South Carolina Republican holds 'machine gun social'

"The View" co-hosts battled it out on Thursday following President Joe Biden's inauguration. While they gushed over Biden's speech, the fashion of notable women and the events that followed, Joy Behar asked why members like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Halwy (R-MO) were even in attendance given they worked so hard to try and overthrow the election.

"The other thing I want to know is how did Ted Cruz get in there?" Behar asked. " Did he come in underneath Lady Gaga's skirt? These are the questions I have today. What is he doing there? Why are these enemies there? The whole thing was beautiful. I loved the poet. I loved Joe. I loved the three presidents talking and making sense. It was like we had been kidnapped by some crazy family for four years and our parents have come to pick us up and you say to them, well, where were you all these years, you know?"

After President Joe Biden kicked off his White House tenure Wednesday by sacking several corrupt and incompetent holdovers from the Trump administration—including labor board attorney Peter Robb and CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger—progressives are urging the newly inaugurated president to keep the firing spree going by terminating his predecessor's right-wing appointees at the Social Security Administration.

"Our message for the Biden administration is that some personnel changes below the commissioner level aren't good enough—we need change at the top of SSA, and that means removing Saul and Black."
—Linda Benesch, Social Security Works

A California man who may have traveled to the Jan. 6 protest in Washington, D.C., was arrested for making violent threats back home in a mask dispute.

Darin Michael Ward allegedly threatened "shoot up the government building, its staff, and anyone around wearing a mask" during a dispute at a restaurant in Weaverville, reported KRCR-TV.