How Elon Musk’s Twitter Ultimatum Brought Employees to Their Breaking Point: “People Were Emotionally a Wreck”

Trump Captured Congress • Delay, Delay, Delay • Haley’s Gaps in Knowledge [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( How Elon Musk’s Twitter Ultimatum Brought Employees to Their Breaking Point: “People Were Emotionally a Wreck” Good morning from the Hive newsroom! From the outside in, Elon Musk’s Twitter tenure has been quite the rollercoaster ride. But for employees on the inside, conditions were unimaginably dire. In an excerpt from her new book, Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter, Zoë Schiffer [reveals]( how the billionaire CEO rattled staffers with his notorious email ultimatum, and subjected them to impossible tests of loyalty and competence. Elsewhere, Molly Jong-Fast [opines]( on House Republicans’ unfaltering allegiance to Donald Trump, which they proudly demonstrated, [reports]( Caleb Ecarma, by vowing to sink the Senate’s bipartisan border deal. Plus, as the former president continues to delay his criminal and civil trials, Eric Lutz [divines]( whether he will ever actually be held accountable. Thanks for reading. [How Elon Musk’s Twitter Ultimatum Brought Employees to Their Breaking Point: “People Were Emotionally a Wreck”]( By [Zoë Schiffer]( [The billionaire CEO subjected staffers to brutal loyalty and competency tests immediately after taking the helm, as Zoë Schiffer writes in an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Extremely Hardcore. “With Elon,” one engineer recounted, “every day could be your last.”]( [Read more button](   [Congress Looks Like Just Another Trump Campaign Arm]( By [Molly Jong-Fast]( [House Republicans are trying to tank a border-security bill, showing their goal isn’t to fix the issue but to fixate on it for the 2024 election.]( [Read more button](   [Will Donald Trump Actually End Up Facing Legal Accountability?]( By [Eric Lutz]( [The former president is facing 91 felony charges. But with the three most serious cases mired in delays, will anything come of them before Americans deliver their own verdict at the ballot box in November?]( [Read more button](   [Nikki Haley Suddenly Remembers States Can’t Actually Just Secede If They Feel Like It]( By [Bess Levin]( [Contrary to what she claimed last week.]( [Read more button](   [Ted Cruz Proposes Legislation That Would Make It Harder to Photograph Lawmakers Jetting Off to Cancún While Their Constituents Freeze to Death]( By [Bess Levin]( [Spring break is coming up.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast