Niall Stanage
@niallstanage.bsky.social
White House Columnist at The Hill, TV with “Rising,” NewsNation and elsewhere, product of Ireland.
The conservative site The Blaze recklessly named a woman who it said — on the spurious basis of anonymous “gait analysis” — was a “forensic match” for the Jan. 6 pipe bomber.
Turns out she has a solid alibi and has been ruled out by the FBI, per CBS News.
Grossly irresponsible.
Turns out she has a solid alibi and has been ruled out by the FBI, per CBS News.
Grossly irresponsible.
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The conservative site The Blaze recklessly named a woman who it said — on the spurious basis of anonymous “gait analysis” — was a “forensic match” for the Jan. 6 pipe bomber.
Turns out she has a solid alibi and has been ruled out by the FBI, per CBS News.
Grossly irresponsible.
Turns out she has a solid alibi and has been ruled out by the FBI, per CBS News.
Grossly irresponsible.
“Orders are presumed to be lawful.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Orders are presumed to be lawful.”
My day-after assessment of the Trump-Mamdani meeting:
Pretty, pretty, pretty funny.
Speaking to Alexis Conran earlier on Britain’s Times Radio.
Pretty, pretty, pretty funny.
Speaking to Alexis Conran earlier on Britain’s Times Radio.
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
My day-after assessment of the Trump-Mamdani meeting:
Pretty, pretty, pretty funny.
Speaking to Alexis Conran earlier on Britain’s Times Radio.
Pretty, pretty, pretty funny.
Speaking to Alexis Conran earlier on Britain’s Times Radio.
Plenty of media activity outside the West Wing as we await @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s arrival.
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Plenty of media activity outside the West Wing as we await @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s arrival.
Not sure how we got to the point of weak, bitter little men like this believing they’re providing some kind of template of masculinity.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Not sure how we got to the point of weak, bitter little men like this believing they’re providing some kind of template of masculinity.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
Come for the debates on the pressing political issues of the day, stay for the debates about whether I bear some passing resemblance to…Billy Bob Thornton??
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Come for the debates on the pressing political issues of the day, stay for the debates about whether I bear some passing resemblance to…Billy Bob Thornton??
This is complete fiction — apparently originating with a satirical website — but shared as fact by the President of the United States.
Obama does not receive any “royalties” from the Affordable Care Act.
Obama does not receive any “royalties” from the Affordable Care Act.
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is complete fiction — apparently originating with a satirical website — but shared as fact by the President of the United States.
Obama does not receive any “royalties” from the Affordable Care Act.
Obama does not receive any “royalties” from the Affordable Care Act.
It probably says something ominous about the state of U.S. politics when I’m getting a write-up in my hometown newspaper.
But here we are.
Very fair and extensive interview by Gillian Halliday in today’s Belfast Telegraph. Link to full story below.
But here we are.
Very fair and extensive interview by Gillian Halliday in today’s Belfast Telegraph. Link to full story below.
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It probably says something ominous about the state of U.S. politics when I’m getting a write-up in my hometown newspaper.
But here we are.
Very fair and extensive interview by Gillian Halliday in today’s Belfast Telegraph. Link to full story below.
But here we are.
Very fair and extensive interview by Gillian Halliday in today’s Belfast Telegraph. Link to full story below.
Zohran Mamdani leads the NYC polls, so Cuomo allies (like Bill Ackman) are pushing Curtis Sliwa to drop out.
I don't see why Sliwa — the nominee of a major party, unlike Cuomo — should do that.
I don't see why Sliwa — the nominee of a major party, unlike Cuomo — should do that.
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Zohran Mamdani leads the NYC polls, so Cuomo allies (like Bill Ackman) are pushing Curtis Sliwa to drop out.
I don't see why Sliwa — the nominee of a major party, unlike Cuomo — should do that.
I don't see why Sliwa — the nominee of a major party, unlike Cuomo — should do that.
Trump and a third term?
I don't *think* something so obviously unconstitutional could happen. But I also don't assume he or Bannon are joking.
I don't *think* something so obviously unconstitutional could happen. But I also don't assume he or Bannon are joking.
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trump and a third term?
I don't *think* something so obviously unconstitutional could happen. But I also don't assume he or Bannon are joking.
I don't *think* something so obviously unconstitutional could happen. But I also don't assume he or Bannon are joking.
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No Kings, MAGA getting mad, and the criminalization of dissent.
Part of my monologue today on Rising.
Part of my monologue today on Rising.
October 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
No Kings, MAGA getting mad, and the criminalization of dissent.
Part of my monologue today on Rising.
Part of my monologue today on Rising.
Connecting the dots here is not hard.
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Connecting the dots here is not hard.
I got flattered back from The Other Place.
Hi (again).
Hi (again).
October 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I got flattered back from The Other Place.
Hi (again).
Hi (again).
Trump, Harvard, research funding and college blacklists…
Another robust but very enjoyable debate with Leland Vittert on @
NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
(Full clip below.)
Another robust but very enjoyable debate with Leland Vittert on @
NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
(Full clip below.)
May 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump, Harvard, research funding and college blacklists…
Another robust but very enjoyable debate with Leland Vittert on @
NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
(Full clip below.)
Another robust but very enjoyable debate with Leland Vittert on @
NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
(Full clip below.)
If Harvard’s not going to fight Trump, who is?
May 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If Harvard’s not going to fight Trump, who is?
“We’re going to have law and order.”
May 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“We’re going to have law and order.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene is the latest in a line of right-wing figures who want Derek Chauvin to be pardoned.
Chauvin murdered George Floyd five years ago this month.
My thoughts, in this brief clip from today’s “Rising.”
Chauvin murdered George Floyd five years ago this month.
My thoughts, in this brief clip from today’s “Rising.”
May 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene is the latest in a line of right-wing figures who want Derek Chauvin to be pardoned.
Chauvin murdered George Floyd five years ago this month.
My thoughts, in this brief clip from today’s “Rising.”
Chauvin murdered George Floyd five years ago this month.
My thoughts, in this brief clip from today’s “Rising.”
Afrikaners, aka White South Africans, outrageously accorded a warm welcome as “refugees” by Trump …who has suspended refugee resettlement for everyone else.
May 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Afrikaners, aka White South Africans, outrageously accorded a warm welcome as “refugees” by Trump …who has suspended refugee resettlement for everyone else.
Corruption on its face.
Trump and the $400 million “gift” of a luxury jet from Qatar.
Trump and the $400 million “gift” of a luxury jet from Qatar.
May 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Corruption on its face.
Trump and the $400 million “gift” of a luxury jet from Qatar.
Trump and the $400 million “gift” of a luxury jet from Qatar.
Falls Road, Belfast.
May 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Falls Road, Belfast.
Trump At 100 Days — a quick recap.
April 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Trump At 100 Days — a quick recap.
An outright atrocity.
And one which it yet again falls to Israel’s Haaretz to expose.
And one which it yet again falls to Israel’s Haaretz to expose.
April 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
An outright atrocity.
And one which it yet again falls to Israel’s Haaretz to expose.
And one which it yet again falls to Israel’s Haaretz to expose.