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[Explanations: lol your body fat. pathetic anger bread. hey your gay.]As tomorrow is Thanksgiving in america, a number of our contributing factors and mods is going to be indisposed for part or all the next couple of days, so we are all likely to have a lengthy weekend. We'll return full-time next Monday, there will still be moderated daily Open Threads within the interim, in addition to a couple of other activities in some places.To everybody who definitely are marking Thanksgiving by any means...Pleased Thanksgiving!To everybody who will not be...possess a nice weekend!As well as in acknowledgement of negligence this holiday that is worth celebrating—that is, going for a moment to provide thanks for your that we're grateful—I want to say that i'm grateful for you personally, Shakers.

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[Content note: homophobia, racism, misogyny.]News from not-deeky:Science! History! Four centuries of beetles eating up European literature!Ron Paul states it’s legal to secede in the country Rand Paul really wants to run for leader in. Is sensible in my experience! Possess a great Thanksgiving dinner, Paul family!Talking about which, here are a few Thanksgiving quality recipes from prominent LGBT* chefs.And listed here are some beautiful gardens in the winter months.A 72-year-old Chinese guy models girl’s clothes for his granddaughter’s design business. Homomentum in Hawaii and Trans*mentum in Quebec. The battle for women’s land privileges in Uganda.Dear Knights in combat of Columbus: please stop funding anti-gay campaigning.Rhianna: Bride of Satan. (As deeky might say, lol!)The kinder, gentler, publish-election GOP: still racist and sexist!Ever thought about what you will seem like should you be a Dwarf within the Hobbit? Join the organization!

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[Click image to embiggen.]Yesterday, to mark the Transgender Day's Remembrance, Whitened House authorities "welcomed a lot more than 24 transgender and allied activists and organizations to some meeting to go over the condition of transgender privileges."Lisa Mottet, director in our Transgender Civil Privileges Project, symbolized the job Pressure. Participants spoke not just from the violence that is constantly on the modify the community, but additionally of other critical issues for example employment, health, housing, identity documents and education.[Content Note: Violence.]265 trans* individuals are being memorialized this season. 265 people wiped out consequently of anti-transgender hate or prejudice caused by fear and lack of knowledge.Earlier today, I observed: No oppression has have you been eradicated with a careful, polite, diligent deference to pretending it does not exist. That's the significance of each day of remembrance.No oppression has have you been eradicated without significant inclusion and visibility, either, which gradually chips away in the privilege that underwrites marginalization. That's the significance of vigilance in community every single day of the season.

Photos of the Day

Leader Obama and Secretary Clinton have been in Asia for ASEAN Summit meeting of Asian leaders, on which will likely be their last trip together. I could not pick only one image in the wire photos, here are three:Leader Obama takes part inside a family photo of ASEAN leaders throughout the ASEAN Summit in the Peace Structure in Phnom Penh November 19, 2012. With Obama are (L-R) Thailand's Pm Yingluck Shinawatra, Vietnam's Pm Nguyen Tan Dung, Cambodia's Pm Hun Sen and Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. [REUTERS/Jason Reed]U.S. Secretary of Condition Hillary Clinton and Thailand's Pm Yingluck Shinawatra toast in a dinner at Government House in Bangkok, November 18, 2012. [REUTERS/Jason Reed]Leader Obama and Secretary of Condition Hillary Clinton smile because they stand at the bottom of the Reclining Buddha throughout their tour from the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok, November 18, 2012. [REUTERS/Jason Reed]Immediately after searching at photos, I became of look at this: With Secretary of Condition Hillary Clinton planning in conclusion her service within the next couple of several weeks, she and Leader Obama happen to be investing some time together, waxing nostalgic regarding their work at work in the last 4 years as well as their history as rivals within the hard fought against 2008 presidential campaign."On the airplane back from Rangoon to Cambodia, they spent essentially the whole flight alone in the personal office on Air Pressure One just reminiscing concerning the last 4 years, but because the leader stated, it had not been only the last 4 years, they have experienced a great deal together during the last 5 or 6 many, actually, unqiue among people they have been only at that being employed as hard as they possibly can for 5 or 6 years,Inch Deputy National Security Agent Ben Rhodes told reporters as Obama and Clinton were in Cambodia for Asian summit meeting."I believe exactly what the leader expresses and just what he thinks isn't just has she done a fantastic job as secretary of condition, but they have really arrived at become not only partners, but close buddies and it is a friendship he values greatly which he'll wish to continue moving forward,Inch Rhodes stated.This is a lengthy, lengthy way from "likeable enough." For Madame Secretary:"It has been great. It has been bittersweet, nostalgic, everything you realized.Inch—Hillary Clinton, on her behalf last trip w/ Obama.&mdash jennifer bendery (@jbendery) November 20, 2012Blub.[Aside: Jason Reed—still my personal favorite news digital photographer. I really like that guy.]

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