John Amdor

🚍 After 1,600 hours of community outreach & planning, IL now has the legislation we need to fix & fund our transit system. 🚊As our Executive Director Amy Rynell says, it’s now time to get this over the finish line – before devastating cuts begin. Learn more: activetrans.org/blog/nita-ri...

I do still appreciate the course at DePaul where you learn about the history of a neighborhood and do service work with a local org. It taught me how to learn about the city.

A scene from "Community" season 3 where Britta tells the anthropomorphic embodiment of Subway restaurants that he should read Orwell's "1984." He replies he has, it's a great book that really awakened him in high school, and he thinks kids should be forced to read it.

Contrary to Trump's rants, Illinois criminal justice reforms have been effective Ending cash bail doesn’t mean dangerous people are roaming the streets. It means that a judge decides whether a person should be released from jail pending trial based on risk and not wealth.

"Contrary to Trump's rants, Illinois criminal justice reforms have been effective"‪

Thank you @repgreggjohnson.bsky.social‬ & @repguzzardi39.bsky.social‬ for speaking the truth & defending the Pretrial Fairness Act: chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

Disappointed to report it appears it's only available during happy hour in the upper floor of the lounge car.

Sure do!

A hand holds a can of Coors Banquet aboard a train looking out the window into a green soybean field.

Out of office.

It's a perfectly normal thing to expect from a first order subnational administrative division.

Pass. Let's just hash it all out in the 2029 Con-Con.

Republicans Exploit Megan Bos’s Death to Once Again Spread Misinformation about the Pretrial Fairness Act - Coalition to End Money Bond Our heart goes out to Megan Bos’s family. Losing a child is unimaginable, and we cannot begin to comprehend the pain her family must be experiencing. Unfortunately, as has been the norm for those who ...

We are disappointed but unsurprised to see Illinois Republicans & President Trump exploiting a Megan Bos's death to spread misinformation about the Pretrial Fairness Act.

Read our full statement:

Also, just…it is the summer of 2025, and the crisis that a bunch of self-described progressives in an immigrant-heavy blue city neighborhood are volunteering 100s or even 1000s of hours collectively to fight is…preventing seven story buildings with affordable housing

Oh, it's been on every morning in our house.

Uh-huh. tlthis is gold

All I know about it is the Wikipedia article but I'd see a musical about the 1966 World Cup. I'm not sure he'd like it, though.

Did Data ever actually kill anyone other than Borg? I'd subscribe to an AI that destroyed any AI that bothered me.

Good ol' floors.

Oh, man. This takes me back.

Tour de France 2025: The Video Game 👾🎮

Anyhow, see you all in a bit!

En route to this rally, I took the #4 to Roosevelt. Walked to catch a #130. Two #12 buses pulled up. Seven stops from the start of their route.

Annoying to see but didn't affect me. Then a guy trying to get to a job fair at UIC asked me when the next #12 or #18 showed up. It was a 20 minute wait.

Jackson Potter and Kate Lowe: Public education and transit benefit Chicagoans but aren’t being fully funded Fully funded public schools and public transit are fully possible in Illinois.

Extremely disheartening to see well-meaning advocates trying to blow up the hard-fought compromises on regional reform that both the House and the Senate largely agreed upon because of more city-vs.-suburbs provincialism. The reforms are intended to justify the transformational revenue investment.

Let's do this.

God, I love that song.

My family wouldn't be who we are today if 100 years ago a couple of immigrants hadn't been able to find work in meatpacking houses in South Omaha. What an absolute disgrace.

num num num nom tastes like summer

Pretty sure at least one pot of gold is at 63rd and Cottage, looks like we solved the fiscal cliff. Great work everyone.

Honestly it seems pretty much the same. To read the full text of bills on your phone you've got to look at the PDF. That seems like the biggest change I've come across so far.

Nothing gold can stay

An announcement on ILGA.gov that they are transitioning to the new site.

So long, beautiful. Nobody loved you like I did.

"We have seized the opportunity to push for long-needed rider-centric reforms to build the transit system for the 21st Century... Far too many stakeholders in this conversation were more concerned about protecting or expanding their own power and trying to make someone else pay for it." -Don Harmon