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Dance Yrself CleanLCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean 

Mar 20, 2012
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Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison

Van Morisson, Bright Side of the Road

A little auditory sunlight for a gray day.

Mar 14, 2012
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Cake _ Never, Never Gonna Give You Up

Never Gonna Give You Up (Cover) - Cake

Mar 14, 2012
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Read this now: "A Mom Becomes A Man, And A Family Sticks Together"npr.org

gaywrites:

The process of coming into your gender identity is different for everyone. In this family, when a mother and wife announced that she was transgender, ten years into a marriage, everything could have changed. But instead Les’s family stuck by him through his transition and beyond. 

This story is short and immensely sweet and gives me faith in people’s ability to see past gender differences and accept each other for who they are. 

“A lot of it was me,” Scott says. “Because it became clear that I would be perceived as gay. But I realized that I didn’t fall in love with a couple of body pieces. I decided this is the person.”

“And I was still the same person,” Les says.

“More so. More like the fun person I remembered from 30-odd years ago,” Scott says, “than before the transition.”

Les tells his husband, “Right … right. I mean … it’s just been amazing to watch you. You stuck with it. You persisted. And, every year my respect for you grows and grows.”

Read it. Listen to it. I promise it’ll be worth it. 

Mar 11, 2012213 notes
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Sleigh Bells ~ Irreplaceable (Beyonce cover)


Lovely.

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“For women, obviously birth control is not a religious topic: it’s a health topic, and 99 percent of women in America use it. And at Planned Parenthood, we provide birth control to millions of women every single year, so yeah — I think they’re kind of mystified by what the ‘controversy’ is all about.

…I think we’re seeing in this presidential primary this sort of, like, race to the bottom, where every presidential candidate on the Republican side is trying to say ‘I would be absolutely the worst for women.’”
—CECILE RICHARDS, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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Welcoming Rhode Island: Top 10 Immigration Myths and Facts welcomingrhodeisland.tumblr.com

(via welcomingrhodeisland)

  1. MYTH - Immigrants don’t pay taxes
    All immigrants pay taxes, whether income, property, sales, or other. As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 and $140 billion a year in federal, state, and local taxes. Even undocumented immigrants pay income taxes, as evidenced by the Social Security Administration’s “suspense file” (taxes that cannot be matched to workers’ names and social security numbers), which grew $20 billion between 1990 and 1998.
    National Academy of Sciences, Cato Institute, Urban Institute, Social Security Administration

  2. MYTH - Immigrants come here to take welfare
    Immigrants come to work and reunite with family members. Immigrant labor force participation is consistently higher than native-born, and immigrant workers make up a larger share of the U.S. labor force (12.4%) than they do the U.S. population (11.5%). Moreover, the ratio between immigrant use of public benefits and the amount of taxes they pay is consistently favorable to the U.S., unless the “study” was undertaken by an anti-immigrant group. In one estimate, immigrants earn about $240 billion a year, pay about $90 billion a year in taxes, and use about $5 billion in public benefits. In another cut of the data, immigrant tax payments total $20 to $30 billion more than the amount of government services they use.
    American Immigration Lawyers Association, Urban Institute

  3. MYTH - Immigrants send all their money back to their home countries
    In addition to the consumer spending of immigrant households, immigrants and their businesses contribute $162 billion in tax revenue to U.S. federal, state, and local governments. While it is true that immigrants remit billions of dollars a year to their home countries, this is one of the most targeted and effective forms of direct foreign investment.
    Cato Institute, Inter-American Development Bank

  4. MYTH - Immigrants take jobs and opportunity away from Americans
    The largest wave of immigration to the U.S. since the early 1900s coincided with our lowest national unemployment rate and fastest economic growth. Immigrant entrepreneurs create jobs for U.S. and foreign workers, and foreign-born students allow many U.S. graduate programs to keep their doors open. While there has been no comprehensive study done of immigrant-owned businesses, we have countless examples: in Silicon Valley, companies begun by Chinese and Indian immigrants generated more than $19.5 billion in sales and nearly 73,000 jobs in 2000.
    Brookings Institution

  5. MYTH - Immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy
    During the 1990s, half of all new workers were foreign-born, filling gaps left by native-born workers in both the high- and low-skill ends of the spectrum. Immigrants fill jobs in key sectors, start their own businesses, and contribute to a thriving economy. The net benefit of immigration to the U.S. is nearly $10 billion annually. As Alan Greenspan points out, 70% of immigrants arrive in prime working age. That means we haven’t spent a penny on their education, yet they are transplanted into our workforce and will contribute $500 billion toward our social security system over the next 20 years.
    National Academy of Sciences, Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, Federal Reserve

  6. MYTH - Immigrants don’t want to learn English or become Americans
    Within ten years of arrival, more than 75% of immigrants speak English well; moreover, demand for English classes at the adult level far exceeds supply. Greater than 33% of immigrants are naturalized citizens; given increased immigration in the 1990s, this figure will rise as more legal permanent residents become eligible for naturalization in the coming years. U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services)

  7. MYTH - Today’s immigrants are different than those of 100 years ago
    The percentage of the U.S. population that is foreign-born now stands at 11.5%; in the early 20th century it was approximately 15%. Similar to accusations about today’s immigrants, those of 100 years ago initially often settled in mono-ethnic neighborhoods, spoke their native languages, and built up newspapers and businesses that catered to their fellow émigrés. They also experienced the same types of discrimination that today’s immigrants face, and integrated within American culture at a similar rate. If we view history objectively, we remember that every new wave of immigrants has been met with suspicion and doubt and yet, ultimately, every past wave of immigrants has been vindicated and saluted.
    U.S. Census Bureau

  8. MYTH - Most immigrants cross the border illegally
    Around 75% have legal permanent (immigrant) visas; of the 25% that are undocumented, 40% overstayed temporary (nonimmigrant) visas.
    INS Statistical Yearbook

  9. MYTH - Weak U.S. border enforcement has lead to high undocumented immigration
    From 1986 to 1998, the Border Patrol’s budget increased sixfold and the number of agents stationed on our southwest border doubled to 8,500. The Border Patrol also toughened its enforcement strategy, heavily fortifying typical urban entry points and pushing migrants into dangerous desert areas, in hopes of deterring crossings. Instead, the undocumented immigrant population doubled in that timeframe, to 8 million— despite the legalization of nearly 3 million immigrants after the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986. Insufficient legal avenues for immigrants to enter the U.S., compared with the number of jobs available to them, have created this current conundrum.
    Cato Institute

  10. MYTH - The war on terrorism can be won through immigration restrictions
    No security expert since September 11th, 2001 has said that restrictive immigration measures would have prevented the terrorist attacks—instead, they key is good use of good intelligence. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were here on legal visas. Since 9/11, the myriad of measures targeting immigrants in the name of national security have netted no terrorism prosecutions. In fact, several of these measures could have the opposite effect and actually make us less safe, as targeted communities of immigrants are afraid to come forward with information.
    Newspaper articles, various security experts, and think tanks
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