🌱🌱Welcome to the Spring 2026 Costa Viviente newsletter from the Another Gulf is Possible Collaborative. As the Spring Equinox brings a rare moment of balance between light and dark, it also invites us into a season of renewal, planting, and collective reflection. 🌸🪴 bit.ly/AnotherGulfS...

Trump’s $1 billion offshore wind buyout is legally dubious — but may not be the last deal of its kind to come out of the White House.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a new border security project in the Rio Grande — not a wall of steel or concrete, but a floating barrier of linked buoys. Read More👉 ebx.sh/yrWKgX

US Fish & Wildlife plans to transfer 712 acres of Boca Chica habitat to Elon Musk to expand SpaceX's dangerous and unnecessary rocket launch activities. We submitted over 3,000 public comments opposing this last night before the deadline. Read our press release sotxejn.org/2026/04/01/p...

New today: “The Department of Homeland Security is not being clear intentionally about what their plans are, what they’re deploying in the region, and so it’s up to us in the community to track and document and report on it. This is how we fight back.”

A construction contract was awarded March 18, using money from the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” to build wall through the National Butterfly Center and the Santa Ana refuge, among other once-protected sites. New from Michael Gonzalez, copublished with @theborderchronicle.bsky.social:

I'll be speaking on a panel at the UT Austin conference on April 24, discussing climate change issues in the Rio Grande Valley. There are many other great panels as well. RSVP & info: lifeafterempire.com

Another Gulf reppin’ at NACCS Tejas Foco, the Annual Gathering of Chicana/Chicano Scholars, Poets, Artists, Activists, and Barrio Historians. If you’re in Houston, come by today and Saturday! Check out the program lineup here: bit.ly/NACCS2026HTX #anothergulf #naccs2026 #tejasfoco

Border communities urged officials to condemn deadly buoys in the Rio Grande. Most officials haven't responded to our letter. We will protest against these murder buoys in Brownsville on Feb 26. Press release -> sotxejn.org/2026/02/19/p...

The thing that has to be said here is that (1) this is still going on and (2) it’s actually getting worse, because the industry is producing ever more waste per barrel of oil or MMBTU of gas, because the easily accessible stuff is long gone.

"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 deceleration.news/disaster-kit...

We oppose the installation of death-trap buoys in our river because they are unnecessary & will seriously injure or kill people. These buoys would also cause irreparable damage to the river habitat. We urge electeds @BTxRGV to condemn these buoys & demand their immediate removal.

1M gallons of sulfuric acid spilled on Sunday into the Houston Ship Channel from BWC Terminals www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

SpaceX will keep approaching state & fed agencies to try to occupy more of our sacred, pristine coastline inch by inch. We in South Texas will fight back at every step because this colonizer must be stopped.

Today, we SUED the regulator, FERC, for approving Rio Grande LNG & the Rio Bravo Pipeline. This methane gas facility would be the biggest polluter in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas earthjustice.org/press/2025/t...

Sharing this hilarious video of someone yelling "Fuck you" at Congressman Henry Cuellar on the streets of Laredo, TX.

University of Alabama suspended two student magazines–one which focused primarily on women and the other on Black student life and culture–citing a DOJ memo. thecrimsonwhite.com/125358/news/...

After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to @kutnews.bsky.social and The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

FLASHBACK: Even Gulf Coast swamps saw the Northern Lights last month. What clarity! Find all the emails in a searchable, familiar format here: jmail.world Original photo: Patricia Dyszer-Townsend, Crawfordville, FL

Who is allowed to go home this holiday season? Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is gutted like a turkey carcass by the government. But flights travel like gravy for Trump’s deportation airline. Our latest Another Gulf Is Possible Comic post:

Where's the US news report about this? Someone placed signs on Matamoros, Mexico's beach near the US-Mexico border & SpaceX launchpad, declaring it a "restricted area" in accordance with directives issued by the Secretary of Defense. www.hoytamaulipas.net/notas/605347... www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/n...

Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries.

I am covering the @theguardian.com Cop30 blog, follow along here www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We sat down with @glasstire.bsky.social this month to chat about creative resistance as a way to speak up about the harms of SpaceX colonization in Brownsville, TX Read: Art Dirt: A Visit to The RGV - glasstire.com/2025/11/16/a...

Exclusive by me: How thousands fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then oil and gas companies kept drilling www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Absolutely disgusting. Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, has his own company town in the poorest community in the country, the Rio Grande Valley, TX

NOW: A small group of protesters briefly blockaded the entrance to the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin to demand shareholders reject a $1T pay package for the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. The blockade dispersed after a Travis Co. Sheriff threatened to arrest protesters without any official warning.

New methane export facilities are poisoning the climate and communities—but they can still find insurance. The Center for Media and Democracy found one man serving as director for both the insurer and the fossil fuel company they insured. From @matthewcook5.bsky.social: trib.al/CjNrzU9

Smackover Lithium, a joint venture of a Norwegian oil giant and a Canadian miner, announced in late September the discovery of the most lithium-rich fluids ever reported in North America, measured deep beneath its Texas claims insideclimatenews.org/news/2010202...

French court finds TotalEnergies guilty of misleading consumers in a 2021 ad campaign, claiming carbon neutrality by 2050 with a focus on renewable energy. The ruling, the first under France's greenwashing law for an energy firm, awarded reparations to NGOs www.devdiscourse.com/article/head...

SPOTLIGHT on our members' artistic endeavors! This Saturday at 2pm in Fort Worth, TX, @vocabularasa.bsky.social Ramsey Sprague provides musical accompaniment for Tammy Melody Gomez’s fantastic Saliendo Abierta one woman performance (Premiered at 2009 Sor Juana Festival of Performance in ATX)

behind the meter fracked-gas powered data center in the Permian www.wsj.com/tech/ai/west...

New in The Border Chronicle by @pablodelarosa.bsky.social 🦂 Healing Traditions: How Curanderismo is Reviving Cultural Connection in the Borderlands Mexican folk medicine is being reclaimed during a time of deep uncertainty in the U.S. political climate.

South TX EJ Network is with Matamoros organizations on a boat flotilla off the coast of Playa Bagdad to protest the SpaceX launch that just happened ¡fuera SpaceX, fuera Elon musk!

At the march in Memphis happening now. From the Rio Grande Valley to Memphis, no more Elon Musk, ICE, & National Guard in our communities. ¡Fuera!

Rio Grande Valley folks will be in NYC next week. come check out our panel about resisting Elon Musk & SpaceX Colonization during #NYCclimateweek at The People's Forum RSVP bit.ly/FrontlinesRe...

T-Mobile knows that by partnering with Musk, they are funneling billions of $$ into the pockets of the most destructive far-right billionaire. This is why we’re calling for a #BoycottTMobile We need your help to collect pledge signatures! Sign up here: stmp.link/collecttmobi...

Fort Bliss is a prime example of how our government has treated immigrants with cruelty throughout history. Once used to intern people of Japanese descent during World War II, this military base is now running the largest immigrant detention center in the country.

T-Mobile is bankrolling Elon Musk + caving to Trump’s agenda. That’s dangerous. We’re organizing a boycott to show corporate America: align with fascists? Lose your customers. 👉 Join us Sept 10: stmp.link/tmobilecall #BoycottTmobile #TMobileTakedown @teslatakedown.com @cwaunion.bsky.social

Chinga tu muro / No Border Wall!

On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I'm happy to have contributed to this piece in @teenvogue.com about the legacy of the hurricane in terms of the ways it motivated young survivors to get engaged and become activists. www.teenvogue.com/story/hurric...

"Survival should be the bare minimum. Yet in New Orleans, it is not a guarantee." Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. But is the legacy of the storm more lethal than the hurricane itself? Our latest collaboration with @capitalb.bsky.social:

El Salvador is targeting the CUHS 👎

“We will still keep fighting and speaking up to do everything we can to stop these projects, because our community doesn't want these projects,” said Bekah Hinojosa. “I mean, for us, it’s about continuing to exist here.” bit.ly/3HGtMc4

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to launch another dangerous, unnecessary rocket in our community today, around 6 PM, from Boca Chica Beach. We created an online guide 🗒 to help RGV community members prepare for the dangerous rocket launches Read & share --> sotxejn.org/community-sa...

Jellyfish strike again!

We drove across south Florida to explore Trump’s new Gilded Age: self enrichment, mass deportations & fear mongering. Featuring a trip to Turning Point student summit, an interview w/ Steve Bannon, a stop at “Alligator Alcatraz” & a thunderstorm over Mar-a-Lago Our latest Anywhere But Washington:

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, whose ancestral territory lies in the heart of the Everglades, heard about “Alligator Alcatraz,” at the same time as everyone else did. The concentration camp was built in near-total secrecy without any environmental impact study or tribal consultation.