Tex Wayne
Older guy trying to figure out how to resist most effectively as a Blue Dot in a very poor red sea. Retired librarian, music lover (Especially blues folk, and Texas outlaw country). On here I mostly post about immigration issues and threats to SS
- Phil Ochs updated for our times. "In many a time, in many a land With many a gun in many a hand They came by the night, they came by the day Came with their guns to take us away With a knock on the door, knock on the door Here they come to take one more, one more"
- We Will Rebuild” is a powerful modern protest song of determination and hope, written for those who refuse to accept authoritarianism, political violence, and the erosion of democracy under Donald Trump, MAGA extremism, and complicit Republicans in the Congress.
- Buddy's work is now highlighted in a new documentary "Critical Incident: Death at the Border", which is out now on HBO Max. We also talk about the many years of fatal shootings at the southern border, and the fact that not a single agent has been successfully prosecuted for lethal force.
- And what science-backed evidence tells us about HPV vaccine.
- What Ivermectin is good for! True science saves millions from River Blindness.
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- Reposted by Tex WayneThe Border is wide open. They moved thousands of ICE agents to Minneapolis, MN to harass a blue city and state. Those agents have left the border wide open.
- Let's hope some day they're gone!
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- We will not back downt!
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- Reposted by Tex WayneHappy New Year! 🎉 Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️ #HATM www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...
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- "Newly unleashed with the legal authority to racially profile and more money than most militaries around the globe, agents wearing masks have been terrorizing communities across the United States ... This is an update on those legal orders, lawsuits, and letters ..." Support Deceleration -- I dp.
- "No scapegoats, no shadows, no "others to blame". We're one fragile family under many many names."
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- Sing louder than the lies. "When power sings crooked, the compass swings wild. And truth gets laughed at like a child they revile"
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- A song to cheer up resistors.
- Trump has an excuse for everything?
- ICE trying to trap people in sub-zero weather. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
- RAICES reports successful Giving Tuesday and shares playlist of Resistance songs.
- The perils of education to the Fascists.
- Oh sure give Argentina 20 billion bucks, we got nothing better to spend it on.
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- The Raging Grannies
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- Protest music
- Charlie Chaplin's greatest speech.
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- If you can, please support this organization. I do.
- Help AFSC help immigrants
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- Raging Grannies with "The Battle Hymn of the Donald"
- Tracy Chapman for seeing the future.
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- Side effect of a militarized border - more overdose deaths
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- Molly Ivans: So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. ’Cause you don’t always win. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
- Why not arrest veterans protesting immigration raids?
- What is a criminal to ICE? A Muslim who hired a clown, www.texasobserver.org/ice-marwan-m...
- “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” - James Madison, 1787.
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- Reposted by Tex Wayne🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help! Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
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- His reservation was canceled between the time he and his family got boarding passes and when they arrived at the gate. He had been dozed by Turning Point USA.
- Legal responses to immigration arrests, Texas National Guard being dispatched to Chicago, and other matters.
- Reposted by Tex WayneJournalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
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- Much like Trump himself, ICE doesn't seem to understand basic copyright - you can't just use other people's works without getting permission - whether it's a Neil Young song or a Pokemon character
- From the Declaration of Independence: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power... For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us"
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- No more genocide in my name. "Both Trump and Netanyahu made clear that they were not offering Hamas a choice in the matter. If the group refused, Trump told reporters, “Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas."
- A tragedy or an horror? A Black man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi.
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- Careless, inept, and incompetent. Basically, if you are a person of color, you are a target.
- The cruelty is 5he point
- Reposted by Tex Wayne🧊 Holding an Autistic child hostage to coerce parents out might be the most disgusting thing yet.
- Howt carry theirtt can you prove you are a citizen? Most people don't carry their birth certificate or passport with them every day. Maybe we should. But there is no evidence ICE will even ask for it.
- State Rep Justin Pearson, City Council, and Mayor oppose Trump and Gov. Lee's plan to send 13 federal and state agencies to invade Memphis
