Everytown Tries to Distance Itself From Activist Who Falsely Claimed to Be School Shooting Survivor
BearingArms | 5/30/25 | Cam Edwards

When gun control activists with Everytown for Gun Safety and Students Demand Action held a rally at the Kentucky state capitol in February to push for new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, one of the speakers captivated the small crowd of anti-gunners with his moving story about surviving a mass shooting at his Pennsylvania high school.

As it turns out, however, what Calvin Polachek told the crowd was an outright lie. He invented the school shooting and his self-proclaimed trauma, and now Everytown is scrambling to distance themselves from the man they put in front of a microphone.

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Did anyone at Everytown even try to vet Polachek’s story? According to the Republican Herald newspaper in Pennsylvania, the gun control activist claimed that eleven students, including his brother and best friend, were murdered during a shooting at Dallas High School in 2017. As the paper notes, that would have been one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Did the Everytown volunteers who heard Polachek’s lies just assume that they were true even though they’d never heard of a shooting at Dallas High School? And if Polachek wasn’t an “active volunteer”, then how did he land the speaking gig? Was Everytown just so eager to put a victim in front of a microphone that everyone associated with the anti-gun rally just decide that there was no need to do their due diligence?

Vox CornPopuli!

A Canadian prairie city virtually deserted as fires rage and thousands more evacuees expected
AP News | May 30, 2025

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — The Canadian prairie city of Flin Flon was virtually deserted and more evacuees were expected, Manitoba’s premier said Friday, as wildfires raged in the province.

Premier Wab Kinew told a news conference that the mayor, councilors, health-care staff and other officials have had to depart Flin Flon, a city of 5,000 people.

“The only folks remaining on the ground are firefighters and folks in the office of the fire commissioner and RCMP, who are there to battle the blaze,” Kinew said.

“We do expect some very, very challenging conditions in Flin Flon and in the surrounding community.”

I want to know Wab Kinew, and when he kinew it.

How much is ‘Truss Social’ learning from Truth Social?
The Spectator | 05/30/25

Zuckerberg, Musk, Trump… Truss? Cockburn was surprised to hear from across the Pond that Liz Truss – who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom for just 49 days – had plans to set up a social media site. “What I am doing is establishing a new free speech network, which will be uncensored and uncancellable, to actually talk about the issues people don’t want to talk about,” the former PM said at a conference in England last month.

“Hiya!”

“Pew! Pew!”

“Mmmph!”

“Is that a jet turbine engine?”

“I’m tired.”

No, liberals haven’t thought of this one yet, but give them time. I’m just trying to speed up the process, for my own purposes.

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“From now on, Ii will refer to myself as ‘Ii.’

(That’s a capital “I” followed by a small “i” … It’s a lot clearer in Times New Roman font.)

Ii do this to show that although Ii celebrate e.e. cummings, Ii also don’t want to culturally appropriate the style of him/her. And, because of white patriarchy.

In my typical bold style, Ii proclaim myself part of the following bold inclusive community:”