Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In a new interview with Adam Wren in Politico Playbook, Mike Davis, one of Donald Trump’s most trusted legal advisers and the man who considers himself Trump’s “Viceroy,” explained his strategy for confirming former Fox News co-host Pete Hegseth …
After leaked audio of Los Angeles City Council members saying all sorts of bigoted blabber unleashed a political earthquake, I got an email from a much-missed voice. “Even if the tape was made a year ago,” Mike Davis wrote to friends, family and me on Oct. 13, “its release correlates to the unexpectedly strong performance of progressive candidates in the …
Mike Davis in his San Diego home on July 12, 2022. Like this one: Born in Fontana, raised in El Cajon, he spent the ’60s on the front lines of radical political movements in Los Angeles, where he joined the Communist Party alongside Angela Davis. Recently, he returned to L.A. as a subject with 2020’s “Set the Night on Fire,” …
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. Dave Anderson, infielder Season: “Kirk Gibson’s home run.” Gibson homer: “We were going to win the World Series.” Tim Belcher, pitcher Season: “Several things stand out; Steve Sax starting the season with a HR, I believe on the first pitch in the bottom of the first inning. Davis pinch-hit for me, …
Winged Foot is about 5 miles from one of the early hot spots of the coronavirus. Mamaroneck, New York: The USGA considers this US Open a success even before the opening tee shot, mainly because it’s being played this year at Winged Foot. “It really wasn’t until the day before we went public with the schedule that we realized that …
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