Doing a thing on Thurs! arts.utsa.edu/event/birds-... There will be food (I hear), and free parking, and possibly zines if I can organize myself in time. Also a livestreamed option via @deceleration.news if you can't make it in person: www.youtube.com/@deceleratio...

Birds and Barrio Ecologies with Marisol Cortez | UTSA Arts

Please join us for the third event in the 2026-27 Arts + Ecology Series featuring artist, Marisol Cortez Rooted in San Antonio, Marisol Cortez writes across genre about place and […]

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Texans are shifting against Trump in such large numbers because after "shocking the politic" by voting up Trump, they have been able to train Dems to focus on the real villain: #billionaires, argues Decel’s Coastlines/Faultlines correspondent Gaige Davila. Full podcast at Deceleration.

Breaking Down ICE Fights, Technofascism, Dying Trumpism, and More. Full podcast: deceleration.news/podcasts/dec... Head to Deceleration for full conversation. #biodiversity #tech #space #conservation #climate #democracy #podcasts #deceleration #news

ICE Watch: City of San Antonio Sues #ICE & Homeland Security in Bid to Stop ICE Detention Expansion If resistance efforts fail, San Antonio appears poised to become the central hub for Trump’s #deportation machine in #Texas. deceleration.news/city-of-san-... #immigration #humanrights #news

City of San Antonio Sues ICE & Homeland Security in Bid to Stop ICE Detention Expansion

If resistance efforts fail, San Antonio appears poised to become the central hub for Trump’s deportation machine in Texas.

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We stopped posting here cuz honestly we just weren't finding our community, which was weird cuz I thought this was the space for progressive antiauthoritarian media like us :-\ But...nothing. BUT if you want some solid reporting on Texas ICE organizing and border wall frustrating, check last posts.

On Saturday, hundreds of San Antonio residents marched against a proposed ICE concentration camp on the East Side. On Thursday, City Council will discuss using the City-owned water and power utilities complicate the development. Slideshow/Video/Interviews: deceleration.news/san-antonio-...

'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility

Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.

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Did the #BorderWall Just Break on Tiny #SanYgnacio 's Two-Acre #Birding Sanctuary? 'F*ck It. Arrest me.' A conversation with Elsa Hull, a dedicated borderlands water protector arrested twice in Zapata County for resisting border wall construction. Full: deceleration.news/podcasts/bor...

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I realized a dream I didn’t know I had: collaborating with the amazing artist Sarah Gilchrist (you can see her beautiful work below), a wonderful friend of mine. I hope you enjoy my poem and her art in the latest issue of @deceleration.news … special thanks to editor @mcortez.net 🌞 🐍

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Our Summer 2026 Creative Review is live, celebrating "un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos" (a world in which many worlds fit). With contributions from @lizdegregorio.bsky.social, @janeherschlag.bsky.social, & many others. deceleration.news/many-worlds-...

Peasant-Led Movements Hold the Model for Restoring the Land In the U.S., efforts to shape a #postgrowth food system have yet to spark a mass movement, but interest and #activism are growing. Part II in a series about #degrowth by @shapersyris.bsky.social deceleration.news/peasant-led-...

Our Summer 2026 Creative Review is live, celebrating "un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos" (a world in which many worlds fit). With contributions from @lizdegregorio.bsky.social, @janeherschlag.bsky.social, & many others. deceleration.news/many-worlds-...

'Many Worlds, Celebrate!'— Deceleration's Summer 2026 Creative Review

Beyond the ecopolitical death-drive we're riding, pluriversal possibilities nudging us toward "un mundo quepan muchos mundos" (a world in which many worlds fit) take root in poem, prose, and art from ...

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#Callforsubmissions extended thru 8/15! Send us #poetry, #flashfic, #flashcnf, #art, #music that imagines an alternative future or celebrates other ways of doing, being, & thinking--counterimaginaries to the official US 250--which flower even now amid the violence of the current moment. #pluriverse

Protestors Call for Shutting Down #ICE’s New East #SanAntonio Detention Center—Before it Opens Speakers at Saturday's ‘Apply Heat’ day of action decried the rising numbers of ICE-related deaths and called for long-term resistance. deceleration.news/protestors-s...

Protestors Call for Shutting Down ICE’s New East San Antonio Detention Center—Before it Opens

Speakers at Saturday's ‘Apply Heat’ day of action decried the rising numbers of ICE-related deaths and called for long-term resistance.

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#ICE Watch: How To Celebrate a Falling Empire This #Semiquincentennial Plus: Why a non-unanimous decision on birthright citizenship should concern us all—and how we keep fighting when we want to give in to crippling fear, grief, and panic. deceleration.news/how-to-celeb...

How To Celebrate a Falling Empire This Semiquincentennial

Plus: Why a non-unanimous decision on birthright citizenship should concern us all—and how we keep fighting when we want to give in to crippling fear, grief, and panic.

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'Many Worlds, Celebrate!' A Call for #Submissions Through August 2, Deceleration invites #poems, #flashfic and creative #nonfic, #songs, and #visualart for our upcoming summer Creative Review highlighting counterimaginaries for the U.S. 250th. deceleration.news/call-for-sub...

'Many Worlds, Celebrate!' A Call for Submissions

Through August 2, Deceleration invites poems, flash fic and creative nonfic, song, and art for our upcoming summer Creative Review highlighting counterimaginaries for the U.S. 250th.

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#Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings in the #RioGrandeValley deceleration.news/brownsvilles...

Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings

The ongoing ‘murder-suicide’ of our living Rio Grande Valley (ie. economic development) has the same billionaire overlord vibe as the slave-picked cotton profits fought for by ‘Rip’ Ford in 1865.

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In Defense of Human-Created #Artwork: These three #SouthTexas artists embrace the struggle against the plague of #AI art—wherever it is found. deceleration.news/ai-in-defens...

In Defense of Human-Created Artwork

These three South Texas artists embrace the struggle against the plague of AI art—wherever it is found.

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#DataCenters Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South #SanAntonio Ambitions. deceleration.news/data-centers...

Data Centers Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South San Antonio Ambitions

While some Texas cities have advanced bans and moratoriums on data centers until the risks are better understood, San Antonio has proceeded more cautiously toward possible regulation. And some see eco...

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Our next creative review invites counterimaginaries to the official celebrations of this summer. How do we keep walking together toward "un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos"? Send us your response as #poetry, #art, #flashfic, #flashcnf or #music. To submit: marisol@deceleration.news by Aug 2.

CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow in Texas deceleration.news/cps-energy-b...

CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow

Climate emissions have been growing in San Antonio, despite Council and utility pledges to drive them down. Monday's CPS Board action all but guarantees future targets will remain out of reach as Texa...

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Close to 100 anxious area residents gathered a week and a half ago inside a plush Marriott hotel meeting room a short hike from SeaWorld on San Antonio’s Far West Side to voice their concern about a massive #AI data center going up blocks away. deceleration.news/data-centers...

Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side

Frustration marked public hearing for Vantage Data Center’s TX2 expansion plans at Highway 151 and Wiseman.

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Alternative Futures explores the first-ever Conference for Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, which brought together at the end of April ministers and diplomats from 57 different countries. deceleration.news/transitionin...

'Every Bombed Village'— Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review Writers and artists from San Antonio to Quezon City respond to James Baldwin's historic words about 'every bombed village' being our own hometowns. deceleration.news/every-bombed... #poetry #prose #visualart #resistance

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed changes that would allow gas #powerplants, #datacenters and #factories to begin construction ... before obtaining air-emission permits. (Inside Climate News.) Link for public hearing registration: deceleration.news/events/#/det...

Water & Power newsletter: Extreme Drought to Extreme Storms—Texas's New Whiplash Weather Requires Greater Preparation deceleration.news/texas-hill-c...

2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.

Rapid shifts from extreme drought to deadly floods is a feature, not a bug, in our new fossil-fuels modified climate. Here's what you need to know.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)@shaneburley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I was quoted in this great article about Maureen Galindo's conspiratorial antisemitism and how it corrodes the left's ability to take on power. deceleration.news/maureen-gali...

Deadline extended for visual art submissions for our next Creative Review!

We are good on poems and prose and excited for our next creative review! But we still need visual art. The theme is "Every Bombed Village" and deadline has been extended thru May 27.

The past week the world learned that the ostensible progressive congressional candidate for newly-gerrymandered House District 35 has been posting antisemitic conspiracy theories on her campaign social media feed. This was not news to us. deceleration.news/maureen-gali...

Maureen Galindo's Antisemitism Harms the Movements We Need to Beat Fascism

From Israel’s genocide to Trump’s mass deportation regime, the impunity of the powerful has broken our hearts. But as fascism consolidates, we must keep it from also breaking our brains by refusing th...

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More than $3.85 billion flowed to Freeport LNG in recent years from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), both state-run financial institutions, and several private banks. deceleration.news/texas-organi...

Texas Organizers Go to Tokyo to Tell Japan and its Banks: Stop Funding U.S. LNG

Seeking fossil fuel superpower status, Japan and its megabanks have spent at least $38B on natural gas projects in Texas alone.

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