Environmental justice journal growing solutions to an overheating world. Rooted in South Texas, serving the world. https://deceleration.news/ Eds @harmanity.bsky.social & @mcortez.net‬https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.newshttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mwe2ij7vtk2p 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: https://deceleration.news/podcasts/border-wall-broke-on-san-ygnacio-two-acre-birding-sanctuary/25 Sep 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwe2ij7vtk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mvasrfhzik2mWe 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/ https://deceleration.news/newsletters/11 Sep 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvasrfhzik2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mvarxvuhx22m 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 https://deceleration.news/peasant-led-movements-hold-the-model-for-restoring-the-land/11 Sep 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvarxvuhx22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mun4q5feos2bOur 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. https://deceleration.news/many-worlds-celebrate-decelerations-summer-2026-creative-review03 Sep 2026 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mun4q5feos2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3ms6r7pst422t#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. #pluriverse03 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6r7pst422thttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mrdtfrf37c2c 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. https://deceleration.news/protestors-shut-down-ice-san-antonio-detention/23 Jul 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdtfrf37c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mrdtesffsk2c#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. https://deceleration.news/how-to-celebrate-a-falling-empire-this-semiquincentennial/23 Jul 2026 21:56 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdtesffsk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mrdtdn2v722c '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. https://deceleration.news/call-for-submissions-many-worlds-celebrate/23 Jul 2026 21:56 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdtdn2v722chttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mrdtbz2s7s2c#Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings in the #RioGrandeValley https://deceleration.news/brownsvilles-saronic-autonomous-war-plans-echo-confederate-killing/23 Jul 2026 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdtbz2s7s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mrdtawcgjc2cIn Defense of Human-Created #Artwork: These three #SouthTexas artists embrace the struggle against the plague of #AI art—wherever it is found. https://deceleration.news/ai-in-defense-of-human-created-artwork/23 Jul 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdtawcgjc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mrdt7ihl2s2c#DataCenters Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South #SanAntonio Ambitions. https://deceleration.news/data-centers-are-building-power-plants-near-neighborhoods-south-san-antonio/23 Jul 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdt7ihl2s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mqs7j5wlc22zOur 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 2.16 Jul 2026 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqs7j5wlc22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mp4rw2rhes2hCPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow in Texas https://deceleration.news/cps-energy-board-fails-climate-commitments/25 Jun 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4rw2rhes2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mnsa25t7u22nClose 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. https://deceleration.news/data-centers-major-new-air-pollution-san-antonio/08 Jun 2026 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnsa25t7u22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmzbp5z2oc2mAlternative 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. https://deceleration.news/transitioning-off-fossil-fuels-no-lobbyists-allowed/29 May 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmzbp5z2oc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmyx7qe2ys2n'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. https://deceleration.news/every-bombed-village-deceleration-creative-review-spring-2026/ #poetry #prose #visualart #resistance29 May 2026 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmyx7qe2ys2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmre3oylec23The 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: https://deceleration.news/events/#/details/data-centers-u-s-epa-virtual-public-hearing-on-preconstruction-permitting/19005912/2026-05-28T0926 May 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmre3oylec23https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmjudc46fc2jWater & Power newsletter: Extreme Drought to Extreme Storms—Texas's New Whiplash Weather Requires Greater Preparation https://deceleration.news/texas-hill-county-floods-whiplash-weather/23 May 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmjudc46fc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmhnznf37s2wSolidarity @shaneburley.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 May 2026 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhnznf37s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmh3rw53hk23Deadline extended for visual art submissions for our next Creative Review!22 May 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmh3rw53hk23https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmd46kp6dk2uWe 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 27.20 May 2026 23:55 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmd46kp6dk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmczj33ujk2jThe 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. https://deceleration.news/maureen-galindo-antisemitic-conspiracies-harm-justice-movements/20 May 2026 23:08 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmczj33ujk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mmcuyer3ok2vMore 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. https://deceleration.news/texas-organizers-go-to-tokyo-to-tell-japan-and-its-banks-stop-funding-us-lng/20 May 2026 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcuyer3ok2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mm7mejzct22eWhen 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. https://deceleration.news/border-wall-murder-buoys-emerging-risks-facing-one-of-the-americas-great-rivers-and-those-who-call-her-home/19 May 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7mejzct22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mm3lxc6bpc2uDealing 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. https://deceleration.news/texas-federal-judge-blocks-sb4-immigration-rights/ Free w/ sub.18 May 2026 00:16 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm3lxc6bpc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mlwfm7bji22eCooking 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? https://deceleration.news/podcasts/inmates-are-cooking-in-texas-prison-system-are-reforms-coming-at-last/15 May 2026 22:39 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwfm7bji22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mlokhpy4v22l"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." https://deceleration.news/data-centers-construction-before-air-permits-epa-rule/12 May 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlokhpy4v22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mloizmxhyc2l'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried Deceleration Opinion https://deceleration.news/come-in-the-right-way-us-betrayal-of-refugees/12 May 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mloizmxhyc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3ml757vveak22«¿He muerto?», pensé. «¿Es esto el más allá?». https://deceleration.news/preparamos-kits-de-emergencia-para-nuestros-vecinos-del-valle-del-rio-grande/06 May 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml757vveak22