A top administration official defended President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> on Sunday amid a large spike in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-disaster-biden-admin-sets-new-border-record-as-illegal-crossings-surge">border crossings</a>.
Transportation Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-buttigieg">Pete Buttigieg</a> was asked about the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly in Texas where the Department of Defense just <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/us/migrant-crossings-eagle-pass-state-of-emergency/index.html">bolstered</a> a National Guard deployment, during an interview with NBC News.
&#8220;Let me ask you about what we are seeing at the border. Recently, the administration sent <a href="https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-09-21/troops-mexico-border-migrants-11445230.html">800 active-duty troops</a> to the Texas border to deal with the surge in migrants, some record numbers this past week. Was the Biden administration caught off guard by this latest surge of migrants?&#8221; asked &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; moderator Kristen Welker.
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Q: &quot;Was the Biden administration caught off guard by this latest surge of migrants?&quot;
BUTTIGIEG: &quot;What you saw was the administration, as always, responding as needed&#8230;&quot;
Q: &quot;Were you caught off guard though?&quot;
BUTTIGIEG: &quot;The president did what needed to be done.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/llontN4RTT">pic.twitter.com/llontN4RTT</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1705967911704105296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Well, what you saw was the administration, as always, responding as needed to conditions being proactive where necessary,&#8221; Buttigieg responded.
Welker pressed the issue. &#8220;Were you caught off guard, though?&#8221; she asked again.
&#8220;Look, the president did what needed to be done. And often that involves a rapid response, like the rapid response that this administration directed. But also what we see is a political dynamic where some people seem to prefer that the problem continue, rather than to do something to actually solve it,&#8221; Buttigieg said.
&#8220;And I have to say, that kind of reminds me of what&#8217;s going on in the funding fight, where some of the very same people who would line up to take a shot at the administration over something like air travel disruption, are also trying to disrupt us from training more air traffic controllers,&#8221; he added, alluding to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-lee-argues-congress-should-avoid-government-shutdown">spending fight</a> in Congress ahead of a possible government shutdown.
The new military deployment was announced in the midst of reports about <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTiffany/status/1704137551571828886">illegal crossings</a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/22/us-border-migrant-families-biden">spiking to nearly 9,000 a day</a> and Eagle Pass, Texas, <a href="https://www.epbusinessjournal.com/2023/09/eagle-pass-besieged-by-migrants-declares-state-of-emergency/#:~:text=Eagle%20Pass%20Mayor%20Rolando%20Salinas%2C%20Jr.%20declared%20a%20Local%20State,and%20U.%20S.%20federal%20government%20to">declared</a> a state of emergency.
Government data released last week showed authorities encountering migrants more than 304,000 times around the nation in August, a number which was over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-disaster-biden-admin-sets-new-border-record-as-illegal-crossings-surge">50,000 more</a> than the month before.
While Republicans have <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4213128-gop-governors-push-biden-on-border-shelters-are-full-food-pantries-empty/">criticized</a> Biden for not doing more to secure the border, Democrats have also gotten fed up as big cities across the country — and far away from the border — feel the crunch of an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-signals-break-in-direct-communications-with-biden-as-migrant-crisis-escalates">influx of migrants</a>. Among them is New York City.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/aoc-third-term-congress.html">told The New York Times</a> that immigration was &#8220;arguably&#8221; the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;weakest issue.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kjp-responds-to-aoc-biden-has-done-more-to-secure-border-than-anybody-else">In response</a>, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argued that Biden &#8220;has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else.&#8221;
Meanwhile, Biden has <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-biden-blames-exploding-border-crisis-on-maga-republicans/">accused</a> &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; of &#8220;gutting&#8221; the immigration system and undermining border security.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Buttigieg Claims Biden ‘Did What Needed To Be Done’ With Migrant Surge

Buttigieg Claims Biden 'Did What Needed To Be Done' With Migrant Surge

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fox-news">Fox News</a> host Maria Bartiromo grilled Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) during a contentious interview on Sunday, saying that he was allowing his &#8220;personal vendetta&#8221; against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) take him to the point where his opposition to a short-term spending bill to avoid a shutdown was actually helping Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and the Democratic Party.
The clash happened on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures,&#8221; during a segment in which Bartiromo accused Gaetz of threatening to &#8220;blow up all of the wins&#8221; that Republicans have had so far while in the majority in the House.
&#8220;Are you not right now indirectly working with Democrats?&#8221; Bartiromo asked. &#8220;Because you are going to allow Chuck Schumer to come up with a continuing resolution next week to fund the government. That&#8217;s what your actions are doing. That&#8217;s why some people feel this is a personal vendetta you have against the speaker.&#8221;
&#8220;No, my vendetta is against a Washington system that allows corruption to put the interests of lobbyists and PACs above the interests of the American people,&#8221; Gaetz said, claiming that McCarthy &#8220;facilitates that system.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not working with Chuck Schumer, any other Democrat, I am the one working with House conservatives to require single subject spending bills,&#8221; he added.
When Bartiromo said told Gaetz that he was &#8220;enabling&#8221; Schumer and the Democrats, Gaetz fired back: &#8220;No, no, no. You guys criticize me for forcing single subject spending bills, then you give Kevin McCarthy the credit for doing it. The reality is, this is the only way to liberate ourselves from a bad system.&#8221;
Bartiromo said that she actually agreed with some of the specific things that Gaetz wanted to do but did not agree with his methods and brinkmanship.
Gaetz said that he was effectively putting a &#8220;political gun&#8221; to McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;head&#8221; and that he would continue to do so.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMattGaetz</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariaBartiromo</a> this morning responds to criticisms he is working with Democrats:
&quot;You guys criticize me for forcing single subject spending bills. Then you give McCarthy the credit for doing it. The reality is this is the only way to liberate ourselves&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SnL5KU732m">pic.twitter.com/SnL5KU732m</a>
&mdash; SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) <a href="https://twitter.com/SundayFutures/status/1706005755382386985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Bartiromo Grills Gaetz Over ‘Personal Vendetta’ Against Speaker McCarthy: You’re Enabling Chuck Schumer

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Social media platform X, formerly called Twitter, issued a brutal context update on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> piece about Barstool founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dave-portnoy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dave Portnoy</a>, who earlier in the week taped a call he had confronting one of the reporters writing what he deemed a &#8220;hit piece.&#8221;
During his taped conversation, Portnoy pressed reporter Emily Heil about why she was contacting participating pizzerias and sponsors of his &#8220;One Bite Pizza Festival&#8221; and seemingly asking them to defend their decision to participate in the event, while describing Portnoy as having a &#8220;history of misogynistic comments and other problematic behavior.&#8221; Notably, Heil told Portnoy on the call that she wanted the advertisers to think something negative was going to be printed, which she said is a press tactic used to get a response.
&#8220;A phone call between Emily Heil and Dave Portney was shared prior to publication, in which the WaPo journalist admits to intentionally misleading advertisers into speaking negatively of the One Bite Pizza Festival,&#8221; X said in a note labeled &#8220;Readers added context,&#8221; adding, &#8220;They agreed to an interview the next day but Wapo cancelled.&#8221;
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This weekend, New York will host Dave Portnoy&#39;s One Bite Pizza Festival.
Participating pizzerias have had to navigate buzz around the festival and backlash against the Barstool Sports founder&#39;s controversial remarks and allegations of sexual misconduct. <a href="https://t.co/v2XqLxkJwg">https://t.co/v2XqLxkJwg</a>
&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1705322338189705308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s surreal we live in a country where activist reporters can openly get caught lying and admitting they are creating a false narrative to generate engagement and controversy AND still publish the article,&#8221; Portnoy commented following the Post&#8217;s publication of the story.
In a video of the call, which has garnered 43 million views, Portnoy pressed Heil about her journalism tactics. &#8220;We have this Pizzafest happening on Saturday, and you’re reaching out to our advertisers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You’re basically sending an email that says, to the effect, ‘Dave’s a misogynic racist. Do you want to defend yourselves advertising at this event?’ Right?”
“We are planning to write about the festival and how some of the sponsors and participants have drawn criticism by seeming to associate themselves with Dave Portnoy, who has a history of misogynistic comments and other problematic behavior,” Portnoy read Heil&#8217;s email.
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During the conversation, the reporter shockingly told Portnoy, &#8220;You know, sometimes you have to say something like this is like, you know, it&#8217;s sort of a reporting tactic. When you want someone to respond, you kind of have to indicate that there might be something negative and then you get them to engage. That&#8217;s all I was trying to do.&#8221;
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It&#39;s surreal we live in a country where activist reporters can openly get caught lying and admitting they are creating a false narrative to generate engagement and controversy AND still publish the article <a href="https://t.co/kUtVMsFI9M">https://t.co/kUtVMsFI9M</a> <a href="https://t.co/R9wk8B9d3V">pic.twitter.com/R9wk8B9d3V</a>
&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1705333557860696414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Portnoy on Saturday commented on the Post receiving the context update from X. &#8220;That [Washington Post] got community noted for lying,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Ain&#8217;t no fun when the rabbit got the gun.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> got community noted for lying 😂😂😂. Ain&#39;t no fun when the rabbit got the gun <a href="https://t.co/kUtVMsFI9M">https://t.co/kUtVMsFI9M</a>
&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1705558780765782366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Notably, none of Portnoy&#8217;s sponsors pulled out of the event, despite the Post&#8217;s apparent efforts.
&#8220;None of the pizzerias or sponsors contacted by The Post indicated that they were pulling their support,&#8221; the piece said. &#8220;Some said they lent their name and reputation to the event in exchange for publicity or access to the young, social media-savvy audience that Portnoy attracts. And some support Portnoy, whom they see as a champion of small business. His pizza reviews, they say, can increase revenue up to 50 percent. They point out that his Barstool Fund has raised tens of millions of dollars to help restaurants and other small businesses during the pandemic.&#8221;
Portnoy&#8217;s supporters cracked jokes about the Post during the festival, and when the Barstool CEO ran into a New York Times reporter, he told the pizza shop owner that the reporter is &#8220;bad news.&#8221;
&#8220;New York Times reporter trying to play nice to my face,&#8221; he captioned video of the interaction. &#8220;I know they&#8217;re nothing but bad news.&#8221;
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New York Times reporter trying to play nice to my face. I know they’re nothing but bad news <a href="https://t.co/JcERlGvpFE">pic.twitter.com/JcERlGvpFE</a>
&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1705724251272073643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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X Adds Brutal ‘Context’ Update To WaPo ‘Hit Piece’ After Dave Portnoy Tapes Call With Reporter

X, Formerly Twitter, Adds Brutal ‘Context’ Update To WaPo ‘Hit Piece’ On Dave Portnoy

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After a white-hot 3-0 start to the season, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/deion-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Colorado</a> got knocked back down to reality on Saturday in a 42-6 blowout to the Oregon Ducks in Eugene.
Head coach Deion Sanders, referred to as &#8220;Coach Prime,&#8221; had turned the school into the epicenter of all of football throughout the first several weeks of the college football season and into arguably the top story in all of sports.
The amount of attention that the program was receiving — combined with some of their top players flashing their financial successes in the faces of their opponents — provided a lot of motivation for the Ducks to want to come out and humiliate the Buffs.
Oregon Head Coach Dan Lanning said before the game that his team was “rooted in substance, not flash” and predicted that Colorado&#8217;s &#8220;Cinderella story&#8221; was over.
&#8220;The Cinderella story is over, men. They’re fighting for clicks, we’re fighting for wins,&#8221; he said in the locker room prior to the game. &#8220;There’s a difference. This game ain’t going to be played in Hollywood. It’s going to be played on the grass.&#8221;
The game did not take long to turn ugly as Oregon manhandled Colorado in the trenches on both sides of the ball. Early in the 2nd quarter with a two-touchdown lead, Oregon ran a well-executed fake punt on 4th down that seemed to be a pivotal moment in the game. By halftime, the score was 35-0.
Lanning, who has shown disdain for Colorado in the past, made clear as he was headed back to the sidelines that he wanted to humiliate Colorado, telling a reporter that he was &#8220;not satisfied&#8221; with the 35-0 lead.
Late in the 3rd quarter, Lanning had his team — already up 42-0 — go for it on 4th &amp; goal from the Colorado 5-yard line. They came up short. After the failed attempt, Oregon pulled back the reins a bit.
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&#8220;First and foremost, I thank the Lord for allowing all this to transpire,&#8221; Sanders told the media after the game. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good old-fashioned butt-kicking. There&#8217;s no excuses, no nothing. Their coaches did a heck of a job preparing their team. Obviously we didn&#8217;t. That was good. I mean, that was a really good old-fashioned butt-kicking. We went into the game wanting to dominate several phases. We lost offensively, defensively, as well as special teams. That fake punt kind of kind of got them really rolling and they didn&#8217;t stop ever since they secured that first down. Well-coached team.&#8221;
Sanders later addressed Lanning&#8217;s remarks about &#8220;clicks.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t say stuff just to say it for click on the contrary to what some may say,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I analyze and I understand what we&#8217;re up against and what we have and what we need. One thing that I can say, honestly and candidly, you gotta get me right now. This is the worst we&#8217;re gonna be. You better get me right now.&#8221;
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Deion Sanders responded to Dan Lanning’s “clicks and wins” comment following <a href="https://twitter.com/CUBuffsFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CUBuffsFootball</a>’s 42-6 loss to Oregon. 
Coach Prime always telling it like it is:<a href="https://twitter.com/On3sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@On3sports</a> x <a href="https://twitter.com/On3Video?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@On3Video</a> <a href="https://t.co/yolepv1WIW">pic.twitter.com/yolepv1WIW</a>
&mdash; Nick Kosko (@nickkosko59) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickkosko59/status/1705728362075869289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Coach Prime’s Buffs Humbled In Blowout Loss To Oregon

Coach Prime's Buffs Humbled In Blowout Loss To Oregon

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago’s</a> Democratic mayor has announced a partnership with a far-left non-profit to advance his proposal of a government-owned grocery store, which he argues is needed for the sake of “racial justice.&#8221;
Mayor Brandon Johnson <a href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2023/september/MayorJohnsonAnnouncesTheExplorationOfAMunicipallyOwnedGroceryStore.html#:~:text=A%20City%2Downed%20grocery%20store,retail%20reaches%20beyond%20food%20access." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release this month that the city-owned grocery store &#8212; which would be the largest of its kind in the U.S. &#8212; is needed to address the exit of corporate grocery stores and promote &#8220;food equity.&#8221;
&#8220;[F]ood access and security link directly to environmental and racial justice,&#8221; Johnson&#8217;s office said in a press release, adding that &#8220;37% of Black residents and 29% of Latine/x residents are food insecure, compared to 19% of residents overall.&#8221;
The mayor&#8217;s office argued that &#8220;historic disinvestment has led to inequitable access to food retail across Chicago,&#8221; and noted that &#8220;existing inequities have been exacerbated as at least six grocery stores closed on the South and West sides over the past two years.&#8221;
Indeed, as Chicago continues to reel with violent crime and large-scale theft, corporate grocery stores like Walmart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods have recently packed up and left Chicago.
Walmart announced the closure of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walmart-closes-four-stores-in-chicago-amid-elevated-crime-rates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four stores</a> in Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods back in April, and said it was due to a lack of profitability going back 17 years when the company first opened in Chicago. &#8220;These stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly <a href="https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2023/04/11/walmart-announces-closure-of-four-chicago-stores" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled</a> in just the last five years,&#8221; the press release said.
The statement did not specifically mention shoplifting, which has <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/18/chicago-mayor-considers-creating-city-owned-grocery-stores/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jumped</a> in Chicago by 25% over just the last year. However, Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon did <a href="https://www.smashdatopic.com/walmart-to-close-stores-if-theft-doesnt-decrease/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warn</a> last year that if shoplifting across the country didn’t slow down, he&#8217;d have to shut down some stores.
Johnson has promoted a community safety team to try to tackle crime, but that, so far, has been unsuccessful. He&#8217;s even resorted to suing car companies because of the outrageous auto thefts in the city &#8212; a move <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thieves-steal-cars-then-commit-armed-robberies-yet-its-the-cars-fault" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heavily criticized</a>.
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The city has yet to provide an exact estimate for the price tag of something like a city-owned grocery store, but it is notable that the mayor announced just this month that the city is projecting a deficit of <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-budget-shortfall-property-taxes-brandon-johnson/13779337/#:~:text=CHICAGO%20(WLS)%20%2D%2D%20The%20city,also%20contributing%20to%20the%20problem." target="_blank" rel="noopener">$538 million dollars</a> for this upcoming fiscal year. 
The mayor’s chief of policy, Umi Grisby, has claimed that this project won’t use taxpayer dollars, though she admitted the city would use state and federal funding.
“We are not spending any taxpayer dollars, right?&#8221; she <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-mayor-explores-opening-a-city-owned-grocery-store-in-food-deserts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS Chicago. &#8220;What we’re also going to be able to access is the funding that exists at the national level and the state level.”
Moreover, the mayor’s office has already acknowledged that this project, if completed, will also use economic grant money, which, too, comes from taxpayers. 
Critics have said this grocery store proposal is akin to “<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/chicago-mayor-grocery-stores-scam-is-a-lefty-crime-smokescreen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Soviet-style central planning</a>.” Detractors have also highlighted the city’s penchant for corruption and the city&#8217;s half-a-billion dollar deficit to question how the store could be efficient. There are also still questions about how prices would be set, how this would be superior to private grocery stores, and how it would affect private enterprise.

Brandon Johnson

Democratic Mayor Proposes Government-Owned Grocery Store For ‘Racial Justice’

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Proposes Government-Owned Grocery Store For ‘Racial Justice’ 

Chicago

Food

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> law banning possession and sale of gun magazines holding more than 10 rounds was blocked by a federal judge who said the law was unconstitutional in a decision released on Friday.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California Roger Benitez wrote in a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.533515/gov.uscourts.casd.533515.149.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">71-page ruling</a> that law-abiding citizens had constitutional rights to own magazines of greater than 10 rounds, and that there was no historic legal precedent giving California the right to pass such a law.
“Removable firearm magazines of all sizes are necessary components of semiautomatic firearms. Therefore, magazines come within the text of the constitutional declaration that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” Benitez wrote. “Because millions of removable firearm magazines able to hold between 10 and 30 rounds are commonly owned by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, including self-defense, and because they are reasonably related to service in the militia, the magazines are presumptively within the protection of the Second Amendment.”
The judge said that California did not justify “its sweeping ban and dispossession mandate,” which was first passed via ballot initiative back in 2016.
“One government solution to a few mad men with guns is a law that makes into criminals responsible, law-abiding people wanting larger magazines simply to protect themselves. The history and tradition of the Second Amendment clearly supports state laws against the use or misuse of firearms with unlawful intent, but not the disarmament of the law-abiding citizen,” he wrote.
“The adoption of the Second Amendment was a freedom calculus decided long ago by our first citizens who cherished individual freedom with its risks more than the subservient security of a British ruler or the smothering safety of domestic lawmakers. The freedom they fought for was worth fighting for then, and that freedom is entitled to be preserved still,” the judge added.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1705383651159298416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decried</a> the ruling, referring to Benitez as a “right-wing zealot with no regard to human life.”
“Wake up, America. Our gun safety laws will continue to be thrown out by NRA-owned federal judges until we pass a Constitutional Amendment to protect our kids and end the gun violence epidemic in America,” Newsom posted to X.
Benitez’s order won’t take effect for 10 days as California Attorney General Rob Bonta moves to get a stay on the ruling.

US-WEAPONRY-ARMS-GUN SHOW

California Law Capping Magazine Capacity Struck Down By Federal Judge

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/workers-walk-out-at-three-major-auto-factories-after-biden-predicted-strike-wouldnt-happen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike begun</a> by the United Auto Workers last week expanded to 38 parts-distribution centers across a dozen states as the union demands higher wages as well as “economic and social justice.”
Around 13,000 auto workers had already <a href="https://apnews.com/article/auto-uaw-workers-strike-gm-ford-stellantis-7ce3ca9d94b911250d07556b7af376c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopped working</a> at Ford, Stellantis and General Motors plants in Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio before additional GM and Stellantis facilities were added to the strike. No further Ford locations were impacted by the expanded strike as the UAW said it had made progress with company executives. 
“We’ve made some real progress at Ford,” UAW President Shawn Fain <a href="https://apnews.com/article/uaw-ford-stellantis-general-motors-strike-labor-4132aa222c9a4456415af480d6fafa98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We still have serious issues to work through, but we do want to recognize that Ford is showing that they are serious about reaching a deal. At GM and Stellantis, it’s a different story.”
Stellantis facilities<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/uaw-announces-new-strike-where-parts-distribution-centers-rcna116885" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> are striking</a> in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Illinois, California, Oregon, Texas, West Virginia, Georgia, Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts. 
GM facilities are striking in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, California, Texas, West Virginia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. 
“Today’s strike escalation by the UAW’s top leadership is unnecessary,” GM said in a statement. “The UAW leadership is manipulating the bargaining process for their own personal agendas.”
Stellantis said that it had offered to pay current full time hourly employees between $80,000-$96,000 within the next five years. 
The UAW is pushing for a 36% pay bump over a four-year period for workers. Ford and GM said they could do 20%, and Stellantis put forth a 17.5% increase over four years, according to the Associated Press. Other demands by the union are a 32-hour work week with pay for 40 hours, pensions for new employees, and inflation-based pay bumps.
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President Joe Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1705325183697932561" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he would go to Michigan on Tuesday to support the workers on strike. 
“Tuesday, I’ll go to Michigan to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create,” he posted to X. “It’s time for a win-win agreement that keeps American auto manufacturing thriving with well-paid UAW jobs.”
Biden will likely not be welcome by all workers, many of whom <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/biden-labor-ally-threatening-energy-agenda-00115415" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blame him</a> for pushing massive subsidies toward electric vehicles and pushing a “transition” away from traditional gas-powered cars. 
Former President Donald Trump is also set to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-plans-to-skip-second-gop-debate-to-rally-with-striking-autoworkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">make an appearance</a> in Michigan, opting to give a speech to the workers as opposed to participating in the Republican presidential debate. 
 “I’m on the side of making our country great,” Trump said when asked during an interview about the strike. “The auto workers are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should endorse Trump.”

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The 911 call from the aftermath of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-asks-public-for-help-in-finding-missing-f-35" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an F-35 crash</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Carolina</a> last Sunday was released on Friday, revealing more details about the expensive incident that is still under investigation by the U.S. military.
The call came after the pilot of the F-35 showed up at a house after ejecting from the plane and asked for help. He told a police dispatcher that he did not know where the plane, but said it had went through an &#8220;aircraft failure.&#8221; 
“I guess we’ve got a pilot in our house, and he says he got ejected,” said a local man who called the police. 
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry — what happened?” the dispatcher replied. 
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a pilot in the house, and I guess he landed in my backyard, and we&#8217;re trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please,” the resident said before the pilot started talking. 
&#8220;We have a military jet crash. I’m the pilot. We need to get rescue rolling. I’m not sure where the airplane is,&#8221; the pilot can be heard saying.&#8221;It would have crash-landed somewhere. I ejected.&#8221;
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After police arrived, the pilot was reportedly transported to a local medical center in stable condition while his wingman safely landed at the base, <a href="https://www.counton2.com/news/pilot-ejected-from-f-35-plane-in-north-charleston/?utm_source=dlvr.it">WCBD</a> reported.
The plane could not initially be found, with military officials asking for the public’s help finding the plane and describing the incident as a &#8220;mishap.&#8221; Debris from the plane was later located in Williamsburg County on Monday.
The plane, which cost about $100 million, kept going for about 60 miles after the pilot ejected. A spokesperson for Joint Base Charleston said the F-35B Lightning II jet from the Marine Attack Training Squadron was placed on autopilot before the pilot ejected, <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/local/officials-mishap-involving-f-35-occurs-near-north-charleston-pilot-hospitalized-after-ejecting-military-joint-base-marine-corps-air-station-beaufort-wciv">according to WCIV</a>. 
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The conditions of the crash are still under investigation but one Marine Corps official <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/09/20/what-we-know-about-marine-corps-f-35-crash-backyard-ejection-and-what-went-wrong.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Military Times that the pilot was “forced to eject” after a malfunction with the plane. 
A recent <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f-35-fighter-jets-only-mission-capable-55-percent-time-rcna111308" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repor</a>t from the Government Accountability Office said that the F-35 fighter jets are “mission ready” just over half of the time.
“If the aircraft can only perform 55% of the time and the goal is 85 to 90% of the time, taxpayers are not getting their money’s worth,” said Diana Maurer, the author of the GAO report.

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A man who has been on the run for the past 32 years after being convicted of attempted murder has finally been captured in Mexico.
Greg Lawson, 63, could be seen laughing as he was handcuffed and returned to U.S. soil, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/greg-lawson-captured-in-mexico-after-32-years-on-run/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He has spent half his life on the run.
The FBI has been searching for Lawson since 1991, and has chased down numerous leads over the past three decades across the United States, though the bureau had long suspected he had fled to Mexico. Then, earlier this month, the FBI’s office in New Orleans received a tip that Lawson was, indeed, in Mexico. Shreveport agents as well as those in Mexico coordinated with FBI Headquarters and the Mexican immigration authorities to locate Lawson and take him into custody. He was arrested on September 19 in Huatulco, Mexico, and deported for immigration violations.
“We want to thank our partners and the public in this case, who never gave up hope that justice could be served for Mr. Lawson’s victim,” Douglas A. Williams Jr., special agent in charge of FBI New Orleans, said in <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/neworleans/news/tip-to-fbi-ends-32-year-long-manhunt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a>. “There is no doubt that Mr. Lawson might still be in the wind if our partners in Mexico had not been willing to deal with this so swiftly.”
When he was 31 years old, Lawson attempted to run his childhood friend Seth Garlington’s car off the road. The two ended up in a gas station parking lot and a shootout ensued. Garlington survived his injuries and Lawson was convicted, but he didn’t stick around to hear the verdict. He fled and his truck was found just a block away from where the trial was held at the Claiborne Parish Courthouse. For 32 years, he remained on the run. In 2007, the FBI started offering a $10,000 reward for information on his whereabouts, KTBS <a href="https://www.ktbs.com/news/bienville-parish-man-on-the-run-for-32-years-back-in-custody/article_012a7df2-57fe-11ee-8846-b3a978b92c53.html?utm_campaign=blox&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;fbclid=IwAR1qumX4aukDfTehfhYgjqipkOsVwJXioYrEtXTk5Xac_swnTRWjmzJdP_Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Lawson came from a prominent family in Bienville Parish, and allegedly had gotten away with other crimes due to his family’s influence.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Bienville sheriff’s deputies went to Houston, Texas, to pick up Lawson at the airport. From there, they will take him to the Claiborne Parish Detention Center.

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Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who is already serving two consecutive life sentences for murder, pleaded guilty on Thursday to financial crimes.
Murdaugh, 55, pleaded guilty in federal court to 22 counts of financial fraud and money laundering, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/alex-murdaugh-financial-crimes-guilty-aa2a5b2d06113a213f0c8cec4475f302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Murdaugh is already serving consecutive life sentences without parole for the murder of his wife, Maggie, and youngest son Paul.
“I want to take responsibility. I want my son to see me take responsibility. It’s my hope that by taking responsibility that the people I’ve hurt can begin to heal,” Murdaugh said at the hearing on Thursday.
The guilty plea would likely keep Murdaugh in prison for years, even if he manages to overturn his murder conviction on appeal. His attorney’s recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alex-murdaughs-attorneys-accuse-court-clerk-of-jury-tampering-to-get-book-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> a court clerk of jury tampering in order to secure a book deal about the trial.
He will be sentenced for the financial crimes at a later date, and federal prosecutor Emily Limehouse told reporters at a news conference after the hearing that prosecutors would seek a lengthy term.
“Our goal in holding him accountable for the financial crimes in federal court is to ensure that he’s never a free man again,” Limehouse said, according to the AP.
Murdaugh’s defense attorneys also spoke after the hearing.
“There’s two things Alex will tell you. One, he stole the money. Two, he did not kill Maggie and Paul,” Murdaugh’s defense attorney Dick Harpootlian said.
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A jury found Murdaugh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alex-murdaugh-found-guilty-of-killing-wife-son" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guilty of murder</a> on March 2, and he was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
The decision came after just a few hours of deliberation and a six-week trial where more than 70 witnesses testified. Murdaugh has maintained his innocence, suggesting his son Paul was the main target for the murders due to his involvement in a 2019 boat crash that killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach.
Murdaugh spent nearly two days testifying in his own defense at his trial and immediately admitted to lying for years about his whereabouts on the day his wife and son were murdered.
The prosecution had already argued that Murdaugh lied about not going to the dog kennels on the day his wife and son were murdered. Prosecutor Creighton Waters previously pointed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cell-phone-evidence-puts-disgraced-attorney-alex-murdaugh-at-scene-of-family-murder-prosecutors-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to cell phone evidence</a> taken from Paul’s phone less than five minutes before he was killed. Paul had filmed one of the dogs to send to a friend, and prosecutors allege Murdaugh’s voice can be heard in the background of the recording. Murdaugh has said he wasn’t at the kennels that night. Prosecutors said that Murdaugh murdered his wife and son around 8:49 p.m., just a few minutes after the video was taken.
When Murdaugh took the stand, his defense attorneys asked him if he had lied to police about his whereabouts on the night his family was murdered, and Murdaugh admitted to lying.
“I lied about being down there, and I’m so sorry that I did,” Murdaugh said, <a href="https://people.com/crime/alex-murdaugh-admits-lying-police-murders-wife-son/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to People Magazine</a>.
Murdaugh maintained that he did not murder his wife and son, whom he referred to by nicknames “Mags” and “Paul Paul.” He claimed during his testimony that his alleged drug addiction made him “paranoid,” which caused him to lie.

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Pop star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a> inspired a record-breaking number of fans to register to vote due to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram">Instagram</a> post.
Vote.org told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-instagram-post-largest-voter-registration-day-since-2020-2023-9">Insider</a> that they had their largest National Voter Registration Day since 2020 on Tuesday and credit the success in part to Swift’s messaging. 
&#8220;Are you registered to vote yet? I&#8217;ve been so lucky to see so many of you guys at my US shows recently. I&#8217;ve heard you raise your voices, and I know how powerful they are. Make sure you&#8217;re ready to use them in our elections this year,&#8221; the singer said in an Instagram story. 
The 33-year-old singer included a link to Vote.org and noted that it takes less than two minutes to register. Swift currently has <a href="https://www.instagram.com/taylorswift/?hl=en">272 million followers</a> on the platform.
Vote.org noted that 35,252 people registered to vote and 157,041 eligible voters visited the site on Tuesday, representing a 22.5% jump in total registrations and a 115% increase among 18-year-olds compared to last year, Insider noted.
Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org, said in a statement that these numbers were “record-breaking.”
&#8220;During the day on Tuesday, we saw a 1,226% jump in participation the hour after Taylor Swift posted. Our site was averaging 13,000 users every 30 minutes — a number that Taylor Swift would be proud of,&#8221; Hailey told the outlet.
Swift was private about her political leanings until 2018 when she began openly supporting Democratic candidates after facing public pressure for staying silent. 
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“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift famously wrote in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BopoXpYnCes/?hl=en">social media post</a> ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. 
“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country. I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent. I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love.”
The singer went on to condemn then-Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), saying, “her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.”
The “Bad Blood” singer also endorsed Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election.

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If you want these happy little trees, you’ll need a lot of green. Beloved TV artist Bob Ross’s first-ever on-air <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arts">painting</a> is up for sale and costs almost $10 million.
The late host of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pbs">PBS</a>’s “The Joy of Painting” became massively popular for his friendly, calm demeanor and his insistence that anyone can become an artist. Now Modern Artifact Gallery in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minneapolis">Minneapolis</a> is selling “A Walk in the Woods,” the first of over 400 paintings Ross made on the show. Ross painted it for the premiere episode which aired on January 11, 1983.
“It is season one, episode one of what you would call the rookie card for Bob Ross,” gallery owner Ryan Nelson said of the work, per <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/21/bob-ross-first-tv-painting-sale-a-walk-in-the-woods">The Guardian</a>. Nelson added that he doesn’t expect the work to sell quickly because of the cost. 
“What this piece represents is the people’s artist,” the gallery owner continued. “This isn’t an institution that’s telling you that Bob Ross is great. It’s not some high-brow gallery telling you that Bob Ross is great. This is the masses, the population in the world that are saying that Bob Ross is great.”
“A Walk in the Woods” was originally sold for an undisclosed amount to a volunteer to raise funds for the local PBS station. The painting was displayed in her home for almost four decades before she contacted Nelson about purchasing it. He bought it last year, then gave it the “not for sale” price of $9.89 million, the outlet noted. 
“Ryan would prefer to take [the painting] out, tour it around to museums and things like that so people can enjoy it and appreciate it,” Nelson’s publicist said. “He will take offers but he’s not in a hurry to sell it.”
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Ross, who died in 1995, had a passion for removing pretentious attitudes from the art world. As he said in the first episode, “We have avoided painting for so long because I think all of our lives we’ve been told that you have to go to school half your life, maybe even have to be blessed by Michelangelo at birth, to ever be able to paint a picture. And here, we want to show you that that’s not true. That you can paint a picture.”

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