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Dozens of Countries Just Met to Chart a Path off Fossil Fuels—No Lobbyists Invited

At the first international conference of its kind, almost 60 nations shared ideas, exchanged best practices, and discussed the hurdles they face in their effort to end their dependence on oil, gas, an…

5d ago·3 min read·532 words

'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 as we witness US-backed bombs fall on Iran, Gaza, Leb…

6d ago·24 min read·4637 words

'Wherever the Bomb Falls'

Filipina writer Avril Shakira Villar traces a line from James Baldwin's statement on the Vietnam War—'every bombed village is my hometown'—to the Tagalog word 'damay,' which 'gestures toward ... the w…

6d ago·16 min read·3050 words

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.

May 23·3 min read·554 words

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

In April, one of the city’s three reservoirs received its first inflows in eight months. But narrowly avoiding an immediate disaster doesn’t mean that Corpus Christi has solved its water crisis.

May 22·5 min read·855 words

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…

May 20·11 min read·2040 words

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.

May 20·5 min read·818 words

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…

May 19·9 min read·1798 words

$1.7B Big Bend Border Wall Contract Awarded Amidst Public Confusion Over Plans

The contract comes just a week after Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said the agency would not build a wall in Big Bend National Park.

May 16·4 min read·730 words

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.

May 16·3 min read·485 words

Inmates are Cooking Inside Texas Prisons. Are Reforms Coming at Last?

Deceleration speaks with Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates, about efforts to force the state to install potentially life-saving air conditioning.

May 15·2 min read·220 words

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.

May 12·5 min read·917 words

'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.'

May 11·1 min read·33 words

Sen. Ted Cruz Working to Grant Fossil Fuel Companies 'Sweeping Legal Immunity'

Members of Congress in Texas and Wyoming tout the bills as protecting energy security, but opponents say they amount to a corporate handout that will cost taxpayers billions and harm human and environ…

May 8·1 min read·46 words

The Corpus Christi Water Countdown to 'Day Zero'

Predictability, accountability, and hope, amidst a coastal city’s vanishing water supply.

May 8·1 min read·19 words

US Drivers Bearing Brunt of Trump's War on Iran—Not So Much in Nations with More Renewables

“The only real energy independence from the Middle East is renewables,” said one policy expert.

May 6·1 min read·31 words

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.

May 6·1 min read·46 words

San Antonio Boosts its ‘Heat Resilience Playbook’ as Texas Cities Seek to Adapt to Rising Temps

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…

May 4·1 min read·50 words

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.

Apr 30·1 min read·23 words

Where to Celebrate May Day in Texas

Panels, Potlucks, and Marches are being held across the Lone Star State to celebrate worker power and solidarity!

Apr 30·1 min read·25 words

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 …

Apr 30·1 min read·43 words

First Annual Heat Summit Convened by Physicians for Social Responsibility

Thursday online gathering takes on extreme heat, the leading weather-related killer in the United States.

Apr 29·1 min read·25 words

Could Ambitious 'Transition' Conference Finally Shift Us Out of the Fossil Fuels Era?

As the costs of new oil wars and accelerating climate chaos come due, delegates from 50 nations gather in Colombia for The First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels.

Apr 29·1 min read·44 words

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.

Apr 26·1 min read·35 words

Fighting Fracked Data, South Texas's Coming 'Long Season of Hell', Degrow to Live, y Más

A roundup of Deceleration headlines from the week.

Apr 25·1 min read·23 words

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.

Apr 24·1 min read·29 words

'Slow Down or Die'—An Economist's Warning

In a new book, Timothée Parrique dispels the myth of growth and shows how shrinking the economy to a sustainable steady state could make us all richer in the things that truly matter.

Apr 23·1 min read·39 words

Get Ready for a 'Long Hell' of a Summer, National Weather Service Official Warns

Rio Grande Valley residents are at particular risk from extreme heat, according to a study presented last week by an emerging partnership between state and federal weather and health officials.

Apr 21·1 min read·44 words

‘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;…

Apr 20·1 min read·95 words

After the Hunger Strike, an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Dow Goes On

Four decades into her crusade against Texas petrochemical plants, a retired shrimper remains determined to fight the largest chemical company in America.

Apr 18·1 min read·34 words

Doc Screening: Cuba's Life Task: Combatting Climate Change

Sunday, April 19, at Esperanza Peace & Justice Center.

Apr 17·1 min read·17 words

Collaboration in a Time of Climate Crisis—It's Complicated

'A Conversation of Climate, Community, and Collaboration' keynote discussion closed Day One of the South Central Climate Resilience Forum being held in San Antonio, Texas, this week.

Apr 17·1 min read·35 words

Democracy Lessons: How the People Defeated Orbán

Understanding how Hungarians ousted Viktor Orbán offers a critical case study for everyone doing the unglamorous but essential work of democracy defense.

Apr 16·1 min read·29 words

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.

Apr 15·1 min read·25 words

Caravan to Dilley! (April 18)

Let's Unify to Dilley ~ End Family Detention ~ Shut Down Dilley

Apr 15·1 min read·17 words

Judge’s Order for “Alligator Alcatraz” May Shape Legal Access at Other ICE Jails

Constitutionally guaranteed rights to consult an attorney can make a huge difference in whether someone gets deported.

Apr 11·1 min read·30 words

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. 

Apr 10·1 min read·40 words

Valero’s Port Arthur Refinery Explosion: Fossil Fuels Will Always Spoil the Good Life

Coastlines/Faultlines Correspondent Gaige Davila examines the recent explosion at Port Arthur and the allowances residents make for a paycheck.

Apr 9·1 min read·32 words

'Shifting Baselines' Screening about SpaceX: Austin Film Society Doc Days

On the existential threat posed by the insatiable space race.

Apr 9·1 min read·20 words

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 data centers ushering in a new economic era expected to displace m…

Apr 8·1 min read·43 words

‘A Moral Obscenity’: Trump Seeks Military Budget Boost But Billions in Cuts to Social Programs

“To pay for his endless wars, he wants the biggest increase to military spending in 70 years,” said Rep. Greg Casar. “Hell no.”

Apr 5·1 min read·38 words

The Texas Data Center Rebellion Has Begun

Deceleration reports back from the 2-day statewide convening of residents fighting data center buildout—from El Paso to Dallas to San Antonio and down to the RGV.

Apr 3·1 min read·33 words

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.’

Apr 3·1 min read·32 words

No Kings Today!

Todos Agua concludes, No Kings March, y más.

Mar 28·1 min read·11 words

'God Squad' Could Push Gulf Species Toward Extinction

If the defense secretary forces the God Squad to grant this sweeping—and unprecedented exemption—all the threatened and endangered creatures, both large and small, that call the Gulf waters and coastl…

Mar 27·1 min read·43 words

'Super Collider': Autonomous Warfare, Space Colonization, & Climate Collapse Meet in Brownsville

'Coastlines/Faultlines' correspondent Gaige Davila reflects on the horrors of development—and loss of the wild—transforming the Lower Texas Coast.

Mar 27·1 min read·30 words

Climate-Fueled Heat Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest

Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.

Mar 27·1 min read·26 words

Proposed SpaceX Land Swap with Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Public comment period is open until March 31, 2026.

Mar 26·1 min read·21 words

Lessons in Well-Being from the Pacific Islands During Capitalism's Collapse

'Alternative Futures' reports back from the brink of our extractive collapse with inspiring models capable of remaking our economies around things that actually matter: Health and well-being—for us, a…

Mar 26·1 min read·44 words

Urban Bird Project: 'Out/Side Brown Queer'

On Autohistoria-teoria in the Environmental Humanities w/ Priscilla Solis Ybarra, PhD

Mar 25·1 min read·17 words

The Living Systems Summit: From Doughnuts to Deep Roots

Explore what’s possible when municipalities, businesses, nonprofits, and educators let go of sugar rush fixes and start growing deep roots that last.

Mar 25·1 min read·31 words

No Kings. No Trump Takeover.

All Out in the Street Again to Decry Fascist Creep.

Mar 25·1 min read·15 words

¡TRUCHA! ICE Out Of San Anto

Fundraiser for migrant families in greater SATX.

Mar 25·1 min read·13 words

Data Center Watch: Lessons from a San Marcos Coalition's Defeat of an AI Data Center

Livestream from recent Todos Agua facilitated by Deceleration and hosted by Esperanza Peace & Justice Center

Mar 24·1 min read·31 words

How the Prairieland 'Antifa' Verdict Threatens the Anti-Trump Resistance

The recent convictions related to a July 4 ICE detention center demonstration raise red flags about the right to protest. “This can happen to you, and if they can do it to you, they will.”

Mar 24·1 min read·44 words

'Todos Agua': Cultivating a Right Relationship with Water—and Grandmother Earth

Join us at Esperanza Peace & Justice Center...Or: Maybe We'll Heat Up a Livestream for Ya.

Mar 21·1 min read·26 words

Keeping Tabs on Migrating Whooping Cranes on the Texas Coast

Tracking this small population of big birds is revealing potentially significant changes in their habits.

Mar 20·1 min read·25 words

Our Data Center Boom Threatens More Than Water—A Conversation About the Emerging Stakes in the Struggle

Warehouses are popping up across Texas: Some to fill with mistreated humans, others with a human-displacing consciousness.

Mar 19·1 min read·33 words

AAPI Know Your Rights Training

March 24, 2026: Know Your Rights

Mar 13·1 min read·11 words

Todos Agua III ~ Water Calls Us to Remember

March 21–28, 2026: A week honoring water, tradition, and community.

Mar 13·1 min read·19 words

Let's Oust Stephen Miller

Noem’s firing shows the power of collective action; now we must go after the real architect of Trump's deportation machine and so many other harmful policies.

Mar 12·1 min read·30 words

'Time is Up': Corpus Christi Careening Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe

The largest industrial users paying to avoid water limits as the 'Sparkling City by the Sea' expects to run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel supplies to Texas airports, trigger a surge…

Mar 10·1 min read·60 words

Revolutionary Cry Rises at San Antonio's 36th Annual International Women's Day Rally & March

'It is our duty to fight for freedom! It is our duty to win!'

Mar 9·1 min read·28 words

Deceleration 2026 Reader Survey

Help us steer into 2026!

Mar 7·2 min read·217 words

Clearcutting the Borderlands Threatens Native Rio Grande Habitat

As border barriers go up in the Rio Grande Valley, one nature enthusiast in Starr County is documenting what’s being lost.

Mar 5·1 min read·29 words

'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…

Mar 3·1 min read·40 words

Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds

Existing systems record only ‘one-sixth of the statistically estimated heat deaths’ in Texas, a new paper by a Texas A&M researcher finds.

Feb 27·1 min read·35 words

Border Wall Closes in on Big Bend

Residents and elected officials are speaking out against a proposed border barrier through Texas’ biggest state park and one of the jewels of the national park system.

Feb 27·1 min read·34 words

Repair x Share Summit: Building a Care Economy

Online March 19 & 20: Join your colleagues in the repair, share, and reuse community!

Feb 26·1 min read·23 words

March for Peace and Just Laws for Our Immigrant Community

9am-3pm Saturday, February 28 in San Antonio, Texas

Feb 25·1 min read·18 words

Smash Fascism While Blasting These 10 Texas Tunes

Bad Bunny and the Boss aren't the only ones decrying federal abuses. The resistance in Texas is remarkably fertile, as these critical artists prove out.

Feb 25·1 min read·33 words

Round Rock Texas Approves Ninth Data Center Over Strong Community Resistance

City of Round Rock is 'business friendly ... resident hostile.' A Q&A with Gary Oldham of Protect Round Rock

Feb 25·1 min read·30 words

Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration

The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.

Feb 25·1 min read·26 words

Youth Hold the Future—and There is No Room There for ICE

Two San Antonio high school students capture the energy and passion of their peers, who took to the streets on a federal holiday in support of family, friends, and neighbors terrorized by ICE.

Feb 21·1 min read·44 words

The Choice: Our Planet's Billions—Or the Guilty Petro Elite? (We Can't Have Both)

It is time to decide.

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

SAWS Rate Hikes are Coming. How Fair is their Rate Structure?

Retired academic Jim Spickard breaks down SAWS rate structure as San Antonio moves toward a series of rate-hike votes.

Feb 20·1 min read·30 words

MAGA's War on Disabled People Visible in ICE Attacks and Gutting of Medicaid

Departed Texas-based disability justice activist Bob Kafka had words for this moment: ‘Don’t Mourn. Organize.’

Feb 18·1 min read·28 words

Is North Texas Silo Mills Community Built on Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste?

Thousands of homes and an elementary school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who helped spread the material is speaking out.

Feb 18·1 min read·40 words

In Gift to Big Oil Donors, Trump Stops EPA From Combating ‘Most Terrible Environmental Threat in Human History’

Repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases “isn’t about saving taxpayers’ money, it’s about saving an industry that has already been exposed as a permanent danger to American familie…

Feb 13·1 min read·53 words

36th San Antonio International Women's Day March & Rally

2pm March 8, 2026 @ Main Plaza

Feb 13·1 min read·16 words

SWU Youth Leadership Organization Spring Break

Spring Break Southwest Workers Union

Feb 13·1 min read·11 words

We Built Disaster Kits for Our Rio Grande Valley Neighbors—They Use Them for Daily Survival

As climate 'shocks' increasingly puncture wealthier parts of the U.S., they lengthen like a shadow across this borderlands region.

Feb 13·1 min read·34 words

287(g): Cómo la policía local se convierte en agentes de ICE

6pm Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Feb 11·1 min read·16 words

Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE’s CoreCivic Dilley Detention Facility

The number of people held at the notorious family jail has nearly tripled since October.

Feb 11·1 min read·27 words

Lessons from Minnesota

1pm Central Online

Feb 11·1 min read·6 words

TEK Talk & Market at Brackenridge Park

11am-4pm San Antonio

Feb 11·1 min read·10 words

MELT ICE Series: Detention and Resistance under Trump

3pm-4:30pm Online

Feb 11·1 min read·10 words

Bill Barker on Extreme Heat, City Planning, and Policies to Save Lives

Humankind didn't evolve in heat like this. Heat that is increasingly claiming lives. So how can we cool down our cities and keep more people safe?

Feb 10·1 min read·38 words

'Impeach Noem' Demands Growing After Gutting FEMA, Abandoning Disaster Victims

From widespread winter storm deaths, to Hill Country flood response: 'It’s very clear that Secretary Kristi Noem is undermining FEMA’s capabilities and putting the public in harm’s way.'

Feb 8·1 min read·38 words

‘Largest Power Project’ in U.S. Brings Record-Setting Pollution Permit to West Texas

When completed the 7.7GW facility would release 33 million tons per year of greenhouse gases—nearly 5 percent of the total annual emissions of Canada.

Feb 7·1 min read·36 words

Liam Ramos Freed, Gaige Davila on Gulf Coast Fights, Defeating Climate Behemoth, More

Federal Judge Biery's words freeing Liam Ramos from detention, plus: talking with Gaige Davila about growing up on the coast and a new Deceleration newsletter: 'Coastlines & Faultlines;' defeating 'Cl…

Feb 5·1 min read·47 words

Flowing Forward: Water Challenges and Solutions for South Texas

5:30pm-7pm, Feb. 9, 2026 Corpus Christi

Feb 5·1 min read·15 words

VIDEO: Texas Dems Call for Abolishing ICE, Releasing Liam Conejo Ramos

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro and other Texas Democrats gathered in San Antonio on Wednesday called for Ramos's release and the dismantling of ICE.

Jan 30·1 min read·34 words

VIDEO: Family Detention at Dilley Blasted by Former Detainees

Video of speakers in downtown Dilley, Texas, on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, before protestors marched to the family detention center.

Jan 30·1 min read·29 words