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Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for ‘Crime’ of Speaking at Socialism Summit

Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.

By Ashley Smith

/ 6 Nov 2025

Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for ‘Crime’ of Speaking at Socialism Summit

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S.

A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all seven operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last five years, a new report finds.

By Gaige Davila

/ 6 Nov 2025

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S.

VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril

As tensions rise over deployment of the military in U.S. cities, increasingly violent ICE arrests by unaccountable masked agents, and persecution of Trump’s political rivals, a photo exhibit and panel discussion reflects on the human impact of a dictator’s rise—and ultimate fall—in the Philippines.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 30 Oct 2025

VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

The City of San Antonio’s planet-warming emissions ticked up in 2023, according to new data released on Monday. That interrupts gains made after adopting a climate action plan in 2019.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Oct 2025

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years

Historian Daniel Wortel-London explains why, looking at the case of New York City—with lessons for San Antonio as we consider public funding streams for Project Marvel.

By Daniel Wortel-London

/ 28 Oct 2025

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years

'Curtains of Rain' Revisits South Texas Histories of Environmental Racism as Queer Coming-of Age Story

Our podcast interview with author Anel Flores talks Monsanto’s decades of contamination in Mission, Texas, the beauty of South Texas people and places, and fiction as a practice of healing self by writing the pain of those who have wounded us.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 24 Oct 2025

'Curtains of Rain' Revisits South Texas Histories of Environmental Racism as Queer Coming-of Age Story

Since Deadly July 4 Flood FEMA Has Denied or Failed to Advance Most Kerr County Aid Requests

Advocates are questioning why so many applicants from the flood-ravaged county have not received federal disaster help. Nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.

By Emily Foxhall

/ 24 Oct 2025

Since Deadly July 4 Flood FEMA Has Denied or Failed to Advance Most Kerr County Aid Requests

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat

Highlighting threat from wastewater to greater San Antonio’s largest drinking water source, the Edwards Aquifer, opponents threaten lawsuit, rehearing request.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Oct 2025

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat

‘No Kings’: San Antonio Turns Out for Nation’s Largest Ever Day of Protest

Speakers in Travis Park in San Antonio challenged soldiers to disobey ‘unlawful orders,’ workers to organize to break the power of billionaires, and everyday folks to work together to halt Trump’s authoritarian drive.

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Oct 2025

‘No Kings’: San Antonio Turns Out for Nation’s Largest Ever Day of Protest

San Antonio Heat-Death Tracking Effort Advances Over Staff ‘No Action’ Recommendation

Mayor Jones and several Council members said more efforts are needed to understand who is losing their lives to extreme heat to prevent future deaths—even as City Manager Erik Walsh and Metro Health Director Claude Jacob suggested existing heat-facing city programs are enough.

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Oct 2025

San Antonio Heat-Death Tracking Effort Advances Over Staff ‘No Action’ Recommendation

‘No Kings’ Protests to Sweep U.S. Saturday As Trump Admin Ramps Up Attacks on Civil Society

In reviving notions of “pre-crime,” the Trump administration has found a convenient way to treat all protest as “terrorism.”

By Deceleration Staff

/ 16 Oct 2025

‘No Kings’ Protests to Sweep U.S. Saturday As Trump Admin Ramps Up Attacks on Civil Society

San Antonio City Staff Recommend Against Tracking Heat-Related Deaths, Alleging ‘Very Few’ Deaths

Deaths from extreme heat are widely undercounted across Texas, the U.S., and the world. But those cities that are trying—from NYC to Las Vegas—are finding hundreds of deaths per year to include.

By Greg Harman

/ 14 Oct 2025

San Antonio City Staff Recommend Against Tracking Heat-Related Deaths, Alleging ‘Very Few’ Deaths