George William Herbert

This is a policy of genocide.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Brits Bill & Karen looked forward to 2-mo long 2025 holiday in US going thru CA,NV,WY,MT& Canada. An expired visa landed them in prison for SIX wks! Separated, shackled at the wrist, waist & ankles, sleeping on the floor of a cell. Stunned & terrified. Trump’s US! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

OMAN FM: Iran agreed to zero enriched uranium stockpiling, hours later Trump & Bibi attacked them 🤔

Also remember that the downtown area is at most 212 feet of soil then bedrock, so sufficient depth there hits a structural interface that’s hard to TBM through.

Also all the pilings holding up downtown.

That’s uphill though.

You know who else gave great speeches?

UPDATE: Imagery @planet.com shared with NPR indicates the $1 Billion Qatar Early Warning Radar (QEWR) may have been damaged as claimed by Iran.

The 3m imagery is not definitive but @rsimmon.bsky.social cleaned it up, and there's what looks like scarring or firefighting water around the site.

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This is more true in military and geopolitical areas than others. In domestic politics in the US I don’t think so.

This is just a military and geopolitical weekend…

Yes, absolutely, but I don’t think that me commenting further than that in public is a good idea right now.

Very rarely does my nominally day job in cloud operations stuff intersect directly with my nominally second job doing missile analysis.

Hopefully the AWS UAE staff are all safe.

health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Jean P.D. Meijer ― 🇪🇺 eu/acc on X: "there's an AWS outage in me-central-1 because it got bombed https://t.co/iju6iWbg2U" / X there's an AWS outage in me-central-1 because it got bombed https://t.co/iju6iWbg2U

There’s a partial AWS outage in progress after one of their datacenters in the Middle East was hit by a missile.

Twitter link:

x.com/initjean/sta...

H/t @dexeve.bsky.social who pointed that post out to me and others.

That said, cluster warheads are things they developed before on some missiles and decoys are an expected development eventually for any missile program. No prior public evidence Iran had them, but this could be the first if it’s real.

Equally unlikely is lens flare, as it starts very regular pattern but then becomes very irregular.

All of this assuming it’s genuine. I don’t see a source and we are seeing a lot of misinformation and fakes posted.

Mintel World on X: "An Iranian ballistic missile featuring multiple reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads was filmed separating mid-flight during its trajectory toward central Israel. https://t.co/j2NgjlRne1" / X An Iranian ballistic missile featuring multiple reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads was filmed separating mid-flight during its trajectory toward central Israel. https://t.co/j2NgjlRne1

An unconfirmed video on Twitter shows what appear to be decoys or possibly cluster warheads deploying off an Iranian missile descending into the atmosphere allegedly towards Israel. Followups there suggested debris, which is unlikely due to the regularity.

Twitter link:

x.com/mintelworld/...

To be fair, this is not who started this war. But ignorant on history and geopolitics.

U.S. Central Command on X: "The Iranian regime was warned. CENTCOM is now delivering swift and decisive action as directed. https://t.co/nNDoDexH6g" / X The Iranian regime was warned. CENTCOM is now delivering swift and decisive action as directed. https://t.co/nNDoDexH6g

US CENTCOM releases videos of ATACMS ground launched missiles being fired at Iran. Twitter link.

x.com/centcom/stat...

The booster in Irbid is one of the many incidents where munitions and debris are reported to have fallen onto countries caught in the crossfire. There are various videos online showing missile and drone interceptions, creating additional debris.

The city of Irbid, Jordan was also the site of an explosion, after an Iranian ballistic missile booster fell onto Al-Hashmi St. [32.55695485750088, 35.85824757920363]
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KAHTAN_ALJUBOORI on Instagram‎: "تجدد القصف الايراني على البحرين الان واصابة احد الابراج في المنامة باضرار جسيمة بعد استهدافه بمسيرة #البحرين #المنامة #الحرب_الإسرائيلية_الإيرانية"‎ 794 likes, 119 comments - kahtan_aljuboori_ on February 28, 2026‎: "تجدد القصف الايراني على البحرين الان واصابة احد الابراج في المنامة باضرار جسيمة بعد استهدافه بمسيرة #البحرين #المنامة #الحرب_الإسرا...

Another building was on fire in videos shared on Instagram [geolocation via Bellingcat Discord user coro.nas 26.235035, 50.549265] www.instagram.com/reel/DVTy9k7...

In Bahrain, at least two residential buildings were visibly damaged. One, the Era View was hit directly by what appears to be an Iranian drone bsky.app/profile/tend...

A strike in Iran hit a Girls school in Manib with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting more than 80, including children, were killed. This strike was geolocated by researchers including @ntabrizy.bsky.social , @chrisosieck.bsky.social and @annonemo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/chri...

A drone strike at the Kuwait International Airport damaged the passenger building and injured a number of workers, according to Kuwait’s General Authority of Civil Aviation. Videos and photos from after the strike showed damage to the departure area bsky.app/profile/fare...

The US and Israel launched strikes across Iran this morning. Iran has responded by firing ballistic missiles and drones at Israel, and US bases in the region. Civilians have already been killed or injured in multiple countries, caught in the crossfire.

Palm Jumeirah in Dubai was attacked by Shahed kamikaze drones.

Fairmont The Palm Hotel in Dubai was hit by an Iranian Shahed one-way attack drone, injuring four people according to the Dubai Media Office. bsky.app/profile/spec...

My kids' daycare was across the street from the unit I worked at on Fort Carson, Colorado.

Ideally if there had been warnings the school would have been evacuated. Unclear when that specific attack happened. There will have to be an investigation of whose weapon and targeting planning were involved.