The Oakland A’s are officially moving to Sacramento starting in the 2025 season for three seasons with an option for a fourth before making their expected move to Las Vegas.
Vivek Ranadivé, the owner of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, joined Athletics owner John Fisher to announce the move on Thursday. The team will play its home games at Sutter Health Park, where the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats currently play.
“I’m thrilled to welcome the A&#8217;s to Sutter Health Park, where players and fans alike can enjoy a world-class baseball experience and create unforgettable memories,” Ranadivé <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article287381405.html#campaignName=sacramento_breaking_newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “Today marks the next chapter of professional sports in Sacramento. The passion of our fans is second to none, and this is an incredible opportunity to showcase one of the most dynamic and vibrant markets in the country.”
“We look forward to making Sutter Health Park our home through our move to Las Vegas,” Fisher added. “We extend our appreciation to the Kings and the City of West Sacramento for hosting the A’s while we work to complete our new ballpark in Las Vegas.”
“We explored several locations for a temporary home, including the Oakland Coliseum,” Fisher continued. “Even with the long-standing relationship and good intentions on all sides in the negotiations with Oakland, the conditions to achieve an agreement seemed out of reach. We understand the disappointment this news brings to our fans, as this season marks our final one in Oakland. Throughout this season, we will honor and celebrate our time in Oakland, and will share additional details soon.”
The Athletics were founded in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics, the American League’s counterpart to the National League Philadelphia Phillies. The majority owner, Ben Shibe, was actually a minority owner in the Phillies; the legendary manager Connie Mack was not only the team’s initial manager (and would be for the next 50 years)  but also owned 25% of the team. The name was taken from the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia, which had been one of the original members of the National League when it was founded in 1876 but folded after one season.
The early years for the franchise were halcyon days, as the team won pennants in 1902, 1905, 1910, 1911, 1913, and 1914 and won the World Series in 1910, 1911, and 1913. In the late 1920s, the Athletics fielded one of the finest teams ever assembled, winning pennants from 1929-1931 and winning the World Series in 1929-1930.
Fallow decades followed, and at the end of 1954, the Athletics were sold and moved to Kansas City for the 1955 season. In the years that followed, the Athletics were often accused of acting like a farm team for the New York Yankees; between 1955 and 1959, the A’s and Yankees made 16 trades involving 61 players. The Yankees procured many star players, including Roger Maris (who would break Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record and win two MVP awards with the Yankees), third baseman Clete Boyer, and pitcher Ralph Terry.
Charlie Finley bought the team in 1960, and later moved them to Oakland in 1968, paving the way for the Oakland dynasty of the early 1970s. They became one of the few teams in baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships (1972-1974) with a star-studded lineup that included an indomitable starting rotation of Catfish Hunter, Ken Holtzman, Vida Blue, and Blue Moon Odom along with reliever Rollie Fingers. They also boasted Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, and Joe Rudi. The team later won the World Series in 1989 with a team featuring Jose Canseco, Mark McGuire, and Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley.
“When I saw that this morning, it kind of hit me in the gut,” Eckersley said of the move to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/athletics/article/dennis-eckersley-former-a-s-saddened-19386125.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>. “Ugh. That’s my true reaction.”

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Sacramento&#8217;s city council unanimously approved a resolution on Tuesday declaring it a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; for trans-identifying people.
The resolution declares the city a &#8220;place of safety&#8221; for trans-identifying people and says Sacramento will not cooperate with states seeking to enforce laws relating to transgender medical services.
&#8220;California has been a leader in protecting the rights of transgender individuals to access care, but many states across the nation are moving in the opposite direction,&#8221; the resolution <a href="https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/item-07-2024-00772-resolution-declaring-the-city-of-sacramento-a-sanctuary-city-for-transgender-people-66025b56a648c.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>. &#8220;In preparation of future legislation that may criminalize those providing or seeking gender-affirming care and given the Council’s stated values of equity and inclusion, it is important for the City of Sacramento to be proactive in reiterating our commitment to transgender rights and equal protections for transgender people by declaring ourselves a sanctuary city and a place of safety for transgender people.&#8221;
The resolution states that &#8220;no city resources — including staff time — would be used to detain individuals seeking care, or otherwise to cooperate with jurisdictions seeking to enforce laws criminalizing gender affirming care in other jurisdictions.&#8221;
&#8220;The City of Sacramento is already a sanctuary city for immigrants; this proposed resolution would enact the same protections for transgender individuals,&#8221; the resolution notes.
More than 30 people showed up at City Hall, some supporting and some opposing the resolution during more than an hour of public comment.
“We cannot be giving children cross-sex hormones. We can’t give them surgeries to change their sex,” Beth Bourne, a member of a Sacramento chapter of Moms for Liberty, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/sacramento-sanctuary-city-transgender-people-rcna145287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> KCRA 3. “This sanctuary city is saying that we will promote the idea that people can be born in the wrong body.”
Councilmember Katie Valenzuela, who introduced the resolution and is a <a href="https://www.cityofsacramento.gov/mayor-council/district-4/About" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of Sacramento&#8217;s Democratic Socialists of America, said it is &#8220;the sort of thing that you hope is never necessary,&#8221; but &#8220;it&#8217;s important to be realistic.&#8221;
&#8220;You hope it never gets triggered. That there&#8217;s never anyone coming to Sac who is potentially fleeing law enforcement for the sole reason of looking for health care,&#8221; said Valenzuela.
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The same day the resolution passed, Valenzuela <a href="https://fox40.com/news/local-news/sacramento/katie-valenzuela-concedes-sacramento-city-council-race-to-phil-pluckebaum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conceded</a> her race for re-election to her opponent.
So far, 24 states have enacted restrictions on children accessing transgender medical services like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries like double mastectomies and genital surgeries.
Those states <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ban-gender-affirming-care-minors-allowed-effect-indiana-107612984#:~:text=The%20states%20that%20have%20enacted,Oklahoma%2C%20South%20Dakota%2C%20Tennessee%2C">are</a> Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
The city adopted the resolution just days before &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221; on March 31.

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California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom canceled the annual live public Christmas tree lighting that had been scheduled for Tuesday because of “protests across the country.”
Although Newsom’s office didn’t specify which protests had triggered the decision, the likelihood is that pro-Palestinian protests which have sometimes <a href="https://www.today.com/video/pro-palestinian-protest-outside-dnc-headquarters-turns-violent-198008389843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">turned</a> violent or disrupted the annual lightings of the giant Christmas trees at Rockefeller Center <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/which-one-of-yall-want-to-get-derek-chauvind-anti-israel-activists-attack-nypd-at-ny-christmas-tree-lighting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in Manhattan</a> or in <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/anti-israel-protesters-disrupt-christmas-tree-lighting-in-ypsilanti-michigan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> had catalyzed the decision, especially as the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights had planned to march to the state Capitol Tuesday night. The pro-Palestinian group told <a href="https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/california-capitol-christmas-tree-lighting-ceremony-virtual/46042922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KCRA 3</a> it wanted to &#8220;out Gov. Gavin Newsom for hiding from the public because he doesn&#8217;t want to face their anger at his shameful stance in regard to the genocide in Gaza.&#8221;
&#8220;As we continue to see protests across the country impacting the safety of events of all scales – and for the safety and security of all participating members and guests including children and families – the ceremony this year will be virtual,&#8221; a Newsom spokesperson had stated on Tuesday afternoon. &#8220;The program is unchanged and viewers can tune in Wednesday evening to watch this year’s festivities.&#8221;
KCRA 3 spoke with sources who said Newsom had been planning to host the event, at which a market featuring small businesses and musical performances would be present. On November 29, the Midtown Business Association posted that the event would be virtual, stating, &#8220;As we continue to see protests across the country impacting the safety of events of all scales, we have decided not to continue with the holiday market as planned on Tuesday, December 5. We will provide updates on our holiday plans and family-friendly festivities at a future date.”
On Monday, the California Highway Patrol erected barriers over much of the building&#8217;s west side lawn, where the tree stands, along with signs reading, &#8220;KEEP OUT, NO TRESPASSING&#8221; and warnings that the area was under 24-hour video surveillance.
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In mid-November, pro-Palestinian demonstrators <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/19/california-democratic-party-pro-palestinian-protesters-00127964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed past security guards</a> and stormed into the convention center in Sacramento where the California Democratic Party was having a meeting; the party had to cancel planned caucuses. Chair Rusty Hicks said Jewish attendees “were openly intimidated and harassed.”

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A top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> Democrat said on Sunday that there would be consequences for any delegate who helped a group of anti-Israel protesters that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-protesters-disrupt-california-democratic-convention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interrupted a party convention</a> in Sacramento on Saturday.
Rusty Hicks, a <a href="https://cadem.org/team/rusty-hicks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former union leader</a> who is now chairman of the California Democratic Party (CDP), said an investigation is underway into the disruption that led officials to nix some events the night before for security reasons, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/ceasefre-democrats-convention-18496428.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the San Francisco Chronicle.</a>
POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/19/california-democratic-party-pro-palestinian-protesters-00127964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Hicks told members, &#8220;Any delegates who actively participated in or aided the furtherance of those activities or events in violation of our party’s code of conduct will be held accountable.&#8221;
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Hundreds of demonstrators pressed their way into the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center and disrupted events as they called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces are fighting Hamas after terrorist attacks in Israel last month.
Hicks said he was &#8220;deeply saddened and disappointed&#8221; by the chaos, noting two security guards sustained injuries and acknowledging Jewish attendees &#8220;were openly intimidated and harassed,&#8221; per POLITICO.
He emphasized, &#8220;Every delegate, volunteer, staff person and attendee has the right to be safe and to feel safe in the peaceful expression of their own voice and viewpoint.&#8221;
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Violations of the <a href="https://cadem.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Code-of-Conduct-UPDATED-7-10-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CDP&#8217;s code of conduct</a>, which explicitly prohibits harassment, &#8220;may result in sanctions including but not limited to private censure, public censure, being prohibited from attending Party events, and removal from a CDP office and/or delegate status.&#8221;
Members of the Jewish community explained their objections to the behavior of the demonstrators at the convention at a time when there has been a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gaza-crisis-antisemitism-us-hamas-israel-palestine-rcna123163" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spike in anti-Semitic incidents</a> across the United States.
&#8220;Anti-Israel protesters stormed the Sacramento Convention Center and shut down the grassroots California Democratic Party Convention. In doing so, they chanted, among other things, ‘from the river to the sea,’ which is a call for the eradication of the State of Israel. They also chanted ‘resistance is justified when people are occupied,’ an apparent reference to Hamas’s October 7 attack — the largest mass murder, rape, and kidnapping of Jews since the Holocaust,&#8221; said the California Legislative Jewish Caucus in a <a href="https://jewishcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/press-release/2023-11-18-california-legislative-jewish-caucus-condemns-storming-democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
“A number of Jewish delegates — who were already very anxious attending the convention, given the spike in antisemitism since the October 7 massacre by Hamas — now believe it is unsafe to participate at all. We must never allow the Democratic Party to be unsafe for anyone,&#8221; the group added. “We fully support the right to protest loudly and vociferously. But storming through security and shutting down a democratic process — particularly with chants calling for the destruction of Israel and appearing to justify the Hamas attack — is completely unacceptable.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sacramento" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sacramento&#8217;s</a> top prosecutor sued the city this week over its homeless encampments, accusing city officials of allowing the homeless population to become a public nuisance.
Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho announced his lawsuit on Tuesday, two months after he first threatened legal action. A companion lawsuit was also filed by residents and business owners.
&#8220;We have an erosion of everyday life,&#8221; Ho <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/21/prosecutor-sacramento-homelessness-lawsuit/70914753007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday during a press conference announcing the lawsuit. &#8220;We forget what it feels like to be safe and that brings us to this lawsuit &#8230; because we need to get people off the streets.&#8221;
Sacramento&#8217;s homeless population has soared over the last several years.
Last year, the city had a record nearly 9,300 homeless people, up 67% from just three years earlier in 2019, <a href="https://sacramentostepsforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PIT-Report-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to last year&#8217;s Point-In-Time Count. The count also reported more than 1,600 tents and 1,100 vehicles being used for shelter, up five times from 2019.
“Enough is enough,” Ho <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/homeless/article279071054.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Sacramento Bee. “We need to address this public safety crisis for both the housed and the unhoused.&#8221;
In his suit, Ho alleged that Sacramento failed to enforce local laws and allowed the city&#8217;s “descent into decay and this utter collapse into chaos.”
Ho has asked the city to enforce city ordinances on problems like sidewalk obstructions, unlawful storage, dumping, fires, and camping, the lawsuit says. He has also asked the city to audit the millions of dollars spent on the homeless crisis, according to the suit.
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Camping is not allowed during the day on City Hall property, the lawsuit says, and Ho has asked the city &#8220;to extend that same protection that they give to themselves to the rest of the City,&#8221; but to no avail.
&#8220;The unhoused deserve to feel and be safe,&#8221; the lawsuit states, adding that nine out of 10 women who are chronically homeless have been victims of sexual assault.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not compassionate to let someone die in the sweltering summer sun or freeze to death in the cold winter night. It&#8217;s not compassionate to allow unsafe conditions to fester so badly that a 14-year-old boy cannot ride his bike to school or a group of little girls can&#8217;t play soccer on a field littered with needles. It&#8217;s not compassionate when someone in a wheelchair cannot use a sidewalk blocked by tents or a small business is forced to close forever due to repeated broken windows and vandalism,&#8221; the lawsuit says.
Other California cities have been struggling with a homeless crisis as well.
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. More than 7,000 people are homeless in San Francisco itself.
In August, San Francisco Mayor London Breed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-mayor-joins-hundreds-of-protesters-urging-9th-circuit-to-scrap-ban-on-city-clearing-homeless-encampments">joined</a> more than 200 protesters to call for an end to a federal restriction on the city’s ability to clear homeless encampments.
Nearly a third of the country&#8217;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.

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On Friday, September 1, the California assembly’s appropriations committee held a <a href="http://cferfoundation.org/posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> in which they <a href="http://billtrack50.com/billdetail/1576426" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to move forward with a bill that would strip California’s Constitution of its protections against racial discrimination. 
Currently, California’s Constitution asserts:
<blockquote>“The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.” </blockquote>
The  bill, called ACA-7, seeks to amend this section of the State Constitution by adding: 
<blockquote>“The State may use state money to fund research-based, or research-informed, and culturally specific programs in any industry, including, but not limited to, public employment, public education, and public contracting, if those programs are established or otherwise implemented by the State for purposes of increasing the life expectancy of, improving educational outcomes for, or lifting out of poverty specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized genders, sexes, or sexual orientations.” </blockquote>
In short, California Democratic lawmakers don’t like the simple yet unequivocal ban on discrimination in the State’s Constitution. They want to replace it with a system where all the California government has to do is find an academic paper or professor claiming that their race-based programs and affirmative action initiatives do, in fact, “improve educational outcomes” or “lift out of poverty” certain minorities, and they can go on discriminating based on race, forcing Californians’ tax dollars to support race-based preferential treatment in perpetuity.
It is quite ironic and very sad that California Democrats have gotten to a point where they are so convinced that they are the ones fighting for justice and individual rights while openly championing a bill that would destroy the protections that grant every American the same rights and opportunities, the protections that allow every American to be assessed based on their own merit and character, regardless of the color of their skin. Of course, the supporters of ACA-7 believe that certain groups — blacks, for example — have been so marginalized by past discrimination and by current institutional racism, that treating everyone the same and providing everyone with the same opportunities regardless of race is actually a form of injustice. Yes, there are real income and achievement gaps for blacks and Hispanics in this country. But racial discrimination will not solve those problems. Racial discrimination should never be the answer in any context. It will create a country divided into groups constantly fighting over which group gets to be raised up and which group has to be pushed down. ACA-7 is a morally abhorrent bill because it would enshrine that kind of division.
California Democrats likely won’t find my arguments above convincing, but they should still drop ACA-7. Why? Because it’s a losing issue for them. First and foremost, it’s unpopular with voters. According to the Wall Street Journal, ACA-7 is deeply unpopular with <a href="http://wsj.com/articles/california-racial-discrimination-state-constitution-amendment-aca7-d1577878" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asian Americans</a>, who have been waking up to the fact that race-based preferential treatment that throws merit out the window seriously hurts them and their futures. If Democrats go forward with this bill, they will alienate even more of their Asian American voters, who have already begun to shift away because of Democrat policies on crime.
And it’s not just Asian Americans who dislike affirmative action. The same Wall Street Journal op/ed cites a Pew Research survey conducted back in June which found that the majority of Americans believe that considering race and ethnicity in college admissions makes college admissions less fair than more fair. If ACA-7 manages to pass in the state Senate, it will still have to be voted on by Californians in a referendum. The people of California don’t want state-sponsored racial discrimination. That’s why they enshrined anti-discrimination into California’s Constitution in the first place. In all likelihood, ACA-7 will fail in the referendum, and California Democrats will have wasted millions of dollars campaigning for it and gained nothing except disdain from their constituents.
And if somehow Democrats do convince enough Californians to pass this amendment, all that work will eventually come to nothing anyway, because the Supreme Court, which ruled decisively against affirmative action back in June, will strike it down.
California Democrats should abandon ACA-7 immediately. Not only is it racist and unjust, but it is political poison.
Emmie Lo is a Latin teacher and staff writer for <a href="http://colorusunited.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://colorusunited.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1689870524844000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1swFnvQLYWXgsaX1kKg1Tc">Color Us United</a>.
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Time and time again the California State Legislature has shot down policies to address the ever-present fentanyl crisis plaguing our state. The supermajority, which has the power to assign chairmanships to powerful committees, like Public Safety, has rejected four bills in three years. Rejecting these bills shows that some in legislative leadership are not interested in pursuing real consequences that would have prevented the nearly 6,000 California deaths caused by fentanyl. That is why we are taking it to the voters.
Assemblymembers Alanis and Patterson joined me in introducing Assembly Constitutional Amendment (ACA) 12, better known as Alexandra’s Law, to address the unprecedented fentanyl crisis California is facing. Alexandra’s Law is a bipartisan attempt to hold fentanyl dealers accountable by informing convicted fentanyl dealers that subsequent offenses could result in a charge of voluntary manslaughter or murder.
The measure was crafted based on the “Watson Admonition” which was implemented by Democrat Assemblymember Nicole Para with the passage of Assembly Bill 808 in 2007. It provided the foundational element that if you drink and drive under the influence, and you kill someone because of that action, you can be charged with murder. ACA 12 provides that after being convicted of illicitly selling controlled substances, drug dealers would be read an advisement that says illegal substances could be fatal and if you continue to administer illegal drugs and counterfeit pills, and someone dies as a result, you could be charged with murder. Common sense dictates that fentanyl dealers should be held to the same law.
State Senate Bill (SB) 44, ACA 12&#8217;s predecessor bill this year, was a bipartisan bill I proudly co-authored with Senator Tom Umberg, my Democratic colleague in the State Senate. It failed twice in the Senate Public Safety Committee earlier this year. 
Despite bipartisan efforts, SB 44 and the other half a dozen bills seeking to crack down on this epidemic, all failed to advance past the public safety committee. Our state&#8217;s leadership continues to turn a blind eye to this crisis while drug cartels profit billions off the deaths of our youth. The voters of California tend to have common sense when ballot measures are presented to them. That is why we are confident that they will back Alexandra&#8217;s Law and its goal to place harsh penalties on fentanyl dealers that profit off the deaths of California teens.
The namesake for Alexandra&#8217;s Law, Alexandra Capelouto, died one day before Christmas in 2019 after taking one counterfeit pill that contained a deadly dose of fentanyl. Alexandra&#8217;s father, Matt Capelouto, a resident of south Orange County, and many other parents and advocates, have been vocal advocates on this crisis as they fight for justice to be served, but their cries have fallen upon deaf ears. 
ACA 12 will now move through the legislature and then finally to the people of California, who are facing this issue personally and tragically in their communities and need to have a voice on this tragic issue. Law enforcement groups, district attorneys, county sheriffs, concerned parent groups, and many others who are committed to safer communities, all back this measure to stop the sale of illegal fentanyl in our state. 
It&#8217;s time to stop pretending fentanyl is not a serious crisis and take action now. 
When all else fails, let the voters decide.
Diane B. Dixon is an Assembly Member for California’s 72nd Assembly District. She is also a former Newport Beach City Council Member. Follow her on Twitter: @DianeDixonAD72
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Three Christian organizations will host a prayer vigil on the west steps of the California state Capitol in Sacramento on Monday as a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is honored inside by elected officials. 
The California Family Council (CFC), the American Council, and the California Catholic Conference are hosting the vigil in response to Sen. Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-lawmakers-will-honor-anti-catholic-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-member">decision to recognize</a> &#8220;Sister Roma,&#8221; a member of the drag performers accused of mocking Christianity and Catholicism, on the Senate floor. 
“It’s disheartening to see the California Legislature honor a group characterized by its mockery of Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular,” CFC President Jonathan Keller remarked in a <a href="https://www.californiafamily.org/2023/06/ca-religious-groups-to-host-prayer-vigil-while-senate-honors-drag-nun-at-capitol/">press release</a>. “By promoting the profane ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,’ these elected leaders are endorsing mockery, hatred, and blasphemy. This ceremony is deeply offensive towards millions of Californians across the Golden State.”
“The vigil is not a political protest but a time of solemn prayer and worship,” it continues.
Wiener’s invitation was met with <a href="https://src.senate.ca.gov/content/california-senate-republicans-condemn-inexcusable-invitation-leader-anti-catholic-group">condemnation</a> by California Senate Republicans, who drafted a <a href="https://republicans.senate.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023%20Caucus%20PT%20Letter%20Sisters%20of%20Perpetual%20FINAL2.pdf">letter</a> in opposition.
The letter said the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence “is well known for their public denigration of the Catholic faith,” adding, “We respectfully request the withdrawal of this invitation, as it sends a troubling message to Californians of all faiths.”
“While the California State Senate serves as a symbol for many values, it should not be associated with disrespect or hatred towards those with differing religious ideologies.” 
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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whose <a href="https://www.thesisters.org/">slogan</a> is “Go forth and sin some more,” has been at the center of a controversy after the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that the franchise would honor the group at a Pride Night celebration. After pressure from Catholic groups, the Dodgers then withdrew their invitation. But the team reinvited the group to participate following backlash from allied leftist organizations. 
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Authorities in California are investigating who is behind the transportation of 16 migrants who ended up on the doorstep of a diocese in Sacramento Friday after being flown on a private charter jet from New Mexico. 
The Venezuelan and Colombian migrants entered the United States in El Paso and had been processed by American immigration officials with court dates for asylum claims, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/texas-migrants-flown-california-6bbd3a8a72b2a4438e1f5f163b12f780" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. After crossing, “individuals representing a private contractor” offered to get them to their final destination, said Eddie Carmona, campaign director for PICO California, a nonprofit that <a href="https://picocalifornia.org/who-we-are/">describes</a> itself as &#8220;spiritually-rooted individuals who take action for racial and economic justice in California.&#8221; From El Paso, the migrants were transported to New Mexico and then to California, ending up at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento. 
&#8220;They were lied to and intentionally deceived,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7news.com/sacramento-migrants-texas-california/13340619/">said</a> Carmona.
No politician or group has claimed responsibility for the transportation of the migrants, the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-03/california-investigating-who-sent-16-migrants-from-texas-to-doorstep-of-sacramento-diocese" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said he met with some migrants alongside California Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta, who said authorities &#8220;can confirm these individuals were in possession of documentation purporting to be from the government of the State of Florida.”
“We are working closely with the Mayor’s office, along with local and nonprofit partners to ensure the people who have arrived are treated with respect and dignity, and get to their intended destination as they pursue their immigration cases,” Newsom said in a <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/03/governor-newsom-statement-on-migrant-arrivals-in-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. 
“My Administration is also working with the California Department of Justice to investigate the circumstances around who paid for the group’s travel and whether the individuals orchestrating this trip misled anyone with false promises or have violated any criminal laws, including kidnapping,” Newsom added. 
While admitting he was still investigating and collecting evidence, Bonta suggested the incident could be “state-sanctioned kidnapping.&#8221; He added, &#8220;We must condemn the cruelty and hateful rhetoric of those &#8230; who refuse to recognize humanity.&#8221;  
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Today I met with over a dozen migrants who were brought to Sacramento by private plane, with no prior arrangement or care in place.
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“Human trafficking is not only despicable; it’s a felony,” Sacramento Democratic Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in a statement. “Whoever is behind this must answer the following: Is there anything more cruel than using scared human beings to score cheap political points?”
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<a href="https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/migrants-dropped-off-at-diocese-of-sacramento/103-10705bec-da21-43d2-9318-344fcac46530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to ABC 10, &#8220;The migrants did not know where they were and only had a backpack&#8217;s worth of belongings.&#8221; 
The L.A. Times notes a similar incident happened last year when eight Venezuelan migrants were transported from Texas to Sacramento. In that case, it was also unclear who paid for the flights.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> man got out of his car to help a family of ducks safely cross the road, but was struck and killed when a teen driver came through the reportedly dangerous intersection.
Casey Rivara, 41, had noticed that the ducklings were struggling to get across the street, and had gotten out of his car to guide them to safety. Neighbors were watching and cheering him on, clapping as he helped the ducklings out of danger.
One 12-year-old witness spoke to <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/rocklin-crash-pedestrian-dies-stanford-ranch/43936547" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local outlet KCRA</a>, saying, &#8220;He got out of the car and was shooing the ducks and everyone was clapping because he was being really nice. He helped them get up over the curb because all the little baby duckies were having trouble.&#8221;
&#8220;My mom rolled down the window and said, &#8216;Good job, good job,&#8217; and I said, &#8216;Good job&#8217; to him too and then right after that, the second after that,&#8221; the witness continued, indicating that was when the car had struck Rivara. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t see the car actually hit him. All I remember is the sound and then him flying across the intersection. His shoes and one of his socks were right in front of our car.&#8221;
The driver, a 17-year-old girl whose name has not been released, stayed at the scene and immediately cooperated with first responders and police. No arrest was made at the scene and police <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-man-stopped-help-family-ducks-cross-road-killed-car-rcna85664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told NBC News</a> that they did not expect to file charges related to the accident.
&#8220;We still have a lot of areas and evidence to sort through, but at first look it does not look like there&#8217;s going to be any criminal negligence,&#8221; police said.
Roya Rouhizadeh, who owns the nearby Rocklin Flower Shop, told ABC News that she has seen more accidents in that spot in recent years and said that the intersection is getting more dangerous.
&#8220;Lots of people moved as a family to enjoy the area. It’s getting really crowded, and unfortunately, some people don’t pay attention when the animals pass [or where] kids are going. We need to watch more for people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We need one of those signs that says ‘No turn’ because turning when the other light is green has been so dangerous. Myself or my husband, we’ve all been in that situation. We’re turning, and suddenly somebody comes to cut you off.&#8221;
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Rivara&#8217;s widow, Angel Chow, responded to the tragedy and the outpouring of support she had received in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/angel.chow.566/posts/10158981007922102" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a>: &#8220;We have been deeply touched by the overwhelming love and support we&#8217;ve received for Casey Rivara and our family in these past few days,&#8221; Chow said Sunday evening. &#8220;We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to all of you for the kind messages and gestures of kindness. It’s truly humbling to hear how Casey has positively impacted your lives, and we’re extremely grateful for that.&#8221;
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An upcoming event intended to bring awareness to the growing number of children and adults who no longer identify as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> is anticipated to be the largest ever.
An event for &#8220;Detrans Awareness Day&#8221; organized by <a href="https://ourduty.group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OurDuty</a>, a nonpartisan group of parents and allies, is scheduled to take place at the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Friday, March 10. The event is geared toward raising awareness of the growing population of minors and adults harmed by gender ideology and the chemical and surgical sex change services they hastily received due to the &#8220;affirmative&#8221; model of transgender care embraced by United States <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-medical-groups-get-the-science-wrong-on-pediatric-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical organizations</a>.
According to an <a href="https://twitter.com/kellyske/status/1629691954211729409?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">event flyer</a>, Detrans Awareness Day is intended to &#8220;honor those harmed by the gender industry and ignored by mainstream media and politicians on the left, bravely exposing the gender industry&#8217;s lies.”
While most mainstream media outlets remain silent about the growing population of detransitioners, awareness is increasing with the help of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-was-mutilation-5-detransitioners-harmed-by-medical-transition-speak-out-in-new-documentary">several</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vimeo-removes-documentary-on-parents-perspectives-of-trans-identified-children-for-hateful-content">new</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vimeo-deplatforms-another-documentary-critical-of-gender-affirming-care">documentaries</a> released this year featuring their stories. Many of these detransitioners were struggling with mental health issues like depression or neurodevelopmental conditions like autism when they chose to transition. They were frequently introduced to transgender ideology through TikTok and YouTube or other social influences. Many pursued chemical and surgical interventions that health care professionals authorized without proper evaluation that they later came to regret. 
Some detransitioners were even wrongfully informed by their doctors that being transgender was a &#8220;medical condition&#8221; that required medical interventions, like Chloe Cole, an 18-year-old woman who was medically transitioned as a minor whose doctors allegedly told her she had &#8220;a male brain in a female body,&#8221; even though <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-biological-evidence-for-gender-identity-exists-group-of-scientists-researchers-says">no empirical evidence</a> exists to support a biological basis for &#8220;gender identity.&#8221;
Cole created a <a href="https://donorbox.org/detrans-awareness-day-rally-at-california-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundraiser</a> for the upcoming event to help pay for transportation and lodging for detransitioners across the United States to attend. She said that the event is shaping up to be larger than the 2022 march in Anaheim where more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-lead-protests-against-the-medical-transition-of-minors-outside-california-pediatrics-convention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">150 peacefully protested </a>outside the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) conference in Southern California to object to the medical transition of trans-identifying minors, a position the AAP has uncritically adopted.
&#8220;It is not an anti-trans rally, it is a call for caution around medical transitioning to prevent vulnerable individuals from being met with the same regret,&#8221; Cole told The Daily Wire.
Cole said that over 20 detransitioners have been confirmed to attend, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-hosts-first-national-news-coverage-of-detransitioners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luka Hein</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioners-medically-harmed-by-gender-affirming-care-speak-in-favor-of-tennessee-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prisha Mosley</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-was-mutilation-5-detransitioners-harmed-by-medical-transition-speak-out-in-new-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abel Garcia</a>. She recently increased the fundraising goal after receiving threats from agitators.
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Thank you to all that have donated to allow Detrans Awareness Day in Sacramento to become as big as it is!
We have nearly met our initial goal of $5,000 but we have since been met with violent threats from terrorist organizations. We are now increasing our goal to allow for… <a href="https://t.co/SgDjNuXXDS">https://t.co/SgDjNuXXDS</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZGTUVnTQ9T">pic.twitter.com/ZGTUVnTQ9T</a>
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Several of the agitators made insinuations of death, including the declaration &#8220;over our <a href="https://twitter.com/pridewasariot_/status/1630069452405604353?s=20">dead</a> body,&#8221; and one posted an image of a skull biting a knife that was captioned, &#8220;Death Before Detransition.&#8221; There were several mentions of fighting, including &#8220;get into the fight,&#8221; &#8220;it&#8217;s time to <a href="https://twitter.com/Sushimom_10/status/1630225758592602114?s=20%27">fight</a>,&#8221; and &#8220;we will go down <a href="https://twitter.com/NoMercyForPigs/status/1630281370546364417?s=20">fighting</a>,&#8221; although it is unclear if they are figurative expressions.
Some of the comments were more explicitly violent, saying, &#8220;They need their teeth <a href="https://twitter.com/WillowAnarchist/status/1630243270474465280?s=20">punched</a> out,&#8221; and &#8220;Hope you know how to properly wash <a href="https://twitter.com/NoMercyForPigs/status/1630072501861781504?s=20">pepper sprayed</a> eyes.&#8221;
Cole told The Daily Wire that, regardless of the threats, she is very excited about the upcoming event being held in her home state.
&#8220;I have people threatening to assault me and pepper spray me,&#8221; said Cole. &#8220;It doesn’t matter what they do to me, as long as I am alive, I’ll be speaking out about this.&#8221;
&#8220;I will always speak out on behalf of the others that don’t have a voice, the kids, the families, the adults that have been affected by this will no longer suffer in silence,” she added.
Cole recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-official-lawsuit-against-kaiser-permanente-for-medical-negligence">announced</a> she was suing the hospital and affiliated medical group that medically transitioned her as a minor, which included puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, and double mastectomy surgery between the ages of 13 and 16, making it the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States.
There are seven detransitioners in the United States, Canada, the U.K., and most recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-takes-first-legal-action-in-spain-against-health-provider-that-transitioned-her-as-a-minor">Spain</a>, who have brought legal action against the medical providers that facilitated their chemical and surgical transitions.
While the exact number of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-hosts-first-national-news-coverage-of-detransitioners">detransitioners</a> is unknown, and more research is needed, the number appears to be steadily rising. A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/">forum</a> created in 2017 for detransitioners on Reddit appears to be adding over 1,000 members a month, and now has nearly 45,000 members.
Studies that have shown a small rate of regret of medical transition are often used by transgender activists to dismiss or diminish the experience of detransitioners. However, upon closer inspection, the two extensive studies that found 2% or less of individuals regret their transition surveyed adults, not the new cohort of adolescents that people are most concerned about.
Researchers recognize that short-term studies may underestimate detransition and regret because it can take up to a decade after treatment for some people to experience these outcomes. Additionally, some studies lose track of patients as they age out of pediatric clinics.
Two smaller studies in the U.K. report that between <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/access-to-care-and-frequency-of-detransition-among-a-cohort-discharged-by-a-uk-national-adult-gender-identity-clinic-retrospective-casenote-review/3F5AC1315A49813922AAD76D9E28F5CB">7%</a> and <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35052285/">10%</a> of patients initially assessed for gender-related medical services later detransitioned. In the United States, a recent study found that <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1054139X22007194">29%</a> of 68 patients seeking medical transition care changed their requests for hormone treatment, surgery, or both. Another U.S. study from last year found that <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/107/9/e3937/6572526?login=false">30%</a> of patients who commenced cross-sex hormone treatment discontinued it within four years for unknown reasons.
According to an <a href="https://twitter.com/kellyske/status/1629691954211729409?s=20">event flyer</a>, attendees will be meeting on the west side of the Capitol building at 1:00 p.m. PST. Cole&#8217;s <a href="https://donorbox.org/detrans-awareness-day-rally-at-california-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundraiser</a> has nearly reached its intended goal.
A representative of the official <a href="https://www.detransawareness.org/">Detrans Awareness Day</a> website penned an <a href="https://pitt.substack.com/p/detransition-awareness-day">article</a> for the Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) Substack with a helpful list of ways to show support for detransitioners during the week of March 12.
Other upcoming events on Detrans Awareness Day include a <a href="https://beyondtrans.org/events/">webinar</a> by Beyond Transition, a Genspect-affiliated organization that has helped over 100 detransitioners, on March 12, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. GMT.

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A Northern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> city college launched a &#8220;full investigation&#8221; on a math professor who argued against pushing transgender surgeries and hormone blockers on children in a series of emails obtained by <a href="https://www.davisvanguard.org/2022/12/community-college-to-investigate-anti-trans-emails-from-professor/">local media</a>.
In response to an email sent to Sacramento City College faculty promoting &#8220;The Ethics of Providing Healthcare&#8221; at Sacramento State University last week, Professor Robert Crawford wrote that kids should be able to &#8220;figure out who they are without being bullied into radical surgeries and hormone blockers.&#8221;
&#8220;We should stand against castrating boys and we should imprison any doctor who cuts off healthy girls [sic] breasts,&#8221; Crawford wrote. &#8220;This is an evil that we should all be against.&#8221;
&#8220;No child fantasies about being the opposite sex/gender should be entertained,&#8221; he added. &#8220;For Christs sake, stop this madness.&#8221;
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Crawford received pushback from other staff members, which prompted the professor to question his colleagues on how a child would &#8220;know they are really the opposite gender.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;ve never had the body of the opposite gender so how do they know this? I&#8217;ll wait….&#8221; Crawford wrote.
Crawford then claimed the faculty member “plays for the other team … a double agent parading as a union rep,” who allegedly coerced people into taking the “pseudo vaccine” and denied support to other faculty members who were fired after refusing to comply with the mandate.
&#8220;I suggest we vote for new leadership that isn&#8217;t compromised by his/her own Leftist/tyrannical ideology,&#8221; he said before shifting back to the original topic.
&#8220;With all the people detransitioning and hating their parents for allowing them to butcher their bodies in their naivete [sic] as youths, we need to look far more skeptically at &#8216;doctors&#8217; and others who would encourage radical surgeries and puberty blockers onto children,&#8221; Crawford said. &#8220;Follow the money.&#8221;
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh recently uncovered shocking details of the so-called gender-affirming care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
According to Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor of the center&#8217;s Clinic for Transgender Health, &#8220;chest reconstruction&#8221; could cost $40,000 per patient, vaginoplasty surgeries are about $20,000, and patients undergoing female-to-male bottom surgeries could pay up to $100,000.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a lot of money,&#8221; Taylor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors">said</a> at one Medicine Grand Rounds lecture unearthed on video and archived web pages. &#8220;These surgeries make a lot of money.&#8221;
Crawford&#8217;s comments sparked city college officials to take the &#8220;discrimination or harassment&#8221; accusations against the staff member &#8220;very seriously.&#8221;
Kaitlyn Collignon, Communications and Public Information Officer from Sacramento City College, told local media that they have begun &#8220;a full investigation into the incident and communications in question, and will take all appropriate steps to protect the safety and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff.&#8221;
UC Davis Law Professor Ash Bhagwat told local media that Crawford&#8217;s comments get &#8220;problematic&#8221; and complicated as the professor sent the emails under his community college email address.
Noting the professor&#8217;s views may create a hostile work environment, Bhagwat said there could be a claim under Title VII for discrimination.
&#8220;Hostile work environment is a Title VII claim for discrimination,” Bhagwat said. &#8220;But you have to be discriminated based on a protected category,” adding that &#8220;being offended is not being discriminated against based on a protected class.&#8221;
Crawford said he stood behind his emails in a request for comment from local media.
&#8220;Feel free to publish my comments as they are,&#8221; Crawford said. &#8220;I stand behind them 100%. God is my witness and judge in this life not the latest fashions.&#8221;
&#8220;I am called to speak up for the innocent and defend them,&#8221; he added.

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