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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 13/08/2025

“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-...

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Who needs facts when you’re Donald Trump? | The News Agents

Trump is firing statistics chiefs, rewriting museum displays and forcing Harvard to pay up – and that’s just this week. He's building his own version of reality - one where inconvenient truths simply…

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 04/08/2025

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

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 01/08/2025

"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...

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What's going on with young people and God?

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Hark Audio @harkaudio.com · 25/07/2025

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

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 22/07/2025

“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

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 17/07/2025

"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

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 15/07/2025

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...

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⁠Why the government took me to a secret court to hide their own catastrophic mistake - by Lewis Goodall

Can justice, conducted in secret, ever truly be justice? This is a question with which I have much cause to wrestle, for some 23 months.

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Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The secret court that silenced @thenewsagents - BREAKING

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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

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In Brazil, Trump faces a country — and a leader — ready for a fight

Brazil believes it can withstand Trump’s 50 percent tariff, and aides to Lula say he is unlikely to shrink from a confrontation with the White House.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 10/07/2025

"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.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 07/07/2025

"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.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

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.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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.

$DOJ/FBI Memo on Epstein Case "As part of our commitment to transparency, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein. To ensure that the review was thorough, the FBI conducted digital searches of its databases, hard drives, and network drives as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas where responsive material may have been stored. These searches uncovered a significant amount of material, including more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence. The files relating to Epstein include a large volume of images of Epstein, images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors, and over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography. Teams of agents, analysts, attorneys, and privacy and civil liberties experts combed through the digital and documentary evidence with the aim of providing as much information as possible to the public while simultaneously protecting victims. Much of the material is subject to court-ordered sealing. Only a fraction of this material would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial, as the seal served only to protect victims and did not expose any additional third-parties to allegations of illegal wrongdoing. Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials and will not permit the release of child pornography.$

This systematic review revealed no incriminating "client list." There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
Consistent with prior disclosures, this review confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims. Each suffered unique trauma. Sensitive information relating to these victims is intertwined throughout the materials. This includes specific details such as victim names and likenesses, physical descriptions, places of birth, associates, and employment history.
One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.
To that end, while we have labored to provide the public with maximum information regarding Epstein and ensured examination of any evidence in the government's possession, it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.
After a thorough investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jefirey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019.
This conclusion is consistent with previous findings, including the August 19, 2019 autopsy findings of the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the November 2019 position of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in connection with the investigation of federal correctional officers responsible for guarding Epstein, and the June 2023 conclusions of DOJ's Office of the Inspector General.

The conclusion that Epstein died by suicide is further supported by video footage from the common area of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) where
Epstein was housed at the time of his death.
As DOJ's Inspector General explained in 2023, anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein's cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage. The FBl's independent review of this footage confirmed that from the time Epstein was locked in his cell at around 10:40 pm on August 9, 2019, until around 6:30 am the next morning, nobody entered any of the tiers in the SHU."

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 05/07/2025

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...

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Uganda: The story your parents never told you

Young people ask their parents what happened 50 years ago when Asians were expelled from Uganda.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 02/07/2025

"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

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 01/07/2025

🔺 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 ⬇️

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Jury reaches partial verdict in P Diddy trial

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 01/07/2025

“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...

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Is Elon Musk about to launch a new political party?

Things are heating up between Elon Musk and Donald Trump again, with Musk threatening to launch a new political party and primary Republican lawmakers over their support for Trump's big beautiful bill...

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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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!

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 01/07/2025

"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

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 26/06/2025

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

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Opinion | The Democrats’ generational rift just got harder to ignore

Maybe the party should consider abandoning its cautious old ways.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/06/2025

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

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/06/2025

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.

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Defiant Bayrou won’t concede defeat on pension reform talks

French prime minister says an “impressive” number of agreements have been reached on tweaking pensions without putting the system further in the red.

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Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/06/2025

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.

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Opinion | ‘Criminal immigrant’ means whatever the administration says it means

Trump's deportation goals are being met by targeting non-criminal immigrants.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 24/06/2025

"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."

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Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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.”

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Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

BREAKING: Trump Claims an Israel / Iran ceasefire.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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.”

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/06/2025

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...

A card reads: "U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites. The U.S. dropped bombs on three nuclear sites, President Trump said, bringing the U.S. military directly into Israel’s war with Iran."

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Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

“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 .

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"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."

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Trump plunges the US into a new war

In fewer than six months in office, the self-proclaimed anti-war president has engrossed the US into a new war in the Middle East

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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"

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 21/06/2025

“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

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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/06/2025

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.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 12/06/2025

"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

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Why people are rioting in Northern Ireland: 'It’s odious racism'

Migrants and their property have been targetted across Northern Ireland by rioters following the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in the town of Ballymena.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 16/06/2025

"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

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 17/06/2025

"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

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 17/06/2025

“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...

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Grooming gangs: Missing ethnicity data is a 'gift to racists,' says Baroness Casey

Baroness Louise Casey tells The News Agents how Tipp-Ex was used to remove the word 'Pakistani' from a child's file in Rotherham, as her new report exposes how missing ethnicity data in two-thirds of ...

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 17/06/2025

"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.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 18/06/2025

"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...

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"There are bombs at the end of the fuse": Michael Lewis on DOGE's dangerous cuts

The author of The Big Short, who spotted the 2008 financial crisis before it hit, warns that Elon Musk's government cuts are creating dangerous systemic risks – and Americans won't realise the damage…

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 19/06/2025

"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

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