Devastating explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.

Nobody is going to take Trump to task for being an idiot about events in foreign countries. Foreign policy doesn’t matter to the American electorate, on the left or the right.

The closest we get to caring about foreign policy, as voters, is what we want included in the inevitable defense appropriations bills.

Where one side pays no attention at all and the other side says “this proves why the democrats are traitors to the cause and we can’t trust anyone, that’s why I’m gonna avoid answering the census and stay punk as fuck”

Got this from a co-worker:

new compilation featuring some friends that benefits NGOs on the ground in Beirut. Featuring fantastic tracks from Monolake, The Bug, Donato Dozzy, Rabih Beaini/Morphosis, Neel, and others https://morphinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacred-rage

Great explainer and visualisation here:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/09/world/middleeast/beirut-explosion.html

(Did you have anything to do with this, Alba?)

that is a good visualization. I know sometimes the nyt can be slightly reductive on these things, caveats about data journalism and visualizations etc. but I feel like I got something out of it

also, I completely misinterpreted that comment, Tracer, when I read the last line first on accident. yikes

haha

That’s a good piece of journalism. What a sad state of affairs in Lebanon.

Explainer from Forensic Architecture...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQ60wNgKrQ