So…you’re saying the new group at USDOJ *isn’t* going to investigate/prosecute the officials at NYAG who rigged the grand jury to keep three Rochester police officers from being indicted for killing Daniel Prude?
from @joearrow1.bsky.social at that other place - Bruce mods Growin’ Up to promo a Philly FM station back in the day:
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When you fire/squeeze competent professionals operating a legacy system w/ years of deferred maintenance, things start breaking. If that system does things like keep planes in the sky, well, pretty soon, people are going to start to die.
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I don’t know that it was ever going to be close - did you have this on your scorecard already?
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But we also need to stand up for the people still fighting the opioid epidemic, and for the science-based approaches that are proven to work—and *against* the all-to-easy return to victim blaming and erasure that helped enable this ongoing tragedy in the first place.
So—yes, we need to stop the President and his HHS Secretary from abandoning the fight against measles and tooth decay and cancer.
And when my team tried that case during the pandemic in 2021, the catastrophe we showed to the jury, those numbers that were so shocking, those were the *lower than now* pre-pandemic annual opioid overdose fatality totals.
But I’m not comforted, and I’m not satisfied, and I know our work as a civil society to confront this plague isn’t close to finished. As the article says, last year’s decline in fatalities still leaves us with more deaths than the post-pandemic 2022 numbers.
And while I’m proud of our work, I wish I could draw comfort from the knowledge that thousands of these avoided fatalities were earned in part by our efforts, and the billions in opioid abatement funding we secured for New York’s state and local health systems.
Leading a team of a dozen lawyers to victory in a seven-month jury trial against the world’s most powerful pharmaceutical companies will always be the most impactful thing I’ve ever done as a lawyer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I tried to fix this on the news reporting but they went further into squishtown headlining the “analysis” piece.
But I bet King Nepobaby III’s big editorial on the importance of press freedom and the NY Times and him him him is going to make it all feel better!
MLB has done a lot of pretty explicit inclusion and diversity stuff institutionally for awhile now and I’m guessing Rose was a specific gripe the President had with Giamatti back when and that doing this (actually reasonable thing given the FanDuel $$$ and all) may well divert an anti-DEI attack.
It’s very true. And I’m talking about the current machine-installed-and-protected crop of top Democratic elected officials. At least I know Stefanik will vote to have me imprisoned for my prior work & my kids put in camps. The electeds on “our side” are much less reliable in that way, unfortunately.
I ❤️ NY, but when it comes to our politics, “you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” In fact, it’s substantially worse than you think it is right now.
For any lawyer/legal journalism folks, I’ve got a trivia question for you:
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An update on my motion to DQ Andy Celli & his firm from representing Tish James in my whistleblower retaliation lawsuit: Order signed; No opposition allowed; Mr. Celli’s firm has until 6/13 to moot by withdrawing or the Court will decide my motion, for which it has found good cause. A first for me.
Yes its a free ad about how wonderful Preet is being.
Ahh, but this assumes @ericlipton.nytimes.com actually cares about consistency, hypocrisy, or what any of us plebs think. He’s a top boy at the nepobaby-controlled @nytimes.com and the only thing he owes you is some more sneering.
Why is this a story?
The continued simpering to Trump on that speakerphone call and the recent UK-domestic parallels—while Carney & Albanese have just decisively proven the superiority of the alternative on the world stage—is making me think Sir Keir is not the skilled pragmatist I took him to be.
NYT reporter talking down at the world while not knowing his ass from a hole in the ground. Accepting a foreign emolument in violation of the U.S. Constitution is a corrupt act, and does not require even an implicit quid pro quo.
No, it does not, all all. Accepting a foreign emolument in violation of the U.S. Constitution is a corrupt act. You and your colleagues are the problem. *YOU* are why we’re in this mess.
National media pretending not to get these things is how we got into the Idiocratic crisis we’re in,
I think it’s important to recognize that the New Jersey State Police did not become the highly-professionalized organization it is today without a deliberate anti-racist training effort imposed by courts to unwind a deeply-entrenched culture of bias and self-serving dishonesty.
I went ahead and fixed this. We’ve got this problem because national media like @nytimes.com *pretends* they don’t know it’s illegal.
I dunno—it seems like precisely the kind of word certain nepobaby media masters of the universe would be snobbish about knowing. They *know*—they just don’t *care*
Well, did America say that, or has nepobaby-owned authoritative “liberal” mass media been acting like they don’t know if it’s against the rules, and most Americans are like um wtf but um if the NYT isn’t saying its illegal I guess…
Looks like they could use some of your common sense at @nytimes.com
Please do!