Preserve your documents, Gavin and Karen, because the thousands of Pacific Palisades fire victims just won a huge legal battle that may scar you for life. Good.

It's your weekly check-in on the West Coast, Messed Coast™ and this week, your humble correspondent had an enlightening visit with the attorney for 4,000 Pacific Palisades fire victims and got the download on what skullduggery has been done in the name of "public service." It will curl your hair. 

When Washington state Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal isn't training militants to hit the streets to "protest" Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and imaginary "Nazis," she's interfering in U.S. foreign policy for her comrades in Cuba. 

And Spencer Pratt is L.A.'s last hope. 

Let's get going! 

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Empty the reservoirs before you go

Thousands of Pacific Palisades fire victims have won a key legal battle that allows their lawsuit against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to move forward. This means we'll get more discovery, and I want to read Gavin Newsom's text messages, thank you very much.

I talked to Alex “Trey” Robertson, one of the attorneys for 4,000 of the Pacific Palisades fire victims. The January 2025 fire left 7,000 homes in rubble and twelve dead. Revelations of inaction, incompetence, and treachery followed. 

By all means, watch my "20-minute" interview with Robertson on the Adult in the Room podcast. I put scare quotes on the 20-minute time limit because what he told me required follow-ups, and we went on for 52 minutes. 

Below the video, I bullet point just some of the outrages detailed by Robertson. I'll also be writing a complete treatment of our conversation later in a standalone article.

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Karen left the cake out in the rain

Karen Bass's disastrous tenure as mayor of L.A. was highlighted by the feds this week when they had to go in and clean out MacArthur Park, which is overrun with gangsters and their drug dealers.

Bass continually promised to clean it up but, as usual, was willing to put aside the well-being of the entire community to help illegal aliens and people of color break the law. 

In a raid that was not an immigration raid, we are told, the feds cleared the park of 18 drug dealers and gangsters. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said it's a start.

There's a reason why Bass won't go after criminals, which you've read about here. But I'll let mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, L.A.'s last hope, explain everything to you. 

Speaking of the Cuban revolution…


Pramila's revolution

When she's not attempting to start riots — oh, excuse me, protests — against President Trump and pretend "nazis," which I explain in Commie Congresswoman and Harvard Prof Are Put on Blast for Holding Mob Boot Camp, Washington state Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is trying to keep her comrades in Cuba in power by providing them with fuel.

The America-hating (I think it's safe to say) congresswoman has nothing to say about medical care, black outs, corruption, and other problems imposed by the communist regime, but she's very concerned about the lack of fuel that may topple them. Sarah writes about it in Democrats' Shadow State Department? Jayapal Is Sabotaging U.S. Foreign Policy. Why, yes — yes, she is.

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Disney diddlers

My PJ Media colleague Dave Manney has a story about child predators working Disney ships out of California in his story, "Disney Lectured America About Morality While Child Porn Suspects Worked on Its Ships." Wow. 

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Diversion

NASCAR is holding its first-ever race on a military base in the distinctively brilliant and posh Coronado Island, home to the West Coast SEAL teams, pilots, and other sailors on Father's Day weekend, June 19 - 21. 

The 16-turn "Qualcomm Circuit" course takes over Naval Air Station North Island on Coronado that weekend and becomes "the third-longest in NASCAR history, on an active Navy base, potentially in the middle of a war with Iran." 

Should be exciting.

They haven't ruined everything — yet

Mission San Juan Capistrano is lovely.