History. One damn thing after another, right? We're really living in it now.

Just when you think things are lightning up, getting a little less anxious, it just keeps pulling you back.

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It's about creating chaos in the course of these hearings, putting out this point that children are specifically under threat from Democrats, critical race theory, LGBTQ educators.

You can follow the breadcrumb trail of Q&A straight through the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Katanji Brown-Jackson.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. Also this week, as more Rages, the Ukrainian government rallies global support with breathtaking media savvy.

My God, you know, they have really been able to move an entire international order by packaging a story that they did not choose. Plus, the multiple versions of Ukraine found up in a single family's history.

I realized that these people who threatened to kill my grandmother were also the people who saved my grandfather. And that's the moment where my view of Ukraine was completely turned on its head.

It's all coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And these are what actual audible dog whistles sound like.

They're not pleasant. But not nearly as excruciating as the human ones heard on the hill this week during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Katanji Brown-Jackson.

A glorious American moment was tainted by the senatorial effluvia expelled by the likes of Senators Tom Katan.

Do you think most detainees like Guantanamo Bay or mostly terrorists or mostly, I don't know, innocent goat farmers?

And by Ted Cruz.

Let's go back to your favorite topic of this year, which is the criminal law cases you had as a district judge and in particular the cases involving child pornography.

Rick Scott. She seems to be very soft on sexual predators, people that have harmed our children.

But the most frequent far-right refrain that Judge Jackson went easy on child sex offenders debuted in Senator Josh Holley's Twitter thread. He doubled down in a question to Brown about a ruling.

This is a case where you had an 18-year-old who possessed and distributed hundreds of images of eight-year-olds and nine-year-olds and 10-year-olds. And you gave him, frankly, a slap on the wristbands of three months.

Senator, you regret it?

What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we've spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my life.

I've spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences and I've tried to explain.

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