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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 27

#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.

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

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

yellow carpenter bee peeking over a stick

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · Aug 24

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...

Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown

President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 23

Written by an "AI stock prospector" ... you have their attention.

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 21

" '[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

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 21

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

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

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 20

i was remembering this or a similar line/translation variation a couple days ago: 'it is with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 20

transcending the bastards from my hammock.

toes behind red vining flower and orange splash of color from hammock in background

Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

red flower with stark sugar-crusted stamen reaching out over blue background

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 19

You can see some of our #heat writings here, including writing on Albert Garcia's death: deceleration.news/category/ext...

Extreme Heat Archives – Deceleration

Extreme Heat. Human Stories. Deceleration news & analysis about the acceleration of extreme heat, the human and environmental impact, and proactive community responses.

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 19

This analysis from last summer. deceleration.news/bird-city-sa... #ecocide #birds #migrationisbeautiful

Stop the Attack on Migratory Birds in San Antonio—Eggs and Chicks Are in Those Nests – Deceleration

City of San Antonio contractors trying to dislodge migratory birds from a rookery at Woodlawn Lake in San Antonio. Said rookery is full of babies and eggs. We need you to call these elected reps and m...

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

Great egret, large white bird, standing on broad brown branch against blue sky.

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 19

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...

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland's 'Sister Rivers' – Deceleration

Amid rising attacks on trans people, ideas from ‘queer ecology’ can light the way toward an alternative environmental politics capable of honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beside and beyond our ...

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 19

Used this pic to feature this amazing story about the power of #poetry last week..."To write from where we are is to preserve this vernacular earth language—to ask for water is poetic, a question that uniquely shapes our lands."
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ASLE 2025: Can Poetry Save the World from Extractivist Plunder and Climate Violence? – Deceleration

These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking. These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say y...

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

blurred yellow sunflowers over out-of-focus green and pink background

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 18

Esperanza (Tecoma stans), aka Yellow Elder

#photography #nature #flowers #fujifilm #xh1 #insects (look close) #minimalism

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 8

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.

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#ej #climate #poetry

authors/activists kamala platt, marisol cortez, carolina hinojosa, edward vidaurre speaking on birds, barrios, borders, & books

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 11

Do not obey.

It's time to talk about mass noncooperation.

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protest sign reads: tx demands the epstein list" over highway. headline for story is: 'texas gerrymandering fight reveals actions of an autocrat—and what it takes to defeat one.'

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

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

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kaia sand speaking at asle. headline reads: "as attacks on unhoused increase, kaia sand archives alternatives to criminilization"

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

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.'

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#environment #ecocrit #climate

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

Artists! #Poetry #VisualArts #photography #prose

#ICE #climate #justice

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