This is going around from a planespotter in UK ~40 minutes ago. Just to pre-bunk some things: - The cruise missiles on the pylons are JASSMs (conventional-only), not AGM-86 (nuclear-only). - AGM-86 is a good deal longer (thus not two rows in line), and different livery <more>

NEW: The UK has remained silent after Donald Trump threatened to eradicate Iran 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.

It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.

To put it in even further perspective — Lockheed Martin produced both the spacecraft for the Artemis mission and the PRsM missile that shot tungsten pellets into an elementary school in Lamerd.

Fully-armed B-52 taking off from "RAF" Fairford hours after trump threatened genocide (no sound)

This is not about being “anti-American”, or “pro-Iran.” It’s about being pro-civilization, and pro-humanity against a rogue American regime, which is wreaking havoc and explicitly threatening war crimes on a massive scale. If the world does not draw a line now, what next? If not now, when?

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)

President threatens the eradication of 90 million people, and America's opposition party is just not getting it. Complete loss of words for the way our elected officials on both sides of the aisle are approaching These Times.

No joke. She literally yelled “SHAME!” As she yanked the gun from a dude in the Korean Army and then broke through the locked congressional door to vote.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

The parliamentary petitions committee still hasn't been arsed to check this petition from March 20th.

All countries MUST withdraw overflight, landing or refueling permission for US planes, with immediate effect. Too much is at stake to just wait and “hope” Trump will back down, or someone, somewhere in US system will intervene to stop him.

Every single US military installation in Britain or on British overseas territories should be shut down today

‘But?’ Fucking ‘but’?

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

It's now the obligation of every nation to intervene to prevent this.

um so who’s bringing sanctions against the u.s.? why isn’t the unsc calling an emergency meeting? why aren’t democrats doing a full court press for impeachment? this shit makes putin look moderate by comparison.

Dr Naomi Wolf ladies and gentlemen, one of the reasons I don't include the title "Dr" in my bluesky name.

For my sins I am looking at Reform UK's Scottish manifesto and I have to say "[the SNP] have allowed strangers to be prioritised ahead of Scots, welcoming uncontrolled immigration from the rest of the UK" is an absolutely stunning rhetorical slip up Malcolm Offord, welcome to Siol nan Gaidheal?

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

The UK’s London-based mainstream media are colluding with Keir Starmer’s & Yvette Cooper’s “We’re supporting defensive action” deception, thereby endorsing Labour’s lie that the British Gov’t isn’t complicit in US war crimes in Iran. But the Scottish media is telling the truth.👏

Meanwhile, on the moon...

Bad call. The SNP had a chance to contrast Ed Milliband's grant of a new gas field license (that does nothing to help the current crisis or reduce dependence on gas) with responsible policy but they chose to make the same bad choice instead. Will reconsider my vote now.

Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran:

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

Pete Hegseth: "B-2s, B-52s, B-1s... picking targets, death and destruction from the sky all day long" From Gloucestershire. But we're not involved, right?

Bombers are still taking off from RAF Fairford. The UK is complicit in this, whatever Starmer says. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes. Read the letter here: www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

‘The desire to turn Lebanon into another Gaza, articulated by Israeli spokesmen, is being fulfilled with attacks on journalists, the use of undercover operatives and the bombing of displaced families.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

The Electoral Commission decided that IGV had no case to answer, but if we're honest that decision is on the same level as Ofcom deciding that GB News is an entertainment channel.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk/huge-build-o... Sure Kier, we are not involved at all. No capitulation to US pressure here.

I'm going to start a thread collating expert responses to the IOC's sex testing policy. Please feel free to reply with additions. I'm more interested in the views of scientists than lawyers or philosophers, but everything counts.

Supposedly it usually takes 24 hours, and no more than a week, to check a petition, I should find if it's accepted out soon I guess.

While I appreciate the semantic arguments Robinson could use to try and defend his claims of impartiality in responding to @zackpolanski.bsky.social, it could be taken as more than a little disingenuous seeing as a UN commission did find Israel had committed genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

we can remember that the Trump war is illegal and evil while also remembering that the Iranian regime is evil.

I want to start a petition – will you sign it? Stop allowing US armed forces the use of UK bases and airspace to attack Iran. Five people need to sign the petition before it will be considered. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Reform Cancels Christmas

This is a take. It's difficult to see how Iran is in control of getting arbitrarily bombed by the US and Israel. www.cnn.com/2026/03/19/m...

This is disgracefully bad reporting by the BBC. The Spanish ‘conquest’ in what’s now South America cost millions of lives, not thousands as the BBC inexplicably claims here. This inaccuracy should be amended immediately. It contaminates the historical record with misinformation

Adam and Short's imposing 1897 tenement building on Saltoun Street in the West End of Glasgow. If this looks familiar, it may well be as this is the block of tenements featured in Avril Paton's rather wonderful Windows in the West painting from 1993. #glasgow #architecture #tenement

This is EXCELLENT. And @thenewworldmag.bsky.social used journalists with experience in journals across the political spectrum for this exercise inc the Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, the Times, the Observer, Granada TV, ITV News, BBC News, the Daily Mail… www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...

Really disappointed Kat didn't quite get there and the identikit dem guy got the nomination.

The gulf between Jeremy Bowen & most of his BBC colleagues when reporting on Donald Trump is deeply embarrassing for all concerned. Except Jeremy Bowen.

Labour's "anti" policies, anti-immigration, anti-asylum, anti-trans etc, are knee-jerk, inhumane, unworkable, short termist and guaranteed to embed bigotry as policy. On every possible level they are bad policies, and bad politics by reinforcing the hard and far rights messaging.