Reposted by Susan Philpott Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all. 250134144361
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 13/10/2026In the Spiderman: Homecoming scene at the Washington Monument, the park ranger is wearing a ball cap outside instead of a flat hat. 010
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's just history, Jason. We learn all about you menfolk 150
Reposted by Susan Philpott Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed. 673757638
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Strength training. Watching YouTube videos about people who live in their cars. And the Murdaughs, for some reason. 000
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If you're in DC, it's playing at Ford's Theatre starting September 10. 000
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The daily debate: stay and uphold what we can or leave. 120
Reposted by Susan Philpott Pamela Toler (she/her) @pdtoler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026One of the best parts of being a historian? Changing my mind. Sometimes one letter or one newspaper article sends me back to rethink everything I thought I knew. That's not failure. That's good history. 🗃️ 731971
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Reposting so I remember to read. I'm heading to Newport in September! 020
Reposted by Susan Philpott Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026In the past decade, more than 5,000 women have served in combat roles. And the occupation standards for these roles have always been gender neutral by law, despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s false insistence that requirements were lowered for women and that there were quotas made for women.19thnews.orgWomen have served in combat for a decade. Lawmakers want to protect that right.“As far as I’m concerned, the only person who doesn’t think that women should have the opportunity to serve in these roles is Hegseth,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono, a lead sponsor of a new bill. 0247
Reposted by Susan Philpott Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19/07/2026disco park ranger (wait for it) 113417
Reposted by Susan Philpott Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Today is Monday, July 13 Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell. All you fascists bound to lose ✊ 0205
Reposted by Susan Philpott Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Sent these to my therapist at 9 am. I’m totally normal, why do you ask?? 941451
Reposted by Susan Philpott Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain. 21817633
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026My friends and I put on a Bicentennial show for our parents. Then my dad took my brother and me to see the fireworks on the National Mall. 1140
Reposted by Susan Philpott Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This is wonderful. Finding a mystery daguerreotype with deep historical meaning. 1213331
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Ms.Duck seems to live and work somewhere close to BEPA. I wonder if she ever stops in. 000
Reposted by Susan Philpott Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026To all my queer and trans buds, even those I don’t know, if someone’s coming for you behind your identity, let me know so I can give them a real problem to handle. Being a problem is my speciality, and I’ve chosen to embrace it. Let me use this weapon on your behalf. 423423
Reposted by Susan Philpott Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 30/05/2026It's Joan of Arc's feast day today. Here's a poem for everyone who needs to remember that there's more to life than the fight. 1228965
Reposted by Susan Philpott Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Given the evisceration of the VRA, it's useful to listen to Coretta Scott King: “Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it every generation.” She understood nonviolent direct action was "militant" and essential and spent her entire life fighting. 123054
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 25/05/2026You don't see the 1913 Suffrage Procession as groundbreaking? 100
Reposted by Susan Philpott Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th! 291310781
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Chester is reminding me to enjoy the lovely weather. 0111
Reposted by Susan Philpott Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29/04/2026This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ 56265791810
Reposted by Susan Philpott The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 26/04/2026It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you." 3267311932
Reposted by Susan Philpott Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 16/04/2026FINALLY, an episode about alleged sex cults and weighing your own poop!! 2775260
Reposted by Susan Philpott Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive. 211111141951
Reposted by Susan Philpott Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026What a beautiful moment. 3853691376
Reposted by Susan Philpott Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 14/02/2026How to end an interview: In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud." Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner. 521266
Reposted by Susan Philpott Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” 5465962235
Reposted by Susan Philpott Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783269714047
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I didn't think it could get any better, but this is golden 010
Reposted by Susan Philpott Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 261120153986
Reposted by Susan Philpott Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 27/01/2026An amazing read. Lessons from Minnesota. 218370
Reposted by Susan Philpott taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis 327233397731
Reposted by Susan Philpott John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 11/01/2026Hi, I’m John Marks, I’m a public historian and writer. I’ve been helping history museums prepare for the nation’s 250th anniversary for 9 years now. Despite everything else happening in history, I’m still excited about this anniversary—and you should be too. Here’s why. 🧵 /1 28928
Reposted by Susan Philpott Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/12/2025I'm going to share my CPTSD-informed end-of-year reflective exercises. I'm not a therapist, just a veteran of it and this is the kind of language that works for me. 1) a) One sheet of paper, 10min: what moved forward this year, even A TINY BIT: progress toward a goal or an internal shift, whatever. 513621
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Liking this from work at a historic site with sold out tickets this morning. Very aware what day it is. 110
Reposted by Susan Philpott Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 16/12/2025This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...washingtonpost.comStatue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. CapitolBarbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia. 343474729
Reposted by Susan Philpott Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 15/12/2025If you can believe it, January 1, 2026 marks ten years since the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. For Portland Monthly, I wrote about how the ensuing decade was dominated by anxious men and a culture of lawlessness. www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...pdxmonthly.comThe Takeover of Malheur Kicked Off a Decade of LawlessnessThe wildlife refuge occupation set the stage for Trump, January 6, and so much more. 12341143
Susan Philpott @susanphilpott.bsky.social · 25/11/2025My hot take: Pies are good. All of them. Anytime is a good time for pie. 110
Reposted by Susan Philpott Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2025> @samsteindc.bsky.social 339147804309