Spoke to @ewong.bsky.social about the bridge strike. “Whether the bridge was a lawful military objective would depend on the facts. My read is that bridge was targeted not to provide any military advantage but in the hopes of coercing Tehran and generating content.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...

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There are still tower cranes, scaffolding, building materials and a Portakabin on the bridge. bsky.app/profile/noel...

This is a SkySat image from @planet.com from Feb 22, 2026 showing the status of the B1 bridge that was bombed today. It's still very much under construction a week before the war started. According to @barakravid.bsky.social, U.S. officials say Iran was secretly transporting missiles over this?

War for spectacle. Bombing for content.

this isn't a novel observation, but it is still somewhat unreal how much of the war is being conducted to produce video for the president to post on his preferred Twitterlike

As @gbrumfiel.bsky.social points out, it doesn't even appear this bridge was finished being constructed. SkySat imagery from February 2026 shows it was still under construction/not even fully paved. So what's the justification for striking it other than destroying a national engineering project?

This was so much fun! Love the work that @indicator.media is doing and was an honor to come on the podcast with @mantzarlis.com @craigsilverman.bsky.social (and Rosie the cat 🐱)

Al Tayybeh in Marjayoun, another border town just west of Kfar Kila, also sustained more destruction as seen when comparing Feb 28 to March 17 Sentinel-2 imagery

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amaze amaze amaze!

Even with the two week delay in Planet imagery, can already start to see mass demolition of homes in southern Lebanon in PlanetScope imagery from March. Rab El Thalathine and Al-Aadaissah, both near the border, have seen widespread destruction when comparing imagery from March 3 and March 18.

I took these photos in Ayta Ash Shaab last year

Ayta Ash Shaab, a Lebanese southern border town sustained even more destruction since the the start of the war. Sentinel-2's January 4 image compared to March 17 this year

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

Hoveyzeh missiles, like the Kh-101 have wings, and a visible engine on the bottom, like this Kh-101 visible from a strike on the Kyiv Children's Hospital. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07...

Sources: CENTCOM Statement: www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-... NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w... BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article... Measurements: missilethreat.csis.org/missile/soum... www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

CENTCOM is contradicting BBC and NYT reporting that PrSM missiles hit Lamerd, Iran, killing 21 people. CENTCOM is claiming the video shows a Hoveyzeh missile, and is too long to be a PrSM. The shape, and dimensions aren't consistent with CENTCOM's claim.

Bellingcat, with @frontlinepbs.bsky.social, @washingtonpost.com and @evidentmedia.org, investigate the impact of the Israeli and US strikes on Iran’s nuclear programme, through on-the-ground access and open source analysis. 👇

BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon enjoins Trump ballroom construction in suit by National Trust for Historic Preservations. Order stayed for 14 days to allow for appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A judge orders the Trump administration to halt construction of $400 million White House ballroom unless Congress approves the plan.

"Regime change has occurred in Iran. Or it hasn’t. It is a goal of the war. Except it isn’t." -- a great @ewong.bsky.social lede that sums up the current incoherence of the government's rationale for a war with Iran that has no end in sight www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Al-Monitor statement on kidnapping of contributor Shelly Kittleson in Iraq today: www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

2024-25 was also when the use of "mosquitos" became ubiquitous in Gaza: reducing risk to IDF troops by forcing unarmed Gazan civilians and detainees (shawishim) to lead the way into potentially boobytrapped houses and tunnels, which is a war crime. Curious whether this will surface in Lebanon.

Iranian Red Crescent worker Ali Reza Sohbatloo was killed in an airstrike today "while providing criticial humanitarian support at a medical clinic" in Zanjan, north-western Iran, the the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement.

Videos of explosions have fueled misunderstanding and misinformation in the conflict with Iran, with munition types incorrectly identified amongst claims of “mystery” weapons. What can types of explosions really tell us? Read @easybakeovensz.bsky.social‘s latest: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

No one will ever trust us again, and they’ll be right not to.

The Israeli Knesset passed a discriminatory bill expanding use of the death penalty for terrorism-related offenses. The wording of the bill makes it clear that it would primarily, if not exclusively, be applied to Palestinians. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa. My oh my...

Might be temporary, but it appears that Google may now be censoring previously-high resolution satellite imagery over Ali Al Salem Air Base — the Kuwaiti base used by the U.S. that's been targeted by Iranian drone/missile attacks. Yandex and Apple sat imagery appears uncensored so far.

All of southern Lebanon ordered evacuated south of the Zahrani river on March 12. The order for south of the Litani is explicitly open-ended, like the 2025 orders in Gaza that preceded the IDF's demolition on the ground of almost all buildings in the evacuated areas. Includes the city of Tyre.

Less than a year after Lockheed's Precision Strike Missile entered low-rate production, CENTCOM used the weapon to hit a rec center and school, killing 21 civilians including young girls playing volleyball. Story w/ my friend and colleague @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Le Monde informed the Bulletin about the image on March 19. I wrote a detailed visual and technical analysis supporting my assessment that the cargo may have been highly enriched uranium. (8/n) @thebulletin.org #Iran #nuclearweapons #uranium #OSINT #nukesky

Here's why I believe Iran could have transferred to Isfahan up to 540 kilograms—possibly all—of its highly-enriched uranium inventory before the June strikes last year. 👇 #Iran #nuclearweapons #uranium #OSINT #nukesky

Over the weekend, LeMonde and @francoisdm.bsky.social published a VERY interesting image of what appears to be some of Iran's highly enriched uranium enroute to a secure base in Isfahan last June. Amidst all this talk of seizing Iran's uranium, it's worth discussing in a little more detail...🧵

Gee, maybe it was a bad idea for Trump to fire the people in government who knew what the fuck they were talking about when it came to Iran. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

Two new videos have emerged showing the deadly strikes that hit an IRGC compound, as well as an adjacent girls’ school, in Minab, Iran. By geolocating and verifying the footage, Bellingcat found two waves of attacks, occurring hours apart. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

850+ TLAMs in 4 weeks is insane. If true, this would mean about 23-24% of the Navy’s 3.9k TLAMs were fired in the last 4 weeks. On top of this, about a thousand Interceptors (PAC-2/3s & THAADs) were fired.

This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again

The boat strikes are still happening, and SOUTHCOM is now referring to them as “applying total systemic friction”

Joint report by Airwars, CIVIC, and HRANA on civilian casualties from U.S.-Israeli attacks in Iran: www.hra-iran.org/the-sound-of...

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Satellite images from March 24 show the aftermath of a drone strike on the Primorsk Oil Terminal, a key Russian oil export facility. Smoke plumes extended over 100 km from the site, located near the Finnish border, which was hit by Ukraine in the night of March 22–23.

This is the best thing I've read on what it really means to introduce AI to kill chains - that speeding up decision making and calling it efficiency is in fact just removing the safeguards that allow systems to work in the first place. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Attacking adversaries during a negotiation makes ending wars more challenging.

Water not big missiles shoot far.

I've said this before, but part of why I continue to be bleak on prospects of prompt war termination are because Iran has *very strong incentives* to continue pain infliction (against the US/Israel/GCC and the broader world) to deter a future war by credibly communicating the magnitude of costs.

Just over three hours ago, the IDF posted a warning prior to targeting another bridge over the Litani River around 33.323842579225484, 35.26465527486489 near al Qasmiye just north of Tyre x.com/AvichayAdrae... Footage of the moment it was struck: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Ako...