Following aggressive crackdowns on encampments in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose, Fremont, Martinez and Richmond, Sheng Thao tells us she’s joining her fellow Bay Area mayors in rousting encampments in Oakland.

I’ve never seen an issue in which Gov. Newsom was more out of step with California voters than Proposition 36, which is on the November ballot. A huge majority of Californians favors it. The Governor, by contrast, does not. He’s resigned to the fact that it will pass, though, and doesn’t care if he’s on the losing side.

The thing to realize about reparations is that a lot of people are pushing for it, and they’re so fanatical that they don’t realize their movement is going anywhere.

While Thao is out there taking credit for lower crime statistics in Oakland, the rest of us know why crime is down: Because Gov. Newsom sent in the cavalry, in the form of the California Highway Patrol. The latest numbers prove what an overwhelming success this has been: CHP “has made 329 arrests, recovered 606 stolen vehicles and seized 35 firearms in two months,” Newsom announced yesterday.

Lord knows it never takes me long to find something dumb and untrue when I read my morning S.F. Chronicle. On Sunday it took all of two minutes. I had turned to the “Insight” section where the political gadfly, Joe Matthews, said Gov. Newsom sent Oakland the California Highway Patrol (one of the Governor’s wisest decisions) because “Oakland police have failed to act.”