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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.

You Can’t Bring a Firearm to a Protest. It’s That Simple.

“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.” — FBI Director Kash Patel

January 27, 2026 in 3) Politics, by TCS Staff.

The Killing of Alex Pretti Should Be the Breaking Point

Alex Pretti’s death shows what happens when armed federal agents are given political cover to operate above the law and the public is told to ignore what it can plainly see. When the state kills in public and lies about it afterward, neutrality is no longer an option.

January 27, 2026 in 3) Politics, authoritarianism, by Nick Allison, free speech.

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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."
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