A federal judge in San Francisco moved to postpone the Trump administration from ending a Biden-era program that shielded hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from deportation. 
U.S. Senior District Judge Edward Chen ordered the Department of Homeland Security to postpone revoking temporary protected status (TPS) for 348,202 Venezuelans living in the United States who were given work authorization and shielded from deportation by the Biden administration in October 2023. Chen said the revocation would cause &#8220;irreparable harm” and hurt the economy. 
The decision comes after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/noem-ends-biden-program-shielding-thousands-of-venezuelans-from-deportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that she was revoking the TPS status, saying that conditions had improved in Venezuela and that it was not in America’s best interest to maintain the program. In response, a group called the National TPS Alliance sued to block Noem’s decision. 
Chen sided with the National TPS Alliance in his order and said that Noem’s decision was not backed by evidence, including allegations of gang affiliations. Noem had said there was an increased presence of Venezuelan gang members connected to Tren de Aragua.
Chen said that this argument was “baseless and smacks of racism predicated on generalized false stereotypes.”
“The Secretary’s rationale is entirely lacking in evidentiary support,” Chen said in his ruling. “For example, there is no evidence that Venezuelan TPS holders are members of the TdA gang, have connections to the gang, and/or commit crimes.”
The Obama-appointed judge also claimed that TPS recipients were more educated, more involved in the workforce, and less likely to commit crimes than American citizens. 
Chen said that the TPS recipients “have higher education attainment than most U.S. citizens (40-54% have bachelor degrees), have high labor participation rates (80-96%), earn nearly all their personal income (96%), and annually contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and pay hundreds of millions, if not billions, in social security taxes. They also have lower rates of criminality than the general U.S. population.”
In response to Chen&#8217;s decision, Trump border czar Tom Homan <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1907037653368709390" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that TPS status was meant to be temporary, not a “decades-long” program. Homan said the ruling was based on an &#8220;activist judge&#8217;s&#8221; opinion. 
“President Trump is going to do his job by rule of law. The law says temporary status,” Homan told Fox News. “Once the conditions change, then people should be removed from the United States. It’s only a temporary status.&#8221;

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We&#8217;ve seen the collapse of a lot of supposedly &#8220;grassroots&#8221; movements ever since Donald Trump took office. BLM, as we&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDiA10y1ZJc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a>, has literally been dismantled on the streets of Washington, D.C. — as in, the mayor removed the BLM graffiti from the road and tore up &#8220;BLM Plaza.&#8221; No one even pretended to care about that, even though just a few years ago, it would&#8217;ve been considered blasphemy against George Floyd. But in 2025, there was no rioting. There wasn&#8217;t even really a protest.
And of course the Women&#8217;s March is also completely demoralized and gutted. When Trump was inaugurated back in 2017, half a million protesters reportedly participated in the so-called &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; in downtown Washington D.C. They claimed it was the biggest single-day protest in the history of this country. But for Trump&#8217;s second inauguration earlier this year, only a few thousand people <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5258481/trump-protest-peoples-march-womens-march-inauguration-presidency-policies-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated</a> in the so-called &#8220;People&#8217;s March,&#8221; even though the &#8220;People&#8217;s March&#8221; was supposed to be more inclusive. They expanded their branding from &#8220;women&#8221; to &#8220;people,&#8221; and yet they still lost about 99% of their manpower — or I should probably say people power.
It&#8217;s enough to make you wonder how many of these movements were ever really &#8220;grassroots&#8221; in the first place. To what extent were they relying on funding that&#8217;s no longer there? And where did that funding come from? These are questions that are worth asking, especially because we&#8217;re seeing this phenomenon happen more and more often. As Donald Trump kills federal funding for various NGOs and nonprofits, and as major corporations decide to scale back their activism, some of the Left&#8217;s biggest protest movements are falling apart. They&#8217;re proving to be unsustainable. It&#8217;s almost as if they were never actually that popular in the first place.
Maybe the most extraordinary example of this phenomenon is the current state of &#8220;Pride Month,&#8221; which is set to take place in June. When we released my film &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>&#8221; back in 2022, Pride Month had the backing of pretty much every Fortune 500 company on the planet. The organizers of various &#8220;pride parades&#8221; were flush with cash. They were setting the dominant narrative — one that valorized hedonism, narcissism, perversion, and child abuse. It was never explained exactly why these people needed lavish parades all over the country, for weeks on end, in order to celebrate their sexual interests. We were just supposed to accept it, as a kind of quasi-religious ritual. Indeed, many people did accept it.
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But just three years later, it&#8217;s clear that whatever power these people once had, they don&#8217;t have it anymore. We are now gearing up for the most muted, small-scale pride month that we&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. The organizers of some of the largest &#8220;pride parades&#8221; in the country are currently scrambling to raise money because their major corporate sponsors have stopped writing checks. That includes sponsors who have been involved with these San Francisco &#8220;pride&#8221; events going back for more than a decade. That has, of course, led to a funding shortfall that, at the moment, is threatening to derail San Francisco&#8217;s pride month, which is probably the largest in the country. Yes, it turns out that they need millions of dollars to prance naked in the streets and demonstrate their sexual preferences to as many children as possible. Watch:
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When they say that they ended their relationship with Meta because Meta doesn&#8217;t do &#8220;fact-checking anymore,&#8221; they really mean that Meta has stopped banning people for stating basic biological facts. And when they say that Meta has given up on DEI, they mean that Meta will stop discriminating against applicants on the basis of their race or gender. Those policy changes were apparently a red line for the organization running the San Francisco Pride Parade, which is somehow classified as a nonprofit.
But in context, it looks a lot like a &#8220;you can&#8217;t fire me, I quit&#8221; situation. It seems like Meta dropped the pride parade, and not the other way around, given that a bunch of other major sponsors have bailed on the event as well. As you heard, the list of sponsors who have given up on San Francisco&#8217;s pride month include Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, the wine company La Crema, and Diageo, which makes Smirnoff and Guinness. So the makers of Bud Light have apparently realized that sponsoring degeneracy is not, in fact, good business. All it took was one of the most successful conservative boycotts in a generation to make them come around. Now, a bunch of other alcoholic beverage makers, including some of Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s rivals, are pre-emptively making the same decision.
As a result, the organizers now say they&#8217;re going to &#8220;knock on every door&#8221; in San Francisco as part of a desperate, last-minute bid for cash. In another interview, the organizer of this Pride event in San Francisco offers some more insight into how dire the situation has become. And in this conversation, it becomes more clear that Meta indeed made the decision to stop funding these people, not the other way around. Watch:
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If you can get past the depravity, these people are actually kind of entertaining to watch. This person is trying to demonstrate that the Pride parade is really grassroots and anti-corporate. This is their way of sticking it to Meta and also Google apparently, which seems to be dropping the event as well. Accordingly, we learn that the corporations are placed at the back of the parade, and the nonprofits are at the front. You might think, &#8220;Hey, that actually sounds somewhat principled for an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-style pride parade with the theme of &#8220;resistance,&#8221;&#8221; which is what they&#8217;re going with this year. It&#8217;s just like the French Revolution — except, instead of killing the elites, they put their floats in the back. Other than that, it&#8217;s basically the same thing.
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But then we&#8217;re informed that there&#8217;s a big asterisk to this highly principled revolutionary, anti-capitalist stance — which is that corporations that pay a very large amount of money can still buy their way to the front of the line. In other words, in the same breath that these activists claim that they care more about their mission than the money, they admit that they&#8217;re willing to make an exception if a mega-corporation — ideally a Big Pharma giant — can come up with the right amount of cash. Then they can do whatever they want.
Read between the lines, and it&#8217;s obvious that this nonprofit is running a pretty transparent grift. This is a shakedown operation, essentially. That&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;d expect when a bunch of highly immoral people get together and plan an event, of course. And that&#8217;s exactly what you get with the organizers of the San Francisco Pride Month. At various points in different interviews, this organizer essentially admits that this whole operation is a shakedown. Watch:
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It&#8217;s like watching an unkempt, delusional, homeless ex-mobster shaking down the local businesses for protection money. They&#8217;re threatening companies like Meta and Google and Comcast, as if these people have any leverage whatsoever. They&#8217;re still acting like we&#8217;re back in 2020, and most Americans haven&#8217;t yet become completely fed up with the insanity that so-called &#8220;pride parades&#8221; represent. 
But people are fed up with it, because the &#8220;gay pride movement,&#8221; such as it is, has totally backfired. The best thing the LGBT activists could have done — if they really wanted their lifestyle choices to be normalized and accepted — is act normal. All they had to do was keep their clothes on and just behave like regular people. Instead they put on leather bondage gear and danced in the street in front of children. (And in some cases, they did a lot more than just dance). They pushed for the tolerance of increasingly deranged lifestyles and sexual behaviors. They demanded more and more &#8220;tolerance&#8221; until the tolerance well ran dry. At this rate, it&#8217;s only a matter of time until we follow in Hungary&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/amuse/status/1902069167437832376" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footsteps</a>, and ban pride parades where children could be present. We are witnessing the death of the &#8220;pride movement,&#8221; including pride parades and pride month.
At the moment, various far-Left publications appear to be realizing this. They&#8217;re melting down in response. 
From <a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/18/san-francisco-pride-dei/?utm_content=1742314339&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pink News</a>: 
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So now they&#8217;re lashing out in hysterics, because they realize the money&#8217;s not coming back. Every normal person who sees them react like this can tell, immediately, how unhinged and unstable they are.
It was always destined to end this way. The LGBT movement, at its core, is a Marxist movement that despises western civilization and everything it was built on — namely Christianity. That&#8217;s why, at the school board meeting we discussed yesterday in Illinois, one of the trans activists railed against the so-called &#8220;white god.&#8221; That&#8217;s why they show up, in large numbers, to demand that young girls undress in front of male students. The more you let these people speak, the more overt and obvious their perversion and their anti-Christian animus becomes.
Put simply, they just couldn’t quit while they were ahead. Even when they had every major corporation and the entire federal government on their side, it wasn&#8217;t enough. Their never-ending drive to push further and further and get more and more extreme is, of course, what makes them so dangerous. But it’s also what makes them beatable. And it&#8217;s why, like BLM and the Women&#8217;s March and so many other supposedly &#8220;grassroots&#8221; movements on the Left, they are failing. 
We have seen &#8220;pride&#8221; in action. We have been subjected to nationwide celebrations of one of the seven deadly sins. And now, as was inevitable, we are seeing the fall.

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The following is an excerpt taken from the new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Gold-Radicals-Traitors-California/dp/1546008039">Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, And Traitors Who Killed The California Dream And Now Threaten Us All</a>” By Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter. (Center Street/Hachette, March 2025)
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The Failed Progressive Vision
Under Newsom’s watch, violent crime in California has skyrocketed. Homicides jumped by 33.9 percent and aggravated assaults by 25.3 percent in 2022, with gun‑related homicides and aggravated assaults soaring by 37.7 percent and 61.1 percent, respectively. The actual rates are likely much higher. Crime data only captures incidents reported to police, and many crimes go unreported.
The rapidly rising crime rates didn’t just occur in a vacuum. They directly correspond with Newsom’s decade‑plus‑long progressive experiment with criminal justice reform, which has resulted in far lighter sentences and the premature release of violent criminals from jail. After Newsom released tens of thousands of prisoners during COVID, ostensibly to prevent the virus from spreading among California’s incarcerated criminals, the state prison population dropped from 160,000 in 2011 to around 91,556 by mid‑2024. As we discuss in Chapter 4, Newsom has been accused of releasing these prisoners under a false premise. COVID death rates in the state­ corrections system have been markedly lower than in the outside population. Even as crime surges, Newsom’s administration estimates the prison population will drop to roughly 86,000 by 2028.
Newsom is not only emptying prisons; he is also shutting them down. His administration has closed or is closing four state prisons, and has plans to “reimagine and transform” San Quentin, the state’s oldest and most notorious prison (and previous home to the largest “death row” in the United States), into a rehabilitation center. “We are literally tearing down walls to reimagine our prison system, incentivize true rehabilitation, and end cycles of violence and crime,” Newsom said in a 2024 press release. “Brick by brick, we’re building a new future that will make all of us safer.” But Newsom cited no evidence that the state is growing safer because there is none. As we will explain in Chapter 5 the state’s corrections agency won’t disclose rehabilitation results for the years Newsom has served in review copy office. Again, Newsom and the progressives’ failed COVID policies exacerbated the problem. During the pandemic, when millions were out of work and the state had the highest unemployment in the nation, flash mobs of masked robbers stormed through the doors of Nordstrom and other high‑end retailers in San Francisco and Greater Los Angeles, stealing thousands of dollars of purses, clothes, and jewelry. This type of organized retail theft has become such a massive problem that many retailers are closing their doors for good. By mid‑ 2024, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Whole Foods, Anthropologie, Old Navy, Office Depot, 7‑Eleven, and Denny’s all announced plans to close stores in downtown San Francisco or nearby Oakland. Starbucks and Target have also closed locations.
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Newsom attributes business closures in downtown San Francisco to “macroeconomic” shifts, not rampant theft, drug use, and violent crime. In August 2023, downtown San Francisco was such a hotbed of crime, homelessness, and drugs that the US Department of Health and Human Services advised employees at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in the Tenderloin District to work remotely “for the foreseeable future.” Showing up for work at the building had become just too dangerous.
In January 2024, California’s homegrown, beloved burger joint, In‑N‑­Out Burger, announced that it would close a store for the first time in its ­seventy‑five‑year history, citing crime. The franchise no longer considered the store near Oakland International Airport safe for operation. “We feel the frequency and severity of the crimes being encountered by our customers and associates leave us no alternative,” the company said. “Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our customers and associates are regularly victimized by car break‑ ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies.”
Southern California isn’t faring much better. More and more businesses in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, even on once tony and vibrant Wilshire Avenue, have boarded up due to vandalism, crime, and homelessness scaring customers away.
“Mayor, we need your help. We need your help in this area,” Sean James, an independent contractor who runs a business in Santa Monica pleaded in an interview with a local Fox News affiliate.
The surge in violent murders, rapes, organized retail thefts, and other crimes that shock the conscience are directly the result of Newsom’s failed progressive vision and can be laid squarely at his feet. Back in 2014, when Newsom was lieutenant governor, he was the highest‑ranking official pushing the specific progressive ballot measure responsible for the chaos: Proposition 47. This was the George Soros–backed policy that decriminalized drug, property crimes, and even certain sex crimes. Prop. 47 turned theft of items valued under $950, and some drug offenses, from felonies to misdemeanors. Newsom vocally supported the progressive activists and organizations pushing Prop. 47, while his boss, then‑Governor Jerry Brown, remained quiet. The measure passed by a wide margin.
Despite the bedlam that has ensued, Newsom now seems in denial over the disastrous effects of Prop. 47. In early 2024, he revealed that he witnessed a shoplifter steal from Target without workers intervening to stop. When he confronted an employee about it, the woman blamed the California governor for passing laws that emboldened criminals — before realizing he was in fact the governor. “Why didn’t you stop him?” Newsom recalls asking the Target employee. “The governor lowered the threshold &#8230; there’s no accountability,” the employee said. Newsom’s description of the encounter was widely ridiculed for his failure to recognize the obvious truth in the Target employee’s accusation. 
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This excerpt is taken from the new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Gold-Radicals-Traitors-California/dp/1546008039" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fool’s Gold</a>” by Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter. Published by permission of Center Street/Hachette Book Group. Copyright © 2025 by Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter.
Susan Crabtree is senior White House and national political correspondent for RealClearPolitics.
Jedd McFatter is the director of research at Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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San Francisco&#8217;s Department of Public Health has tapped fat activist Virgie Tovar as the liberal city&#8217;s &#8220;weight stigma&#8221; czar.
Tovar, author of &#8220;You Have the Right to Remain Fat&#8221; and a &#8220;DEI&#8221; professional, announced the position on her Instagram account on Monday.
&#8220;I&#8217;m UNBELIEVABLY proud to serve the city I&#8217;ve called home for almost 20 years in this way!&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it&#8217;s my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health.&#8221;
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Tovar describes herself as a &#8220;leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity with over a decade of experience,&#8221; according to her website, which also details her &#8220;DEI,&#8221; or &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; work.
&#8220;Virgie&#8217;s corporate trainings focus on creating a non-judgmental environment where professionals can build awareness, vocabulary and best practices aimed at decreasing occupational weight-based discrimination,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.virgietovar.com/dei.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI section</a> of Tovar&#8217;s website reads. &#8220;She combines her academic background, professional expertise and personal lived experience to design virtual and in-person experiences that open up curiosity, empathy, and empowerment.&#8221;
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Some of her former clients included &#8220;the Seattle Transit Agency, UC Berkeley, Everybody Gym, and affinity spaces within Square and Waymo.&#8221; Tovar has also partnered with leading beauty brand Dove to discuss issues like &#8220;fat liberation.&#8221;
In a &#8220;#DovePartner&#8221; video, for example, Tovar says examples of &#8220;fat liberation&#8221; are &#8220;putting as much butter&#8221; as she wants on her toast, &#8220;wearing a bikini to the beach,&#8221; and children never being put on diets.
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Tovar is against so-called diet culture for the obese, rejects Ozempic, and believes that &#8220;no one has to be healthy.&#8221;
&#8220;No one has to be healthy,&#8221; she said on a podcast. &#8220;Nobody owes anybody that.&#8221;
&#8220;No matter what size you are, you don&#8217;t owe anybody else your health,&#8221; the activist added after comparing being disabled to being obese. &#8220;In an ideal world, there wouldn&#8217;t be health-based gatekeeping at all.&#8221;
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&#8220;No one has to be healthy&#8221; &#8211; Virgie Tovar, Weight Czar for SF Health Department <a href="https://t.co/KnODC56iAz">pic.twitter.com/KnODC56iAz</a>
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In a viral video narrated by Tovar, she explains why it&#8217;s &#8220;fatphobic&#8221; to ask for a small piece of cake at a party.
&#8220;And then it comes time to cut the cake and someone decides to ruin everything,&#8221; Tovar says in the video. &#8220;A cake-related fatphobic incident, or &#8216;CRFI,&#8217; is that moment when it&#8217;s time to eat delicious cake and it&#8217;s interrupted by a moralizing impulse.&#8221;
&#8220;Inevitably, there&#8217;s always someone at the party who has to declare publicly that their slice is too large, and that the person who&#8217;s cutting the cake &#8212; almost invariably a woman &#8212; must do some disproportionate amount of labor to fulfill their need to feel superior.&#8221;
Looking at such &#8220;incidents&#8221; through a &#8220;feminist&#8221; lens, Tovar argues that it&#8217;s also anti-feminist to ask for a small cake slice.
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San Francisco Weight Czar Virgie Tovar on why eating less cake is oppression: <a href="https://t.co/3tfliIKnID">pic.twitter.com/3tfliIKnID</a>
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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) flaunted her disobedience to her bishop in an interview on her Catholicism, saying that she always feels &#8220;there&#8217;s an angel&#8221; on her shoulder despite her vehement support for abortion.
Pelosi spoke about her views on Catholicism and Pope Francis with the National Catholic Reporter, a left-leaning Catholic news source, in an interview <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/ncr-interview-nancy-pelosi-criticizes-pope-francis-over-china-pact">published Tuesday</a>.
The California Democrat has defended abortions of unborn babies for many years, though the Catholic Church <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">teaches</a> that abortion is “a crime against human life,” “constitutes a grave offense,” and that a person who obtains an abortion is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-abortion-pelosi-describes-herself-as-devout-practicing-catholic-jokes-pro-lifers-would-like-to-throw-me-out">has previously described herself</a> as a &#8220;devout Catholic&#8221; in spite of her pro-abortion stances, drawing heavy criticism from Catholics who adhere to the teaching of the church.
Pelosi criticized Catholic bishops for taking a stand against pro-abortion policies as she spoke with the National Catholic Reporter — and she said that she ignored the mandate of her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-responds-to-her-archbishops-communion-ban">told her in 2022</a> to stop receiving communion over her pro-abortion advocacy. The Catholic Church has always held certain conditions for the faithful to receive communion, including that a communicant be a faithful Catholic, living in accord with Catholic Church teaching, and in a &#8220;state of grace,&#8221; meaning that they had recently gone to confession.
&#8220;I received Communion anyway,&#8221; she told the National Catholic Reporter, adding of Cordileone. &#8220;That&#8217;s his problem, not mine.&#8221;
&#8220;My Catholic faith is, Christ is my savior,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It has nothing to do with the bishops.&#8221;
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Later in the interview, she told the publication, &#8220;My faith is always with me. I always feel there&#8217;s an angel on my shoulder.&#8221;
Cordileone&#8217;s admonition came after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosis-archbishop-says-excommunication-is-an-option-for-abortion-supporting-catholic-politicians">repeatedly warned</a> her that she could be excommunicated for publicly supporting abortion in violation of Church teaching.
“You cannot be a good Catholic and support expanding a government-approved right to kill innocent human beings,&#8221; he wrote in 2021.
And in 2022, when he told Pelosi not to receive communion, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-responds-to-her-archbishops-communion-ban">Cordileone said</a>: “You are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance.”
In a statement made Tuesday evening, the archbishop addressed Pelosi&#8217;s remarks, quoting the book of Ezekiel from the Bible:
&#8220;What immediately comes to my mind are the words of the prophet Ezekiel: ‘If the just turn away from their right conduct and do evil when I place a stumbling block before them, then they shall die.  Since you did not warn them about their sin, they shall still die, and the just deeds that they performed will not be remembered on their behalf.  I will, however, hold you responsible for their blood.  If, on the other hand, you warn the just to avoid sin, and they do not sin, they will surely live because of the warning, and you in turn shall save your own life.’&#8221;
Cordileone stressed that his &#8220;overriding concern and chief responsibility&#8221; is to make sure that souls in his care go to heaven, arguing that he has a duty &#8220;not only to teach, console, heal and forgive, but also, when necessary, to correct, admonish and call to conversion.&#8221;
&#8220;One of the most the effective ways for a pastor to accomplish these duties is by way of dialogue, honest dialogue, where each party listens openly and honestly, seeking to understand the other, and being honest with one’s own self,&#8221; he added. &#8220;My own personal experience has taught me that this kind of dialogue can dispel misperceptions and melt away hostilities, and build new bonds of friendship.  I therefore earnestly repeat once again my plea to Speaker Pelosi to allow this kind of dialogue to happen.&#8221;
He concluded: &#8220;I ask this not only to dialogue in areas of disagreement, such as if and when it can ever be morally permissible to kill innocent human life, but also in other critical areas where our views on behalf of human life and dignity are aligned, especially threats to religious liberty internationally and the plight of immigrants domestically.  This should not be a problem, as Catholics are not afraid of the truth.”
Pelosi&#8217;s remarks come as many high-profile Democrats, including President Joe Biden, suggest that their pro-abortion advocacy is compatible with Catholicism. Leftist groups like Catholics for Choice have attempted to sway Catholic teaching on pivotal topics, including life, marriage, and gender, suggesting that Catholicism is not tied to any firm principle.
In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-trump-catholic-voters-f73f2c74b1e21cc96ff42a671220dbdb">did better with Catholic voters</a> — he won 50% of the Catholic vote in 2020 and 54% of the Catholic vote in 2024.

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An alleged vegan “extremist” suspected of being responsible for two bombings in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> area more than two decades ago was arrested in the United Kingdom, the FBI announced Tuesday. 
Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, was arrested in Wales after 20 years on the run after he was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-terrorism-fugitive-caught-wales-70a2543ea03ed245394226795bffd563" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with carrying out bombings in Emeryville and Pleasanton. San Diego was first indicted in July of 2004 and has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List since 2009. 
“Daniel San Diego’s arrest after more than 20 years as a fugitive for two bombings in the San Francisco area shows that no matter how long it takes, the FBI will find you and hold you accountable,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said. “There’s a right way and a wrong way to express your views in our country, and turning to violence and destruction of property is not the right way.”
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CAPTURED MOST WANTED TERRORIST<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FBI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FBI</a> Director Wray says Daniel San Diego&#39;s arrest after 20+ years as a fugitive for two San Francisco bombings shows the Bureau’s commitment to justice, stressing that violence is never the right way to express views. <a href="https://t.co/a759SMivCz">https://t.co/a759SMivCz</a> <a href="https://t.co/9C6MnUvKZI">pic.twitter.com/9C6MnUvKZI</a>
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The <a href="https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/animal-rights-extremism-and-ecoterrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bombing</a> in Emeryville took place at the Chiron biotechnology corporation on August 28, 2003, and involved two bombs that went off within an hour of each other, according to the FBI. The attack in Pleasanton was at the Shaklee nutritional products corporation on September 26, 2003, and involved a bomb packed with nails.  
While no one was injured or killed, authorities <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/us/fbi-most-wanted-extremist-caught-wales.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that San Diego intended to target first responders with the second bomb at Chiron. 
According to his FBI wanted <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/daniel-andreas-san-diego" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poster</a>, San Diego was connected to animal rights extremist groups. The radical organization, “Revolutionary Cells of the Animal Liberation Brigade,” took credit for the bombings and warned that more attacks were coming.
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“It is time for this war to truly have two sides. No more will all the killing be done by the oppressors, now the oppressed will strike back,” the group said after the second bombing, according to the FBI. 
San Diego, who was born in Berkeley, has a tattoo that reads &#8220;It only takes a spark&#8221; and another tattoo of “burning and collapsing buildings,” the FBI said. 
“He is known to follow a vegan diet, eating no meat or food containing animal products. In the past, he has worked as a computer network specialist and with the operating system LINUX. San Diego wears eyeglasses, is skilled at sailing, and has traveled internationally. He is known to possess a handgun,” the wanted poster read. 
A $250,000 reward was offered for any information that led to San Diego’s arrest.

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There was an interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle this week that you might have missed if you were doing something more important than reading the San Francisco Chronicle like squeezing the pimple between your eyes until blood and pus poured down the front of your face and you spent the rest of the morning taking pictures of yourself smeared in gore with your tongue sticking out sideways and sending the selfies to all your friends with a message saying, “Look, I’m in the new sequel to Night of the Living Dead — laughter emoji.”
The article was written by Ariella Cook-hyphen-Shonkoff, a child therapist and art therapist based in Berkeley, California, and I was going to make a joke about that but how much funnier could it get? Her article is entitled, “How to Talk to Your Kids About Donald Trump’s Election.”
The article begins with this advice — and so help me, this is a genuine quote: “Before engaging with kiddos, give yourself some space to grieve. Hug someone close, walk in the woods, sit on a beach, cry under a blanket. Check your pulse. Are you feeling heated, reactive or in the throes of despair? If so, delay the conversation.”
Now, look, I know Democrats are genuinely suffering after Donald Trump particlized their every hope and dream of destroying our freedoms — and I don’t like to take pleasure in the emotional pain of others unless the emotional pain of others tastes like caramel swirl ice cream melted into a sugary liquid and then poured over the naked body of Ana de Armas so that she and it can be drunk down whole like a shot of tequila in a Tijuana Bar knocked back in a single gulp at three in the morning after being poured over the naked body of Ana de Armas.
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So let’s try to imagine how Berkeley child art therapist Ariella hyphen-name wants us to break the Trump news to our kids.
After sobbing under a blanket and taking your pulse, approach your child slowly with the blanket still over your head, leaving visible only your grief-wracked face with chaotic streaks of mascara that transform it into an almost perfect image of a vampire raccoon that might be waiting under the bed to jump out at your child at any moment.
Tenderly, sit your son down in the crinkling folds of his crinoline party gown, and gently say, “Brenda, my darling boy, I know we’d been planning to celebrate your eighth birthday by cutting off your testicles so you could pretend to be a girl until you’d grown old enough to make your own decision whether to commit suicide or simply mainline anti-depressants, but I’m afraid under Donald Trump, you may have to face the fact that you’re not really a girl, you’re just acting like some kind of sissy. You might even want to get some masculinity pointers from your father if I can find out where he lives and maybe convince him to come home by dumping this hyphen malarkey and taking his name like a married woman should.” Then, if Brenda starts to cry, you can just tenderly smack him a good one and say, “Man up, girly boy, you’re in Trump’s America now.”
After that, you might sit your daughter down and say, “Cruella, sweetheart, I know you were looking forward to puberty, when you could begin to empower yourself by amassing a gigantic body count of indifferent men who’ve used your flesh for their own personal pleasure so you can shout your abortion between nights of heavy drinking that leave you clinging to your vomit-covered toilet praying to God for some relief from your despair. But now, with abortion banned in Alabama, Arkansas and several other states you’ve never been to or heard of, I think you might consider going on a sex strike against any man who refuses to dedicate his life to supporting you while you raise the children sex creates and make a home for both them and him. Oh, and don’t forget to take his last name so he knows the sex strike is serious. And make sure he’s wearing a MAGA hat and isn’t some weak-ass dipstick like your father.”
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This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fourth installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613165536?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_thcv_3&amp;storeType=ebooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A WOMAN UNDERGROUND</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Famed conservative lawyer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harmeet-dhillon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harmeet Dhillon</a> took to X on Monday to lay out a lengthy thread decimating Vice President Kamala Harris’ record as district attorney in San Francisco.
Dhillon began by saying a member of Harris’ staff told her that when Harris was the San Francisco DA, “one of her top deputies regularly rounded the office urging prosecutors to stop by Harris&#8217; fundraisers for re-election to donate and/or volunteer.” The staffer reportedly told Dhillon that she was told it would be “good for her career to contribute.”
Dhillon went on to say that “the supervisor in one of the criminal units was a no-show who literally phoned it in from San Diego, filling out fake time sheets from there where his boyfriend was.”
“This went on for years, only ending under George Gascon&#8217;s tenure,” Dhillon continued.
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While Harris was the DA in San Francisco, the supervisor in one of the criminal units was a no-show who literally phoned it in from San Diego, filling out fake time sheets from there where his boyfriend was. This went on for years, only ending under George Gascon&#8217;s tenure.
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1845965006158156223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The San Francisco District Attorney&#8217;s Office did not immediately respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Dhillon then said a prosecutor in Harris’ DA office told her that “as policy, [the office] did not allege prior crime ‘strikes’ in indictments as is routinely done in other counties such as the one where the deputy DA had come from.”
That deputy DA “was criticized for alleging strikes; only supervisors were allowed to authorize this and it was rarely done, yet another way Harris went soft on crime,” Dhillon said. “What does it mean when you don&#8217;t allege strikes? [I]t means that a career criminal, a violent criminal, who commits multiple crimes gets two years instead of 25 to life. The prosecutor complained about this internally but it went nowhere.”
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What does it mean when you don&#8217;t allege strikes? it means that a career criminal, a violent criminal, who commits multiple crimes gets two years instead of 25 to life. The prosecutor complained about this internally but it went nowhere.
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Dhillon also brought up how Harris violated her pledge to stay under a voluntary spending cap when she ran for DA back in 2003. California’s Ethics Commission claimed the violations were “unintentional,” but Harris was fined $34,000 anyway, the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Harris-violated-S-F-campaign-finance-law-D-A-2554388.php">reported</a> at the time. It was the largest fine under San Francisco’s campaign finance law at the time.
After Harris won the election, Dhillon said in a post on X, Harris “immediately sent out mass ‘let&#8217;s make a deal’ letters to every defense lawyer with a pending murder case.”
“These cases were almost all pled out to manslaughter or even lesser charges, and then Harris claimed these as convictions on murder cases for her closure rate,” Dhillon wrote. “This is unheard of and set a tone of defense lawyers not taking her office seriously.”
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When Kamala Harris became the DA after violating the campaign finance limits to out-raise and outspend her former boss, who did obey the limits, she immediately sent out mass &#8220;let&#8217;s make a deal&#8221; letters to every defense lawyer with a pending murder case. These cases were almost…
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1845968456598147552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Dhillon then moved on to Harris’ “incompetence,” which “got two gang violence witnesses killed, by housing them just across county lines. The bad guys found and killed them, the cases then fell apart. And scared witnesses then refused to testify against more bad guys. Rinse and repeat.”
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Kamala Harris’ incompetence got two 
gang violence witnesses killed, by housing them just across county lines. 
The bad guys found and killed them, the cases then fell apart. And scared witnesses then refused to testify against more bad guys. Rinse and repeat. <a href="https://t.co/Z8kdNSAQcX">pic.twitter.com/Z8kdNSAQcX</a>
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1845971250042360113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Dhillon also took Harris to task for her low conviction rate, which she said “was a widely known joke in CA law enforcement circles.”
“And everyone — especially the criminals — knew and exploited it,” Dhillon added.
Harris also “manipulated the stats as DA by charging only cases that were ‘trial ready’ in the first place — an absurd metric as most cases are built up after charging on a probable cause basis,” Dhillon said.
“Even so, her conviction rate was a joke,” Dhillon concluded.
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Kamala Harris manipulated the stats as DA by charging only cases that were “trial ready” in the first place — an absurd metric as most cases are built up after charging on a probable cause basis. Even so, her conviction rate was a joke. <a href="https://t.co/s43ej0EgNp">pic.twitter.com/s43ej0EgNp</a>
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1845973073390190662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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A “social justice academy” run by a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> school district teaches elementary school kids to disavow “whiteness” and embrace transgender ideology, lesson plans shared with The Daily Wire show.
Every summer since 2021, the New Haven Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay area has trained rising 3rd-6th graders in leftist gender and racial politics during its annual &#8220;social justice academy.&#8221; Specific details about the academy’s curriculum were revealed in documents recently obtained from the school by Parents Defending Education through a public records request. 
“Scholars will define and critically think about Social Justice, identify social injustices in the community, and create opportunities for activism through writing, action, art,” <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/10/Copy-of-SJA-Proposal-Summer-2023_143fE3LTG_UM7Lks8vizgeUbDVVRlydGrWh4rPUVufU8.docx.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a plan from 2023 for the academy, which operates in deep blue Alameda County. 
The three-week academy, which costs the district around $20,000, was formed, in part, due to an Alameda County resolution that instructs educators to “help our children understand and react to racial differences, and to teach our youth how to speak up against injustice, racism and inequality.” 
Throughout the three-week course, students are taught the full gambit of leftist positions from “womxn rights” to Black Lives Matter and transgender ideology. The course comes as <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/california/districts/new-haven-unified-100683#:~:text=Test%20Scores%20at%20New%20Haven,above%20that%20level%20for%20math." target="_blank" rel="noopener">test scores</a> show that under half of elementary students in the district are proficient in math while only half are proficient in reading. 
A <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Copy-of-SJA-Proposal-Summer-2023_143fE3LTG_UM7Lks8vizgeUbDVVRlydGrWh4rPUVufU8.docx.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lesson plan</a> from week one shows that the academy focuses on issues of racial and sexual identity while reading from the book “Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness.” The book says that “whiteness is a bad deal. It always was” and that “you can be white without signing on to whiteness.” 
The students are also taught that it is “white supremacy” that the 10 richest Americans are white and that governors were 96% white based on 2016-era statistics, <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NEW-HAVEN-SOCIAL-JUSTICE-ACADEMY-2024-at-PIO.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to planning materials for the academy from 2024. 
In another <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Hire_Fire-Bias.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exercise</a>, students were taught about stereotypes by being forced to fire people from a list of names, before gradually learning more about them, including their sexual identities and disabilities. 
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In week two of the academy, students are taught about Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, and taught to compare former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
The comparison between Trump and Hitler happens during a section on &#8220;dehumanizing language,&#8221; where students are shown an image of the two men with quotes. However, the quote attributed to Trump is completely fabricated. 
Trump is quoted in the image as saying “Undocumented immigrants are not human; they are animals.” While Trump has referred to violent gang members and murderers as “animals,” he never said all illegal immigrants are animals in a blanket manner. 
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The course also takes a pro-Palestinian bent, accusing Israel of being a colonialist power and pointing students to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayY9DEnW8Gw&amp;feature=youtu.be">video</a> from the leftist outlet The Root called “Why Black people should care about Palestinian Liberation.”
Also during the <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WEEK-2-Lessons-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second week</a>, students are taught about “defunding the police,” the history of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the “criminalization of BIPOC.” The course materials argue that school disciplinary practices create a “school-to-prison” pipeline that disproportionately impacts black students.  
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During week three of the social justice academy, students read from two books pushing transgender ideology. One book, “I Am Jazz,” is based on Jazz Jennings, a man who identifies as a woman. Jennings&#8217; parents moved him towards “gender-transition” at age 3, and he quickly became the star of a reality TV show that highlighted transgenderism. 
Students <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/LGBTQIA.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are taught</a> that being “transgender is not a choice” and how to be an “LGBTQIA+ Ally.” Course materials list “transgender rights” as things like “access to medical care” and “all gender bathrooms.” 
Students are also taught about a Florida law that prohibited discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation for young children in classrooms. The legislation was derisively referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by the Left. 
New Haven Unified School District did not respond to requests for comment.
Erika Sanzi, the director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, said that the academy should be shut down. 
&#8220;This summer program should have been advertised as an indoctrination camp where ideologues who spell the word &#8216;women&#8217; with an x feed students propaganda about defunding the police, transgenderism, and oppression,” she told The Daily Wire. “At the same time that they lie to kids about book bans, the curriculum includes a children&#8217;s book that calls whiteness bad and equates it with the devil.”

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San Francisco 49ers first-round draft pick Ricky Pearsall was shot on Saturday by a 17-year-old boy who was allegedly attempting to steal his Rolex watch while he was en route to a signing event.
The football team said in a statement that he was released from the hospital on Sunday after being shot in the chest.
&#8220;He and his family, along with the entire San Francisco 49ers organization, would like to thank the San Francisco Police Department, emergency medical services, doctors and staff at San Francisco General Hospital,&#8221; the team said.
Police said that the suspect, who was not named because he was a minor, tried to rob Pearsall at gun point at which point Pearsall tried to fight back and get control of the weapon. During the course of the struggle for the gun, both individuals were shot by the same weapon.
Both individuals were taken to the hospital and the suspect is now in custody.
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49ers rookie receiver Ricky Pearsall walked to the ambulance after being shot in the chest during an attempt to rob his Rolex watch.
&#8216;The 23-year-old rookie was walking alone in San Francisco’s Union Square around 3:37 p.m. [Saturday] when a 17-year-old armed with… <a href="https://t.co/rhCbtTCses">pic.twitter.com/rhCbtTCses</a>
— Crime In NYC (@CrimeInNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CrimeInNYC/status/1830560590588203096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;He was shot in the chest and it exited out his back,&#8221; said Pearsall&#8217;s mother, Erin, in a post on social media. &#8220;Thanks be to GOD it missed his vital organs. He is in good spirits right now.&#8221;
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Ricky Pearsall’s mom, Erin, posted on Facebook that the bullet entered Pearsall’s chest and exited his back without hitting any vital organs <a href="https://t.co/YXKUY4m8I3">pic.twitter.com/YXKUY4m8I3</a>
— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) <a href="https://twitter.com/LombardiHimself/status/1830253970108932119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
The incident is just the latest embarrassment for the city of San Francisco, which has been plagued in recent years with property and violent crime that has forced numerous businesses to leave the city.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> has wasted no time in cracking down on homeless encampments after a Supreme Court decision in June gave cities more authority to deal with the issue.
City authorities have been working quickly to clear tent cities &#8212; but keeping public areas clear has proven to be no simple task.
Cleanup crews removed several tent cities last week, but tents popped up again in those areas within days. Some of the new campers <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/tents-return-san-francisco-streets-cleared-homeless-sweep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could</a> be seen using drugs, a persistent problem in the city.
The City by the Bay also continues to bus homeless people to other California counties and even other states, including Texas.
Over the last two years, the city has sent at least 857 homeless people to other states and counties, The San Francisco Standard <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/06/journey-home-data/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
At least a few homeless people have been sent to Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, and Indiana, according to data from the city&#8217;s new program, Journey Home, which was launched in September.
The data is unclear for the city&#8217;s older Homeward Bound program, which has relocated hundreds of people in recent years.
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Mayor London Breed issued an executive directive on Thursday ordering city employees to point homeless people in the direction of these relocation programs before offering shelter and other services.
Breed said San Francisco is no longer able to support the influx of homeless people moving to the city and taking advantage of free services.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places even if there is not enough shelter space to accommodate them, saying such laws do not violate the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
The original case involved the Oregon town of Grants Pass, which tried to fine people $295 for sleeping outside when tents began crowding the town’s public parks.
Before the court’s decision, homeless encampments continued to spread in California, Oregon, and Washington while city officials remained limited in what they could do to address the problem, especially since homeless people often refuse shelter beds.
San Francisco has struggled for years with rampant homelessness, crime, and open-air drug use driven by fentanyl, all of which have driven people and businesses out of downtown. About 38,000 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are homeless</a> in the Bay Area on a given night. That’s up 35% since 2019.
California <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-issues-executive-order-to-remove-homeless-encampments-across-california">has</a> the highest homeless population in the country by far. About 180,000 people were homeless last year across the state, and about 123,000 are unsheltered on a given night, according to the latest homeless count.
Homeless encampments near freeways, under overpasses, and near exit ramps have also become so common that California’s transportation department now has its own protocol and workers for clearing encampments.

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When Kamala Harris was running to be San Francisco’s district attorney, she said she would never pursue the death penalty.
But then a case came before her that was so deserving, that her commitment to her campaign promise blindsided a grieving family and even gained condemnation from former prominent Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein.
On April 10, 2004, San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza, 29, was called to work overtime on the Saturday before Easter Sunday. Espinoza, a plainclothes officer, looked forward to attending Easter services the next day with his wife, Renata, and their 3-year-old daughter.
During his night shift, however, the Espinozas&#8217; lives would be forever changed.
Espinoza and his partner saw a man walking down the street in the Bayview District of San Francisco, and it looked like he was hiding a weapon, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/kamala-harris-death-penalty-decisions/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2019, while Harris was running for president. Espinoza exited his unmarked police car and approached the man, later identified as 21-year-old David Hill, saying he was a police officer. Hill turned to face him, reached for his AK-47 rifle, and opened fire, the San Francisco Examiner <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/gang-member-guilty-of-officer-s-murder/article_0ffd1f81-386a-5cb4-ba7f-826ebff0b185.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“I had just talked to Isaac maybe about 30 to 40 minutes before,” Renata told CNN. “He had told me to stay up because he was coming home.”
Another police officer took her to the hospital where Espinoza had been taken after the altercation, reassuring the frightened mother that her husband was “fine” and “alive.”
But when they arrived at the hospital, none of the other police officers could look at Renata, and the captain handed her Espinoza’s star.
“I remember I walked into this room and he still had blood here,” she told CNN, tearing up. “He was laying there with his eyes closed and I saw the blood here. And I walk over to him I just said, ‘wake up.’”
Espinoza’s death was the first time a San Francisco police officer had been killed in the line of duty in at least 10 years, CNN reported.
Gary Delagnes, then-president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, told CNN he received a call from Harris “a day or two” after Espinoza’s death. A day later, Harris spoke during a news conference regarding the murder.
“In San Francisco, it is the will, I believe, of a majority of people that the most severe crimes be met with the most severe consequences,” Harris said at that news conference. “And that life without the possibility of parole is a severe consequence.”
Delagnes was at the event as well, standing quietly next to Harris.
“I’m standing there and I’m going, ‘Oh my God,’” he told CNN. “The kid’s not even in the ground yet. You’re thinking to yourself, OK, is she sorry that this kid died or is this just a political opportunity? Is this just an opportunity for her to double down on the fact she’s not going to pursue the death penalty?”
He also told the outlet that he didn’t know Harris was going to take the death penalty off the table when he agreed to appear alongside her at the event.
Harris’ team justified the decision by saying San Francisco juries rarely, if ever, sentenced criminals to death, and reminded the media that Hill, the shooter, was only 21 years old.
Renata, Espinoza’s widow, told CNN that she remembered the press conference as the first time she heard Harris would not pursue the death penalty against the man who killed her husband.
“She did not call me,” Renata told the outlet. “I don’t understand why she went on camera to say that without talking to the family. It’s like, you can’t even wait till he’s buried?”
“I felt like she had just taken something from us,” she added. “She had just taken justice from us. From Isaac. She was only thinking of herself. I couldn’t understand why. I was in disbelief that she had gone on and already made her decision to not seek the death penalty for my husband.”
At Espinoza’s funeral, Harris was rebuked by none other than then-Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who at the time supported the death penalty. Feinstein would later switch her position on the issue, but at the time, she took a moment during Espinoza’s eulogy to condemn Harris’ decision.
“This is not only the definition of tragedy, it’s the special circumstance called for by the death penalty law,” she said, diverting from her prepared remarks but not naming Harris.
The hundreds of officers attending the funeral stood up and clapped after Feinstein’s remark.
Even after the funeral, Harris didn’t call Renata. So, Renata wrote her a letter. Espinoza’s older sister, Regina, expected to hear from the DA.
“She never called,” Regina told CNN. “There was no consideration for Renata, my niece, my parents, me, or the officers. It was as if she didn’t care.”
Espinoza’s family didn’t understand why Harris wasn’t pursuing the death penalty since California law allowed for “special circumstances,” including the murder of a police officer. And, while San Francisco juries rarely agreed to the death penalty, it had been decades since an accused cop killer was put on trial.
Nearly two weeks after Espinoza’s death, Harris – who still hadn’t called his family – wrote <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Justice-for-Officer-Espinoza-peace-for-the-city-2789147.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an opinion article</a> published in the San Francisco Chronicle again defending her choice not to seek the death penalty, saying the “district attorney is charged with seeking justice, not vengeance.”
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The family then reached out to the assistant DA to try to meet with Harris.
“I can’t remember exactly what she said,” Espinoza’s sister Regina told CNN. “But I remember there was no connection. We let her know how we felt. We didn’t walk away feeling better.”
“She never came over and said, ‘I’m sorry for your loss.’ Never. Nothing.” Espinoza’s widow, Renata, added. “I would have been able to hear her explanation directly and then we could have talked about it.”
Renata told CNN she never received any compassion from Harris in the years following, during Hill’s trial and conviction.
During her short-lived campaign for president in 2019, Harris wouldn’t tell reporters whether she ever personally spoke to anyone from the Espinoza family.
“We reached out to the family. We always did. We did in that case as well and offered all of the support that our office was able to give the family,” Harris said at the time.
While <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/diaz/article/Harris-and-the-death-penalty-years-of-13693075.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking</a> to the San Francisco Chronicle in May 2019, Harris said the part of the case she thinks about the most was whether she should have waited until after Espinoza’s funeral to announce she wasn’t seeking the death penalty.
“Maybe it was a political novice mistake. I don’t know. Maybe it was the right thing to do but you got to take the heat for it,” she said at the time.
Espinoza’s murderer, David Hill, is &#8220;grateful&#8221; for Harris’ decision.
“It took a lot of courage and integrity to make a campaign promise like that – and then keep it,” Hill told CNN. “I’m forever grateful.”

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