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All these "day 1" protest actions will sputter out and achieve nothing ... except, alas, in the Bay Area, which has a unique combination of transportation bottlenecks, lots of radicals, and emasculated (or, worse, sympathetic) cops.

I fully expect that the 80-580-880 confluence at the east end of the Bay Bridge will be completely shut down. Oakland and Berkeley police will do nothing, the Emeryville police will be busy guarding the big shopping center and IKEA from spillover rioting, and the CHP aren't trained to deal with civil unrest.

If the lefties are ambitious, they'll try to effect a shutdown of the West Oakland and/or MacArthur BART stations in Oakland, or the one of the Montgomery Street BART stations in SF, which are also chokepoints. However, the radicals don't have cars, so that might hit too close to home, and, in any event, BART has its own police force which is notably more hard-assed, and well-trained to deal with these kinds of incursions.

The access points to the Bay Bridge are policed mostly by a variety of federal cops and by the Golden Gate District's own mini police force, but the Bay Bridge is so tactically easy to shut down (a couple hundred people doing civil disobedience sit downs at the tolls would be more than enough) that the better police cordon won't be enough.