Trainer says Kentucky Derby-winner Medina Spirit is victim of cancel culture after failed drug test
Medina Spirit is the latest victim of cancel culture, the Kentucky Derby-winning horse s trainer argued Monday.
Churchill Downs, the site of the Derby, revealed Sunday that Medina Spirit had registered levels of an anti-inflammatory drug beyond Kentucky horse racing s legal limit in a post-race blood test. For now, Baffert, who holds the record for the most Derby wins in the sport s history, is suspended from entering horses at the track, and if the results are confirmed, he and Medina Spirit will be stripped of their victory.
An obscure Texas security company helped persuade many Americans that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump Author: Emma Brown, Aaron C. Davis, Jon Swaine, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Updated: 5 days ago Published 5 days ago
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Print article ADDISON, Texas - Key elements of the baseless assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump took shape in an airplane hangar here two years earlier, promoted by a Republican businessman who has sold many things, from Tex-Mex food in London to a wellness technology that beams light into the human bloodstream. At meetings beginning late in 2018, as Republicans were smarting from midterm losses in Texas and across the country, Russell Ramsland and his associates delivered alarming presentations on electronic voting to a procession of conservative lawmakers, activists and donors.
A smart metric for when to drop mask mandates
The United States is turning the corner on COVID-19, Jeff Zients, President Biden s pandemic coordinator, said on CNN Sunday. Case and death rates are way down as vaccines become increasingly accessible. Rules are relaxing â but what about mask mandates?
As of this writing, 25 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and some cities and counties within the other 25 states still mandate public mask use. Many of those mandates are open-ended, but five states â Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia â have hit upon a metric that could be the political sweet spot.
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Newsmax, the ugly stepsister of Fox News, apparently doesn t screen their guests much, if at all. Who thought booking a former Obama speechwriter was ever a good idea on a pissy little propaganda network?
David Litt, a one-time speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, appeared on Newsmax this week to discuss Tesla CEO Elon Musk s appearance on Saturday Night Live but immediately change the subject to the network s lies about the 2020 presidential election.
After Litt was asked what he meant of Musk s performance on SNL performance over the weekend, the former Obama speechwriter immediately pivoted to attacking the network for promoting lies about Dominion Voting Systems rigging the election for President Joe Biden.
Published May 10, 2021 Updated May 10, 2021, 12:51 pm CDT
Former President Barack Obama’s speech writer David Litt trolled a Newsmax anchor about the channel’s election fraud lawsuit on live television. Featured Video Hide
Newsmax anchor Rob Finnerty featured Litt on
Wake Up America in a segment about Tesla’s Elon Musk and SNL. But instead of talking about that, Litt compared the comedy of SNL to the lawsuit Newsmax had brought against it by a Dominion Voting Systems worker. Advertisement Hide
A security director for Dominion sued Newsmax for spreading conspiracy theories about him as part of an election fraud push after President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Newsmax eventually settled the lawsuit and apologized.