Under Mayor Lurie San Francisco has taken unprecedented steps to clear out encampments, arrest drug dealers, remove abandoned vehicles from the streets, and stop sideshows. Berkeley is following suit, toughening its anti-encampment policies significantly last year, although some of its new ordinances continue to be—as usual—challenged in court by pro-encampment radicals. In Fremont, as we’ve seen, the same regressive forces that have stalled encampment cleanups in other cities have been unusually aggressive. As I blogged the other day, they’ve managed to coerce Fremont into partially undoing its recently-approved encampment ban, and are actively working to scuttle the remnants of the ordinance.

Pro-homeless advocates claim they won because they forced the city to rescind the part of its new law that would criminally charge anyone caught “aiding and abetting” homeless people. Anti-encampment activists say they won because the rest of Fremont’s law outlawing encampments remains in effect. The City Council passed the law in February. Its two main components are:

I am, as most of you know, a supporter of Gov. Gavin Newsom, for a simple reason: he’s doing his best to keep the liberal values of the Democratic Party alive, at a time when they’re under massive assault, not only from the current U.S. administration but large numbers of Americans, especially young men.

Didn’t post yesterday because I was in surgery. All went well. To my readers who wish me well, thank you!!! To the one or two trolls who want me to die, sorry, luvs. I’ll be around for years.

Did you think that affirmative action is illegal in America? Well, it’s not. Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling and the widespread unpopularity of affirmative action among voters, some Democratic legislators keep trying to ram through laws based on racial preferences and skin-color entitlements. That is illegal and immoral.