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Rick Shenkman

@rickshenkman.bsky.social
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Historian’s can’t predict the future. We can’t even agree on the past. Journalist & historian. Author of POLITICAL ANIMALS: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics (Basic Books).

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Rick Shenkman @rickshenkman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Does Trump know Spain and parts of Africa are in this hemisphere? Please hide this map!
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Rick Shenkman @rickshenkman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Picture of ICE in action! Oh sorry. It’s a pic from the NYT of Hamas in the Gaza strip today.
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Rick Shenkman @rickshenkman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Dictators are now copying Trump
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Rick Shenkman @rickshenkman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The stated policy of the new German chancellor is to defend Europe from America.
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Rick Shenkman @rickshenkman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I’m shocked. Historians didn’t make the list?
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Rick Shenkman @rickshenkman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Remember all those news stories about how voters were feeling bad about the economy? And how Dems were supposed to take their feelings to heart because, well, this was voters' lived experience? Oops. Turns out it was just partisan politics. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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