ProPublicaJul 19, 2023

How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country
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In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.

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How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country

In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.

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Show threadmekka okereke Jul 20, 2023

@ProPublica

This is a very impressive and fancy article, that does not include the phrase "Proud Boys" even once. 🤷🏿‍♂️

At some point your reporters and investigators had to have noticed that:
* The Proud Boys announced that they planned to target school board meetings to disrupt them
* That Proud Boys were then present at school board meetings in different states, at different times, on different topics, from Covid masks and vaccines, to CRT, then trans rights.

It's literally the same 50 dudes.

Show threadmav 

@mekkaokereke @[email protected]

> It's literally the same 50 dudes.

maybe proud boys proper, but you can't toss a rock around here without bouncing it off three pickup trucks with threeper stickers on 'em

Jul 20, 2023 at 2:45amWeb
Show threadmav Jul 20, 2023
@mekkaokereke just sayin', I had a long post written here but there's no need to preach to the choir, idaho has been a racist cesspool for a long time, it's just been much, much worse in the last decade, and I just saw my very first official Yellow Shirt Proud Boy Douchebag two months ago. It's them, sure, but it's also a LOT of locals. It's mostly locals.
Show threadDarrel PlantJul 20, 2023

@mav @mekkaokereke

And three-quarters of Oregon (geographically, not by population) wants right in there with them.

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/05/19/wallowa-county-oregon-greater-idaho-vote/

Political opposition to Greater Idaho grows, as the effort holds narrow election lead

Oregons Wallowa County was one of the first to vote against the idea, but a second referendum put to voters this week showed a 21-vote lead for proponents of the bid to join Idaho.

OPB
Show threadDieuJul 20, 2023

@mav @mekkaokereke wow, that sounds like an awfully huge 3%.

Is that 3% notion derived from Starship Troopers, btw?