The Doge department is a nod to the shiba inu doge meme that's also linked to the dogecoin cryptocurrency, named by Elon Musk as his "favorite" cryptocurrency and accepted as payment by his Tesla car company—though Tesla continues to hold around 10,000 bitcoin worth around $800 million on its balance sheet.

Elon Musk has further stoked the flames of the MAGA H1-B civil war after he agreed with a post that called Americans too “retarded” to exclusively fill the U.S. tech workforce. The eye-popping endorsement came after a pro-Musk account on X summed up the right-wing divide on visas to skilled workers as such: “So basically the right split into two factions,

Members of MAGA nation are saying that Elon Musk, an avowed “free speech absolutist,” is silencing them by stripping away their verification badges on X. The South African-born billionaire has emerged as the central target in the MAGA civil war that erupted on Thursday after his DOGE co-head,