"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...

For those tracking accelerating #fascism in the US, an important panel coming up 11/1 on the human impacts of martial law under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. 4:30pm at River Alchemy Creative Arts (2600 S Flores 78204). RSVP: bit.ly/RSVPforNOV1F... deceleration.news/martial-law-...

The City of San Antonio’s planet-warming emissions ticked up in 2023, according to new data released on Monday. That interrupts gains made after adopting a climate action plan in 2019. #satx #climatechange deceleration.news/san-antonio-...

As you educate yourself on #ProjectMarvel, some historical context from @dlondonwortel.bsky.social is instructive. #satx deceleration.news/subsidizing-...

Reposting this for yall because we forgot to tag @anelflores.bsky.social on here. Truly beautiful conversation with a powerful writer and artist on fiction as #queer and #trans intervention in legacies of #environmentalracism in South #Texas. deceleration.news/curtains-of-...

From last week: Highlighting threat from #wastewater to greater San Antonio’s largest drinking #water source, the #EdwardsAquifer, opponents threaten lawsuit, rehearing request. w @harmanity.bsky.social deceleration.news/tceq-approve...

As we catch yall up on the past month, we also covered #nokings here in #satx: deceleration.news/no-kings-pro... and deceleration.news/no-kings-san...

But also--important community victory from this month. Via @harmanity.bsky.social: deceleration.news/san-antonio-... #extremeheat #climatechange #cuentaloscuerpos #satx

Continuing our roundup of October stories... Deaths from #extremeheat are widely undercounted across #Texas, the U.S., and the world. But those cities that are trying—from NYC to Las Vegas—are finding hundreds of deaths per year to include. #satx #climatechange deceleration.news/san-antonio-...

From earlier this month, ICYMI. Six local orgs announced a new coalition targeting material support by #SanAntonio for Israel's #genocide and ethnic cleansing in #Palestine — and to grieve more than 65,000 deaths since October 7, 2023. deceleration.news/power-for-pa...

We're behind in our Blueskying...ICYMI: Medical professionals, advocates, and policy experts from #satx share recent successes, challenges, urging movement to keep residents safe from high heat and punishing pollution.
 #climatechange #publichealth deceleration.news/clean-energy...

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years. That's the title of my latest article for @deceleration.news, a journal responding to our shared ecological and political crisis. Check it out here. deceleration.news/subsidizing-...

The principles of #mutualaid that are increasingly being built into community #climate efforts—out of deep and growing necessity. Some case studies here to be aware of. deceleration.news/trump-crushi... #climate #publichealth #globalwarming #activism #cities

The @nwu.org's Frances Madeson, reviewing my book, 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' in @deceleration.news, calls it "a rousing how-to guide for fighting corporate greed." Check out her incisive review below, then go to ORBooks.com and buy the book! deceleration.news/review-were-...

Smart review of a powerful new book by @jonathan4212.bsky.social. Everyone in #SATX fighting #ProjectMarvel needs to read this one. w/@orbooks.bsky.social #socialism #RightToTheCity #Seattle #KshamaSawant deceleration.news/review-were-...

"And I continue to ride (bike and VIA) because I can do no less for ... todos los demás inocentes." An elegy for our friend and comrade Jack Elder. K descanse en paz y poder. #sanctuarymovement #migrantrights #degrowth #CentralAmerica deceleration.news/podcast-reme...

San Antonio Heat Death Efforts Stalled As Council and Mayor Battle Over Process A vote Thursday could resolve the dispute and put important heat work back in motion. deceleration.news/san-antonio-...

“I could hear a woman’s voice screaming, ‘We’re coming back!’ ... and as I approached the wrecked tripod, a black late-model Jeep turned its headlights on and started to drive toward me." #environment #activism #forests #biodiversity #news deceleration.news/slaying-mons...

The #SanAntonio Climate Ready Neighborhoods program, a burgeoning #climate effort seeks to activate “pods” across the city to prepare people for climate shocks, is seeing funding stripped away—as billions for entertainments capture attention. #adaptation #news deceleration.news/defunding-sa...

Our latest opinion piece kicks off a series of stories about the projects we want to see funded in a time of colliding crises. This multi-billion dollar "Project Marvel" entertainment district isn't one of them. deceleration.news/san-antonio-... #climate #food #cities #development #justice #hr

Movement media is a key tool to fight fascism. In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️ mailchi.mp/truthout.org...

All over our community and all over this land, people are fighting back and protecting each other by writing, singing, drawing, chalking sidewalks. Check out our first creative review here: deceleration.news/melting-ice-... w/ @pacifistwarvet.bsky.social & otrxs #poetry #art #visualart #resist

#Toxic Tour Highlights #Environmental Justice Struggles on #SanAntonio’s South Side A coalition of organizations led a tour across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90. deceleration.news/toxic-tour-s...

Protecting threatened and endangered #species has long been popular with Americans across the political spectrum. But can the Trump administration, which has moved to weaken the Endangered Species Act, be inspired to protect the species we love? #biodiversity deceleration.news/will-we-save...

Can #poetry save the world from extractivist plunder and climate violence? These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking. deceleration.news/can-poetry-s... #climate #literature #ecolit #clifi #environment

ASLE 2025: From #BartonSprings Attack to #Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’—Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance ' #Queer #ecology’ can show the way toward an alternative politics capable of establishing and honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beyond violence. deceleration.news/queer-ecolog...

Artists! #Poetry #VisualArts #photography #prose #ICE #climate #justice

This week we start to roll out some reportbacks from @asle-us.bsky.social ... Our first from Kamala Platt, author of 'Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India.' deceleration.news/asle-collect... #environment #ecocrit #climate

As attacks ramp up @mkaiasand.bsky.social details the many ways we construct homeless people as “unwanted persons,” but also the creativity embodied in alternative first responder systems that enact “care work without violence.” @asle-us.bsky.social deceleration.news/asle-2025-ka...

Do not obey. It's time to talk about mass noncooperation. deceleration.news/texas-gerrym...

ASLE 2025: #Birds, Barrios, Borders, & #Books—#Chicanx Poetics and Publishing from the Belly of the Beast Here's @mcortezwriter.bsky.social opening our @asle-us.bsky.social coverage from the biennial gathering last month. More to come. deceleration.news/asle-2025-bi... #ej #climate #poetry

CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community #Solar Promise To fulfill its commitment to the city’s most vulnerable residents, CPS Energy must launch its community solar program and restart the residential solar program it abandoned three years ago. deceleration.news/cps-energy-b...