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Piggy-backing to play leap-frog
Second in a series.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-16-2024

Electing Judas Iscariot
First in a series.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-9-2024
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Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx Still crazy after all these years.

Don't say I didn't warn you as far back as 1992

The Barbwire never forgets
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-2-2024

Seethe along with me
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-25-2024

The Used Car Presidential Campaign
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-18-2024

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Barbwire and Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Famer Guy Louis Rocha on PBS-Reno's "House with a History"
Livestream Sunday 9-15-2024 5:30 p.m. PDT KNPB TV-5/Northern Nevada
https://www.pbsreno.org/livestream/
Rocha inducted to Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame in Reno on Saturday 9/14/2024

2 more Barbano nominees elected to Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame
Prof . Jake Highton and Guy Louis Rocha win
Carson City Nevada Appeal / 8-15-2024

4 Barbwire nominees honored, 4 to go

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State election officials warn Postal Service unready

PBS News Hour interview with state association spokesperson
PBS News Hour / 9-12-2024

Letter to Postmaster General from National Assn. of Secretaries of State & State Election Directors
9/11/2024 (Unintentional Irony?)

More reasons why Nevada loves Trump's postal service torpedo Louis the Clueless DeJoyless

To Win Nevada, Harris Must Turn Infrastructure Jobs Into Votes
By Gabriel Thompson / Capital and Main (Calif.) / 9-10-2024

Harris Debe Tornar Los Empleos En Infraestructura En Votos Para Ganar Nevada
By Gabriel Thompson / Capital and Main (Calif.) / 9-10-2024

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9/11 Amnesia Lane
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-11-2024

Old Glory's red stripes have always represented the blood of America's patriots.

Last gasp of white-wigged white guys
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-4-2024

Joyfulness replaces Dejoylessness
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-28-2024

FLASH! (9:41am PDT 8-26) Barbwire First Break—>Postmaster General Louis the Clueless DeJoy is expected to speak at Reno's Peppermill Hotel-Casino on Tuesday, August 27 or before 8-30

The hit man assigned to destroy the US Postal Service is skulking around Reno Nevada this week. Postmaster General Louis the Clueless DeJoyless will address a letter carriers convention betwixt now and Friday, Aug. 30. Media and public blackouts have been announced. On Aug. 26, a large crowd of postal workers and other union members rallied in front of Reno City Hall. DeJoyless has targeted accelerated erosion of northwestern Nevada and eastern California service to begin this January. Public and politician protests have been ignored. He was appointed to make the service so bad that nationwide privatization for profit will look undeniable. The Postal Board of Governors needs to fire this yayhoo NOW! Watch the front page of NevadaLabor.com/ Unjoy.

USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to speak in Reno at postal convention
PUBLIC & MEDIA BLACKOUT / KRNV TV-4 / KRXI TV-11 / 8-26-2024

Letter carriers rally in Downtown Reno pushing for better safety measures
By Anthony Ramos / KRNV TV-4 / KRXI TV-11 / 8-26-2024

PROTECT OUR LETTER CARRIERS RALLY
Reno City Hall BELIEVE PLAZA/ Monday August 26 / 6:30p.m.-8:00p.m.
Be there or be square!

USPS announces move of Reno mail-processing operations to California despite opposition
By Mark Robison / RGJ.com 4-23-2024

Thank you, Defendant T-Rump. Your postmaster general Rasputin DeJoyless is doing one helluva job. So what's next, moving up the assassination date to kill voting by mail this November? Whassamatta with Biden's new appointees to the Postal Service Board of Governors? Fire the sumbitch, already.

Revenge of T-Rump's postmaster general: Proposed northern Nevada/eastern California mail shunt to Sacramento slows down mail, endangers voting Washoe voter registrar warns of destruction of voting by mail By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal 2-25-2024

MORE Going Postal Updates & BULLETINS

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SAVE THE DATE—>RENO LABORFEST '24
LABOR DAY / Monday 9-2-2024
Union-Proud Show 'n' Shine.pdf
Event information.pdf
Be there or be square!

Across the Universe
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-21-2024

Nonpartisan advocate for seniors prevented from running for county commission seat
By Bob Conrad / ThisIsReno.com / The Ides of August 2024
Stay tuned to the 8-28-2024 Sparks Tribune: Who really benefits
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Prophets and Profits
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."— Groucho Marx
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-14-2024

Hot August VD
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-7-2024

A STORY SO HOT OFF THE PRESS THAT IT MAY REQUIRE OPENING THE WATER GATES 8-2-2024 —> Today, Aaron C. Davis and Carol D. Leonnig of the Washington Post reported that there is reason to believe that when Trump’s 2016 campaign was running low on funds, Trump accepted a $10 million injection of cash from Egypt’s authoritarian leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. It is against the law to accept direct or indirect financial support from foreign nationals or foreign governments for a political campaign in the United States. Stay tuned. T-Rump took money from Egypt By Heather Cox Richardson 8-2-2024 Washington Post Exclusive $10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case. "Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to 'kindly withdraw' nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash." MORE

State houses, courthouses & cat houses
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-31-2024
UPDATED 8-1-2024 GMT

Dirt cheap and cheap shots
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-24-2024

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

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

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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Eee-yo-leven! Barbwire wins 11th Nevada Press Association award 6 of 11 gold Tribune editorial page voted 2020 best Dennis Myers 2nd Barbwire nominee elected to NPA Hall of Fame BREAKING NEWS—>New Barbwire Winners! Jake Highton & Guy Louis Rocha 2024 Barbwire winning nominees BUENO! 4 down, 4 to go Support Don Dondero and David Toll and Foster Church and Norman Cardoza 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