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    There’s “enormous pressure from the MAGA base” to put political rivals ”in handcuffs,” warns @milestaylor.bsky.social. And some legal firms that might have once taken on these cases are “burying their heads in the sand,” says @lawofruby.bsky.social.

    Trump’s Justice Department has begun launching probes into his political rivals, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. Whistleblower Miles Taylor—himself a target of Trump’s retribution campaign—urges Americans to stay “open-eyed” about what’s unfolding. Taylor warns that targeting experts and officials like himself, along with entire institutions such as universities and law firms, will inevitably alter American life. “It's going to change the way you get legal representation.. it's going to change the universities you try to learn at...it’s going to influence the media that you consume because they're trying to intimidate media organizations. The President's revenge campaign is warping our society, and that’s not hyperbole." MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin notes that while some large firms are caving to political pressure, nonprofits and independent attorneys are stepping up. Top lawyers who want to take on Trump’s legal battles, she says, will simply break from their firms and branch out on their own.

    Be ‘open-eyed’: the legal retribution campaign is ‘going to change your lives’ no matter who you are

    Trump’s Justice Department has begun launching probes into his political rivals, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. Whistleblower Miles Taylor—himself a target of Trump’s retribution campaign—urges Americans to stay “open-eyed” about what’s unfolding. Taylor warns that targeting experts and officials like himself, along with entire institutions such as universities and law firms, will inevitably alter American life. “It's going to change the way you get legal representation.. it's going to change the universities you try to learn at...it’s going to influence the media that you consume because they're trying to intimidate media organizations. The President's revenge campaign is warping our society, and that’s not hyperbole." MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin notes that while some large firms are caving to political pressure, nonprofits and independent attorneys are stepping up. Top lawyers who want to take on Trump’s legal battles, she says, will simply break from their firms and branch out on their own.
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    Ali Velshi @velshi.com

    On rising authoritarianism, “you have to draw the line early and you have to enforce the lines hard," says Garrett Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social, and learn history's lessons. Unlike in WWII, if fascism or authoritarianism takes hold here, he says, "it's unclear" who could stop it. #Velshi

    As we commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world is the closest it’s been to a dangerous “nuclear precipice” in decades, says Garrett Graff, author of the new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb.” Graff argues that, over the decades, we have avoided further nuclear conflict “more by luck than by skill.” Graff points out parallels to the present day as well, when German scientists were either fleeing– or ignoring– the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and the brain drain from Germany was the backbone of the Manhattan Project. “You have to draw the line early and you have to enforce the lines hard.”

    World closest to ‘nuclear precipice’ since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, says historian Garrett Graff

    As we commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world is the closest it’s been to a dangerous “nuclear precipice” in decades, says Garrett Graff, author of the new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb.” Graff argues that, over the decades, we have avoided further nuclear conflict “more by luck than by skill.” Graff points out parallels to the present day as well, when German scientists were either fleeing– or ignoring– the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and the brain drain from Germany was the backbone of the Manhattan Project. “You have to draw the line early and you have to enforce the lines hard.”
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