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The Conscious Citizens @consciouscitizens.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Pro-Palestine people are not single-issue voters. The reason we care so much is because we view Palestine as a representation of ALL issues in one. In Dispatch 18 we want to illustrate these connections so we can build more solidarity across movements. www.theconsciouscitizens.org/dispatch-18/

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How Palestine Connects to Literally Everything | CC Dispatch #18

Okay maybe not "literally" everything, but A LOT

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The Conscious Citizens @consciouscitizens.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

One of the trickiest techniques of the ruling class is happening all around us ALL the time: co-optation. If we aren't careful, co-optation will keep us trapped in the same back-and-forth for decades. Learn how to spot and resist in Dispatch 17! www.theconsciouscitizens.org/dispatch-17/

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Spotting Co-optation & Building More Resilient Movements | CC Dispatch #17

Welcome to Dispatch #17! This week we are discussing one of the largest women’s movements in recent history, what co-optation is and how it impacts social movements, as well as ways to fight back agai...

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I don’t think we’ll achieve true progress unless we recognize that Liberalism as an ideology is what got us today’s flavor of fascism. Without reckoning with that, we’re stuck in the same reactionary pendulum swing.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

More 50501 protests today so a couple reminders: 1. A protest with a permit is a parade. 2. Mobilizing is just the first step, now ORGANIZE with a real leftist org.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

gonna just be the millionth person to say: we in the US should indeed be mad that our electoral choices have been narrowed down to "genocide abroad is fine" vs "don't settle for genocide abroad when we could also have internment camps here". but neither Palestinians nor their supporters put you here

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The age of American dominance is coming to an end. America could adapt to the new reality, but it won't. Like alcoholism, the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one in the first place. This, and more, in the latest Dipsatch! www.theconsciouscitizens.org/dispatch-16

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Trump's Tariffs & the End of American Dominance | CC Dispatch #16

Welcome to Dispatch #16! If it feels like the world is shifting under your feet sometimes, that’s because it is. This week we’re discussing Trump's tariffs, the large shifts happening in the global ba...

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I’m not a single issue voter but Palestine is absolutely the litmus test. If you can’t proudly stand against the one of the most obvious and biggest crimes of our generation, you’re already compromised. Your morals are clearly up for sale.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Don't think Americans realize how resilient China or Chinese people are. They've been preparing for this moment for decades. Americans are not accustomed to even the slightest amount of discomfort.. China lived through a century of war, famine, and turmoil to get to where they are today.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Anyone else think it’s weird these national Hands Off protests by 50501 were organized the same day as a major mobilization for Palestine in DC? Their marches took over the media, yet in all the HandsOff rallies there is no mention of Palestine and they’re vocally pro-NATO. Interesting timing

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Kwame Ture has said that mobilization is not organization, and we need to do both to actually make systemic change. For all the new folks protesting - remember what you do that day isn’t nearly as important as the day after (and the day after that). Let this lead to greater organizing! #handsoff

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The fascist apples don’t fall far from the fascist tree Check out [bit.ly/ice-defense] for our ICE Defense Masterlist and spread the word! Follow @theconsciouscitizens and subscribe to get access to our directory of resources. #history #education #history

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Art creates culture, and culture is what unites the masses. So if you want to control the masses, you must control art. This is a lesson fascists like Hitler and Mussolini knew well. Today's fascists do too. To win, we must build the counter-culture. More, in this week's Dispatch ⬇️

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's very telling that the conversation around the leaked Signal chats is more concerned with the leak itself rather than the contents of the leak (bypassing Congress to bomb Yemeni civilians). The problem isn't that they bombed innocent brown people. It's that they were sloppy enough to tell us.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Like many, I'm mourning the martyrdom of Hossam and Mansour, two (more) Palestinian journalists assassinated by the IOF. That + the new level of violence in Palestine, it all feels (rightfully) defeating. So here's a bit more of an optimistic take... youtube.com/shorts/dbDJZ...

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Signs Palestine is WINNING #history #politics #news

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I expanded upon my earlier post about the connections between movements that Mahmoud Khalil's arrest reveals. Now that the IOF has resumed their genocide full force, we need to start moving as ONE if we want to stop this for good.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil's arrest shows how all our struggles are linked: ICE is a key tool of oppressing immigrants (Immigrant Rights). ICE detention centers are often run by private prison companies (Abolition). Those companies are trained / use tech by Israel (Palestine). Our only enemies are above us.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Latest Dispatch newsletter out now! This time we’re writing about actually viable economic systems we can start building NOW

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

There’s no such thing as a flawless victory. But I’d say a Palestinian saying “stop the occupation” at the most Zionist event of the most Zionist industry is a huge win. It shows that the culture here is changing.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It’s a shame that even when a Palestinian filmmaker wins an Oscar for the first time for telling their story, all anyone can focus on is the Israeli. Talk about Massafer Yatta. Talk about settler violence. Talk about the West Bank and Jenin! So many more important things than Yuval’s reputation.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

After becoming more aware of politics and how narratives are formed and cemented into reality, I’m fairly certain about 50% of recorded history is probably revisionist bullshit.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The US has never helped Ukraine out of kindness. ALL of the military aid is a LOAN to Ukraine, and the US always collects. The UK got the same deal to help them in WW2 and they were paying off that debt for over 50 years. That's not even mentioning the mineral rights...

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Definitely, the right were able to build a tenuous coalition of Christian fundamentalists, white supremacists, neocons, and tech oligarchs. It will be interesting to see if it can hold for the 4 years.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

An absolutely vital discussion for all of us on the left. Right-wing authoritarians have a clear, if twisted, vision for the world they want. If the left (read: working class) want to win, we need to come up with something just as compelling.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Kendrick’s Super Bowl performance isn’t as important as what hopefully comes after it. Otherwise it’s just a distraction from the bigger problems youtube.com/shorts/LNPVn...

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Is Kendrick a revolutionary? #superbowl #politics #education

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I love Kendrick and his halftime show but his performance isn’t nearly as important as what comes after it. Words and symbolism don’t create revolution - actions do. Protest, volunteer, pass out flyers, banner drop. Don’t just pat yourself on the back for seeing the message. Act on it!

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Friendly reminder that the Super Bowl is one of the biggest propaganda events in American society. Pro-consumerism, pro-military, pro-imperialism - it’ll all be there. EVERY minute you see is designed to manipulate you to feel what THEY want you to feel.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

You know Hollywood industry is bad right now because there are a LOT of celebrities in the Super Bowl ads this year. Mortgage is due!

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Apartheid country gets apartheid-sponsor to punish the country that stopped apartheid for trying to...stop more apartheid. Yup, that tracks.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

One day of real protests outside and the people who were like "fuck you peasants we owe you no explanations" are now out there with (probably false) cya clarifications. Pressure works. Keep it up. They answer to the people, it is never ever the other way around. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

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Treasury says Musk’s DOGE has not rejected payments in first attempt to clarify access granted to critical system | CNN Politics

The Treasury Department said Elon Musk aides detailed to the agency have “read-only” access to its sensitive $5 trillion US payments system and that no payments have been suspended or rejected as part...

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

America will make the same mistake in Palestine as they did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Doomed imperial occupation that achieves nothing but filling the coffers of military-industrial contractors while the country crumbles at home. Same truth remains: you can’t bomb away resistance.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

People are rightfully outraged by Trump declaring he will “clear out” Gaza and occupy it. But let’s look at it another way. 15 months of the full force of the Empire via Proxy was not enough to achieve any of Israel’s goals. Now they need daddy-US to step in and clean up the mess.

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The Conscious Citizens @consciouscitizens.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Organizing, mutual aid, and community have been some common words over the past few weeks as authoritarianism takes root all over the world. All great ideas but how does one even get started? We discuss all this and more in our 11th Dispatch! www.theconsciouscitizens.org/dispatch-11/

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How We Win & How to Get Started | CC Dispatch #11

Over the last week, the readership of the Conscious Citizens has grown considerably from all around the world. Welcome to all of our new readers! Please check below for a link to our Discord server, i...

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The current dismantling of the US government is the climax of a long right wing battle against bureaucracy and regulations with the goal of installing techno-feudal states. I wrote about this in the 6th issue of the @consciouscitizens.bsky.social Dispatch! www.theconsciouscitizens.org/dispatch-6/

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The Right-Wing Battle Against Bureaucracy | CC Dispatch #6

Thanks for joining us for the 6th Dispatch! Here's a tune to go along with your read. Donald Trump has been making headlines announcing his absolutely wild picks to lead his administration, but it’s a...

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Both parties are laughing at us as they short the market and get rich off our suffering. We don’t need the Democrats anymore. We need REAL opposition. It’s long past time for a coalition of the left.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A lot of people why the Dems are doing nothing to stop the dismantling of US government. It’s pretty simple. They’re all on the same team. Everything being done right now benefits Democrat leaders just as much as Republicans. They WANT all of this too!

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If you wanna know how good tariffs are for the economy, just look up the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. It was implemented as a “solution” to the Great Depression. Spoiler Alert: it made things A LOT worse.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Being up in arms about TikTok being banned but absolutely silent as Musk coups the US government is just….so American? We’ve been so thoroughly poisoned by the bread and circuses.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Really want people to understand that the US is experiencing the finale of its own Cultural Revolution that has been brewing for two decades. It’s just not the good kind.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this but START PLANTING THIS YEAR. In the ground, in a pot, whatever you can. Check out gardening videos on YT for ways to start. You’re gonna want those veggies in a few months when our food systems breakdown.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hi I love how you worded this. Do you mind if I shared it on my IG?

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Learn what to do if you ever encounter ICE at your door or on your block 👇

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thank you! I just created one actually @consciouscitizens.bsky.social ! I'll be sure to post our updates, guides, and other resources there too.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thank you! Yeah that's a great idea. New to Bluesky and ppl have been so helpful lol

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We do this over at the Conscious Citizens (.org). Collect all the best resources and education for raising collective consciousness made BY HUMANS

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

AI techno-fascists will say stuff like “AI is gonna change the entire structure of society” and just leave it at that as if they don’t mean reverting to feudalism. How will it change? Who will benefit? Who will be on top? PLEASE BE SPECIFIC SAM

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Mutual aid builds trust. Trust builds relationships. Relationships build organizing. Organizing builds power. Power is how we ultimately win.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Americans are experiencing what the Chinese did in the 70s once China opened its doors again to the world: the sudden realization that the world is huge, and it’s moving on without you.

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Ray @raytrospectively.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Add up every third party vote and it wouldn’t have made the difference to get Kamala a win. You can’t scapegoat fundamentally bad politics

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