Former President Donald Trump was on a roll Friday evening at the California GOP Convention, using his speaking time to cover a range of topics facing the Golden State — including Cali&#8217;s abundance of lousy politicians.
During the speech, which lasted north of 90 minutes, the Republican primary frontrunner told the crowd, &#8220;The mission to help you liberate California from communist rule begins at noon on Inauguration Day 2025.&#8221;
He then lit into leftists from up and down the California coast.
&#8220;Together, we will take on the ultra left-wing liars, losers, creeps, perverts, and freaks who are devouring the future of this state like a swarm of locusts,&#8221; he said to applause.
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&#8220;And we&#8217;ll stand up to up to crazy Nancy  — who ruined San Francisco,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;How&#8217;s her husband doing, by the way, anybody knows? And she&#8217;s against building a wall at our border. Even though she has a wall around her house. Which obviously didn&#8217;t do a very good job.&#8221;
That line grew a smattering of applause.
&#8220;But then you have Kamala Harris. She&#8217;s great,&#8221; he said sarcastically, earning boos for the former California senator.
Trump then touched upon Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who encouraged her supporters in 2018 to harass Trump Cabinet members, &#8220;in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.&#8221;
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June 2018: Maxine Waters calls for attacks on Trump admin: &quot;If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/pVPiXpQMq1">pic.twitter.com/pVPiXpQMq1</a>
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&#8220;Maxine Waters, very nice woman,&#8221; Trump said Friday. &#8220;How come she can say things so violently, &#8216;You will go with and attack them in a restaurant you&#8217;ll do this, that,&#8217; nothing happens. If I say, &#8216;peacefully and patriotically,&#8217; [then] &#8216;Oh, there&#8217;s an Insurrection going on here.&#8217; Maxine Waters&#8230; If  I ever spoke like her, it would be the electric chair times 15 for me.&#8221;
During that section of the address, Trump also ripped Governor Gavin Newsom, and Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff.
His speech drew laughs from the audience and earned praise on social media.
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Donald Trump LIVE from Anaheim, California RAILING against the Gold State&#39;s insane politicians is the BEST thing you&#39;ll see today: 
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Not everybody was a fan of it, though. During the speech, Trump also used expletives, including &#8220;motherf*****.&#8221; His primary opponent, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, also addressed the California GOP and was decidedly less vulgar.
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Two Florida Men go to California
One talks about shale oils and how the Golden State is the “Petri dish for leftism”
The other says “motherfucker” and “shit” and mockingly references how Pelosi’s husband was attacked with a hammer <a href="https://t.co/KGqjHhEvce">https://t.co/KGqjHhEvce</a>
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The former president also unveiled a new imitation of President Joe Biden, mocking him for his inability to exit a stage:
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Donald Trump on Joe Biden: “Does anybody think he’s going to make it to the starting gate? I mean the guy can’t find his way off of a stage” 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/6rky1jh5V1">pic.twitter.com/6rky1jh5V1</a>
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Per the latest, Real Clear Politics polling average, Trump leads California&#8217;s <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/ca/2024_california_republican_presidential_primary-8133.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOP primary</a> by 35 points.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> County and city will spend billions of dollars on its homelessness crisis thanks to a lawsuit settlement reached this month.
Together, the county and city <a href="https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-homeless-lawsuit-settled-10ae69e3306e4ecaec211e9cb270ed7a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to provide tens of thousands more shelter beds by the end of 2026 for residents with mental health and substance abuse issues.
The settlements end a 2020 lawsuit from the LA Alliance for Human Rights, a coalition that includes businesses, residents, landlords, homeless people, and others, who claimed the city and county failed to address the homelessness issue and caused dangerous conditions.
Los Angeles County settled its part of the lawsuit this month, and it was approved Thursday by a federal judge. The city previously reached its settlement agreement earlier this year.
The county agreed to provide 3,000 new mental health and substance use treatment beds.
Meanwhile, the city <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-29/judge-approves-l-a-countys-agreement-for-3-000-new-mental-health-and-substance-use-treatment-beds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to nearly 20,000 new beds of either interim or permanent housing and has said it will <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-los-angeles-eb569af45027d8730b2b30bcdd8b91ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spend</a> around $3 billion over five years to construct the housing.
“This is an extraordinary step forward,” U.S. District Judge David Carter <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-29/judge-approves-l-a-countys-agreement-for-3-000-new-mental-health-and-substance-use-treatment-beds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “It’s going to save a lot of lives.”
Los Angeles <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-los-angeles-eb569af45027d8730b2b30bcdd8b91ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has</a> a huge homelessness population, with more than 69,100 homeless people in Los Angeles County and about 42,000 in Los Angeles itself as of February.
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California has started to take a more direct approach to its homelessness crisis, which is rapidly worsening.
California’s new court-ordered treatment program goes into effect next week, a significant attempt by the state to get a handle on homelessness, as well as the addiction and mental illness issues that come with it.
The Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act program <a href="https://www.chhs.ca.gov/care-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> families of adults suffering from a serious untreated psychotic disorder to file a petition in civil court for court-ordered treatment. Clinicians, first responders, and others can also file a petition. If the petition is approved, a judge can order a year-long care plan, which can be renewed for a second year.
While the program is technically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/californias-mental-illness-homelessness-court-program-takes-effect-next-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voluntary</a>, judges do have leverage. The court cannot force people to take medication or lock them up, but if a person is not successful in CARE Court, that can be used later to put a patient in a mental institution or conservatorship.
California has about 170,000 homeless people, the biggest homeless population in the country, according to a <a href="https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last year from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nearly a third of the country’s homeless people live in California, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/06/20/california-accounts-for-nearly-one-third-of-the-nations-homeless-people/70340309007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a June statewide study from a research group at the University of California, San Francisco.
Other California cities have particularly dire homelessness problems as well, and have struggled to find long-term solutions to curb the problem.
San Francisco has been in the throes of a homelessness crisis for years now, and it has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge">are homeless</a> in the Bay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019.
Last week, Sacramento’s top prosecutor sued the city over its homeless encampments, accusing city officials of allowing the homeless population to become a public nuisance.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-dianne-feinstein-dies-at-90" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed away</a>, and while there is plenty in her decades-long senatorial career to scrutinize, there’s one shining moment that deserves special attention: The time she put a bunch of global warming-indoctrinated kids in their place. 
In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-far-left-group-uses-kids-pressure-feinstein-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February of 2019</a>, the far-Left Sunrise Movement paid a visit to Feinstein’s office in hopes of convincing California’s senior senator to support Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey’s Green New Deal. It didn’t quite go the way the group expected. 
While protesting to Feinstein that only 12 years remained to take bold action against climate change, the group of youngsters demanded that she vote according to their wishes. Feinstein stood with her arms crossed and gave those kids a wake-up call. 
“You know what’s interesting about this group?” Feinstein said to them while standing defiant. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that.”
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This is how <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenFeinstein</a> reacted to children asking her to support the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreenNewDeal</a> resolution &#8212; with smugness + disrespect.
This is a fight for our generation&#39;s survival. Her reaction is why young people desperately want new leadership in Congress. <a href="https://t.co/0zAkaxruMI">pic.twitter.com/0zAkaxruMI</a>
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You can see the kids’ faces change from a look of exuberance to melancholy as they realize that Feinstein won’t budge. 
At one point, a teenager said, &#8220;I hear what you are saying, but we&#8217;re the people who voted for you. You&#8217;re supposed to listen to us.&#8221;
“How old are you?” Feinstein calmly said back.
“Sixteen, I can’t vote,” the teenager replied.
“Well, you didn’t vote for me,” the elected official responded. 
An older woman in the group tried to appeal to Feinstein’s position as a grandmother in a whiny monologue claiming that Feinstein’s alternative to the Green New Deal didn’t go far enough in protecting future generations.
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“You know better than I do, so I think one day you should run for the Senate and then you do it your way,” Feinstein said. 
In watching the video, it seems that this was the first time many of these kids had ever heard the word “no” before. Indeed, Feinstein provided a master class on how to deal with leftists. May she rest in peace.
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Vandalism is becoming almost unavoidable for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco&#8217;s</a> restaurants, a new survey shows.
Only 3% out of 74 restaurants surveyed said they had not experienced graffiti or property crime in the last month, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/sf-graffiti-vandalism-crime-18387993.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a new survey from the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.
The city has spent $1 million on grants for vandalism relief since 2021, and nearly 800 businesses have received $1,000 or $2,000 grants for graffiti, broken windows, or other vandalism, the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/sf-graffiti-vandalism-crime-18387993.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
San Francisco&#8217;s 311 call center has received 10,000 reports of graffiti on commercial buildings and sidewalks in the last six months, the outlet reported.
Now, the San Francisco Police Department has even <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/sf-graffiti-vandalism-crime-18387993.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assigned</a> an officer to investigate graffiti full-time.
Meanwhile, businesses are suffering, and repairing the damage is expensive.
A pizza shop in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission District was recently hit with acid, the owner <a href="https://abc7news.com/graffiti-in-san-francisco-tagging-vandalism-street/13801629/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC7.
&#8220;This is acid so you can&#8217;t just remove it. They have to replace the glass,&#8221; Supreme Pizza owner Leandro Jayme told the outlet. He said replacing even one small glass square costs him $300.
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Some restaurants said they gave up, including Shuggie’s, also in the Mission district, which received a grant, but gave up trying to clean up the almost daily graffiti.
Shoplifting is another major problem for the crime-ridden city.
In the past, San Francisco&#8217;s stores have geared up with unprecedented security measures to try to deter shoplifters.
Grocery stores, pharmacies, and other retailers have installed extreme security devices and paid for private security guards to combat rampant theft.
Supermarket chain Safeway installed exit gates that require customers to scan their receipts in some of its Bay Area grocery stores. A Walgreens locked its freezers with chains in response to shoplifters hitting the store 15 to 20 times a day, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-stores-are-taking-extreme-security-measures-to-fight-petty-theft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to an employee.
In 2021, businesses in San Francisco’ Union Square hired private security to combat the “smash and grab” robberies that plagued the area.
Part of the reason for the shoplifting increase is Proposition 47, a 2014 voter-approved law that made the theft of merchandise under $950 in value a misdemeanor that is often not investigated.
Most Californians <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-stores-are-taking-extreme-security-measures-to-fight-petty-theft">support</a> changing Prop 47 to reinstate penalties for certain thefts, according to a 2022 poll.
Overall crime in San Francisco is slightly down this year, but certain types of violent crime are up, <a href="https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crime-dashboard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to police data.
Murder is up 3% to 40 murders so far. Robberies are up 16% to 2,039 robberies so far. Car thefts are up 11% to 5,038 thefts.
Crime, open-air drug use, and homelessness have caused businesses to flee San Francisco’s downtown, where foot traffic has thinned.
A string of major retailers have recently fled their downtown San Francisco locations. Mall company Westfield, AT&amp;T, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, and two hotels have all <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/att-closing-flagship-store-in-downtown-san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shuttered</a> locations in the city recently.
The city&#8217;s drug crisis hit a grim milestone last month with a record 84 accidental drug overdose deaths in August, <a href="https://sf.gov/data/preliminary-unintentional-drug-overdose-deaths" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to preliminary city data. So far this year, a total of 563 people have <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/18/san-francisco-ties-record-for-most-overdose-deaths-in-a-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> from a drug overdose in San Francisco.
Homelessness has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people are homeless in the Bay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-shares-cryptic-posts-following-news-of-split-from-husband" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britney Spears</a> reportedly got a visit from law enforcement after the singer posted a disturbing video on Instagram this week showing her dancing with two giant butcher knives in her hands, which had many fans concerned about her mental stability.
Sources told <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/28/britney-spears-cops-police-welfare-check-dancing-knife-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TMZ</a> that the video of the 41-year-old pop star was seen by authorities at the Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Department who reportedly went out to the &#8220;Womanizer&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-estranged-husband-jokes-about-paparazzi-while-she-posts-about-pain-amid-divorce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hitmaker&#8217;s</a> California home to check on her.
Once they determined Spears was okay, they left.
Spears responded to the online backlash by defending herself in a follow-up post, writing that people should &#8220;Lighten up about the knives&#8221; because she was just &#8220;copying Shakira.&#8221;
During Shakira&#8217;s recent appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards, the singer performed a belly dancing routine while wielding two large knives.
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Spears wrote in the original <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxo9Zqcr_IS/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> that she “started playing in the kitchen with knives today !!! Don&#8217;t worry they are NOT real knives !!! Halloween is soon !!!”
In a later post, fans noticed she had a bandage on her arm and was no longer dancing with the knives.
Initially, Spears had allowed comments on the first post, but later turned them off. Some commenters included concerns about not only Spears, but also her pets, which could be seen in the background.
&#8220;Those poor dogs just ran scared they need to be rescued and she needs HELP,&#8221; one response said. Another added, &#8220;I&#8217;m now concerned about her having dogs let alone any animals after this video.&#8221;
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One social media user wrote, &#8220;Look at this. The debate is over. Britney Spears is insane and can&#8217;t take care of herself. At this point we even have to ask if she could be a danger to others. For a year she&#8217;s been dancing incessantly in the exact same spot, and now she&#8217;s even waving knives around.”
&#8220;Britney Spears Pulled out the Knives for this latest video…. She&#8217;s Absolutely MENTALLY UNSTABLE,&#8221; another added. &#8220;I guess all the Free Britney Idiots won&#8217;t be satisfied until she Stabs herself or some Unlucky person near by [sic]….&#8221;
However, there were other fans who were quick to defend Spears. &#8220;Shakira did this in front of millions yet not one person said s**t,&#8221; one person wrote. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a big deal, it’s literally fake knives.&#8221;
&#8220;Look at her form in this video!&#8221; another added. &#8220;She&#8217;s not going to hurt anyone.&#8221;
In November 2021, a judge terminated Spears&#8217; nearly 14-year conservatorship, which was controlled by her father, Jamie Spears.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California&#8217;s</a> new court-ordered treatment program goes into effect next week, a significant attempt by the state to get a handle on California&#8217;s addiction, mental illness, and homelessness crises.
The Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act program <a href="https://www.chhs.ca.gov/care-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> families of adults suffering from a serious untreated psychotic disorder to file a petition in civil court for court-ordered voluntary treatment. Clinicians, first responders, and others can also file a petition.
If the petition is approved, a judge can order a year-long care plan, which can be renewed for a second year. The person will be connected with a treatment team, as well as a housing plan.
&#8220;Although homelessness has many faces in California, among the most tragic is the face of the sickest who suffer from treatable mental health conditions,&#8221; the California Health and Human Services Agency <a href="https://www.chhs.ca.gov/care-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> on its website.
The program targets the most severely mentally ill among California&#8217;s vast homeless population, many of whom also have substance abuse issues. It <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/californias-care-court-program-tackle-mental-illness-starts/story?id=103461370#:~:text=Under%20CARE%20%2D%2D%20which%20stands,psychotic%20disorder%2C%20such%20as%20schizophrenia." target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not apply</a> to mental illnesses like anxiety disorders, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, the court can order medication, but program participants cannot be forced to take it.
California has about 170,000 homeless people, the biggest homeless population in the country, according to a <a href="https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last year from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nearly a third of the country’s homeless people live in California, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/06/20/california-accounts-for-nearly-one-third-of-the-nations-homeless-people/70340309007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a June statewide study from a research group at the University of California, San Francisco.
Some California cities have particularly dire homeless problems and have struggled to find long-term solutions to curb the problem.
San Francisco has been in the throes of a homelessness crisis for years now, and it has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge">are homeless</a> in the Bay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019.
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Last week, Sacramento’s top prosecutor sued the city over its homeless encampments, accusing city officials of allowing the homeless population to become a public nuisance.
Under the CARE court program, a petition for treatment must also include an affidavit from a licensed mental health professional saying they <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least tried</a> to examine the person multiple times recently, or the petitioner must submit evidence the person was detained for at least two periods of intensive treatments.
Seven counties including San Francisco, San Diego, and Orange must launch pilot programs by October 1. The rest of California&#8217;s counties must launch their CARE Court programs by the end of next year.
Counties will receive state funding for the program, including for new housing units, treatment, and behavioral health services.
Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has touted the plan as a way to help homeless Californians get treatment instead of being incarcerated or involuntarily hospitalized.
“CARE Court means new hope for thousands of Californians with untreated mental health and substance abuse issues,” Newsom <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/01/governor-newsom-and-counties-begin-care-court-implementation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in December.
&#8220;While we watch other places in America move swiftly towards more involuntary hospitalization, in California, we’re doing it the right way – community based care, a focus on housing, and accountability for everyone involved,” the governor said.
The program takes effect on October 1.

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Pro-gun owner groups immediately served a lawsuit to California officials after Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed nearly two dozen anti-gun laws on Tuesday — which were designed to control concealed-carry rules and impose a new tax on firearm and ammunition sales.
“This is just the latest assault on our rights in California,&#8221; Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America (GOA), told The Daily Wire in an emailed statement. &#8220;Just as concerning, Governor Gavin Newsom has already made his anti-gun intentions quite clear: he wants to effectively repeal the Second Amendment. Sadly, his acknowledgment that doing so would be the only way to enact more gun control did not dissuade him from violating his oath when he signed this law into effect, but we are fully prepared to fight back.&#8221;
Pratt and the GOA teamed up with Gun Owners of California (GOC) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) to challenge one of the 23 laws signed by Newsom this week, which stem from Newsom&#8217;s effort to maintain his image as one of the nation&#8217;s gun control leaders.
The law — SB 2 — requires gun owners to undergo more training hours, increase costs associated with permits, and prohibit concealed carrying in areas deemed &#8220;sensitive places,&#8221; including all private commercial property unless expressly permitted by the owner. Other detailed provisions include requiring gun licensing authorities to conduct in-person interviews with applicants, review character references, and social media activity and other public statements to decide if the person poses a risk to public safety.
&#8220;While radical judges continue to strip away our ability to keep people safe, California will keep fighting — because gun safety laws work,&#8221; Newsom said in a <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/09/26/governor-newsom-strengthens-californias-nation-leading-gun-safety-laws/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>, which details the new laws and touts California&#8217;s gun death rate that <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021 data</a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked as 43rd out of 50 states with 9 deaths for every 100,000 people.
But according to the gun activist groups, the measure is &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; and they have stated they would explicitly go after the &#8220;sensitive places&#8221; provision of the law.
&#8220;SB 2 creates a patchwork quilt of locations where Second Amendment rights may and may not be exercised, thus making exercise of the right so impractical and legally risky in practice that ordinary citizens will be deterred from even attempting to exercise their rights in the first place,&#8221; the legal filing reads.
Sam Paredes, on behalf of the board for GOF and in his role as the executive director of Gun Owners of California, told The Daily Wire in an emailed statement, &#8220;Pro-gun groups in California have had success when pushing back on legislation like this – just look at our victory last week against the state&#8217;s magazine ban.&#8221;
&#8220;And just like in that case, we are confident SB 2 will be overturned,&#8221; Paredes added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been warning governors and legislatures across the country since the Bruen decision that these &#8216;response bills&#8217; will not stand, but unfortunately, many have still been pushed through. That won&#8217;t stop us however – states should fall in line, or we will make them.&#8221;
The California Rifle and Pistol Association also filed a lawsuit to stop the law, which derived from the U.S. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-scotus-strikes-down-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a> earlier this year in the case of New York State Rifle &amp; Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen that deemed longtime restrictions New York placed on carrying concealed firearms violates Americans&#8217; Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
“These laws will not make us safer,&#8221; Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, told The Associated Press. &#8220;They are an unconstitutional retaliatory and vindictive response to the Supreme Court’s affirmation that the Second Amendment protects an individuals’ right to choose to own a firearm for sport or to defend your family. They are being challenged, and the second they are signed, the clock starts ticking towards a judgment striking them down.”
Most of the new gun laws Californians face stem from Newsom’s effort to maintain his image as one of the nation’s gun control leaders. However, SB 2 and another measure stood out among gun owner groups.
Gun and ammunition sales taxes imposed by the federal government already take 10% or 11%, depending on the type of gun. But under California&#8217;s AB 28 law, the state adds another 11% tax on firearms and ammunition sold by manufacturers and dealers to generate $160 million annually to fund school safety and prevention programs.
The California Rifle &amp; Pistol Assn. <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-26/gavin-newsom-gun-control-bills-signed-taxes-ammunition-concealed-carry-bruen-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> wrote in opposition to AB 28, saying the law would &#8220;unjustifiably place the entire burden of funding efforts to address illegal gun violence on the backs of law-abiding citizens who legally purchase and lawfully use firearms and ammunition.&#8221;
Other opponents of the measure reportedly argued it would dissuade low-income communities from hunting and shooting sports as it would become unaffordable for lawful gun owners to bear the tax burden.
Newsom reportedly acknowledged the new measures would likely fail legal challenges already filed against the state.
&#8220;It may mean nothing if the federal courts are throwing them out,&#8221; Newsom said, according to The Associated Press. &#8220;We feel very strongly that these bills meet the (new standard), and they were drafted accordingly. But I&#8217;m not naive about the recklessness of the federal courts and the ideological agenda.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Malibu</a> mayor Bruce Lee Silverstein is not happy about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kourtney Kardashian</a> seemingly getting special treatment after her team allegedly misrepresented a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">party</a> they hosted on behalf of the celebrity. 
On Saturday, Silverstein published a lengthy Facebook post he <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brucesilverstein.org/posts/pfbid0GjZtgLAm9Av1Xutc4bqzNQrC6De2yBrDZc5qNk9BYC9KpZcgjruHt8puubbAG7hKl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">titled</a>: “City of Malibu Continues to Place Celebrities and the Uber Wealthy Over Residents: City Staff Sells Out to Kardashians and Grants Emergency Expedited Permit for Large Event in a Vacant Single-Family Home in Private Neighborhood.”
Silverstein wrote that on Thursday, September 21, he noticed trucks unloading furniture and boxes into the house next door to his own. The property was for sale for a year, he noted. After inquiring about the new owners, the mayor said he discovered the house had been rented for an “influencer event” hosted by Kourtney Kardashian.
“Poolside With Poosh” was put on in conjunction with Kardashian’s wellness website. Silverstein complained that on the filed permit, the event was “represented to be a baby shower” and was said to be “hosted by the owner of the property.” 
“Both of those representations are contrary to what the event planner told me – which was that the house is being ‘rented’ for an ‘influencer event,’” Silverstein wrote. “Obviously one story or the other is false.”
Silverstein said he told the Poosh team that they needed a “Special Event Permit” and went on to report the “unpermitted event” to the City’s Code Enforcement department. 
City staff allegedly told Silverstein that they would issue a cease and desist order on the day of the event, Friday, September 22. But then he said he heard nothing but “radio silence” until he was told at 6:07 pm that “an emergency expedited Special Event permit had been granted” for the party.
Silverstein said he was frustrated that the city was willing to move “heaven and earth” for &#8220;a wealthy celebrity&#8221; when &#8220;our residents are required to wait days, weeks and even months for such attention respecting matters of much greater concern than a celebrity party.”
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He reported that the party had a “strong odor of marijuana that could be detected standing on the street outside the event venue while the setup occurred – which I have never before detected in the neighborhood.”
Silverstein later wrote an updated Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brucesilverstein.org/posts/pfbid02AMfwefywKnNEHi43y86pyTizMyV71mrE26FMvHQgvoaMjpFiUPBo66EvsTDqfDHDl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, saying he wasn’t accusing Kardashian of lying. 
“I did not accuse Kourtney Kardashian of fraud or lying,” the attorney wrote via Facebook on Sunday, September 24, sharing various headlines about his original rant. 
He posted a photo of the original permit and stood by his previous quoted statements. 
“It states that the event was a &#8216;girlfriends day at the pool.&#8217; Note that the line for a promotional event is not checked. Without regard to the nominal title of the event, it was a ‘promotional event’ — which was required to be certified to the City,” Silverstein wrote.

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Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) hopes for GOP victories in the state legislature in the 2023 election as he eyes a path to end Virginia’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. 
Under Democratic Governor Ralph Northam, Virginia joined 16 other states in adhering to California’s air quality standards designed to push EV sales while ending the sale of new gas-powered vehicles. A spokeswoman for Youngkin said Monday that the mandate “defies common sense” and has had poor results in California, The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/youngkin-looks-cut-ev-mandate-after-november-elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
&#8220;It defies common sense that Democrats in Virginia have continued to outsource decision-making on energy policy,&#8221; Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter told the Examiner. &#8220;California&#8217;s requirements for their citizens should not be a one-size-fits-all solution for Virginia.&#8221;
Virginia Democrats blocked an attempt to end the mandate in January as the party retains control of the state Senate, but Republicans, who hold a majority in the state House, look to take control of the state Senate in the state elections in November. Every seat in the state legislature is up for re-election as Republicans hope to continue the momentum the party gained from the 2021 election when it gained control of the lower chamber and the executive branch. 
Youngkin’s offices slammed state Democrats for keeping the EV mandate in place which was decided by unelected officials in California.  
&#8220;In a partisan fashion, Virginia&#8217;s Democrats blocked Gov. Youngkin&#8217;s legislative proposal this year to remove Virginia from the California model,&#8221; Porter said. &#8220;Their actions have allowed Virginia to be hostage to the extreme policies of unelected bureaucrats in California. We have seen the results of the poor energy planning in California, and we will work to ensure that is not the energy future for Virginia.&#8221;
The air quality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-regulators-approve-banning-new-gas-car-sales" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rules</a> put in place by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will go into effect at incremental levels in 2026 before building to a 100% ban of new gas car sales in 2035. The ban was proposed by CARB last year to achieve Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s goal of reducing emissions by eliminating the sale of new gas cars by 2035. Seventeen states, including Virginia, adopted the CARB emissions rules, implementing standards set by a board of bureaucrats in California in jurisdictions from New Mexico and Nevada to as far east as New York and Maine. 
In January, Youngkin decried the California board making decisions for people in Virginia. 
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&#8220;What the previous administration did was outsourced it to California to bureaucrats that aren&#8217;t even elected by Virginians to dictate whether we buy cars that are powered by electricity or by fossil fuels,&#8221; Youngkin said. &#8220;This should be a decision taken by Virginians.&#8221;
The Republican governor in January also stopped a potential Ford EV battery plant from opening up in his state over its connection to the Chinese Communist Party. Youngkin refused to consider the Ford plant, which would have been operated in partnership with Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology, saying, the Chinese-owned company would “try to tap into taxpayer benefits at the state level as well as the federal level that were specifically designated for non-Chinese communist party entities.”

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A new California law will require all of the state&#8217;s public schools to soon have a gender-neutral bathroom.
Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/09/23/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-supporting-lgbtq-californians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> the law on Saturday.
Under the new bathroom law, public schools teaching first through 12th grade must have at least one gender-neutral bathroom available for students by 2026.
California already <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-xpm-2013-aug-12-la-me-pc-gov-brown-acts-on-transgender-bill-20130812-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requires</a> K-12 public schools to allow students to use the bathroom of the opposite sex if it matches their gender identity, due to a 2013 law.
However, the new law expands the bathroom requirements to explicitly require another gender-neutral restroom.
Several other bills Newsom signed on Saturday <a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/ap-california-gov-gavin-newsom-signs-bills-to-enhance-the-states-protections-for-lgbtq-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">geared toward</a> LGBT youth as well.
One bill involves &#8220;LGBTQ cultural competency <a href="https://trackbill.com/bill/california-assembly-bill-5-the-safe-and-supportive-schools-act/2282281/#:~:text=AB%205%2C%20Zbur.-,The%20Safe%20and%20Supportive%20Schools%20Act.,and%20provide%20instruction%20to%20pupils." target="_blank" rel="noopener">training</a>&#8221; for public school teachers and staff. Another new law <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requires</a> foster care families to &#8220;demonstrate an ability and willingness to meet the needs of a child, regardless of the child’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.&#8221;
“California is proud to have some of the most robust laws in the nation when it comes to protecting and supporting our LGBTQ+ community, and we’re committed to the ongoing work to create safer, more inclusive spaces for all Californians,” Newsom said in a statement upon signing the law.
“These measures will help protect vulnerable youth, promote acceptance, and create more supportive environments in our schools and communities,” the governor said.
<a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/ap-california-gov-gavin-newsom-signs-bills-to-enhance-the-states-protections-for-lgbtq-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to The Associated Press, the gender-neutral bathroom law &#8220;was spurred&#8221; by a Los Angeles area school district that recently implemented a policy on student gender transitions.
The Chino Valley Unified School District <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-state-official-escorted-out-of-heated-school-board-meeting-on-gender-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> a new policy in July requiring schools to inform parents if their child begins identifying as a new gender that does not match the one on their birth certificate. This includes if a student asks to use the bathroom or play on the sports teams of the opposite sex.
During the school board meeting at which Chino Valley district adopted the policy, California’s superintendent of public instruction Tony Thurmond was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/second-california-school-district-adopts-mandatory-gender-transition-parental-notification-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">escorted</a> out by security after he showed up to argue against it.
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Last month, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley district over the parental notification policy.
A judge has temporarily halted the district&#8217;s policy as the lawsuit proceeds.
The Chino Valley school board president responded to the state&#8217;s lawsuit by accusing state officials of “overstepping their boundaries.”
“This is a ploy to try to scare all the other boards across California from adopting the policy,” Chino Valley school board president Sonja Shaw <a href="https://abc7.com/chino-rob-bonta-investigation-gender-identity/13603292/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “I won’t back down and will stand in the gap to protect our kids from big government bullies.”
In August, the Murrieta Valley Unified School District south of Los Angeles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/second-california-school-district-adopts-mandatory-gender-transition-parental-notification-policy">adopted</a> a policy that mirrors the Chino Valley policy.
The California attorney general quickly denounced the Murrieta Valley district’s new policy as well, calling it a “forced outing policy.”
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Throughout history, the greatest threat to free speech has always been authoritarian governments seeking to suppress dissent. That is still true today, even in America. Thankfully, a robust First Amendment has proved a necessary and valuable <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/missouri-v-biden-fifth-circuit-tech-censorship-white-house-covid-pandemic-86051c19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bulwark</a> against censorious government autocrats. Historically, those on the political Left have proven to be some of the fiercest defenders of broad speech protections. Not so today. To be sure, many on the political Left still pay lip service to the notion of a strong First Amendment. But far too often, they do so while actively promoting ideologies that ultimately render those protections worthless.
The ongoing debate over males participating in female sports is a prime example. Radical activists regularly <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/04/21/riley-gaines-sfsu-growing-attack-free-speech-college-campuses/11695771002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shout down and physically assault</a> anyone who dares to assert that men should not compete in women’s sports. The typical response from many leftists is to ignore the criminals committing violent acts against peaceful speakers. Instead, they blame the victim. They do so by advancing a noxious idea: the right to free speech does not protect anyone from the consequences of that speech. In other words, if someone does not like what you have to say, they have the right to punch you in the face, physically disrupt and shut down your speech, or chase you out of the room and restrain you in a room for hours while waiting for police protection.
This was the prevailing liberal response to a recent event held at the Mary L. Stevens Branch of the Yolo County Library. On August 20, Moms for Liberty – Yolo County, CA organized an event entitled “Forum for Fair and Safe Sport for Girls.” The event was scheduled to feature various speakers including Kim Jones, co-founder of Independent Council on Women’s Sports; Sophia Lorey, Outreach Coordinator at California Family Council and former collegiate athlete; Erin Friday, co-lead of Western Region of Our Duty-USA; and Allie Snyder, concerned mother and women’s rights advocate. 
Unfortunately, a library official shut down the event almost immediately. Why? Because one of the speakers used the phrase “men in women’s sports.” According to the official, California law prohibits use of the term “men” when referring to men who identify as women.
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After video of the <a href="https://www.californiafamily.org/2023/08/california-public-library-silences-female-athlete/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">library shutting down</a> the event was shared on social media, the library allegedly received three separate bomb threats. The organizers of the event issued a statement denouncing the threats. They made clear that violence is never an appropriate response to speech you disagree with.
In response to this situation, the Sacramento Bee published an <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article278881104.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a>. The writer agreed that the organizers engaged in protected speech and that the library likely violated their First Amendment rights. Nevertheless, the writer asserted that the event organizers are responsible for the threats. How? Because the views espoused by the organizers are also allegedly held by the perpetrators of the bomb threats.
This is nonsensical. First, it is unfair to assume that the threats were made by someone sympathetic to the event. More importantly, no one is responsible (legally or morally) for another person’s unlawful actions simply because they may share similar views on certain topics. If this were true, Martin Luther King, Jr. would be responsible for all the violent acts of the Black Panther Party. That’s a ridiculous notion. But those advancing this argument are not worried about logic or reason. Regardless of their high-sounding rhetoric, their goal is the same as every other autocrat: shut down all dissent through whatever means necessary. Here, they conflate speech with violence in an attempt to shut down one side of the debate.
Our country’s history is rife with debates on all manner of controversial topics including slavery, women’s suffrage, prohibition, and numerous wars. Many on both sides of these debates undoubtedly advanced arguments that were offensive to the other side. Yet, we trusted previous generations to have the intelligence and strength of character to evaluate the merits of these crucial debates without claiming the other side’s speech was equivalent to violence.
I believe our country is better for having gone through the slow and painful process of debating controversial topics involving competing deeply held beliefs.
The same holds true for our current debates on essential topics such as immigration, climate change, abortion, freedom of speech, religious freedom, and gender identity. The outcome of these debates has the potential to significantly affect the life of every American, either for good or for ill. Exercising the God-given right to participate in these great debates is at the heart of what it means to be an American.
Tyson Langhofer serves as senior counsel and director of the Center for Academic Freedom at <a href="https://adflegal.org/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>, which is representing Moms for Liberty – Yolo County, CA and the other speakers at the event.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. 
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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> law banning possession and sale of gun magazines holding more than 10 rounds was blocked by a federal judge who said the law was unconstitutional in a decision released on Friday.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California Roger Benitez wrote in a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.533515/gov.uscourts.casd.533515.149.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">71-page ruling</a> that law-abiding citizens had constitutional rights to own magazines of greater than 10 rounds, and that there was no historic legal precedent giving California the right to pass such a law.
“Removable firearm magazines of all sizes are necessary components of semiautomatic firearms. Therefore, magazines come within the text of the constitutional declaration that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” Benitez wrote. “Because millions of removable firearm magazines able to hold between 10 and 30 rounds are commonly owned by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, including self-defense, and because they are reasonably related to service in the militia, the magazines are presumptively within the protection of the Second Amendment.”
The judge said that California did not justify “its sweeping ban and dispossession mandate,” which was first passed via ballot initiative back in 2016.
“One government solution to a few mad men with guns is a law that makes into criminals responsible, law-abiding people wanting larger magazines simply to protect themselves. The history and tradition of the Second Amendment clearly supports state laws against the use or misuse of firearms with unlawful intent, but not the disarmament of the law-abiding citizen,” he wrote.
“The adoption of the Second Amendment was a freedom calculus decided long ago by our first citizens who cherished individual freedom with its risks more than the subservient security of a British ruler or the smothering safety of domestic lawmakers. The freedom they fought for was worth fighting for then, and that freedom is entitled to be preserved still,” the judge added.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1705383651159298416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decried</a> the ruling, referring to Benitez as a “right-wing zealot with no regard to human life.”
“Wake up, America. Our gun safety laws will continue to be thrown out by NRA-owned federal judges until we pass a Constitutional Amendment to protect our kids and end the gun violence epidemic in America,” Newsom posted to X.
Benitez’s order won’t take effect for 10 days as California Attorney General Rob Bonta moves to get a stay on the ruling.

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