One, Big, Beautiful Breakup

WIRED's Senior Politics Editor Leah Feiger joins Zoë Schiffer, WIRED's Director of Business & Industry to discuss the ongoing fallout between President Trump and Elon Musk, and the future of DOGE.

Articles mentioned in the episode:

• Conspiracy World Thinks the Musk-Trump Breakup Is a 'Psyop'
• DOGE Is on a Recruiting Spree
• Silicon Valley Is Starting to Pick Sides in Musk and Trump’s Breakup
• WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge
• Trumpworld Is Getting Tired of Laura Loomer. They Hope the President Is Too
• The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

You can follow Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger on Bluesky: @zoeschiffer , @leahfeiger

Join WIRED’s best and brightest as they provide an insider analysis of the overlap between tech and politics, from the influence of Silicon Valley on the Trump administration to how inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots fanned the fire on social protests.

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