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Minneapolis witness Stella Carlson breaks her silence on Alex Pretti’s killing

Local Minneapolis resident Stella Carlson, the woman seen in the background of multiple videos of the fatal federal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti, has now spoken publicly for the first time. Carlson was wearing a distinctive pink coat and filming on her phone as the shooting unfolded. She described what she witnessed in…

January 28, 2026 in 3) Politics, activism, by TCS Staff.

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“We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon… Our tribe was strong like a river. That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”
— Hunter S. Thompson,
Rolling Stone, November 11, 2004


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“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
- Terence McKenna, attributed


"In the end, McKenna, the Stoics, Buddhists, Taoists, and Heraclitus are all pointing us toward the same truth: to live fully, we must learn to dance with chaos, not run from it. We must let go of our rigid need for control and open ourselves to the wild, untamed, and unpredictable flow of life. Only then can we truly understand the deeper currents that shape our existence, the very sections of life where chaos and order intertwine."
- The Fear of Letting Go: Ego’s Struggle for Control

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