Patrick Michels
patrickmichels.bsky.social
Patrick Michels
@patrickmichels.bsky.social
Podcast maker, writer and reporter in Austin
Love this one! Been listening a lot to Hayden's work lately, and this conversation helped me appreciate it even more.
Hayden Pedigo is a folk musician who was born and raised in Amarillo Texas. He makes instrumental albums, consisting usually of just his acoustic guitar and maybe a couple other instruments. He spoke with us about his songwriting process and much more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_u...
July 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
if there ever was a time to support independent media like @theflytrapmedia.com, here we are!
i can't believe it's been six months since we launched @theflytrapmedia.com! like literally just very hard to believe that this dream came true

(also, yes, I am indeed inordinately proud of coming up with "Hot Flytrap deals in your area! Feminist media creators want to connect with you now!")
Celebrating Six Months of The Flytrap
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May 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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...
April 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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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/...
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...
www.texasmonthly.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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...
Viva Tejano
Music Commentary Podcast · 2 Episodes · Updated Weekly
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Love this essay so much! Finally a take brave enough to grapple with the utter strangeness of this show.
October 31, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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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
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.
thebaffler.com
October 3, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Hell yeah!
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The Flytrap: Bringing Back the Feminist Blog
Worker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm
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October 3, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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/...
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.
www.texasmonthly.com
August 28, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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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...
‎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
podcasts.apple.com
March 27, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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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.
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.
www.msnbc.com
December 12, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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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...
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.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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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...
September 21, 2023 at 6:08 PM
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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/
August 24, 2023 at 12:49 AM