🧵We're current parents of TJ students. We are non partisan. We're just parents who were trying to shepherd their kids through HS when RW operatives started to use our school as a squatting ground during the pandemic & Governor's election.
@BrynnTannehill
The corporate interests behind movie theaters, mega concerts, bars, malls, community event organizers, sports + any other spaces that people can choose to skip attending bc they feel unsafe, need to step up. People change their habits + stop attending.
@LaneyHawes
@KellerISD
Demand all their videos. They say "no students or teachers would be visible in the video they are producing” which is a tricky way of saying their will use audio. Be sure they turn over all and every copy of footage and sign legal documents that none of the interviews will be
@GailHeriot
You do realize how silly this sounds? "UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh is retiring at the ripe old age of 56 & going the the Hoover Institution full time." He's not retiring; he's switching jobs to work in a plush relaxing place in an enviable location at the Hoover Institute
@MAdryaelTong
There is also a *lot* of soft influencing going on within the GOP gay community to turn them against trans people. It's coming from well developed & targeted social media. That needs to be addressed and brought into the open.
@narosenblum
It might make sense if you know realize that after law school "Cain moved to a ranch in Montana, where he worked as a ranch hand while trying to write a book."
@Victorshi2020
@charliekirk11
The fact that grifting pays so well in the United States says everything about our country. (Note how well it pays men like Kirk. He's laughing all the way to the bank with each outraged twitter reply he gets.) 🙁
@dallen_critgeo
It's because of twitter that we, parents of HS students, are hearing about the treatment of college professors. It's horrible to look at the bills we will face and know the actual conditions of the people who will be teaching our students.
@Kyberian
@BrynnTannehill
Social scientists need to poll people to show how often they feel unsafe in public places, which places they go to less than they used to, why they watch movies at home, how irritated they are wasting time in lines to be x-ray scanned for large events etc. We need the data.
@davidhogg111
Anyone is interested in articles on Leonard Leo + the Federalist Society? We threw together our favorites. (The best reporting was by a Harvard Undergrad in 2021.)
Josh Hawley’s wife works as an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom, which was involved w/ overturning Roe v Wade, has defended re-criminalizing non-heterosexual sexual behavior & supported forced sterilization of trans people abroad. 1/
#Christofascism
Take a moment to puzzle through this new piece by Jennifer Cohn. What she is finding is not widely reported in the press. Further she has citations and supporting materials often from the very people putting together these groups.
“Michael Flynn & Roger Stone’s Dangerous Crusade Continues”
The militant “Black Robe Regiment” is set to recruit pastors with Flynn in PA. A Christian leader tied to the Regiment will rally for Mastriano Friday. By
@jennycohn1
for
@BucksCoBeacon
1/
“I’ve had enough for everybody,” Jones said in an interview. “Nobody stands up to these people. They just say what they want and there are no repercussions and they ruin people’s reputations and there’s no consequences.”
@RonFilipkowski
Everyone does realize these folks are on dark money salaries to provoke you, right? They love the publicity your outrage brings. The more interesting story is how Nick Fuentes gets his salary. Know the funders, know the agenda.
@lourdesgnavarro
🧵Distressed by your coverage of school "culture wars." You continue to platform "parents" from 501c3s/c4s that are fronts with markedly different goals. Stop doing this. You make teachers, principals, students and parents unsafe.
@AdriPerezTX
Whoever got the video was able to think clearly in a scary + fast paced moment. They were also risking being tackled. Whoever they are, they performed an important service.
How many “moms” launch an extensive social media campaign, incite anonymous informants to spy on educators, and plant stories in right wing media that pave the way for racist messages being sent to school principals? PDE has.
My op/Ed on dark money phony parent fronts in Virginia—ground zero for these right wing operations: Opinion/Column: Dark money funds the war on eduation | Opinion |
@apokerplayer
@oneunderscore__
This isn't a boycott--it's strategically deployed terror + fear. Since they are also the side embracing guns, the fear is well founded, not imagined.
@JakeAnbinder
Pause long and hard on the idea that it was a "popular" revolt because it was actually highly orchestrated. Something more akin to the "Brooks Brothers riot."
Here is an FCPS student protesting OpenFCPS's illegitimate attempts at removal. This student wants school boards members focusing on getting kids through this pandemic. That's hard with unwelcome operatives playing political football.
@LJ4fcps
🧵We missed this piece when it was released. It explains Youngkin's religious background and how he started a non denominational charismatic church. Take some time to read about Dominionism if you have not already.
@MatthewSitman
Youngkin, VA gov candidate, is a church planter! Is it fair to talk abt religion in this race? Yes. Faith is central to everything Youngkin does. yet few understand his tradition - anti-gay, schismatic, charismatic Anglicanism.
Wolf in Fleece Clothing
Another Jenny Cohn🧵so that means curl up on the sofa with that coffee, snuggle up with the cat, and read slowly. She's great because she arrives with the citations which are often from the participants themselves.
Remember Charles Bausman, the PA man who fled to Moscow >Jan 6? I did a story a while ago about how Bausman founded Russia Insider, which has featured work by Steve Turley, who created a film glorifying Doug Mastriano.
😳Seems Bausman has featured Roger Stone’s work too. 1/
@FLWillRegret22
@CaseyDeSantis
Let's slow down a moment. What precisely is the name of her charity? We're trying to help with research & run 990s for you. However it looks like it's not a non profit but just a program. Also, here are the three places listed as getting the money "Moffitt Cancer Center,
@integrity4kids
Amazing post! Parents in Fairfax/Loudoun/Arlington Virginia have had similar experiences as you describe. Importantly, however, no single person has had the level of harassment you did. You'd have to take about 20 of us & combine our experiences to get to the level you received
1. Because of the role of think tanks, we believe the recent Youngkin history standards turmoil was intentional. Think tank donors instructed Virginia to follow a politically motivated Eurocentric history. We hope this debacle is explored by journalists & ed experts to explain
📰 BREAKING NEWS. They started another fabricated scandal + are eating up your TAX money. They have MIYARES on speed dial. YOUNGKIN has them on speed dial. Your schools are on🔥 + privatizers are smelling the RAW meat YOUNGKIN is swinging.
@FLWillRegret22
@CaseyDeSantis
Interesting! Some people have reported similar problems with Virginia's Gov Youngkin not responding to FOIAs. Here are the FL FOIA and related laws. (Love your state's name Sunshine Laws.) This could be a good journalism story. .
The weirdest moment of the day was Defendant Steyn crying out that the room was too hot. 🔥
Sitting in the "climate trial of the century," it's true that it's an unseasonably hot & muggy day in DC -- over 60 degrees. (Tomorrow will be 70.) The Canadian with a think British
@inminivanhell
@onetvpac
Remember when messages like this wouldn't require a request for resignation because people would have already put in their resignation on their own?
@OneBadDude_
@elonmusk
@FreedoLov
Do you realize Turning Point USA is a $138 million grift for Charlie Kirk and is funded by 10 donors who refuse to reveal themselves? "Turning Point USA, which received just $8 million in contributions in 2016, has raised $138 million over the last five years, according to the
Can non union and non teachers donate to the VA teacher’s union? If so pls advise how. We’ve got a lot of peeved parents happy to push hard against Youngkin’s manufactured culture wars.
Any parent who has worked a school bake sale might ask how a recently formed “moms” group has registered three federal political action committees including a SuperPAC that can take in unlimited donations. Moms for Liberty has.
@MassPolProfMo
@Josh_Koehn
Never heard of the guy, not from San Fran & we were blocked! That means the Virginia leg of the dark money network that worked to elect Youngkin (aka
#IWF
) told Tan to block us. Meet IWF. (This gives cred to people wondering if he's a centrist or what.)
In a press conference, Ahmed Rehab of Chicago CAIR noted that the landlord Czuba had previously "built a tree house for the boy and allowed him to swim in a makeshift pool and brought him toys but it wasn't until he started watching the news and hearing the statements that
An 8-year-old boy has died and a 32-year-old woman is in serious condition after a man allegedly attacked the pair with a knife Saturday inside a residence in unincorporated Plainfield Township, authorities said.
Child asks: "Why are you slowing down children's reading?"
The books that are left in Florida libraries are grade levels below these kids' reading levels.
#MakeAmericaSmartAgain
#StopRemovingBooks
Listen to these extremely bright fourth graders tell the truth about how Florida is removing books from school libraries. It's different than the narrative given by politicians.
🔥 A mom speaking back to the Koch dark money network. Take a look at her full statement.
" . . .[M]oms are powerful. When your supporters fuck with a mom and try to destroy her life and steal her freedom she might just become motivated to painstakingly use her 21 years of
Do you think it feels as terrible as when one of your pos supporters falsely accused me of breaking into the school and endangering the children of my town and then tried to have me arrested and prosecuted for 6 felonies he completely made up and when our sleazy sheriff submitted
We’re here to spill the T! 🧵
B4 we uncovered how a few TJ parents had transformed themselves into operatives starting in 2020-21, we were naive. We unfortunately believed the operatives who were clamoring with lies inside our parent FB pages + PTA meetings. 1
We know you come here for the TJ gift articles. Kindly retweet! 🎁
*Supreme Court Won’t Hear New Case on Race and School Admissions: The decision, along with an order this month declining to block West Point’s admissions program, suggests that most justices are not eager to
You've read + heard about the “Commended Scholar” scandal in multiple questable news outlets + in some standard ones. So how did it all pan out? Read below for yourself. 1 of 2
🧵The Supreme Court’s tendency in recent years to take “phantom docket” cases which rest upon nebulous theories of standing, hypothetical injuries & operative causes allowed the Supreme Court to rewrite its own precedents. 1.
@AndyKroll
Astounding reporting. You’ve solved a multi year long mystery for us. This dark money is ruthless + disturbing when you encounter their agents on the ground.
Today is a day of healing. It's a chance to look back at the lunacy dark money inflicted upon us during society's darkest moments in the midst of a pandemic as they strategized to coerce votes from frightened & gullible people. Meanwhile, we look again for the humanity we used to
🧵This is how we read news now. Read article. Find suspicious looking "charities." Run a search for their 990s. See what their operatives are making to take a sledge hammer to our public services. OK. Let's do it. Let's find the grift.
@BankstonAtLaw
God bless you. It haunts us to live in a country where these parents, victims of one of the most horrible crimes, are continually victimized for decades. Thank you for so much for your much needed open letter.
Read this 🧵, explain to your neighbors + friends who Judd Legum is, tell them to subscribe to his substack, + remember to search out his pieces on twitter bc they don't pop up like they did pre-Musk. So many people thank us for telling them about Judd!
UPDATE: Brian Covey, a full-time substitute teacher in Duval County, Florida, was FIRED for posting a video of empty bookshelves.
This is the REAL STORY about why those shelves were empty and why Covey was let go
Fight for Schools barely filed its incorporation papers when Mr. Prior began appearing on Fox. We volunteer to take tickets at kids’ football game & sell baked goods. Few of us hire blue-chip law firms to sue school districts we don’t live in or become regulars on Fox News.
🧵We're speechless. Project Veritas' new CEO is stepping down after discovering the group's past illegal activities + financial improprieties.
James O'Keefe is having another no good very bad day.
1/2
THREAD: 🧵 We’d to address Awake’s claim that their “grassroots” advocacy is being diluted by a $500k effort by Dems to help statewide candidates.
Let’s begin with “Americans for Prosperity,” a Koch org with $114M in 2021 gross receipts, sending a helper to SD308 candidates. 1/
We appreciate her trying to help us out, but we've got this covered. And we ♥️🧡💜💙 our public schools.
Our public schools are under a lot of coordinated political pressure to privatize which is something the news fails to flag, but keen observers know to be true. 🔍 4/4
PDE’s story is “a national grassroots organization“ of “working moms.” The real story is a dark money front that can’t tell the truth about its investors. If folks understood who is behind groups like PDE and Fight for Schools a lot of uncomfortable questions would get asked.
Hey
#CoalitionforTJ
! We're current parents of TJ students. We're non partisan. None of us are affiliated with a 501c3 or c4. No "Donate" buttons here.
Our greatest gratitude to Ashbey Beasley for her citizen advocacy efforts, her honesty + bravery for stepping into a news conference. Our hero for the day.
@CampBeasleywood
@MartinKulldorff
@HRaleighspeaks
Agree on the Commission! But why aren't you transparent in your bio that you now work for Hillsdale College at its Academy for "Science and Freedom." Pls disclosure conflicts of interest that may sway your "opinion" just like medical researchers do when they take pharma money.
🧵If you're following our handle today, we stumbled upon a grandma from California who was cited by local news as a "Fairfax Mother." She's a mother, but of two lovely grown daughters. 1/4
@NickMinock
'79 grad school "FFX Co Mother"? To be clear, she is a woman in tech star from a time when that was very unusual which we certainly admire.
If you're not from Virginia, follow this account (
@v_theclash
) to understand our local characters. V_theclash will get you up to speed on the "flooding with sh*%" we have in our local politics inspired by Bannon's charge to make politics hyper local & hyper hostile.
This thread is absolutely a must-read, particularly for those of us in NoVA who don’t want our School Boards taken over by a hateful RW cabal, of which both sides in the spat discussed below fully belong.
@v_theclash
’s summary & insights are spot on.
this gutting of supposed “low-performing, ideologically-captured academic departments” is based entirely on feels and done by people who don’t even live in Florida
1. We know the following to be true + it makes us deeply profoundly sad.
"[T]he greatest cost of this unfortunate episode has been borne by FCPS staff. The controversy surrounding these issues, fueled by additional press reports + by the Attorney General’s public statements +
Know this: The people who started this hubbub did not approach other TJ parents in a democratic fashion to ask how we wanted this handled. They went straight to press. It’s always best to first find consensus + work from there. 2 of 2
Political operatives are chaos makers. They imbed + pose as allies w progressives, conservatives + centrists. You need to build up Spidey-senses to vet them. If you don't understand this, twitter is dangerous for your mental health. Below Mann discusses an example with climate
Billionaire Bill Ackman is Starting New *Think Tank* to "Probe" Higher Ed.
In an effort to create more political wedge issues, Ackman will continue to politicize antisemitism & DEI policies on US campuses. Ackman plans to form a team that will go “after these issues in a very
@dallen_critgeo
Some of our parents feel like there is an assault (some coordinated and some "market based") on US higher ed which gives rise to questions about future national security.
It would be kind of fun if people decided to overwhelm the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 Personnel database which is looking to staff the next GOP President with political operators in line with Heritage's swampy dark money.
[Link here: ]
Behind the
Read our pinned tweet thread. We'll connect you to human parents from across the country that are not spawned from Citizens United. If you need guidance, scholars, journalists & political scientists can walk u through this.
@anelsona
@NancyMacLean5
@JaneMayerNYer
@MassPolProfMo
🧵A
@PBS
clip on
@MichaelEMann
's trial that succinctly yet fully explains what's at stake for US scientists. 👨🔬
*A long legal battle ended Thursday when a jury found that 2 writers defamed prominent climate scientist Michael Mann.
@WmBrangham
looks at what this verdict means &
Some educators’ sense that politicians and parents — and sometimes their own school board members — have little respect for their profession amid an escalating educational culture war that has seen many districts and states pass policies and laws restricting what teachers can
This is about San Fran, but the same things are happening in Virginia. The dark money set up looks a little different in each Virginia county depending on their game plan but they usually have the common denominator of being an "OpenSchools" group from the early days of the
1. This no longer sounds like "an easy fix" situation as some reports suggested in the beginning. This is really concerning esp for our Prince William families who have other children in that school system.
Hot Tip.
There are 4⃣ BIG articles about tech billionaires creating astroturf in San Fran. This is called a Grey Money Network.
If you wonder why we care, it's because the spider web of this Grey Money Network extends all the way to Virginia. Same networks, same people, same
Sophisticated tools for when u need to come up with dialogue for your multiple twitter handles.
Frog: "Did she confess?"
Cow: "Moo, must be guilty; she didn't answer."
Queen of Hearts: "Off with her head!"
Duck: "Quack. Call her husband's boss! Quick! quack"
Frog RT: "Off with
@apokerplayer
@oneunderscore__
Mr. Elwood: Pls watch + let us know what "this" is. Is it a "boycott" or something else? The "activists" themselves call it "hunting."
1. During the covid shutdown, you were angry and not wearing your mask. (We got that from your profile.) How did you help public school students? We're parents that got into the mix, helped kids with tutoring and academic enrichment and had our High Schoolers go out
@jkirk___
Oh god, are you still trying to justify your closed school views? So many kids suffered while public schools were open in Europe and red states. Private schools were open here! People like you who can't admit you were wrong are just like Trump claiming the election was stolen
🧵The Fairfax College Partnership Program (CPP) should be lauded & not nitpicked. Read the program description. Nothing is inflammatory. It does not exclude any group of people. Portraying it as Anti-Asian or Anti-White is irresponsible + not done in good faith. 1/5
We're working on our taxes this weekend. How about you?
Remember how back in 2013, ProPublica reported that Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, had successfully lobbied to stop the IRS from creating an easy way for millions of taxpayers to file online for free (a service many
Local investigative journalist spills the T on Tiffany Justice from Moms For Liberty
#M4L
📢
Per reporting from Justice's hometown, her school board days were mired in scandal & destructive actions.
1⃣"We saw how little Justice offered in the way of public service during her
Sometimes twitter just seems like a hopeless waste of time and then we find gems like this. Have fun reading about another grifter (altho grifter is too kind of a word for these shameless people). 🧵
Recently I learned about a man who has trained 1,000+ people to block wind and solar projects.
I read through all his training materials, presentations, and seminars.
Here's what I learned about him and how his students plan to "win the war on clean energy."
🧵
Know this: The people who started this hubbub did not approach other TJ parents in a democratic fashion to ask how we wanted this handled. They went straight to press. It’s always best to first find consensus + work from there. 2 of 2
You did this on the First Person podcast and now on
@ezraklein
. The
@nytimes
recently profiled a hate speaker posing as a "parent". It's lazy journalism (or worse, an agenda) to run to these prefab groups instead of finding real parents.
@anelsona
@BrynnTannehill
We're sure he's not the guy attending games and supporting women's professional sports. He's just taking advantage of a situation to rally his tribe.
Breaking News 🗞️
Stacy Langton is being sued by the notorious former school board candidate Harry Jackson. 🔥
This is the same intimidating & financially devastating lawfare that these highly connected operatives have repeatedly used since 2020 on people of varying political
My good friend, Stacy Langton, (
@MamaGrizzlyOrg
), who is featured in
@DineshDSouza
's film "Police State", is being sued by failed "Republican" Fairfax County School Board candidate, Harry Jackson, who created a fake X account with Stacy's high-school yearbook photo and a bio
July 9th cannot arrive soon enough. We'll finally get the inside scoop on the scam the operative (and parents) in our HS were in on starting in 2020. The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
@JoeConason
The problem with dark money is an invisible third party is at various negotiating tables but it's one who refuses to state its views bluntly & refuses to negotiate.
SF School Board President
@jennyhlam
and the entire School Board advancing Republican agendas.
Their actions last night are aligned with the Republicans like
#GregAbbott
, who are using the Texas tragedy to increase policing in SF schools.
Research by Maurice Cunningham on Moms for Liberty. M4L which claims to be about “parent rights,” has ties to the January 6 insurrection & is expected to provide “foot soldiers” for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
If you live in Northern VA and you see our tweets, be sure to follow this account (
@v_theclash
) and read V's information posted today about the upcoming June 30th School Board meeting.
@ssurovell
@AsraNomani
1. Surovell summarizes our students' newspaper in which students prefaced: "The following is a staff editorial & reflects the majority opinion of the tjTODAY student staff." Importantly this opinion echoes the student body govt's stmt. Two sincere sources of student voices.
Wow that’s not Monopoly money or even the relatively little sums you sometimes hear lobbyists donating to politicians. This is a lot of cash people are passing around. Don’t think the Founder Fathers had this in mind.
Well this is complicated + deserves extensive scrutiny. “Barnes said he started to think he was being retaliated against after he asked Gov. Glenn Youngkin a question during a CNN town hall, while representing the Virginia Education Association in March.” 1/2
In a D.C. courtroom, the Mann trial is wrapping up this week. The case comes at a time when attacks on scientists are proliferating, says Prof Peter Hotez (Pediatrics and Molecular Virology) at Baylor College of Medicine. Even as misinformation about scientists and their work