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TGIF: Thanksgiving Edition!
TGIF: Thanksgiving Edition!
View of the Chase Paw Patrol balloon at the 95th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. (James Devaney/Getty Images)
California’s burglars organize flash mobs. Waukesha massacre "caused by an SUV." And comedy gold from the Women’s March.
By Nellie Bowles
11.26.21 — TGIF
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TGIF: Thanksgiving Edition!

Welcome back to TGIF and happy Thanksgiving. It’ll be a short one this week so we can all get back to family life—cozy, mask-free, family life (and watching the Dow drop precipitously). Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it’s not so much about presents or decorations. It’s about family, food, and, yes, this absolute miracle of a country. Being …

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a reporter for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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