A man who was crowned “Miss San Francisco” will compete in the 2023 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miss California</a> Pageant in July.
Monroe Lace, a man who identifies as a woman, won the Miss San Francisco pageant in March, qualifying the “beauty queen” to compete for the Miss California title next month. Lace is the first trans-identifying man to be crowned Miss San Francisco in the competition’s 99-year history.
&#8220;Every time I put on the sash, the weight of it reminds me of the weight of my job; of the responsibility I have to make a difference for young children,&#8221; Lace told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/transgender-miss-san-francisco-make-history-miss-california-pageant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS Bay Area</a>.
Lace, 25, visits a different elementary school almost every day. In a video shown by the local CBS affiliate, Lace can be seen reading “<a href="https://socialjusticebooks.org/sparkle-boy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sparkle Boy</a>,” a picture book about a boy who wants to wear women’s clothing, to a 4th-grade class at Tenderloin Community School.
The trans-identifying man told <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/california-crowns-first-transgender-miss-san-francisco/#:~:text=Monroe%20Lace%20crowned%20first%20transgender%20Miss%20San%20Francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KRON 4</a> in March that he was “dreaming about this since I was 12 years old” and ran away from home.
In 2021, Kataluna Enriquez, another man identifying as a woman, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/03/1012666827/2021-miss-nevada-will-be-the-first-openly-transgender-miss-usa-contestant#:~:text=Press-,Miss%20Nevada%20Will%20Be%20The%20First%20Transgender%20Miss%20USA%20Contestant,the%20national%20pageant%20in%20November." target="_blank" rel="noopener">competed</a> in the Miss USA pageant as Miss Nevada. Lace seeks to be the second trans-identifying man to compete at the national competition. Another man <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/03/1012666827/2021-miss-nevada-will-be-the-first-openly-transgender-miss-usa-contestant#:~:text=Press-,Miss%20Nevada%20Will%20Be%20The%20First%20Transgender%20Miss%20USA%20Contestant,the%20national%20pageant%20in%20November." target="_blank" rel="noopener">competed</a> in the Miss New Hampshire competition after being <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/trans-contestant-becomes-first-miss-america-winner-at-new-hampshire-beauty-pageant-brian-nguyen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crowned</a> “Miss Greater Derry” last November.
The Miss San Francisco winner <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/transgender-miss-san-francisco-make-history-miss-california-pageant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> to have received death threats and “mean comments about my appearance or the way I look.” Despite this, Lace is undeterred from his child-focused mission, saying that he “know[s] that there’s a trans kid out there … who is reading [Lace’s] story as well.” CBS interviewed one 4th grader, who described Lace’s appearance as “beautiful” and “normal.”
The push for men to compete in women’s competitions has become an intense cultural and political question, prompting GOP presidential hopeful <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a> to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4034876-haley-calls-transgender-athletes-in-sports-the-womens-issue-of-our-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">label</a> the issue “the women’s issue of our time.”
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Female athletes like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-was-ready-to-go-to-dental-school-riley-gaines-became-an-activist-by-accident-but-shes-not-backing-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fighting-for-women-lia-thomas-teammate-tells-her-story-to-matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paula Scanlon</a> have spoken out against men in women’s sports, particularly concerning male swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lia-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lia Thomas</a>. Recently, ESPN commentator Samantha Ponder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/espns-samantha-ponder-bucks-network-joins-those-slamming-men-in-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke</a> with her company’s orthodoxy to speak out against men competing in women’s sports.
Last year, a federal court <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/04/miss-united-states-of-america-wins-anita-green-suit-can-bar-transgender-contestants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that Miss USA, whose winner competes for the Miss Universe title and is a separate organization from Miss America, could keep its “natural born female” policy under the First Amendment’s Free Speech clause.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-florida-ban-on-prescribing-puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-to-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Judge Blocks Florida Law Prohibiting Sex-Rejection Procedures For Minors </a>
A federal judge has temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender medical treatment for minors. The Tuesday ruling says the state has no rational basis for denying patients this treatment. The preliminary injunction mainly focuses on the language surrounding children and allows three children whose parents brought the suit to continue their treatment. The judge claims that evidence shows that “gender identity is real” and that “banning these treatments for minors ignores risks patients might face.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-dam-in-ukraine-is-destroyed-unleashes-wide-scale-flooding-potential-disaster-for-nuke-reactor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Major Dam In Ukraine Is Destroyed</a>
A major dam was destroyed early Tuesday morning local time in Russian-occupied territory in southern Ukraine. Over 15,000 residents downstream of the dam were evacuated, as officials warned that the rising water levels would hit a critical point in just a few hours. 
Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other of knocking out the Kakhovka (ka-hove-ka) dam and a nearby hydroelectric plant. In addition to the flooding, the dam’s failure is causing immediate concerns about water supplies in the region. The Kakhovka reservoir provided for almost all the water needs of the Crimean peninsula’s two million residents. The dam failure also has officials worried that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant could run out of water in a few months. An artificial lake kept in reserve for the power plant will serve its water needs for now.
<a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/california-insurance-ricardo-lara-state-farm/44100050" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insurance Companies Changing Policies In California</a>
State Farm, one of California’s top insurance agencies, recently announced it would no longer be taking home insurance applications in the Golden State. The insurer says the reason for the move is the threat of wildfires, as well as the increasing costs of construction. Now, the state’s insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara is telling Californians that there’s nothing he can do to stop the company from following through on its decision.
&#8220;According to my legal team, I don’t have the authority to do that,&#8221; Lara said. &#8220;We’re going to focus on the things we can do, which is bringing companies together, having the conversation, making sure consumers are protected and don’t lose their coverage, and that’s what we’re going to focus on.&#8221;
State Farm’s decision to change its business practices in California comes after Allstate made a similar announcement.
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<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/hilton-sf-union-square-parc-55-owner-default-18136774.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Major San Francisco Owner Abandons Downtown Properties </a>
Adding to California’s woes, one of San Francisco’s largest hotel owners announced that it would be dumping two of its downtown properties from its portfolio due to a range of issues including uncertainty regarding the city’s success in the future. 
This week, the Virginia-based real estate conglomerate Park Hotels &amp; Resorts announced that it would immediately stop making payments on its $725 million loan for two hotels in San Francisco — the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55. The firm cited “record high office vacancy; concerns over street conditions; lower return to office than peer cities; and a weaker than expected citywide convention calendar through 2027” as reasons behind the decision. A Hilton Hotels spokesperson told SFGate.com that it does not plan to close the hotels and that they will remain operational under the management of Hilton Hotels &amp; Resorts. The CEO of Park Hotels &amp; Resorts added that forfeiting the two properties was “difficult but necessary.”
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dave-ramsey-getting-sued-150-million-lawsuit-timeshare-exit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dave Ramsey Sued</a>
Financial guru and radio legend Dave Ramsey has been hit with a $150 million class-action lawsuit in connection with a failed timeshare company. The suit was first filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in April, but reported recently.
The suit claims that Ramsey endorsed &#8220;Timeshare Exit Team&#8221; to his listeners on “The Ramsey Show,” despite growing client complaints and government flags indicating the company was likely fraudulent. The company allegedly promised to help customers terminate their timeshare contracts, which are notoriously difficult to exit. Ramsey has reportedly received more than $30 million between 2015 and 2021 to promote the now-failed timeshare exit program, which went out of business last year.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unbelievable-trump-predicted-the-liv-pga-merger-last-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LIV-PGA Merger</a>
The PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf have signed an agreement to merge into an as-of-now unnamed company, squashing more than a year of lawsuits and attempts by both organizations to court the world’s most esteemed golfers.
The deal combines the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, along with DP World Tour, into one for-profit company, CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/06/pga-tour-agrees-to-merge-with-saudi-backed-rival-liv-golf.html">reported</a>. Specifics of the merger have yet to be disclosed, but the deal will end all pending litigation between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.
We’ll have a full report in tomorrow’s episode of Morning Wire.
<a href="https://abc7ny.com/jim-hines-death-olympic-gold-medalist-national-news-athlete-deaths/13350248/#:~:text=The%20two%2Dtime%20Olympic%20gold,100m%20in%20under%2010%20seconds.&amp;text=Two%2Dtime%20Olympic%20gold%20medalist%20Jim%20Hines%2C%20who%20was%20the,76%2C%20according%20to%20World%20Athletics." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olympic Medalist Dead At 76</a>
Oakland native Jim Hines, a U.S. Olympic gold medalist and the first man to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds, died at 76. Hines won his Olympic medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and was widely regarded as the fastest man alive while in his prime. Details of his death are unknown. Here’s the radio broadcast from Hines’ historic sprint:
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An immigrant who came to the United States from Afghanistan and opened a business in Democrat-controlled San Francisco says that the conditions in the city are worse than in Afghanistan.
The immigrant, who only goes by Zaid, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/immigrant-store-owner-begs-san-francisco-for-help-after-losing-100k-to-burglars-worse-than-afghanistan">told</a> Fox News that gangs had stolen more than $100,000 in merchandise and cash from his tobacco store, Cigarettes R Cheaper, and none of them have been caught.
&#8220;The politicians need to get a grip on this because it’s worse than Afghanistan or Iraq,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At least in Afghanistan the Taliban will cut your hand off and people are afraid to commit such a crime.&#8221;
Zaid said he sees stores around town getting robbed nearly daily, and he believes it&#8217;s because the criminals &#8220;know the police won&#8217;t do anything.&#8221;
He said the seven criminals who robbed his store were there for 20 minutes and left in two cars before police arrived.
&#8220;We have drugs issue, we have homeless issue, and on top of this these idiots come in here and take whatever they want,&#8221; Zaid said. &#8220;The city has gone downhill, especially the last two years since COVID, I’ve never seen it worse. People are afraid to come shopping here because they are either going to get robbed or someone will break into their car.&#8221;
Zaid, who has been in the U.S. for more than 30 years, said that he might shut down his store because safety is his top priority.
In April, a Whole Foods location in downtown San Francisco <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-franciscos-flagship-whole-foods-closes-after-only-one-year-due-to-high-crime-report">closed.</a> A source in San Francisco City Hall told a local news outlet that drug use and criminal activity from individuals near the store played a role in the closure.
“We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being,” a spokesperson for Whole Foods said in a <a href="https://sfstandard.com/business/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to the San Francisco Standard. “If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location.”
The downtown portion of San Francisco has also suffered from declining foot traffic in the years since government lockdowns sequestered employees in their homes and apartments.
Nordstrom <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nordstrom-to-shutter-both-san-francisco-downtown-stores-citing-worsening-conditions">announced</a> last month that it was closing both of the company’s department stores in downtown San Francisco in the coming months.
Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/t-mobile-closes-flagship-store-in-downtown-san-francisco-as-foot-traffic-plummets">T-Mobile Closes Flagship Store In Downtown San Francisco As Foot Traffic Plummets</a>

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Afghan Immigrant Who Opened Business In San Francisco: ‘It’s Worse Than Afghanistan Or Iraq’

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The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER) filed a lawsuit accusing San Francisco of running racially discriminatory guaranteed income programs, which the organization says violate the 14th Amendment.
CFER, which is being represented by the American Civil Rights Project (ACR Project), announced that their lawsuit would challenge several different entities, including both the City and County of San Francisco as well as San Francisco Unified School District, the California Health and Human Services Agency, and the University of California San Francisco. 
“Our legal challenge focuses on four unconstitutional guaranteed-income programs that violate the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” the Thursday <a href="https://cferfoundation.org/posts/lawsuit-against-SF-May-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> stated. 
The lawsuit focuses on the “Abundant Birth Project,” which the group said “provides unconditional cash supplements (up to $1,000) to Black and Pacific Islander mothers as a strategy to reduce preterm birth and improve economic outcomes for our communities.”
Another guaranteed income program highlighted in the lawsuit is the “Black Economic Equity Movement,” which would select “300 Black young adults ages 18 to 24 to receive $500 per month for one year.”
A third program, called the “Guaranteed Income for Trans People,” is also being challenged in the lawsuit. The program would provide “low-income transgender San Franciscans with $1,200 each month, up to 18 months, with priority given to Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC) applicants.”
Meanwhile, the Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists “provides 190 artists of particular races and gender expressions monthly payments of $1,000 for up to 18 months.”
“The California Constitution unambiguously prohibits public agencies from treating individuals differently on the basis of race,” President of CFER Frank Xu stated in the press release. He also went on to argue that “these entities ignore the law and offer race-preferential programs under the disguise of equity.”
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Meanwhile, Bradley Benbrook, the ACR Project’s California co-counsel, asserted that “The California Constitution further prohibits granting ‘[any] citizen or class of citizens’ any ‘privileges or immunities not granted on the same terms to all citizens.’” He went on to add “These provisions clearly forbid public entities from choosing beneficiaries based on identitarian considerations.”​​
CFER previously notified government entities in San Francisco of their <a href="https://cferfoundation.org/posts/cfer-and-the-american-civil-rights-project-notify-california-entities-of-intent-to-sue-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intent to file</a> a lawsuit, charging in March that “It’s cartoonishly unconstitutional for San Francisco and its co-conspirators to so blatantly distribute public resources based on race.”

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President Joe Biden’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a> has undermined one of the Left’s most treasured virtue-signaling policies: sanctuary cities.
Blue cities that were so eager just a few years ago to declare themselves sanctuaries for illegal migrants are now reaping what they sowed as floods of people arrive, needing food and shelter and draining city resources.
The crisis has quickly worsened since Title 42 expired less than two weeks ago, snowballing into an emergency even Democrats can no longer ignore. Title 42 had allowed border authorities to quickly expel migrants at the border over COVID concerns.
Red state governors in border states like Texas are shipping migrants to sanctuary cities by the hundreds, saying, “You wanted them. You take them.”
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has bused <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/18/greg-abbott-denver-immigrant-buses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 19,000</a> migrants to New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Denver, and Philadelphia, all Democrat-run cities. Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis famously sent a bus of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, the Massachusetts haven for the uber-wealthy.
In New York City, which has allowed in <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eric-adams-migrant-crisis-new-york-city-face-the-nation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 70,000</a> migrants in recent months, Democratic Mayor Eric Adams is complaining that they are costing the city an unsustainable fortune, even with federal aid from the Biden administration.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve spent over $1 billion. We&#8217;re projected to spend close to $4.3 billion, if not more. When you look at the price tag, $30 million comes nowhere near what this city is paying for a national problem,&#8221; Adams <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nyc-migrants-work-authorization-asylum-seekers-roosevelt-hotel/13282585/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The city has taken over more than 150 hotels to shelter more than 41,000 asylum seekers, in some cases <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nyc-migrants-work-authorization-asylum-seekers-roosevelt-hotel/13282585/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing</a> paying customers to lose their reservations. Adams and Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul are also calling for expedited work authorizations for migrants in New York.
The border crisis has also <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-white-house-anger-eric-adams-migrant-criis-cost-democrats-20230521-afeyenilpzcwtnjmoyw7ec654y-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused</a> a rift between Adams and the White House. Biden aides are reportedly roiled that Adams said the “national government has turned its back” on New York City and warned that the border crisis could hurt Democrats at the polls.
Just a few miles away on Long Island, Suffolk County lawmakers are trying to block the mayor from foisting the asylum seekers on them.
“We here in Suffolk County are 2,000 miles from the southern border, but we are to become a border county because of the Biden administration’s failed border policies and the sanctuary city policies of New York City,” <a href="https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1660428689782317058">said</a> eastern Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) on Sunday at a press conference.
“I say to the mayor of New York City, sir, put your money where your mouth is,” LaLota said.
Philadelphia is <a href="https://6abc.com/philadelphia-migrants-asylum-seekers-venezuela-new-sanctuary-movement-of-del-rio-texas/13231693/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrambling</a> to metabolize hundreds of migrants being bused into the city as well, some sent by Texas.
Philadelphia Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney blasted the Texas governor, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXQcLt7STQ&amp;t=65s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> his “cruel and racist policies” are “sad and outrageous,” and Texas is using migrants as “pawns to shamelessly push their warped political agenda.”
Kenney was in a slightly better mood in 2018 when he <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/06/07/sanctuary-city-kenney-sessions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did a little dance</a> after a federal judge ruled Philadelphia could remain a sanctuary city and get $1.5 million in federal funding.
In Chicago, migrants have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/migrants-sleep-chicago-police-stations-shelters-strain-2023-05-18/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slept</a> on the floors of police stations and overcrowded city shelters as city officials scramble to figure out what to do with them.
The situation is an immediate emergency for Chicago’s new Democratic mayor, Brandon Johnson, who took office last week. Chicago’s freshly ousted mayor, Lori Lightfoot, <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-suburb-says-it-didnt-know-dozens-of-migrants-were-being-sent-from-chicago-as-more-buses-arrived-in-city/2934565/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">upset</a> residents when she bused dozens of illegal migrants out of the city into a nearby suburb. Johnson has not said exactly how he plans to deal with the migrants long-term, but the mayor’s office said 400 migrants might be <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2023/5/19/23730372/wright-college-house-migrants-chicago-asylum-seeker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">housed</a> at a local college over the summer.
Denver has several hundred migrants arriving daily, most from Central and South America. Last week, the sanctuary city <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2023/05/11/denver-migrant-response-hits-emergency-mode" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ramped up</a> its response to the emergency level. About 1,000 people are now staying in four shelters across the city.
So far, Denver has spent $15.7 million on migrants since December, with less than $250,000 in help from the federal government.
San Francisco <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11941173/sf-supervisors-split-on-details-of-citys-sanctuary-policy-shielding-immigrants-from-deportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dug</a> its heels in on its sanctuary city status earlier this year, even as federal authorities sought an exception for two illegal immigrants, one accused of murder and one of sexually abusing young children.
Meanwhile, Bay Area humanitarian groups are <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/bay-area-groups-request-help-immigrants-title-42/3233656/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">begging</a> for help as they prepare for a wave of migrants.
There are at least <a href="https://cis.org/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">181 sanctuary cities</a> and counties in 11 states, including California, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Vermont.
So far, major cities are dealing with the brunt of the border crisis. Soon though, smaller cities and suburbs could also feel the pressure when big cities inevitably relocate migrants, as Chicago started to do.
In the meantime, Democratic governors and mayors are blaming everyone but themselves for the crisis.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-whistleblowers-detail-egregious-abuse-retribution-from-politicized-bureau-house-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI Whistleblowers Testify</a>
Three current and former members of the FBI testified in the House on Thursday and accused the bureau of wrongfully retaliating against them.
Garrett O‘Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen told lawmakers that the FBI suspended their security clearances and froze their pay over questions about the Bureau’s January 6 investigations. O’Boyle and Allen are still employed by the bureau, but they’ve been without pay and barred from working for about a year. They say they’ve been forced to rely on charity and their retirement savings to stay afloat. Here’s O’Boyle:  
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POWERFUL testimony from FBI Whistleblower Garret O’Boyle on how the agency rendered his family HOMELESS for speaking up against the FBI’s efforts to weaponize the bureau against Americans:
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In news reported first by The Daily Wire today, former Biden nuclear energy official, Sam Brinton, was arrested Wednesday as a fugitive of justice. This comes months after Brinton was fired amid allegations of stealing luggage and women’s clothing from airports.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Roziak learned exclusively that former Biden administration nuclear official, Sam Brinton, was arrested last night at his home in Rockville, Maryland. A neighbor told Roziak that four unmarked police cars went to his house at about 10:00 PM and pulled him out. On Thursday, a  judge ordered Brinton extradited to Arlington, Virginia to face charges of grand larceny related to alleged luggage theft out of Dulles Airport, in connection with those fugitive from justice charges.
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cash-app-bob-lee-murder-nima-momeni-pleads-not-guilty-2023-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Accused Cash App Killer Pleads Not Guilty</a>
Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old man, accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death, back in April, pleaded not guilty Thursday. Momeni’s mother and sister were present in the San Francisco courtroom when the plea was entered. Momeni’s attorney argued her client should be released on bail but the judge refused bail saying Momeni is a threat to the community.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/montana-becomes-first-state-to-completely-ban-tiktok-after-national-security-privacy-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Montana Bans TikTok</a>
Montana has become the first state to completely ban TikTok after Republican Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill into law on Wednesday.
The law prohibits app stores from making TikTok available for download in the state. It comes as state lawmakers accused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> of breaching user security. 
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company, and has been accused of allowing the communist country access to data on Americans’ phones. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-take-chinas-comments-about-capturing-taiwan-seriously-theyre-not-kidding-around" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Warns About China Taking Over Taiwan</a>
Twitter owner Elon Musk is warning that U.S. policymakers should take China’s threats of taking over Taiwan “seriously.” Musk made the remarks during an interview with CNBC’s David Faber. Musk was asked if he was concerned about “the growing belligerence between China and the U.S.”
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/falling-debris-causes-fires-two-kyiv-sites-officials-2023-05-18/#:~:text=May%2018%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Ukraine,Ukrainian%20military%20said%20on%20Thursday." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukraine Claims It Thwarted Russian Missile Attack</a>
Ukraine is claiming that it thwarted 29 out of 30 airstrikes launched by Russia early Thursday, leaving one person dead. However, the Russian government denies those claims and says that it successfully hit key Ukrainian weapons and ammunition depots. 
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Thursday Afternoon Update: FBI Whistleblowers Testify, Ex-Biden Admin Nuclear Weirdo Arrested, Montana Bans TikTok

Thursday Afternoon Update: FBI Whistleblowers, Ex-Biden Admin. Nuclear Weirdo Arrested, Montana Bans TikTok

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The FBI has a suspect in the infamous &#8220;Zodiac&#8221; killings, a cold case group claims.
Case Breakers, a volunteer group of investigators led by investigative journalist Thomas Colbert, claimed in <a href="https://thecasebreakers.org/2023/05/zodiac_killer_fbi_cover-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> on Thursday that the FBI has listed Air Force veteran Gary Francis Poste as a suspect in the Zodiac killings since 2016. The group said it learned the information from “a senior FBI agent.”
“The felon has been secretly listed as the Zodiac ‘suspect’ in Headquarters’ computers since 2016 – with his ‘partial DNA’ safely secured at the feds’ Quantico, Virginia lab,” Case Breakers claimed.
Case Breakers previously identified Poste, who died in 2018, as the Zodiac killer, and has questioned why the FBI hasn’t notified the victims’ families. Investigators have agreed that seven people were the victims of assaults by the Zodiac killer, five of whom died from their injuries. He is suspected of killing 20 to 28 in total, and the killer himself claimed to have killed 37 in his infamous letters to media outlets and detectives. The Zodiac operated in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1968 and 1969.
The FBI maintains that the case is still unsolved and remains open and active.
In its press release, Case Breakers claimed it had found DNA on a hiking mat Poste owned and confirmed the DNA using a living relative. The group has asked the FBI to compare that DNA to hairs found on Cheri Jo Bates, believed by the group to be one of the Zodiac’s victims. Police, however, don’t believe Bates was killed by the Zodiac.
&#8220;The Cheri Jo Bates investigation is not related to any of the Zodiac cases,&#8221; Riverside Police spokesman Ryan J. Railsback <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/did-fbi-miss-chance-arrest-suspect-zodiac-killer-gary-francis-poste-1801101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Newsweek two years ago.
More than 50 years after the Zodiac sent a cipher to the San Francisco Chronicle taunting authorities for failing to catch him, three amateur code breakers believed they cracked the cipher. The cryptic message, known as the “340 cipher,” was allegedly solved by Virginia software developer David Oranchak, Belgian computer programmer Jarl Van Eycke, and Australian mathematician Sam Blake. They believe the message contains a misspelling of the word “paradise,” but says:
<blockquote>I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me
That wasn’t me on the TV show which brings up a point about me
I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner
Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death
I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death.</blockquote>
The TV show reference is to “The Jim Dunbar Show,” a television talk show that aired in the San Francisco area. In 1969, a man claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into Dunbar’s show repeatedly, saying a few words before hanging up each time. The cipher that has been decoded was sent to the Chronicle two weeks after the show aired.
This is not the first time someone has claimed to know the identity of the Zodiac killer. Numerous people <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/16/us/zodiac-killer-son-book/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have claimed</a> to be relatives of someone they believe to have been the killer.

Cold Case Group Claims FBI Has ‘Zodiac Killer’ Suspect

Cold Case Group Claims FBI Has 'Zodiac Killer' Suspect

Comedian Dave Chappelle roasted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco">San Francisco</a> during a show late last week at the Masonic over the city&#8217;s rapid decline caused by electing woke local officials.
Chappelle&#8217;s remarks were revealed in a SFGate <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/dave-chappelle-masonic-comedy-review-18097136.php">report</a> from Dan Gentile, who says that he went to the show and witnessed Chappelle&#8217;s &#8220;barrage of transphobic dog whistles.&#8221;
The report claimed that Chappelle&#8217;s comedy had taken &#8220;a dark turn toward transphobia&#8221; in recent years after he &#8220;he identified as TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), declared that gender is an unmalleable fact and insinuated that the struggle for LGBTQ and Black rights are at odds.&#8221;
Chappelle&#8217;s &#8220;disdain for present-day San Francisco&#8221; was &#8220;crystal clear,&#8221; the report said.
On the subject of the rampant homelessness in the city, Chappelle reportedly asked, “What the f*** happened to this place?”
The report whined that Chappelle mocked a situation in which a homeless person defecated in front of a restaurant he was eating at in the Bay Area earlier in the week, claiming that Chappelle &#8220;has said plenty of irresponsible and dangerous things.&#8221;
The report complained that Chappelle had &#8220;insulated himself from criticism with a combination of incredible talent and incredible wealth&#8221; like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk.
The writer claimed that Chappelle&#8217;s jokes involving transgender individuals were &#8220;insensitive&#8221; and &#8220;just plain lazy&#8221; because, the writer claimed, Chappelle was &#8220;relying on tropes rather than the comedian’s incisive wit.&#8221;
The report noted that Chappelle repeatedly used the transgender community as a &#8220;punchline&#8221; throughout the performance and complained that &#8220;these dog whistles&#8221; had &#8220;spoiled&#8221; the night — even though the show was sold out and the &#8220;the amount of laughter in the room&#8221; proved otherwise.
Chappelle <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dave-chappelle-wins-grammy-award-for-netflix-special-that-enraged-trans-people">won</a> a Grammy award earlier this year for best comedy album for his Netflix special “The Closer,” the show that sparked immense anger from leftists because he went after the transgender community.
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. attempted to quell any potential backlash from leftists over Chappelle winning the award by noting that viewers are responsible for picking the winners.
“If the voters feel like a creator deserves a nomination, they’re going to vote for them,” he <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/dave-chappelle-grammy-netflix-the-closer-trans-controversy-1235316559/">said</a>. “We’re never going to be in the business of deciding someone’s moral position or where we evaluate them to be on the scale of morality. I think our job is to evaluate the art and the quality of the art. We can make sure that all of our spaces are safe and people don’t feel threatened by anyone. But as far as the nominations or the awards, we really let the voters make that decision.”

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Dave Chappelle Torches San Francisco While Performing There: ‘What The F*** Happened To This Place?’

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T-Mobile recently shuttered the company’s flagship store in downtown <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a>, a move which comes amid declining foot traffic and rising <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminality</a> in the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> metropolis.
The telecommunications firm quietly shuttered its store in Union Square, an upscale department store and shopping hub in San Francisco, at least one month ago. Signs announcing the closure appeared in the windows of the store, which spans two stories and 17,000 square feet.
A spokesperson for T-Mobile said in a <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/tmobile-closes-union-square-store-san-francisco-18084488.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to SFGATE that the company has “reshaped” its “retail strategy.” Former employees at the Union Square location have been “offered roles within the company,” which continues to operate stores on Mission and Market streets.
News of the T-Mobile closure comes days after Nordstrom shuttered both of its department stores in downtown San Francisco even as the company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nordstrom-to-shutter-both-san-francisco-downtown-stores-citing-worsening-conditions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expands</a> in suburbs throughout the Bay Area. Whole Foods <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-franciscos-flagship-whole-foods-closes-after-only-one-year-due-to-high-crime-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed</a> its flagship location in the downtown area last month, with <a href="https://sfstandard.com/business/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/">reports</a> indicating that rampant drug use and criminal activity from individuals near the store played a role in the closure.
Crime in San Francisco has indeed been blamed for severely diminishing quality of life and contributing to a mass exodus of residents and businesses. Pharmacy giant Walgreens <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walgreens-now-closing-stores-in-san-francisco-following-retail-theft-spike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed</a> several locations in the city two years ago, while technology retailer Best Buy has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/best-buy-is-worried-about-san-francisco-employees-quitting-getting-traumatized-thanks-to-frequent-thefts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struggled</a> with safety issues related to organized retail crime. Nearly 8% of current San Francisco residents plan to move elsewhere within the next year, surging past levels seen in every other major American city, according to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-40-of-san-francisco-residents-planning-to-leave-deteriorating-city-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Census Bureau.
The downtown portion of San Francisco has accordingly suffered from declining foot traffic in the years since government lockdowns sequestered employees in their homes and apartments. San Francisco Democratic Mayor London Breed endorsed <a href="https://sf.gov/news/planning-commission-approves-legislation-support-future-downtown-and-union-square" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amendments</a> to the city’s building codes last week such that commercial structures can be transitioned into residential housing.
“The challenges facing downtown require us to imagine what is possible and create the foundation for a stronger, more resilient future,” Breed said in a statement. “We can create more opportunities to fill our empty buildings, whether that’s to create housing or making it easier to fill office and retail space. These changes shouldn’t be something that requires granting exceptions through lengthy paperwork and exhaustive public hearings. We need to make the process easier for getting our buildings active and full.”
San Francisco has lagged behind other major cities with respect to foot traffic: the metric reached only 42% of levels witnessed at the end of 2019 as of the first quarter of 2023, according to <a href="https://www.placer.ai/blog/office-index-placer-ai-office-index-march-2023-recap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from Placer Labs.
The number of arrests in San Francisco has meanwhile fallen significantly over the past three years amid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sf-democrat-mayor-london-breed-after-backing-defunding-police-reverses-need-aggressive-policing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calls</a> from Breed and other prominent officials to defund law enforcement. Companies across the nation have contended with increases in retail theft, much of which is increasingly organized by criminal enterprises, according to a <a href="https://cdn.nrf.com/sites/default/files/2023-04/NRF-K2OrganizedRetailCrimeReportFinal.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> released last month by the National Retail Federation. The trade association said crime networks have become increasingly “violent” and “brazen” in their tactics over the past two years, using methods such as smash-and-grab, weapons, or threats of violence against store employees and customers.

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T-Mobile Closes Flagship Store In Downtown San Francisco As Foot Traffic Plummets

T-Mobile Closes Flagship Store In Downtown San Francisco

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The security guard who shot and killed a shoplifting suspect in self-defense spoke out about the incident Friday.
Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony is the security guard at Walgreens in downtown <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a>. On April 27, Anthony shot and killed an alleged shoplifter, later identified as local transgender activist Banko Brown. In an interview with <a href="https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/walgreens-shooting-guard-who-killed-banko-brown-gives-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The San Francisco Standard</a>, Anthony spoke out about the incident and the effects it has had on him.
“[I’m] still dealing with it, still don&#8217;t understand and don&#8217;t have the time to reflect,” Anthony said. “It&#8217;s not like I go through this many times. This is a very life-changing matter.&#8221;
Anthony declined to elaborate on the details of the shooting. According to a <a href="https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/walgreens-killing-heres-what-we-know-about-banko-browns-shooting-by-a-security-guard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thursday report</a> from the San Francisco Standard, police said that Anthony tried to stop Brown from shoplifting. He was still standing inside the store when Brown walked out. Brown then turned around and allegedly spat on Anthony and raised a hand to him. It was at that point that Anthony drew his gun and fired.
Anthony pointed out that security guards like him are under immense pressure in confrontational situations like that, and that it happened very fast. “This is important for more people to be more aware of,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was happening too frequently.&#8221;
“It&#8217;s a lot to deal with. It&#8217;s a lot of pressure,&#8221; he added. &#8220;A person can only take so much,” Anthony went on to say. “When you are limited to certain options, something will happen.”
Being a security guard is difficult because you are on your own in more ways than one, he added. &#8220;Who has my back? Nobody?” he said. “You are left with no support. It&#8217;s a frightening feeling with a lot of people around you” who could do you harm, he added.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in a statement to news outlets Monday that after looking at surveillance footage and statements from both Anthony and witnesses, her office will not press charges against Anthony in the shooting. “The evidence clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense,” the statement read, via The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/us/san-francisco-walgreens-shooting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. The statement called the situation a &#8220;tragedy,&#8221; but said they could not charge Anthony in good faith. “We cannot bring forward charges when there is credible evidence of reasonable self-defense,&#8221; the office stated. &#8220;Doing so would be unethical and create false hope for a successful prosecution.”
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In separate comments to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/walgreens-shooting-sf-banko-brown-charges-18074873.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, Jenkins said that “both threats of force and physical force were used” in the confrontation. “It’s never easy to have to come to that conclusion,” Jenkins said, but “my personal feelings cannot be what governs my decision. It has to be the law.”
Jenkins&#8217; decision prompted outrage from activists in the community. One such activist, Lia McGeever, vented her outrage during a city Board of Supervisors meeting. Declaring that “trans-genocide of this country, in this city, has brought me to” it, McGeever tore off her face mask and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-activist-shrieks-at-sf-supervisors-over-release-of-guard-who-shot-trans-person" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screamed</a> for 10 seconds, pausing to yell, “Imagine that.” The activist screamed for another five seconds, then yelled, “I hate this. I hate what you’ve done to us. I hate what you’re doing to us. I hate you, board of supervisors. I hate you, London Breed. I hate you, Jenkins.”
After screaming for another five seconds, the activist yelled, “F*** you. F***ing ay, man. F***. Cowards.”
Hank Berrien contributed to this report.

Walgreens

San Francisco Security Guard Who Shot Alleged Shoplifter Speaks Out

District Attorneys

A trans activist shrieked and swore at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday in a bizarre and ear-splitting protest of the release of a security guard accused of killing a trans-identifying shoplifting suspect last week.
The activist, identified as Lia McGeever, piped up during the meeting&#8217;s public speaking portion a day after the city&#8217;s district attorney declared the Walgreens security guard acted in self-defense when he shot Banko Brown. McGeever, who was one of several citizens who came to complain about the decision, unloaded on the supervisors with a high-decibel mix of verbal and visceral vitriol.
“I hate a lot of people on this board for other reasons that led up to Banko Brown’s death,” began McGeever, who initially spoke through a COVID mask. “So often, I sort of prepare something; maybe it’s a little historical; maybe a little poetic, whatever. There’s a lot of performative people on this board who will say one thing in support of black people, homeless people, trans people, and then immediately stab you in the face, being racist, transphobic, anti-homeless.”
Declaring that &#8220;trans-genocide of this country, in this city, has brought me to&#8221; it, McGeever tore off the mask and screamed for 10 seconds, pausing to yell, “Imagine that.” The activist screamed for another five seconds, then yelled, “I hate this. I hate what you’ve done to us. I hate what you’re doing to us. I hate you, board of supervisors. I hate you, London Breed. I hate you, Jenkins.”
After screaming for another five seconds, the activist yelled, “F*** you. F***ing ay, man. F***. Cowards.”
The death of Brown, 24, has sparked numerous protests in San Francisco. Brown was allegedly shot by the security guard last week during an alleged shoplifting incident, <a href="https://abc7news.com/banko-brown-rally-san-francisco-walgreens-shooting-trans-person-killed/13202404/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC7</a> reported. While McGeever and other activists wanted the guard prosecuted, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins confirmed on Monday that he had been released and said he had acted in self-defense.
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This is the best definition of &quot;Wokeism&quot; that I&#39;ve ever seen. Right to the point. <a href="https://t.co/mSKVITlEJ0">pic.twitter.com/mSKVITlEJ0</a>
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McGeever&#8217;s caterwauled complaint may have struck a chord with the far-Left city&#8217;s supervisors. One, Aaron Peskin, <a href="https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/banko-brown-unarmed-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-jenkins-release-evidence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> gratitude for the protests after the meeting.
“I appreciate the expressions of concern that I&#8217;ve heard from virtually each and every one of you, and I think that it does bear some re-examination by the district attorney,&#8221; Peskin said. &#8220;I would like to see — and have the public see — whatever video the police have seen and the DA has seen. The DA, based on what I’ve heard from law enforcement, should re-evaluate and reconsider.”
Peskin <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/banko-brown-walgreens-shooting/3221128/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that police have security camera video of the exchange before the security guard allegedly shot Brown.
“That video can be released to the public and the board of supervisors,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s legal, it would not compromise any investigation now or in the future. My resolution calls for us to see that video and then we can draw our own conclusions.”

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Trans Activist Shrieks At SF Supervisors Over Release Of Guard Who Shot Trans Person

After the meeting, supervisor says release should be reconsidered 

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