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Environmental justice journal growing solutions to an overheating world. Rooted in South Texas, serving the world. https://deceleration.news/ Eds @harmanity.bsky.social & @mcortez.net
#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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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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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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When President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on the country’s southern border in 2019, usurping the role of Congress, some argued at the time, the folks living in the region couldn’t have known what it would mean for their lives and livelihoods. deceleration.news/border-wall-...
Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home
‘Every state a border state’ has shown the U.S. interior MAGA’s anti-immigrant furor, but on the actual southern boundary, border residents—and the Rio Grande they share—are bearing the fuller price o...
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Dealing Gov. Abbott a Blow, Federal Judge Blocked (Most Of) SB4 This Week SB4 would allow Texas to single-handedly take on federal immigration enforcement duties. deceleration.news/texas-federa... Free w/ sub.
Cooking Texas Inmates. That's right, most prisons in Texas have no AC even though extreme temps ramp up year after year. This week, Deceleration speaks with Dr. Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates (TPCA). Is reform on the way? deceleration.news/podcasts/inm...
"In pursuit of winning the AI race, President Donald Trump last year issued an executive order to revoke many guardrails that could slow down #AI development." deceleration.news/data-centers...
Data Centers Could Start Construction Before Receiving Air Permits, Under Proposed EPA Rule
Allowing gas plants, factories, and data centers to move ahead of regulators would ramp up the pressure for permit approval.
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'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried Deceleration Opinion deceleration.news/come-in-the-...
'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried
'We are in a period of stark moral offense. Torture and death are hallmarks of the entire detention system today.'
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«¿He muerto?», pensé. «¿Es esto el más allá?». deceleration.news/preparamos-k...
Preparamos kits de emergencia para nuestros vecinos del Valle del Río Grande — se utilizan para su supervivencia diaria
A medida que las «crisis» climáticas afectan cada vez más a las zonas más prósperas de Estados Unidos, se extienden como una sombra sobre esta región fronteriza.
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Texas is fast emerging as one of the fastest warming states in the U.S. And it's keeping a dangerous pace with flood-, storm, and fire-prone states like Florida and California as a national epicenter for costly billion-dollar disasters. deceleration.news/texas-cities...
Texas Cities Ramping Up Strategies to Battle Rising Heat
Republican state leaders stripped cities of the ability to require water breaks for workers, but Texas cities are still fighting to create more habitable conditions for their residents as dangerous he...
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Our spring creative review is open for submissions! Seeking art across genres responding to the genocide, ecocide, & crimes against humanity recently inflicted by US bombs & military spending. Excited to have @shelleyettinger.bsky.social as guest editor. #poetry #art #callforsubmissions #antiwar
#MayDay presents, if we let it, a reminder that we must find the energy to imagine a better world — because we deserve a better world and, when organized, we are capable of achieving one. deceleration.news/may-day-san-...
May Day Exhibit Celebrates San Antonio’s Labor Organizing History
Local union advocates are highlighting the critical importance of labor and revitalizing working-class solidarity.
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100+ Groups Urge Congress to Reject Rushed #DataCenter Approvals 'Congress must not let Big Tech block oversight and hide data centers’ real harms from the public, including their immense energy and water use, dangerous pollution, and rising local costs.' deceleration.news/100-groups-u...
100+ Groups Urge Congress to Reject Rushed Data Center Approvals
'Congress must not let Big Tech block oversight and hide data centers’ real harms from the public, including their immense energy and water use, dangerous pollution, and rising local costs,' said one ...
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Going live in a bit about our response as a nonprofit media project to extreme #heat public health impacts in Texas. texaspsr.org/heat-summit/
