The Rachel Maddow Show
Making a mockery of Musk: Backlash against dismantling U.S. government focuses on hatchet man
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
Rachel Maddow looks at creative new ways activists are mocking and protesting Donald Trump's top campaign donor, Elon Musk, for his central role in butchering the staff and services of the U.S. government.
What are the details of Rachel Maddow's new book tour?
Happy Monday night. One quick bit of housekeeping before we get into it tonight. I mentioned on the show last week that I've got the paperback version of my latest book coming out. Prequel is coming out in paperback the first week in May, which is very nice. The nicest thing about it is I get to go do some live events.
get out in the country, meet people, talk about what's going on in the country, talk about the book. Helpfully, the subtitle of prequel is An American Fight Against Fascism, so there's lots of overlap between the news and the book. But when I mentioned this last week, I described... I gave out the details for three of the planned stops on this little mini book tour I'm going to do.
I mentioned Miami and St. Louis, Missouri and Long Island, New York. Now, unfortunately... Miami and St. Louis sold out like instantly as soon as I mentioned it on the show. So lots of people who wanted tickets could not get them. And I feel bad about that. I feel like it was my bad planning that we ran out of tickets. And so I'm sorry about that. Miami and St.
Louis both sold out, but we are making two changes as of tonight. First, as of tonight, they are apparently changing the configuration of the seats that they are selling at the venue in Long Island. So even though Long Island was within like a handful of seats of being sold out, as of tonight, they have now opened up a huge new bunch of tickets for Long Island.
So there's a bunch more tickets available, Long Island, Friday, May 9th. And we have also added a whole new event. Wednesday, May 7th, Boston, Massachusetts. And this one, specifically because we are trying to not sell out, this one is a gigantic venue. So I don't think there's any chance the Boston event will sell out. I feel really bad when people want to come and they can't.
But if you want to come to that one, Wednesday, May 7th, Boston, Massachusetts. Tickets on sale as of right now. So to get tickets... And to get all the details, you can use your phone to scan that square link thing there on the screen. You just put on the camera on your phone and look at it, and then it gives you a link and you click it. Or you can just go online to msnbc.com slash prequel.
But again, the dates that still have tickets are Wednesday, May 7th in Boston, Friday, May 9th in Long Island, New York. Tickets available for both as of right now. So that's it. That's the prequel paperback coming out first week of May. All right, housekeeping done. Now, let's get to it.
In Silicon Valley, in the Northern California towns of Palo Alto and Menlo Park and Redwood City, there is something going on with the crosswalks. And not like the part of the street that's blocked off where you walk across in the crosswalk, but actually at the pole on the corner.
You know, when you want to cross with the light, you get to the crosswalk, you push the button on the pole to tell the system that you want to cross. Northern California is one of the places where, when you push that button, an automated voice usually activates, right, telling you to wait until it is safe to walk.
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