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1 week ago | deceleration.news | Greg Harman

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For the last few weeks, Deceleration has been stealing away to the foot of an elder oak tree beside the Blue Hole within the sacred headwaters of the San Antonio River. We’ve dipped out upon the river itself below Padre Park, which is still largely fed by recycled water as pumping to feed our expanding city a hundred years ago began to impact the link between the waters below and the waters on the surface.

1 week ago | deceleration.news | Greg Harman

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... May Day was celebrated in San Antonio with complementary cries for justice bookending the day. It opened at at the memorial for the 53 immigrants who died while locked inside a tractor trailer on the city’s south side in the summer of 2022. Organizers gathered at the memorial kicking off a May Day Caravan event decried structural injustices they described as intrinsic to a capitalist system.

3 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Greg Harman

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After Jessica Witzel collapsed and died in the driveway of a Five Points gas station in San Antonio, her body temperature was recorded at a monstrous 126F degrees. A former coroner consulted by Deceleration said they could not “imagine a situation more obvious” for heat-related death classification, occurring on the hottest day of 2024.

3 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Greg Harman

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... More than 2,000 area residents filled downtown San Antonio streets and rallied at Main Plaza on April 19, 2025. It was a repeat of a similar gathering of two weeks prior that resulted in almost as significant numbers. Similar marches—hundreds of them, most convened by the recently emerged #50501 movement—were held across the United States the same day.

4 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Wendee Nicole

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In southern drawl and with a grin as big as Texas, ginger-haired filmmaker Ben Masters says, “Oh my God, there’s something you have to see. We got it. We got the ocelot kittens!” Overwhelmed with emotion, he falls gently backward on the thornscrub forest floor, wiping tears. Masters had captured the first-known video of ocelot kittens for a PBS documentary using a trail camera placed near mama’s den.