*** REGIONAL NEWS FROM THE HOLIDAY ***

+ Save the Yelm Historic Water Tower non-profit: Click here for the video of the final restoration look and acknowledgements.

+ The Olympian: ‘Tacoma needs its own beer’: How Heidelberg Beer came home after a 40-year vacation

+ JOLT News: Thurston County residents share overwhelming support for county-wide Home Fund, which would add a 0.1 percent increase to sales taxes everywhere in Thurston County except in the city of Olympia, with funds earmarked for affordable housing.

+ Gizmodo: The Pacific Northwest Faces Second Damaging Atmospheric River in a Week – A week removed from heartbreaking flooding, another fire hose of precipitation is slated to hit British Columbia

+ The Olympian: Thurston, Port commissions agree to expand to five members each next year – if the county population reaches 300,000.

+ Prestige Senior Living Rosemont Yelm: Named Best of Nisqually Valley for Seventh Year

*** VIRUS NEWS FROM THE HOLIDAY ***

The Defender: Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines ‘Dramatically Increase’ Heart Attack Risk, Renowned Cardiologist Warns –

Click here for the abstract.

CNBC: Germany’s death toll has now surpassed 100,000 but the country’s incoming, new coalition government is resisting a lockdown, for now.

*** NATIONAL NEWS FROM THE HOLIDAY ***

The Washington Post via Truthout: This Tribe Helped the Pilgrims Survive for Their First Thanksgiving. They Still Regret It 400 Years Later.

The Washington Post via MSN: Rep. Greene introduces bill to award Congress’s highest honor to Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men

MSNBC Opinion: America’s democracy is failing — and the world knows it. Where does America turn when its democracy is in distress? Sweden’s International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) — pointed to the “visible deterioration of democracy” in the United States on several criteria.

EPA: Released Final Biological Evaluations for Glyphosate, Atrazine, and Simazine, that all of these chemicals may affect, and are likely to adversely affect, certain listed species or their designated critical habitats

CNBC: Sitting out the season: A record number of Americans say they won’t be buying holiday gifts this year

The Washington Post: Pentagon will track unexplained airborne objects through new intelligence group

*** TRUMP NEWS FROM THE HOLIDAY ***

Truthout: Rally Organizers Used Burner Phones to Talk With Trump Officials on January 6

Newsweek: Roger Stone Claims Ex-Trump Aide Katrina Pierson ‘Deeply Involved’ With Jan. 6 Violence [Ed. note: So Stone really does know more than he has stated!]

The Guardian (UK): Lara Trump claims pricier turkeys are a liberal plot against Thanksgiving