Equity wokeists in Oakland go to pieces whenever they discover “racial disparities” in anything. Not enough POC hired into city positions? Let the hearings begin! Not enough cops of color in OPD? Someone must answer for this scandal! Not enough Blacks or Latinos given city contracts? We’ve got to change that! Not enough Blacks graduating high school? Lower the graduation standards!

I was unable to go to Saturday’s No Kings rally in Oakland, although I did go to the previous ones. Reportedly this last one was the biggest ever, not just in Oakland but in a thousand other cities across America. I celebrate and honor this great and historic event.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist mayor of New York City who promised to raise property taxes so he could redistribute the wealth to the lower classes, just found out the hard way about a truism in politics: You can campaign in poetry, but you have to govern in prose.

East Bay Insiders wrote yesterday that the Alameda County Reparations Commission is set to release its “long-awaited final report” soon, so that the full report can be “presented to the Board of Supervisors on June 23.”

As an American Jew, the conflict in the Middle East is challenging for me to parse. One the one hand, and as a child who grew up in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, I’ve always had great empathy with the State of Israel. First, Hitler tried to remove Jewry from Europe. Then, for my entire life, Islamic nations surrounding Israel continued their anti-Jew crusade, and tried to drive it into the Mediterranean Sea.