Up until yesterday morning, I’ve always been able to access Pamela Price’s Twitter feed even though I’m not a follower. Then, suddenly, I got this message:

Here’s a recent tweet from the Anti Police-Terror Project’s very own Cat Brooks, disseminating, as usual, her incendiary untruths: “Brooke [Jenkins], [London] Breed, and the billionaires are calling for increased law & order in San Francisco while at the same time all but assuring the SFPD that they can kill, rape, maim, harm with impunity because Jenkins is not going to do anything about it.”

When I moved to Adams Point, in 1987, the Reagan era was drawing to a close. America had moved further to the right than it had ever been in my lifetime, and Republicans were hungry for more. Their party had already been taken over by the Moral Majority, with its racism, homophobia and religious crankiness. Democrats were enfeebled; the best they could come up with in the 1988 Presidential election was poor Michael Dukakis.

“Wokespeak” is a language in which words are used to deceive. As Gore Vidal noted, “Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.” In another historical context, “The Nazis upheld a deeply veiled language, which they used to hide their vicious goals and deceive their victims.” “Resettlement to the east” actually meant death camps. “Showers” actually meant Zyklon B.

You’ve probably seen the ads: “The BART Police Department is Hiring!” In response to overwhelming public demand for greater safety on the trains, BART is engaged in its most intense hiring program in years. But not everybody is supportive of the effort.