John Amdor

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It

Friends! Readers! Countrymen! The paperback version of my book is out today. Please buy it: bookshop.org/p/books/carm...

I think in honor of Gov. Edgar.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MONTRESSOR

Pretty good morning to #bikethedrive and talk to people about saving transit. #fixitfundit #revenuesandreform

Beat Back Trump’s Attack on the Pretrial Fairness Act! President Trump has said he wants to end the Pretrial Fairness Act and bring back money bail in Illinois. We are asking people from across the state to call on their legislators and Governor Pritzker ...

President Trump has issued an executive order aimed at forcing states that have ended or reduced the use of money bail in the pretrial process to reverse those policies.

Tell Governor Pritzker & your legislators to defend the Pretrial Fairness Act: actionnetwork.org/letters/beat...

You'll forgive me for thinking a midcentury nepobaby and a guy who got a sweetheart non-prosecution deal for an off-the-books "loan" while serving as a Cabinet secretary are perhaps not the people we want designing our political structures.

My kingdom for a bipartisan group of septuagenarian Illinois politicians nursing decades-long grievances against Pat Quinn who will pool their resources to repeal the Cutback Amendment.

I'm all for change if things are actually getting improved!

After a summer-long evaluation, I regret to report that ilga.gov sucks now.

Things that would be useful:
1) Audio/video archive
2) Hyperlinked ILCS crossreferences
3) Committee/tracked bill notifications

Things that aren't useful:
1) Clicking multiple times for things instead of a single click.

golly its great to be back in springfield with so many fellow breakfast enthusiasts

🚍 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.