Bits & Bytes

CONFIRMED: Senators voted 51–49 to confirm Kash Patel to head up the FBI. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) crossed the aisle to join Democrats in voting against Patel’s nomination. Patel tweeted, “My mission as Director is clear: let good cops be cops—and rebuild trust in the FBI.”

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/kash-patel-confirmed-as-fbi-director-5812958
• https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1892670378436128994

COVID-19: In this excerpt from Dr. Birx’s memoir, she admits, “We had to make [two weeks to flatten the curve] palatable to the administration by avoiding the obvious appearance of a full Italian lockdown. … No sooner had we convinced the Trump administration to implement our version of a two-week shutdown than I was trying to figure out how to extend it.”

• https://x.com/kevinnbass/status/1890598363503980927

EDUCATION: On Tuesday, the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals finally killed Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. The court’s ruling should block future presidents from attempting Biden’s vote buying maneuver.

• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/circuit-court-puts-final-nail-coffin-bidens-500b-student-loan-forgiveness-plan

EPA: [9:58] – Maria Bartiromo interviews EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin about Biden’s incredible and deliberate waste.

FRAUD: [1:56] – Trump’s new EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, has uncovered billion$ in Democrat fraud. Who has reported on it?

EMPLOYMENT: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fqL5s8TKsak to hear Nick Freitas talk about government job losses.

MIDDLE EAST: Hamas released the bodies of four Israeli hostages – Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, were abducted, along with 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz – after parading their coffins under a banner that sought to blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their deaths. Kfir, who was 9 months old when he was taken, was the youngest captive. The children’s father, Yarden Bibas, was returned earlier this month as part of an exchange of live hostages for prisoners.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/bodies-of-4-israeli-hostages-released-by-hamas-5813269

PARDON CZAR: President Trump has appointed Alice Marie Johnson to make recommendations to him about who should be granted clemency. Johnson says, “Back in the 1990s, I was a single mother about to lose my house. In a desperate moment, I made a life-altering bad decision to become a low-level player in a drug operation. When law enforcement authorities broke up the drug operation, I was prosecuted and sentenced to life in prison.” Trump pardoned her in 2018.

• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-appoints-alice-marie-johnson-pardon-czar-black-history-month-event-white-house

SSA: When Leland Dudek (right) got caught helping DOGE understand the Social Security Administration’s systems, his then-boss, Acting Social Security Commissioner Michelle King (left), placed him on administrative leave pending an investigation. Then King butted heads with DOGE and ended up quitting rather than cooperate (or get fired). Trump appointed Dudek to take her place.

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/almost-fired-for-working-with-doge-social-security-fraud-expert-now-leads-the-agency
• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/acting-head-social-security-quits-after-clash-doge-over-data-report

TOLERANCE: Protestors in Denver are openly calling for public executions of President Trump and Elon Musk.

• https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1892275301410824273

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