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#USA #US Methane leakage thresholds for net climate benefits of wastewater biogas recovery By compiling measured leakage data from over 50 facilities and all available literature, we found the leakage rate ranged from 0.4% to 65%, and a large fraction of current systems exceeds the net-zero emission threshold, indicating substantial climate risk https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01818-7 https://archive.ph/wip/jkXhc #ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #environment #climate

”…the world increasingly holds America in contempt.” — Paul Krugman, No, America is Not Respected https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-america-is-not-respected #trump #usa

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, influencers, pundits, and random posters lit up social media platforms like X, Bluesky, and Instagram with conspiracy theories about the attack and the alleged shooter. Both left- and right-wing accounts claimed, without evidence, that the attack was staged. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and dozens of other high-profile administration officials and journalists were attending the dinner at the Hilton hotel in Washington, DC, when a suspect, later identified by media reports as Cole Tomas Allen from California, allegedly ran past security towards the event. He was detained by law enforcement while the president and vice president were evacuated. Police said they believe Cole acted alone, but did not expand on who his intended target was or what his motive may have been. “We believe the suspect was targeting administration officials,” acting attorney general Todd Blanche told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning. On Bluesky, which has a predominantly left-leaning user base, many people simply wrote the word “STAGED” over and over again, echoing the response to the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024. On X, many claimed the shooting was staged as a way to bolster support for Trump’s plan to build a new ballroom in the White House. The president referenced the ballroom in a press conference after the incident and a Truth Social post on Sunday morning. Many prominent online Trump boosters echoed the need for the ballroom, including far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec, Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik, and Tom Fitton, the right-wing activist who runs Judicial Watch. Their quick response, conspiracy theorists claimed, was evidence of a coordinated campaign following the shooting. “Is this another staged event,” one X user asked in a post that has been viewed more than 5 million times. Other social media users who claimed the incident was staged pointed to a Fox News clip that featured the station’s White House correspondent Aishah Hasnie speaking from the Hilton hotel. Hasnie told viewers that prior to the shooting, press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s husband allegedly told her, “You need to be very safe,” before the call was cut off. “Fox News just cut one of their reporters off as they seemed to indicate the shooting was a preplanned false flag,” one X user wrote in a post that has been viewed more than 2 million times. Hasnie later clarified in an X post that her cell service had cut out in a location with notoriously bad service, adding: “He was telling me to be careful with my own safety because the world is crazy. He was expressing his concern for my safety.” “I don’t want to be fomenting conspiracies,” wrote Angelo Carusone, the chair and president of Media Matters, on Bluesky about the Fox News interview. “But I mean … this was super weird. Super weird.” Leavitt herself was also the focus of conspiracy theories after she said “shots will be fired” in an interview ahead of the dinner, referring to the jokes Trump was scheduled to deliver. Following the attack, X users claimed the comment was “strange,” “sus,” or a “curious choice of words,” while sharing memes that suggested the shooting was staged. At least one mainstream outlet appeared to amplify the conspiracy theory as well, describing Leavitt’s comment as “eerie” and “bizarre.” “A lot of people are saying they think the WHCD shooting was staged, as a way to change the narrative from his abysmal approval ratings and his bumbling of the Iran War,” Majid Padellan, a progressive social media influencer known online as Brooklyn Dad, posted on X to his 1.3 million followers. “What do YOU think? Staged or not staged?” A debate ensued in his comment section, with many followers claiming it was indeed staged. There were also some right-wing figures raising the possibility that the attack was staged. “Was this staged,” Sam Parker, a self-described America First nationalist with a large online following wrote on X, referencing Leavitt’s comments and footage of Erika Kirk leaving the event in tears. These conspiracy theories have continued to spread without evidence. Nothing new has been uncovered about the alleged shooter’s motivation, and conspiracy theories around incidents tend to evolve rapidly in the days and weeks following the event. Opinions are still being formed: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, for example, went from questioning whether Saturday night’s incident was staged to saying it wasn’t in the space of a couple of hours. Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, another noted conspiracy theorist, hasn’t appeared to have made up her mind. “Many questions about Cole Allen,” she wrote on X on Saturday night. “People researched quickly and found some interesting things.”

Child Sex Trafficking Atrocity NEWS: BOMBSHELL from investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others. That’s 4,725 lines of investigation right there. And that should only be the start of it. Epstein had to pay for all his sex trafficking somehow. Further evidence shows he used Russian banks to process hundreds of millions in payments. Again, this is info in the possession of the Trump administration, but they’re refusing to investigate. Share widely. Senator Ron Wyden, US Congress @wyden.senate.gov Free read: https://archive.fo/TXB8F https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/epstein-banks-wyden-trump.html #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinList #EpsteinClientList #news #press #usa

What to Know About King Charles and Queen Camilla’s State Visit to the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/world/europe/king-charles-queen-camilla-us-visit-trump.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F The British royals are set to arrive on Monday for a visit hosted by President Trump, with a garden party, an address to Congress and a banquet on the schedule. King Charles III and Queen Camilla will travel to the United States this week for an official state visit, making stops in New York and … #trump #kingcharles #usa #statevisit

Wir dürfen die Pläne unserer lieben #Nachbarn aus Übersee nicht vergessen: https://www.republik.ch/2025/12/13/binswanger-trump-will-die-eu-zerstoeren #eu #usa #unplugtrump

Fascist republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever Citizens, we need to speak up about the pollution and destruction of our lands and waters. If climate change isn't real, then why protect big oil from climate change lawsuits? https://heated.world/p/republicans-introduce-extreme-bill #congress #news #usa #science #pollution #registertovote #climate

Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in #Congress are okay with all of this... #usa #resist #registertovote

#USA #US notes from a South Dakota expatriate Would You Rather Pay a Buck a Gallon to Fight (a) Iran or (b) Climate Change? It used to be that we couldn’t propose making gasoline more expensive to protect the environment because Americans wouldn’t sacrifice cheap gas for other policy goals I guess Donald Trump has thrown that argument out the window https://dakotafreepress.com/2026/04/25/would-you-rather-pay-a-buck-a-gallon-to-fight-iran-or-climate-change/ #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #environment #climate

"Trump signs memos to boost US fossil-fuel production for ‘defense readiness’" #US #USA #America #FossilFuels #Energy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/trump-memos-domestic-fossil-fuels-defense

"In the battle of propaganda, fake videos and images of female victims of Iran’s government are going viral, with even the US president sharing them. Al Jazeera’s Soraya Lennie explains how Iranian women, real or fake, are often used to sell foreign intervention." And you guessed it, the company behind this AI slop is israeli. #israel #propaganda #feminism #Iran #fakenews #trump #us #usa #uspol #uk #ukpol #eu #eupol #orientalism #aislop #AI https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/24/how-fake-ai-victims-are-being-used-to-provide-rationale-for-attacking-iran

#Oklahoma #USA #US Dramatic Oklahoma twisters push tornado season into high gear Additional rounds of severe weather are in the forecast through early next week https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/dramatic-oklahoma-twisters-push-tornado-season-into-high-gear/ #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateDisruption #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #ClimateStrike

#USA #US Fossil-Fuel Funded GOP Leaders Claim a Renowned Scientific Institution Has ‘Potential Conflicts of Interest’ Republican allies of the oil and gas industry question the objectivity of an independent report from the nation’s top science advisers on the harms of human-caused climate change https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042026/gop-leaders-claim-national-academies-conflicts-of-interest/ #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateDisruption #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Nice try but where were you, Kaja, when the US murdered Caribbean fishers, grabbed the Venezuela oil and kidnapped its president? #EU #USA #USEmpire #KajaKallas #Stupidity #Evil