Deceleration

Last week, the Trump admin approved the first contract of its second term for new border barriers. Wildlife biologists and Indigenous rights organizers fear what comes next. Wendee Nicole Holtcamp for Deceleration Story: https://lnkd.in/dtY8j6_3 #conservation #biodiversity #earth #biology #halfearth #wildlife #jaguars #borderlands #migration #indigenous #texas #arizona #newmexico #endangeredspecies

Community Voices: https://lnkd.in/geDqjSik #mahmoudkhalil #palestine #activism #freespeech #freepress #organize #democracy

CERAWeek: Eight Arrests Outside Houston’s ‘Super Bowl’ of Energy as Hundreds Convene to Imagine a Future Free of Fossil Fuels As calls for ‘Drill Baby Drill’ and ‘Mine Baby Mine’ filled the conference rooms at Hilton Americas in Houston, hundreds gathered outside to imagine what many described as the more just, sustainable, and inevitable world we all actually need. https://lnkd.in/gSFnirir #energy #fossilfuels #renewables #climate #climatechange #houston #texas #activism #protest #us #environment Texas Campaign for the Environment

‘Bad, Bad DOGE’: San Antonio Rallies Against Trump Power Grab, Attacks on Federal Workforce As Trump launched a tariff war on Tuesday with the U.S.’s largest trading partners and attacked his political enemies, thousands rallied across the nation—including San Antonio—to fight back against the autocratic executive’s power grab. https://lnkd.in/gK5ZBQ5N #doge #trump #musk #activism #protest #autocracy #us #democracy

Nonprofits that serve #LGBTQ+ Texans are struggling with the limits of the old playbooks, while fighting renewed attacks on transgender and queer rights. Deceleration spoke to nonprofits and community leaders about how they’re getting organized. By Kit O'Connell https://lnkd.in/gUifkaSd

As ugly as it’s been so far, everything happening in MAGA-world to date has just been setting the table. The extreme violence ticks off after passage of a federal budget that will make “the largest deportation operation in US history” possible. That’s not all the federal budget will do. It will also launch an extreme transfer of wealth from those with the least to the billionaire class. Medicaid will be “destroyed.” We’re told now to expect steep cuts in most basic social services, once promised to be off limits, including Social Security and Medicare. Because the goal of Musk and DOGE is not saving us money on “wasteful” programs. Research already shows that about 40 percent of Musk’s cancelled contracts have no fiscal impact (and the risks of eliminating many programs only beginning to be understood, such as infectious disease, disaster response, control of the nuclear stockpile, etc.) Lies about what has been shut down and the supposed “savings” are coming like a winter whiteout, as the Intercept highlights today. Instead, these actions are about eliminating the administrative state and its ability to resist fascism. Story: https://lnkd.in/dmrURAb9

San Antonio Mayor Mulls Legal Action Over Guajolote Ranch as Wastewater Hearing Continues Residents are decrying the anticipated million gallons of 'treated' waste #water the community would flush into Helotes Creek daily—and impact the drinking water source of millions. https://lnkd.in/gUUVDxxG

Hundreds of residents gathered in #GreyForest, #Texas, earlier this month to decry plans for 2,900 homes on the outskirts of San Antonio—expected to discharge a million gallons of treated wastewater daily into the #HelotesCreek #watershed. Those who have studied the project said contamination could reach local #water wells in less than a day after discharge. And, they warned, with #SanAntonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg amplifying the point, that contamination would inevitably reach the #EdwardsAquifer, which is relied upon by nearly 2 million area residents. More: https://lnkd.in/gRw6gg-B

Deceleration speaks with Dave Cortez, Executive Director of the Lone Star Chapter Sierra Club, about #autocracy, environmental #organizing, #water and #energy #justice in #Texas, and why we need to take the time for basic #selfcare in a world on fire. Listen In: https://lnkd.in/gyDX4_Ha

The Texas schools’ rush to obey not only abandoned targeted faculty and students—it has also permitted an insidious slide now eliminating entire topics of study. From Marisol Cortez, copublished with Truthout: https://lnkd.in/gK5Y3App #highered #academia #justice #dei #racism #research #texas