Erin Grievances

This does feel very different from the beginnings of the Bush-era wars, but if you're going to be this bold, you could also mention that it's not good to kill a bunch of Iranian civilians either. There are many reasons a war can be unjust and I think we need to hear that one too.

It provides a luxurious writing experience.

Government by the kind of people who think "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" is an inspirational list of goals for the office whiteboard.

I am a consistent fountain pen user but I somehow ended up with a #3 and it quickly became a pen I keep at home so it doesn't disappear.

Maybe he actually said "immanent." You know, like his worldview has some kind of . . . immanent frame.

Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years. The president was right to act.

They have been JUST ABOUT TO BE A THREAT TO US for half a century!

With Al, no university will need to trouble themselves with pesky human students ever again. Instead they'll have Al students who are all sexy ladies with big juggs and 17 fingers. The men professors can dote on them and when they see a lady professor can shout "it's over for you!". It's a paradise

Is there any historical polling data on Americans at the beginning of a war that asks “do you think your government is doing war crimes and, if so, what should happen to the people doing them?”

I bet there isn’t but it would be interesting to compare in this moment.

Oh I think I've encountered this recipe before and lost it--it looks so good!

I can envision a series (of ads? in a newspaper, who knows) with stories like this alongside fired federal workers explaining "this used to be my job, here's what we've lost now that I'm not doing it."

The IRIS Dena, a prized destroyer in the Iranian Navy, had participated in an international naval exercise in India last month. The ship had been making its way back toward Iran from Visakhapatnam, a city in India where the joint exercise ended on Feb. 25. The United States was among the many participants in the drills.

so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

A page from a cookbook with a recipe for mix and match jammy cookie bars

There was a cookie with jam in the back of my mind and I finally remembered what it was.

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Exceptional. I love a crinkly cookie rolled in sugar.

Oh, I have seen this cake before and I always forget it’s an option. I have an ATK subscription too!

My failure rate at thumbprint cookies is so high, but I am tempted to try these nevertheless.

I made a lot of interesting jam in the past year, and since I have terrible luck with thumbprints and I am too lazy for linzers, I would love to find some other cookie recipes that use jam.

What’s a cookie recipe you’ve been excited about recently? (especially if it doesn’t involve chocolate chips)

Allowed to say it? We’ve raised it to an art form.

US military carries out 1st land operation against cartels in Ecuador: SOUTHCOM The United States and Ecuador conducted joint military operations against "designated terrorist organizations in Ecuador," U.S. Southern Command announced Tuesday.

We said No War and the US government said "best we can do is every war all at the very same time oops we're almost out of bombs but that's probably fine when doing every war, all at the very same time idk we're drunk"

“No, they didn’t give me a chaser!”

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

It's so sick that our Secretary of Defense is the bully from a B-list 80s teen movie whose dad is threatening to buy the town's ski lodge and turn it into upscale housing and the only way to stop him is to have the school's new kid underdog beat him with a trick move everyone said was impossible.

In retrospect, it was probably futile, but I do at least hope some people who have clicked “history” as one of their likes on Facebook got a thrill by being confronted with an article about a medieval depiction of trans Jesus.

Yep. Ford represented a very specific kind of Being Cool By Being A Dipshit that used to be right at the heart of American pop-culture depictions of masculinity.

Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart both excelled at it.

In some recent attempts to boost @contingent-mag.bsky.social’s reach on Facebook, we did a little paid marketing. But it had very little effect because it was shared with other people who like reading history articles on Facebook and those people don’t like what Contingent does 🤷‍♀️

If we can only root for moderate or progressive ball players, you’re gonna need Gabe Kapler to come off the bench and play every position.

One was a captain in the Navy and the other was a milkman/caretaker/janitor.

I understand that it makes you feel better because it’s a team you hate, but please don’t think it’s only former Yankees players that are deeply conservative.

This entire thing is being prosecuted by people who are mad that they once got asked to list outcomes in their job.