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  1. John Hughes – „Ein Ticket für Zwei“ (1987)

    „Planes, Trains & Automobiles“ – Das ist Klassikeralarm im ZDF! Leider wiedermal, wie so häufig, in der völlig falschen Jahreszeit. Und das ärgert mich. Weil es hier um Thanksgiving geht. Dem amerikanischen Fest der Familie. Und dem Fest der echten Zumutungen, vor allem der überfüllten Flughäfen. Keine subtile Warnung hier, nur das volle Leben. Mit Steve Martin und John Candy. (ZDF, Wh.)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  2. Thankful for uneventful Thanksgiving travel

    Another year of Thanksgiving travel is in the books, and this year’s edition of it somehow happened without any flight cancellations, interruptions or even delays. That feels like even more of a miracle than the phrase “no delays” might suggest, because 2025 has been such a snakebit year for air travel.

    It started with the horrifying news of an almost 16-year streak of zero fatal crashes among U.S. airlines ending a few miles from my house, went on to feature months of meltdown-level disruptions among flights in and out of Newark that by summer had sent EWR to the bottom of my list of United hub airports, and then it left already-stressed air-traffic control employees working for more than a month without pay courtesy of the government shutdown.

    But after all that, Wednesday’s JetBlue flight from National Airport to Boston arrived at the gate at BOS six minutes early, after which Saturday’s United nonstop from Boston to Dulles reached its gate exactly on time. Service was great on each flight, the WiFi worked fine, and even the planes were above average: a four-year-old Airbus A220 on the flight up, a renewed Boeing 737 with screens at every seat on the way home.

    The experience feels even more like winning a lottery ticket considering some of the miserable Thanksgiving travel experiences I’ve had in the past. I’m thinking about when coming home for the holiday meant a long drive interrupted by Breezewood, Penn.; the subsequent years when a theoretically short drive to a suburb of Philadelphia could become a three-hour slog; most of all, the decade and change when the Thanksgiving journey either involved taking Amtrak and then two NJ Transit trains or spending four-plus hours on I-95 and the Jersey Turnpike that could easily stretch past six hours on the roads.

    (It’s kind of crazy that I have hosted Thanksgiving dinner in my own abode only twice since leaving for college: Everybody visited us in 2019 for a change, and then the pandemic put a family reunion out of the question the next year.)

    Now that my mother and my brother and his family all live in the same town just north of Boston, I just have to deal with spending money, not time. But as expensive as Thanksgiving flights can be, they beat the absurdity of driving 450 miles and change on the busiest travel weekend of the year. Bonus: The flights, even if I chance a connection, are so short that I can bring a container of frozen pumpkin puree in my carry-on luggage and not worry about that pie ingredient melting before I’ve reached family.

    I’m thankful for having this part of holiday travel easier than it used to be. And I’m thankful, as ever, for everybody connected with the travel industry who worked this holiday so that the rest of us could travel for it.

    #amtrak #bos #boston #dca #flightDelays #holidayTravel #i95 #iad #jerseyTurnpike #jetblue #thanksgiving #thanksgivingTravel #united

  3. The Holiday Odor Trap

    Filed Under: Odor Politics

    Most people assume the holiday rush is measured in miles, delays, and crowded kitchens. The truth is uglier. From Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve, the country sees a spike in traffic stops that begin with the same old claim, that an officer “smelled marijuana.” Courts have spent years separating odor from impairment, yet the loophole stays wide open. It gives law enforcement a way to turn ordinary travel into a fishing expedition.

    Some states have ruled that smell alone cannot justify a search, while others treat it as fair game. The public rarely knows the difference. Drivers heading to see family pass through counties where a scent on a jacket is enough to escalate a stop. Officers use it because it works. It softens the ground for questioning, it expands their authority, and it moves the conversation away from what actually matters, which is whether the driver is safe.

    Most holiday travelers are not impaired. They are tired, stressed, and trying to get where they are going. cannabis lives in homes and clothes the same way kitchen spices do. A single smoked joint on Thanksgiving Eve can leave a jacket scented for days. Officers know this. Courts know this. Yet people still get pulled aside because the scent is treated like a confession.

    The pattern is predictable. The officer leans in, mentions odor, then asks questions that have nothing to do with driving. People feel cornered and start explaining things they never needed to explain. That is the moment a simple stop becomes a long delay on the side of the road.

    Holiday traffic and police practice collide in a way that punishes normal life. The country is filled with legal markets. People buy edibles and flower for the same reason they buy wine. They visit friends. They share a moment on the porch. The plant is legal in half the country, but its scent is still treated like probable cause.

    The holiday season should not require a legal strategy, yet that is where the country stands. Smell is treated as suspicion even in states that claim to respect legalization. People drive through a patchwork of laws that shift from town to town. What protects a driver in one county is ignored in the next.

    The courts may eventually close the gap. Legislatures may force consistency. Until then, drivers are left with common sense and preparation. The safest choice is to remove the excuse entirely. Officers cannot prove what they cannot smell, and they cannot escalate what they cannot justify.

    Practical Tips For Holiday Drivers Who Want To Avoid The Odor Trap

    Keep jackets and bags outside the smoking area. Most odor claims come from clothing, not the person.

    Use clean gear during travel days. People who vape during the holiday tend to switch to something low profile. This is where PAX vaporizers fit naturally because they keep the ritual clean and contained.

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    Weed shops profit from cannabis culture while refusing to hire the people who shaped it. Insurers, compliance officers, and corporate rules punish cannabis users even in legal states. Testing myths, background screening, and liability fear filter out anyone with real experience. The result is a workforce designed to exclude the culture that keeps the industry…

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    Do not store old flower containers or ash in the car. Empty jars and forgotten tubes hold scent long after they are cleaned.

    Seal anything with a smell. A simple airtight pouch prevents the easiest excuse an officer can use.

    Travel clear headed. Some readers prefer relief without impairment during long drives. Endoca CBD has become a steady choice because it stays consistent.

    Know the rules in the state you are driving through. Odor is not probable cause in some states, yet it remains a tool in others.

    Keep conversations simple and respectful. You do not need to explain your holiday habits.

    Remember that odor is not evidence of impairment. Courts have split them apart. Officers blend them because it expands their authority.

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    BAD SEEDS IN WASHINGTON

    Federal lawmakers quietly inserted language into a budget bill that could criminalize countless cannabis seeds based solely on the THC profile of the parent plant. The move threatens growers, breeders, medical cultivators, and the genetic diversity that built modern cannabis culture. This seismic shift puts control of the plant’s future in the hands of federal…

    by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 8, 2025December 7, 2025

    Reefer Report Card Vol. 26: Nov 29-Dec 06

    This week’s Reefer Report Card exposes the scromiting panic, Washington’s latest hemp crackdown, and the Supreme Court inching toward a decision that could rewrite prohibition. Patients and veterans stayed stuck in outdated systems while global reform moved forward with hesitation. Panic got headlines. Weed got scapegoated. The world kept smoking anyway.

    by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 6, 2025December 6, 2025

    THE SCROMITING SCAM

    American newsrooms turned a simple overuse incident into a nationwide scare. Scromiting headlines exploded overnight, burying real CHS facts under panic and misinformation. Pot Culture breaks down what actually happened, why the media keeps confusing overuse with syndrome, and how fear travels faster than truth when cannabis is involved.

    by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 5, 2025December 4, 2025

    Omaha Tribe Legal Cannabis vs Nebraska Prohibition

    Nebraska still criminalizes cannabis, yet the Omaha Tribe has built a legal system with real rules, licensing, and a working industry on sovereign land. This update shows how the Tribe keeps moving forward while the state stays rooted in prohibition. The border is now the flashpoint. Step across it with cannabis and everything changes.

    by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 4, 2025December 3, 2025

    Virginia Is For Tokers

    Virginia just greenlit its long-delayed cannabis market. But is the launch plan built to last, or is it already showing cracks? The blueprint promises equity, protection from corporate takeover, and sustainable access. Advocates say it could be the first real test of Southern legalization. Pot Culture breaks it all down with facts, receipts, and no…

    by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 3, 2025December 2, 2025

    Holiday Survival with Cannabis, Not Chaos

    The holidays hit harder than they should. Travel turns messy, families spark arguments, and the season demands cheer nobody actually feels. Cannabis becomes the counterweight, steadying people through the noise while alcohol keeps causing wreckage. This feature cuts through the lies, the pressure, and the culture, showing how the plant helps people survive December without…

    by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 2, 2025December 1, 2025

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  4. Thanks + Giving: A poetry collection I rounded up last year and some thoughts about Native American Heritage Day biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/20. Hat tip to Rebecca Solnit for the fabulous graphic, which she posted on BlueSky last year.

    #poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #Thanksgiving #Indigenous #nativeamericanHeritageMonth #gratitude #giving

  5. Happy Turkeyday, Internet.

    Love your people. Broaden your definitions. Lend a hand.

    Drink in good spirits, in good company, and in moderation, or not at all.

    Be thankful for the humans, and for the freedoms, that you enjoy. Too often such things aren't appreciated until they're gone.

    #thanksgiving #happythanksgiving

  6. Most of Montana is under Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Warnings from late tonight through Friday night. After the snow, much colder air arrives! I'll have your 7-day weather forecast tonight!

    #Montana #Billings #KTVQ #Q2 #MTN #Thursday #Thanksgiving #Friday #snow #cold #weather

  7. My take is that social media is fine to be a navel-gazing narcissus mirror. If journalists wanna take themselves seriously on my feed thats their business.

    #HappyThanksgiving #ThanksGiving #thanksgiving2025

  8. I hope you're all having a happy Thanksgiving! Clouds arrived on Thursday... snow and much colder air aren't far away! I'll have your 7-day weather forecast tonight!

    #Montana #Billings #KTVQ #Q2 #MTN #snow #wind #cold #Thursday #Thanksgiving #weather

  9. 🦃 Turkey time at TCWR! Watch lions enjoy their Thanksgiving feast! These moments are brought to you by YOU. Thanks for helping us care for these amazing animals! 💛🐯

    #TCWR #TurpentineCreek #GFAS #lions #Thanksgiving

  10. History Of Thanksgiving

    Cool, here’s a more in-depth look at the history of Thanksgiving — how it evolved, some of the lesser-known facts, and how it became what we celebrate today.

    Thanksgiving didn’t start as a clean, one-time “Pilgrims and Native Americans sit down for turkey” story. Sure, there was that 1621 harvest feast between the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag people — but the reality of that gathering was more complex. The colonists probably hunted duck or geese, and the Wampanoag likely brought venison.  That 1621 event was more of a multi-day harvest festival than a fixed holiday.

    Over the following centuries, different colonies and states held days of “thanksgiving”—usually as religious days of prayer, often when something major happened (like a drought ending or a war victory). These weren’t uniform: different places celebrated on different days.

    The idea of a national, annual Thanksgiving really took off thanks to **Sarah Josepha Hale**, an editor and writer. For decades she pushed for a unified national holiday — writing letters, editorials, and generally campaigning. Her persistence paid off when **Abraham Lincoln**, in the middle of the Civil War, proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863 (on the last Thursday of November) to help bring the country together.

    After Lincoln, presidents continued to issue Thanksgiving proclamations almost every year, but the exact date bounced around a little. Then, in the 20th century, **Franklin D. Roosevelt** caused a stir: in 1939, he moved Thanksgiving earlier — to give Americans more time to shop before Christmas. Many people weren’t thrilled (“Franksgiving,” anyone?), and states were split on which date to follow. Eventually, in 1941, Congress passed a law officially fixing Thanksgiving on the **fourth Thursday in November**.

    As Thanksgiving evolved, so did its traditions. Over time it became less about strictly religious observance and more about family, food, and gratitude.  Things like parades and football games became tied to the holiday. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, for example, started in the 1920s and became a huge national tradition.

    Finally, there are modern traditions too: things like volunteering, food drives, and even the presidential “turkey pardon” — where a live turkey is spared from being eaten.

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  11. 🦃🐯 Thanksgiving Enrichment at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge!
    Watch our rescued tigers enjoy their holiday turkey enrichment—a treat that encourages natural behaviors and brings so much joy to the big cats who now live safe, enriched lives at the Refuge.

    Enrichment days like this are made possible by supporters like you.
    Thank you for helping us give our animals the care, respect, and second chances they deserve.

    Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at TCWR!

    #TCWR #Tigers #GFAS #Thanksgiving

  12. How these shores must have looked for them, on that cold day all those centuries ago...

    Captured by me where the Pilgrims stepped into a new world: "Outer Lands".

    #art #photography #autumn #fall #landscape #Massachusetts #CapeCod #NewEngland #EastCoast #AtlanticCoast #HappyThanksgiving #Thanksgiving

  13. The classic family dinner doesn't exactly channel the spirit of adventure and friendship that brought the Separatists here all those centuries ago, but when we see sights like this, well...we love you anyway.

    Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

    Illustration from Puck magazine, cover for Thanksgiving 1905.

    #art #traditionalart #illustration #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #Thanksgiving #HappyThanksgiving

  14. These incredible creatures don’t exist to be dinner. 🦃💔 Is this really what ‘giving thanks’ looks like? 😔 🎥: VeganFTA x vegangaze (IG) Sanctuary clips from lifewithpigsfarmsanctuary (IG) #thanksgiving #turkey #happythanksgiving #veganthanksgiving #holidayseason

  15. We can expect a mostly cloudy, quiet and seasonably cool Thanksgiving in much of Montana, but it won't stay that way. Snow is coming Friday! I'll have your 7-day weather forecast tonight. Happy Thanksgiving!

    #Montana #Billings #Q2 #KTVQ #Wyoming #Thursday #Thanksgiving #Friday #snow #weather

  16. The daily missions in #RedDeadOnline for #Thanksgiving are eat turkey, feed your horse, drink at a saloon, and pet a dog.

  17. I'm so excited for the Macy's #thanksgivingparade. Can't wait to see the new floats coming out today (and perhaps a teaser for the #fnaf2 movie) #thanksgiving

  18. Shylo showing that she rules over Caturday Saturday. She can sleep soundly tonight, since the Bobcats beat the Grizzlies in the Brawl of the Wild. I'm still at work, and I'll have your Thanksgiving week weather forecast tonight at 10!

    #cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #orangecat #gingercat #Shylo #football #BrawlOfTheWild #blue #Thanksgiving #weather #catsofmastodon

  19. This is one of our favorite family recipes. A deliciously aromatic take on a cold-weather classic: sweet potatoes baked in a buttery, maple-vanilla glaze with warming spices, finished with a hint of rosemary and sea salt for a subtle herbal note.

    From our latest newsletter:

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    #foxandthistle #theliminal #recipes #cooking #homekitchen #thanksgiving #turkeyday #coldweather #cuisine #artstudio #recipecard #kettle #crumb #sweetpotato #holidays

  20. Since it's been colder the last couple of weeks, Shylo has discovered the warmest place is in bed under the covers and under my arm. She is very thankful, and now I'm not allowed to move...

    #Montana #cat #cats #Caturday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #Thanksgiving #Thursday #thankful #bed #snuggles #purr #soundon #soundup #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats

  21. Since it's been colder the last couple of weeks, Shylo has discovered the warmest place is in bed under the covers and under my arm. She is very thankful, and now I'm not allowed to move...

    #Montana #cat #cats #Caturday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #Thanksgiving #Thursday #thankful #bed #snuggles #purr #soundon #soundup #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats

  22. Since it's been colder the last couple of weeks, Shylo has discovered the warmest place is in bed under the covers and under my arm. She is very thankful, and now I'm not allowed to move...

    #Montana #cat #cats #Caturday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #Thanksgiving #Thursday #thankful #bed #snuggles #purr #soundon #soundup #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats

  23. Since it's been colder the last couple of weeks, Shylo has discovered the warmest place is in bed under the covers and under my arm. She is very thankful, and now I'm not allowed to move...

    #Montana #cat #cats #Caturday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #Thanksgiving #Thursday #thankful #bed #snuggles #purr #soundon #soundup #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats

  24. Since it's been colder the last couple of weeks, Shylo has discovered the warmest place is in bed under the covers and under my arm. She is very thankful, and now I'm not allowed to move...

    #Montana #cat #cats #Caturday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #Thanksgiving #Thursday #thankful #bed #snuggles #purr #soundon #soundup #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats

  25. #NativeAmericans Hold #NationalDayOfMourning on #Thanksgiving

    "'Thanksgiving' is a white-washed holiday designed to conceal its true origins of violence, #genocide, #LandTheft, and #ForcedAssimilation," - #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork.

    Jessica Corbett
    Nov 28, 2024

    "In contrast with Thanksgiving celebrations across the United States on Thursday, Native Americans held a National Day of Mourning, promoted accurate history, and championed Indigenous voices and struggles.

    "Despite rainy conditions, the United American Indians of New England held its 55th annual National Day of Mourning at Cole's Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Kisha James, who is an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and also Oglala Lakota, shared how her grandfather founded the event in 1970 and pledged to continue to "tear down the Thanksgiving mythology."

    "The past influences the present" and "the settler project" continues with racism, misogyny, and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, James told the crowd. "The Pilgrims are not ancient history."

    "James took aim at fossil fuel pipelines, oil rigs, skyscrapers, corporations, the U.S. military, mass incarceration, and the criminalization of immigrants, and declared that "no one is illegal on stolen on land."

    "Jean-Luc Pierite, a member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana and president of the board of directors of the North American Indian Center of Boston who helped organize this year's gathering, told USA Today that "while we are mourning some tragic history but also contemporary issues, we are also expressing gratitude for each [other] and building this community space."

    "Coming together as a community for a feast and to express gratitude—that's not something that was imported to this continent because of colonization," Pierite said. "Indigenous peoples have had these practices going back beyond, beyond colonial contact."

    This year's event in Plymouth included speeches about the suffering of Palestinians—as Israel wages a U.S. government-backed war on the Gaza Strip that has killed at least 44,330 people, injured 104,933, and led to a genocide case at the International Court of Justice—and of people impacted by extractive industries.

    "The message from Indigenous peoples internationally has been consistent: that we need to center the development of traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, and move away from fossil fuel extractive economies," said Pierite. "At this time the world needs Indigenous peoples."

    commondreams.org/news/native-a

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    This Thanksgiving, we’re redirecting gratitude into action. All donations to A Radical Guide on Thanksgiving Day will be donated directly to Indigenous organizations working to protect sovereignty, land, and community.

    Join us in standing with Indigenous-led efforts by donating now. Together, we can make an impact.

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