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Horses that heal: Equine therapy rising in popularity Bridget Williams gathered a group of children together in her barn to show them how to safely give a horse a treat.

Horses helping humans.

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Departing CBS News producer claims political bias as Paramount poised to buy Warner Bros Mary Walsh, leaving after 46 years, says staffers told to ‘aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum’

Mary Walsh was the cream of the crop for decades @cbsnews.com and I know she speaks for many still laboring there under the new regime.

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Keeping Pace: Meadowlands Will Try To Keep Hambletonian In New Jersey The harness track in East Rutherford has hosted America’s classic race since 1981. The race and the track need each other, especially with the prospect of a ballot initiative this fall that could help...

A Paulick Report Exclusive: Good news for New Jersey racing.

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In Iowa, Prosecutors Want to Bring Back Court Fees as Bargaining Chips - Bolts Iowa's high court recently ended the practice of making defendants pay fees for charges that get dismissed. Prosecutors are backing legislation to undo the court’s ruling so they can keep using fees a...

3️⃣ Iowa prosecutors have gotten used to a pretty shocking practice: pressuring defendants to plead guilty or else risk suffering major financial harm.

The Supreme Court struck down but now prosecutors and some lawmakers want to bring it back, @laurengill.bsky.social reports:

Tens of Thousands of Mothers Were Flagged to Police Over Flawed Drug Tests at Childbirth The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.

We found over 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.

In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.

Or perhaps someone else can buy this paper from Bezos—since he seems to view it as an albatross—and donate it to a foundation established to run it as a nonprofit. Bezos gets a capital loss, the buyer/donor is a hero, the rest of us get a world class newspaper. The Knight Institute is ready to help.

The Trump administration has repeatedly misled courts and ignored their orders in immigration cases, a new analysis by David Bier shows. This pattern weakens the rule of law and erodes trust in the legal system.

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This is just a guess, but maybe the rise in dramatic prose from district court judges is partly due to a growing belief among those judges that it's pointless to try to persuade SCOTUS and they must therefore focus on other potential audiences.

In today’s edition of Opening Statement, our daily newsletter, we look at a ruling on refugee status that affects hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. We’ve got lots of Minnesota links and plenty of Justice Department news. mailchi.mp/themarshallp...

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Keeping Pace: Feedback From Last Week's Mike Repole Column The billionaire owner and breeder and master showman proposes a four-hour marathon debate between him and the stewards of The Jockey Club over the future of Thoroughbred racing. The time and money wou...

The one thing we can all agree upon is that Mike Repole is a polarizing figure in Thoroughbred racing. Here's the latest Keeping Pace column from @paulickreport.bsky.social

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Here's more on Biery from 15 years ago. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is not Judge Biery's first turn in the spotlight. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is extraordinary work.

I Spent 12 Hours in the Parking Lot Where Donald Trump’s Darkest Work Is Unfolding. They’re Hoping You Don’t Notice. How a quintessentially American setting became an epicenter of cruelty.

This is very well done.

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How ICE and Border Patrol Keep Injuring and Killing People After shooting people, federal agents repeatedly failed to provide first aid, and officials spun narratives disproven by video.

The fatal shooting of Pretti was not the first time that federal immigration officers have killed civilians under the Trump administration, and it wasn’t the first time that officials spread misleading accounts about the shooting victim.

Keeping Pace: Let's Talk (Again) About A Racing Commissioner Billionaire Thoroughbred owner Mike Repole is auditioning for the job of czar of Thoroughbred racing. He promises to be a strongman in an authoritarian age. Even if some of his ideas are sound, such a...

Does Thoroughbred racing need a commissioner? Maybe. Does it need an autocratic one? Not so much.

The latest Keeping Pace column from @paulickreport.bsky.social

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The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

For the latest on Minnesota and the Justice Department and the rule of law and this authoritarian moment. Five days a week.

Keeping Pace: The Case For Patience After HISA Suspensions Two Maryland veterinarians are in trouble for allegedly distributing “steroid paint” to Thoroughbred trainers. The case could tell us a great deal about how vets view the new regulatory regime and whe...

A new case against two distinguished Maryland veterinarians raises new questions about the way vets have responded to the new federal racing regulators.

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Keeping Pace: An Old Scandal Re-Emerges In Harness Racing The failure of New York regulators to aggressively pursue punishment for trainers in the wake of the Seth Fishman scandal gets mainstream coverage and raises profound new questions about harness racin...

Problems in horse racing, like problems with horses, only get worse when we ignore them.

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An exquisitely Canadian headline.

Keeping Pace: Horse Racing Stories That Deserve More Attention The application of new technology is helping us understand how to keep our horses safer when they are training or racing. The more we know about what causes breakdowns the more we can do to prevent th...

New Keeping Pace @paulickreport.bsky.social

A good news/bad news start to another year of racing.

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The Biggest Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Grazing on Public Lands Livestock grazing is allowed across 240 million acres of federal land. Our investigation revealed the subsidies propping up ranching, its impact on the environment and the politics underpinning the sy...

Glad that @propublica.org is taking a long look at welfare ranching which, in addition to everything else wrong about it, has had a terrible impact on the nation's wild horse herds.

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‘This Subject Is Incredibly Important To Me’: Former Editor-In-Chief Natalie Voss Wins Fourth Media Eclipse Award Voss’ four-part series “Doom Scroll: Thoroughbreds, Bail Pens, And Horse Traders” received the award for best News/Enterprise writing

Congratulations to the one and only Natalie Voss for winning this award in recognition of her great work on shedding light on horse slaughter.

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Old school. And a good add to the Maduro team.

‘Blood in the water’: Bari Weiss’s chaotic first three months in charge of CBS News Weiss is embroiled in her first major controversy as editor in chief as her handpicked anchor takes evening news show

The new anchor of the Evening News shitting on Walter Cronkite during his first week on the job tells you all you need to know about the sorry state of CBS News and where it is heading. It's so sad.

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Keeping Pace: Resolution Should Be Horse Racing's 2026 Resolution Thoroughbred racing is lucky to have so many industry stakeholders willing to share their ideas on how to ensure the sport’s future. And there is clearly some consensus on some important issues. There...

The first Keeping Pace column of the year:

Remembering Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

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