Huge explosion in Lebanon this afternoon, in the capital of Beirut.

It happened at the city’s port, and while some early reports suggest this was a fireworks facility, or some kind of chemical/storage compound, there’s nothing official yet.

Anyway, along comes this guy, an NBA writer who penned a Lamar Odom biography, to tell us quite matter-of-factly that this is indeed an atomic explosion (edit, he deleted the video tweet, so here’s a screen cap) –

Writes Palmer in a follow-up tweet:

“The mushroom cloud forms outside of the factory. There is no question that was an atomic bomb. That is a controlled detonation. If every firework went off at the same time it wouldn’t do that. A fireworks factory exploding wouldn’t blow out windows 10 miles away.”

Unlike Palmer, we are not explosives experts at Crossing Broad, though it’s my understanding that the guy holding the phone probably would not have survived an atomic bomb blast. Plenty of educated people are in his mentions right now, however, telling him that he’s full of baloney.

Which brings us to the matter at hand –

How are the blue check marks on Twitter allowed to get away with this stuff? This guy has 113,000 followers and writes nonsense without repercussion. Kevin Durant previously called him a dumbass. He even had the audacity to tweet this back in 2018:

The Lakers just clinched the #1 seed in the Western Conference.

We need to take away Mr. Palmer’s blue check mark, confiscate his phone, and make him sit in the corner for the next hour. Outrageous.

(If you want to read more about mushroom clouds, try this article)