Josh Busby
@busbyj2.bsky.social
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
· Jun 13
Climate Change and National Security | Josh Busby | TEDxSouth Congress
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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At a time when some are questioning why we should care about this problem, I recently gave a talk for TEDx for why climate change is a national security concern. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ne...
This is my bike, an affordable option that I hope finds a way to stay in business.
NEW: Rad Power Bikes has told employees it will go out of business in January without new funding.
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
Rad Power Bikes faces shutdown in January without new funding | TechCrunch
The company is "still fighting to find ways to continue" according to an email viewed by TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is my bike, an affordable option that I hope finds a way to stay in business.
Have to cheer for Dear Leader. Those are the rulez.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Have to cheer for Dear Leader. Those are the rulez.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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Musk immediately confirms Joyce Carol Oates' assessment.
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Musk immediately confirms Joyce Carol Oates' assessment.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
If you are Latino, you can get stopped because of how you look, even if you have proof of citizenship. This is immoral, unconstitutianal and should be illegal if the Supreme Court weren't populated by partisan hacks. wapo.st/43W3haf
Opinion | He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.
Leo Garcia Venegas’s experience shows why Trump’s immigration raids are unconstitutional.
wapo.st
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you are Latino, you can get stopped because of how you look, even if you have proof of citizenship. This is immoral, unconstitutianal and should be illegal if the Supreme Court weren't populated by partisan hacks. wapo.st/43W3haf
Congrats, Sen. Durbin, you've been played.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Congrats, Sen. Durbin, you've been played.
I think rather than knowing where people stand it's getting the health care support that's critical. We already know where the Republicans. They don't want to help people. Your job is to make them. You had leverage. Now you don't.
Democratic Senator Shaheen says ending the shutdown wasn't a failure because it achieves a later vote that will get Republicans on the record.
"Americans...are gonna know who's on their side and who is not."
"Americans...are gonna know who's on their side and who is not."
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I think rather than knowing where people stand it's getting the health care support that's critical. We already know where the Republicans. They don't want to help people. Your job is to make them. You had leverage. Now you don't.
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Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
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November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Counterintuitive take. Maybe.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Counterintuitive take. Maybe.
Lawless republic. Arbitrary and capricious rules for immigrants and get out of jail free cards for friends and allies.
BREAKING
President Trump has granted a pardon to a slew of Trump world figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
President Trump has granted a pardon to a slew of Trump world figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Lawless republic. Arbitrary and capricious rules for immigrants and get out of jail free cards for friends and allies.
Lions and Commanders fans united.
Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game.
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Lions and Commanders fans united.
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ah yes, the classic "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" irresistible deal
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
ah yes, the classic "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" irresistible deal
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@kaine.senate.gov can you read?
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
@kaine.senate.gov can you read?
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Senate Democrats really thought last week’s vote was a sign of support for them, and not enthusiastic support for people willing to fight the GOP. They are mistaken, and the fastest and most complete way for them
to lose that support is to give in tonight.
to lose that support is to give in tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Senate Democrats really thought last week’s vote was a sign of support for them, and not enthusiastic support for people willing to fight the GOP. They are mistaken, and the fastest and most complete way for them
to lose that support is to give in tonight.
to lose that support is to give in tonight.
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Not disagreeing with Sahil. But absurd for Team Cave to present full SNAP funding as part of a deal since that’s automatic if the govt reopens.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Not disagreeing with Sahil. But absurd for Team Cave to present full SNAP funding as part of a deal since that’s automatic if the govt reopens.
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Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
How good/bad a deal is this compared to what could be expected?
Three appropriations bills are included in the package, including the bills that fund food stamps and veterans benefits, taking away a couple of pain points.
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
How good/bad a deal is this compared to what could be expected?
Main advances appear to be pretty minimal if this is what comes out of the stop gap. Maybe I'm seeing this through jaundiced eyes. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Main advances appear to be pretty minimal if this is what comes out of the stop gap. Maybe I'm seeing this through jaundiced eyes. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
What's the point of an agreement on spending if Trump is going to Vought it down through extra-legal means to allow the executive to pick and choose what programs to fund?
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
What's the point of an agreement on spending if Trump is going to Vought it down through extra-legal means to allow the executive to pick and choose what programs to fund?
Thread. I'm curious about dynamics in the House...
Okay I'll try a premature thread.
So first of all, *the details matter*. We know they didn't get their full demands, but we don't have the full deal, and once more, the details matter. Dems may have won real concessions or not. We don't know yet.
So first of all, *the details matter*. We know they didn't get their full demands, but we don't have the full deal, and once more, the details matter. Dems may have won real concessions or not. We don't know yet.
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Thread. I'm curious about dynamics in the House...
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John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
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🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
If this happens, Schumer deserves to be primaried.
DNC Vice Chair calls Chuck Schumer's shutdown deal a "mistake"
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If this happens, Schumer deserves to be primaried.
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"The sad and shocking reality is that the authoritarian consolidation that took Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi eight or so years to accomplish (India’s 2009 Freedom House score was 77, Hungary’s was a whopping 90), Trump has accomplished in eight months."
By moi at @theunpopulist.net: Trump has consolidated more power in a shorter amount of time compared to other authoritarians because his brazen motto is that unless stopped, he'll act lawlessly. He has no interest in staying within the law.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-has-...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-has-...
Trump Has Taken Only Months to Accomplish the Level of Authoritarian Consolidation That Took Orbán and Modi Years
But America's aversion to tyranny gives it a much better chance of restoring its liberal democracy than their countries
www.theunpopulist.net
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"The sad and shocking reality is that the authoritarian consolidation that took Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi eight or so years to accomplish (India’s 2009 Freedom House score was 77, Hungary’s was a whopping 90), Trump has accomplished in eight months."