A shocking exchange occurred on Univision’s Linea de Fuego (Firing Line), during host Luis Carlos Vélez’s exchange with Maca Casado, Director of Hispanic Media for the Harris-Walz campaign. Under pressure from Velez over the Harris campaign’s use of fake headlines in their Google ads, Casado flippantly told Velez that this was pretty commonplace. Watch as Casado refuses to say whether the practice is right or wrong:  VIX LINEA DE FUEGO 8/14/24 6:18 PM LUIS CARLOS VELEZ: I want to ask you about this, because this is important. An Axios report states that Kamala Harris’s staff are purchasing Google ads which display manipulated headlines and descriptions of news articles, for the purpose of bolstering the vice president’s image. What is your response to this? MACA CASADO: Look. First of all, this is a practice that is done by every political campaign. This isn’t anything new or innovative. This is something that all political campaigns do. We are absolutely not manipulating any information. We’re showing the headlines, and we put some pieces beneath those headlines wherein we add content. But this is definitely a practice engaged by every campaign. VELEZ: But doesn’t it seem to you…? Let’s say- if it’s a common political practice, that’s fine, but you who are a new campaign, and you who are speaking to the public, you’re manipulating headlines. This doesn’t make it right…or does it? CASADO: I’ve already responded, Luis Carlos, this is a practice done by many political campaigns in order to deliver their message to different communities.  VELEZ: Yes. But is that wrong, Maca? Or is that okay? CASADO: Look. Campaigns have guidelines that they follow. We are doing yet another campaign strategy in order to reach out to voters. VELEZ: All right.  As our Free Speech America colleagues Catherine Salgado and Gabriela Pariseau noted: The Google Ads Transparency Center, which AllSides cited, shows that Harris paid to link fake headlines with popular news sites. “Some of the Google ads display pro-Harris slogans while linking to articles mostly from news sources AllSides rates as Lean Left, such as AP, PBS, and CNN and some Center-rated sources such as Reuters,” AllSides reported. Other outlets that the campaign used included NPR, The Independent, Time and The Guardian. One fake headline the Harris campaign misleadingly attributed to the “Lean Left” media outlet The Guardian read, “VP Harris = Repro Leader.” It was paired with the summary: “VP Harris is a champion for reproductive freedom and will stop Trump's abortion bans.” Another headline misleadingly attributed to Reuters flatly claimed, “Inflation Is Down” with a summary that read, “Under the Biden-Harris Administration ‘The U.S. is winning the inflation fight.’” Harris’s campaign ads didn’t simply rewrite article summaries and headlines to favorably frame her policies. It also created headlines to make Trump look bad.  This is scandalous. And, as Salgado and Pariseau noted, this happens at a time when there is all sorts of censorship going on against conservatives- in the name of “protecting the public from disinformation”. More troubling, that the Harris campaign spokesperson would dismiss concerns over the practice as simply something “everyone does”, “nothing new or innovative”. As Fox News reports, the journalist who broke the story is already trying to sweep it under the rug: "It's a common practice in the commercial advertising world that doesn't violate Google's policies, but the ads mimic real news results from Search closely enough that they have news outlets caught off guard," Axios reporter Sara Fischer wrote. Just imagine the outrage had the Trump campaign been caught manipulating headlines in Google ads. The dudgeon would be stratospheric.  But there is a double standard, and things therefore are (D)ifferent, which is how we end up with Univision’s Luis Carlos Velez being the only national journalist to confront a Harris campaign spokesperson on what is, by all accounts, a scandal- especially when combined with the aforementioned spokesperson’s attempt to wiggle out of the question.  

An intact tusk of a Columbian mammoth has been discovered in Madison County, Mississippi. It is the first complete mammoth tusk discovered in the state and dates to the last Ice Age (between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago) when the 15-foot-tall Proboscideans roamed the Mississippi prairie. Mastodon remains are fairly common in Mississippi, as they were widespread across the territory. They were browsers (like deer) and were able to find food in all kinds of environments. Mammoths, on the other hand, strictly grazed on open grassland so they stuck to the Jackson Prairie of central Mississippi. Mammoth teeth have been found there, marking the grounds they used to roam, but their massive tusks have proved elusive. Finder Eddie Templeton, an avid fossil and artifact collector, spotted the tusk in the bank of a small creek. He immediately notified the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s Office of Geology and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science who went to the find site that same day. The tusk was partially exposed above the water, and in danger of drying out in the blazing afternoon sun if the team didn’t excavate and remove it promptly. With Eddie’s help, the team removed the clay-heavy sand from around and under the tusk, exposing its full seven foot length. Most of the mastodon tusks that have been found were just fragments, making this deposit extremely rare. The tusk was photographed and covered with aluminum foil to protect and prepare the surface for plastering. The tusk was then covered in burlap strips soaked in wet plaster to encase the heavy fossil before transport. While the plaster jacket cured and dried, the team studied the details of the depositional environment recorded within the sediments exposed at the outcrop that the mammoth’s tusk was deposited in. The base of the massive tusk was lying almost upright and at an angle in the stream alluvium with a portion of it lying directly on top of the underlying marine Eocene sediments of the Yazoo Formation, just as it came to rest before burial. Our field scientists interpreted the mammoth tusk specimen to be leaning up against the edge of an ancient sandbar of a stream while a portion of it rest on the floor of stream channel. This would have been just before it was completely covered with alluvium entombing the fossil, possibly the result of a storm resulting in a major flooding event. The animal likely had died nearby, and its remains were then carried along the stream’s channel. Studying the nature of the sediments exposed at the outcrop also gave our team of scientists some interesting information. The channel gravels preserved in the basal part of the alluvium is dominated by the mineral quartz with a minor amount of chert clasts. The fossil is located within the watershed of the Big Black River, and Quartz gravels like that are more reminiscent of the alluvium of the Pearl River as it crosses the Jackson Prairie region. The thick alluvial plane sediments deposited above the fossil are loess-derived silt. Loess is a wind-blown glacial silt that forms thick deposits across much of the upland terrain in western Madison County. Once the plaster jacket containing the fossil tusk dried, it was carefully lifted onto a makeshift gurney fashioned from an ATV ramp. The fossil specimen in the jacket weighed about 600 pounds. It was then slowly maneuvered up a 50 foot, nearly vertical, bluff and onto a truck where it was delivered to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science for further curation and careful study. The tusk is now in the care of paleontologist George Phillips who has removed the plaster jacket to allow the tusk to dry. It will then be stabilized and preserved by injecting an adhesive into the mineralized ivory. The process is a slow and painstaking one, but when it is complete, the mammoth tusk will go on display at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

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