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Rachel Maddow mocks Musk after GOP’s Wisconsin election loss, says locals gave him 'one-finger salute'
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow slammed Trump senior advisor Elon Musk on Wednesday night after a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election didn’t go the billionaire’s way.
During the latest episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” the MSNBC anchor ridiculed Musk after his preferred candidate lost. The Trump ally sunk millions of dollars into the race on behalf of a conservative candidate.
“The people of Wisconsin, like, just gave him the one-finger salute,” she told Meyers.
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow slammed Elon Musk after conservatives lost a Wisconsin Supreme Court race that he contributed millions of dollars to. (NBC/Contributor | Bloomberg/Contributor)
Meyers brought up the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, in which liberal Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford defeated conservative Brad Schimel, a former state attorney general who currently serves as a state circuit court judge in Waukesha County.
Schimel was endorsed by President Donald Trump and Musk, making the election appear to be a referendum on the administration’s agenda, which has incorporated the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive as an instrumental tool in cutting government waste.
The election seemed to be a major repudiation to Musk, who donated over $20 million to Schimel’s race by way of aligned political groups.
During a rally in Green Bay on Sunday evening — where he also donned a classic Wisconsin cheesehead hat — he also gave out $1 million checks to multiple Wisconsin voters who had already cast ballots in the contest and had signed a petition to stop “activist judges.”
Musk further added to the spectacle, calling the election a “super big deal” and declaring it to be “important for the future of civilization.”
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Billionaire businessman Elon Musk arrives for a town hall wearing a cheesehead hat at the KI Convention Center on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Meyers said that Musk “chose to make” the state election a referendum on himself, and Maddow agreed, mocking the figure’s spending and his rhetoric regarding the election.
“Yeah, if you spend $26 million on a judicial race – I mean that’s more money than anybody’s ever spent on a judicial race in the history of judicial races,” she said.
“And if you come in, and you put the cheese thing on your head, and you say, ‘Here’s my $26 million, and by the way, the fate of human civilization rests on this, and you must do what I want.’ Yeah, guess what? It’s going to be about you.”
Maddow continued, noting that the liberal victory shows that voters in a state that Trump won in the presidential election are sticking it to the Trump and Musk agenda.
“I mean that was a double-digit victory in a statewide election in a state that Trump just won,” she said. “And so, if you’re trying to sort of take the temperature as to where people are, I think people know exactly how they feel about Trump and Musk, and that’s why the liberal candidate won last night.”
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A better life is in sight for dozens of dogs.
PAWS Chicago welcomed 25 beagles from a massive rescue operation on Saturday.
Last week, more than a thousand dogs were rescued from Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, after weeks of protests over their treatment of the dogs. Ridglan Farms agreed to sell 1,500 of the facility’s roughly 2,000 beagles, which were then transferred to rescue organizations across the country, including PAWS Chicago.
Celene Mielcarek, PAWS Chicago chief program officer, explained what’s next for the dogs as they begin their new lives.
“These beagles have lived their lives in isolation. They’ve lived their lives in cages inside. We’re going to make sure that they are healthy. They’re each going to get tucked in by a volunteer into warm bedding. They’re each going to get a yummy dinner tonight, and they’re going to start that new chapter of their life,” she said.
She says it will take some time for the beagles to get used to being dogs and understanding what it’s like to live in a home. To help with that, they will be sent to experienced foster homes that will help them understand human connection.
Once the beagles are ready, they’ll head to the PAWS Chicago Lincoln Park adoption center to meet their forever family.
Jaelen Reaves is well-prepared to study vocal music starting this fall at Oakland University.
And the reason why will be on display this week at Detroit’s Fox Theatre.
“An Evening of Fine Arts,” a free show taking place on Wednesday, May 6, is the Detroit Public Schools Community District’s 57th showcase of performing and visual arts. Some 760 students from 14 schools will take part in the presentation, which includes 27 stage performances and 26 works on display in the Fox’s Grand Lobby.
And for students such as Reaves, who attends the Detroit School of Arts, it’s a chance to take a step towards a career on a stage that’s hosted showbusiness legends they’ve looked up to.
“It’s like, wow, because I know people like Patti LaBelle and Chaka Khan and so many others have performed there,” says Reaves, 18, a vocal soprano who will perform with the DSA Lady Achievers and Concert Choir on Wednesday. “The fact that they sang on that stage and I’m about to sing on that stage is crazy. Just going to the Fox to see (a performance) is a privilege; for me to be performing on that stage is really an honor.
“The fact I have the opportunity to showcase my talent and what we represent here (at DSA). If I was in another school, I would never have had this opportunity. I definitely don’t take it for granted.”
Other performances during the night will come from the district’s harp and vocal ensemble, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary and is the oldest such program in the country, and a selection of choirs, jazz bands, orchestras and theater programs.
“(The evening) spotlights the voices of our students in the highest visual and performing arts programs, district-wide,” says Andrew McGuire, deputy executive director of fine and performing arts for DPSCD. “When our students are stepping on the stage, they’re not only stepping into a legacy, they’re also stepping into the future as performers — as actors, as singers and all of that.”
The evening also demonstrates DCSPD’s continuing commitment to arts education at a time when many districts nationwide have severely limited or completely curtailed similar curriculum.
“We have a whole-child commitment,” McGuire explains, “which has meant the rebuilding and revitalization of fine and performing arts (education) district-wide. And DSA is not the only space where artists exist. All 106 schools have fine and performing arts, with most schools having two or more (programs) in them. It’s really exciting that in an age when there’s so much talk about pulling back, restricting and cutting, that’s not in our narrative at DPSCD. We’re proud of that.”
Reaves is certainly emblematic of the district’s effectiveness. Raised in an artistic family, as well as singing in church, she became interested in classical singing, but plans to study a broad array of styles at Oakland. “I just want to be a solo performer who has every single (style) under my belt,” she says. “I don’t want to just sing one type of genre. I would love to go around the world singing all types of things
“I know that singing, for me, is not a hobby. It’s something that’s in my blood. I can’t do anything but sing every day. So I want to make the best of it.”
The Detroit Public Schools Community District’s “An Evening of Fine Arts” takes place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 6, at the Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Admission is free, but tickets are required. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.
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