WSJ: Lobbyists Easily Destroyed Any Semi-Serious Antitrust Enforcers Left In MAGA

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/02/wsj-lobbyists-easily-destroyed-any-semi-serious-antitrust-enforcers-left-in-maga/

Elevator Love

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.collectorsrealm3.net/2026/03/31/elevator-love/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elevator-love

#RawStory Mar 20, 2026

'I will destroy you': #Trump fixer accused of threatening DOJ official — then got her fired

#GailSlater, then head of DOJ’s antitrust division, was reviewing #HewlettPackardEnterprise’s $14 billion bid 2 acquire rival #JuniperNetworks when #MikeDavis, outside counsel for HPE – reportdly warned her, “If you don’t approve this settlement, I will destroy you. I will destroy your job @ #DOJ,” per sworn testimony frm her former deputy, #RogerAlford.

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-davis-2676483294/

Pluralistic: Trump antitrust is dead (13 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/13/khanservatives/

DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon & Georgia Fort For Acts Of Journalism, Even After Courts Rejected Arrest Warrants

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/journalists-don-lemon-georgia-fort-arrested-for-covering-mn-pop-up-church-protest/

#NowPlaying #TheMetalDogIsNowPlaying
#AvengedSevenfold
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Breaking Their Hold

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«New corruption scandal chargd agnst Trump’s #DOJ & #PamBondi by Frmr #FBI Dir #JohnBrennan’s attorneys has made its way 2 Chief Judge o Southern District o #Florida, as Brennan’s attorneys’ argue DOJ→using #RightWing influencer #MikeDavis..& Judge..Cannon) 2 corrupt impartial grand jury process. #Popok reprts on Bondi adding new evidence o corruption & ethics violations by respondng in the press, that Brennan, target of an active grand jury proceeding, is a “bad actor"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lIeOpS_Po2o&si=9FSjMVO-im4L7bPh

"In 2022, when Mike Davis died at age seventy-six, obituary writers rightly praised his radicalism, his anti-imperialism, his warnings of environmental catastrophe, and the sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism with which he observed capitalism’s dystopian transformation of Los Angeles and other cities. Many called him “the prophet of doom.”

His energy was enormous. He had twenty books to his name, and some, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums, have become classics with an ever-widening influence. But his rough, tough, working-class persona, forged in the gritty, downscale reaches of the Southern California suburban frontier, has often obscured his relationship to the ideas and texts that he encountered, mastered, revised, and deployed in a forty-year outpouring of work whose vitality and breath continues to astound readers. So how did Mike Davis, the San Diego County redneck, become Mike Davis, the transatlantic intellectual, a man whose first book and his last were histories of the working class?"

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mike-davis-marxism-capitalism-dystopia

#Marxism #MikeDavis #Capitalism #History #Urbanism