Ellen Moody
@anneelliot.bsky.social
Scholar, teacher, writer, mother, widow. Me 25 years ago. Gladly would she learn, and gladly teach. Hattie Morahan as Elinor Dashwood, my favorite heroine
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An Epstein File: Virginia Robert Giuffre, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre in last phase of her life The cover of her ghost-written memoir I welcome constructive comments and information Dear friends and readers, Agin I deviate but more slightly f…
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Virginia Giuffre's memoir of sexual abuse and public fight. She was 41 when she died. A preliminary sketch, a first impression, reaction. I will reread closely the 2nd half, write again. Non-redacted info, names, "smoking guns" (Mar-a-lago)
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Virginia Giuffre's memoir of sexual abuse and public fight. She was 41 when she died. A preliminary sketch, a first impression, reaction. I will reread closely the 2nd half, write again. Non-redacted info, names, "smoking guns" (Mar-a-lago)
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/a...
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/a...
An Epstein File: Virginia Robert Giuffre, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre in last phase of her life The cover of her ghost-written memoir I welcome constructive comments and information Dear friends and readers, Agin I deviate but more slightly f…
ellenandjim.wordpress.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Virginia Giuffre's memoir of sexual abuse and public fight. She was 41 when she died. A preliminary sketch, a first impression, reaction. I will reread closely the 2nd half, write again. Non-redacted info, names, "smoking guns" (Mar-a-lago)
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Journey to American Democracy: The Battle of the Bulge open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Trump fired head of Kansas Eisenhower Library for refusing to give Eisenhower's sword). He joins her: a historical series of 3 minute video, podcast & text. 1st phase of ground war against Nazi takeover
Journey to American Democracy: The Battle of the Bulge
This new series in Journey to American Democracy comes to you thanks to that odd way history has of braiding the past and the present.
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January 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Journey to American Democracy: The Battle of the Bulge open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Trump fired head of Kansas Eisenhower Library for refusing to give Eisenhower's sword). He joins her: a historical series of 3 minute video, podcast & text. 1st phase of ground war against Nazi takeover
January 7, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Early am Trump stopping 2026 election: Biden: US economy thriving, social net okay, environment renewables (she omits Palestine genocide, not supporting Ukraine fully). Afternoon pm: ICE wanton killing woman, lies, Venezuela, Greenland.
January 7, 2026
This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapoli...
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January 8, 2026 at 11:29 PM
January 7, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Early am Trump stopping 2026 election: Biden: US economy thriving, social net okay, environment renewables (she omits Palestine genocide, not supporting Ukraine fully). Afternoon pm: ICE wanton killing woman, lies, Venezuela, Greenland.
Personal news: I've had another ministroke. Episode is over; no need to go to hospital. Il y a renewed or other losses, so less actively. I may not always reply. Telling friends/acquaintances. Undeterred where it matters: Expect in a bit HCR on today's dreadful serious developments.
January 8, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Personal news: I've had another ministroke. Episode is over; no need to go to hospital. Il y a renewed or other losses, so less actively. I may not always reply. Telling friends/acquaintances. Undeterred where it matters: Expect in a bit HCR on today's dreadful serious developments.
The Real Story Behind the Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... What happened in Minnesota lasted for decades.
The Real Story Behind the Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal
You don’t have to buy the MAGA narrative to worry about how government failed here.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The Real Story Behind the Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... What happened in Minnesota lasted for decades.
January 6, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... At least Time gave the right person the title "person of the year. As HCR says of her opening, I say of the whole newsletter, (please to read, easy skimmiing) there you have it for yesterday in a nutshell. Don't say you couldn't know or foresee.
January 6, 2026
“They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
January 6, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... At least Time gave the right person the title "person of the year. As HCR says of her opening, I say of the whole newsletter, (please to read, easy skimmiing) there you have it for yesterday in a nutshell. Don't say you couldn't know or foresee.
Fire, Aim, Ready open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... This is concise & shows Rather's excellence as a reporter
Fire, Aim, Ready
Trump doesn’t have concepts of a plan
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January 6, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Fire, Aim, Ready open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... This is concise & shows Rather's excellence as a reporter
Rob & Laura's Xmas present. CD player like a Victrola, a handle you put on top disk to start. Sayers onto Wolf Hall, ideal rereading. Eclosed porch cats not excluded (other in workroom where too much computer stuff). Colin, Xmas penguin's cap, cat from Milan, Italy, there w/Laura & Izzy (2017).
January 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Rob & Laura's Xmas present. CD player like a Victrola, a handle you put on top disk to start. Sayers onto Wolf Hall, ideal rereading. Eclosed porch cats not excluded (other in workroom where too much computer stuff). Colin, Xmas penguin's cap, cat from Milan, Italy, there w/Laura & Izzy (2017).
Heather Cox Richardson Woman of the year by Time Magazine (her face on the recent cover). tinyurl.com/2abvd5sv
Daily historically informed perceptive newsletters, videos. Books tributes, why I like her, favorite photo. Blog centered on video on Trump's invading Venezuela, kidnapping Madruro
Daily historically informed perceptive newsletters, videos. Books tributes, why I like her, favorite photo. Blog centered on video on Trump's invading Venezuela, kidnapping Madruro
Heather Cox Richardson: 2025, Woman of the Year (the face on Time magazine)
Dear friends and readers, Fo several years now, every day, usually in early morning, I’ve been either reading or watching Heather Cox Richardson’s daily journal Letters from an American…
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January 5, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Heather Cox Richardson Woman of the year by Time Magazine (her face on the recent cover). tinyurl.com/2abvd5sv
Daily historically informed perceptive newsletters, videos. Books tributes, why I like her, favorite photo. Blog centered on video on Trump's invading Venezuela, kidnapping Madruro
Daily historically informed perceptive newsletters, videos. Books tributes, why I like her, favorite photo. Blog centered on video on Trump's invading Venezuela, kidnapping Madruro
January 3, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... HCR added to video (see above) written letter context why Trump plan to "run" Venezuela: distract fr Epstein file, bad economy for most while rich thrive, loss of child/medical care desperately needed. She's named Woman the year Time Magazine.
January 3, 2026
Today was the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to submit to Congress a written justification for any documents from the Epstein files that the department had redacted or withheld.
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January 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
January 3, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... HCR added to video (see above) written letter context why Trump plan to "run" Venezuela: distract fr Epstein file, bad economy for most while rich thrive, loss of child/medical care desperately needed. She's named Woman the year Time Magazine.
HCR tells what Trump & his regime did today in/to Venezuela & its president, what Trump has since said, then the significance of what's occurred: what's at stake, why it all matters so profoundly. Listen/watch. Then maybe phone or further circulate this video
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Today's News, January 3, 2025
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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January 4, 2026 at 2:42 AM
HCR tells what Trump & his regime did today in/to Venezuela & its president, what Trump has since said, then the significance of what's occurred: what's at stake, why it all matters so profoundly. Listen/watch. Then maybe phone or further circulate this video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JXQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JXQ...
It’s Been a Long Time Coming open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... "If Donald Trump wasn’t elected to a second term, he probably would be serving time in prison right now."
It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Jack Smith finally talked...and he had a lot to say
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January 3, 2026 at 1:42 AM
It’s Been a Long Time Coming open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... "If Donald Trump wasn’t elected to a second term, he probably would be serving time in prison right now."
Reposted by Ellen Moody
As 2026 rolls in, the twin successes of BritBox and AcornTV niche streamers in the last year has necessitated dividing them off into their own list of monthly debuts.
Everything Coming to BritBox & AcornTV in January 2026
Our monthly rundown of everything coming to the British focused niche streaming service like BritBox and AcornTV in January 2026
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December 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As 2026 rolls in, the twin successes of BritBox and AcornTV niche streamers in the last year has necessitated dividing them off into their own list of monthly debuts.
I love this show.
Also, ICYMI:
It's our monthly rundown of everything British coming to PBS and PBS Passport for January 2026.
January 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I love this show.
This is very helpful. Thank you.
It's our monthly rundown of British (and British-inspired) series on the major American streaming services for January 2026.
Everything British Worth Streaming in January 2026
It's everything British worth streaming on the major American subscription services in January 2026, from Apple TV to Viaplay.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:21 AM
This is very helpful. Thank you.
December 30, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... She recounts the major and many minor acts Trump & henchmen did to dismantle the US govt & set up far right-wing dictatorship. At the end she sees effective push back. Alas she has thoroughly persuaded me of the first, not the second
December 30, 2025
The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
December 30, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... She recounts the major and many minor acts Trump & henchmen did to dismantle the US govt & set up far right-wing dictatorship. At the end she sees effective push back. Alas she has thoroughly persuaded me of the first, not the second
Christmas, New Year's blog on some paralleled and contrasted Christmas stories (Bobbie Anne Mason, John & Susan Cheever, Anthony Trollope, /Joan Baez' exquisitely well sung carols (1966 album). Maybe the point is we do it year in, year out
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“Christmas is a sad season for the Poor,” and for many of those alone: stories by Bobbie Anne Mason, John & Susan Cheever, Anthony Trollope and a personal coda
This is Love, Actually: Laura Linney (Sarah) spends Christmas Eve with Michael Fitzgerald as her disabled brother (Seen/Unseen, Essay) My favorite, the one genuinely touching moment; also pitch per…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Christmas, New Year's blog on some paralleled and contrasted Christmas stories (Bobbie Anne Mason, John & Susan Cheever, Anthony Trollope, /Joan Baez' exquisitely well sung carols (1966 album). Maybe the point is we do it year in, year out
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reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/c...
The Next Terrorist Attack open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... 2 previous r 9/11, Timothy McVeigh. 9/11; McVeigh. Far righ tkilling, lunacy. Bush opened Homeland Security (ICE).
Calm. Mod tyranny terror management, exploit such for power. Dissolve opposition, free speech, fair trial Don't fall for it
Calm. Mod tyranny terror management, exploit such for power. Dissolve opposition, free speech, fair trial Don't fall for it
The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
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December 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The Next Terrorist Attack open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... 2 previous r 9/11, Timothy McVeigh. 9/11; McVeigh. Far righ tkilling, lunacy. Bush opened Homeland Security (ICE).
Calm. Mod tyranny terror management, exploit such for power. Dissolve opposition, free speech, fair trial Don't fall for it
Calm. Mod tyranny terror management, exploit such for power. Dissolve opposition, free speech, fair trial Don't fall for it
Press Onward open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... It was very bad; now dire. Unprecedented step a day (no true news, info, smart comments. Year's famous: clawing back lawfully allocated ,oey to public broadcasting. Today: fire National Historian.
@Bulwark: JohnAvalon tinyurl.com/5bpnb8dd:
@Bulwark: JohnAvalon tinyurl.com/5bpnb8dd:
Press Onward
To journalists everywhere: fight like hell
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December 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Press Onward open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... It was very bad; now dire. Unprecedented step a day (no true news, info, smart comments. Year's famous: clawing back lawfully allocated ,oey to public broadcasting. Today: fire National Historian.
@Bulwark: JohnAvalon tinyurl.com/5bpnb8dd:
@Bulwark: JohnAvalon tinyurl.com/5bpnb8dd:
December 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The Wounded Knee Massacre -- her first visceral book told this story; it is actually not atypical of US colonizers all types and Native american history
December 28, 2025
On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
December 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The Wounded Knee Massacre -- her first visceral book told this story; it is actually not atypical of US colonizers all types and Native american history
Five ways to make more than a billion dollars open.substack.com/pub/robertre... How do a few get to own a million or billion dollars. Nothing mystic, nothing needing genius, or hard work. 1st, there's no free market; 2nd learnhow laws aset up to favor, provide tax breaks. Inherit or marry it.
Five ways to make more than a billion dollars
None have anything to do with “free market” capitalism
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December 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Five ways to make more than a billion dollars open.substack.com/pub/robertre... How do a few get to own a million or billion dollars. Nothing mystic, nothing needing genius, or hard work. 1st, there's no free market; 2nd learnhow laws aset up to favor, provide tax breaks. Inherit or marry it.
Quoted described, linked in replacement of 60 minutes segment spiked by CBS on Cecco/immigrant policies. Washington Post: read whole transcript of episode
A tribute to Amy Goodman for many years service
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A tribute to Amy Goodman for many years service
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I interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for a second time
A photo of me, age 55, 23 years ago about to attend my younger daughter’s high school graduation Dear friends and readers, At this time of year we look back and remember; on my Sylvia 2 blog …
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December 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Quoted described, linked in replacement of 60 minutes segment spiked by CBS on Cecco/immigrant policies. Washington Post: read whole transcript of episode
A tribute to Amy Goodman for many years service
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A tribute to Amy Goodman for many years service
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Christmas day musings, remembering back and forth.
At the close photos: cats, Izzy, Me 23 years ago, getting ready for Isobel's high school graduation
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Sometimes colored my hair dark brown, Laura's hair purple ... maybe we blondes don't have more fun
At the close photos: cats, Izzy, Me 23 years ago, getting ready for Isobel's high school graduation
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Sometimes colored my hair dark brown, Laura's hair purple ... maybe we blondes don't have more fun
Those left are different people trying to lead the same lives: 12 years & 3 months later
Closing scene, 1974 BBC Poldark, Trenwith burnt down, Ross & Demela parting (Robin Ellis/Angharad Rees) see Christmas at Nampara, Warleggan Some thoughts on this 80th Winter Solstice Dear frien…
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December 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Christmas day musings, remembering back and forth.
At the close photos: cats, Izzy, Me 23 years ago, getting ready for Isobel's high school graduation
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Sometimes colored my hair dark brown, Laura's hair purple ... maybe we blondes don't have more fun
At the close photos: cats, Izzy, Me 23 years ago, getting ready for Isobel's high school graduation
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/t...
Sometimes colored my hair dark brown, Laura's hair purple ... maybe we blondes don't have more fun
I wish for all a happy peaceful day. For me this from Love Actually is where I was moved: Laura Linney character spends Christmas Eve wih her disabled brother I also got a kick out of Bill Nighy character w/female chorus doing mock rock Christmas is everywhere
www.seenandunseen.com/love-actually
www.seenandunseen.com/love-actually
This is love, actually | Seen & Unseen
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December 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I wish for all a happy peaceful day. For me this from Love Actually is where I was moved: Laura Linney character spends Christmas Eve wih her disabled brother I also got a kick out of Bill Nighy character w/female chorus doing mock rock Christmas is everywhere
www.seenandunseen.com/love-actually
www.seenandunseen.com/love-actually