My take on today’s festivities, now up at The Hill. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Plenty of media activity outside the West Wing as we await @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s arrival.

Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."

University College Dublin’s student news organization, The University Observer, sought me out for an interview about media, my career and advice for aspiring journalists. My words of highly dubious wisdom are here: universityobserver.ie/how-niall-st...

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.

The BBC messed up but Trump’s defamation threat is one more example of him trying to rewrite the history of Jan. 6. youtu.be/qGoVbzH3eQI?...

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.

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.

Given Trump’s obsession with image and the appearance of dominance, he won’t like how this went. The body language here is very much Trump-as-supplicant.

If I was in Mamdani’s shoes, I’d be nervous about the amount of social media comment from supporters assuming the election’s as good as won. He’s clearly the favorite and, yes, some of the attacks are ridiculous, rancid or both. But there’s still a week to go.

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.

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.

Huge crowd at the D.C. #NoKings protest, under scrutiny from the rooftops.

Hopefully we can all survive this outbreak of dangerous radicalism. DC #NoKings protest.

No Kings, MAGA getting mad, and the criminalization of dissent. Part of my monologue today on Rising.

Connecting the dots here is not hard.

@kaitlancollins.bsky.social: “ls she [Marjorie Taylor Greene] someone that you could see yourself working with?” @aoc.bsky.social : “Uhh…on what?” [Laughter] “Listen, I think people can talk a good game. But until they actually support policy that helps people, I’m not particularly interested.”

I got flattered back from The Other Place. 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.)

If Harvard’s not going to fight Trump, who is?

Tried my best to make an important point as sensitively as I could — youtu.be/bdlj8MFstXM?...

“We’re going to have law and order.”

I’m on Amtrak coming back to DC from NYC. Train conductor announces, twice, “This is Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware” as we pull in.

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.”

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.

Falls Road, Belfast.

The craven tone of this cabinet meeting would embarrass a Putin or Orban.

Terry Moran handles this very well indeed.

Trump At 100 Days — a quick recap.

My favorite photo from this weekend’s festivities around the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. This one from the ABC News pre-dinner reception. #whca #whcd

Good for Pelley and the team to say this 👏🏼

If Biden or Obama had posted “Vladimir, stop,” right-wing media would have run mockery of such “weakness” on a loop for a week.

“I don’t want to have any favorites,” says Trump, referring to a nation that was invaded (Ukraine) and the nation that invaded it (Russia).

An outright atrocity. And one which it yet again falls to Israel’s Haaretz to expose.

Hegseth’s critics warned about his lack of managerial experience. Now he’s holding on largely because Trump doesn’t want to bow to media criticism. @skynewsrss.bsky.social

Please read every word of this.

Lead of the top story on the Wall Street Journal right now.

Dow fell almost 1000 points today, S&P 500 has lost more than 10 percent in a month, dollar has hit three-year low. The president:

No need for moral equivocation when it comes to Josh Shapiro and arson — — or when it comes to the moral disgrace of what has happened, with U.S. support, in Gaza.

Harvard stands and fights. Over at Columbia, is there any sense of shame at its capitulation?

Bond trader loses $140 million. Keeps job. Target employee buys water bottle quickly. Gets fired.

The tariff drama caused even some Republicans to balk at Trump’s volatility. I enjoyed discussing it all on CBS News with Major Garrett and Politico’s Jake Traylor.

Trump tariffs — Art of the Deal? Or Mad King?

Presented without comment.

The double standards of MAGA-friendly media types are wild — Defending Trump on tariffs when they would have crucified Biden or Obama. (From today’s “Rising”)

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Tomorrow’s White House visitor and accused war criminal.

Trump declines to name the “four or five” biggest tech leaders in the world whom he allegedly talked to. “They said we don’t blame you.”