Weekly news brief and commentary from @funder Scott Dworkin. No fluff, all straight to the point.

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Trump pardoned him. New York didn’t. A Jan. 6 rioter just pleaded to a state felony. Presidents don’t get to wipe that. dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-…
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Born in Denver. Birth certificate in the house. Family drove it to ICE. Agents wouldn’t look at it. They deported him anyway. He walked back across in August on that same piece of paper. dworkinsubstack.com/p/they-t…
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USPS issued the mail-ballot rule on a Friday night. Three days later the Supreme Court said no final rule existed yet. Judge Talwani had a word for that: feigned. Friday she blocked the mandatory parts again. dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-…
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Maryland Republicans won in two courts to keep a question off the ballot. Thursday night the state Supreme Court put it back anyway. The chair of the party running the no campaign is Andy Harris’s wife. dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps…
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Trump’s STILL a felon. A 92-year old judge just told him no for the third time! dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-…
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Five people in Trenton, Ohio. 336 signatures. City council decided they actually needed 820. Yesterday the state Supreme Court told the council to put it on the ballot. dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-whis…
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$3.47 gas, a wink at being the 47th, and a supplier in court saying that fuel was never paid for. The photo-op has an invoice now.
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Kennedy told the Senate Samoa had nothing to do with vaccines. His own letter to the prime minister used the word eight times.
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Jesse Watters wanted Sharia and culture-war bait. Abdul El-Sayed kept talking about groceries. That’s how you walk into their studio and still set the terms. dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-…
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A Democrat just flipped a countywide seat in Jacksonville that Republicans had locked down. She cleared 50% in a three-way race. The budget math on that council just changed. dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-tr…
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They charged a former Olympian with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Then an email surfaced proving the pool was already falling apart before he ever arrived. Somebody held the proof while a grand jury voted. dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-pard…
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Moms for Liberty’s stronghold in Sarasota just collapsed. Two progressive candidates flipped the board on Tuesday night. The conservative majority is gone. This was supposed to be their fortress. dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps…
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A senior GOP staffer who worked for Sen. John Cornyn for five years just defected to work for Democrat James Talarico in Texas. He didn't go quietly either—calling Ken Paxton "the most corrupt, self-dealing politician in Texas." Details on today's report: dworkinsubstack.com/p/republ…
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