I wish I had a better source, but believe it or not, no major newspaper picked up a story about this.
Here are two other stories about this if you don't want to giving rolling stone the click:
https://www.avclub.com/the-onion-new-york-times-advertisement-congress
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-the-onion-nyt-ad-congress-cowardice
Wild that the most hard hitting journalism is coming from a satire site that has to pay to get their story published in the NYT.
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*But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask. It’s true. As a solitary person, your fecklessness will make little impact. But if you join together with the most craven senators and representatives in the Capitol, the impact will be immense: The corruption, the disregard for the rule of law, the shipping of residents to foreign gulags, the attacks on judges, the censorship and chilling of speech, the punishment of any and all dissent—it can be made that much worse if you just find it in yourself to clutch your head in your hands, wet the bed, and cower in the hope of being spared from the White House’s wrath.*