Opinion Editor at California Post. Co-host, "3 Homeless Guys." Scott Adams biographer. Born South Africa, raised Chicago, embraced LA. jpollak at californiapost
Pacific Palisades, CA
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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
Just listened to @AnnieAndrewsMD on @SpecialReport. She doesn't offer more than shaky talking points. What's funny is how she's desperate to talk about where she agrees with Trump, how she'll be independent, etc. That's not how Democrats are in Washington. Aside from Fetterman.
California Post Endorses Steve Hilton, Karen Bass youtube.com/shorts/8DpCbI9k-… via @YouTube
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One of the most consequential songs in my life. It carried me through many an Air Force mission. I used to blast this over the aircraft PA in the 80s.
I felt it defined not only my crews, but all of us in uniform. All of us. Every single one.
It was our life.
It’s still resonates in my soul. Talk Talk, “It’s My Life.”
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In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.
He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.
By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.
He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.
Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.
An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.
He never stopped and left school at 15.
By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.
In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.
Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.
You’ve probably heard that part.
Here’s the part you haven’t:
He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.
But he never stopped trying to understand his father.
He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.
He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.
He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.
So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.
In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.
He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”
Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”
At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.
2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.
He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”
After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.
He played every character himself and donated every cent.
In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.
In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.
She was his first dog in more than 50 years.
He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.
Then he kept fostering more.
When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.
So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.
Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖
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Thank you, my dear friend @JMilei! 🇮🇱🇦🇷
Javier, your friendship means a great deal to me, and your unwavering support for Israel means even more.
You are a courageous leader, a true friend of the Jewish state, and a man who stands by his convictions.
Together, we have built an extraordinary partnership between Israel and Argentina, a friendship that has spread across Latin America.
Together, we will take this friendship to even greater heights.
Thank you, my friend!
¡Viva la libertad, carajo!
Felicitaciones, querido amigo @netanyahu, por la gran elección del @likud_party que volvió a ser la primera fuerza en Israel. Una vez más has demostrado la fortaleza de tu liderazgo, incluso frente a las encuestas y predicciones en tu contra.
La Argentina e Israel continuarán siendo aliados estratégicos en contra de aquellos que desafían nuestros valores occidentales.
VLLC!
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Alaskan Gov. Mike Dunleavy just told Fox that the decoy Dan J. Sullivan was asked to speak earlier to their investigators and he refused to do so. Now, no one seems to be able to find him as the Democrats ride out the scandal in the final five days...
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President Trump FIRES BACK at a reporter who questioned his health:
“You’re disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell!”
Boom. Roasted.
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No way. You’ve got to be kidding me. Pretty much a campaign’s worst nightmare to feature a person in an ad who says they were duped.
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Congratulations to the authors, and to @L0m3z, the publisher. It's a huge accomplishment for a new publishing house to make the bestseller list.
A huge congratulations is in order for @DataRepublican and @JoshuaLisec.
Their new book Unelected has debuted in the top 10 on the New York Times Bestseller List!
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California Post Opinion Editor @joelpollak explains why the California Post editorial board is endorsing Steve Hilton for governor of California and Karen Bass for mayor of LA. trib.al/72aKXIH?utm_source=t…
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Before Hollywood, I was living in a van in Hawaii and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. One day, the incredible Rae Dawn Chong walked into the restaurant, and naturally, I went up to her table and said, “Hey, you’re a movie star! What are you doing here?”
She asked if I could act, and I said, “Fuck yeah, put me in your movie!”
She asked for my phone number. The only problem was I didn’t have one. So I gave her my buddy Mike’s number instead. A couple days later, Mike casually mentions, “Oh, by the way, someone called you.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MIKE?!
I called her back, and sure enough, she was serious. I drove over to pick up the script, went back to Mike’s house, and read all 120 pages three times in a row. First script I’d ever read. My character's name was Devon, and I remember thinking, “Sweet! I could totally play a Devon!”
I showed up to the audition with every line and inflection mapped out in pencil. Rae told me I could act and offered me the part. I asked if we were shooting in Hawaii. Nope. Los Angeles.
I had about $60 to my name, a bag of clothes, and some rollerblades.
Then Rae told me they'd fly me out. And I remember thinking right then and there, my life just changed forever. I'm going to be an actor.
That little movie was Cursed Part 3, a low-budget horror comedy that opened the door to Hollywood for me.
I'll forever be grateful to Rae for taking a chance on a kid working at a shrimp restaurant. Everybody starts somewhere, and this is where it all began for me.
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Folks:
Don't just trust the @nytimes' decade-late attempt to cover the @IlhanMN story.
They have an agenda: tell you as little as necessary, shield as many Obama and Biden folks as possible.
Below, please read the original 25 investigative articles written by Preya Samsundar, Scott Johnson, and myself from 2016-2020.
They provide the answers you need to understand the past 10 years.
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What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.
My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.
Beloved ‘Star Trek’ actor Patrick Stewart dead at 86 nypost.com/2026/10/29/entert… via @nypost
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(Reposting a previously deleted post to correct an error: The US attorney named by the @NYTimes is a Democrat who has since opposed Omar, not a Republican. My defense of him stands: It is unreasonable to suggest that he is responsible for the decision to not prosecute Omar, and I suspect he is being thrown under the bus.)
The @NYTimes, once again, published a story about @IlhanMN without including any of the long-public evidence against @IlhanMN.
By doing so, the @NYTimes was able to craft a narrative that chiefly blames the 2016 US Attorney in MN.
He is the only source they named in the article.
The @NYTimes described its *unnamed* sources in two ways that shield higher officials in the Obama Administration's disgraceful DOJ -- which, at the time, was targeting Trump with Russiagate -- from specific blame:
1. The @NYTimes sources are described as apolitical:
"[C]urrent and former officials, most of whose law enforcement careers spanned several presidential administrations."
Of course, this description directs the reader away from top Obama Administration officials -- who would have been making the call on prosecuting @IlhanMN. We now know that many remained embedded in Trump's DOJ, and undermined his agenda throughout his first term.
2. The @NYTimes lets those top officials off the hook by alluding to them as stand-up prosecutors whose hands were tied by the letter of the law:
"[T]hat case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded that the potential crime, a felony, fell outside a five-year statute of limitations."
Of course, as everyone who has read the long-public evidence knows, a stunning range of potentially chargeable instances of fraud -- all originating with the father fraudulently bringing Ilhan into America with a false name and their false "Omar" family, which has no statute of limitations -- were immediately evident in 2016.
Just for one example:
Does anyone find it plausible that a truly apolitical DOJ would shrug its shoulders while holding evidence that MN was about to elect a candidate who must have perjured herself all over her candidate-filing paperwork?
Ridiculous. An insult to the @NYTimes readership.
Here's the truth:
No, the MN US attorney in the story is not the person who deserves all the blame.
The DC Obama DOJ officials and other law enforcement officials who remained to undermine Trump's first term are to blame.
When Trump's second term began, he fired many of the Executive Branch law enforcement officials who intended to undermine the 2024 election results.
THAT'S WHEN HSI FINALLY CALLED ME.
They were particularly interested in this article (linked below) that I published back in 2019. That's the key article which I believe gets any objective reader beyond reasonable doubt.
Folks: Please just read the following X article I posted last week. It includes a list of all 25 links to the @IlhanMN investigative articles written by myself, Scott Johnson, and Preya Samsundar from 2016 to 2020.
If you finish the 25 articles, I expect you won't have any questions remaining about @IlhanMN's past.
And I expect you won't have any remaining questions about how the Democratic Party, the @NYTimes, and the rest of the media managed to keep you in the dark for 10 years.
If you do, please ask them below.
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Actually this story was broken by and heavily reported on by myself and Scott Johnson back in 2016. You can check out our full reporting in Powerline and @AlphaNews!
'NOWHERE FOR THEM TO GO': Joel Pollak warns wealth tax could go NATIONAL foxnews.com/video/6407603194… #FoxNews
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What an achievement!! Well done Rowan Tooth from Kimberley South Africa, one of the pilots that saved the crippled @flydubai 737
WATCH | Northern Cape pilot among those receiving UAE medals for foiling mid-air terror attack | NovaNews share.google/vDE84TFIHtMGANp…
Coffee? Check.
Computer? Check.
Capitol? Check.
@BretBaier’s chair? Check.
Talking LA Mayor’s race, from DC…
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