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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/3mjyzuo6mws2k‘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. https://deceleration.news/unify-to-dilley-inspires-hundreds-to-texas-family-concentration-camp/21 Apr 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyzuo6mws2khttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mjknvy7mzc2eICE 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. https://deceleration.news/ice-watch-the-master-plan-to-fill-detention-centers/15 Apr 2026 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjknvy7mzc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mjk42ugjp22hOn 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!' https://deceleration.news/events/caravan-to-dilley/15 Apr 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjk42ugjp22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mj6haczeec22Privatizing Our National Forests? Mass 'Reorganization' of Forest Service—Including Closing Nacogdoches Research Station—May be First Step https://deceleration.news/privatizing-our-national-forests-mass-reorganization-of-forest-service-including-closing-nacogdoches-research-station-may-be-first-step/10 Apr 2026 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6haczeec22https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3miznnqaauc2aThis 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: https://deceleration.news/texas-professor-speaks-out-after-being-fired-for-crime-of-speaking-at-socialism-summit/09 Apr 2026 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3miznnqaauc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3miyzzuy7hc2gResidents 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. https://deceleration.news/critical-texas-data-center-fights-happening-right-now/08 Apr 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyzzuy7hc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mim4ltltv22aWednesday 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”). https://deceleration.news/endangered-species-act-god-squad-gulf-of-mexico/03 Apr 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mim4ltltv22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mieoets75c22'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. https://deceleration.news/greetings-from-occupied-brownsville-dystopian-lower-texas-coast/31 Mar 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mieoets75c22https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3miemyf4dyk2kOn 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. https://deceleration.news/8-million-strong-no-kings-turnout-breaks-all-past-protest-records/31 Mar 2026 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3miemyf4dyk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3micygfivxs26San Antonio did not hold back. #NoKings https://youtu.be/fSL4q7dQVYI?si=H8lieA1MGWHe0grK31 Mar 2026 01:07 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3micygfivxs26https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mi7uvrbjnk2h#NoKings San Antonio, Texas March 28, 2026 Video dispatch to come at deceleration this week.29 Mar 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi7uvrbjnk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mi2yyzuyds2t'Brownsville officials, of course, love the attention, while many residents near the growing SpaceX shadow are feeling the “Terminator Skynet vibes.”' https://deceleration.news/super-collider-autonomous-warfare-space-colonization-climate-collapse-meet-in-brownsville/27 Mar 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2yyzuyds2thttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mhydtevo4k2u“We will sacrifice because we know in future generations, my children, my grandchildren, are going to be in a better space,” —Tracie Mafile’o, Tongan researcher based in Aotearoa https://deceleration.news/lessons-in-well-being-from-the-pacific-islands-during-capitalisms-collapse/26 Mar 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhydtevo4k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mhj565vby22mA week of repairing our relationship with #water. San Antonio, Texas. Saturday, March 21, to Saturday, March 28. https://deceleration.news/events/todos-agua-iii-water-calls-us-to-remember/20 Mar 2026 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhj565vby22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mhgdmrtfz22wTexas Data Center Boom + Todos Agua + Women Leading Drive to Abolish ICE Warehouses are popping up across Texas: Some to fill with mistreated humans, others with a human-displacing consciousness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuEoajRO2Q&t=7s or on our website: https://deceleration.news/podcasts/texas-data-center-boom-todos-agua-women-leading-drive-to-abolish-ice/19 Mar 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgdmrtfz22whttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mhc6wvuoyk22ICE Watch #2 from Roxana Rojas is Out! All things #ICE and the Deportation-Industrial Complex in #Texas. Let us know what you think! https://deceleration.news/ice-watch-how-women-are-leading-the-way-to-a-world-beyond-detention “Nobody dreams of becoming an undocumented mother.” https://tinyurl.com/t7znz8d418 Mar 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhc6wvuoyk22https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mgtgnmtc322r“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen.” — Kristi Noem https://deceleration.news/oust-stephen-miller/12 Mar 2026 03:14 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgtgnmtc322rhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mgnlql7atc2dThe 36th annual International Women's Day rally and march wound through the rainy streets of San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday with revolutionary cries decrying imperialism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy. https://deceleration.news/revolutionary-cry-rises-at-san-antonios-36th-annual-international-womens-day-rally-march/09 Mar 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgnlql7atc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mgkrmw2trc22Deceleration is growing solutions for an overheating world. But it is our community of supporters who help steer our course via this annual survey and other engagements. ;) https://deceleration.news/deceleration-2026-reader-survey/08 Mar 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgkrmw2trc22https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mg656ry53s24'Looking #Mexican' in the Age of #ICE Brown skin—a metric used by ICE to trigger investigations and detentions—means not that one is an 'invader,' but likely an heir of the continent's original #Indigenous inhabitants. Why don't more claim that inheritance? https://deceleration.news/looking-mexican-in-the-age-of-ice/03 Mar 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg656ry53s24https://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mfu7c6mkak2c“Official Texas records captured only about one-sixth of the statistically estimated heat deaths, though this undercounting has improved over time,” concludes a new paper by Andrew Dessler published earlier this month in the journal GeoHealth. https://deceleration.news/heat-related-deaths-in-texas-going-uncounted/27 Feb 2026 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfu7c6mkak2chttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mfryqhymas2xBlack Communities Are Building the Future Exploring the new documentary, 'Grasping at the Roots,' from the @cjaourpower.bsky.social. From @shapersyris.bsky.social https://deceleration.news/black-communities-are-building-the-future/ (Free sub rqrd)26 Feb 2026 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfryqhymas2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mfp54bvjp22mThe Resistance is Fertile. https://deceleration.news/smash-fascism-blasting-10-texas-tunes/25 Feb 2026 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfp54bvjp22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mfoytnwq2c2m"We were stunned to learn that eight #datacenters were already either operational, under active construction, or approved in Round Rock. This would be the ninth." Q&A with Protect Round Rock's Gary Oldham. https://deceleration.news/round-rock-texas-approves-ninth-data-center-over-strong-community-resistance/25 Feb 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfoytnwq2c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mfdc3uzqas2iBeings of the Earth who wish to inhabit a planet with regulated temperatures amenable to survival: Put your claims on hold because the wealthiest and most subsidized industry on the planet isn't done profiting. More: https://deceleration.news/climate-our-planets-billions-or-petro-elite/20 Feb 2026 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfdc3uzqas2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mf5x5iznbk2eWhat happened to Aliya Rahman is not an isolated incident. It sits within a broader pattern, one rooted in a long history of eugenics, ableism, racism, and systemic violence. A pattern that makes clear: This is a war on disabled people. https://deceleration.news/war-on-disabled-people-ice-medicaid-aliya-rahman/18 Feb 2026 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5x5iznbk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3meybpr556c2k"But most of French’s online “messaging” has little to do with pipeline safety or gas flaring or any other matter that keeps the petrodollars flowing." This is what he talks about instead: Via @texasmonthly.bsky.social16 Feb 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3meybpr556c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/deceleration.news/post/3mequevo6ss2f"The Brownsville area suffers from crumbling infrastructure due to inadequate funding, mishandling of city resources, and various forms of exploitation. ... Climate change impacts, such as flooding and extreme heat, make it worse." From @bekahbot.bsky.social https://deceleration.news/disaster-kits-rio-grande-valley-daily-survival/13 Feb 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:bvm34ecsz65wog7mzplsuumm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mequevo6ss2f