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Hochul a 'no' on Mamdani's free bus plan; 'yes' on statewide universal child care

BERNADETTE HOGAN NYC

PUBLISHED 6:22 PM ET NOV. 08, 2025

During the final day of the Somos conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gov. Kathy Hochul threw cold water on one of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s key policy proposals: free MTA bus rides.

“I cannot set forth a plan right now that takes money out of a system that relies on the fares of the buses and the subways. But can we find a path to make it more affordable for people who need help? Of course, we can,” Hochul said during a press conference with reporters, referencing her prior deals with the MTA to provide billions for the authority’s next capital plan, as well as other investments like cameras on subway cars.

What You Need To Know

Gov. Kathy Hochul threw cold water on Mamdani's free bus program Saturday, referencing her prior deals with the MTA to provide billions for the authority’s next capital plan, as well as other investments like cameras on subway cars

Hochul said she’s is looking at expanding a universal child care program statewide — but the total price tag is $15 billion

Mamdani addressed concerns that the business community and New Yorkers who did not vote for him have shared about his status as a democratic socialist

Hochul said she’s also looking at expanding a universal child care program statewide — but the total price tag is $15 billion.

“Child care I already committed to,” she said. “I’m committed to this as mom governor, I get it, but also to do it statewide right now, it’s about $15 billion — the entire amount of my reserves.”

Hochul said she prefers to phase in an expansion first with certain age groups and “geographically” underserved communities.

The governor then promised a resolution by the start of the new year in January 2026.

Meanwhile, Mamdani addressed concerns that the business community and New Yorkers who did not vote for him have shared about his status as a democratic socialist.

“I’ve said throughout the entirety of this campaign that this is a campaign to bring the struggles of working New Yorkers back to the focus of our politics, and to ensure that City Hall is seen as a place that not only recognizes those struggles but also delivers on the needs of those working people,” he said at a separate availability with reporters.

One key potential ally, state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, the top Democrat in the chamber, who expressed a willingness to back Mamdani’s proposals, like a tax hike.

“It’s November. It’s still kinda early. We gotta see how things fit inside of the state budget. But I think there’s a willingness. I don’t want to speak for the other two partners in this. But we want Zohran, the mayor-elect, to be successful,” he told reporters Friday evening.

Meanwhile, a leadership showdown in the City Council is underway, as current Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is term-limited and several Democratic members are vying to take her place.

“There are so many areas of commonality around universal child care, about building more affordable housing. I’m really excited about the council having a proactive vision,” Manhattan Councilwoman Julie Menin said.

“I’m excited about the big, broad coalition I’ve continued to build throughout my career, and in this race it’s no different,” Crystal Hudson, a Brooklyn councilwoman, told NY1.

“I’ve met with almost every single council member, many of them in their home districts to meet them where they’re at, and tell them that I’m the one that’s actually gonna bring change,” Christoper Marte, a Manhattan councilman, said.

“I think it’s really important as an outer borough member, that is starting from a really great foundation of what working families are looking for, to be leading the rest of the city in that way,” said Amanda Farias, a councilwoman representing the Bronx.

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/11/08/hochul-anoon-mamdani-s-free-bus-plan-yeson-statewide-universal-childcar

NYC is still fucked and so is Kathy and the Muslim Mayor

>>23839180

łкцнכ

>>23839267

comets…

and you are wrong.

everything matters.

==How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2

A new major Windows 11 release means a new guide for cleaning up the OS.==

Andrew CunninghamNov 5, 2025 10:42 AMcleanup on aisle 11

It’s that time of year again—temperatures are dropping, leaves are changing color, and Microsoft is gradually rolling out another major yearly update to Windows 11.

The Windows 11 25H2 update is relatively minor compared to last year’s 24H2 update (the “25” here is a reference to the year the update was released, while the “H2” denotes that it was released in the second half of the year, a vestigial suffix from when Microsoft would release two major Windows updates per year). The 24H2 update came with some major under-the-hood overhauls of core Windows components and significant performance improvements for the Arm version; 25H2 is largely 24H2, but with a rolled-over version number to keep it in line with Microsoft’s timeline for security updates and tech support.

But Microsoft’s continuous update cadence for Windows 11 means that even the 24H2 version as it currently exists isn’t the same one Microsoft released a year ago.

To keep things current, we’ve combed through our Windows cleanup guide, updating it for the current build of Windows 11 25H2 (26200.7019) to help anyone who needs a fresh Windows install or who is finally updating from Windows 10 now that Microsoft is winding down support for it. We’ll outline dozens of individual steps you can take to clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11, which has taken an especially user-hostile attitude toward advertising and forcing the use of other Microsoft products.

As before, this is not a guide about creating an extremely stripped-down, telemetry-free version of Windows; we stick to the things that Microsoft officially supports turning off and removing. There are plenty of experimental hacks and scripts that take it a few steps farther, and/or automate some of the steps we outline here—NTDev’s Tiny11 project is one—but removing built-in Windows components can cause unexpected compatibility and security problems, and Tiny11 has historically had issues with basic table-stakes stuff like “installing security updates.”

These guides capture moments in time, and regular monthly Windows patches, app updates downloaded through the Microsoft Store, and other factors all can and will cause small variations from our directions. You may also see apps or drivers specific to your PC’s manufacturer. This guide also doesn’t cover the additional bloatware that may come out of the box with a new PC, starting instead with a freshly installed copy of Windows from a USB drive.

Table of Contents

Starting with Setup: Avoiding Microsoft account sign-in

The most contentious part of Windows 11’s setup process relative to earlier Windows versions is that it mandates a Microsoft account sign-in, with none of the readily apparent “limited account” fallbacks that existed in Windows 10. As of Windows 11 22H2, that’s true of both the Home and Pro editions.

There are two reasons I can think of not to sign in with a Microsoft account. The first is that you want nothing to do with a Microsoft account, thank you very much. Signing in makes Windows bombard you with more Microsoft 365, OneDrive, and Game Pass subscription upsells since all you need to do is add them to an account that already exists, and Windows setup will offer subscriptions to each if you sign in first.

The second—which describes my situation—is that you do use a Microsoft account because it offers some handy benefits like automated encryption of your local drive (having those encryption keys tied to my account has saved me a couple of times) or syncing of browser info and some preferences. But you don’t want to sign in at setup, either because you don’t want to be bothered with the extra upsells or you prefer your user folder to be located at “C:UsersAndrew” rather than “C:Users.”

Regardless of your reasoning, if you don’t want to bother with sign-in at setup, you have a few different options:

Use the command line

During Windows 11 Setup, after selecting a language and keyboard layout but before connecting to a network, hit Shift+F10 to open the command prompt (depending on your keyboard, you may also need to hit the Fn key before pressing F10). Type OOBEBYPASSNRO, hit Enter, and wait for the PC to reboot.

When it comes back, click “I don’t have Internet” on the network setup screen, and you’ll have recovered the option to use “limited setup” (aka a local account) again, like older versions of Windows 10 and 11 offered.

This option has been removed from some Windows 11 testing builds, but it still works as of this writing in 25H2. We may see this option removed in a future update to Windows.

For Windows 11 Pro

Using the Rufus tool…

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/

>>23839271

>everything matters.

Too bad for "everything".

>>23839044

Fuck Russia. If you are dumb enough to buy socialism, communism, democratic socialism,

Burn.

Non Servium

Deep Purple go awards for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4fDCwDiWJQ

>>23839262

Maybe Kash’s eyes don’t focus, her speech the night before was too perfect for someone in their 20s. He’s gonna crash and burn being director, and be revealed he’s vulnerable to enemies.Unless he knows it and he is on a mission

Semper Phi

Happy CCL

o7

>>23839044

Negotiating with Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40

>>23838901, >>23838903 pb notables (SHAMEFUL)

>AI technology race is new 'cold war' between US and China that could have devastating consequences

FFS… "AI" is no less and no more than a glorified search engine

with a user interface that employs speech recognition

and speech synthesis for its input/output

rather than simply list search results

it "summarizes" them and "synthesizes" a response that mimics human composition

but it's really just AUTOMATED PLAGIARISM ON STEROIDS

"AI" has NOT solved any problems that humans are unable to solve

if you ask it to, it will simply summarize why the problem is insoluble

all problems were insoluble once

until a CONSCIOUS, SENTIENT, INTELLIGENT HUMAN solved them

something this bullshit passed off as "AI" will NEVER do

people here are ALLEGEDLY the most IT savvy people anywhere

so WTAF is this BULLSHIT in notables?

"AI" is the un-funny punchline to a bad joke

it has ZERO useful applications in the real world, EXCEPT ONE

it's great at mining BIG DATA

the kind of BIG DATA gov'ts and megacorps have on the peons

and the REAL purpose of all the massively WASTEFUL "data centers"

will be to surveil and micromanage every moment of our lives

as consumer-units in their dystopian global techno-police state

>>23839274

>>23839280

what does that story have to do with Russia?

observation is key to memory.

memory is key to Learning.

Learning is key to comprehending.

Comprehending is key to Solution.

Solution is key to Question.

Question is key to Mind.

Mind is key to Eternity.

MITOW

>>23839282

Riddle that. The black guelphs failed on every measure.

>>23839281

>the REAL purpose of all the massively WASTEFUL "data centers" will be to surveil and micromanage every moment of our lives as consumer-units in their dystopian global techno-police state

Truth. Succinctly stated.

>>23839239

Just think about how much their liars cost when Donald takes a position, then steps back. Bwahahaha

President Trump Appears for Extensive Interview with Laura Ingraham

November 10, 2025 | Sundance |

President Trump gave an extensive interview to Laura Ingraham, one of the primary advocates for the Ron DeSantis alligator emoji tribe. Ingraham did her best passive aggressive routine, positioning herself to antagonize yet appeal to the base of the DeSantis voter.

The resulting interview is transparent in the agenda it represents.

There is currently a rather extensive political operation afootthat has been rolling out for the better part of this year. The objective of the coalition is to fracture the MAGA base in asimilar fashion to how the Tea Party movement was compromised in 2012.(anons we’ve got work to do, who can coordinate and manage this, we cannot let this happen)

In March 2016,the same group now undermining President Trump and the America First movement, assembled in Sea Island, Georgia to plot how to stop or manage Donald Trump. While they have moderated their strategies, the collective goal of that group has never changed. This is the core influence group currently attempting to divide the MAGA movement, with the end objective to position Ron DeSantis.The group includes billionaires, tech industrialists, media brands, the former political Cruz Crewand the current group of alligator emojis (DeSantis operatives).

I will be outlining the entire dynamic in a research post very soon.

Be aware they will never change, the must destroy MAGA!

16:54

https://youtu.be/7juiv6qrYds

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/10/president-trump-appears-for-extensive-interview-with-laura-ingraham/

Dont forget DeSantis didn’t oppose Bidan putting him in jail. This is real. DeSantis imo is aligned with the Bush Clan let’s see what happens to the Bush Clan in a couple of months. Oh they forget the Commander in Chief Knows everything

>>23839286

One of the unstated real purposes fer sure.

Massive technological leaps are also in play.

>>23839281

>FFS… "AI" is no less and no more than a glorified search engine

Traffic - Mr. Fantasy BBC spiced two video together to lie about what Trump said on Jan 6

Fuckers

https://rumble.com/embed/v6zbfm4/?pub=4

>>23839292

As long as it is programed to lie it is worthless.

>>23839215

source

$15.4 trillion approx budget for 2026..

>>23839298

>>23839215

>source

>$15.4 trillion approx budget for 2026..

That's Billion with a B.

>>23839299

tks for the correction.

ignore call for source

although what the budget is for is still worth considering.

its tax payer money

so stop playing taxes.

its like a prisone planet.

>>23839296

>As long as it is programed to lie it is worthless.

AI doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie

IT'S NOTHING BUT A SEARCH ENGINE

>>23839295

Leftist greatest fear?

The public accepting they mass murdered them for a coup on Orange man bad.

humanism

got you where you are.

reality is far different from your beliefs.

>>23839281

[AI]

>>23839311

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Anonymous ID: Eka5Om1K No.147175452📁

Oct 29 2017 22:20:11 (EST)

Key:

Military Intelligence v FBI CIA NSA

No approval or congressional oversight

State Secrets upheld under SC

Who is the Commander and Chief of the military?

Under what article can the President impose MI take over investigations for the 3 letter agencies? What conditions must present itself? Why is this so VERY important? Who surrounds POTUS? They lost this very important power _ the one area of the govt not corrupt and directly serves POTUS.

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Anonymous ID: Eka5Om1K No.147181191📁

Oct 29 2017 23:26:53 (EST)

Military Intelligence ref above is the absolute biggest inside drop this board will ever receive.

Now think about why Antifa plays right into the plan? Always ahead. Good guys are winning.

>>23839304

Vid is good, but ignores that Putin has employed the "irredentist" playbook multiple times, and is an unreconstructed KGB agent who poses as a defender of the faith while forcing his soliders to murder their own comrades.

: NOVEMBER-~11. 11/11: PORTAL-SCREENING: [RE]PLAY-BRIDGE-EXPO-~DALLAS:

https://www.youtube.com/live/7t7gTCnx-GQ?si=9PZ_g-bH6OqCLoB7

>>23839315

LISTEN TO DJT ANSWER THE QUESTION ABOUT MTG

Note: Monday 10th ambassador to india and the asia pacific.

reporter kaitlain: Whats your response to mtg that you should be focusing on american rather than solving the worlds problems.

timestamp 22.30 to end. listen carefully, trump explains why he is the worlds president.

total runtime: 28.44

===

President Trump Participates in a Swearing-in Ceremony for the Ambassador to the Republic of India

https://youtu.be/gd4xJwjyW6w

>>23839033

TY BAKER

Still here or is bread ghosted?

>>23839312