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John Oleske
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Counsel for Complex Business and Litigation Matters. Doing my best to Make Good Trouble.
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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?
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I don’t know that it was ever going to be close - did you have this on your scorecard already?
news.ucr.edu/articles/202...
Opiod-overdose 'miracle drug' faces $56M in cuts
The Trump administration has proposed terminating a $56 million annual grant program that distributes naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, and trains emergency responders to administer the d...
news.ucr.edu
May 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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.
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So—yes, we need to stop the President and his HHS Secretary from abandoning the fight against measles and tooth decay and cancer.
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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!
May 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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.
May 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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.
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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.
May 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Yes its a free ad about how wonderful Preet is being.
May 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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.
May 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Why is this a story?
May 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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.
May 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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.
May 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
National media pretending not to get these things is how we got into the Idiocratic crisis we’re in,
May 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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.
May 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It’s not like the (very flawed) founders didn’t see this coming. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign...
Foreign Emoluments Clause - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
May 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM