@Jackattack20204
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scott doesn't nominate or didn't nominate cta board that is the mayor and the governor
Michael Leone 🇺🇸☮️🧦🕊️🫒@MichaelFromIL13h
As if there wasn’t enough of a reason to elect @patgilsenan32! To me this is proof that Waguespack does not ride the CTA often enough!!!
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Shaun@shaunhundle14h
.@cta has been a mess and severely neglected by Brandon Johnson. You would never see this kind of stuff before. The next mayor will have his/her work cut out for them.
lionel@LionelBarrow16h
The Blue Line @cta stop on the north end of Damen is just missing a stair. No warning tape, no signs, just a stair propped up on the side of the staircase
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Tracey Ryniec@TraceyRyniec20h
Not again. There's nothing to stop McDonald's from moving back to Oak Brook.
Jake Sheridan@JakeSheridan_21h
NEW: We have the key details about Mayor Brandon Johnson's Chicago budget proposal. Another corporate head tax, with rebates in poorer areas. Borrowing $480 million to pay for police lawsuits. A PPLT tax hike to net $234 million. More in @chicagotribune: chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Mayor Brandon Johnson proposing corporate head tax again, sources say

Mayor Brandon Johnson will again propose Chicago hit big corporations with an employee head tax — with an exemption in poor parts of the city.

chicagotribune.com
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Alderman Bill Conway@AldConway18h
I know we’re all excited for Halloween, but trying to exorcise the dead tax is a bad idea & waste of time we don't have… We need to grow the size of the City with more housing & more jobs. We shouldn’t disincentivize the thing we need to move beyond our fiscal nightmare!
Jake Sheridan@JakeSheridan_21h
NEW: We have the key details about Mayor Brandon Johnson's Chicago budget proposal. Another corporate head tax, with rebates in poorer areas. Borrowing $480 million to pay for police lawsuits. A PPLT tax hike to net $234 million. More in @chicagotribune: chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Mayor Brandon Johnson proposing corporate head tax again, sources say

Mayor Brandon Johnson will again propose Chicago hit big corporations with an employee head tax — with an exemption in poor parts of the city.

chicagotribune.com
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Nar
@nardwrites20h
Complete POS
Jessie Balmert@jbalmert21h
.@VivekGRamaswamy campaign responds:
Attributable to Connie Luck, spokesperson for the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign: “We don't know what happened between Amy and her mother, who first spoke out about Amy in 2020, but we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor.

ALT Attributable to Connie Luck, spokesperson for the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign: “We don't know what happened between Amy and her mother, who first spoke out about Amy in 2020, but we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor.

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Jeff Orr
@JeffO77320h
Can the media stop leaving out that the PPLT tax hits EVERYONE not only large businesses. If you lease a car, you now have to pay 20% tax to the city EVERY month. You rent a tool from home Depot 20% tax. You want to rent a bouncy castle for your kids birthday TWENTY PERCENT You go to your small coffee shop 20% tax for their leased POS system. 20% if they rent their cappuccino machine 35% in taxes to rent a car in Chicago Any cloud storage or SAAS 20% if you do business in the city What else?
Jake Sheridan@JakeSheridan_21h
NEW: We have the key details about Mayor Brandon Johnson's Chicago budget proposal. Another corporate head tax, with rebates in poorer areas. Borrowing $480 million to pay for police lawsuits. A PPLT tax hike to net $234 million. More in @chicagotribune: chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Mayor Brandon Johnson proposing corporate head tax again, sources say

Mayor Brandon Johnson will again propose Chicago hit big corporations with an employee head tax — with an exemption in poor parts of the city.

chicagotribune.com
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“Corporations who are RAN,” says the former educator. 🤦
Mayor Brandon Johnson
@ChicagosMayorOct 20
A millionaire's tax in Illinois would relieve working Chicagoans' property taxes and help fully fund our public schools.
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ceo's are not good always good at economics, example 99999
James Medlock@jdcmedlockOct 19
"And I think we should have inheritance taxes that get close to 100 percent at some level. I would pay them." Go off king 🫡
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Daniel Tobon@tobonfor35Oct 19
It’s official: I’m on the ballot in the race for 35th Ward Alderman. Thank you to all volunteers and residents of the 35th Ward who helped gather and sign petitions to make this happen.
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Damn it the head tax failing is allowing us to grow ugh
B Talent@minc798Oct 19
NYC based law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has leased 94K sq ft of space in Fulton Market for their 1st Chicago office At 167 N Green St, it takes up space previously leased to MoLo Solutions. MoLo will move to the 11th floor due to space downsizing chicagobusiness.com/real-est…

Law firm inks deal for big Fulton Market office

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has leased nearly 94,000 square feet for its first Chicago office, continuing the neighborhood’s evolution into a corporate hub with white-collar professional services...

chicagobusiness.com
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Chicago Tribune reports new UChicago/NORC polling: Brandon Johnson Job Approval: ✅️ Approve: 22% 🚫 Disapprove: 53% Excitement About Potential Mayoral Candidates: Alexi Giannoulias: 59% Susana Mendoza: 46% No polling memo yet publicly available. – at Chicago, IL
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I like how the quote literally points out European airlines have five times less training hours than American ones without any worse safety outcomes and Stoller just cannot even comprehend the thing he is quoting because his brain is mush and rage
Matt Stoller
@matthewstollerOct 18
Matt Yglesias wants you to die in a plane crash, apparently. nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opini…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Yglesias argues US 1500-hr pilot rule (vs Europe ~200) is job protection raising fares, not safety. Europe has comparable safety per IATA. He says he wants no crashes, just to end a pretextual rule. Colgan pilots exceeded 1500 hrs. iata.org/en/pressroom/2… x.com/mattyglesias/s…
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Peter Wolf
@peterawolfOct 18
Are podcasting microphones powered by some radioactive element that causes brain damage?
Sam Seder@SamSederOct 18
In Maine, Michigan and Minnesota we are watching the Democratic Establishment’s hand picked candidates lose and then either actively or passively undermine the party and or their nominee. This is an abject failure by the Democratic leadership.
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Peter Wolf
@peterawolfOct 18
People saying "the rioters are all Muslims" or "the rioters are all migrants" should be treated with enormous suspicion AT BEST. Especially given that their criteria for both seems to be "has dark skin" in a country where 15-20% of the population isn't white.
Bird on Fire 🔥
@nobodyknows2322Oct 18
Here's the thing about the French riots seemingly not sparking a contagion either in Britain or on the rest of the Continent; if this was all Islamist, then why isn't it happening elsewhere ?
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Peter Wolf
@peterawolfOct 18
At a certain point, the hard-left in Western democracies needs to wean itself off of exalting and replicating tactics employed by revolutionary movements to overthrow archaic autocracies and rickety provisional governments crippled by wartime emergencies over a century ago.
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CHANNEL TN
@CHANNEL_TN_Oct 18
The best hire we’ve had in YEARS
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This whole sequence was legendary. One of the best Neyland Effect moments that I’ve ever seen.
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300,000 Jews call Chicago home. Since Mayor Brandon Johnson took office, antisemitic hate crimes in the city have jumped 58%. His response? He called Jewish requests for added security “segregation politics.” He appointed people with records of Holocaust inversion and sympathy for Hamas. 🧵
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This 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Matt Robinson
@mattrobinsonOct 17
You claim Illinois has "more people working than ever," but the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms the state labor force shrank by over 80,000 workers in the last year alone. In reality, Illinois has 200,000 fewer employed residents than it did 20 years ago. Worse, independent reports show Illinois ranks 44th in job growth under your tenure. You only added a net 9,400 private-sector jobs while expanding bloated government payrolls by 36,600 to paper over the damage.
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Breaking Update: Polls are predicting a blue wave, but that's not what early voting is showing (updated for last 3 days with movement show by arrows) REPUBLICANS BEATING EXPECTATIONS: 🔴 Florida 🔴 Oregon REPUBLICANS HOLDING STRONG: 🔴 Michigan 🔴 Arizona 🔴 Nevada ⬇️ 🔴 Maine ⬆️ NEUTRAL: 🔵/🔴 Ohio 🔵/🔴 Wisconsin 🔵/🔴 Georgia ⬇️ BLUE WAVE HAPPENING: 🔵 Virginia BLUE TSUNAMI: 🔵 North Carolina 🔵 Iowa 🔵 Kansas ⬇️ Detailed explanations below and where you disagree let me know in the comments
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