Janel Moloney
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Janel Moloney
@NellyMoloney
Mom, wife, actress, peanut butter lover.
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Ağustos 2014
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@nicksortor Watch the actual video. Have you no shame? It was unnecessary and indefensible.
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🚨 BREAKING: A “protestor” in Minneapolis attempted to RUN OVER ICE AGENTS with her vehicle, requiring an ICE agent to fire defensive shots, per DHS
She has been pronounced dead
DHS is calling this an act of domestic terrorism
She got HERSELF kiIIed. Nobody’s fault but her own
🎥 @ScooterCasterNY
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open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon…
@NellyMoloney This is so beautifully written. 🥺
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Good morning. Here is my latest essay about episode 13 and my mom. 🕊️🕊️🕊️ open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon… #thewestwing#westwing
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"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."
That changes now. The new CBS Evening News starts Monday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS.
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Another essay up on Substack!! open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon…
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This is a new essay I just put in Substack. Hope you like! open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon…
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Nice Job is my latest essay about Ep. 10 In Excelsis Deo and cleaning my garbage cans. (I think it works!!) open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon…
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Recipe To Follow!! My new essay about traveling and watching The Short List. Happy end of summer. Enjoy. #westwing#donnamoss#brazil#https://open.substack.com/pub/janelmoloney/p/recipe-to-follow?r=kond8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Sister Lives is my new essay on Substack!! open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon… #westwing#donnamoss#thebettersister
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Donna, Donna, Donnas
I said I was doing this and here is #7 about The State Dinner and what is on my mind. Donnas are on my mind. 🥰 #westwing open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon…
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A bit of Monday morning good cheer!! Read my new essay Good Day on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon… #WestWing #Wingnuts
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@SpencerAlthouse He was so great. Best part of show. lol dying.
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Sam Rockwell doing this random somersault while drunk and chasing Walton Goggins in the hallway LOL
#WhiteLotus
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@Rabbi_Sykes @LemonLymancom Aww thank you sir!!! I'm honored and so glad you like!!!
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@LemonLymancom @NellyMoloney’s writing is glorious and beautiful. Her willingness to be vulnerable and to share with us is amazing. If people aren’t already subscribed to her Substack, stop whatever you are doing and subscribe now!
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Janel Moloney talks about living in the past:
“My mom died in December. She was my end of every day. Me at the stove, the phone propped up on the shelf with her on FaceTime. We would talk about raising teenagers. "Don't worry," she would reassure me. "This is all temporary. Things always change."
She would make me laugh and feel strong enough to fight another day. Last month, my siblings and I packed up her house in California. The boxes filled with what I chose to keep are still downstairs in my Brooklyn family room, stacked and unopened. Etched wine glasses, vintage sterling pins she wore on her shirts when she dressed up, her worn leather purse with her wallet and ID still inside. I stood with my sisters in my mom’s kitchen that day, running my hand against the soft leather bag, thinking.
"Is it weird to take Mom’s purse?" I turned and asked.
My sister Carey was folding a quilt. "Take it. Why not?"
I couldn't bear to leave it behind, alone in some pile with moth-eaten clothes and scratched Teflon pans. She brought it everywhere for years, even when sick—the oils of her fingertips, the scent of her perfume now in every fiber. It felt alive. I wouldn't carry it, for Pete's sake—I’m not that nutty—but I might put it in my closet with Sunshine Bear and Mr. Fuzz, other relics of my childhood, and visit when I need a hug.
I think we are all living with the past—not in it. Because, silly man, that's impossible.”


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My essay, Ghost Story, for your end of the world news break and weekend pleasure. Hope you enjoy!!! 👻🌷open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon… #Westwing
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My essay Working Pearl is up!! Hope you enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon…
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Janel Moloney on how Bradley Whitford covered for her when she wanted another take on her first acting days on The West Wing:
"So when Brad and I finished the final take of that opening, and he looked at me and saw that I wasn't satisfied, he leaned close and in a low voice, asked if I wanted another go. Takes were time. Takes were money, and I was in no position to ask for one more. I gratefully nodded. “I need another!” Brad shouted, and the whole apparatus stopped...
[afterwards] Brad and I started walking, him to the next scene and me back to my hut. “You happy?” He asked me, nudging my shoulder.
“Yes,” I told him, maybe blushing. “I’m happy.”
After Aaron saw a rough cut of the episode, he sent me yellow roses and a wonderful card. He was a gift-giver, a flower sender to be sure. I was probably not even the only one on that single episode to be florally acknowledged.
But after a solid pre-West Wing decade of being told that I wasn't good enough or pretty enough or sexy enough, this gesture, these words, were like a miracle. I flopped down on my second-hand couch and cried."
Read more on @NellyMoloney Substack!
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A more personal essay--but, don't worry WWingers, seems like all roads lead to Donna. #westwing#beaglelovers
open.substack.com/pub/janelmolon…
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Here for now but moving to Bluesky. Follow me there!! 🌤️🕊️🦋 bsky.app/profile/janelm…
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