March 26, 2022

Late Morning/Afternoon Update:

Poland Chooses Soverignty Over Nationalism, For Now. Tyler Pager, et al., of the Washington Post: President "Biden's two-day visit to Poland ... underscores the rapidly changing nature of the U.S.-Poland relationship, which has transformed into a close partnership in the face of Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Arriving at Poland's Presidential Palace for a meeting with [President Andrzej] Duda on Saturday afternoon, Biden embraced the Polish leader and the two men beamed at the cameras as they shook hands and Biden placed his other hand on Duda's shoulder. At the start of an expanded bilateral meeting, Duda said that the relationship between the United States and Poland is 'flourishing' and that the bond was 'strengthened immensely' by Biden's visit. In his remarks, Biden emphasized United States' enduring commitment to defending NATO member states, seeking to reassure the Polish people, who Duda said feel a 'great sense of threat' because of Russia's aggression.... In recent weeks, Polish leaders have pivoted from attacking some of the core institutions of liberal democracy to touting their role as defenders of European unity and values.... The fortified bond between Poland and the United States could be temporary, however."

Dan Balz of the Washington Post: Ginni Thomas' text messages to Mark Meadows "once again show how ... Donald Trump's conspiracies, lies and obsessions infected the Republican Party (and in many quarters still do), from its rank-and-file base to some of its most establishment figures. The more that is known..., the clearer it is just how extensive the efforts to overturn the election were and how high up they went.... Now it's known just how much Ginni Thomas pushed senior officials in the government to embrace allegations that were unproven at the time and ultimately disproved, claims that embodied some of the most outlandish of the ideas that were circulating then.... For anyone who thought that Trump's claims of a stolen election were a game to salve a bruised presidential ego and that those around him went along to humor him, the Thomas texts speak to the real threats that existed at the time."

Addy Bink of Nexta Media Wire, published by KLTA: "Just a day after [Sen. Ted] Cruz questioned [Judge Ketanji Brown] Jackson on [a children's book titled] 'Antiracist Baby' while showing pages of the book on posters, the title sits atop Amazon's list of best sellers in children's books on prejudice and racism." This gave "The Daily Show" a marketing idea. Thanks to P.D. Pepe for the lead: ~~~

     ~~~ AND, as Akhilleus points out in today's Comments, being a huckster for books he dislikes is not Cancun Ted's only recent winger nitwittery.

Ray Hartmann in the Raw Story: "Sen. Josh Hawley was residing in a glass house when he metaphorically hurled rocks at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson -- falsely suggesting that she was soft on sex-related crimes during her U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearing.... On multiple instances in his fleeting two-year stint as Missouri attorney general -- before he was elected to the U.S. Senate -- Hawley was either disinterested or inept in prosecuting sex crimes. Some of that history was laid out today in a National Memo report [Saturday]."

When All the President's Men Plotted to Assassinate an American Journalist. Mark Feldstein in the Washington Post: Before the Watergate break-in, White House special counsel Charles Colson, top White House operative, E. Howard Hunt & his sidekick G. Gordon Liddy conspired to assassinate syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, who was long a thorn in Richard Nixon's side. Nixon had earlier tried to get Anderson with a number of dirty tricks, but the stunts backfired or fizzled. "In the aftermath [of Watergate], a Senate committee investigated and confirmed the plot to poison Anderson. Liddy and Hunt eventually acknowledged their participation in the conspiracy. Colson never did.... Nixon['s] ... role in the Anderson plot has never been definitively established. Hunt believed that Colson didn't have the 'balls' to order the assassination on his own and had acted at Nixon's behest. Colson denied that. But it is hard to imagine Nixon's closest advisers plotting to execute America's leading investigative reporter without the tacit -- if not explicit -- authorization of the president."

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Putin's War Crimes, Ctd.

The New York Times' live updates of developments Saturday in Russia's war on Ukraine are here: "President Biden wraps up a three-day trip to Europe on Saturday, having met with NATO leaders over the military and economic responses to ... Vladimir V. Putin's aggression in Ukraine, as Russian military officials signaled that the war could be entering a new phase focused on securing control of separatist regions in the east of the country.... White House officials said President Biden would participate in a meeting on Saturday morning between Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukraine's foreign minister and Ukraine's defense minister.... Mr. Biden is scheduled to meet with President Andrzej Duda of Poland, a key NATO ally, on Saturday and is expected to visit in Warsaw with some of the more than two million refugees who have arrived in the country after fleeing the fighting in Ukraine.... A statement by a senior Russian general on Friday seemed to suggest that Russia was giving up, at least for now, on its unstated goal of taking all of Ukraine, and that taking the capital, Kyiv, and other major cities was not currently a primary military objective. Analysts cautioned that the statement could be intended as misdirection.... But it is clear that fierce Ukrainian resistance has exacted a heavy toll on Russian troops and pushed back attempts to capture a number of major cities." ~~~

     ~~~ The Washington Post's live updates for Saturday are here: President "Biden, on the last day of a European trip intended to bolster the NATO alliance, will also deliver a speech at Warsaw's Royal Castle focused on defending democratic principles, meet with his Polish counterpart and the mayor of Warsaw, and visit a soccer stadium sheltering Ukrainian refugees." ~~~

     ~~~ The Guardian's liveblog for Satuday is here.

Ashley Parker, et al., of the Washington Post: "... a senior aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky said officials were 'very disappointed' in the outcome of the series of summits Wednesday among NATO and European Union leaders in Brussels that brought Biden to Europe. 'We expected more bravery. We expected some bold decisions,' Andriy Yermak, Zelensky's chief of staff, told the Washington-based Atlantic Council via live video Friday.... By issuing a general statement of ongoing military support, while continuing to deny Ukraine's requests to send it Soviet-era jet fighters, impose a no-fly zone against Russian aircraft over Ukraine, and speed the flow of more heavy weaponry, Yermak said, NATO 'is just trying to ensure that it is not provoking Russia to a military conflict' with the West, calling the alliance's inaction 'appeasement.'... Yermak's remarks served as a reminder that Ukraine remains outmanned, outgunned and facing more destruction each day."

Chris Megerian & Darlene Superville of the AP: "President Joe Biden visited U.S. troops stationed near Poland's border with Ukraine on Friday and was getting a first hand look at the growing humanitarian response to the millions of Ukrainians who are fleeing to Poland to escape Russia's assault on their homeland. Biden's first stop was with members of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, visiting a barber shop and dining facility set up for the troops, where he invited himself to sit down and share some pizza. The Americans are serving alongside Polish troops.... With the troops, he shared an anecdote about visiting his late son, Beau Biden, while he was deployed in Baghdad and going by his mother's maiden name so as not to draw attention to himself." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~

Karoun Demirjian of the Washington Post: "Russia has begun to mobilize ilitary reinforcements to send into Ukraine as its combat losses continue to grow, the Pentagon said Friday, citing its latest intelligence assessments. 'We now have indications that they are drawing on forces from Georgia,' said a senior U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.... 'Russian troops that are based in Georgia. We don't have an exact number.' Thousands of Russian troops are stationed at military outposts from Georgia to Syria to Tajikistan, many of them assigned to motorized rifle brigades that experts consider combat-capable and ready to deploy immediately. Those forces have become the centerpiece of what the Pentagon believes is the Kremlin's plan to keep its ground offensive going, as Russian commanders in Ukraine sustain heavy casualties."

Eric Schmitt of the New York Times: "Russian mercenaries with combat experience in Syria and Libya are gearing up to assume an increasingly active role in a phase of the war in Ukraine that Moscow now says is its top priority: fighting in the country's east. The number of mercenaries deployed to Ukraine from the Wagner Group, a private military force with ties to ... Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, is expected to more than triple to at least 1,000 fighters from about 300 a month ago, just before the invasion, a United States official said on Friday. The official added that the mercenaries would focus on defeating Ukrainian forces in the country's Donbas region, where Russia-backed separatists have been fighting a war since 2014, and elsewhere in eastern Ukraine." ~~~

~~~ Robert Burns of the AP: "Russian forces in Ukraine seem to have shifted their focus from a ground offensive aimed at Kyiv, the capital, to instead prioritizing what Moscow calls liberation of the contested Donbas region in the country's industrial east, officials said Friday, suggesting a new phase of the war. It appears too early to know where this will lead. Has ... Vladimir Putin scaled back his ambitions in search of a way out of the war? The dug-in defensive positions taken recently by some Russian forces near Kyiv indicate a recognition of the surprisingly stout Ukrainian resistance. On the other hand, Russian forces might be aiming to continue the war with a narrower focus, not necessarily as an endgame but as a way of regrouping from early failures and using the Donbas as a new starting point, one U.S. analyst said."

Anton Troianovski & Javier C. Hernández of the New York Times: "In a speech on Friday from the nondescript, beige-walled office in which he has been conducting much of his public business this month, [Vladimir] Putin made no mention of Ukraine. Instead, he expanded upon a personal obsession: 'cancel culture.'... 'The names of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff are being removed from playbills. Russian writers and their books are being banned,' Mr. Putin said. 'The last time such a mass campaign to destroy objectionable literature was carried out was by the Nazis in Germany almost 90 years ago.'... That the Russian president delivered a disquisition on Western public discourse on Friday may seem odd at a time when Russia is fighting what some analysts believe to be its bloodiest war since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. But it underscores how Mr. Putin tries to channel cultural grievances and common stereotypes for political gain -- while using language that also allows him to speak directly to possible allies in the West." A Guardian story is here.

Rachel Treisman of NPR: "Russian soldiers are kidnapping Ukrainian journalists in contested territories and holding them hostage, according to international groups and survivor accounts. The Paris-based global nonprofit Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Friday that Russians have kidnapped, detained and tortured dozens of journalists, while the U.N.'s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights told the BBC that it has verified at least 36 cases of civilian detentions in Ukraine."

Nebi Qena & Andrea Rosa of the AP: "About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week that blasted open a Mariupol theater, Ukrainian authorities said Friday in what would make it the war's deadliest known attack on civilians yet. In a vain attempt to protect the hundreds of people taking cover inside the theater, 'CHILDREN' in Russian had been printed in huge white letters on the ground in two places outside the grand, columned building to make it visible from the air. For days, the government in the besieged and ruined city of Mariupol was unable to give a casualty count for the March 16 attack. In announcing the death toll on its Telegram channel Friday, it cited eyewitnesses. But it was not immediately clear whether emergency workers had finished excavating the ruins of the Mariupol Drama Theater or how witnesses arrived at the figure." (Also linked yesterday.)

Reuters, via the Guardian: "US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) is planning to close a troubled detention center [for immigrants] in Alabama and will significantly scale back the number of beds contracted at three other facilities, citing concerns about conditions, according to an internal government document seen by Reuters.... Immigration advocates have for years raised complaints about a lack of adequate medical care and other problems at several Ice facilities and urged the administration of Joe Biden to close down the centers. Ice is currently detaining nearly 22,000 immigrants at facilities across the country."

Morning Has Broken, Manchin Has Spoken. Carl Hulse of the New York Times: "Senator Joe Manchin III said on Friday that he would vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court, signaling that Democrats are uniting behind her after a bruising set of hearings that showed deep opposition by Republicans. The backing of Mr. Manchin, a centrist Democrat from West Virginia and a crucial swing vote, appeared to all but ensure Judge Jackson's confirmation. Mr. Manchin's support was critical, since all 50 Senate Democrats may be needed to approve her nomination, given that few if any Republicans appear ready to support her in a vote that Democrats hope to hold early next month."

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post: "The pretense is gone -- the pretense that Supreme Court confirmation hearings are about determining nominees' fitness for office, gleaning a sense of their legal acumen and approach to judging, and gathering the information necessary to exercise a solemn senatorial power. No longer. Advise and consent has yielded to smear and degrade. The goal is not to illuminate but to tarnish: If a nominee can't be stopped, at least the other side can inflict some damage on her and the opposition party.... Never has a confirmation hearing been less about law and more about partisan point-scoring and presidential campaign-launching."

A Warning to Peasants with Pitchforks from the Order of the Coif. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post writes an amusing column on Republican muck-a-mucks with elite pedigrees & degrees who are warning us peasants about "a bunch of elite lawyers," "coastal elites," and "managerial elites." MB: I particularly liked Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.), a/k/a Sen. Foghorn Leghorn, "has been heard denouncing the 'goat's-milk-latte-drinkin', avocado-toast-eating insider's elite,' and "whose bio says he has a 'degree with first class honors from Oxford University (Magdalen College).' This man of the people -- Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt, executive editor of the law review at the University of Virginia and a member of something called the Order of the Coif...."

Luke Broadwater, et al., of the New York Times: The House January 6 committee's "Republican vice chairwoman, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, has led the charge in holding Mr. Trump to account for his efforts to overturn the election, but has wanted to avoid any aggressive effort that, in her view, could unfairly target Justice Thomas, the senior member of the Supreme Court. So although a debate has broken out inside the committee about summoning [Ginni] Thomas to testify, the panel at this point has no plans to do so, leaving some Democrats frustrated. That could change, however: On Friday, despite the potential for political backlash, Ms. Cheney indicated she has no objection to the panel asking Ms. Thomas for a voluntary interview.... ~~~

"Justice Thomas could in the coming months consider a long list of important legal issues surrounding Jan. 6.... A main strategist in the effort to try to overturn the election, the lawyer John Eastman, was a former clerk of Justice Thomas's.... Federal judge, Carl J. Nichols, who is hearing cases related to the Capitol riot, is also a former clerk of Justice Thomas's.... Judge Nichols is the only federal jurist in Washington so far to have thrown out the key obstruction of Congress charge that the Justice Department has used against hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants...." A CNN story is here.

Justice Thomas' conduct on the Supreme Court looks increasingly corrupt. Judges are obligated to recuse themselves when their participation in a case would create even the appearance of a conflict of interest. A person with an ounce of common sense could see that bar is met here. -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) ~~~

~~~ Robert Barnes & Ann Marimow of the Washington Post: "Democratic lawmakers and many legal ethicists said they were shocked by revelations that Virginia Thomas, known as Ginni, repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, at a time when ... Donald Trump was saying he would challenge the results at the Supreme Court.... Legal ethicists, even some who in the past have been sympathetic to the notion that justices' spouses are entitled to their own political activities, said the revelations presented a serious problem for the Supreme Court.... In January, [Clarence Thomas] was the only justice to note his dissent when the court turned down Trump's request to block the National Archives from sending White House documents requested by the House committee as part of its investigation." An NBC News story is here. A Guardian report is here. ~~~

Any justice, judge or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.... He shall also disqualify himself ... [where] he knows that ... his spouse ... has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.... -- 28 U.S. Code § 455~~~

     ~~~ Adam Liptak of the New York Times: "The messages from [Ginni] Thomas to Mark Meadows ... sent during and just after the fraught weeks between the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, demonstrated that she was an active participant in shaping the legal effort to overturn the election.... Ms. Thomas's activities should have prompted Justice Thomas to disqualify himself from cases related to them, said Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University.... Justice Thomas, [Sen. Ron] Wyden said, 'needs to recuse himself from any case related to the Jan. 6 investigation, and should Donald Trump run again, any case related to the 2024 election.'... [Besides the National Archives documents case, Justice Thomas] also participated in the court's consideration of whether to hear a related appeal, one in which Mr. Meadows filed a friend-of-the-court brief saying that 'the outcome of this case will bear directly' on his own efforts to shield records from the House committee investigating the attacks beyond those he had provided. The Supreme Court last month refused to hear the case, without noted dissent. There was no indication that Justice Thomas had recused himself. In December 2020, around the time of the text messages, Justice Thomas participated in a ruling on an audacious lawsuit by Texas asking the court to throw out the election results in four battleground states. The court rejected the request, with Justices Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. issuing a brief statement suggesting the majority had acted too soon in shutting the case down. In February 2021, Justice Thomas addressed election fraud in a dissent from the Supreme Court's decision to turn away a challenge to Pennsylvania's voting procedures." ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: IOW, Clarence's failure to recuse was not only unethical; it also broke federal law. ~~~

     ~~~ Scott Lemieux, in LG&$: "Of course, the larger problem here is that Ginni's actions pale in comparison to what her husband already did: (citing a tweet by Ian Millhiser of Vox): 'If you think the Ginni Thomas texts are bad, wait until you learn about how Clarence Thomas successfully conspired with four other high-ranking government officials to overturn the result of the 2000 election.'"

AP: "Justice Clarence Thomas was discharged from the hospital Friday after a stay of nearly a week, the Supreme Court said. Thomas, 73, had entered the hospital last Friday evening after experiencing 'flu-like symptoms.' He was treated for an infection with intravenous antibiotics, the court said Sunday in announcing his hospitalization. He had been expected to be released from the hospital Monday or Tuesday." (Also linked yesterday.)

The Proof Is in the Pudding. Philip Bump of the Washington Post on how the complaint in Trump's big case against Hillary Clinton, the DNC, et al., accidentally disproved his case that Clinton & her allies were behind the Russia probe: the source of documents the complaint cites was a group of pro-Trump Russian hackers. "In other words, as Trump and his lawyers were trying to prove that Clinton was the driving force behind the investigation into Russian interference, they were relying on documents released as part of that interference effort.... Even in October 2020, it was clear that the probe wasn't a function of Clinton's campaign. There was lots of information about what actually launched the investigation, none of which was downstream from Clinton.... The feds had evidence of Russia trying to intervene in the election (through the hacking), evidence of various people linked to Russia working for Trump (through public and private information) and a by-then obvious soft spot from Trump for Putin, in particular."

So Many Lawsuits. Kara Scannell of CNN: "... Donald Trump and his two adult sons have agreed to sit for depositions in May and June as part of a class-action lawsuit alleging they collaborated with a fraudulent marketing company. The former President agreed to be deposed on June 16 while Eric Trump will sit for questioning on May 12 and Donald Trump Jr. on May 10, according to a letter filed with the court. The letter said a date for Ivanka Trump's deposition had not been proposed. The lawsuit, which was filed in 2018, alleges that in exchange for 'secret' payments, Trump and three of his adult children used his reality TV show 'The Celebrity Apprentice' and other promotional events as vehicles to boost ACN Opportunity, a telecommunications marketing company linked to a nonprofit that used Trump's brand to appeal to teens. The Trumps are accused of pocketing millions in payments between 2005 and 2015 to promote what they described as promising business opportunities...."

The Pandemic, Ctd.

Sharon LaFraniere of the New York Times: "The Biden administration is planning to give Americans age 50 or older the option of a second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccine without recommending outright that they get one, according to several people familiar with the plan. Major uncertainties have complicated the decision, including how long the protection from a second booster would last, how to explain the plan to the public and even whether the overall goal is to shield Americans from severe disease or from less serious infections as well, since they could lead to long Covid."

Adam Liptak of the New York Times: "The Supreme Court on Friday restored the Navy's ability to consider the vaccination status of 35 of its service members in decisions about where they should be assigned or deployed. The court's brief, unsigned order gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. The court's three most conservative members -- Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch -- dissented. In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said courts should not second-guess military officials." The AP's report is here.

Beyond the Beltway

The Party That Hates Teenagers. Kimberly Kindy of the Washington Post: "Nationwide, GOP lawmakers have filed nearly two hundred state bills this year that seek to erode protections for transgender and gay youth or to restrict discussion of LGBTQ topics in public schools. The explosion of legislation is in part the culmination of efforts by a trio of conservative organizations, which are helping state legislators write and promote the bills. One of the most active -- the Alliance Defending Freedom -- has a decades-long history of fighting LGBTQ rights, including in battles to preserve state laws criminalizing consensual sex between gay adults, court records show. Today, at least 166 measures to restrict LGBTQ rights are still pending in state legislatures across the nation -- nearly quadruple the number of similar bills introduced just three years ago, according to data from Freedom for All Americans, an LGBTQ advocacy group." MB: From the Wingers' Approved Dictionary: "sex: a brief and occasional meeting between a married adult man and his adult wife poised in the missionary position for the purpose of procreation. Synonym: a woman's burden." (Also linked yesterday.) See also link under Utah below.

Maryland. Nick Corasaniti of the New York Times: "A Maryland judge ruled on Friday that Democrats in the state had drawn an 'extreme gerrymander' and threw out the state's new congressional map, the first time this redistricting cycle that a Democratic-controlled legislature's map has been rejected in court. The ruling by Senior Judge Lynne A. Battaglia of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County found that the map drawn by Democrats had 'constitutional failings' and ignored requirements of focusing on 'compactness' and keeping similar communities together.... Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican whose veto of the map was overridden by the Democratic-controlled legislature, praised the decision and called on the General Assembly to pass a map drawn by an independent commission he created.... The office of Brian Frosh, the attorney general of Maryland and a Democrat, said that it was reviewing the decision and that it had not yet decided whether to appeal it."

Utah. Eduardo Medina of the New York Times: "The Utah State Legislature voted on Friday to override the governor's veto and enacted a bill that would bar young transgender athletes from participating in girls' sports, making the state the 12th in the country to enact such legislation. The new law, which is known as H.B. 11, will most likely be challenged in court, legislators said." CNN's report is here.

Comments

[P.D. Pepe]

Isn't it curious that we have two males sitting on the highest court of the land having been accused of the lowest sexual deviances during their conformation hearings: one who drinks a whole lot of beer while the other watched a whole of of porn.

By the way–-read that John Robert's wife left some job she had because it would have interfered with her husband's standing.

[P.D. Pepe]

And finally––the Daily Show finds that Ted Cruz is good for something!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-daily-show-reverse-oprah_n_623ef104e4b0e340f6a37d77

[Akhilleus]

Oh noes! Winger propaganda spewing “network” in the shitter! Call Cancun Cruz! Fighter for first amendment rights of his pals to spread heinous lies and dangerous bullshit.

So, okay, AT&T, bless their slime covered little hearts, has pulled the plug on OAN, aka One Asshole after aNother, a snake pit in which the traitors writhe and scream about the Big Lie, Democrats eating children, guns, horrible darkies, and Covid disinformation up the wazoo.

Why?

It’s not making them money. Only whack jobs watch it. And AT&T is getting blowback about people croaking from Covid after trusting the lies spread on OAN. All good reasons in a capitalist business environment to say “Don’t let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out”.

But truth never impinges on the Cruz lizard brain. He and his confederate pal, Mike Lee, another of the usual suspects on the right, see a chance to make hay with the droolers, so they write a nasty letter demanding to know why Wingnut TV is being so badly treated by AT&T (I originally typed out AT$T, which is more accurate). Must be POLITICALLY WEAPONIZED CENSORSHIP! Aieeeee!

The fact is that AT$T had a big hand in birthing this wingnut toilet bowl, but Cruz/Lee are upset because DirecTV, owned by AT$T, is the primary delivery vehicle for OAN poison. Taking it off the lineup deprives it of 90% of their blood money.

But it gets juicier. There’s the little issue of Dominion Voting Machines and a whole lot of confederate lies and angst.

Leave us just point out that Cruz never misses a chance to prove to the whackos that he is on their side no matter what, and won’t rest until every lie he can come up with is thrown at the wall to see what will stick.

A degenerate little creep.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/25/ted-cruz-mike-lee-join-dumb-baseless-gop-quest-to-pretend-oan-was-unfairly-censored/