Ellen Moody

February 28, 2026 Early this morning, the U.S.

February 28, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Keeping us informed accurately, what's important (Trump never even congress or us), unconstitutional, illegal (unprovoked, indeed Iran negotiating), no workable plan. Untrustworthy especially about expense, why. Dire events widening as I type ...

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Everything British Worth Streaming in March 2026 It's everything British worth streaming on the major American subscription services in March 2026, from Apple TV to Viaplay.

It's everything British worth streaming on the major American subscription services in March 2026, from Apple TV to Viaplay.

Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump will try to ‘steal’ midterm elections Rare public address: US experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote
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Newspapers led by NYTimes persisted loudly how Biden was too old & sick, making it impossible for him to run.

February 28, 2026 Early this morning, the U.S.

February 28, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Her detailed assessment of this unproked assault; part of Trump's motivation is to commit this dictatorship act

Sunday thought: Trump’s Real Reason for War Friends,

Sunday thought: Trump’s Real Reason for War open.substack.com/pub/robertre... He may be right.

At War with Iran Unprovoked, illegal, and confounding

At War with Iran open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Dan Rather, once anchor at CBS with what news given the public

Hagar in the Wilderness by Edmonia Lewis -- one of several women in the later 19th century to make their way to Rome to make heroic sculpture about women

Foremother poets: American Black Women, the Harlem Renaissance One anthology is Maureen Honey’s Shadowed Dreams:  Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.  Black sculptresses flourished in Rome in the later 19 century. Hagar in the Wilde…

Yet another blog: for black history month and Women's Studies

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Women’s Studies & Black History Month (1) On teaching Afro-American lit & on black-owned bookstores Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party — at the Brooklyn Museum, NYC The The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore — A haven & community center in the USA Dear friends and reader…

Women and gender studies also being eliminated, direct threat on pregnant women

I make a start at transition:

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Next up: I am indignant Jane Austen not there

Ellen

US & Israel inflict war on Iran, bombing began several hours ago ...

Christ's blood streams in the firmament -- Dr Faustus, Marlowe

Iran Drops Unredacted Epstein Files Over U.S. The surprise attack has rattled the White House.

Iran Drops Unredacted Epstein Files Over U.S. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... I wish they would

Cabinet Apocalypse A News Review in an Imagined Conversation

Cabinet Apocalypse
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Effective satire

Video Reveals Trump’s Sexual Misconduct With Children open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... Suggestive material about Trump's character and past: a BBC documentary; he was owner and funder of "beauty" pageants

How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All The Sunshine State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money

How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre... States do have rights as well as their own militia (that's what the 2nd amendment is about)

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson The State of Our Union

Not content with that tonight, here is Heather Cox Richardson's alternative state of the union address, Feb 23, 2026

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John Lewis’s Good Trouble; Ella Fitzgerald’s Just One of Those Things; and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hamilton: three movies about African-Americans John Lewis as Congressman not long ago Good Trouble: its value is it shows the courage, bravery and real intelligence of John Lewis and brings together through flashback and forward what a horrific…

3rd: a blog on Amilton, 3 African Americanmovies, and some singers and music (e.g. Ella Fitzgerald

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For Black History Month: Inkle and Yarico: 18th century abolitionist story: tragic betrayal, the inhumanity of caste/racism The cover of one of the many renditions of the Inkle and Yarico stories Friends, As a brief follow-up to my blog about the poetry, letters and life of Frances Thynne Seymour, Countess of Hertford, …

2nd: from the 18th century, the story of Inkle and Yarico, a light skinned male sells into slavery his dark skinned lover who rescued him

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For Black History Month: August Wilson’s American Century Cycle August Wilson writing Teach us to number our days again The narrative Wilson’s plays tell us say that the public story of progress for African-Americans from 1960 is false: the changes in law…

I decided a better thing to do than watch 2 hours of bloviated lies, sneers/insults, and grievances, shouted by Trump, was revise two more older blogs and link in a 3rd in order to commemorate black history month. 1st August Wilson's American CenturyCycle ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/a...

How about if most Americans didn't watch? An empty room?Can you endure watching him painfully insult the supreme court? Biden who rescued us from pandemic and turning economy to work middle and working. 1000s of citations, lie, lie, lie, re hard working brown & black immigrants? Let's not endure it!

‘Stand by Me’ A Reason To Smile

‘Stand by Me’ open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... For Black History month and enjoyment. But notice the audience is al lwhite.

February 22, 2026 On February 6, four direct descendants of President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to United States senators to ask them to vote against a measure that opens up the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BW...

February 22, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 4 votes needed to stop this assault by Trump & GOP on public lands, waterways, forests, equally at risk

Boycott the State of the Union Trump doesn’t deserve our attention

Boycott the State of the Union open.substack.com/pub/robertre... There is an alternate. United people power I think they ae called. I'm surprised that Reich went to this other event. This comes of hi optmism and trust.

‘Stand by Me’ A Reason To Smile

‘Stand by Me’ open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Compelling. Thanks to Dan Rather's Steady

Black History Month: James Baldwin: I am not your N…” [“Negro” on the marquees]; Lorraine Hansbury, A Raisin in the Sun Baldwin on the Cavett show It is very nearly impossible…to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard…

I am not your N ... [Negro on the Marqess] and A Raisin in the Sun (Baldwin, Hansbury). Powerful voices, the film and play in context

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YouTube video by Jesse Welles Whirlwind

Jesse Welles's latest song powerful; notice how much he covers. Listen up

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The Supreme Court's tariff decision extends far beyond tariffs It stops Trump from deciding not to spend money Congress appropriated, and from going to war without Congress's approval

The Supreme Court's tariff decision extends far beyond tariffs open.substack.com/pub/robertre... I hope someone beyond him recognizes this. He says Trump will pay no heed.

February 20, 2026 Today, in a 6–3 decision, the U.S.

February 20, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Tarriffs are a tax, power belongs to Congress. I see hope for another gang of six, the 4 women Chief Justice Roberts, and Gorsuch. Pritzker's letter demanding Trump pay back the huge sums he has cost Illinois

Hamnet. Begins slow; film-makers' Elizabethans grunt 1/3 in couple w/family Emily Watson mother, Jessie Buckley Ann Last 2/3 superb: she hurt, angry, not there when boy sick dying Off again Stirring. She's @Globe Last minutes her face, her eyes death of child in Hamlet, her husband's agon watching

Texas A&M, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Academic Common Sense I can’t believe I’m writing this, but at least it keeps my fingers on the keys, not scratching my head or tearing my hair out. And I know that my words here will have no impact on the policies that…

Here is Matthew Dennis's eloquent common sense truthful state,ent about how this university is destroying knowledge by Matthew Dennis. All over Smithsonian exhibits, names, anything having to do with black people or history being expunged nursingclio.org/2026/02/18/t...