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14 Jun, 16 tweets, 6 min read
FAIR For All an organization detected to ensuring that only colorblind lessons get taught in schools didn't like that I noted the large number of circumstantial links between them and the Prep School AstroTurf group
I can't prove a clean link between them and Prep School but they seem to have a limited number of people hyper involved in both, however I can prove a link between them and conservative provocateur and questionable video editor Andy Ngo and other IDW orgs

I've explained Google Analytics and reverse searching them before, if two sites share the same ID they are most likely linked by at least using the same web designer

The ID for the Fair For All website is UA-2798888-25, which means it is the 25th site to use that ID. Using dnslytics.com/reverse-analyt… I fed that ID back in and found a few websites also using that same ID
A quick check of the authors for FAIR and Ngo turned up a match and for fair for all https://www.fairforall .org/author/mtrollan/ returns to the front page were if you put a string that isn't an author, like https://www.fairforall. org/author/345234523452345/ if gives you a 404
Of course that could just be they hired the same web designer right? Nope, that is the CTO of Fair For All and board member of Atheists For Liberty
As @CroftSpeaks points out on his substack the group Atheists For Liberty was created to try to bring more Atheists into the Anti-Social Justice web

croftspeaks.substack.com/p/atheists-for…
There is a large crossover in the boards and people involved in both Atheists for Liberty and FAIR

web.archive.org/web/2021051717…

archive.ph/zxs5x
Neither has filed an IRS 990 yet and FAIR doesn't have their own EIN, instead using a 501c3 pass through service called United Charitable but I would bet they have similar sources of funding, i wouldn't be surprised if the same sources also funded Andy Ngo
In short you have two organizations with ties to Andy and ran by members of the so called "Intellectual Dark Web", a group of right wing culture warriors upset they were born too late to be Phyllis Schlafly vox.com/the-big-idea/2…
If these are the people creating in effigy a giant strawman around "Critical Race Theory" and telling you to be angry about it. Do you really want them to have a role in your children's education?
Do you really want someone who so easily falls for hoax accounts and outrage du jour creating school programs with unknown sources of money and influence while declaring war on actual educators?

huffpost.com/entry/bari-wei…
Those involved have created similar effigies before and burnt them down, this is a repeating cycle. As long as they are getting funded and culture war gives them a cleave against increasing popular changing views on economics and government they will continue to burn and rebuild
the effigies to rile up their base while creating a moving target for their opponents as they redefine terms and definitions at will. When CRT loses steam and it is time to let it go a new similar rebranding will arise like a Phoenix from the ashes, at least as long as it's...
..creators keep being given enough oxygen to relight the embers
I love it when someone else has already done the work! pinkerite.com/2021/03/meet-f…

@Pinkerite1 already dissected the FAIR board and their connections to other organizations

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15 Jun
@oneunderscore__ @BrandyZadrozny continue to do amazing work and this article is an important read on the right wing grievous merchants and their role in creating and spreading the CRT boogieman
I decided to look at the website for No Left Turn, one of the grievous merchants they cite in the article and it had a link to a survey for parents to fill out if they are upset about what their kids are learning form.jotform.com/203353751215044 Image
Imagine being upset that your kids are taught
"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" or "American exceptionalism is dismissed"

In their mind CRT is a catch all for ANY teaching that goes against a Disneyfied version of American history
Read 7 tweets
15 Jun
I've noticed the "Anti-Critical Race Theory" forces, which all seem to have a common core of linkage to right wing think tanks, love to quote MLK and say their goal is to make sure everyone is under the same rules.

However CRT, the real CRT, is looking at not rules but...
..their application. It looks at how laws have been used to enforce the status quo and compares and contrasts the application of legal decisions based on the class, race, and position of those involved.

Think about the issues with laws around crack having much stronger...
..laws than cocaine, which disproportionately affected the poorer communities where cocaine was cut to make it cheaper and each kilo go further.

Now if we apply that same framework to say laws around land use and find out that the law was not applied fairly and was used...
Read 9 tweets
14 Jun
This 🧵is going to be about why you should check the Cook PVI before donating to candidates, specially in 2022

The Cook Partisan Voting Index is a index that looks at how districts and states voted compared to national elections and ranks them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Part…
If in the last two elections the national share of the vote for Ds and Rs was somehow 50/50 and in a certain district the R got 60/40, that district would be R+10 since the Republican outperformed by 10 points

Cook releases these indexes after every election cycle
Generally a seat is considered a swing seat if it between D+5 and R+5, anything higher is generally a safe seat, meaning whoever wins that party's primary is most likely going to win that seat

You do have swing years, like 2018 or 2010, when a party beats the spread
Read 16 tweets
11 Jun
I've seen tweets re:my OSINT thread asking why reporters aren't doing the same thing. I've seen some amazing OSINT work by reporters from small outlets to large, but there is a limited number of reporters with a finite amount of resources and an inverse number of deadlines
I don't blame reporters.
The cost of the entry to create inauthentic behavior/disinformation/misinformation is low, the opportunity cost to getting caught is low, there is little reason not to if you are a bad actor. It is everything from product reviews, to YouTube stars buying views, to nation states
Read 6 tweets
11 Jun
z3dster.medium.com/astroturfing-d…

On Saturday the 5th the New York Post put up an exclusive article about a few parents groups that planned to pay for a billboard truck to protest Critical Race Theory being taught in NYC prep schools
@soft_fox_lad noticed some suspicious information about the largest of the groups, Prep School Accountability, and shared it with me
The website for PSA was built on Wordpress, a content management system, which automatically creates pages for each author of the site. It's simple to find by just adding /?author=# to the end of the home url:
prepschoolaccountability.com/?author=0
prepschoolaccountability.com/?author=1
Read 33 tweets
10 Jun
When you want to make kids think CRT is cool
wait I was kidding but why did the hot wheel get a cool color scheme and the barbie got like 2 flower stickers
They made a Barbie PC Game Pad? @DrUnicornPhD
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