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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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"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

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woman in kayak in front of plastics manufacturing facility
December 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“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

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#fossilfuels #gulfofmexico #texas #health
Calhoun County’s First 'People's Microplastics Conference' Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics – Deceleration
Activists and researchers engaged in a two-day first-of-its-kind gathering in Calhoun County on the insidious entangling of all life on Earth with plastics, a creation of fossil fuels. Activists and r...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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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.

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EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States – Deceleration
New report from Environmental Integrity Project finds that states were already largely shirking their regulatory and enforcement roles before the US EPA began retreating from its mission. New report f...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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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-...
Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time – Deceleration
Writer James R. Dennis reviews the work of a poet of the natural world as he gleans both beauty and lessons from the 'weathered, scruffy landscape' of Atascosa County, Texas.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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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

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frost-covered rupture in ground site of co2 pipeline explosion
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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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
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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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.

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PODCAST: Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari – Deceleration
Reflecting on the disappointments of COP30 climate conference should draw us toward deeper consideration of grassroots alternatives that are already embodying just and sustainable ways of living.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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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.

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We Must Reject White Nationalism Driving MAGA's Rampant ICE Abuses – Deceleration
For our future security and happiness it is imperative to both discover the root of our legitimate grievances and resist being manipulated by falsehoods and racism. For our future security and happine...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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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.

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As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide – Deceleration
With COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end fossil fuels and deforestation, Texas activists escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, fro...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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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

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Children Among 'More Than 140' Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio – Deceleration
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. On Monday night mor...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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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.

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Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference – Deceleration
With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property. A...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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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.

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PODCAST: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their 'Right to Refuse' Illegal and Immoral Orders – Deceleration
In a community conversation closing out a gallery exhibit organized by ABOUT Face: Veterans Against the War, panelists from Texas and California discuss the histories of veteran activism against war a...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#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.
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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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.

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New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat – Deceleration
Delaney Nolan's distinctively American novel Happy Bad asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? An excerpt from the novel and Q&A with author ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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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.

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Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.'s Rise – Deceleration
What can folks in the U.S. learn from the survivors of martial law under a Philippines dictator that caused thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of illegal detentions? Plenty. For many in attenda...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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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

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Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for 'Crime' of Speaking at Socialism Summit – Deceleration
Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again. Alter is a beloved teacher, a member of the Texas State Employees Union, and the a...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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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

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Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S. – Deceleration
A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all seven operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last five years, a new report finds. LNG plants i...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
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November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Imagine being so homo/transphobic that you hate rivers too.

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Hill Country city to remove street art to comply with Abbott order
Kerrville officials say the crosswalks appear to run afoul of the governor's directive to remove political or ideological art from public streets.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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...

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VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril – Deceleration
As tensions rise over deployment of the military in U.S. cities, increasingly violent ICE arrests by unaccountable masked agents, and persecution of Trump's political rivals, a photo exhibit and panel...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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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

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San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows – Deceleration
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. From 2019 to 20...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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As you educate yourself on #ProjectMarvel, some historical context from @dlondonwortel.bsky.social is instructive.

#satx

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Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years – Deceleration
Historian Daniel Wortel-London explains why, looking at the case of New York City—with lessons for San Antonio as we consider public funding streams for Project Marvel. Historian Daniel Wortel-London ...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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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.

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PODCAST: ‘Curtains of Rain’ Revisits South Texas Histories of Environmental Racism as Queer Coming-of Age Story – Deceleration
Our podcast interview with author Anel Flores talks Monsanto’s decades of contamination in Mission, Texas, the beauty of South Texas people and places, and fiction as a practice of healing self by wri...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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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

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TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat – Deceleration
Highlighting threat from wastewater to greater San Antonio’s largest drinking water source, the Edwards Aquifer, opponents threaten lawsuit, rehearing request. TCEQ Commissioners unanimously approved ...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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As we catch yall up on the past month, we also covered #nokings here in #satx:

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'No Kings' Protests to Sweep U.S. Saturday As Trump Admin Ramps Up Attacks on Civil Society – Deceleration
In reviving notions of “pre-crime,” the Trump administration has found a convenient way to treat all protest as “terrorism.” The “antifa” EO and NSPM-7 seek to “investigate and disrupt networks, entit...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM