John Lloyd
@boyonabike62.bsky.social
History professor, transit and active transportation, housing, climate justice, Dodger fan.
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The Trump administration moves to strip 50,000 agency staff of civil service protections & give himself the power to fire them without just cause.
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Trump admin moves to finalize return of Schedule F
Officials estimate that around 50,000 federal workers will be stripped of their civil service protections beginning in around a month, as unions, employee associations and good government groups decry...
www.govexec.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The Trump administration moves to strip 50,000 agency staff of civil service protections & give himself the power to fire them without just cause.
This...
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
This...
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I respect Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, but this is BS. “I was raised — by a man who served our country for 30 years — to respect the highest office in our country.”
No, your father took an oath to defend the Constitution, and the man you’re shaking hands with is violating that same oath.
No, your father took an oath to defend the Constitution, and the man you’re shaking hands with is violating that same oath.
Dodgers plan to attend White House following latest World Series championship
President Trump is planning to host the Dodgers to celebrate their most recent World Series championship, the White House confirmed Friday morning.
sports.yahoo.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I respect Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, but this is BS. “I was raised — by a man who served our country for 30 years — to respect the highest office in our country.”
No, your father took an oath to defend the Constitution, and the man you’re shaking hands with is violating that same oath.
No, your father took an oath to defend the Constitution, and the man you’re shaking hands with is violating that same oath.
This is a huge problem, not helped by media coverage that also doesn’t understand the differences or make distinctions between e-bikes and e-motos.
They have not even been able to clearly articulate that many/most of the loudest complaints don't even involve e-bikes! The public, lawmakers, cops—they all have no clue of the basic differences between an e-bike and an electric motorcycle.
February 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
This is a huge problem, not helped by media coverage that also doesn’t understand the differences or make distinctions between e-bikes and e-motos.
To MAGA, GOP voters are the only “real” Americans. The rest are criminals, terrorists, insurrectionists, and/or not white. They simply can’t understand how anyone doesn’t worship their POS dictator.
DHS posts on Facebook about how “Americans” OVERWHELMINGLY support what Trump, Noem, and ICE are doing, citing a poll of “likely GOP voters” who, presumably, are the only Americans whose opinions matter anymore.
February 5, 2026 at 3:33 PM
To MAGA, GOP voters are the only “real” Americans. The rest are criminals, terrorists, insurrectionists, and/or not white. They simply can’t understand how anyone doesn’t worship their POS dictator.
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If Schumer’s view is that ICE needs to unmask and be accountable for their actions, then he should just move onto abolition because that’s the core of what ICE is: an unaccountable secret police. If you take away the unaccountability and the secrecy, it’s nothing.
February 5, 2026 at 12:37 PM
If Schumer’s view is that ICE needs to unmask and be accountable for their actions, then he should just move onto abolition because that’s the core of what ICE is: an unaccountable secret police. If you take away the unaccountability and the secrecy, it’s nothing.
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Strong endorse for this line of thinking. I worked the polls 2020-24 and learned SO MUCH about the existing safeguards. I love it, and can bore you with a full treatise on how Virginia's elections are secure. (I missed 2025 because life got in the way and I missed the deadline to renew my oath.)
If you're nervous about the midterms, channel that energy into helping secure them.
as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.
February 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Strong endorse for this line of thinking. I worked the polls 2020-24 and learned SO MUCH about the existing safeguards. I love it, and can bore you with a full treatise on how Virginia's elections are secure. (I missed 2025 because life got in the way and I missed the deadline to renew my oath.)
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Oh look, exactly what we said was going to happen when Schumer caved on the shutdown
Top Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Negotiators Say Talks to Restore ACA Subsidies Likely Dead
New, higher health-insurance bills are kicking in for many households.
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Oh look, exactly what we said was going to happen when Schumer caved on the shutdown
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I was wearing hi vis when a motorist drove into me. Passengers in the car got out to tell me the driver was really upset because she didn't see me. I didn't have much sympathy as I was picking gravel out of my hands.
I was visible. She didn't look.
I was visible. She didn't look.
The hi viz will work great when I'm hit by a motorist looking at their phone.
February 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I was wearing hi vis when a motorist drove into me. Passengers in the car got out to tell me the driver was really upset because she didn't see me. I didn't have much sympathy as I was picking gravel out of my hands.
I was visible. She didn't look.
I was visible. She didn't look.
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How are these reforms when most of these are already DHS policy or literally in the Constitution? Clearly the problem is not a lack of rules.
February 5, 2026 at 6:57 AM
How are these reforms when most of these are already DHS policy or literally in the Constitution? Clearly the problem is not a lack of rules.
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Okay, so we've got:
1. Already the law
2. Unenforceable
3. Already the law
4. Already the law
5. Preempted by Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo decision
6. Already the law
7. Already the law
8. Already the law
9. Already DHS policy + unenforceable
10. Already the law
So, nothing.
1. Already the law
2. Unenforceable
3. Already the law
4. Already the law
5. Preempted by Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo decision
6. Already the law
7. Already the law
8. Already the law
9. Already DHS policy + unenforceable
10. Already the law
So, nothing.
February 5, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Okay, so we've got:
1. Already the law
2. Unenforceable
3. Already the law
4. Already the law
5. Preempted by Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo decision
6. Already the law
7. Already the law
8. Already the law
9. Already DHS policy + unenforceable
10. Already the law
So, nothing.
1. Already the law
2. Unenforceable
3. Already the law
4. Already the law
5. Preempted by Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo decision
6. Already the law
7. Already the law
8. Already the law
9. Already DHS policy + unenforceable
10. Already the law
So, nothing.
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I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car
cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities
if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars
cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities
if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car
cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities
if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars
cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities
if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars
Landlord’s a snitch
February 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Landlord’s a snitch
Same
I still care as much about bike lanes as I ever did there's just a lot going on.
February 4, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Same
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very powerful. the moment where the audience murmurs because they get it—wow
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM
very powerful. the moment where the audience murmurs because they get it—wow
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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
F Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
WaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
F Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
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1000 passengers/ hr? That’s cute. Here’s what 40000 passengers/ hr looks like:
February 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM
1000 passengers/ hr? That’s cute. Here’s what 40000 passengers/ hr looks like:
If there is a good NIMBYism, this is it. ICE OUT.
This is civic action.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
The overflow room at the Surprise City Council meeting has also filled up (it has a 500 person capacity). I can’t tell how many are still outside but we can hear them chanting “ICE out” in here so it seems like quite a lot.
February 4, 2026 at 1:40 PM
If there is a good NIMBYism, this is it. ICE OUT.
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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The Trump administration's demand for sensitive voter data poses serious risks. Listen to The Briefing with Michael Waldman to learn more: bit.ly/4a0Lilv
February 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
The Trump administration's demand for sensitive voter data poses serious risks. Listen to The Briefing with Michael Waldman to learn more: bit.ly/4a0Lilv
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DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting.
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’
Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 AM
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
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Don’s right. Let’s impeach him.
February 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Don’s right. Let’s impeach him.
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If a New Democrat Congress fails to prevent this from happening again, another Trump will likely rise to power. History is forgotten, and we discuss our forefathers’ attempts to prevent destruction, but they couldn’t foresee this. Criminals should not be allowed to run for any office. End of story.🔄
February 1, 2026 at 7:46 PM
If a New Democrat Congress fails to prevent this from happening again, another Trump will likely rise to power. History is forgotten, and we discuss our forefathers’ attempts to prevent destruction, but they couldn’t foresee this. Criminals should not be allowed to run for any office. End of story.🔄