One THOUSAND authoritarian acts reached open.substack.com/pub/christin...

“You can have truth, but it's got to be Donald Trump's version of the truth” Trump has deployed the National Guard, fired the head of the BLS, made Harvard pay up – and that’s just this week. @maitlis.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/who-...

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

We've been busy... 👀 Introducing the new 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 website! Everything we do, all in one place: 🎙️ Every podcast episode 📖 In-depth political analysis 🎥 Exclusive video content Visit: www.thenewsagents.co.uk @maitlis.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com

"No one knows why." A recent YouGov poll says the number of young people who actively have faith has doubled in the last six years... it's called the “Quiet Revival“. What’s going on with young people and God? @maitlis.bsky.social investigates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=izH1...

HARK DAILY - Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - When @mehdirhasan.bsky.social confronted self-described fascists @maitlis.bsky.social - The Coldplay meme shows why late night TV is dying @lucasshaw.bsky.social - Why @neildegrassetyson.com isn't worried about AGI

“Media organisations around the world haven’t united to tell Israel: you can’t just shut down Gaza and block us from reporting.” Ayala Panievsky calls out the global media's failure to collaborate in pressuring Israel to allow press freedom in Gaza. @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

"Everyone is troubled by the lack of answers around Epstein - just one person is 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 to disagree: Trump." Epstein questions aren't going away - and the president should know by now: You can't kill a conspiracy theory, you can only shrink it. @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

Can justice, conducted in secret, ever truly be justice? For nearly two years the government has taken The News Agents to a secret court to prevent us reporting a story of huge public interest. ✍️ Now, @lewisgoodall.com tells that story. articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq4aFegbT6...

The secret court that silenced @thenewsagents - BREAKING

Morning commute open.spotify.com/track/6Psah8...

Trump’s attacks on Canada and Australia got their liberal leaders reelected. His 50% tariff threat against Brazil over its “witch hunt” against ally Jair Bolsonaro will have limited economic impact — but it's great news for Lula @terrencemccoy.bsky.social and Marina Dias report wapo.st/44Hnh06

"How do you get away with dropping your trousers, talking about your cock, then blaming neurodiversity? It’s sickening." @maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social react to the Gregg Wallace backlash after he blamed his autism for the 50+ allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour.

"Not a single police officer lost even a day’s pay over the killing of an innocent man." Twenty years after 7/7, writer and human rights campaigner Yasmin Khan reflects on the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes and an ongoing “culture of impunity.”

The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.

Here is the full text of the DOJ/FBI memo on the Jeffrey Epstein case. One thing to note, the memo says that Epstein harmed “over one thousand victims.” I have spoken to many of the major figures involved in this over the years and no one has ever mentioned this many potential victims.

Identity is a complicated thing. Who you are is a co-created, co-currated experience. Indian-Ugandans are Africans, & the only person who didn't think so was Uganda's former brutal dictator Idi Amin. www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...

40% of Reform's 2024 intake have now lost the whip....

OPINION by @susanrinkunas.com: “Murkowski herself could have forced changes to the bill by refusing to vote for it.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

"There are two levels at play: the NHS, the trains - and a darker story about 'Englishness.'” Has “declinism” become a right-wing rallying cry to “rescue Britain” - and a tool for xenophobes? @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

🔺 BREAKING: The jury at the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs has reached a verdict on four of the five counts against the music mogul but are struggling to reach a unanimous conclusion on a count of racketeering, according to a note passed to the judge ⬇️

“That's a 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 when you've got as much money as Elon Musk has got.” Musk vowed to primary any Congress member who votes for Trump's spending bill: 'if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.' articles.globalplayer.com/2GXqBWU59626...

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

It's wild to me that Kemi Badenoch still has yet to comment in any way on the re-emergence of this stuff on the British right. Is she genuinely so lazy that she won't assert herself to defend her own children? She thinks she's fit to be prime minister!

"I think a lot of things are shit. We need to un-shitafy it as quickly and as radically as possible." Labour MP Chris Curtis says Farage "could be running this country" if the gov't don't urgently address the public's concerns. @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

Democrats have spent so long trying to find candidates who won’t alienate theoretical centrist or soft Republican voters that they have alienated a natural constituency. That constituency just elected Zohran Mamdani. Gift link: wapo.st/44zuWyC

“Fine, we’ll go with the guy who takes bribes.”

French Prime Minister François Bayrou is tonight refusing to admit defeat after his signature effort to tweak the country’s unpopular 2023 retirement reform appeared to collapse this week without a deal.

Today on @TheNewsAgents USA - is Zohran Mamdani giving Democrats ideas for a winning formula ? Or did he just beat a terrible candidate ?

The Trump administration is arresting more and more immigrants with no criminal records. To maintain the illusion that their focus is criminals, they're ginning up charges including by leveraging testimony from criminals who then get leniency.

Journalists at the Farage press conference repeating Reform's framing of this policy as "robin hood" because the non-dom fee will be redistributed to poorer workers, whilst missing the fact that it hands tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts to the wealthiest people already living in the UK

"Congress should have been informed - unfortunately, the president didn't do that." Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tells @maitlis.bsky.social that while she's critical of Trump for acting alone in striking Iran, she supports anything that "sets back its nuclear ambitions."

Just spoke to a senior security analyst at #nato summit about how confusing the ceasefire news was right now . He told me he was amazed it had happened and he’d been proved wrong. I explained that Israel had already announced it was over and he said “ ah yes. I was right all along then.”

BREAKING: Trump Claims an Israel / Iran ceasefire.

In my current work, I point to the invasion of Iraq 2003 as a moment where the public's trust in the foundational ideals of democracy, verification, deliberation, and accountability were systematically betrayed, destroying their trust in democratic systems.

NEW: Keir Starmer reacts supportively to the US strikes on Iran. “Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security. Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and the US has taken action to alleviate that threat.”

The U.S. has entered Israel’s war against Iran. President Trump said the U.S. had struck Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility, as well as two other sites. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

“NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!,” ( says Trump as he bombs 3 sites in Iran) The strikes mark the most significant U.S. military attack on Iran in modern history and will have a defining impact on the legacy of Trump’s second term @politico .

"Trump has spent the last five months vowing that the Ukraine-Russia war would never have happened if he was president, vowing that the Israel-Gaza war would never have happened if he was president. And yet the reality is that not only has he not avoided war, but he’s plunged us into a new one."

Having read for research purposes no fewer than four articles by opinion columnists about how dreadful Bluesky is, I think my conclusion is "kind of interesting except I notice that Financial Times and Bloomberg journalists seem to get on fine and have lots of mates here"

“Absolutely. If you set a precedent for using the military on US soil, it doesn’t bode well for 2028.” Would Trump try to cancel the midterms? Yuval Harari explains the ways in which leaders subvert democracy to hold onto power. @maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

"It's not really about the girl, it's not really about abuse. It's not really about a sense of what the victims are going through, that is a pretext." Why anti-migrant riots in Northern Ireland are the result of online radicalisation and racism

"Netanyahu put this long-standing plan to his military in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s election." Host of The Ex-Files, Christiane Amanpour says Israel had plans to strike Iran - held back under Biden - ready to go upon Trump's return. @maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

"All of this is a gift to the racists." Baroness Casey on how the failure to gather data and to tell survivors’ stories honestly has allowed the far-right to hijack the issue of grooming gangs. @maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

“If good people don't look at difficult issues, bad people will - 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.” The Casey Report found that two-thirds of ethnicity data was missing in grooming gangs cases. articles.globalplayer.com/2GXqAX1yBMwz...

"I wish it was a different response." Was Kemi Badenoch’s "we won" email after Starmer agreed to a grooming gangs inquiry in good taste? @maitlis.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com ask Baroness Casey.

"The Trump administration and DOGE have lit fuses - and there are bombs on the other end." Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, on why Musk's gov. cuts are dangerous – but Americans won't realise the damage until it's too late. articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq2urK1dou...

"Americans haven't faced a 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 existential where they've felt they could die - so they get lazy." 'The Big Short' author Michael Lewis says the widespread mistrust of the U.S. gov't stems from a combination of concerted campaigns and national complacency. @maitlis.bsky.social