{"id":23055,"date":"2026-03-20T20:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:05:50","slug":"must-read-article-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/20\/must-read-article-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Must-Read Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Threats and Bare-Knuckle Tactics of MAGA\u2019s Top Antitrust Fixer &#8211; Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals\u2014and went over their heads if they pushed back&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Free link: https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/lobbyists-antitrust-trump-davis-f6a02e04?st=HbDgTW&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink<\/p>\n<p>Apple News: https:\/\/apple.news\/AX8kAqCnUQlOyghTpggdLTQ<\/p>\n<p>This will make your head spin.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been flying around the internets all day. And you should read it, at least part of it. Because it explains how Live Nation came to a settlement with the government, but much more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, this is in the right wing paper of record, &#8220;The Wall Street Journal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Threats and Bare-Knuckle Tactics of MAGA\u2019s Top Antitrust Fixer &#8211; Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals\u2014and went over their heads if they pushed back&#8221; Free link: https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/lobbyists-antitrust-trump-davis-f6a02e04?st=HbDgTW&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Apple News: https:\/\/apple.news\/AX8kAqCnUQlOyghTpggdLTQ This will make your head spin. It&#8217;s been flying around the internets all day. And you should read it, at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-5ZR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23056,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions\/23056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}