In at least 14 states, "Bonds for the Win" activists attempted to serve #sham#paperwork to school districts, in several cases causing commotions that required police intervention.
And the number of people joining their cause is quickly growing as misinformation about the strategy’s effectiveness circulates.
On the chat app Telegram, where the activists organize, Bonds for the Win’s main channel grew from 700 subscribers to nearly 20,000 in the past month. Its members focus on #schools, but they have also served paperwork to a handful of #county#commissioners and discussed plans to go after other local officials, #judges and #sheriffs with similar claims.
Bonds for the Win is using these battles as a way of drawing in followers, demonstrating how quickly a faulty fringe tactic can generate momentum as frustrated parents join forces with conspiracy theorists.
#Miki#Klann, a QAnon adherent in Scottsdale, Arizona, who has said she believes AIDS is a hoax and that the Earth is flat, founded Bonds for the Win in December.
“We want the people to understand their 'sovereignty'.” Klann said in a recent video
The group’s strategy of intimidating government bodies with paperwork has been used in the past by #sovereign#citizens
-- loosely affiliated #rightwing#anarchists who believe federal and local governments are operating illegitimately.
My State senator, Mark E Huizenga (R) SD-30 voted against prohibiting open carry and closed-carry of firearms in a polling place, and a voting counting place.
A #PrisonerSwap for #Navalny was in the final stages before the opposition leader’s death
Associates of Russian opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny said Mon that talks were underway shortly before his death to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany.
“Alexei Navalny could have been sitting here now, today. It’s not a figure of speech,” Maria Pevchikh, who lives outside #Russia, said in a video statement.
German judges said #Krasikov acted on the orders of Russian authorities, who gave him a false identity, passport & resources to carry out the killing.
She didn’t identify the #UnitedStates#citizens that were supposedly part of the deal. There are several in custody in #Russia, incl’g WSJ reporter #EvanGershkovich arrested on espionage charges, & #PaulWhelan, a corporate security exec from Michigan, convicted of espionage & serving a long prison sentence.