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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 11:04:08 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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   That's why they don't let me be editor of publications.🤷🏿♂️

   Because if I were your editor, I would tell you to go back and try again because you missed the story.

   Who is paying to fly these Proud Boys around the country? How many of these angry speakers are not even authentic members of the community? What is the ultimate goal of disrupting school boards? Why did federal law enforcement not take action against this clearly concerted and coordinated effort to disrupt school boards?

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     ProPublica (propublica@newsie.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 11:04:09 JST ProPublica

     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.

     #Education #Schools #SchoolBoards #Violence #Arrests #Protests #Parents #Teachers #News

     https://projects.propublica.org/school-board-meetings-flashpoints-for-anger-chaos/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 11:04:09 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     @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.

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     John Shirley (johnshirley2023@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 11:22:56 JST John Shirley

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     @mekkaokereke @ProPublica when a guy associated with proud boys, Joe Kent, was running against Democrat Marie Perez in our district, it was learned that he had no particular income or job, and that he was getting paid to run for office by some company. Which was a shell company.