Get ready for an inspiring evening with climate visionary Bill McKibben! 🌍On May 9th at 5 PM, McKibben joins Switchyard editor Ted Genoways to explore strategies for addressing the urgent challenges of our climate's new era! Learn more & save your seat: secure.touchnet.net/C21715_ustores…

When people ask me if I played high school football (because I'm tall and, um, broad), I always tell them: the people on my high school team went on to play on National Championship and NFL teams. (So... no!) Here's photo evidence. Rob Zatechka blocking for Eric Stokes.

Great to be back in Milwaukee for the season 21 opener.

This album is so good. Enjoy!

And no exiting, I assume

It really is remarkable. We led the world in vaccine development and distribution. And then, despite a harshly divided Congress, Biden has overseen what is inarguably the strongest post-Covid economic recovery.

To me, Biden's numbers are about a messaging failure.

Mark your calendars. This is a conversation you do not want to miss! Free. Open to all. #savethedate

Ruth Stone.......

♾️

Writing for High Country News gives me so much joy.

Tulsa you did not disappoint…from the Bob Dylan Center + Woody Guthrie Center to the speakeasy steakhouse Bull In The Alley (!!!)…thanks Mary Anne Andrei and Ted Genoways for showing me around. Can’t wait to be back for University of Tulsa’s Switchyard festival!

For the record, we have:

- Never mentioned RW once
- Worked for 36 hours to not deadname Nex
- Not reported anything that wasn’t in an official record
- Included OPD’s and OPS’ statements about the autopsy report and school response

We’re not lying or obscuring anything.

A lot of adults have opinions about the tragic death of Nex Benedict. So I reached out to a handful of trans, queer, and gender non conforming teenagers to hear what’s it’s like growing up trans in the U.S. Their answer: “That could have been me.” rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

My AI clone better shut its trap.

More devastating reporting from Hannah Dreier—and bringing together the worst of what I’ve seen in the last 15 years… Kids at a Seaboard Triumph pork plant cleaning stations at the head table. nytimes.com/2024/02/21/bus…

This.

I went to Oklahoma—which has a near-total abortion ban & one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence—to see how survivors were faring post-Dobbs.

I found that the advocates tasked w/ helping them were also struggling. Deep dive for Mother Jones:
motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Incredible to see the great poet Carl Phillips read his work SwitchyardTulsa at the historic The Church Studio !

I’m really looking forward to this book. Congrats on all the buzz, Lyz Lenz! slate.com/culture/2024/0…