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Josh Busby

@busbyj2.bsky.social
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Professor at the University of Texas-Austin. Former Senior Climate Advisor DOD. Climate security, climate governance, clean energy, global health, US foreign policy. Author of States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2022).

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 13m
Hey, a sleeper Congressional race in a district that stretches from Austin to Houston. Caitlin Rourk, who served in the U.S. Army Reserve and Texas National Guard, is running against Elon Musk's lawyer. When voters find out about her opponent, she's running even. More $ can help get the word out.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 20h
Favorite hip hop albums of my youth. First album I bought. open.spotify.com/album/2T6Gmd...
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Yo! Bum Rush The Show - Album by Public Enemy | Spotify
Public Enemy · album · 1987 · 12 songs
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 21h
What a searing treatment of how heat is changing the world. It's like the dystopian real world companion to the Ministry for the Future. I listened to the audiobook. Grim but captivating. Still much room to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change but a sobering read/listen.
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The Heat Will Kill You First
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!  New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents an important examination of the impact that temperatu...
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 21h
Big Bend construction pause is ending. May have to raise a ruckus. Unclear what DHS will do next. www.facebook.com/share/p/19b8...
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 22h
The fifth video for my Nature of the International System class covers power transitions and nuclear weapons. Packed in a lot here. youtube.com/watch?v=UxIhs6y9VC4&feature=youtu.be
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NIS 2026 Week 5 - Power Transitions and Nuclear Weapons
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Today on House Hunters, Ken Paxton is shopping for a new house. Will he buy the three-story luxury lodge in Oklahoma? The condos at a wellness resort in Utah? The ocean-view property in Hawaii? (Spoiler alert: He won’t take one — he’ll take 15.)
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, my mother had an issue on her taxes and I've been trying to follow up on her behalf for months but cannot get a live person on the phone. Called my Congressman who said it is because of budget cuts that phone lines are understaffed. Thanks a lot!
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The administration seems to be on a full court press trying to talk down oil prices by telling major news outlets about the success of the military campaign to re-open the Strait. There are different estimates for volume going through so wonder how real this is www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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How the U.S. got oil shipments moving and what it would take to bring prices down
Crude oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have begun to approach prewar levels. But analysts expect fuel prices to remain high.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reviewed for a journal last week and got a new request from them this week. Has happened with this journal several times. Seems abusive.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fcukers.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In keeping with my piece in The Conversation yesterday this was the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/b...
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Oil Prices Climb on Continued Impasse in U.S.-Iran Talks
President Trump rejected Iran’s proposal over the weekend, calling it “unacceptable,” but Iran said it was still waiting for “definitive news” from Washington.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sounds like Schmitt confused Hawkeyes with Hawks...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2026
In Denmark, 96% of private individual vehicle sales are electric these days. 86% of total (fleets are slightly slower).
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These sound like sensible ideas from Brian Deese to selectively crowd in Chinese foreign investment and licensing so American firms can learn. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/case-l...
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The Case for Letting China In
American businesses need more foreign capital and know-how.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are always political signs, Ukraine support flags, etc. at Austin FC matches. This latest action by the stadium and security seems like an overreach. There was no need to kick her out. I sent a note to my team report expressing my displeasure. www.kxan.com/news/local/a...
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Austin woman removed from Q2 Stadium over anti-ICE shirt
An Austin woman says she was removed from Austin FC’s Q2 Stadium during Saturday’s match, after refusing to cover a shirt that read “Abolish ICE,” an incident she says refle…
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good luck with that.
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Folk You! @folkyousongwriters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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How Phoebe Bridgers’s Phone Ban Changes the Concert Experience
Phoebe Bridgers banned phones from her tour, forcing — or allowing — fans to be fully present in the moment.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Oliver: “The Times had a panel this week of Trump voters who were undecided in this race, and when they were asked to describe Paxton, their answers were: Crook, criminal crook, crooked, bad, amoral, disgusting, morally corrupt, disgusting, corrupt, and womanizer crook.”
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s worthwhile to look into the past for clues of how to prepare and respond. But past experiences will not help us understand the scope of the severity of climate change on top of the strongest El Niño since we were able to measure ENSO (possibly of all-time).
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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
USMNT head coach Mauricio Pochettino says he regrets not having been "more involved" in the fiasco surrounding Falorin Balogun this summer. He says the ensuing shift in "energy" made the match against Belgium much more difficult to win. On @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Mauricio Pochettino regrets not being ‘more involved’ with Balogun decision
The comments are the most direct Pochettino has made regarding the Balogun situation since the World Cup
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Greg Pollock and I have a piece in @theconversation.com on the risk of escalating oil prices, suggesting that the buffers that prevented dramatic price increases may not hold much longer. theconversation.com/why-fuel-pri...
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Why fuel prices may go higher still
Seven months into the US conflict with Iran, with no clear end in sight, the global oil market has now largely exhausted the safety measures that exist to keep a lid on petroleum prices.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you are going to do an illegal ad at least don’t make it creepy and repulsive But this is Trump so of course it is
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just listened to this 2019 take on Tesla by @niedermeyer.online. Curious how he would characterize what has transpired since then as Musk has continued to defy gravity. I see he has a new book coming out soon on self driving.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Morning. Walter E. Long.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely not.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump announces he will sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the country’s shift to electric vehicles.
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
With the cost of fuel so high, why wouldn’t automakers go for 50.4 anyway? “The proposed rule, issued in December, required automakers to achieve an average fuel efficiency of 34.5 mpg for cars and light trucks in model year 2031, down from the standard of 50.4 mpg set by the Biden administration.”
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We here.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thread.
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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s not ’contested’ it’s ILLEGAL. (That’s why it’s rare.) As determined by the GAO no less Fix your shit, Washington Post
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I suspect Texans will tell these drones to get flocked.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Texas voters who supported Trump and their views on Paxton. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Critical minerals remains an achilles heel for the United States vis a vis China but hard to change that quickly, even as the US tries to diversify its options foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/22/c...
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Xi Comes to Washington Armed With a Rare-Earth Card
Trump still doesn’t have an answer to China’s leverage.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese business execs didn’t come so doubt much will come of Xi visit on investment front. Maybe something in AI safeguards. 2 month extension on truce. Midterms and war overhang make this a moment to kick can down the road. www.afr.com/world/asia/w...
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Why China’s business titans skipped Xi’s big US visit
Behind the red carpets, honour guards and black-tie dinner is a less comfortable reality: Chinese companies have no reason to believe they are welcome in America.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This piece from @jessicacweiss.bsky.social makes the apt point that China and the U.S. have to learn to live with each other. Last year taught us of the potential risks of unconstrained trade wars. Even as the U.S. pursues derisking, decoupling would be a dangerous fantasy.
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Opinion | The U.S. and China Are Entering a New Era (Gift Article)
Neither the United States nor China can bend the other to its will, and it’s time for them to settle for a durable détente.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Re-upping from last night.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks like he has resting Kash Patel face.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump's cuts to the National Parks and diversion of resources for his pet projects have left parks understaffed and maintenance deferred. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...
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Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America’s Parks (Gift Article)
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW from us: five years after China pledged to stop overseas coal power projects and support clean energy, dozens of coal power plants have been canceled and the country's overseas clean energy financing has seen impressive growth, but gaps remain in the coal ban.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
Federal ICE agents in suburban Chicago over the weekend mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen, who suffered injuries to his head, neck and teeth in the confrontation, according to local police. The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself.
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ICE Mistakenly Detains U.S. Citizen in Chicago Area, Leaving Him Injured
The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself. He was taken to a hospital with head and neck injuries, local police said.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Latest video for Nature of the International System on the topic of hegemony. youtu.be/KfsPb4aXbJ0
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NIS 2026 Week 4 - Hegemony
YouTube video by Josh Busby
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finished Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk who comes across as more steeped in the technical details of his companies than I imagined. Had he not ventured into politics, he might have been remembered as a titan of industry but now will be remembered for hubris & descent into far right madness.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/04/2026
Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.
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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Treasury just announced a two-month extension, far shorter than what China proposed. Speaks to the daylight between the U.S. and China but also the desire to make Xi's visit tomorrow as smooth as possible. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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U.S. and China agree to extend trade truce through January 10, Bessent says
The extension of an agreement to suspend some tariffs comes as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for a state visit.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Austin’s own Stalefish.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is Tommy Tuberville a sentient being? Difficult to discern from these comments.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Early recordings of Bad Brains remixed by Ian MacKaye being released. First track out. variety.com/2026/music/n...
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Bad Brains’ Earliest Studio Recordings to Be Released in November
A rare recording of the first studio sessions by the Bad Brains — considered by many to be the greatest hardcore band of all time — is due in November.
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