out what the cause of it is, but it's a really big thing. And what it is is there are a whole bunch of individual or independent superstars who have just entered the fight—not right away, some over time—but really special analysts and voices.

The Libs of TikTok started out as just mocking weird liberal stuff on TikTok. That was it. That was the whole game. But now has completely transformed because you can't just mock people on TikTok all day long and expect much out of that. But now Libs of TikTok is transformed into what today was the best summary I've seen of the news. It's the best summary. Now there's a reason that the Libs of TikTok can do the best summary. It's because the news needs to sell advertising, so they can't do summaries. They have to write a lot and then they fit a lot of advertising on that page because there's a lot of text there. Or they have to have a TV show where it goes for half an hour so they can fit in lots of commercials. But Libs of TikTok can just say here's 12 things you need to know. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So it's like filling a space that was absolutely useful and additive and really good work. So you should follow Libs of TikTok.

But the other ones in the same space are Data Republican, who just came out of nowhere and turns out to—I may have this story wrong because I just saw hints of it before I went live—but did Data Republican, who if you don't know who that is you really just need to look it up on X, an amazing data analyst who is just doing amazing work with the DOGE discoveries and putting them in context and letting us know who's connected to who and where the money's flowing and what people are connected to other people. The real stuff, the stuff that really helps you understand it because the surface stuff doesn't help. Oh, USAID spent $60 billion. Okay, is that good or bad? Who got it? Was there a reason for it? But then you get to the Data Republican level and suddenly everything becomes brightly clear. Everything has a clean edge and you understand it for the first time. And I think Data Republican is building some kind of tool that would let you see who's connected to what. You know, I always tell you that what happened won't tell you anything. You have to know who happened. You got to know the players or you don't know anything. So I always use Norm Eisen as my example. And I'm not going to give away what my opinion is of his work, but if you see Norm Eisen attached to any story you need to go a little deeper.

Yeah, so sorry, Libs of TikTok is run by a—wait, let me get the name right—Chaya Raichik. So just to give credit. But then I would add Mike Benz, who seemed to come out of nowhere and be the best explainer of how the real world works in terms of our funding and the intelligence people and what we're trying to do with other countries and all the dirty tricks. Then you've got a Michael Shellenberger who comes out of nowhere and suddenly he's putting everything in context from nuclear energy to all the bad behavior in the government. And probably the best—I think Shellenberger is the best independent journalist at the moment. I think he's the best in the business. And I could go on, right? I can name a bunch of other people. I'm going to put myself on the list. So my own little domain is reframing things, helping you look at it in a different way and putting the Dilbert filter on things so you know, okay, in the real world, you know, sort of a Dilbert world, what would it really look like? So that's something I can add that is a little bit unique. And then I add the persuasion filter so you can look at things from a persuasion view as opposed to a policy view.

Now there's nobody on the Democrat side who does what Data Republican does, Mike Benz does, Shellenberger does, or I do. And again that's just four examples, or Libs of TikTok even. The fact that such effective people just rose up and there's this whole independent reporting network—because I can name another 12 people who are doing a great job of identifying the stories you need and bringing them up and adding just the right amount of summary so that we can understand them quickly and then move on to the next story. Unbelievably strong independent reporting, independent analysis, independent data, independent history. How about Victor Davis Hanson? Who's the Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrat side? They've got a bunch of historians that are just obviously just liars. And then we've got Victor Davis Hanson, who's like probably the best I've ever seen in that kind of work. And they've got literally just historians they use, in my opinion they use them as professional liars. They don't even seem like they're being serious.

And then on top of that, on top of that, Elon Musk gets to be sort of a kingmaker on X. And I think it was yesterday, maybe the day before, I made a comment on one of the posts, doesn't matter which one it is, something political. I think it was a post on—there was a survey that said 75% of Democrats didn't think that the border was open intentionally. And I made some comment on it, reposted it, and then Elon Musk, he made a comment on it too. So it was on my post. And the last I checked that had over 30 million views. Now what do you think that does to an individual voice on X? If you just get a little tap on the shoulder from Elon Musk, you get 30 million views.

If you watch Elon Musk's posts, you'll see that he has a little constellation of—I don't know how many people, I'm going to say several dozen. So there's several dozen people that he's identified as voices he wants to look at every day. So I think he's boosted or replied t