Erin Hagood

Erin Hagood || PhD student in History at Columbia || Current President of Platypus || tweets are my own

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

Permission to think, sir?

[Chris Cutrone @ccutrone1970]

To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself madness.
— Rousseau

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

The statue of King George in New York City is toppled and melted down for ammunition at Bowling Green Square.

In a fury, an angry mob decapitated the statue, tore off the nose, and mounted the remainders of the heads on spikes.

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

Epstein hysteria has just confirmed everything they said!

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

8 years ago, the anti-MeToo manifesto of Catherine Deneuve and others: https://t.co/5Xwm2Rxbqs

[James Eisen 🇲🇪 @JamesEisen1891]

I kneel

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

Have fun with your death cult.

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

Do you revirginize yourself if you make a MeToo accusation or something?

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

https://t.co/VheOTlRrut

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

@adam_tooze Society is sublime! 👽

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Jefferson buys a deck of cards and some beer.

It is thought that he wishes to celebrate the successful passage of the Declaration of Independence.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

For some unknown reason, Thomas Jefferson is preoccupied this morning with recording the temperature.

He writes that upon awaking at 6 AM, the temperature is a pleasant 68.0 degrees Fahrenheit, but that it is creeping up toward 70.

On his way to Congress, Jefferson purchases a thermometer. It costs three pounds and 15 shillings.

No-body knows why he is so concerned with the temperature today, especially, and for what reason he desires an accurate read.

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

Only the Last Marxists can deal with this history. Let’s go James Vaughn ✨

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

"Tomorrow people all over the world will celebrate the Declaration of Independence—some loudly, most quietly. They will do so because they know it is their declaration too."
Historian James Vaughn on why the American Revolution is still revolutionary:
https://t.co/EoGxW3DRbg

[Chris Cutrone @ccutrone1970]

Why Marxists loved the American Revolution
@compactmag
https://t.co/I7ZgjBGXv1

[Chris Cutrone @ccutrone1970]

The crisis of the American Revolution! @platypus1917 @IngarSolty
https://t.co/3BG3E1YWN1

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging.

This is the first time such a term has been used.

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

@NikosMohammadi @unherd Since the disempowerment of the Monarch. People will forget the Great Reform Bill was passed because of the threat the Monarch would dissolve government. Later Chartists demanded Victoria dissolve government.

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

@NikosMohammadi @unherd This reprises the Bagehot argument in favor of UK system without taking it all the way. The point is you can have cabinet dictatorship and stability long term!! This was common knowledge among all British constitutional theorists in the 19th century.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Jefferson submits the final draft of his Declaration of Independence to Continental Congress.

[Erin Hagood @lady_melmoth]

Ecuador ties with Curaçao then beats Germany, this team is unhinged 😭