CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow in Texas deceleration.news/cps-energy-b...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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-...

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...

'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried Deceleration Opinion deceleration.news/come-in-the-...

«¿He muerto?», pensé. «¿Es esto el más allá?». deceleration.news/preparamos-k...

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...

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-...

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...

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/

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...

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...

Getting off track for good trouble. Talking #datacenters this week ... until I realized something else happening at Texas Tech right now deserving of mention.

The GOP continue their relentless assault on US science. Trump is just their latest tool.

“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...

‘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...

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...

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.

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...

Privatizing Our National Forests? Mass 'Reorganization' of Forest Service—Including Closing Nacogdoches Research Station—May be First Step deceleration.news/privatizing-...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

San Antonio did not hold back. #NoKings youtu.be/fSL4q7dQVYI?...

#NoKings San Antonio, Texas March 28, 2026 Video dispatch to come at deceleration this week.

'Brownsville officials, of course, love the attention, while many residents near the growing SpaceX shadow are feeling the “Terminator Skynet vibes.”' deceleration.news/super-collid...

“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 deceleration.news/lessons-in-w...

A week of repairing our relationship with #water. San Antonio, Texas. Saturday, March 21, to Saturday, March 28. deceleration.news/events/todos...

Texas 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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuE... or on our website: deceleration.news/podcasts/tex...

ICE Watch #2 from Roxana Rojas is Out! All things #ICE and the Deportation-Industrial Complex in #Texas. Let us know what you think! deceleration.news/ice-watch-ho... “Nobody dreams of becoming an undocumented mother.”

“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen.” — Kristi Noem deceleration.news/oust-stephen...

The 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. deceleration.news/revolutionar...

Questionable thumbnail aside, this is a nice article about a paper we just published on how to count heat mortality. From @deceleration.news Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds deceleration.news/heat-related...

Deceleration 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. ;) deceleration.news/deceleration...

'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? deceleration.news/looking-mexi...

“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. deceleration.news/heat-related...