Josh Busby

Do you know if the facility is safe from the Trump administration's effort to cut budget and leasing arrangements?

China sets cautious climate goals in five-year plan as coal remains core ‘Underwhelming’ target leaves room for increase in energy and industry emissions in years to 2030, experts say

Some disappointment with China's latest five year plan and emissions intensity target. www.ft.com/content/0d44...

Big Bend Sentinel suggests status for wall has changed for national park but not state park.

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Customs and Border Patrol Reverses Its Big Bend Border Wall Plans Kristi Noem gets fired, unpopular ideas get shelved right away

Many of you have probably heard of the absurd plan to build "the wall" through Big Bend National Park. Well, the same day Gnome was fired, the wall plan seems to have been shelved too.

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He gets on tv a lot

Mullin has a special knack for being on TV.

Not enough reporting on the fact that Netanyahu’s government goal of making Iran a failed /crippled state isn’t in the interest of the USA and its Gulf Allies.

I will follow up. Also welcome to schedule something this spring but you might be a little busy...

Missed this. Congrats as a public policy professor (and huge soccer fan and Austin FC season ticket holder). Come by the LBJ School in the offseason to talk about your policy passions. I'm sure we can get a good crowd. ¡Dale!

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

wild that this has to be said but it's true, unrepentant puppy-killers should not have the kind of power and discretion now wielded by Kristi Noem

“I’m giving you a performance evaluation here, I’m not looking for a response.”

Tillis is a Republican Senator.

I believe it. I think this was the dumpling place which is not fancy but great. www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_R...

Had this experience as well of bad buffet food but Michael Davidson took us to a Beijing restaurant in upscale mall that was amazing. Plus visited a dumpling place that I had first visited 10 years that did not disappoint.

Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military Some senior officials resisted the decision to approve the major military spending increase, people familiar with the matter said.

Well, they already had $500 billion they were going to have trouble spending. I canceled my subscription but you get the idea... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Marco Rubio on Capitol Hill: 'Hardest Hits Yet To Come' Against Iran Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended preemptive U.S. strikes on Iran’s missile and naval capabilities, confirmed 6 U.S. service members have been killed in action and warned that the “hardest hits ...

Here is where I get what I think the administration thinks its goals are. I don't think the nuclear piece is all that important, and I wonder if they did in fact get most of those facilities the previous round...
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I'd welcome any readings from folks who know the geographic distribution of military manufacturing in Iran...

But, the risk is that if this persists and that more sites have to be bombed to achieve these aims, then Iran gets the Gaza treatment (but over a far larger geographic area) with a far greater population. To the extent these facilities are located near major population centers, could get real bad.

Maybe they think they're done if they take out all the known missile/drone manufacturing sites. Unclear how heavy a lift that actually but sounds like it might require several more weeks of bombing to realize.

I've been trying to understand both what motivates the administration and what they think they are trying to achieve and how they'd know if they were successful.

This motivation to take out the conventional missile sites is consistent with the Republican critique of the JCPOA that the JCPOA didn't impinge on Iran's non-nuclear capacities and that Iran was up to no good by spreading missile and other tech to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Iran death toll reaches 555 as US, Israel escalate attacks Civilian deaths are growing as more attacks are reported in the capital and other parts of the country.

Some 500+ deaths, including school (180) + hospital. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Seems like Trump/Rubio decided that conventional missile/drone capabilities of Iran had to be taken out so they've bombed some 1,000 sites across the country. How well-targeted and delimited are these strikes? We know a school was hit. How insulated is the wider Iranian public from these strikes?

I guess that might be the least bad outcome at this point.

Trump administration drops suits against law firms after judges find president's orders unconstitutional Numerous judges have ruled against Trump's executive orders targeting certain law firms.

“Let’s hope that media companies, universities, and other organizations pay heed,” says former top DOJ official Vanita Gupta.

Had to do it to because Israel…hmm

Don't even have George Lucas here to re-edit the film to have Greedo shoot first.

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying

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Kind of sums up the current moment.

Vibe is why not both?