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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 25/09/2026

Did the #BorderWall Just Break on Tiny #SanYgnacio 's Two-Acre #Birding Sanctuary? 'F*ck It. Arrest me.' A conversation with Elsa Hull, a dedicated borderlands water protector arrested twice in Zapata County for resisting border wall construction. Full: deceleration.news/podcasts/bor...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 11/09/2026

Peasant-Led Movements Hold the Model for Restoring the Land In the U.S., efforts to shape a #postgrowth food system have yet to spark a mass movement, but interest and #activism are growing. Part II in a series about #degrowth by @shapersyris.bsky.social deceleration.news/peasant-led-...

indigenous family in brazil over headline: Peasant-Led Movements Hold the Model for Restoring the Land

quote slide: "The food system is a thing that is supposed to support life; it is supposed to nurture life,” Rice told Deceleration. Instead, “it is often antagonistic to life.”

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 03/08/2026

#Callforsubmissions extended thru 8/15! Send us #poetry, #flashfic, #flashcnf, #art, #music that imagines an alternative future or celebrates other ways of doing, being, & thinking--counterimaginaries to the official US 250--which flower even now amid the violence of the current moment. #pluriverse

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 16/07/2026

Our next creative review invites counterimaginaries to the official celebrations of this summer. How do we keep walking together toward "un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos"? Send us your response as #poetry, #art, #flashfic, #flashcnf or #music. To submit: marisol@deceleration.news by Aug 2.

Flyer with call for submissions to summer creative review published by deceleration.news. Over a shot of earth from space, text reads: "Many worlds, celebrate! Deceleration invites flash fic and nonfic, poems, songs, and images that offer counterimaginaries to official celebrations of the US 250th. In a world rent by the weight of colonial violence, how do we continue walking and working together toward another possible world--"un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos" (a world in which many worlds fit)? Selections will appear in Deceleration's Summer 2026 Creative Review. $25 honorarium per piece. Deadline: August 2, 2026. To submit: marisol@deceleration.news"

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 29/05/2026

Alternative Futures explores the first-ever Conference for Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, which brought together at the end of April ministers and diplomats from 57 different countries. deceleration.news/transitionin...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 29/05/2026

'Every Bombed Village'— Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review Writers and artists from San Antonio to Quezon City respond to James Baldwin's historic words about 'every bombed village' being our own hometowns. deceleration.news/every-bombed... #poetry #prose #visualart #resistance

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 26/05/2026

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed changes that would allow gas #powerplants, #datacenters and #factories to begin construction ... before obtaining air-emission permits. (Inside Climate News.) Link for public hearing registration: deceleration.news/events/#/det...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 22/05/2026

Deadline extended for visual art submissions for our next Creative Review!

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 21/05/2026

We are good on poems and prose and excited for our next creative review! But we still need visual art. The theme is "Every Bombed Village" and deadline has been extended thru May 27.

Flyer with black and white image of James Baldwin superimposed over clip art of a falling bomb aimed at a dandelion in blossom. Text over images reads: "Deadline extended! Calling All Visual Artists! In 1968, James Baldwin said of the Vietnam War: every bombed village is my hometown. As we watch US bombs fall on the peoples of Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Venezuela, and the Caribbean, we invite your best photos and visual art, revisiting Baldwin's words in our time. Selections will appear in Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review, guest edited by Shelley Ettinger. Deadline: May 27, 2026. To submit: marisol@deceleration.news"

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 18/05/2026

Dealing Gov. Abbott a Blow, Federal Judge Blocked (Most Of) SB4 This Week SB4 would allow Texas to single-handedly take on federal immigration enforcement duties. deceleration.news/texas-federa... Free w/ sub.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 15/05/2026

Cooking Texas Inmates. That's right, most prisons in Texas have no AC even though extreme temps ramp up year after year. This week, Deceleration speaks with Dr. Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates (TPCA). Is reform on the way? deceleration.news/podcasts/inm...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 04/05/2026

Our spring creative review is open for submissions! Seeking art across genres responding to the genocide, ecocide, & crimes against humanity recently inflicted by US bombs & military spending. Excited to have @shelleyettinger.bsky.social as guest editor. #poetry #art #callforsubmissions #antiwar

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 30/04/2026

Going live in a bit about our response as a nonprofit media project to extreme #heat public health impacts in Texas. texaspsr.org/heat-summit/

Flyer promoting speakers at Texas PSR Heat Summit.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 29/04/2026

Thursday online gathering takes on extreme heat, the leading weather-related killer in the United States. We'll be presenting too! deceleration.news/events/texas...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 26/04/2026

Getting off track for good trouble. Talking #datacenters this week ... until I realized something else happening at Texas Tech right now deserving of mention.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 09/04/2026

This Monday, April 13 at 6pm, labor historian Tom Alter speaks at UTSA on Texas's efforts to banish entire fields of study. A tenured prof at TX State, Alter was fired last year after speaking at a socialism conference on his own time. More here: deceleration.news/texas-profes...

Flyer announcing a talk by Tom Alter to be held at UTSA in the Business Building (2.01.06) on April 13 at 6pm, organized by TSEU CWA Local 61 and UTSA YDSA. Below this information is a photo of Alter in a black sweatshirt speaking into a bullhorn at a rally surrounded by protestors holding signs that read "Defend Free Speech."

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 29/03/2026

#NoKings San Antonio, Texas March 28, 2026 Video dispatch to come at deceleration this week.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 27/03/2026

'Brownsville officials, of course, love the attention, while many residents near the growing SpaceX shadow are feeling the “Terminator Skynet vibes.”' deceleration.news/super-collid...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 19/03/2026

Texas Data Center Boom + Todos Agua + Women Leading Drive to Abolish ICE Warehouses are popping up across Texas: Some to fill with mistreated humans, others with a human-displacing consciousness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuE... or on our website: deceleration.news/podcasts/tex...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 09/03/2026

The 36th annual International Women's Day rally and march wound through the rainy streets of San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday with revolutionary cries decrying imperialism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy. deceleration.news/revolutionar...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 03/03/2026

'Looking #Mexican' in the Age of #ICE Brown skin—a metric used by ICE to trigger investigations and detentions—means not that one is an 'invader,' but likely an heir of the continent's original #Indigenous inhabitants. Why don't more claim that inheritance? deceleration.news/looking-mexi...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 27/02/2026

“Official Texas records captured only about one-sixth of the statistically estimated heat deaths, though this undercounting has improved over time,” concludes a new paper by Andrew Dessler published earlier this month in the journal GeoHealth. deceleration.news/heat-related...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 26/02/2026

Black Communities Are Building the Future Exploring the new documentary, 'Grasping at the Roots,' from the @cjaourpower.bsky.social. From @shapersyris.bsky.social deceleration.news/black-commun... (Free sub rqrd)

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 25/02/2026

The Resistance is Fertile. deceleration.news/smash-fascis...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 25/02/2026

"We were stunned to learn that eight #datacenters were already either operational, under active construction, or approved in Round Rock. This would be the ninth." Q&A with Protect Round Rock's Gary Oldham. deceleration.news/round-rock-t...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 20/02/2026

Beings of the Earth who wish to inhabit a planet with regulated temperatures amenable to survival: Put your claims on hold because the wealthiest and most subsidized industry on the planet isn't done profiting. More: deceleration.news/climate-our-...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 18/02/2026

What happened to Aliya Rahman is not an isolated incident. It sits within a broader pattern, one rooted in a long history of eugenics, ableism, racism, and systemic violence. A pattern that makes clear: This is a war on disabled people. deceleration.news/war-on-disab...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 16/02/2026

"But most of French’s online “messaging” has little to do with pipeline safety or gas flaring or any other matter that keeps the petrodollars flowing." This is what he talks about instead: Via @texasmonthly.bsky.social

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 12/02/2026

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...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 11/02/2026

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...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 25/01/2026

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...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 25/01/2026

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

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 08/01/2026

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

map of texas showing increase in average monthly temps:
Abilene: 4.8F
Amarillo: 5.2F
Austin: 4.6F
Beaumont: 3.6F
Bryan: 4.9F
Corpus: 2.8F
Dallas: 4.6F
El Paso: 4.8F
Houston: 4.5F
Lubbock: 3.9F
McAllen: 4.4F
Odessa: 3.2F
San Angelo: 3.9F
San Antonio: 4.3F
Victoria: 2.9F
Waco: 3.1F
Wichita Falls: 3.7F

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 15/12/2025

"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...

woman in kayak in front of plastics manufacturing facility

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 09/12/2025

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...

frost-covered rupture in ground site of co2 pipeline explosion

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 09/12/2025

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

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 07/11/2025

#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.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 02/10/2025

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

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 24/09/2025

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-...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 24/09/2025

"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...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 18/09/2025

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-...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 12/09/2025

“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...

collage featuring forest defenders and relates species.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 09/09/2025

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...

working group putting pens to paper. headline reads: san antonio defunding climate ready program as project marvel tops agenda

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 07/09/2025

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

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 27/08/2025

#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...

Group of people touring toxic sites of South Side of San Antonio.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 21/08/2025

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...

Headline over assortment of images reads: The Battle to Save the Endangered Species Act

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 15/08/2025

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

graphic cover of flowers, trees, and ecologicial distress w/ headline reading: 'can poetry save the world from extractivist plunder and climate violence?'

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 14/08/2025

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...

collage illustrating title: 'from barton springs attack to poland's sister rivers—femme friendship as eco-resistance

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 13/08/2025

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

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