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<\/a><\/p>\nDispatch: The 19th-Century Influencer Who Invented Thanksgiving<\/a><\/h2>\nHow Sarah Josepha Hale used fashion, fiction, and sheer persistence to give America its beloved holiday.
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By the time Lincoln read her letter in September 1863, the country was exhausted. Gettysburg<\/a> had ended two months earlier with unimaginable casualties. Families were fractured, states were bitterly divided, and the very idea of a United<\/em> States felt fragile. Hale\u2019s proposal arrived not as a domestic nicety but as a cultural intervention\u2014a way to call a bleeding nation to the same table, if only for a day. In a world where families were split by battle lines, the image of a shared feast\u2014of turkey, pies, and a moment of gratitude\u2014offered unity where politics could not.<\/p>\nIn October 1863<\/a>, Lincoln issued a proclamation establishing a national day of Thanksgiving. Lincoln\u2019s own language echoed Hale\u2019s persuasive vision: He called the nation to give thanks \u201cwith one heart and one voice,\u201d inviting citizens in every corner of the Union\u2014including those \u201cat sea\u201d and \u201csojourning in foreign lands\u201d\u2014to pause together. He urged Americans not only to offer gratitude but also to \u201ccommend to [God\u2019s] tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers\u201d in the war, and to implore divine help \u201cto heal the wounds of the nation.\u201d In the middle of brutal civil strife, Lincoln took up Hale\u2019s idea that gratitude to God and for each other could be a form of national repair.
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Closer to the Edge: The Fascist who wrote a manifesto on Thanksgiving<\/a><\/h2>\nDonald Trump didn\u2019t wish America a Happy Thanksgiving. He hurled a brick of racist fertilizer at the country, lit it on fire, and rang the doorbell like a bored teenager who never emotionally matured past 7th grade.
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\u201cThe official United States Foreign population stands at 53 million people (Census), most of which are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Thom Hartmann: If Hegseth Gave an Order to \u201cKill Everybody,\u201d He Must Be Removed and Prosecuted<\/a><\/h2>\nAnd if Donald Trump approved or encouraged these actions, then impeachment and criminal referral are not optional: they’re required to defend the rule of law…
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\nEven if a war did exist, Huntley notes, the order to kill wounded, unarmed survivors \u201cwould in essence be an order to show no quarter,\u201d which is defined under the Geneva Conventions as a war crime.<\/p>\nThis isn\u2019t an obscure legal debate. This is basic civilization. Armed states do not execute helpless people in the water.<\/p>\n
And yet this is now U.S. policy. The boat strike on September 2 was not a one\u2013off. It was the beginning of a campaign.<\/em>
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In October 1863<\/a>, Lincoln issued a proclamation establishing a national day of Thanksgiving. Lincoln\u2019s own language echoed Hale\u2019s persuasive vision: He called the nation to give thanks \u201cwith one heart and one voice,\u201d inviting citizens in every corner of the Union\u2014including those \u201cat sea\u201d and \u201csojourning in foreign lands\u201d\u2014to pause together. He urged Americans not only to offer gratitude but also to \u201ccommend to [God\u2019s] tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers\u201d in the war, and to implore divine help \u201cto heal the wounds of the nation.\u201d In the middle of brutal civil strife, Lincoln took up Hale\u2019s idea that gratitude to God and for each other could be a form of national repair. Donald Trump didn\u2019t wish America a Happy Thanksgiving. He hurled a brick of racist fertilizer at the country, lit it on fire, and rang the doorbell like a bored teenager who never emotionally matured past 7th grade. \u201cThe official United States Foreign population stands at 53 million people (Census), most of which are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Closer to the Edge more…)<\/a><\/p>\n And if Donald Trump approved or encouraged these actions, then impeachment and criminal referral are not optional: they’re required to defend the rule of law… This isn\u2019t an obscure legal debate. This is basic civilization. Armed states do not execute helpless people in the water.<\/p>\n And yet this is now U.S. policy. The boat strike on September 2 was not a one\u2013off. It was the beginning of a campaign.<\/em>
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<\/a><\/p>\nCloser to the Edge: The Fascist who wrote a manifesto on Thanksgiving<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nEven if a war did exist, Huntley notes, the order to kill wounded, unarmed survivors \u201cwould in essence be an order to show no quarter,\u201d which is defined under the Geneva Conventions as a war crime.<\/p>\n
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