Nearly 5,000 voters in the battleground state North Carolina have switched their party affiliation in the week since the Capitol riot — including almost 3,000 who left the Republican Party. Joedy McCreary of CBS 17 reports cbsnews.com/live

#Algeria recommends #Lebanon strengthen the national policy for solidarity & social cohesion, encourage international community to cooperate with authorities to step up awareness raising & human rights training for children & women #UPR37 Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations

Holy shit. "Parler is back online now by routing 100% of its user traffic through servers located within the Russian Federation."

Sanders's inauguration look promptly gets a bobblehead hill.cm/GqMMEZi

Human Rights Campaign calls for Marjorie Taylor Greene's removal from committees hill.cm/jYUO3Dh

Trump's new "Communications Platform" (it's a blog) features a video proclaiming it "a place to speak freely and safely." Users are unable to leave comments.

It took only 21 minutes for twitter to label this new ad as sensitive content. Please retweet it far and wide.

NEW: Senate bill would add visas, remove hurdles to program for Afghans who helped US hill.cm/dv1bVnL

The NSA calls bullshit on frozen fish trust fund guy

Two Americas.

"Congress should reject H.R. 1619's dangerous anywhere, any place casino precedent" (TheHillOpinion) hill.cm/DLGDdYw

Netflix says the political satire series, “Servant of the People,” starring Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, has returned to its streaming platform. nbcnews.to/3CWevx2

This is so freaking brutal from today's vantage point.

“wE aReN’t FaScIsTs”

In case you missed it (you definitely did), Senate Republicans voted yesterday against the DISCLOSE Act to ban secret money in elections. What does that tell you about their priorities?

Americans pay for their Social Security and Medicare. Every paycheck since your first job. 158 House Republicans have signed on to a Republican budget that will cut these programs.

Power for power's sake.

Hold on: House Republicans want a national 30% sales tax on everything from groceries to gasoline? They want to raise taxes on working-class & middle-class families while slashing them for millionaires & billionaires? Are they TRYING to show exactly how out of touch they are?

BREAKING: Biden has renewed his calls for an Assault Weapons Ban. RETWEET if you are for such a ban, and think lives are more important than killing machines.

I can't make this up. Rep. George Santos R-NY is charged with unemployment benefits fraud. The House is slated to vote this week on a bill to help states recover fraudulent COVID unemployment payments. **Santos is a co-sponsor of that bill.**