Will Stancil, man of the people or just an annoying guy?

Will Stancil | Photo by Jack Califano / The Verge

I met Will Stancil two days before he got booted from his neighborhood Signal chat. We were at the Uptown Minneapolis VFW at an event hosted by Rep. Ilhan Omar, a thank-you party for Minnesotans who fought ICE in ways big and small. There were tacos and drinks, and dancing, though I never saw Stancil dance, which is not to say it never happened. A friend of mine who knows of Stancil from his work on school desegregation was surprised I knew who he was. She had no idea he was a combative, divisive online personality. She didn't know about his arguments with leftists on Bluesky or his fights with white supremacists on X, or about the fact that …

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