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
Ca resist making a reading recommendation. Robert Harris‘s 3-volume fictional biography/Roman history is superb. Second volume Lustrum also goes by the title “Conspirita.”
January 3, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Ca resist making a reading recommendation. Robert Harris‘s 3-volume fictional biography/Roman history is superb. Second volume Lustrum also goes by the title “Conspirita.”
Just finishing an interesting read by Marc Dunkelman, “Why Nothing Works.” Traces the Hamiltonian vs Jeffersonian political philosophies and how both progressive and conservative admins have used, or over-used, both.
Also: Racism, conscious or no, is a thread through both parties’ histories.
Also: Racism, conscious or no, is a thread through both parties’ histories.
December 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just finishing an interesting read by Marc Dunkelman, “Why Nothing Works.” Traces the Hamiltonian vs Jeffersonian political philosophies and how both progressive and conservative admins have used, or over-used, both.
Also: Racism, conscious or no, is a thread through both parties’ histories.
Also: Racism, conscious or no, is a thread through both parties’ histories.
You bring us joyful messages of wisdom and peace all year; so grateful for that! I wish you Christma.
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December 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
You bring us joyful messages of wisdom and peace all year; so grateful for that! I wish you Christma.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEy...
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Let’s get this fraud off the public stage for good in the next electio.
December 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Let’s get this fraud off the public stage for good in the next electio.
And as always, his “humor” is cruel and insulting. He has no comprehension of how endearing self-deprecation is to people. He could never make fun of himself; too much of a self-obsessed blob of neediness.
December 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And as always, his “humor” is cruel and insulting. He has no comprehension of how endearing self-deprecation is to people. He could never make fun of himself; too much of a self-obsessed blob of neediness.
Only a truly broken soul and self-obsessed blob of neediness would insert himself into every. Single. News. Event.
He is depraved beyond redemption, and the fact that millions support him anyway is sickening.
God help us.
He is depraved beyond redemption, and the fact that millions support him anyway is sickening.
God help us.
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Only a truly broken soul and self-obsessed blob of neediness would insert himself into every. Single. News. Event.
He is depraved beyond redemption, and the fact that millions support him anyway is sickening.
God help us.
He is depraved beyond redemption, and the fact that millions support him anyway is sickening.
God help us.
And we in RI didn’t see it because our local news was on continuously, but how ironic that CBS apparently aired some kind of special with Erika Kirk, whose slain husband said we just have to ”live” with the shootings in order to enjoy our “freedoms.”
The ironies. They hurt.
The ironies. They hurt.
December 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
And we in RI didn’t see it because our local news was on continuously, but how ironic that CBS apparently aired some kind of special with Erika Kirk, whose slain husband said we just have to ”live” with the shootings in order to enjoy our “freedoms.”
The ironies. They hurt.
The ironies. They hurt.
Remember when SNL had a running joke every week: “This just in — Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!”
Maybe they should do a new one: “President Trump is — amazingly — still alive!”
It seems these days he only wakes up long enough to put a cruel policy in place or to snarl at reporters.
Maybe they should do a new one: “President Trump is — amazingly — still alive!”
It seems these days he only wakes up long enough to put a cruel policy in place or to snarl at reporters.
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Remember when SNL had a running joke every week: “This just in — Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!”
Maybe they should do a new one: “President Trump is — amazingly — still alive!”
It seems these days he only wakes up long enough to put a cruel policy in place or to snarl at reporters.
Maybe they should do a new one: “President Trump is — amazingly — still alive!”
It seems these days he only wakes up long enough to put a cruel policy in place or to snarl at reporters.
December 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It’s in today’s Boston Globe RI edition
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December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It’s in today’s Boston Globe RI edition
www.bostonglob.com/2025/12/02/m...
www.bostonglob.com/2025/12/02/m...
Stop making sense.
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Stop making sense.
My favorite, too. Own a copy, but can never resist watching when it’s on.
The best dialogue of any movie ever.
I’ll bet many of us can quote it all by heart.
And sadly the line that describes the sorry state of our country under this regime:
“The devil has the people by the throat.”
The best dialogue of any movie ever.
I’ll bet many of us can quote it all by heart.
And sadly the line that describes the sorry state of our country under this regime:
“The devil has the people by the throat.”
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My favorite, too. Own a copy, but can never resist watching when it’s on.
The best dialogue of any movie ever.
I’ll bet many of us can quote it all by heart.
And sadly the line that describes the sorry state of our country under this regime:
“The devil has the people by the throat.”
The best dialogue of any movie ever.
I’ll bet many of us can quote it all by heart.
And sadly the line that describes the sorry state of our country under this regime:
“The devil has the people by the throat.”