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NancyBarrera

@nancybarrera.bsky.social
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Feral Malibu GenXer residing in Idaho, BSU alum, change manager, resilient widow, proud momma, BLM & LGBTQIA+ ally. Constantly told to soften my tone. “Do the right thing." Spike Lee @nancyengerbarrera on Threads

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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Supporting a cornerstone of our democracy like 1A takes work & sacrifice (and I use that term loosely, it's canceling a streaming platform, not volunteering for military service). Imagine not canceling a propaganda TV station in the 1930s because Betty Boop was your children's favorite cartoon.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2025
According to the New York Times, "The text exchange between Mr. Robinson and his partner was reproduced by prosecutors in the charging document." Reproduced? So no one has seen the actual messages? No screen shots? No time stamps? Also, weren't they on Discord and not SMS? 1/
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Flex where you can against fascism. #CancelDisney
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi... When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
My son and daughter in law were among them today!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This is complete fantasy. Just an absurd made up lie. The EU is not giving Trump “$600 billion to invest anyway I want.” They aren’t giving him 1 dollar to invest. It is just astonishing that a president can go on a financial network and lie like this & it barely registers. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I have no gift subscriptions left but somebody please post one for this MUST READ piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. Straight fire.🔥 The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
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Opinion | The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/07/2025
New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.
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This Democrat Won’t Let Go of the Jeffrey Epstein Case, Either
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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This should be seriously considered across the US. It will enrage him.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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An illustration of a young girl in silhouette with a ponytail, standing against a fiery orange and red background. Over her figure is a handwritten quote in white text that reads: “The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.” – Tolstoy. The intense backdrop and the child's silhouette create a haunting, powerful visual emphasizing the quote's message about the dangers of complacency toward evil.
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We played this over loudspeakers during our Semester at Sea homecoming on deck, coasting under the Golden Gate Bridge in April 1984. It brought tears to 300+ students' eyes with our newfound appreciation of what America represented. Those memories hit now as a cherished memory of a love long gone.
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Neil Diamond - America (Live At The Greek Theatre / 2012)
YouTube video by neildiamondVEVO
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
'In a stunning moment, Republican Senator James Lankford admits that President Biden’s border bill would have been far more successful than anything Trump has done on the border.' via @democraticwins.bsky.social substack.com/@demwinsmedi...
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Democratic Wins Media on Substack
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republican Senator James Lankford admits that President Biden’s border bill would have been far more successful than anything Trump has done on the border. Even Republi...
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
A TEENY break from the hellscape that is our body politic. Noises Off at ISF was on a comedic par with Broadway's Book of Mormon, while Boise's fireworks timed during the second act lent itself seamlessly to the amusing chaos. Bravo to some much needed hilarity and uncontrollable laughter tonight.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A South Asian man from Uganda checking two boxes in a college application isn't a scandal. The NYT pulling stolen data from a white supremacist to smear him in support of another candidate is.
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I see my letter to Simpson really made a difference... #IHateItHere
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Breaking: The US lost 33,000 jobs in June. They were expecting to *gain* 100,000.
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The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says
Economists polled by Dow Jones forecasted an increase of 100,000 for the month.
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Zeb Palmer @zebpalmer.com · 01/07/2025
Oh, and one more #IdahoFire note before I disappear... Keep your damn fireworks way the fuck away from public lands.
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IdahoLark @idaholark.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My god, the level of stupidity in my city and state is beyond terrifying. The Intermountain Bird Observatory lost so much in last year’s Valley Ffire. #IdahoFire
A Facebook post that says “Fireworks on public lands. 
This weekend, our Intermountain Bird Observatory team was back at Lucky Peak in the Boise River Wildlife Management Area, monitoring breeding songbirds and tracking how birds are recovering after the Valley Fire burned more than 10,000 acres of habitat just eight months ago.
At 2 a.m., we were jolted awake by the unmistakable sound of fireworks. Pops. Crackles. Whooshes. Coming from the parking area. Mere feet from the blackened remains of sagebrush and trees left by the Valley Fire. Right next to a giant sign that says, clearly, NO FIREWORKS.

It’s not even the Fourth of July yet.
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Melissa Davlin @davlin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I really hate this.
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Melissa Davlin @davlin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
North Idaho News on Facebook is reporting an active shooter situation at Canfield Mountain in Kootenai County. I am listening to the ISP scanner, and they said they believe someone intentionally set a fire and shot at responding firefighters. That lines up with what people are saying on FB.
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I tagged you on the Zuck site too; didn't know if you knew or not
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Hakeem Jeffries is so skilled at being a disappointment. The worst opposition leader possible. I am so sick of rank careerism and incompetence.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We were just suspended without warning from threads and Instagram. We have no idea why. If any of y’all are on those apps and want to let them know to fix that we would be appreciative.
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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The Felon in Chief's ceasefire to be known as "Operation Stormy" because it lasted only two minutes.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say
Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities was not based on new intelligence, administration officials say.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
One of the most concerning things about the US going to war with Iran is, as @anthonylfisher.bsky.social argues, that the people managing it from the top of the US government are lying incompetents.
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Opinion | America struck Iran's nuclear facilities — and Trump is surrounded by incompetent advisers
Try to imagine Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard as Cabinet members advising the president through something like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Remember all that “genocide Joe” and “Kamala is a war hawk” shit? Yeah…psyops. It worked.
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Who will stand up for our democracy? This
question, fraught in even the most peaceful
times, has only grown more pressing as our
country approaches its 250th anniversary.
Each passing day brings growing assaults on
essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process.
Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces
a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches
publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against
peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into
an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls
upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation
desperately needs your cowardice.
Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure
passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It
was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can
too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant
wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and
women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power
and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was
stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived.
Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time
for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is
not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone
on about what’s happening to their precious democracy.
This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov-
eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and
have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing
assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave
of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about
getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama.
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
So, if someone dropped b*mbs on US soil, they'd say that country "just wanted to eliminate our nuclear program"? No. They'd call it War and immediately retaliate. At the very least, b*mbing another country without congressional approval is in direct violation of the War Powers Resolution.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This really isn’t a hard message. Obama neutralized the Iran nuclear program through the hard work of diplomacy, but Trump tore up the deal in his first term out of spite and chose war instead.
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I cannot tell you just how much joy and schadenfreude the COMPLETE EMPTYNESS of this event brings me.
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I once had a cop tell me: "Nine, you're fine; Ten, you're mine." Six MPH over is outright laughable, except it isn't in this instance.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Jeezus. That's some story! I'm so sorry that happened/is happening to you.
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It was a sight to behold, for sure. 😉
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If we think in terms of Boise State stadium (36,000+ capacity) divided by 3, that seems close to accurate (based on my in-person observations).
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Who estimated the 13,000? Seems possible to me, but much higher than the initial 7,000.
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