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12:20 PM ET, November 25, 2021

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Joshua Zeitz / Politico:

When People Thought the First Thanksgiving Was Too Woke — In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln unwittingly launched what would soon become a cherished American tradition. — A well-wisher had sent a turkey to the White House for the first family's holiday meal.

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Liza Featherstone / New Republic:

America, Rediscover Thanksgiving's Radical Past — What does Thanksgiving mean in a culture where we are constantly exhorted to be grateful all year long? In progressive circles—and even in some corporate boardrooms—we now often begin a meeting by giving thanks to Indigenous people, acknowledging that we are on “stolen lands.”

Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The War on Thanksgiving Is America at Its Worst

Discussion: HotAir, TK News and The Federalist

Washington Post:

How the events unfolded at Waukesha parade — It was 4:35 p.m. in Waukesha, Wis., 34 days before Dec. 25. But the neighbors of this city west of Milwaukee were celebrating a Christmas parade moving through Main Street. — At the same time a few blocks away, an officer reported he had heard …

Discussion: RedState, Fox News, The Daily Wire and Twitchy

Ruth Styles / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks was convicted for threatening to bomb Nugget Casino in Nevada and is STILL wanted after failing to appear in court

Discussion: The Last Refuge, RedState and Instapundit

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:

Georgia prosecutor booked into jail for mishandling Ahmaud Arbery case — The former prosecutor charged with misconduct in the Ahmaud Arbery case was booked into a Georgia jail the same day three men were convicted of murdering the Black jogger. — Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit district …

Discussion: Reuters

Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:

How a shaky cellphone video changed the course of the Ahmaud Arbery murder case — The first news story about the Feb. 23, 2020, shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a mere four paragraphs, offered little detail about what led to the death of the 25-year-old. — In the small coastal Georgia town of Brunswick …

Discussion: HuffPost and littlegreenfootballs.com

Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The System Only Worked Because It Was Pushed

Discussion: Strangely Blogged, The Guardian, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Beast, Vox, NBC News, The Mahablog, New York Times, New York Post, The White House, Vox, The Dispatch and New York Times

Hans Nichols / Axios:

Scoop: Centrist Dems sink Biden's nominee for top bank regulator — Five Democratic senators have told the White House they won't support Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, effectively killing her nomination for the powerful bank-regulator position.

Discussion: HotAir, New York Post, Breitbart, Power Line, Washington Free Beacon, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Becker News, Bloomberg, Washington Times, National Review, The Daily Wire and Twitchy, more at Techmeme »

Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times:

L.A. firefighter accused of ‘despicable act’ in protest over vaccine mandate — The Los Angeles Fire Department is investigating an incident in which a firefighter “responded inappropriately” after being handed a letter to comply with the city's vaccine mandate, a department spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Discussion: New York Post, KTLA and TheBlaze

Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:

Scotland's Top Prosecutor Will Decide if She'll Go After Trump, Judge Rules — It's now up to Scotland's top prosecutor to pursue a financial investigation of Donald Trump's golf courses there, a judge has ruled. — A Scottish judge on Thursday shot down attempts to force the government …

Discussion: Insider and Raw Story

New York Times:

Waukesha Suspect's Previous Release Agitates Efforts to Overhaul Bail — Darrell Brooks, accused of plowing his S.U.V. through a Wisconsin parade, had been freed on $1,000 bail for a different charge in Milwaukee County, where there is a backlog of cases. — In early November …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Brian Flood / Fox News:
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow failed to mention career criminal Darrell Brooks during Waukesha parade attack segment

Discussion: BizPac Review

Tara Palmeri / Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: A Dave Chappelle Thanksgiving special — DRIVING THE DAY — READ OF THE DAY — WaPo's account of our own Meridith McGraw's retelling via Twitter of one dead turkey's journey on a Southwest flight from DCA to Austin: through scanning at TSA, into an overhead bin and …

Washington Post:

France and Britain spar over illegal migration, after at least 27 drown in English Channel — PARIS — Less than 24 hours after at least 27 migrants died while trying to cross from France to Britain by boat, in the worst migrant tragedy in the English Channel in years, the two countries …

Discussion: Politico, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Financial Times and Althouse

Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:

G.O.P. Cements Hold on Legislatures in Battleground States — Democrats were once able to count on wave elections to win back key statehouses. Republican gerrymandering is making that all but impossible. — Republicans are locking in newly gerrymandered maps for the legislatures …

Politico:

Biden Colombia plan stirs up Florida hornets nest — MIAMI — The Biden administration's plan to remove a Colombian rebel group from a list of foreign terrorist organizations barely caused a ripple outside Washington when the news broke this week. — But in Florida, home …

Discussion: The New Humanitarian, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Breitbart and Townhall

Edward Helmore / The Guardian:

Lara Trump claims pricier turkeys are a liberal plot against Thanksgiving — Ex-president's daughter-in-law tells Fox News leftwing Americans 'don't want us to have any shared traditions' — Lara Trump, the Fox News contributor and wife of Eric Trump, has bizarrely claimed that the rising cost …

Discussion: Forbes, CNN, Mock Paper Scissors and Mediaite

HuffPost:

Trump Could Pay $156,000 For Every Jan. 6 Rioter's Defense, But So Far Has Spent Zero — The former president is sitting on at least $105 million in cash collected by spreading the same lies about the election that incited the assault on the Capitol. — By S.V. Date

Discussion: Raw Story

France 24:

Emirati general accused of torture appointed head of Interpol — An Emirati general accused of torture was elected president of Interpol Thursday, the global police agency said, despite the concerns of human rights organisations and members of the European Parliament.

Josh Rogin / Washington Post:

The Uyghur genocide university divestment movement is here — China's human rights abuses have been getting a lot of attention in the run-up to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February. The disappearance and apparently staged re-appearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai in creepy videos posted online has shocked millions.

Bangor Daily News:

Democrats can't be the party of both the working and the millionaire classes … Jared Golden represents Maine's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. — For years, Democrats have made promises to American voters: Elect us, and we will lower the cost of prescription drugs.