In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

I feel like the preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and then we don’t really get the lived experiences and reality of trans people’s lives. So often we’re the targets of violence. We experience discrimination disproportionately to the rest of the community. Our unemployment rate is twice the national average — if you’re a person of color, it’s four times the national average. The homicide rate in the LGBT community is highest among trans women and when we focus on transition, we don’t actually get to talk about those things.

Laverne Cox in response to Katie Couric’s predictable, poisonous bullshit (via conradtao)

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[thestonedsociety]

First guy to buy legal, non-medical marijuana in Colorado today

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

i don’t know what face i expected someone to make when they realize their photo will be immortalized for centuries as the first person to buy legal pot in an america approaching a post-war on drugs period of history, but this is exactly that face

[nonnegative]

I love this guy.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

Look at the difference: In 1977 I bought a small house in Portland Oregon for $24,000. At the time I was earning $5 per hour working at a large auto parts store. I owned a 4 year old Chevy Nova that cost $1,500. Now, 36 years later that same job pays $8 an hour, that same house costs $185,000 and a 4 year old Chevy costs $10,000. Wages haven’t kept up with expenses at all. And, I should point out that that $5 an hour job in 1977 was union and included heath benefits.

an anonymous online commenter on the current economy. (via han-nara)

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[nonnegative]

never retire or die

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[thepoliticalfreakshow]

Credit where credit is due: these Republican Senators risked infuriating the religious right and their base voting to prohibit LGBT employment discrimination today. Well done.http://bit.ly/17b8CoS

[thebicker]

In case you missed it: The Senate approved ENDA today!

[nonnegative]

Notice that three of these ten are women. Of the 17 women in the Senate, only one voted Nay.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

We expect our columnists to submit original work and to properly attribute material, and we appreciate that the senator and his staff have taken responsibility for an oversight in one column.

Rand Paul gets booted from his Washington Times column spot after YET ANOTHER instance of plagiarism. (via thebicker)

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

Got to break it to weird conservative coworker that hamburgers don’t typically have transfats in them, so she should stfu about the FDA already. I love doing that.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

The median wage was $27,519 in 2012, at the lowest level since 1998. That means half of all workers made made less (than that).

Holy Fucking ShitBalls: Forty Percent Of Workers Made Less Than $20,000 Last Year

Wider Opportunities for Women has estimated that a two-income family with two children needs to bring in nearly $72,000 a year to simply reach economic security.

(via teamsternation)

Even the WSJ acknowledges that real wages are going down. We’re asking more people to get by on less. Somehow, pushing more Americans into poverty has not fixed the economy.

(via thebicker)

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

Okay, Christie won again, which we all knew would happen. He’s a horrible person but he likes Springsteen and that encourages people to vote for him.

On the plus side, all the people I voted for locally won, and the Dems retained the state legislature. Plus, a minimum wage increase with mandatory cost of living increases passed by a LOT. You know, a bill Christie vetoed himself. Weirdo New Jersey.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[thatsnotwatyourmomsaid]

easily my favorite picture in the world

[nonnegative]

i feel like bill would also be super pleased with this picture.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[steamedcrab]

so i was watching the news and this 2nd grader wrote this to the president, vice president, and a congressman. biden was the only one to respond yet. LITERALLY.

[elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey]

joe biden is a gift from heaven

[stablercake]

I can’t help it I have to reblog Joe Biden

His whimsy is perfect

I bet he was eating 2 ice creams and dictating that letter

[nonnegative]

you are a good boy ;__;

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[plannedparenthood]

Now health insurance plans are required to cover screenings and counseling for domestic violence as a preventive health benefit for women. Thanks, Obamacare!

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[gaywrites]

More beautiful photos from New Jersey’s first same-sex weddings. You can actually see the love radiating between these couples. Chills. (Photos via CNN and CBS)

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

[pag-asaharibon]

My Taxes Are Documented. I Am Not.

Undocumented American workers paid $11.2 billion in taxes in 2010 — putting money INTO systems like health care, Social Security, and education, not taking it out. Attacks on American immigrants have claimed the opposite. Ironically, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection annual budget is $3.5 billion — an amount covered by undocumented Americans three times over. Share this with someone who doesn’t see the value that new Americans bring to our communities every day through their work and through their paychecks.

ORIGINAL: This original Upworthy graphic by JD Reeves is based on data reported by Time magazine.

[art-is-the-word]

YES YES YES LETS JUST KEEP REBLOGING TILL PEOPLE GET IT THROUGH THEIR THICK STUPID SKULLS

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]