Letter to an #ICE Agent

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...

worked on this for a couple months with @harmanity.bsky.social and @viktoriavalenzuela.bsky.social and rly proud how it came out...people sent some amazing art & writing.

This is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Racketeering, extortion

Today from @deceleration.news : report back from first-ever People's #Microplastics Conference on the doormat of Formosa #Plastics + Q&A reflections via "Unreasonalbe Woman" fisherwoman activist Diane Wilson. Via Roxana Rojas at Deceleration.news

Latest from @deceleration.news

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales #Climate

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

Today, the US Department of War is working with masked contractors to install border militarization buoys in the Rio Grande River. This is just the start; the Trump Admin plans to eventually install 17 miles of deadly "murder buoys" to maim people in this part of our river. Pics by me:

Protesting recent #ICE sweep that disappeared somewhere between "over 140" and "up to 200" (including children) in #SanAntonio. More at @deceleration.news here: deceleration.news/ice-fbi-larg...

It's decided. Europe is closing the tap on Russian fossil fuels once and for all. Energy independence starts now. → link.europa.eu/tykVJf

We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

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...

#SanAntonio turned out for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in solidarity w/ a global movement decrying femicide, transfemicide, and homophobic murders. A few pics from event and a short video here: youtu.be/cAtkfwHhD80?...

Another from @deceleration.news this week: On the Right/Duty to Refuse illegal orders as military increasingly sent in w/ #ICE into U.S. cities. deceleration.news/podcast-anti... #veteransday #vets #objectors #arts #visualart Panel, pics from gallery, #podcast

Advancing legal rights for the #Amazon River (and all relateds, including Indigenous peoples long bound in her embrace) at #COP30 in #Brazil. ... Even as Ecuador seeks to strip #rightsofnature from its constitution. deceleration.news/call-for-leg...

Excellent work from a friend in the #PNW for @deceleration.news. #activism #environment #biodiversity #rightsofnature #organizing #motherearth #forests #conservation #trees #animals deceleration.news/slaying-mons...

Deceleration's Executive Editor Marisol Cortez joins a toxic tour of San Antonio's South Side to find the too-familiar legacy of pollution remains—while new threats to the public health and environment are emerging.

This boy golden carpenter bee, also known as Hawaiian carpenter bee (what other names y'all heard?) found across US SW and across #Mexico, #CentralAmerica, and #Pacific islands, graced our garden last night. #nature #insects #photography #macro #fujifilm #laowa #pollinators #biodiversity

The Pentagon is reportedly planning to mobilize thousands of National Guard forces and deploy them in Chicago for the purpose of crime control. Trump is on even thinner legal ice with this plan than he is in Los Angeles and D.C. 1/12 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

" '[The Endangered Species Act] has been effective in preventing extinction. It has not been effective in bringing species back to where they don’t need protection.' " Opponents of the ESA never ask why there are so many endangered species in the first place. " #biodiversity #conservation

Turk's cap flower #2 ... More distraction from horrible people or maybe inspiration as your dream up the building back. #photography #nature #photo #fujifilm #xt1 #macro #plants

overwhelm got me. slogging through so many bad stories feeling after the one i would resolve ... and lost focus. retreated to the porch hammock as the winds shifted. 30 minutes shifting around some branching arms in flower before framing this. #flowers #photography #nature #fujifilm #xt1 #therapy

The #heat where you're at may be 10 degrees (or more) hotter than the TV is telling you. #urbanheatisland #climate #warming ... This is from a heat survey I did two years ago in #SanAntonio. Take care of each other out there. Find a few hours each day to cool down somewhere.

Great egret. Just one of many bird species forced to suffer chronic harassment by city crews in #SanAntonio w/ a zero tolerance policy for nesting in city parks. #birding #nature #photography #biodiversity #photos #birds #fujifilm #xs20

Reporting on horrible news by weaving in movements and philosophies and poetries that have the power to deliver us into a cultures beyond this violence. That's a good day's work. One of my favorites from last week's clutch at @deceleration.news via @kitoconnell.com deceleration.news/queer-ecolog...

loose rooster + cat grave + bocce #photography #nature #birds #pestering #interlopers #sigmafp #fotos

sunflowers in wind #texas #summer #photography #nature #fotos #sigmafp

rain and trees #photography #landscape #sigma #sigmafpl love and protect

Esperanza (Tecoma stans), aka Yellow Elder #photography #nature #flowers #fujifilm #xh1 #insects (look close) #minimalism

Our first post from @asle-us.bsky.social was a panel our Editor assembled. Worth a listen. #resistance from within the "belly of the beast." #climate #humanrights #justice #chicanx #books #poetry y más

Folks in tejas, such as my partner and I, have thoughts on this first strike in what our friends at the @texasobserver.org called a "gerrymandering arms race." Hopefully the online factions that revel in bashing the (people of the) state over and over for repub antics here can see our struggle now.

If you are thinking about trump's attack on #unhoused folks in #dc right now, these tactics have a long history. @mkaiasand.bsky.social is someone who has been documenting alternatives to copy-paste-incarcerate legislation for years. proud @deceleration.bsky.social can help amplify.

dropping bunch of stories from @asle-us.bsky.social biennial gathering finally. thinking/writing at edge of #lit and #philosophy and #environment for a largely #environmentaljustice #climatejustice audience...pub rooted in south #texas serving the Earth. ... more coming.

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

What 'Finishing the Wall' Means for Borderland Cats Story: deceleration.news/jaguars-bord... @sejorg.bsky.social @aanpublishers.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org #wildlife #conservation #borderlands #biodiversity #earth #migration #indigenous #borderwall #ecology #science #animals #bigcats

sacred water bird. san antonio, texas.

Six hours of planned protest kicked off at noon at San Antonio City Hall today. ... Video to come at @deceleration.bsky.social later today.

Protest = Speech. Do not be deterred. Keep Showing Up. #1A "Trump and his administration love to play chicken with constitutional law." More via Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The racism is real, as is the hatred of women, queer and trans folks, etc, but it's a pretext for power consolidation, to est. a dictatorial fascist state w/ all police powers w/n the executive. Ratchet up your resistance this week. deceleration.news/check-fascis...

#SanAntonio Mayor Mulls Legal Action Over Guajolote Ranch as Wastewater Hearing Continues Residents are decrying the anticipated million gallons of wastewater the community would flush into Helotes Creek daily—and impact the drinking #water source of millions. deceleration.news/guajolote-ra...

New podcast is up! My conversation for with Dave Cortez, Director of the Texas Sierra Club. Fighting rising autocracy, mobilizing for #energy and #water #justice, and why we need to take the time for self-care in a world on fire. Not on site yet, but some of y'all may enjoy early peek. #podcasts

Lured my coeditor away from teaching #decolonial #lit as schools across #texas caved to #dei attacks. This is her reportback from those still on the frontline of the fight. We were supposed to copublish w/ @truthout.org yesterday but health flareups... :-/ deceleration.news/texas-colleg...

Pics from last week's student walkout on classes and march and rally downtown #SanAntonio #Texas. Video highlights and more pics at Deceleration: deceleration.news/hundreds-of-... #media #immigration #activism #news #protest

Sacred water bird, Double-crested cormorant #3. Pretty sure this is a juvenile, others can check me. #SanAntonio river. #birding #photography #naturephotography #wildlife