with a manuscript, a laptop, and a possessed toy record player with a carousel decoration.

as the show taught us, it's important to celebrate the power of the written word!

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1 year ago

Love this essay so much! Finally a take brave enough to grapple with the utter strangeness of this show.

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1 year ago
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Whole Grain Granola (Published 2015)

it’s this one from Melissa Clark — i tried a bunch before but now basically have this one memorized (plus, dogs love it!) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...

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1 year ago
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Asylum Is Not an Open Question | Felipe De La Hoz Discussions of asylum are often littered with basic factual errors; their purpose is to create a narrative, not to inform.

Brings me no pleasure to once again tap the sign. Regardless of electoral and public discourse and shitty, breathless coverage, the contours of asylum — whether and how to have a system in place and who is eligible — is not actually a political choice a president gets to make. It just is not

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1 year ago

Hell yeah!

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1 year ago
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The Unbelievably True Story of One of the Artists Behind Cadillac Ranch As Amarillo's iconic roadside attraction marks its fiftieth anniversary, a relative dives into the archives of Ant Farm's Doug Michels.

Growing up, I learned we had a distant relative who’d been a co-creator of the Cadillac Ranch. For its 50th anniversary, I decided to learn more about him—and found he was even more creative and complicated than I imagined.

Here’s what I found in his archives.

www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

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1 year ago
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‎El Pochcast: 2023 Texas Writers Byline Scan with Andrea Grimes on Apple Podcasts ‎Show El Pochcast, Ep 2023 Texas Writers Byline Scan with Andrea Grimes - Mar 27, 2024

On this week's El Pochcast
@andreagrimes.bsky.social joins me to talk about her 2023 Texas Writers Byline Scan! Really fun conversation where you can really feel Andrea's passion for this project and this subject. We out here screaming into the internet, Amonos!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

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2 years ago
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Kate Cox exposes the ‘pro-life’ politics of death, fear and control It’s clearer than ever that pregnant Texans and their doctors face a puzzle the state has engineered to be unsolvable.

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Kate Cox, though Texans with complicated pregnancies still face harrowing ordeals. If the next name the nation learns in connection with Texas abortion bans isn’t a dead woman’s, it will be despite the Texas GOP's best efforts.

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2 years ago
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Opinion | Abortion rights triumph again in Ohio Republicans had money and power at their fingertips, yet couldn't stop voters enshrining reproductive rights in the state constitution.

NEW from me for MSNBC: Its amazing how badly the Ohio GOP failed on the abortion vote considering how hard they tried to stop it from ever coming to fruition. We can expect Republicans to play even dirtier the next time around.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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2 years ago

They're trying to tear down two ballparks I love, so I wrote about architecture, and the capitalist desire to determine the shape of the community, when the community should determine the shape of its commerce.
blogs.fangraphs.com/the-jewel-bo...

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2 years ago

If you're watching the GOP debate, may I suggest subscribing to my serial fiction newsletter, which takes place in an AU where I can assure that whatever happens in the "real" world tonight ... this shit will be weirder https://revivalweekly.substack.com/

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