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Zachary Lamb

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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some of my recent research on manufactured home parks as urbanism is featured in an APA email / blog today: www.planning.org/blog/9335219...
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Renewing the Promise of Manufactured Home Parks
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how manufactured home parks can offer a dense, connected, and community-oriented form of affordable housing, and how planners can preserve and improve these often-overlooked ...
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sfbike.org @sfbike.org · 07/10/2026
Look at these glorious gates, part of the first permanent 'School Street' in New York City! 🤩 You absolutely LOVE to see sturdy infrastructure demonstrating the city's commitment to safe, sustainable, and joy-filled spaces for kids to play before and after school! www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...
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NYC establishes first permanent ‘School Street’ with new swing gates on block near two Lower Manhattan schools | amNewYork
New York City officials gathered with advocates outside of a Lower Manhattan school on Tuesday to usher in the Big Apple's first permanent "School Street."
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I never met Jack, but he sounds like an amazing man. Cheers to the quietly radical community builders everywhere! Remembering Jack Sawyer, who founded co-ops that gave over 100 Berkeley families affordable homes to own www.berkeleyside.org/2026/10/02/r...
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Remembering Jack Sawyer, who founded co-ops that gave over 100 Berkeley families affordable homes to own
He spent five decades financing, organizing, building, buying and advising the Parker Street Limited Equity Co-op, the Oregon Park Apartments Co-op, Fort Awesome/Cooperative Roots, the Golden Gate Co-...
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Tony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is really important work, looking forward to reading it!
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our amazing RAs who did really dogged work to track down ownership information and puzzle through data problems. Thank you to: Nick Grosh, Mary McGee, Freya Tan, Dongni Ma, and Keyanna Ortiz-Sedeno.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was methodologically tricky and out of my research comfort zone, so it would have been impossible without: my coauthors Zoe Hamstead and Victoria Beckley and...
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UNEVEN ACCESS TO NON-PRIVATE PARKS: ROCs and other non-private owners (NGO and public) control 10% of lots, but ROC ownership is far more common in areas that are whiter and wealthier than MHCs generally.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Highlights: MHCs are all over but most common in areas that grew in the mid/late 20th century. >90% of MHC lots are controlled by private for-profit companies; CONSOLIDATION: The largest 10 owners control >15% of lots. More consolidated than multifamily and single family rentals nationally;
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW (FREE OPEN ACCESS) ARTICLE! Layers and layers: complexity, obfuscation, and consolidation in ownership of manufactured housing communities. We built an 'ownership census' to identify and classify the owners of California's 5000+ MHCs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Layers and layers: complexity, obfuscation, and consolidation in ownership of manufactured housing communities
Millions of US households live in manufactured housing communities (MHCs) where they typically own their homes, but not the land. While MHC owners’ actions, from setting lot rents to community clos...
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Bike East Bay @bikeeastbay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're hiring a part-time Advocacy Coordinator-- please share widely!
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heads up that there is a bug with the BikeLink app today which prevents people from logging in, even if they already have a bike stowed in a locker. I have confirmed that simply deleting and reinstalling the app fixes the issue. Please share!
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
urbanaffairsassociation.org/2026/08/31/a...
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Housing Planning and Policy- Department of City and Regional Planning (University of California Berkeley)
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Housing Planning and Policy- Department of City and Regional Planning Position overview Position title: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in in Housing…
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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hurricane Helene Washed His Wife Away From Their Mobile Home. Now New Residents Live on the Same Land. Residents of a riverfront trailer park have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again.
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Hurricane Helene Washed His Wife Away From Their Mobile Home. Now New Residents Live on the Same Land.
Residents of this riverfront trailer park have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap means many face repeated flodding.
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Berkeley Neighbors for Housing and Climate Action @bnhca.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s election time again! We’re thrilled to partner again with UC’s CalDems and @walkbikeberk.bsky.social! Berkeley voters, clear your calendars for September 10 and 17, 6-8 pm!
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 20/08/2026
The cohort of counties with the greatest support for Harris in 2024 presidential race had highest % of people commuting by transit, walking or biking. Inverse was true for counties with the strongest support for Trump, where driving to work predominated. www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/pol...
Share of commuters traveling to work by transit, walking, or biking, by presidential vote margin in 2024.Share of commuters traveling to work by driving alone, by presidential vote margin in 2024.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Berkeley Housing Faculty Search! The Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP) at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track position in urban planning with a focus on housing. Due: October 16, 2026 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05464
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Housing Planning and Policy- Department of City and Regional Planning
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Reminder: East Bay Kidical Mass is riding around Lake Merritt this Saturday, August 8th, starting at 10:30am! 🚲🔔‼️ Free stickers, bike bells, and safety vests for the kids. At the end, we'll have free treats for all riders (chicken & waffles, churros, and soft-serve ice cream). See you there!
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Lake Merritt Ride · Luma
A Kidical Mass bike ride is a large group ride for kids of all ages, family members, and supporters. We choose an easy route that anyone can ride, and ride as…
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In just joined! You can too!
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East Nashville Urban Design @urbaneastnash.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
$170 - 185k to come work in Nashville on transportation projects www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/5415099...
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Senior Director of Engineering - Choose How You Move in Nashville, TN | GovernmentJobs.com
Apply for Senior Director of Engineering - Choose How You Move position in Nashville, TN through GovernmentJobs.com. Join our team and become a part of Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson ...
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
AI growth for growth's sake + no protections for mobile home park renters = displacement and crushing financial loss and destabilization for folks who can least afford it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
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Bike East Bay @bikeeastbay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
North Berkeley's Hopkins protected bikeway debate is coming to a head (again!) with a vote at City Council this Tuesday, July 28. We & our local partners are in support of the council referral, and we encourage you to get involved too! Learn more here: BikeEastBay.org/Hopkins
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Hopkins Street Protected Bikeway Vote at Berkeley City Council - Bike East Bay
Show your support at the final, final, FINAL vote to approve a protected bikeway on Berkeley's Hopkins Street.
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
70+ postcards in support of a protected bikeway on Hopkins in N Berkeley were mailed out to the Mayor & City Council yesterday, including these great ones from area kids who want to get around on their own 2 wheels. Visit BikeEastBay.org/Hopkins to show your support too, before the July 28 vote!
Photo of a stack of postcards addressed to the Berkeley mayor and city council - top card is in a child’s handwriting reading “I want more bike lanez. From Kazi to Mayor Ishii (I’m 6 years old)”A selection of postcards from kids with cute cartoon drawings of people on bikes, and messages in support of a protected bikeway on Hopkins St in Berkeley
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
JUST PUBLISHED: The [*Open Access*] introduction for the forthcoming special issue of @urbanstudiesjournal.com on manufactured housing. Such fun to work on this with @andrewrumbach.bsky.social, Esther Sullivan & all the authors. doi.org/10.1177/0042... More to come as we approach the pub date.
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Manufacturing the urban: Situating manufactured housing and manufactured home communities in urban studies and charting a course for research - Zachary Lamb, Esther Sullivan, Andrew Rumbach, 2026
Manufactured housing (MH) provides a key source of affordable housing in the United States and elsewhere, including in Canada and Australia. In this editors’ in...
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Ross Bernet @rosszb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The absurdity of the Hopkins saga is what radicalized me and got me interested in engaging Berkeley politics in the first place. I’m running for D1 and safe streets is a core priority of mine. Climate, community, public safety and personal health: bike lanes are the way 💪🚲 Rossforberkeley.Com
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Sounds like a great pick! Berkeley taps ‘safe streets leader’ as new public works chief www.berkeleyside.org/2026/07/15/b...
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Berkeley taps ‘safe streets leader’ as new public works chief
Coming from Oakland and San Francisco, Jamie Parks will oversee Berkeley's infrastructure department.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Other contributors include: Emily Talen, George Galster, Jota Samper, Dan Silver, Colleen Chiu-Shee, Carmelo Ignaccolo.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The book brought together folks thinking about design, planning, & social inclusion in a bunch of settings, from new towns in China and Medellin settlements to Toronto suburbs, Sicily, & California mobile home parks. Many thanks to Tali, Larry, and all of the contributors for a wonderful volume.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The other chapter that I worked on was a collaboration with the wonderful Alessandro Aurigi and Vikas Mehta, in which we sought to draw insights from across the cases in the book to discern strategies for advancing inclusion through: Trust, Respect, Care, Agency, and Power.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My chapters include "Life Between Trailers: Enabling Inclusion in Mobile Home Parks." I consider how & why MHPs are so conducive to building community across difference. Some key elements: high-ish density, limited private realm; calm public life-supporting streets; and shared community spaces.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This wonderful book is now available for order & free Open Access download: www.routledge.com/Designing-Si... It is the product of a really fun and productive collaboration led by Tali Hatuka and Larry Vale.
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Designing Signals of Inclusion: A Framework for Fostering Shared Neighborhoods
In an age of increased polarization and fragmentation, improving the prospects for sharing neighborhoods matters more than ever. Focusing on urban design and planning at the neighborhood scale, this c...
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Great to see another California resident MHC purchase! I don't see folks on BlueSky to tag, but congratulations to the residents, CCCD, ROC USA, @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social law clinic students, and others who made this happen! www.aol.com/news/road-ow...
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The road to ownership: Salinas residents buy their mobile home park - AOL
Residents banned together, created a cooperative and closed escrow on Alisal Country Estates Mobile Home Park in Salinas.
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Last commentary in our Urban Studies special issue is out! Pullen et al. compare industrialized construction in Sweden (where IC is huge) & the US (where it's not). Great context for understanding manufactured housing's past & future. @andrewrumbach.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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A tale of two houses: Manufactured homes and industrialized construction in the U.S. and Sweden - Tyler Pullen, Jerker Lessing, Santiago Ossa, 2026
Communities in the U.S. face an intensifying housing affordability crisis driven in part by rising construction costs, skilled labor shortages, and stagnant pro...
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
More to come on the issue as a whole and the other great work therein once we get closer to the official publication date later this summer!
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Vinit Mukhija's commentary connects research on land tenure and precarity in manufactured home parks to rich research traditions on informal settlements and informal urbanization. Great linking of research across the Global South / North divide: doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Asher Ghertner's commentary connects the articles in the special issue to research on infrastructural violence, territorial stigma, and commoning and enclosure. Brilliant stuff and very much worth a read: doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Two new wonderful commentaries from an upcoming special issue of Urban Studies on manufactured housing and manufactured home communities (aka mobile home parks) edited by @andrewrumbach.bsky.social, Esther Sullivan, and I are newly in the world:
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A great story about folks mobilizing to save a community they love. 'San Lazaro is not temporary housing': Residents organize to buy their Boulder County mobile home park boulderreportinglab.org/2026/05/12/s...
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San Lazaro residents race to buy their Boulder County mobile home park before it’s sold
Residents are scrambling to assemble financing for the $42.5 million property, hoping resident ownership can protect hundreds of families from the displacement and rising rents.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!
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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Gubernatorial Candidates Housing Forum is happening today! You can watch some of the top candidates dive into their plans to address our housing crisis via the Ezra Klein Show’s livestream starting at 4:15pm: youtube.com/live/6HETwu7...
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California Gubernatorial Candidates Housing Forum | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The full issue edited by @zacharylamb.bsky.social, Esther Sullivan & myself will be published soon but if you care about housing issues you should read this terrific commentary by Asher Ghertner on manufactured home communities and urban marginality in the US: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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BART @bart.gov · 23/04/2026
Next Stop: Prom night. Break out the taffeta, tease up that hair, and dust off your dancing shoes. BART is hosting its first-ever prom at Rockridge Station Saturday, June 6, from 6pm to 10pm! All ages are welcome. Bring a date or don’t! Buy your tickets here 👇 www.railgoods.com/bart-prom-ti...
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Here’s a short, seven-minute documentary about East Bay Kidical Mass @ebkm.org, posted online for the first time. Enjoy, and hope to see you at a future ride! youtu.be/10CImzRMSu8
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Kidical Mass: A Family That Bikes Together
YouTube video by BIKEPACKING.com
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In other words, the war is one more reason to support opposition candidates, to organize, and to protest. May Day is the next big chance for Americans to do so. (14/14) indivisible.org/events/may-d...
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May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 08/04/2026
We’re hiring a housing and cities lead researcher! - Develop and drive pro-housing policy - Focus on state legislation in WA - $106-125k, plus 10% retirement
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Lead Researcher, Housing + Cities | Sightline Institute
Lead Researcher, Housing + Cities
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New York folks: go see some incredible live music and dance. www.pigeonwingdance.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Pigeonwing Dance | Home
A New York City-based contemporary dance company directed by Gabrielle Lamb. Discover our latest performances, films, and site-specific works.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
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