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Transit reform measure shifts CTA control from Chicago mayor. Lawmaker says that’s an ‘asset’ As state lawmakers raced to pass a $1.5 billion plan to overhaul regional mass transportation, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office lost control over the CTA board.

Illinois Democrats last week saved the Chicago Transit Authority from drastic cuts, and Mayor Brandon Johnson from taking further heat from public transportation advocates — but they permanently took his hand off the throttle in the process.

"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now."

I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce.

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Back in 2010 #Cameron&Clegg introduced #Austerity, basically a con to move wealth from the 99% to the less than 1% of #billionaires and their #MegaCorporations

Which parties still support austerity and which party doesn't?

#BackZack #TaxWealthNotWork #VoteGreen

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I'll be signing copies of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners' at the wonderful Waterstones Altrincham on Saturday 22nd November, 5.30-6.30pm. It's the evening when the town's Christmas lights are switched on.

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.

Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters on Election Night - Bucks County Beacon Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the “Blue Wave” that washed away local Republican office holders.

ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/buck...

Polls about hypothetical scenarios very well-known to be absolute junk, that McSweeney is prepared to live or die by one is absolutely hilarious and tells you everything you need to know about him

Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

The Caravan is coming! They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs! Obama will take away your guns! Death panels!

They never change.

As a Jewish person I’m safer in a city with Zohran Mamdani as mayor than in a country with Donald Trump as president. That some Jews are freaking out about the former and totally okay with the latter is mind-boggling.

So Yaxley-Lennon is not guilty of terrorism offences but grannies holding Palestine Action placards are. Go figure.

North London salutes Zohran Mamdani. Hirsute socialist & Arsenal fan The Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected New York Mayor. Trump backed the Republican candidate and the independent ex-Democrat Coumo. Zoharn is an Arsenal fan but the combination of…

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Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes PPE Medpro breached 2020 contract to health department to supply sterile surgical gowns The firm linked to former Conservative peer Michelle Mone, which was found last month to have supplied unusable personal protective equipment during the pandemic, owes £39m in unpaid taxes, according to company documents. PPE Medpro – owned by Mone’s husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman – was put into administration on 30 September, the day before the high court judgment was made public. Mrs Justice Cockerill ruled that the company had breached its contract with the Department of Health and Social Care, awarded in June 2020, to supply 25m sterile surgical gowns, and must repay the full £122m it received. Continue reading...

Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes

Zohran Mamdani, Catherine Collony, Zack Polanski

The carnage of the genocide has changed people. We wanted to free Palestine but it looks like Palestine will free us all...

Zack Polanski has got him SHAKING lmao

Sky News think a Green PM isn't out of the question

This is wild!

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.

Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.

That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.

As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

Samir Zitouni who works for LNER was the first person to try and stop the attack in Huntingdon.

He is a hero spread his name far and wide, judge people on their actions not their names or immigration status.

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

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Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...

The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.

Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇

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Trump still has not followed a court order to release SNAP funds for millions of people.

Meanwhile, he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed party at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

And he posted seven times about renovating a White House bathroom with marble and gold.

Priorities.

NEWS: Trump says he will refuse to follow a court order demanding that he provide SNAP benefits to millions of Americans, choosing instead to force people to starve

Robert Reich The Secret Behind High Gas Prices

Big Oil spent nearly $450M backing Trump & Republican candidates last year.

Now, during one of the longest government shutdowns in history, Senate Republicans voted to gut a policy protecting millions of acres in Alaska from oil drilling.

Talk about a return on investment.

🚨NEW: RATTLED Trump BACKS Cuomo for New York mayor ahead of today’s election.

Who else isn't surprised a sexual predator is backing a sexual predator?

It's a bit like turkeys voting for Xmas. Farage, the guy who told us the minimum wage is too high, the guy who wants to private the NHS... the guy who is against unions... the liar-in-chief. How stupid you must be to see this man as a solution for the problem (he created)?

Poll predicts Keir Starmer will LOSE his seat to the Green Party at next election Though there's still a few years left until our next General Election, the Green Party renaissance will give Sir Keir some food for thought.

When we said we'd replace Labour...

... we meant that on a very specific and personal level: www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/pol...