Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while
preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
A-story: Trumpโs abrupt reversal on the 20% Strait-of-Hormuz โprotection feeโ โ dropped 24h after announcing it when oil spiked and Gulf allies offered to โinvest in Americaโ instead โ as the strait stays closed, the US bombards Iran, and the Israel-influence thread runs underneath (Vance vs the funded Time campaign).
Clips โ 31
The 20pct toll to invest-in-America pivot
Trump - Rescinds Hormuz toll, Gulf to invest instead of fee
Maddow (MSNOW): Iran War Participation Trophy statue for Trump on the National Mall.
01 ๐ฐ BANKING FED MONEY
The June CPI hands the White House a victory lap (Hassett โ67 economists wrong,โ Trump โremember it for the midtermsโ) while the grocery aisle and a grilled Fed Chair Warsh (independence + the Bowman blackout-dinner corruption tell) say otherwise โ plus Trumpโs name going on the currency and the money-laundering plumbing.
Clips โ 13
HEARING - Fed Chair Warsh
Warsh - do you work for Donald Trump, Fed independence under pressure
Browder (MSNOW): what he found - A7A5 enablers and 26 UK MPs push sanctions.
02 ๐ฉบ HEALTH PHARMA
Explosive-diarrhea Cyclospora spreads to 34 states (lettuce/Taco Bell), a fast Ebola outbreak already half of 2018โs, two vaccine-politics hearings (CDC flu nominee, Cassidy vs anti-mRNA), and Hegsethโs low-T troop screening.
๐ฐ Articles & links (read/context โ above the clips)
Todd Blancheโs AG hearing (the โnow Iโm the deputy AGโ slip + the $1B IRS fund + abortion-pill retreat), the WH Air-Force-One leak hunt โ NYT subpoenas โ 1st-Amendment fight, governing-by-tweet on ICE, DNI nominee Jay Clayton dodging โwho won 2020,โ and SCOTUS security.
Clips โ 16
HEARING - Todd Blanche AG confirmation
Blanche - AG nominee slips Im his lawyer now Im the deputy AG, billion-dollar IRS fund
Will Creeley (PBS): a leak doesnt strip 1st Amendment, subpoenas are chilling.
๐ Context / research
Does the 1st Amendment actually protect reporters from being forced to reveal sources? Strictly โ NO.
Branzburg v. Hayes (1972, 5โ4): SCOTUS declined to grant newsmen a testimonial privilege other citizens donโt enjoy; the grand-jury interest outweighs the โincidental burdenโ on the press. Justice White: โThis we decline to do.โ
Justice Powellโs concurrence muddied it โ lower courts since recognize a โqualified privilegeโ (may protect in civil, almost never in criminal/grand-jury).
Protection today is a patchwork: 40+ state shield laws; NO federal shield law (PRESS Act still not passed as of mid-2026); DOJ policy (Garland 2022) restricts subpoenas but is administrative, not constitutional.
Bottom line: the 1st Amendment shields the right to PUBLISH (no prior restraint), not the right to withhold WHERE you got it if a court demands.
Will Creeley - Pentagon Papers, protect the governed not the governors
Ed OKeefe (CBS): justices seek 14.6M for 24-7 protection, threats up 38pct.
04 โฐ๏ธ LINDSEY GRAHAM
Sen. Lindsey Grahamโs sudden death at 71 (aortic tear), his sister Darlene appointed to finish the term, the FBI search of his DC home, and The View litigating his complicated legacy.
Clips โ 6
Death cause and succession
Dr Siegel - Lindsey Graham died at 71 of an aortic dissection, chest pain the warning
LEX18 (LEX18): Kentucky changed its Senate succession law, now a special election.
05 ๐ค AI TECH
AI marches into the classroom (Anthropicโs Claude for Teachers) as the maker admits it canโt vouch for the developing brain; OpenAIโs home device + Appleโs IP suit; Chamath names the hype-financing game; Apple shrinks AI onto the iPhone.
Clips โ 4
AI into the classroom - Amodei
Amodei - Anthropic Claude for Teachers, we dont know AIs impact on the developing brain
Anchor (NEWS): Reflect Orbital space mirror, sun on demand vs astronomers.
07 โฝ CULTURE
The World Cup grift, Balogun owning the media pressure, the Fuentes-grift media read, the Platner vetting mess, Khannaโs moderate mask, and Trumpโs Reflecting-Pool โvandalismโ vs the algae.
Clips โ 5
The World Cup grift - Kuper
Kuper - World Cups dont boost the economy, FIFA takes the money and hosts pay
Trump vandalism claim (NBC): a 300-foot box-cutter slit vs the Reflecting Pool algae reality.
08 ๐ DYING WORLD ORDER
The deliberate managed decline of the sovereign nation-state โ Rupert Lowe on the JRE โ and Londongrad as the laundromat that just swaps Russian money for Gulf/China money.
Clips โ 5
Rupert Lowe - the managed decline JRE
Rupert Lowe - Diminish the nation-state, a long deceitful plan