Trump campaign escalating outreach to black voters in Georgia after narrow 2020 loss
By
Ross O'Keefe
May 3, 2024 1:58 pm
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Former President Donald Trump is working overtime to avoid losing Georgia again in 2024 after his narrow defeat there in 2020.

President Joe Biden edged the incumbent by roughly 12,000 votes in 2020, snatching victory from Trump in a state he had won in 2016. Black voters have been the fastest-growing voter demographic in the state and could have been key to a Trump victory then.

A few weeks after Trump made an appearance in Atlanta, the campaign is making a conscious effort to make Georgian black voters direct their attention to Trump in 2024.

A new ad released by Trump’s Super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc, is targeted at rural black voters in central Georgia. The video features a Biden campaign worker reading off a phone bank sheet directed at potential voters.

The worker answers the phone with a man on the line responding that he voted for Biden “last time,” before listing reasons he’s disillusioned with the current administration. The worker responds by saying Biden “pays rents for newcomers to America,” as she glances at the sheet, which instructs the worker not to say “immigrants.”

The caller denies the worker’s efforts to shift their vote, saying that “Biden’s paying rent for illegals,” as a news article appears on screen.

That article refers not to a Biden plan, but to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D-MI) program to pay $500 to “Newcomer” households. The program is, however, supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

The caller finishes the ad by saying things “were better before Biden. I’m voting for Trump.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_vQxqd6PNo&ab_channel=MAGAInc.WarRoom

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/2990255/trump-campaign-escalating-outreach-to-black-voters-in-georgia-after-narrow-2020-loss/

Hillary Clinton group wired $500,000 to climate activists behind disruptive protests
By
Gabe Kaminsky
May 3, 2024 1:26 pm
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A progressive group founded by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cut a large check recently to a climate change activist hub financing organizations behind disruptive anti-oil protests, bringing the total cash transfers to at least $500,000, records show.

Onward Together, which Clinton launched after losing the 2016 election, says it’s “committed to lifting up emerging organizations and leaders who are fighting for our shared progressive values and defending our democracy.” That pledge apparently includes funding Climate Emergency Fund, a charity backing groups leading demonstrations to bring awareness to climate change by vandalizing fine art, blocking major roads, gluing themselves to sports cars, and engaging in other extremist forms of protest.

Between April 2022 and March 2023, the nonprofit advocacy arm of Onward Together granted $200,000 to Climate Emergency Fund, according to Onward Together’s tax forms filed in 2024.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/2989861/hillary-clinton-group-wired-500000-climate-activists-behind-disruptive-protests/

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Space.com by Robert Lea
Reports of life signs detected in the atmosphere of the potential ocean world K2-18 b may have been premature.

Recent reports of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detecting signs of life of a distant planet outside the solar system are, unfortunately, somewhat premature. That's the conclusion of research conducted by scientists from the University of California Riverside (UCR).

While likely to disappoint all of us eager for the confirmation of extraterrestrial life, however, it doesn't mean the JWST won't find traces of life in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," in the future.

The recent excitement around the potential detection of life signs on an exoplanet started in 2023 when the JWST detected potential "biosignature" elements in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b, a super-Earth located around 120 light-years from Earth.

Though many exoplanets are extreme, violent or at least "alien" in nature — whether they're blasted by intense radiation from their stars, lack a solid surface or are frozen relics at the edge of their systems — K2-18 b was a tantalizing target in the search for life because it is rather similar to our planet.

An Earth-like ocean world

K2-18 b is between two and three times the width of Earth with 8.6 times the mass of our planet. It's also located in the habitable zone of its star, the region neither too hot nor too cold to support liquid water. The exoplanet is thus theorized to be an ocean, or "hycean" world, replete with liquid water — a vital ingredient for life as we know it. Unlike Earth, however, the atmosphere of this exoplanet seems to be mainly hydrogen rather than nitrogen.

More: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-life-earth-exoplanet-study

Seems strange to talk about drilling for oil when the US is already at record production

He could ease up on some of the regulations, but that wouldn’t bring down prices that much. And the cost of his tariffs would offset the nickel a gallon consumers might save at the pump