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Jason Thomas Nichols, a 30-year-old California man, is facing four felony charges after Ring camera footage of his erratic home invasion attempt went massively viral this earlier this week. He has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, first-degree burglary, terrorizing, and vandalism for the Tuesday, April 7 incident. Earlier this week, video of Jason Thomas Nichols attacking the front door of a neighbor and demanding to know where his daughter was blew up on social media. In the viral Ring camera footage, Nichols — wearing a black trench coat, a Demon Slayer anime shirt,...

truth should triumph over nationalistic narratives. And the truth about Thanksgiving should be learned by all Americans, as it is a part of our complicated history of savage betrayal and removal of indigenous people and the colonization of their land. The actual date for the first Thanksgiving is somewhat disputed. Most put the first Thanksgiving in 1621, when the Pilgrims had a feast with the Wampanoag, an Indigenous Nation in and around Plymouth. Scholars say "Thanksgiving" is a misnomer, since the Pilgrims would have given thanks by fasting and "quiet contemplation." It would have been referred to as a "Rejoicing."...