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The Capitol rioter who went viral after being photographed putting his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk on Jan. 6, has reportedly lost his job as a window salesman, TMZ reports.

Richard Barnett's lawyers say that his primary job now is restoring classic cars since he lost the salesman job soon after the Capitol riot. Barnett is currently allowed to travel 50 miles from his home for work purposes, but his lawyers are asking for more, saying he often has to go upwards of 200 miles to track down, negotiate and sell the cars.

Speaking to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, Bulwark columnist Tim Miller, who worked for former Republican Jeb Bush, attacked Sen. Susan Collins' (R-ME) amendment to help make the Jan. 6 Commission a reality.

Collins so-called "compromise" would add to the legislation that Republicans already worked to create in the House. Rep. John Katko (R-NY) gave Democrats a list of demands for Republicans to support the bill and Democrats agreed to them, only to have the rug pulled out from under them by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). At the time, Katko was described by one of his colleagues as being "thrown under the bus."

The heatwave that is growing worse in the western United States is expected to set records and spark huge wildfires, according to Axios, citing warnings and advisories are in effect for the area.

The area is already suffering from a dangerous drought that has also broken records. The lack of water makes fire dangers even worse. The state is calling it "critical."

The social media site Parler has been adopted by many supporters of former President Donald Trump as part of the boycott of sites that banned him. But now it's being revealed that Parler alerted the FBI to violence being planned on their platform ahead of the Jan. 6 attack.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) revealed Tuesday in a video to the House Oversight Committee that not only did Parler out their members to the feds, they sent warnings and information more than 50 times.

Speaking to MSNBC Monday, national security expert Jeremy Bash and former FBI Deputy Director of Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi explained the specifics on what was likely done to get warrants for members of Congress and the White House counsel and renew the gag order on Apple.

It was revealed late last week by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt that under Attorney General Jeff Sessions warrants were issued to spy on reporters, members of Congress, their staff and their family. While nothing was uncovered, the Justice Department, even under Attorney General renewed the gag order on Apple refusing to allow anyone to learn of the scandal during the Trump reign.

Former President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law attacked Vice President Kamala Harris, saying that she is unqualified to be in her position as President Joe Biden's first mate. It was something that Vanity Fair reporter Bess Levin found particularly amusing, given Trump's own history.

Writing Monday, she explained that one of the things many may have missed between 2016 and 2020 is that Trump was painfully unqualified to serve as the president of the United States.

Columnist Philip Bump penned a frank column Monday confessing that he once thought former President Donald Trump would ultimately be brought down once it was discovered what he was doing behind closed doors.

It was revealed last week by the New York Times that the former president was using the Justice Department to spy on the press, Democratic members of Congress, their staff and their families. For former President Richard Nixon, there was a hit-list of those that he wanted to wiretap, but he never did it. Trump crossed that line.

A tweet mocking California is now coming back to haunt Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). In 2020, as millions of Americans were sitting at home during the COVID-19 lockdowns, California was forced to do rolling blackouts to keep the power grid going.

Cruz mocked California saying that they couldn't perform the basic functions of civilization.

President Donald Trump was recently spotted in New York City and some there couldn't help but notice how old and tired he looked.

With photos and videos, the DailyMail reported that they went outside of Trump Tower to observe the former president's move from Mar-a-Lago to less humid northeast. According to their brutal headline, Trump appears "gaunt," "pale," and "exhausted."

The Republican Party audit of 2020 election ballots and machines has spurred an influx of GOP members from other states to come to learn how to conduct their own partisan audits. Now, The Arizona Republic has the full list and who paid for it.

Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Doug Mastriano is among those eager to bring a partisan audit to Pennsylvania.

Speaking to former acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Andy Slavitt, "The View" hosts took serious issues with Republicans who are now at work to bring down Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Joy Behar named Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Tom Cotton (R-AR) who have all demanded that Fauci resign after his emails were released showing he doubted COVID-19 was leaked from a lab. COVID-19 hasn't been proven to have been leaked from a lab.

"The View's" Ana Navarro went off on right-wingers attacking CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin as if they have a moral leg to stand on.

"Something I would like to say, though, I saw a lot of people on the right come after CNN, come after Jeffrey Toobin," Navarro recalled. "Look, man, if you've been supporting a president who we heard boast about sexual assault on video, a person who did hush-money payments to a stripper, then you have no moral standing to get full outrage over Jeffrey Toobin doing what he did."

Some Texas towns are making it clear -- no Nazis.

The Dallas Observer explained that small-town neo-Nazi rallies are popping up in the Dallas area. Such was the case when neo-Nazis arrived to wave flags and "White Lives Matter" signs in Centerville, a town of just 1,000 people.