NEW NEWSLETTER ALERT ICE Watch #1: Weaving a New World in the Twilight of Fascism's Sunset The roots of today's assault on immigrant communities and people of color reach back to much earlier abuses. deceleration.news/ice-watch-le...

‘Days and Nights of Love and War’ was written by Dr. H.H. Coyotl and read here by Roxana Rojas. Watch for her new newsletter ICE Watch to drop at @deceleration.news tomorrow. youtu.be/2xRxUnAHNG8?... Comunicado callejero: desde la Calle Commerce para el pueblo

Humankind didn't evolve in heat like this. Heat that is increasingly claiming lives. So how can we cool down our cities and keep more people safe? Full podcast: deceleration.news/podcasts/bil...

DECELERATION #PODCAST 40: Liam Ramos Freed, Gaige Davila on #GulfCoast Fights, Defeating Climate Behemoth, More Federal Judge Biery's words freeing Liam Ramos from detention... deceleration.news/podcasts/lia...

#ICE Buys Massive #SanAntonio Warehouse As Detained Population Approaches 75,000 Numerous lawsuits and judge’s orders have dogged ICE detention centers in recent months, with one federal judge comparing a facility outside #Chicago to a “concentration camp.” deceleration.news/ice-buys-mas...

Our Winter 2026 Creative Review is out! From Boca Chica at Texas’s tip to the migratory flyways linking Eagle and Condor, writers and artists from TX and beyond share their love, grief, and rage for the fragility of our oceans and the coral reefs they shelter. deceleration.news/sea-of-creat...

The criminalization of journalism is a key component of escalating fascism. We must denounce the charges against Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, and denounce the targeting of journalists more broadly at every turn. Here's a statement from our Movement Media Alliance: movement-media.org/statement-fr...

The struggle against ICE has picked up in Texas since the killings of legal observers in Minneapolis and transporting of 5-year-old Liam Ramos to CoreCivic’s Dilley family detention center. deceleration.news/abolish-ice-...

Wailing screams inside Dilley Detention in Texas Saturday as hundreds of detainees are said to be protesting treatment of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos of #Minneapolis and standing in solidarity with the general strike in Minnesota. #strike #ice #immigration #news

In the state of Texas, private property is king. But every once in a while even an enthroned interest gets deposed. #water #wastewater #propertyrights #texas #news #pollution #hillcountry #sanantonio #politics deceleration.news/lennar-contr...

Wailing screams inside Dilley Detention in Texas Saturday as hundreds of detainees are said to be protesting treatment of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos of #Minneapolis and standing in solidarity with the general strike in Minnesota. #strike #ice #immigration #news

Has US Fascism Moved From a Theoretical Debate Into an Urgent National Crisis? We must look past the headlines and evaluate the Trump administration’s trajectory against the historical markers. deceleration.news/trump-fascis... Via @truthout.org

A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s #Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price. deceleration.news/a-small-oil-... Via @insideclimatenews.org

Also: We're turning 10?! youtu.be/nM_iuliS18E?...

The screams of help from Anna Brauch, in Minnesota on 1/8/26, as they broke her hands and violently forced her into the back of a ICE vehicle. May those men NEVER know an ounce of peace.

Watch ICE agents brutally detain local MN artist Anna Brauch — she was later released and taken to the hospital bc ICE AGENTS BROKE MULTIPLE BONES IN HER HAND. This must stop now. #BlueSky #NewsSky #LawSky #PoliSky #MedSky

Glad to see people noticing that the work of violence workers is, in fact, political violence.

These anti-Nick Shirley flyers have gone up around South Minneapolis — person who took these pictures said they are all over.

2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 31 people who died in custody www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In extraordinary message, Fed chair announces that he’s being extorted/coerced by the US government under color of law.

"Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch."

This is (at least) the second time an ICE agent has used these exact words in the past two days — "Did you not learn from what just happened?"

Rising heat, billion-dollar disasters, and punishing pollution linked to fossil fuels are responsible for millions of deaths per year and threatening the habitability of the planet. So what do we win in this war for oil? deceleration.news/trump-climat...

From the mouth of our favorite indie trans news site to your ears/heart:

It's not your imagination. Decembers are getting hotter in Texas. Fossil fuels are to blame.

I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able

Federal regulators overseeing the Rio Grande #LNG project outside of Port Isabel and Brownsville, #Texas, are still failing to consider the operation’s anticipated air pollution and the resulting impact on public health, according to a new lawsuit. deceleration.news/rio-grande-l...

#SanAntonio planners set a date to consider a proposal to help fund controversial Guajolote Ranch a day after Bexar County Commissioner’s urged the #TCEQ to reconsider the project’s approval for fear of potential #water #contamination. deceleration.news/controversia...

Deceleration Video: #ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising #humanrights catastrophe in the #UnitedStates. deceleration.news/video-ice-to...

Lawsuit: Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande #LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts Coalition including City of #PortIsabel allege failure to consider impact on air quality, public health in lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower #Texas coast. #climate #energy deceleration.news/rio-grande-l...

"I really believe that we have to end the #plastic era. I really believe that the #fossilfuels in this plastic is killing our planet, and we have to turn that around and start thinking totally different." —Diane Wilson, fisherwoman, activist deceleration.news/diane-wilson...

“Every sediment sample that we have taken … every single water sample we have taken: every single one has #plastics in it.” —Sandra Metoyer, Environmental Institute of #Houston at the University of Houston-Clear Lake deceleration.news/calhoun-coun... #fossilfuels #gulfofmexico #texas #health

EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated: New report from @envirointegrity.bsky.social finds that states were already largely shirking their regulatory and enforcement roles before the US EPA began retreating from its mission. deceleration.news/epa-cuts-ind...

In 2025, poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin—co-founder of Words for Birds and longtime organizer of San Antonio’s National Poetry Month calendar of activities—published not one but two new #poetry collections of deep interest to Deceleration readers. deceleration.news/jim-lavilla-...

The Trump admin spiked plans to tighten regulations on carbon dioxide #pipelines, but past accidents and an expected boom in such pipelines suggests stronger oversight is needed, writes @shapersyris.bsky.social deceleration.news/carbon-dioxi...

Call for submissions to our Winter 2026 Creative Review! Seeking creative responses across genres to the global crisis of coral reefs and oceans. #CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography

The disappointments of #COP30 should draw us toward deeper consideration of grassroots alternatives that are already embodying just and sustainable ways of living. Convo w/ @ashishkothari.bsky.social of @vikalpsangam.bsky.social & Global Tapestry of Alternatives. deceleration.news/podcast-radi...

My latest for @deceleration.news marks the full-throated return to the white nationalism of the Naturalization Act of 1790, which limited naturalization at the time to “‘free white person[s]’ ... the root of the entire ICE surge from the start. deceleration.news/reject-ice-a...

Via @mcortez.net: With #COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end #fossilfuels and #deforestation, #BDS activists in #Texas escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, from Palestine to Amazonia. deceleration.news/global-clima...

A little dated but important read from @harmanity.bsky.social. Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs. #ICE #SATX deceleration.news/ice-fbi-larg...

With global ecological systems unraveling, #RightsofNature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property. New reporting by Laura Hayter, with @garnglobal.bsky.social at #COP30. deceleration.news/call-for-leg...

New podcast up with organizers from @vetsaboutface.bsky.social on their #RighttoRefuse campaign, as part of a gallery exhibit of anti-war and anti-imperialist veteran art for #ArmisticeDay. deceleration.news/podcast-anti...

#SATX friends: On Nov 16, our co-editor @mcortez.net will be reading from The Bird Church (from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social) alongside poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin (who has a new chapbook on Thoreau out from Alabrava Press) and James Finley (who writes about Thoreau and abolition). Yall come.

A new #cli-fi novel set in East #Texas from Astra Publishing House asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? Frances Madeson explores in an excerpt from Happy Bad and author Q&A w/ @delaneynolan.bsky.social. deceleration.news/new-cli-fi-n...

Can't underscore the importance of this exhibit/panel and the lessons it offers in how to resist #authoritarianism. Proud we could help document. With @beektur.bsky.social, #Filipino American National Historical Society, & #AAPIs for Justice in San Antonio. deceleration.news/eroding-u-s-...

Via Ashley Smith @truthout.org: just up I-35, a critical case out of @txst.edu in the struggle for freedom to teach and learn in #Texas. With @tomalter.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @cwa-tseu.bsky.social deceleration.news/texas-profes...

From @gaigedavila.bsky.social: A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all 7 operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last 5 years, finds a new report from @envirointegrity.bsky.social. #CorpusChristi deceleration.news/corpus-chris...

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Imagine being so homo/transphobic that you hate rivers too. www.expressnews.com/hill-country...