Brandon Clark

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

@billybinion @JennMGreenberg I should’ve seen this. I fell for it. And 100%

@JennMGreenberg Agreed, but that’s why politicians of all people need to be even more careful now. A government leader sharing a fake photo of a major international event is not a good look. When in doubt, don’t post!

This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.

the Zelda movie is either going to be the film of the decade or the biggest piece of dogshit ever and there's no in-between

A photo taken recently in the Tajrish neighborhood in northern Tehran. Not a single woman has her head covered. (Photo courtesy of @LivinginTehran.)

This is genuinely one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen in baseball. Robbing a homerun is hard and rare enough. Robbing two in a game is the record. But three?? One in a million chance. Take a bow, Jo Addell. #RepTheHalo

I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.

Our political culture and national leadership are now so degraded by MAGA that a US president has no problem dropping f-bombs in public communications, threatening war crimes, and mocking the second-biggest religion in the world. (And, yes, destroying any of the power plants in Tehran would clearly meet the definition of a war crime.)

Tonight’s operation in Southern Iran which resulted in the successful rescue of a Weapons System Officer (WSO) onboard an American F-15E Strike Eagle downed Friday over Iran, involved hundreds of special forces troops and other military personnel, including members of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, dozens of fighter and strike aircraft, helicopters, and cyber, space and other intelligence capabilities, officials tell The New York Times. Senior military officials described the mission to rescue the airman as “one of the most challenging and complex in the history of U.S. Special Operations” given the mountainous terrain, the airman’s injuries and Iranian forces rushing to the location in the mountains of Southern Iran. The WSO evaded Iranian forces for more than 24 hours, at one point hiking up a 7,000ft ridgeline, a senior U.S. military official said. U.S. attack aircraft dropped bombs and opened fire on Iranian convoys to keep them away from the area where the airman was hiding. As U.S. Special Forces converged on the downed airman, they fired their weapons to keep Iranian forces away from the rescue site, but did not engage in a firefight with the Iranians. In a final twist after the officer was rescued, two transport planes that would carry the commandos and the airmen to safety got stuck at a remote base in Iran. Commanders decided to fly in three new planes to extract all the U.S. military personnel and the airman, and they blew up the two disabled planes rather than have them fall into the hands of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

This is the way. Canada must stop allowing the supporters of terror and tyranny to mock our country, its values, and our immigration system.

@JomboyMedia The number of perfect parents and CTE specialists entering this thread is going to be phenomenal.

@raygaurca Pretty easy when mortgage is 6k a month

@Bclark86 I wouldn’t even know how to spend that much.

Did you know that Vancouver has been named the best city in world multiple times.

@DBZimran I’ve never understood why 2D storytelling by Disney had to end.

Disney employed 2,200 animators who made Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Tarzan. By 2013, nearly all of them were gone. Fired. The people who built Disney’s legacy were shown the door because executives thought the problem was 2D animation. It wasn’t. It was bad storytelling.

@raygaurca But I do walk/run this route every weekend and that is at least free

@raygaurca It’s a great city! Much better if your household income is >300k though.

Again, not enough Canadians talk about this. (And they wonder why we can’t afford nice things like high-speed rail)

@Ruleof2Review They need to make it as grand as Lord of the rings. No corners can be cut. Full commit.

The Zelda movie is filming in some of the same locations in New Zealand where parts of Lord of the Rings was filmed. It doesn’t guarantee its quality of course, but it’s an extremely good omen in this film’s favor. I have no doubt this movie will kick ass!

This is getting ridiculous and needs to be legislative away. Morally bankrupt.

@Dexerto Do it!!!

Glen Powell pitched a Star Fox movie and ended up being cast as Fox in the Mario Galaxy film, Illumination's CEO reveals He approached the studio for a solo Star Fox film after the Mario movie’s success

Statement today from Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah, as several Republican lawmakers begin to break from President Trump over the ongoing and escalating Iran War: “I stand by the President’s actions taken in defense of our national security interests in the Middle East. But we must be clear-eyed about history and the Constitution. While I support maintaining our readiness and replenishing stockpiles, I cannot support funding for further military operations without a formal Declaration of War from Congress.”

@DoctorLemma Skit or not this was comedy GOLD

20 years ago, a man screamed his own name into a microphone and ruined everything. It became one of the most famous moments in internet history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ A group of players in an online game called World of Warcraft had spent several minutes planning a complicated raid. Timing, positioning, survival odds. One player calculated their chances of success at 32.33 percent, repeating. The whole time, one of their teammates wasn’t listening. He’d stepped away from his computer to reheat some chicken. When he came back, he ignored everything, screamed his character’s name at the top of his lungs, and charged straight into the fight alone. Everyone followed him in. They all died in seconds. “Leeroy, you are just stupid as hell.” “At least I have chicken.” The clip spread across the internet before “going viral” was even a phrase. It was referenced in South Park, How I Met Your Mother, and an article in a military journal. The game’s developer added the character as an official figure inside the game. His name became shorthand for anyone who ruins a plan by doing something reckless. The whole thing was staged. The group admitted years later it was a scripted re-enactment of something that had actually happened. The cameraman said: “We didn’t think anyone would believe it was real. We thought it was so obviously satire.” The player behind Leeroy Jenkins is a guy named Ben Schulz. He repairs industrial lighting for a living.