I wasn’t surprised when news outlets around the country yesterday reported that Gov. Newsom has urged California cities and counties to take “immediate action” to get rid of “dangerous and unhealthy [homeless] encampments.”

There’s no doubt that there’s an emerging national backlash against Trump. Polls show it. Prices continue to soar on almost everything, and will go even higher as his tariffs kick in. Every poll indicates that even Republicans are beginning to have their doubts. Trump’s, and Republicans’, response has been, “Trust our Dear Leader,” but when a trip to the supermarket is cardiac arrest-inducing, trust has no curative value to this rape of the consumers’ economic health.

On Saturday, at about 3:45 pm, I was walking across Grand Avenue at Webster. I had the streetlight in my favor, and I was in the crosswalk. Suddenly, I heard an enormous roar, and a mob of dirt bikers was coming at me. They blew right through the red light and came within inches of running me down. All the while, of course, they were doing wheelies and having a wonderful time.

Today, at 10:15 a.m., there’s a memorial service at OPD headquarters for the 55 fallen officers who have given their lives in service to the people of Oakland over the decades. These brave officers deserve our respect. May their memories be a blessing.

I was on the KCBS evening news yesterday, after the station sent a crew out to film me. It aired at 5 p.m. They didn’t do a very good editing job, but it was nice to get my point of view across: that parcel taxes, of the kind Kevin Jenkins is proposing, are inherently unfair and arbitrary.