Etc.

The usual suspects, often using astroturf outfits, are behind charter school "reform" efforts in Georgia, where it passed, and Washington, where the outcome is in doubt.
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While the Wall Street crooks and others unknown continue on their quest to destroy the Democratic Party from within, the Koch Brothers not only continue their stranglehold on the GOP with disastrous results, they also have the Libertarian Party by the balls.

In fact, the Koch Brothers actually started the party:

Gary Johnson, in other words, is proof that our democracy is finished, a fistula of bad politics swelling up under Lady Liberty’s armpit.

It’s surprising to me how little skepticism or critical interest there is in Gary Johnson’s third party campaign, especially since he’s been hard-sold to progressives as the "real alternative" or "principled" or "more progressive than [NAME OF CORRUPT DEMOCRAT SCUMBAG HERE].

The fact that Gary Johnson’s Libertarian Party was founded and funded by the Koch brothers (David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s VP in 1980 in order to make it easier for the Kochs to shovel more money into the party and the libertarian cause), and that Gary Johnson was a longtime loyal Republican — considering all of this, and what’s at stake in presidential elections, it would seem to me malpractice for a journalist to assume there isn’t a story, or several stories, to be found under the Gary Johnson rock. Stories that matter. And that are bizarre and fun and grotesque in their own right.

The piece gets much better from there.
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Public education and its supporters did achieve a number of victories Tuesday pushing back the neolibs' insane campaign to destroy democracy.