{"id":66844,"date":"2026-04-12T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=66844"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:16:34","slug":"a-good-thing-happened-re-two-items-which-offer-some-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=66844","title":{"rendered":"A good thing happened re two items which offer some optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: you who gaze relentlessly into the pandemonium offered by our temporal world might, just might, think I&#8217;ve reached the heights of delusion. Or depths, however you define it. But hold on for this story in today&#8217;s Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the sort of story I rarely read thoroughly but today I did. It&#8217;s about a big drug bust which hit two Bronx apartments and one in Manhattan, over a six-hour period, conducted by agents from NYPD&#8217;s special narcotics division. 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