Josh Busby

Great 🧵 with many links to what political science research & history can tell us about FIRCs:

Wouldn't want a little war to get in the way of a golf weekend.

Breaking: China's official statistics report a 0.3% drop in CO2 emissions from energy&industry in 2025, the third time that annual emissions have fallen this century and the first fall predominantly driven by clean energy growth. 🧵

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

This is amazing.

This is brilliant.

This is absolute lunacy. Military officers in my phd program at Georgetown contributed to the program as well as receiving from it.

Blackpool Boulevard

Banger. open.spotify.com/track/5TaNnF...

The Real Reason Anthropic Wants Guardrails AI is too powerful and too new to be set free from human oversight.

🎁🔗The Real Reason Anthropic Wants Guardrails

AI is too powerful and too new to be set free from human oversight.

By Thomas Wright @theatlantic.com
February 27, 2026, 11:16 AM ET
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Government documents reveal Big Bend border wall details as opposition grows U.S. Customs and Border Protection has in recent weeks sent letters to local property owners in the path of potential border wall building. The documents reveal new details on the plan, which has garn...

Insane potential desecration of a national treasure. www.marfapublicradio.org/news/2026-02...

The "RFK Jr Curve"

Over the years, I’ve seen military students embrace learning from other perspectives and I’ve seen the non-military students embrace learning from their military classmates. It’s a win-win for all.

He talks about how his nephew was deported after being here for 44 years.

Even MAGA Republicans Hate Plans to Put a Border Wall in Big Bend Virtually no one, it seems, thinks a physical barrier in the region is a good idea. The Trump administration is rushing to build one anyway.

Stop this madness. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Local opposition to border wall mounts Residents of Brewster and Presidio Counties join forces As news of the Trump administration’s plans to build a wall through Big Bend Ranch State Park and Big Bend National Park reach the region’s far ...

Texans, keep calling and writing. bigbendsentinel.com/2026/02/25/l...

Why Biden-era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns | PNAS The Biden Administration enacted the largest federal policy framework to incentivize clean energy and decarbonization in U.S. history. We examine w...

Mandatory reading. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fair questions. Have no idea. I hear sample only 181 as well.

POTUS loves doing favors. It makes him feel like a big shot. Mamdani seems to have grasped this immediately

Sign the Petition Stop the construction of the wall in Big Bend Ranch State Park & Big Bend National Park

www.change.org/p/stop-the-c...

This should be a front-page scandal.

Screenshot of Instagram post from Mayor Mamdani that says “Just got off the phone with President Trump. In our meeting earlier, I shared my concerns about Columbia student Elaina Aghayeva, who was detained by ICE this morning. He has just informed me that she will be released imminently.” He is quoting the The New York Times’ post of their story on this situation

Mayor Mamdani says he’s spoken to Donald Trump, and Ms. Aghayeva will be released

bsky.app/profile/ms.n... even if Columbia had no prior knowledge of this, they own creating the situation where Ms. Aghayeva’s friends feel they need to clarify she wasn’t involved in campus protests, meaning DHS must have had some other reason for abducting her

“She is an international student w/a visa…She appeared to have been taken from her Columbia-owned apartment on West 121st Street…Ms. Aghayeva posted a one-second video on her popular Instagram account showing her in the back of a vehicle with the caption: ‘Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.’”

Not sure there is an imminent decision here but 14% of IEA budget comes from US. But that is $6 million so the IEA should not give in to US pressures here.

Ridiculous.

Stop Construction of a Border Wall in the Big Bend Region ⭑ 5 Calls Reports indicate DHS is advancing border wall construction across the Texas Big Bend region, including segments affecting Big Bend National Park and …

‼️BIG BEND NEEDS YOUR HELP! Call your members of congress and tell them NO border wall in Big Bend. Don’t live in Texas? Use the 5Calls script anyway.

Link to a 5Calls script 👉 5calls.org/state/texas/...

President Trump wants to build a wall through Big Bend National Park.

One of the most sacred places in Texas.

Texans have a message for him: Come and take it.

Sobering statistics for ABDs and TT. 67% of ABDs didn't get placed. Placement was only 38% TT.

Hmm. I will have to look at paper copy…

Everything Is Tuberculosis

Listening to this now.

open.spotify.com/show/2ptlHds...