{"id":58082,"date":"2025-11-28T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58082"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:16:16","slug":"open-thread-november-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/28\/open-thread-november-28-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 28 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I hope everyone had a pleasant and a peaceful day. I know I did<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily I don&#8217;t post petitions but this one is on a proposal which is new and shocking &#8211; &#8220;Doug Burgum, Trump\u2019s hand-picked Interior Secretary, &#8230; wants to treat our public lands like a &#8216;balance sheet&#8217; \u2014 turning America\u2019s natural treasures into collateral for national debt.&#8221; This could be worse than selling them outright. If a sale were to be proposed, we would at least have an opportunity to protest. As collateral, they could just disappear. Of course <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.democraticconservationalliance.com\/a\/collateral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Conservation<\/a> will request a donation, but that is not mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/wednesday-catch-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> did a &#8220;catch-up&#8221; letter on legal news, much of which I had missed, so I&#8217;m linking today in case you missed it also.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/november-26-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> wrote about the origins of Thanksgiving specifically as a national holiday (communal giving of thanks at the time of harvest date back as far as history can tell us, and probably much farther), which has its roots in the Civil War. You can read it, or you can scroll down and watch\/listen to (most of) it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hClJ2NQMU6Y?si=UmMx4cF91z83n2b6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r9JDKEHtH6g?si=rxaKsYMA6Impz4DB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kelly-Boots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kelly-Boots.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kelly-Boots-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kelly-Boots-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I hope everyone had a pleasant and a peaceful day. I know I did Ordinarily I don&#8217;t post petitions but this one is on a proposal which is new and shocking &#8211; &#8220;Doug Burgum, Trump\u2019s hand-picked Interior Secretary, &#8230; wants to treat our public lands like a &#8216;balance sheet&#8217; \u2014 turning America\u2019s natural treasures <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/28\/open-thread-november-28-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4531,3721,3866,6891,3811,4122,6890,3768,4197],"class_list":["post-58082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-gop-lies","tag-history","tag-legal-news","tag-personal","tag-petitions","tag-possible-gop-exodus","tag-sedition","tag-thanksgiving","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}