02/21/2025 05:04 CDT/Online version

KASH PATEL CONFIRMED AS NEW FBI DIRECTOR; MCCONNELL TO STEP DOWN IN KENTUCKY AFTER LONG CAREER

TODAY’S TOP TEN

KASH TAKES SEAT AS NEW FBI DIRECTOR, VOWS TO CLEAN HOUSE

REFORM-MINDED KASH PATEL survives narrow U.S. Senate vote to be seated as FBI director. Fox News.

FORMER SENATE LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL announces he won’t seek re-election next year. The Daily Signal.

DOGE SETS IT SIGHTS ON FREEING ideologically captured scientific institutions. Legal Insurrection.

BIDEN EPA OFFICIAL OVERSAW $5 BILLION climate grant to his former employer. Free Beacon.

MORE THAN 6,000 IRS WORKERS REPORTEDLY will be sent termination by end of day today. Breitbart.

JOE BIDEN’S ADMINISTRATION DUMPED 20,000 unaccompanied minor in Virginia. Restoration News.

TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TERMINATING all federal taxpayer benefits going to illegal immigrants. American Greatness.

SO-CALLED “RENEWABLE ENERGY” PROJECT operators in a panic as federal funding sources dry up. Just the News.

ILLINOIS’ UNHINGED DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR Pritzker compares Trump’s policies to those of Nazi Germany. Wirepoints.

COURT RULINGS OVER MURDOCH SUCCESSION threaten to move Fox News to the left after Rupert Murdoch dies. Newsmax.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• The Lawfare campaign to stop DOGE is more corrupt than you think. Jacob Grandstaff.
• Why does the Left want chaos in elections? Brianna Lyman.
• Trump can’t allow a declining Europe drag the U.S. down. Connor O’Keeffe.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Someone shoots out windows at Tesla dealership in Oregon. KGW News.
• Ned Ryun: TDS is an incurable disease. Fox News.
• JD Vance: Why should Americans subsidize defense of Germany, a country that jails people over mean tweets? CPAC.

LATEST FIRST RIGHT PODCAST

• Host Hayden Ludwig interviews culture warrior Terry Schilling about American Principles Project’s fight to expose “Trans Inc.” Rumble.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• Rare George Washington letter from Revolutionary War goes on sale. The Guardian.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@catturd2) The loudest people crying about DOGE are the most guilty. Tweet.
• (@EsotericCD) Quite literally the entire reason Virginia went from reliably Republican on the presidential level to reliably blue was the vast post-9/11 growth of the federal government. It should be ground zero for counterreaction to Elon's moves. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• DOGE FINDS $2 BILLION IN TAXPAYER FUNDS earmarked for newly formed Stacey Abrams-linked group. Free Beacon.

BONGINO REPORT TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL

• Kash Patel Confirmed as FBI Director by Senate 51-49 BONGINO REPORT.

STATE OF THE RACE

• New Senate composition: Democrats 47, Republicans 53.
• New House composition: Democrats 215, Republicans 220.