Elon Musk spent Friday morning, Oct. 23, on one target: James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas. Of his 71 posts from 7:06 a.m. PT Friday to 7:06 a.m. PT Saturday, 14 dealt with Talarico or the Texas race, and the top three drew about 88 million views between them. Minutes later came his only original post of the day, a claim about Ukraine’s “elites” that he did not back with evidence. By evening he had turned back to selling Grok Bot, his company’s assistant. The desk read every post, sorted them by topic, and lists the highlights first.

Highlights. “Talarico will vote to take away your kids and transition them” (, about 43.3 million views) quoted an @america clip in which Talarico says, “To the trans kids watching at home, I just want to say, I love you” (). “Talarico hates Texas” (, about 27.1 million) and “Talarico wants to trans your kids and destroy the border” (, about 18 million) followed within 20 minutes. The clips show Talarico’s words and votes; “take away your kids and transition them” comes from Musk, and no clip shows Talarico saying it. He also wrote “Hitler was a far left socialist. Literally in the name of his party!” (, about 62,500 likes); standard references, summarized by Wikipedia, classify Nazism as “far-right” and note its “anti-communism.”

SpaceX and Starlink. He reposted posters’ summaries of Rogers expanding its Starlink partnership in Canada and of Mexico’s Oaxaca state delivering 67 Starlink dishes to students; the desk did not check either. He posted nothing about Starshield service in Ukraine itself (see below).

Tesla. “By the way, Tesla ramping up Megapack production rapidly to meet increasing demand,” he wrote (), just after joking, “Seriously, we made absurdly grandiose statements!” () under a post mocking critics of the third-quarter call. He reposted a Giga Berlin milestone, “7,000 Model Y built in one week,” which TeslaNorth also reports, and a poster’s note on a larger Austin Robotaxi area (not checked). “Roadster at Petersen” () pointed to the prototype’s Main Lobby display, Oct. 24–27, which the Petersen Automotive Museum lists.

X, Boring and Neuralink. “Yes” (, about 6 million views) quoted a 2024 clip of Musk urging people to counter “the legacy media’s propaganda” by sending links on X. No posts about the Boring Company or Neuralink.

Grok Bot and Grok Imagine. Quoting @bot’s “Grok Bot can now save your logins, cards, and contact information,” he wrote “Grok @Bot saves sensitive info in a vault” (). The changelog lists the Vault in version 0.75.5 on Oct. 23; the help page adds that card numbers change only in Settings and that “Vault isn’t supported on Team Bots.” He answered “So do I” () to a fan who keeps “all 5 of my credit cards” there. He reposted a fan’s claim that Ultra costs $260 a month in app stores and $200 on the web; xAI’s pricing page lists $200, and the desk did not check app-store prices. He also shared “Odyssey with Grok Imagine” (), quoting @imagine’s “Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok Imagine.”

U.S. politics. Beyond the Talarico posts, he wrote “Turns out SPLC was the one funding Nazi groups!” () under a Washington Examiner post on debanking; the Examiner post makes no such claim, and the desk found no support for it. He called The Economist “anti-human for the past few decades” () and told a poster that government “has a monopoly on violence” (). Of podcaster Jennifer Welch, a critic, he wrote “She should sue her plastic surgeon” ().

Europe and world. He replied “Time for the endless bloodshed to stop” () to a Ukrainian poster who says Zelenskyy persecuted him.

Deep dive: the Ukraine claim. “What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people,” he wrote (). A follow-up said “some of that US taxpayer money comes back through multiple laundry machines to fund political campaigns in America” (). Benzinga notes that PolitiFact earlier found no evidence for a similar claim, and no source the desk read shows aid money funding U.S. campaigns.

The posts landed amid a dispute over Starshield, SpaceX’s military Starlink service. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN, “The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there,” and five Ukrainian officials told Reuters the same, Benzinga reports. Who imposed the limits remains disputed, Benzinga notes: CBS reported that Musk ordered the slowdown, Reuters traced it to the White House, and Musk has said “Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.” President Trump told reporters Friday, “I have not spoken to him,” the Kyiv Independent reports. “There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator,” Talarico replied Wednesday, per CNBC; a second CNBC report puts Musk’s spending this cycle near $366 million across 40 races.