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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 25/09/2026
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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 11/09/2026
We don't update @bsky.app regularly. For those interested in our work on #ICE, #climate solutions, #water & power, #gulf coast buildout + alternatives it's best to take out a free sub to our growing list of newsletters and not get caught in anyone's algos. deceleration.news/newsletters/
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Liz DeGregorio @lizdegregorio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 11/09/2026
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-...
indigenous family in brazil over headline:  Peasant-Led Movements Hold the Model for Restoring the Land quote slide: "The food system is a thing that is supposed to support life; it is supposed to nurture life,” Rice told Deceleration. Instead, “it is often antagonistic to life.”
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 03/09/2026
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-...
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'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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 03/08/2026
#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
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 23/07/2026
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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 23/07/2026
#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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 23/07/2026
'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...
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'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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 23/07/2026
#Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings in the #RioGrandeValley deceleration.news/brownsvilles...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 23/07/2026
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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 23/07/2026
#DataCenters Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South #SanAntonio Ambitions. deceleration.news/data-centers...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 16/07/2026
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.
Flyer with call for submissions to summer creative review published by deceleration.news. Over a shot of earth from space, text reads: "Many worlds, celebrate! Deceleration invites flash fic and nonfic, poems, songs, and images that offer counterimaginaries to official celebrations of the US 250th. In a world rent by the weight of colonial violence, how do we continue walking and working together toward another possible world--"un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos" (a world in which many worlds fit)? Selections will appear in Deceleration's Summer 2026 Creative Review. $25 honorarium per piece. Deadline: August 2, 2026. To submit: marisol@deceleration.news"
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 25/06/2026
CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow in Texas deceleration.news/cps-energy-b...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 08/06/2026
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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 29/05/2026
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...
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 29/05/2026
'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
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 26/05/2026
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...
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 23/05/2026
Water & Power newsletter: Extreme Drought to Extreme Storms—Texas's New Whiplash Weather Requires Greater Preparation deceleration.news/texas-hill-c...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 22/05/2026
Solidarity @shaneburley.bsky.social
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 22/05/2026
Deadline extended for visual art submissions for our next Creative Review!
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 21/05/2026
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.
Flyer with black and white image of James Baldwin superimposed over clip art of a falling bomb aimed at a dandelion in blossom. Text over images reads: "Deadline extended! Calling All Visual Artists! In 1968, James Baldwin said of the Vietnam War: every bombed village is my hometown. As we watch US bombs fall on the peoples of Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Venezuela, and the Caribbean, we invite your best photos and visual art, revisiting Baldwin's words in our time. Selections will appear in Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review, guest edited by Shelley Ettinger. Deadline: May 27, 2026. To submit: marisol@deceleration.news"
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 21/05/2026
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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 20/05/2026
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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 19/05/2026
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-...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 18/05/2026
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.
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 15/05/2026
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...
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 12/05/2026
"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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 12/05/2026
'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried Deceleration Opinion deceleration.news/come-in-the-...
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'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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 06/05/2026
«¿He muerto?», pensé. «¿Es esto el más allá?». deceleration.news/preparamos-k...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 04/05/2026
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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 04/05/2026
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
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 30/04/2026
#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-...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 30/04/2026
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...
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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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 30/04/2026
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/
Flyer promoting speakers at Texas PSR Heat Summit.
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 29/04/2026
Thursday online gathering takes on extreme heat, the leading weather-related killer in the United States. We'll be presenting too! deceleration.news/events/texas...
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 26/04/2026
Corpus Christi is Declaring a ‘ #Water Emergency.’ "How Will the Water Emergency Affect Chemical Plants and Refineries? This is the elephant in the room." via @insideclimatenews.org postcard graphic @deceleration.news deceleration.news/corpus-chris...
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Corpus Christi is Declaring a ‘Water Emergency.’ What Does That Mean?
City leaders intend to make unprecedented cuts to water use in September but aren’t sure exactly how, as schools and hospitals drill for water.
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 26/04/2026
Getting off track for good trouble. Talking #datacenters this week ... until I realized something else happening at Texas Tech right now deserving of mention.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The GOP continue their relentless assault on US science. Trump is just their latest tool.
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 26/04/2026
“Project Matador” outside of Amarillo, Texas, pairs Fermi America and the Texas Tech University System seeking a pod of “hyperscale” #datacenters. Public comment deadline is next week for a new permit application to take power production to 11GW. deceleration.news/podcasts/pro...
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Project Matador: Fermi's 'Hyperscale' Data Center Complex Hitting Resistance in the Texas Panhandle
Deceleration speaks with Kendra Seawright of Women's March about data center organizing strategies in rural Texas.
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 21/04/2026
‘Unify to Dilley’ attendees gathered on the side of the road just outside of this small South Texas community on April 18, 2026, with three key demands: shut down the concentration camp; end family detention entirely; and release everyone inside by Mother’s Day. deceleration.news/unify-to-dil...
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‘Unify to Dilley’ Inspires Hundreds to Converge Outside CoreCivic's Family Concentration Camp
DILLEY, Texas—‘Unify to Dilley’ attendees gathered on the side of the road just outside of this small South Texas community on April 18, 2026, with three key demands: shut down the concentration camp;...
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 15/04/2026
ICE Watch: The Master Plan to Fill Detention Centers How Trump's plan for a million deportations year hinges on targeting non-violent, non-offenders, and asylum seekers. deceleration.news/ice-watch-th...
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ICE Watch: The Master Plan to Fill Detention Centers
How Trump's plan for a million deportations year hinges on targeting non-violent, non-offenders, and asylum seekers.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11/04/2026
The 30-day comment period begins today, and you can see instructions for comments here. This is a statewide plan, so check if there are new changes in your community! Thank you @floodlightnews.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social @deceleration.news for co-publishing the series.
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Draft 2026 Annual Monitoring Network Plan
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality opens comment period for the draft 2026 Annual Monitoring Network Plan
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 15/04/2026
On April 18 at 12pm CST, join the Blue Bunny Brigade, and communities all across Texas in a caravan converging at the Dilley Detention Center. 'End Family Detention. Release our kids and families by Mother’s Day!' deceleration.news/events/carav...
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Caravan to Dilley! (April 18)
Let's Unify to Dilley ~ End Family Detention ~ Shut Down Dilley
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 11/04/2026
Privatizing Our National Forests? Mass 'Reorganization' of Forest Service—Including Closing Nacogdoches Research Station—May be First Step deceleration.news/privatizing-...
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Privatizing Our National Forests? Mass 'Reorganization' of Forest Service—Including Closing Nacogdoches Research Station—May be First Step
Massive changes to the Forest Service and shifting priorities endanger long-term ecological research, science, and the future of our public lands, writes Wendee Nicole.
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 09/04/2026
This Monday, April 13 at 6pm, labor historian Tom Alter speaks at UTSA on Texas's efforts to banish entire fields of study. A tenured prof at TX State, Alter was fired last year after speaking at a socialism conference on his own time. More here: deceleration.news/texas-profes...
Flyer announcing a talk by Tom Alter to be held at UTSA in the Business Building (2.01.06) on April 13 at 6pm, organized by TSEU CWA Local 61 and UTSA YDSA. Below this information is a photo of Alter in a black sweatshirt speaking into a bullhorn at a rally surrounded by protestors holding signs that read "Defend Free Speech."
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 08/04/2026
Residents from across #Texas convened in San Antonio recently to learn from one another in their fight against water- and power-hungry #datacenters ushering in a new economic era expected to displace millions of workers. deceleration.news/critical-tex...
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Critical Texas Data Center Fights Happening Right Now
Residents from across Texas convened in San Antonio recently to learn from one another in their fight against water- and power-hungry projects ushering in a new economic era expected to displace milli...
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 03/04/2026
Wednesday morning, in a meeting lasting fifteen minutes and seven seconds, the U.S. government’s Endangered Species Committee overrode the Endangered Species Act (ESA), exempting all oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico (Trump’s “Gulf of America”). deceleration.news/endangered-s...
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Endangered Species Act 'Disemboweled' by God Squad in 15 Minutes, Seven Seconds
Fossil fuel operators exempted from federal ESA rules across the Gulf of Mexico as ‘a matter of urgent national security.’
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 31/03/2026
'Economic development' in the RGV means autonomous warfare cozying up alongside LNG buildout and space colonization as wild spaces are paved and locals increasingly feel the pinch of rising rents and groceries, reports Gaige Davila. deceleration.news/greetings-fr...
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Greetings From Occupied Brownsville: The Dystopian Future Arrives on Texas's Lower Coast
'Economic development' in the RGV means autonomous warfare cozying up alongside LNG buildout and space colonization as wild spaces are paved and locals increasingly feel the pinch of rising rents and ...
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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 31/03/2026
On Saturday, millions of people across the United States (and the rest of the world) rose up against “kings” in the United States, shorthand for the chronic oversteps and abuses of a President Donald Trump working to crush dissent and consolidate power. deceleration.news/8-million-st...
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8 Million Strong: 'No Kings' Turnout Breaks All Past Protest Records
Next up: a May Day general strike is being planned to shut down Trump's abuses.
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