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 threadKing KaufmanJul 20, 2023

@mekkaokereke @ProPublica

As Trump gained momentum in 2015, I began a practice that saved me a lot of time. Before I read any article that attempted to analyze his popularity, I did a simple command F:

racis

If the results were on 0 at that point, I didn't bother reading it. It was almost always on 0 at that point.

Show threadBen Rosengart
@kingkaufman @mekkaokereke @ProPublica Yep. I’d like to recognize Jamelle Bouie for succeeding here where so many of his peers failed. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/11/donald-trump-is-a-fascist-it-is-the-political-label-that-best-describes-the-gop-front-runner.html
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