Give Trump credit for this: he’s pretty much slaughtered the term DEI and, with it, the practice of companies big and small to have divisions within them that focus on the recruitment and hiring of BIPOC employees.

Mayor Barbara Lee and the Oakland City Council, in open defiance of the Trump administration, are in the process of doubling down on our Sanctuary City policy by making it considerably more difficult for city agencies to work with Federal agencies on immigration. The so-called “City of Refuge” policy, authored by City Council members Charlene Wang, Noel Gallo and Ken Houston, will “shield local families from federal surges in immigration enforcement.” Developed in conjunction with a local church, Faith in Action East Bay, the ordinance goes further than any similar law I’m aware of; it offers what Wang calls “a legal framework” that “ensures local police focus on local safety—not federal documentation status.”

Yesterday I wrote about a homeless woman who sued Sacramento cops for throwing out some of her stuff when they rousted her encampment. The woman was mistaken, I said, for thinking she had a right to set up a camp on public property. She didn’t, as a Judge ruled when he threw out her case. The city, he declared, had no obligation to store her belongings just because she couldn’t afford to do it herself.

The Sacramento Bee reports that a homeless women, Elizabeth Williams, has lost her legal case against the city of Sacramento. A Small Claims Court judge threw the case out, after determining that Williams did not properly identify which of her items she wanted the police to save for her, after they rousted her last month. She sued the city for $12,000 in lost property and emotional damages, but the judge ruled that Williams had plenty of opportunities to move her things before the sweep (which she was warned about), and the city therefore was not obliged to store her property.

The Left is all agog about Flock cameras, depicting them as silent intruders into our privacy. According to them, we citizens have precious few rights remaining, and with new surveillance technologies seemingly rolling off the shelf every day, unless we roll back these intrusions, we’re doomed to lives of constant monitoring by the state.