Gregory Harman

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...

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

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...

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.

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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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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.

yellow carpenter bee peeking over a stick

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

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.

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...

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

" '[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

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.'

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

transcending the bastards from my hammock.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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: 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...

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

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

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

photograph of double crested cormorant on branch

sacred water bird. san antonio, texas.

Trump deserves mountains of disrespect and removal as soon as fucking possible, but mixing in homophobic slurs w/ justified outrage only bashes down on other oppressed and targeted communities who don't deserve that. #assclown is good.