Deceleration Newsletters

Weekly

Deceleration In Depth

Deceleration Staff, Weekly

Deceleration delivers the week's headlines on Saturdays. Links to all of the week's investigations, analyses, livestreams, and more.

Monthly

Water & Power

Greg Harman, Monthly

Water is the essential source of all life but also a highly contested resource. Power generation comes at costs both ecological and personal. At the intersection of both are events that impact lives across Texas—and beyond. Water & Power is a monthly newsletter edited by Greg Harman that covers these intersections with a skeptical eye, highlighting the latest developments around insatiable data centers, resurgence of polluting fossil fuel projects, and the broken regulatory system that too often sacrifices our most critical needs for the short-term gains for some.

Coastlines/Faultlines

Gaige Davila, Monthly

People have lived along Texas and Mexico's gulf coast since time immemorial: before official names, before the word "gulf," before oil and gas became the Texas's political imagination incarnate. Every generation of gulf coast inhabitant has contended with a displacing force. Now is no different. Coastlines and Faultlines is a monthly newsletter by Gaige Davila that details how coastal Texan and Mexican communities are being industrialized, the growth coalitions facilitating the process and the people denying their erasure. I will be writing stories about liquefied natural gas plants, SpaceX, and coastal ecologies and lifeways.

Alternative Futures

Syris Valentine, Monthly

Though authoritarians and the oligarchs who back them daily attempt to corral the masses to march down their prescribed paths, the future remains unwritten. Grassroots activists and community leaders around the world are sketching the outlines of future histories that would see the world made new, unburdened by autocracy and inequality. Alternative Futures is a newsletter by Syris Valentine that introduces readers to those creating alternatives to fossil fuels, to exploitation, to consumerism, to wealth inequality, by fostering new ways of living, being, and relating to their communities, cities, and landscapes that center care, cooperation, regeneration, and deep democracy.

ICE Watch

Roxana Rojas, Monthly

Recent harrowing events resulting from unconstrained militarized immigration enforcement actions have laid bare to the world the violence of the deportation-industrial complex. South Texas is a critical epicenter of that web, with two of the three family detention centers in the U.S. situated an hour's drive from San Antonio. Texas is a leading state in both detainee numbers and enforcement actions. ICE Watch is a newsletter by Roxana J. Rojas that delivers key perspectives on relevant immigration issues, shares stories of community impact and the domino effect that this state sanctioned violence has on the communities it terrorizes, and provides analysis on the mechanisms that permitted these crimes against humanity to begin with.