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TRANSITIONS Barbwire nominee Norman Cardoza, 95, inducted into Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame today 2024 honorees say goodbye Guy Louis Rocha, 73, dies one year after hall of fame induction Guy Louis Rocha 'Never knew a stranger' By Siobhan McAndrew and Jason Hidalgo / Reno Gazette-Journal 9-19-2025 Saturday 9-27-2025 memorial service for Mary Highton-Foxton, 102 Widow of 2024 honoree Jake Highton Requiescant in pace The seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captives on the carousel of time We can't go back, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the Circle Game — Joni Mitchell Who will answer? Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-17-2025

 

FRIDAY 9-12-2025 —> STATEWIDE SOLIDARITY ALERT: MAGA moonhowler unelected Nevada System of Higher Education Regents are trying to kill union representation statewide. Hie thee to Nevada Faculty Alliance facilities in Reno, Elko and Las Vegas 9:00 a.m. PDT TODAY! Call (702) 530-4632. Tell them the Barbwire sent you.

1984 in 2025
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-10-2025

Cupcakes in CasinoLand
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-3-2025

Happy Labor Day!

RENO LABORFEST '25
LABOR DAY/Monday 9-1-2025/Idlewild Park on the Truckee River
Be there or be square!

Labor Day brings protests, picnics across Nevada & the nation
ThisIsReno.com 9-1-2025

Culinary Union Workers' Labor Day Rally celebrates 90 years of fighting and winning for Nevada working families
Labor Day in Las Vegas 2025

Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?
By Erik Loomis / The New York Times / Labor Day 9-1-2025

Make love—>not war

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

War in moderation? Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-13-2022

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

UPDATE: WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY. Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES! At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out. See for yourself. And please lemme know what you think.

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Windy City Showdown: Pope Leo vs. the American Mad King
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-27-2025

Lampoons & harpoons for poltroons, dragoons and buffoons
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-20-2025

Blame Nevada for T-Rump cancer
37th anniversary Barbwire
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-13-2025

The Confederacy has finally won the Civil War
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-6-2025 / Updated 8-10-2025 GMT

Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame
BREAKING NEWS—> 5 down, 3 to go
7-31-2025 Barbwire Winner
Congratulations to Barbwire nominee & Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Cardoza
Reno Gazette-Journal

Ignore the jesters and you fester
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-30-2025

Payback Time: Colbert to PBS Never gonna happen? Neither was an American pope. See above. Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-23-2025 Guess what? 2-time Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes went to Reno High School Her 'toon the Bezos WaPost censored Left: "Dead Puck" © 2025 Ann Telnaes (Also a bit of a self-portrait)

Monsters of our own creation
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-16-2025

T-RUMP TRAVESTY TRILOGY HAT TRICK TRIPLE PLAY
Lisa Murkowski got publicly porked
And hit us with chops on July the 4th
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-9-2025

T-RUMP TRAVESTY TRILOGY PART DEUX
We become what we despise
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-2-2025

T-RUMP TRAVESTY TRILOGY PART 1
We don't need no stinking badges!
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-25-2025

LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts: 6-22-2025 — I posted the following promo on LinkedIn and Facebook before the Persian Perversion. What the hell, we've been basically at war with Iran since 1953 and we are still looking for a 51st state, right? All we need is a congressional rubber stamp to legitimize this bastardized obscenity of a special military operation. ANGELS OVER AMERICA Pope Leo & President Lech Walesa God knows we need lotsa help Walesa starts U.S. tour in August, Leo14 already sold out Chicago White Sox stadium — via satellite! Read all about it at Barbwire.US Barbwire by Barbano, the ONLY advocate for an American pope — immediately last April, long before the conclave. Proof positive posted at April 23 column. Be well. Raise hell. Stay safe. SOLIDARNOSC! Subscribe at BallotBoxing.US Sometimes I regret my chutzpah when I occasionally guess right. I've said for months that when T-Rump saw his political support at home slipping, he'd start a war. an oft-successful ploy employed by his Russian mentor. So he did. (Maybe that's why they were on the phone so long a few days ago.) There's only one thing left—> Remember when the Mad King said this in 2024 to the precious snowflakes looking for simple solutions: "Re-elect me and you'll never need another election." More with the Barbwire this week. Working title: We Don't Need No Stinking Badges — or democracy. (Props to Humphrey Bogart and Alfonso Bedoya.) We apparently need intervention from elsewhere (see below) as the nation feels "Helpless, Helpless, Helpless". (Props to Crosby, Stills Nash & Young.) Where be our better angels?

ANGELS FOR AMERICA
Pope Leo-14 and President Lech Walesa for the good guys
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-18-2025

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

That's great TV!
"It's interesting when people die" — Don Henley, "Dirty Laundry" 1982
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-11-2025 / Expansions in blue
Updated Friday the 13th 2025. Chainsaws optional. Don't tell Freddie Krueger.

ORPHANS OF THE STORM
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-4-2025

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Never, ever forget that name
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-28-2025

GEORGE WENDT, 1948-2025 ADIOS, NORM. Beloved actor George Wendt, the most recognizable and entertaining face of the legendary Cheers TV series, died on May 20 at 76. May the great actor rest in peace and live forever in eternal reruns. Alas and alack, the producers, who made countless millions off the series, never corrected a macabre error in the Emmy-winning opening sequence. The Barbwire first broke the story in 2018. View the gruesome insult to the memories of exploited young American workers and judge for yourself by clicking above..

BE THERE—>TGIF TRASH T-RUMP 2FER
FOR FDR & ARMED FORCES
Friday May 30
Double down on demonstrations AND save gas!
Just zip west on Vassar Street from the Reno SSA to the Reno VA
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What's in it for him?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-21-2025

Appeals court allows Trump’s anti-union order to take effect
By Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press 5-19-2025

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UPDATE: WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY. Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES! At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out. See for yourself. And please lemme know what you think.

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Confessions of an altar boy
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-14-2025

Let it Be: An American Pope Francis2
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-23-2025

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Spring chickens and old buzzards
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-7-2025

MAYDAY! Black genocide tonight, Labor Day tomorrow
Conniving Corruption Contortions, Conniptions & Contradictions
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-30-2025

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Let it Be: An American Pope Francis2
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-23-2025

UPDATE: WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY. Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES! At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out. See for yourself. And please lemme know what you think.

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Twin terrorists run tax-paid American gulag
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-16-2025

FROM DOGE TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE? PBS: NLRB whistleblower says key files stolen, nuked and possibly passed to Russians PBS NewsHour video & transcript / 4-16-2025 NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: Top House Democrat says malfeasance NPR 4-15-2025

CWA 9413 PRESIDENT: Don't miss once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make sure every home and business has access to true high-speed internet service.

LEGISLATIVE ALARM
Sen. Dina Neal needs our support of Senate Bill 391. ACT NOW to help Nevada tenants by capping predatory Wall Street speculation. Click here to lend your support.

Toxic sludge is good for you
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-9-2025

Pinky & the Brain taking over the world
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-2-2025

MAYDAY! T-Rump executive order will kill the registrations of 21 million voters for 2026
By Greg Palast / 3-27-2024

Send back the Statue of Liberty
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-26-2025

Donald Trump's Death Sentences
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-19-2025

Overworked and Underpaid
Graduate Assistants Rally at UNR & UNLV Wednesday 3/12

How to become a Nevada welfare queen
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-12-2025

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Czar Dastardo Donaldov to Congress 3-4-2025: "America is back!"
INDEED, flat on her back.

Thank you, Czar Dastardo Donaldov T-Rumpovitch Drill, baby, drill! Das vidaniya.

March comes in with a lion —> from Ukraine

Red Scares and Nobel Red Flags
Warnings from Walesa and Ressa
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-5-2025

Zelenskyy for President! Washington DC 2-28-2025 —> So refreshing, heartening and energizing to see a leader with brass balls in the Oval Office as opposed to the Russian traitor with three gold balls hanging in his pawn shop Be well and raise hell, President Volodymyr / America is with you and our democracies Let's kick some ass! Sign up at BallotBoxing.US Stay tuned for much more!

Penalty Flags at the State of the Union Contact your congresscritter. NOW!

Down there among the swamp critters
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-26-2025

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-19-2025

Rise of the Reptilian Brain Trust
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-12-2025

2/5 HIGH NOON IN CARSON CITY

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The Spaghetti Wall
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-5-2025

Dastardly depredations of Czar Dastardo
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-29-2025

Betty J. Barbano 2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005 Remember her laughter On January 16, 1959, two babies were born. They became sisters in both life and death. Larry Barbano, Frater Mei 12-18-1947 / 10-18-2023

Inattention abstention on coronation day
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-22-2025

Happy MLK Day. Sorta.

Copyright © 2025 Ann Telnaes

Happy MLK Day anyway

27th ANNUAL MLK DAY COMMUNITY CARAVAN On the Northern Nevada Martin Luther King. Jr. Highway All are welcome Monday January 20, 2025 Caravan gathers at 10:30 a.m. PST Departure 11:00 a.m Rehoboth Holy Temple 700 Smithridge Drive [] Reno, Nevada 89502   Info: Don Gallimore / Reno-Sparks NAACP donaldgallimore1@gmail.com (775) 303-1057

Reno February 6, 2025 More

January 16 Reno/LV union demonstrations

Sheet Metal Workers & HVAC apprenticeship announce new outreach
1-15-2025

The Goats of the Ides of January
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-15-2025

Dark depredations & golden opportunities
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-8-2025

A walk thru the Wayback Machine
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-1-2025

Hope you and yours enjoyed Happy High Holly Days
Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah/Thanksgibleting
Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz Año Nuevo / Felice Anno Nuovo
Frohe Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2025
Vaxx up, stay safe, pray for Pope Francis, Ukraine, Gaza & more than 160 other war-torn lands including ours.

We've seen this movie many times
Commissar Donaldov is a closet sado-masochist:
"Hurt me, JD; tell me you love me, then bend over."
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-17-2024

BREAK HERE Front Page Archive January-July 2024

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. "What profiteth it a man if he would gain the whole world but lose his own soul?" — GOD "So, we have a deal, right?" — Donald Trump Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx Still crazy after all these years. "Thou shalt not kill." — God Don't say I didn't warn you as far back as 1992 The naked truth about war

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Make love—>not war

War in moderation? Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-13-2022

Political Animal Crackers & Crackups       "I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn't mean you are a democracy...I'm still taken aback at the extent of indoctrination and propaganda in the United States. It is as if people there are being reared in a sort of altered reality, like broiler chickens or pigs in a pen." — Indian novelist Arundhati Roy in the Barbwire of 9-12-2004 Cancelling Arundhati Roy in today's fascist India By Salil Tripathi / Guardian of London UK 4-21-2024

The American electorate is a dumb cow that follows the herd, is easily stampeded, gets milked for all she's worth and produces offspring for meat, muscle or cannon fodder to benefit the few. When all used up, she is sent to the slaughterhouse so that she may give her overlords the last full measure of devotion, bones for Jello and hide for belts. No stars and stripes for her grave because she doesn't merit one, having been totally consumed by our consumptive system. — Barbwire 9-12-2010 "If elections mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." Travus T. Hipp, 1982 Alas and alack, where it all leads (tol'jaso, long time ago)

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Hope you and yours enjoy Happy High Holly Days
Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah/Thanksgibleting
Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz Año Nuevo / Felice Anno Nuovo
Frohe Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2025
Vaxx up, stay safe, pray for Ukraine and 160 currently war-torn lands, including ours.

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Betty J. Barbano 2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005 Remember her laughter Larry Barbano, Frater Mei 1947-2023

Eee-yo-leven! Barbwire wins 11th Nevada Press Association award 6 of 11 gold Tribune editorial page voted 2020 best Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame BREAKING NEWS—> 5 down, 3 to go 7-31-2025 Barbwire Winner Congratulations to Barbwire nominee & Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Cardoza Reno Gazette-Journal 2024 Barbwire Winners! Jake Highton & Guy Louis Rocha 2024 Barbwire winning nominees BUENO! 5 down, 3 to go 2019: Dennis Myers 2nd Barbwire nominee elected to NPA Hall of Fame Support Don Dondero and David Toll and Foster Church next Please send endorsements The Dean's List    The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites. RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006