Fran Farrell Bergeron

Fran Farrell Bergeron

@farrellbergeron.bsky.social

Librarian, avid reader, politics junkie, sports fan (PC Friars, all Boston teams) eclectic music lover, freedom-of-conscience Rhode Islander

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If the WHCD is a WHC-owned and sponsored event, then they should cancel it this year and any year he invites himself to it to insult the First Amendment. Just because he says it will be re-scheduled, they don’t have to follow his agenda. For the love of god have a little backbone!

@velshi.com Just want to thank you for covering the chaos and shooting at the WHCD and then moving on. A friend and I were just discussing yesterday how frustrating it is when MSNOW, the only untainted news source left to us, forgets and goes down a distracting rabbit hole to the exclusion of else.

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If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

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happy bday journalist Edward R. Murrow, b.1908, Polecat Creek, NC. “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” “We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” “Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”

Trump is such a weakling. He blusters and tries to bully countries that played no role in starting this war, but won’t dare demand anything of Netanyahu, who bamboozled him into making the worst presidential mistake in our history.

I'm attending South County Rising RI's event, “DE-ICE CITIZENS BANK” - sign up now to join me! #SouthCountyRisingRI www.mobilize.us/southcountyr...

mobilize.usDE-ICE CITIZENS BANK · South County Rising RIOn April 23, Citizens Bank will be holding their Annual Shareholder Meeting at its headquarters in Providence, RI. In response, a coalition of progressive organizations from the surrounding area will be holding a peaceful standout that we are calling "The People's Shareholder Meeting to De-ICE Citizens Bank" outside of the headquarters building. We will hold a press conference, rally the people, sing and chant our resistance, educate the general public, and create artivism to get Citizens Bank De-ICE'd! Citizens Bank publicly presents itself as a community-centered institution committed to social responsibility. Yet the bank continues to maintain key financial relationships with CoreCivic and The GEO Group: two notorious, for-profit, prison corporations that build and operate immigration detention facilities for ICE, provide transportation services to ICE, and operate prisons for mass incarceration. For more information about Citizens Bank’s relationship to the private prison system, go to www.De-ICECitizensBank.org or www.boycottcitizens.org. You can also contact the De-ICE Coalition at de.ICE.CitizensBank@gmail.com. A core principle behind all Coalition events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. Indivisible has a great safety and security resource you can review before the event: https://indivisi.org/safety. Wear weather appropriate clothing, bring water and a snack. Sign Ideas: Cages Aren’t Communities De-ICE Citizens Bank Citizens Bank: Invest in Communities, Not Cages End Mass Incarceration Say NO to CoreCivic and The GEO Group No Banks for Cages Things to note: Parking is either on-street metered or paid parking garages/lots. There are numerous in the area. Public restrooms are located inside the Providence Train Station which is a block north from the standout. The bus station is about 2 blocks from the action location and information about the bus station can be found at https://www.ripta.com/ The train station is about a block away from the action location. Station information including Amtrak and the Providence MBTA train schedule can be found at https://www.mbta.com/stops/place-NEC-1851

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look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

King Charles has issued a statement following his brother Andrew’s arrest

It’s been clear from the outset that Trump wants to please and placate Putin in all things, including the wishy washy non-strategy on Ukraine. And now we have the leaked audio to confirm. Non-diplomat Witkoff as chief negotiator? This is government by nincompoops. GOP Congress: do your job!

#msnow It just seems Nicole and guests are showing a little too much “irrational exuberance“ over Trump-Mamdani meeting. Wait till his mood changes, or one of his hate-whisperers gets to him. He’s happy for any distraction from his troubles and gaffes: Epstein, polls, death threats on Dems.

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Today is World Kindness Day, "highlights the power of kindness — to others, to yourself, and to the world." "Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” Henry James

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"The illusion of happiness derived from a comfortable life pushes many people towards a vision of life centered on the accumulation of wealth and social success at all costs, even at the expense of others (11)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

He’s broken so many norms, and the guardrails we thought would hold have collapsed. Should we be appalled that it’s finally happened, or astonished that the whole framework stood for so long?

Fran Farrell Bergeron @farrellbergeron.bsky.social

He is cognitively impaired, dangerously paranoid, and morally bankrupt. I will never forgive this feckless GOP-led Congress for betraying our democratic values, the Constitution, and the people they are sworn to serve.

Re-posting in light of mass firings. Institutional memory, our collective cultural history, the expertise and learned knowledge of thousands — discarded blithely by the proudly ignorant. Our national tragedy.

Fran Farrell Bergeron @farrellbergeron.bsky.social

President JFK, SOTU address, 1/31/61: “Let it be clear that this administration recognizes the value of dissent and daring, that we greet healthy controversy as the hallmark of healthy change.” We must not ever forget what strong aspirational leadership is.

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Pope Leo yesterday: “Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life, someone who says that ‘I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’ I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

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“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

President JFK, SOTU address, 1/31/61: “Let it be clear that this administration recognizes the value of dissent and daring, that we greet healthy controversy as the hallmark of healthy change.” We must not ever forget what strong aspirational leadership is.

@msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social Are you all going to sail right past this glaring error of judgment and not address it at all? Especially when you’re giving so much air time to the Kimmel situation??? Hoping there are “behind the scene“ discussions.

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

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"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in...I was in prison and you came to visit me (Matthew 25:35-36)." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #PrayForAmerica www.boston.com/news/local-n...

boston.com3 arrested at Burlington ICE office trying to deliver supplies to detaineesThe ICE Boston Field Office is an office building now doubling as a detention center with multiple allegations of poor conditions.