Police in Bozeman, Montana had to be called to the city’s airport after shitweasel Senator Ted Cruz missed his flight home and became combative with airline staff, The Montana Times reports. Video from an unnamed airline agent shows Ted visibly agitated while arguing with several check-in counter staff members. Further details are unknown, but most likely embarrassing to all involved.

The violence the Myanmar military committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country’s north starting in 2017 amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity, Reuters reports. The move is seen by advocates as an important step toward holding the ruling junta accountable.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was really upset Monday over the historical comparison to the Nazi Holocaust his only currently serving fellow Jewish head of state used to describe the destructive assault on Ukraine, Haaretz reports. “Listen to the words of the Kremlin. They are using the terminology of the Nazis… The final solution to the Jewish question you well remember. Listen to what they are now saying in Moscow. Now these words are being used again, the Final Solution, but now it is directed at us, on the issue of Ukraine. They are speaking about this openly on official sites and in the media,” Zelensky said on Sunday as his people are being shot dead in their homes by Russian troops going door to door looking for food and valuables like jewelry and electronics.

“I personally believe that it is forbidden to equate the Holocaust to anything,” said the former tech bro Bennett whose country hasn’t been invaded and has a state of the art multi-billion dollar missile defense system courtesy of American taxpayers that shoots down what are basically fucking bottle rockets fired by desperate, impoverished people living in what are more or less giant internment camps – and refused to share the technology with Ukraine because he was afraid of upsetting Putin. It’s definitely important in a time like this for Bennett, at a news conference inside an air-conditioned building, to make sure nobody’s being overdramatic or hyperbolic about the situation even if they’ve been only sleeping 2 or 3 hours a night in an underground shelter for nearly a month now while their city is under constant shelling by an army that wants him dead.

The 38 states which accepted federal money beginning in 2014 to expand their Medicaid programs as part of a key element of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, enjoyed greater job and personal income growth relative to the 12 states who didn’t, Bloomberg reports. Between April 2020 and February 2022, as the economy recovered from the initial job crash of the Coronavirus pandemic, the number of jobs nationally grew by 14.3%, but in the 12 anti-Obamacare states it was only 12.9% while in the other 38 it was 14.9%. An even greater disparity shows up when comparing Texas at 13.6% with Massachusetts at 18.3%. But socialism something something.

Lower-level MAGA staffer Scott Johnston, who worked on planning the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse on January 6th, 2021, tells Rolling Stone that he overheard former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows encouraging Trump fans to march toward the Capitol over the phone. “They were very open about how there was going to be a march. Everyone knew there was going to be a march,” said Johnston to Rolling Stone, adding that Meadows, along with aide Katrina Pierson and Women for Trump Exec Director Kylie Kremer (daughter of founder Amy Kremer) were deliberately trying to direct the crown toward the Capitol “make it look like they went down there on their own.”

Johnston, who has testified the same to the House January 6th Select Committee, says he clearly overheard this multiple times on speakerphone as he drove Kremer around in the three days preceding the insurrection. Which of course raises the question of what the fuck did they think was going to happen when they made sure ten thousand angry, violent assholes were told to march on a building which they knew was not guarded by any troops but only a much smaller contingent of Capitol Police officers, raising the likelihood they knew full well there would be an attack.

Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington with unspecified flu-like symptoms and is receiving intravenous antibiotics, the Supreme Court announced Sunday night, the New York Times reports.

The longest-serving justice on the Court, the 74-year-old Thomas was nominated by George HW Bush in 1991.  He has been a stalwart conservative on the court.

Thomas has been facing multiple attacks in recent weeks after it was disclosed that his wife, Ginny, a fixture in far-right political activism who earned income from conservative think tanks Thomas failed to mention in his financial disclosures for more than a decade, attended rallies the preceded the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

It’s chose your fighter time.

I’m you’re Florida Man!https://t.co/FSkJUvOPiL

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) March 20, 2022

Education isn’t important in Florida; neither is spelling.

I do not support:

Putin & his murderous war in Ukraine.

Zelensky & Nazi militias in his corrupt country.

Neocons, Neolibs, or the Uniparty foreign policies that have spent trillions in senseless foreign wars.

I support the American People only and call for all of this to end.

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 20, 2022

Ukrainian officials claim their forces destroyed a command post at an airfield in the Black Sea port city of Kherson on Saturday, killing Russian Lt General Andrey Mordvichev, MarketWatch reports.

If confirmed, Mordvichev would be the fifth Russian general to have been canceled on the ground in Ukraine since the invasion began on February 24th, joining Major Generals Vitaly Gerasimov, Andrei Sukhovetsky, Andrei Kolesnikov, and Oleg Mityaev in the Siberian pine box.

Congresswoman Liz Cheney told rodent-faced Chuck Todd in a Sunday interview the House January 6th Select Committee is considering recommending criminal charges against Trump for for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump,” when he refused to “tell the mob to go home after he had provoked that attack on the Capitol,” Axios reports.

“I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway,” said Cheney.

Happy Birthday to @GOPChairwoman!

We are grateful for your leadership and all you do for our Party.

— GOP (@GOP) March 20, 2022

The controversial new Saudi-backed golf league meant to challenge the PGA’s dominance will play one of its events at the Trump Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey, Mother Jones reports. The LIV Golf International, founded by a Saudi wealth fund controlled by KSA Crown Prince Mohammed Bone Saw has received a justifiably tepid reaction from the pro golf world as it sought to recruit stars for its promotion that turned into a deluge after a deeply nihilistic take from Phil Mickelson.

“We know they killed [Washington Post journalist Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates,” said Mickelson last fall in a statement he later tried to walk back. From there PGA stars rushed to distance themselves from the toxic Saudi regime despite the massive payouts involved. The PGA also warned it would suspend any golfer who participates in the promotion.

So it’s a natural fit for Trump, especially after the PGA declared him persona non grata and pulled the 2022 PGA Championship from Bedminster in the wake of the Capitol riot and his shady alliance with MBS. Also yet another instance of his being rejected by domestic entities and having to turn to corrupt and amoral foreign ones for business revenue. Deutsche Bank should sponsor the event.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief diplomatic adviser Ihor Zhovka has asked President Biden to make a stop in Ukraine during his trip to Europe to meet with NATO leaders, saying “one should not be afraid to – if you are brave,” the Daily Mail reports. “If NATO is not able to provide us with a humanitarian no-fly zone, please provide us with fighter jets, please provide us with anti-missile air defense systems. So, my president will keep doing this. He spoke about this in the U.S. Congress. He’s talking about this on a daily basis,” Zhovka told CNN on Saturday. Sounds almost like Zhovka is trying to be the “bad cop” while Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Andiry Yermak is the “good cop” by saying Biden has been the best for Ukraine of all US Presidents last week.

As many as 1,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in action every day on the ground in Ukraine, Western officials and military experts tell the Washington Post as the invaders have achieved almost none of their initial objectives so far in the nearly month old conflict. Experts also say the Russian effort is on the verge of becoming unsustainable, as they have failed to move the front lines substantially at all in the past week, with losses and lack of resupply taking their toll.

Meanwhile, the Kyiv Independent’s Illia Ponomarenko reports Belarus is getting ready to send 20,000 of what he deems to be inexperienced and unmotivated personnel into Ukraine – and there is serious unrest in their ranks. On Saturday Visegrád 24 reported Belarusian railroad workers sabotaged train traffic into Ukraine to slow down the movement of troops and supplies.

Yes, Secretary Clinton:  Turkey!  The Biden Administration wants Turkey to ditch its Russian S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems by providing them to the Ukrainian government to fight the Russians, Reuters reports.  The suggestion will be rejected by Turkey, analysts admit.

Turkey purchased the missile systems from Russia rather than a fellow-NATO nation in 2019, during a period when Donald Trump was vocally questioning the very viability of NATO and threatening to withdraw the United States from the alliance.

Mishka on Broome and Watts is not so crowded while everywhere else is packed.

“Now we must not allow our children to be let down.  We must build up our country and we must become a nation of strength,” flailing actor and flailing human Jon Voight declares.  “Since Biden took office, he has lowered our, our nation’s standards and heightened out prices for his benefit.  He has lost our greatest loves, our truths, our freedom, our flags stripes red, white and blue.  But my dear friends, not for long.  For God is my witness, he, God, shall bring us all back to the greatness in this land where one will find their best potential.”

Set aside the gaffe about the Flag.  How would Joe Biden “benefit” from higher prices exactly?

Russian troops have allegedly rounded up thousands of Ukrainians in the besieged Azov Sea port city of Mariupol for forced relocation inside Russia, the Kyiv Independent reports. The Ukrainian citizens have been documented by Russia troops in camps and taken to remote cities in Russia, per the Independent. While there’s no other sourcing for this yet, it’s not exactly out of character either.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the 81-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, hinted he’s looking to retire in a podcast interview, the New York Post reports. “I have said that I would stay in what I’m doing until we get out of the pandemic phase, and I think we might be there already,” Fauci told ABC News’s “Start Here” podcast. “I can’t stay at this job forever. Unless my staff is going to find me slumped over my desk one day. I’d rather not do that.”

A Fauci retirement would be a gut punch to so much Republican campaign rhetoric ahead of the November midterms as dozens upon dozens of candidates have promised revenge against the government healthcare bureaucrat for doing his job while loser former President Trump fucked it up in virtually every single way imaginable. That their precious, golden scapegoat is in his 80s certainly would not help with the “He’s just escaping accountability” line they’ll undoubtedly use.