Jonathan Henderson

Sham-pagne supernova

I totally get frustration and indeed resignation at the state of the club in general but the need to blame them or fault them for absolutely everything is such a bleak mindset to be in. Don’t really see what football and supporting a club can be adding to your life when you’re at that stage

The great project of the 21st century is to get conservatives to understand politics and ideology isn’t just on TV or in your phone, it’s actually real life

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

What they don't tell you as a kid is you actually can pretty reliably judge actual books by their covers

Ken White posted this over a year ago, I think about this often.

JIm Ratcliffe is a scumbag. More than that he's a hypocrite. And dangerous. Words. open.substack.com/pub/nqatpod/...

For the first time in a while, it felt like watching United again: attacking with purpose, playing at pace, willing to take risks. Not perfect, not polished - but recognisable. The club needed it. Old Trafford, after some of the dross it’s seen this season, needed it.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

She absolutely thinks she's Jeff Daniels in The Newsroom, not realizing she's Jeff Daniels in Dumb & Dumber.

The right spent enormous time and effort undermining scientific expertise. They are now in a situation exiled from science and rational thought, both in elected members and voters.

Unfortunately this weird, sick cult of grifters and rubes that worships a bumbling, incompetent, malevolent, mentally ill, narcissistic congenital liar in orange makeup has control of the government. Scary times.

Welch: I have a question. How do you guys constantly defend the biggest whining titty baby…

This is a coordinated legal, cultural, social, & educational realignment. Laying groundwork for reshaping society, restructuring to mold individuals into a narrow vision of national identity, morality, & civic order. It prioritizes ideological loyalty over pluralism and constitutional precedent.

This mad post-irony world where apparently people, organisations and states being open about what they are is simply a trap to catch the naive, and the real sophisticated thinker is someone who ignores the literal evidence in front of their own face to state witheringly that it’s far more complex

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?

Walz: "It's like Trump is stuck in the '80s. His music, his clothing, his thinking. He's been on this tariffs thing forever and every economist will tell you they just don't work ... I think the biggest myth perpetuated on this country is that Trump understands anything about business."

"Persons being deported may be sent to countries other than their country of origin." That is some deeply dystopian shit.

Obviously the Giants should feel extremely stupid about Saquon but the entire Saquon Eagles experience shows how the right situation can supercharge talent exponentially. He never could’ve been this good in New York because the Giants are not good enough for him to be this good

Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

The way a whole generation has branded anger as "not an emotion"