Inbox: Iowa's largest teachers union, Penguin Random House (one of the largest publishers in America) & four bestselling authors are suing the state over its new education law that bans books that depict sex acts from schools.





The suit names state education officials as defendants and leaders of the Urbandale & Norwalk school districts. The school districts removed books by the bestselling authors from school libraries and classroom collections in response to Senate File 496.

In @RitaHartIA’s home county of Clinton County, the last county to complete its recount in the incredibly tight #IA02, where @millermeeks leads by 34 votes, according to unofficial results per @IowaSOS. Not all counties that have completed recounts, but where county officials have yet to certify the re-canvass of votes, have reported results to @IowaSOS, including Scott County, where @RitaHartIA netted 26 votes. By that count, @millermeeks has just an 8-vote lead. #IA02

Among the 1,200 delegates at today's @SCGOP state convention at River Bluff HS in Lexington is James "Sombrero Trump" Yates of Laurens. Yates says sombrero is to show Pres. Trump supports legal immigrants. "I must have 150 pictures taken already." #sctweets Also here is Berkeley County resident & Brazilian immigrant Renata Dasilva. "I've seen what he has done, and I've never felt discriminated by him or anything he says" about immigrants or the black community; notes Brazilian president "is a replica of Trump." #sctweets