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2 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Greg Harman

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thousands of San Antonio area residents congregated under the bell towers of San Fernando Cathedral at Main Plaza and marched across downtown on Saturday, April 5, 2025, to decry threats to democracy under President Trump and his unofficial but omnipresent adjunct Elon Musk. “They’re wasting their Saturday,” a monied college student in a knit polo sneered, staring at the protestors.

2 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Syris Valentine

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Billionaires didn’t dally in aligning with America’s aspiring autocrat. We saw this in the many Mar-a-Lago meetings between Donald Trump and the wealthiest men in America during the liminal space from election to inauguration.

3 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Greg Harman

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Earth Month means Resistance. We’re deep into the promised chaos and retribution of Trump 2.0. watching the demolition of basic social services in keeping with Project 2025’s radical Christofascist vision for crushing democracy to enshrine rule by wealth. This regime is going full force to co-opt, control, or eradicate any force capable of standing in its way.

3 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Pooja Salhotra

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Wednesday in a groundbreaking, 91-page ruling. The judge declined to order the Texas Department of Justice to immediately install temporary or permanent air conditioning, instead forcing the plaintiffs to move towards a trial.

3 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Dylan Baddour

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As Texas stares down a water shortfall, its leaders are looking at vast volumes of brown, briney oilfield wastewater as a hopeful source of future supply. They don’t have many other options. But extracting clean water from this toxic slurry will require enormous amounts of energy, just as Texas fights to keep up with the rapidly growing power demands of a high-tech industrial buildout.