Brandon @ CrucibleOfThought
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But God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean. (Acts 10:28)
If we let it, this season can be a refining, a crucible experience, where the dross gets burned away and only pure gold remains. Blog at http://crucibleofthought.com
If we let it, this season can be a refining, a crucible experience, where the dross gets burned away and only pure gold remains. Blog at http://crucibleofthought.com
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This was hard to watch, and 12 minutes long, but I’m glad I did.
IANAL but from what I read, if they don’t have a warrant then they have no right to enter, period, full stop.
IANAL but from what I read, if they don’t have a warrant then they have no right to enter, period, full stop.
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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January 10, 2026 at 10:04 PM
This was hard to watch, and 12 minutes long, but I’m glad I did.
IANAL but from what I read, if they don’t have a warrant then they have no right to enter, period, full stop.
IANAL but from what I read, if they don’t have a warrant then they have no right to enter, period, full stop.
There IS good in this world. After raising $1.5M: "Thank you for your generosity. We’ve closed this GoFundMe and will place the funds in a trust for the family. If you’re looking to donate, we encourage you to support others in need. We’re truly grateful." www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
There IS good in this world. After raising $1.5M: "Thank you for your generosity. We’ve closed this GoFundMe and will place the funds in a trust for the family. If you’re looking to donate, we encourage you to support others in need. We’re truly grateful." www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
January 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
Depends on what you're looking for. For MAGA supporters, all they see is the lesbian partner taunting the ICE cop. But for any progressive or liberal, the lesbian aspect barely registers, and the pushback against authority seems appropriate. This isn't about a legal case, but targeted propaganda.
So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
January 10, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Depends on what you're looking for. For MAGA supporters, all they see is the lesbian partner taunting the ICE cop. But for any progressive or liberal, the lesbian aspect barely registers, and the pushback against authority seems appropriate. This isn't about a legal case, but targeted propaganda.
New video blog post: This week we watched another expression of extreme injustice by a government official caught on camera. What does the Bible mean by justice? What does God expect of us in bringing justice, on earth as in heaven?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcF...
Bringing Justice to Earth
YouTube video by Crucible Of Thought
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January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
New video blog post: This week we watched another expression of extreme injustice by a government official caught on camera. What does the Bible mean by justice? What does God expect of us in bringing justice, on earth as in heaven?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcF...
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FREY: “.. the administration is sending a message to the entire country: If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 AM
FREY: “.. the administration is sending a message to the entire country: If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
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🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
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This comes from the NYT's analysis of all the available video. Put aside whatever you think of NYT; this is extremely valuable, careful, and absolutely damning analysis that literally step by step debunks every lie fascism may manufacture about this murder. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
This comes from the NYT's analysis of all the available video. Put aside whatever you think of NYT; this is extremely valuable, careful, and absolutely damning analysis that literally step by step debunks every lie fascism may manufacture about this murder. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Liberty dies. A political cartoon by a Chinese refugee in Australia. Sometimes it takes a foreigner to call out the sins of a nation.
January 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Liberty dies. A political cartoon by a Chinese refugee in Australia. Sometimes it takes a foreigner to call out the sins of a nation.
Five fairly recent court cases explaining exactly why the ICE agent was wrong to fire on Renee Good.
1 of 5) Adam’s vs. Speers (2007): Once Speers was no longer in the path of the vehicle, the justification for the use of deadly force ended.
1 of 5) Adam’s vs. Speers (2007): Once Speers was no longer in the path of the vehicle, the justification for the use of deadly force ended.
January 8, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Five fairly recent court cases explaining exactly why the ICE agent was wrong to fire on Renee Good.
1 of 5) Adam’s vs. Speers (2007): Once Speers was no longer in the path of the vehicle, the justification for the use of deadly force ended.
1 of 5) Adam’s vs. Speers (2007): Once Speers was no longer in the path of the vehicle, the justification for the use of deadly force ended.
Gee… I kinda remember something from my history classes in high school about this… Germany, 1930s, right?
The madman in the White House has started his campaign to take over the entire Western Hemisphere and Congress is doing nothing to stop him as we watch in horror. 😱😱😱
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Gee… I kinda remember something from my history classes in high school about this… Germany, 1930s, right?
This comment wins the Internet today.
January 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
This comment wins the Internet today.
Speaking as a pissed-off 🇺🇸 citizen, the UN should immediately pull out of New York and suspend US membership on the Security Council until such date as the next fair Presidential elections are certified and our colonialism is fully reversed.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Security Council LIVE: ‘The power of the law must prevail’ amid Venezuela crisis, says Guterres
The Security Council is meeting in emergency session in New York to address the US rendition of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas, a move that has sent shockwaves through the region an...
news.un.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Speaking as a pissed-off 🇺🇸 citizen, the UN should immediately pull out of New York and suspend US membership on the Security Council until such date as the next fair Presidential elections are certified and our colonialism is fully reversed.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
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What a difference a year makes.
January 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
What a difference a year makes.
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The Peregrine falcon is the fastest animal in the world, with speeds up to 240 MPH.
And it isn't even close to how fast MAGA went from "America First!" to "We should run Venezuela".
And it isn't even close to how fast MAGA went from "America First!" to "We should run Venezuela".
January 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The Peregrine falcon is the fastest animal in the world, with speeds up to 240 MPH.
And it isn't even close to how fast MAGA went from "America First!" to "We should run Venezuela".
And it isn't even close to how fast MAGA went from "America First!" to "We should run Venezuela".
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Many rationale people in other countries understand this👇
Isn’t it about time that we insist that Congress impeach this POS?
Isn’t it about time that we insist that Congress impeach this POS?
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Many rationale people in other countries understand this👇
Isn’t it about time that we insist that Congress impeach this POS?
Isn’t it about time that we insist that Congress impeach this POS?
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A prescient cartoon. ⬇️ It was ALWAYS about the oil & that's more clear now than ever.
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
A prescient cartoon. ⬇️ It was ALWAYS about the oil & that's more clear now than ever.
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"Can a foreign country indict Donald Trump in their domestic courts and send in their Special Forces into DC to try and grab the president of the US? This is madness. No one accepts the legal basis for this."
Me on MSNOW today.
Me on MSNOW today.
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
"Can a foreign country indict Donald Trump in their domestic courts and send in their Special Forces into DC to try and grab the president of the US? This is madness. No one accepts the legal basis for this."
Me on MSNOW today.
Me on MSNOW today.
Count the military leaders in this set of war room photos. Go ahead. I'll wait.
They’ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago makeshift “situation room.”
Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.
Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.
January 4, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Count the military leaders in this set of war room photos. Go ahead. I'll wait.
Here's what this incompetent administration considers a high-security battle command center: thin black curtains around a room in an unsecured resort a hundred feet from a public beach, with a SecDef doomscrolling Twitter and a President using his cell phone to post boastful updates on TruthSocial.
January 4, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Here's what this incompetent administration considers a high-security battle command center: thin black curtains around a room in an unsecured resort a hundred feet from a public beach, with a SecDef doomscrolling Twitter and a President using his cell phone to post boastful updates on TruthSocial.
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It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
Trump just unambiguously set precedent that if a foreign nation wants him out of office, he and his wife are fair game for a snatch-n-grab. At the moment, there are a TON of very disgruntled foreign nations. And he's spending a lot of his time in an indefensible 17-acre resort on the beach.
January 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Trump just unambiguously set precedent that if a foreign nation wants him out of office, he and his wife are fair game for a snatch-n-grab. At the moment, there are a TON of very disgruntled foreign nations. And he's spending a lot of his time in an indefensible 17-acre resort on the beach.
Reminder: just two weeks ago, Trump said that Venezuela stole our oil fields, and he wants them back. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Reminder: just two weeks ago, Trump said that Venezuela stole our oil fields, and he wants them back. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...
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In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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