Deceleration is an online journal responding to the roots of our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises & growing solutions to an overheating world.
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 act, be inspired to protect the species we love?
#biodiversity#conservation
https://t.co/vTEtI0KZHI
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 https://t.co/jGOnf4pv2q
CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community #Solar Promise
To fulfill its commitment to the city’s most vulnerable residents, @CPSEnergy must launch its community solar program and restart the residential solar program it abandoned three years ago.
https://t.co/cBozcGYGnI
What Our Pro-Democracy Movement Should Be Learning from Nature
We need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders, writes conflict transformation expert John Paul Lederach.
https://t.co/w22yX84zlI
Via @wagingnv
A preeminent Latino scholar issues an urgent call to his colleagues—and to all of us—to get educated on our rights, vocally assert them, share information about threats as they emerge, and stand in active solidarity with all targeted groups.
https://t.co/PFEKaDFjTY
@RolandForTexas For everyone blaming the people of Texas (who are many and diverse) in the midst of tragedy (and that's a lot of you, every fucking disaster): indulgences are available here: https://t.co/0WX12NqOdx
Also: Stop dehumanizing entire groups of people. It goes nowhere good.
"It was government failure because this sorry son of a bitch president... this evil bastard...cut 600 employees from the National Weather Service." — @RolandForTexas#kerrvilleflooding#texasflood2025
@RolandForTexas While carrying more than a grain of truth, Gutierrez's assessment of NWS as the source of the suffering is proving to be off target. + anyone gloating over the deaths of our families and friends for 'voting wrong' needs to fuck right off.
@ChYph3r Are you wishing death on everyone in Tejas or 'just' the 56% who voted red? Because Texas is not a single identity anywhere but in your mind.
Apologies accepted by donating here: https://t.co/0WX12NqOdx
“Activities in #space are increasing almost exponentially,” said Michael Byers, co-director of the Outer Space Institute. “And every morning brings a new problem.”
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With Tuesday night vote approaching, Deceleration asked Texas-based researcher Sloan Rucker of the Data Center Action Coalition about the merits of developer arguments.
Story: https://t.co/vcQYMgApPP
Federal attacks will push more to homelessness.
‘Real solutions are not cheap.’ Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert presents plan for 3,000 additional Permanent Affordable Housing units and a robust ‘pallet shelter program.'
#SATX
Story: https://t.co/t5qwH9ucg7
"As they raise awareness of an ongoing #genocide, activists for Palestinian liberation in San Marcos are transforming local politics in their Central Texas community." #Palestine#Texas
Story from @KitOConnell: https://t.co/DYmkXF1qXJ
From childhood grief to the discovery of the power of #breathwork in college sports, the backstory of Love’s journey to Breathe & Rise Collective offers encouragement for all who struggle. #SATX
https://t.co/VkBLCAol7R
"This weekend, non-profit theater program New Works SA will present its rendition of the Tony Award-winning musical Urinetown by Greg Cotis with Mark Hollman. ... Urinetown‘s most tragic aspect has to be its searing relevance to our moment." #SATX
https://t.co/JUAqJipD8L
“For cities like Austin, San Antonio, down to Corpus Christi these temperatures would have been almost impossible without a fingerprint of climate change included. And that’s caused by us burning coal and oil and methane gas."
Story: https://t.co/fOeBTF2w1i