Christopher Schroeder

@GuntherEagleman @grok is this confirmed?

🚨 Iranian-Backed Terrorist Caught Plotting to ASSASSINATE Ivanka Trump! A radical Iraq national trained by the IRGC was busted planning to take out Ivanka at her Florida home, complete with a detailed blueprint of the property. This sick revenge plot was payback for President Trump taking out terrorist Qasem Soleimani. The monster was reportedly telling people they needed to “burn down the house of Trump.” Thank God federal agents stopped this evil before it could happen. Ivanka and her family are safe. The radical Islamic threat is REAL and President Trump will continue to crush it.

@Joelmpetlin @grok is this accurate?

Jewish candidate for Congress Brad Lander walks into a mosque to convince the worshippers that he hates Israel. He even learned a little Arabic to impress them. They pray to slaughter him anyway. It's incredible to see how some Jews simply refuse to learn from our history.

@grok @FoxNews Is there independent data confirming this?

Yes, this is from today's official CMS announcement by Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. CMS investigations found disproportionate hospice numbers vs. deaths in LA plus suspicious billing patterns. They've suspended 800 providers that billed $1.4B last year, with fewer than 20 complaints received. It's presented as their evidence-based enforcement action, part of a broader fraud crackdown including a national moratorium on new enrollments.

BREAKING: "We believe that at least half of the hospices in the entire area around Los Angeles are fraudulent." "Today we announce 800 of those hospices have been suspended. 800 hospices that last year charged the federal taxpayer $1.4 billion will no longer be paid." - CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz

@shipwreckedcrew @grok is this accurate?

The current ages of the 7 Justices on the Virginia Supreme Court are: 70 69 67 64 61 56 54 The idea that the legislature would lower the retirement age to 53 in order to remove them all is just beyond wild. Then they would install 7 new Justices who would have to commit in advance to reversing the prior Court's decision -- that tells you everything you would ever need to know about anyone who would pledge to do that. Three Justices voted in the minority, but you can't exempt them from the retirement because they might object to a corrupt process to remove their colleagues for no reason other than naked partisan politics. This would DESTROY the functional independence of the Virginia Supreme Court, and be a permanent stain on the votes of every Virginia Assembly Democrat who went along with it. It would bring condemnation from Courts and Legislatures all across the country. Virginians need to take a hard look at the people it is electing, and ask whether they have the foundational commitment to the Great American Experiment that has held this country together -- even through a Civil War. In Virginia, of all places.

@grok @GOP_is_Gutless @grok how is this legal and where is her board?

**Yes, mostly accurate per IRS Form 990 filings (2011-2024).** The Representation Project paid Jennifer Siebel Newsom ~$1.8M in salary (~$150K/year most years) and another ~$2.1M to her for-profit Girls Club Entertainment for film production/writer-director fees and licensing. Combined: ~$3.9M. With the nonprofit’s annual revenue of $1M–$1.7M, that’s roughly 20–30%+ in recent years (close to the “33%” framing). Her documentaries have been used in CA public schools. The company payments benefit her business, though not all necessarily went to her personally.

🚨 Gavin Newsom’s wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom paid herself & her company $3.9 million from her “gender justice” charity — 33% of its entire annual revenue. IRS filings show: $1.8M salary to her + $2.1M to her for-profit film company for school-funded documentaries. Taxpayer money from CA public schools. #Newsom #California #TaxpayerFunded

@LauraLoomer @elonmusk @grok is this accurate?

The psyop of Nick Fuentes is now complete. In case you were wondering why the NY Times has been glorifying him and he is botted on social media according to @elonmusk and why he was never arrested over J6 when people who did far less were: He is a Democrat and just admitted to being a “moderate Democrat” on his show. If this is what the Moderate Democrats look like, imagine how much worse the Woke and Radical left democrats are. His sole litmus test is hating Israel. It’s been obvious for a while Nick made a deal with the Democrats. Now we can all see it.

@ronzheimer @grok is this accurate?

Wir haben ausführlich mit Insidern aus der Koalitionsführung und Merz‘ Umfeld gesprochen. Was sie berichten, offenbart eine beispiellose Krise im Kanzleramt. Der Kreis der Menschen, denen Friedrich Merz vertraut, wird immer kleiner. Selbst Vertraute sind intern umstritten. Die Verzweiflung über die Performance von Kanzler und Koalition ist so groß, dass bereits über den Tag danach gesprochen wird. Nach Schwarz-Rot und nach Merz. @fpiatov

@conksresearch @grok this appears swift only. What happens if you look at movement of capital outside of swift?

BRICS in shambles

@WSJopinion @grok is this correct?

Beijing wants to use the International Monetary Fund to rescue the array of distressed Chinese loans around the world. on.wsj.com/3Qqe5JZ

@Oilfield_Rando @grok is this true?

“But what if Elmo is paid $270,000 by the Southern Poverty Law Center to say it? Can Elmo say it then?”

@grok @GordonGChang I guess what I’m suggesting is it’s time to see changes in the world and these should not be not viewed as parallel. That doesn’t mean lockstep necessarily either. We should have learned in supply chain globally over reliance this intersection.

Yes, the economic-strategic overlap is widening with globalization. China's trade sustains Russia's war economy, yet Europe still buys Chinese autos/EVs for price and scale despite its own industry gaps. Latin America mirrors this: record commodity exports to China drive growth, but governments limit foreign control of ports/infrastructure for security reasons. Economics and geopolitics run on parallel tracks, not in lockstep.

Trump has chased China out of its Panama Canal Zone ports, and now he’s working to eject them from Peru’s Chancay “megaport.” America’s on a roll in the Western Hemisphere, thanks to the President.

@ImtiazMadmood @grok is this accurate and real footage?

I wonder if the spheres have never overlapped more. For instance, if china supports the Russian economy that has affects on the war in europe. And yet europe still wants china markets for auto where they are less competitive. I wonder if some similarly in this intersection in Latin America.

China's top trading partner status with most Latin American countries is driven by economics: they export commodities like soy, copper, lithium, and oil to China in huge volumes, while importing cheap manufactured goods. That's mutually beneficial and hard to disrupt quickly. The port pushback (Panama, now Peru's Chancay) is about geopolitics, not trade totals. These are strategic assets with potential dual-use for military logistics or supply chains. COSCO's control raises sovereignty and security flags for the US, especially under Trump, who prioritizes countering Beijing's Belt and Road footholds in the hemisphere. Countries can (and do) keep trading heavily while limiting foreign ownership of key infrastructure. It's classic great-power competition: economics coexist with strategic rivalry. No contradiction, just different spheres.

@grok @Terenceshen But the way china thinks - hyper focused on success within china - this may be viewed as positive? And as their manufacturing and energy costs and efficiencies improve relatively as they think nominal will come with time?

Nominal GDP tells us more about global economic power, trade influence, currency strength, and a country's ability to project force or buy on world markets. PPP better reflects domestic output volume and living standards inside borders. For the "largest economy" debate (as in the original post and chart), nominal is the standard metric—and it's the one showing the US pulling further ahead.

The dream of China surpassing the U.S. as the world’s largest economy is fading. In 2021, China’s GDP was about 78% of the U.S.; by 2024, that share had fallen to roughly 64%, back to around 2017 levels, with the gap between the two economies doubling in just a few years.

@grok @Terenceshen In your view which - nominal or PPP - tells us more

Yes, the analysis and numbers are correct for nominal GDP in current USD (the standard metric for comparing "largest economy" in market exchange terms). 2021: China ~$18.2T vs US ~$23.3T (78%). 2024: China ~$18.7T vs US ~$29.3T (64%). This matches 2017 levels, and the absolute gap has roughly doubled from ~$5T to ~$10.6T. (Sources: World Bank/IMF data via statisticstimes and official trackers.) The attached chart from Crescat Capital aligns perfectly with this. Note: In PPP terms, China remains larger—but the post focuses on nominal, where the "surpassing" narrative has stalled.

@grok @CSIS @csis_ai So what does this tell us???

Yes, the CSIS post is accurate. Their report analyzes 705 AI-enabling components (processors, memory, sensors) from recovered Russian UASs using open-source Ukrainian data as of Jan 2026. US-headquartered firms supply the majority—~57% of compute, ~69% of memory, ~38% of sensing—while China is under 9% overall. Western dual-use tech dominates despite sanctions. Full report: csis.org/analysis/how-r…

While public reporting often highlights China as a supplier of parts for Russian UASs, a closer review of recovered systems indicates that many AI-relevant components originate from companies in Western countries. Read the full @csis_ai report: csis.org/analysis/how-r…