Opinion Editor at California Post. Co-host, "3 Homeless Guys." Scott Adams biographer. Born South Africa, raised Chicago, embraced LA. jpollak at californiapost

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This is the short video I made with the New York/California Post about the #PalisadesFire, one year later. I am deeply indebted to friends and neighbors who participated. Looking forward to a year of rebuilding. @nypost @californiapost @capostopinion youtu.be/RruXd_ckz4I
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Court-packing by either party would unleash a dynamic that would destroy the independence of the judiciary. Its advocacy by a politician should be treated by sane and reasonable people of both major parties as disqualifying that person for office. It is worse than a crank idea.
Jun 11
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.  We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary, but also a process that makes it less partisan. We cannot have partisan warfare every time there's an opening on the court
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This is the kind of garbage we got from Democrats and legacy media when JOHN MCCAIN was running for president. Keep that in mind while they make excuses for Graham Platner's abhorrent behavior by citing his military disability.
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This clip of Charles Payne during Obama's second term is really incredible. Well done Charles. In 2010 Obama put the federal government directly in charge of lending money to students. Eliminating private lending made the loans much easier to get, but they were not less expensive. Before Obama took office, outstanding student debt was less than $100 billion. By 2015, outstanding student debt was approximately $800 billion and almost a third of the borrowers were in default. Of course the price of college continued to soar the entire time. This is the best part. Payne predicted that someday the politicians would be promising to forgive student debt as a way to buy votes. He was spot on. There are people like Ro Khanna on this site right now arguing that Elon Musk should be paying down the student debt when it's a problem that politicians created.
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This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:
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He’d have to sell $50 billion of stock, tanking the price, destroying wealth for millions of investors, workers and union pensioners, plus discouraging future investment in new companies and ideas. And your party would just waste & steal the money anyway, then come demanding more
A 5% tax on Elon’s net worth would fund every community health center in America for the next 26 years. I’ll say it again. Tax the rich.
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Breaking News: The California Supreme Court has denied the State of California's petition for review and request to stay the Palisades Fire Litigation. The Supreme Court denied the State's request to overturn the trial court's order overruling the State's demurrer to the plaintiffs' Master Complaint. This means that the fire victims' case against the State can proceed towards trial. Discovery has just begun. Justice is coming for the Palisades Fire victims. @spencerpratt @Hotshot_Movie @JeremyCom @LeonardFiles @AleneTchek
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There’s a separate ballot in LA that you probably haven’t heard of, and results will be announced on June 26. @joelpollak explains. nypost.com/2026/06/11/opinio…
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Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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The sheer number of empty seats at the World Cup is a new FIFA scandal
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Tell me you're a beta male without telling me you're a beta male
Congrats to @elonmusk for becoming a trillionaire and being the final proof that money doesn't make you happy.
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California BANS ballots that arrive for SOME kinds of elections after Election Day. So don’t believe anyone telling you it’s necessary to accept late ballots. Democrats like it because they tend to win those races (not always). But California law already acknowledges the problem.
The LA Streetlights Election You Probably Don't Know About youtube.com/shorts/l1j9lDpgL… via @YouTube
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Why do liberal men seem to have an aversion to combat
"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history. It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebul…
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An Iran deal will either be good, or it won't. If it's bad, no amount of spin will save it. I am reminded that the First Barbary War (the precedent for this conflict) ended with a weak compromise. The U.S. later finished the job. Yet I'm not sure we should leave this for later.
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The Scottish fans are here! #FIFAWorldCup
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Frame it and hang it in the National Portrait Gallery: this is such an incredible portrayal of self-defeating American elitism that it rises to the level of art. We fought a Revolution against this garbage. Honoring it would be a perfect way to celebrate America’s 250th.
New Yorkers definitely want a plumber from Oklahoma telling them what to do
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Thanks for standing up for Palisades and LA! 🇺🇸💪

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The European mind is starting to comprehend

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I'm seeing a lot of fake information about a potential deal to reopen the Strait and end Iran's nuclear weapons program. First, the Iranians are not receiving any cash, and no funds are being released for simply signing a deal or attending a meeting. The deal is structured to ensure that the US and its allies concerns are prioritized, and that if the Islamic Republic of Iran meets its obligations, then economic benefits will flow to them and to the entire region. This deal has the potential to remake the region and lead to lasting peace. I've noticed a couple of bizarre things in the reporting over the last few hours. First, people who (rightly) said Donald Trump was a historic president a month ago now criticizing a deal based on unconfirmed media reports. Second, people who say you can't trust a word said by the IRGC who apparently believe anonymously sourced social media posts. The president is going to get us a good outcome, one way or the other.
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