In the news today: There seem to be few parts of the government that Republicans didn't try to subvert in the attempt to topple the United States government last January, and you can now count the National Security Agency among them. There also seem to be few parts of the plan that Trump's alleged "legal" team weren't directly involved with.
Outside of Washington, D.C., Republican attacks on schools are only heating up. Alabama conservatives are now complaining that recognizing Black History Month is itself "critical race theory"—which was always where this was going, of course. And in Iowa, a new Republican bill demands that children's classrooms be live-streamed in the latest scheme to monitor what teachers are teaching. That it will also allow neighborhood weirdos to spend every day watching and listening to your children, learning everything about them that happens in the classroom ... well, let's just call that one the Dennis Hastert/Matt Gaetz Classroom Camera Plan. Iowa Republicans seem pretty invested in making it happen.
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