A Skin-Deep Twitter Roundup of Early December

I've recently become totally immersed in Twitter. In fact, I swear by it so much that if I want a record of news, thoughts, or opinions that are important to me, I go back and look through what I've tweeted. So here that is:

Weeks of concessions in Copenhagen and Congress give way to this--

• Obama say's he's pleased with a leaked final draft of #Copenhagen treaty declaration: http://su.pr/1aEf9W
• Obama admin violates judge's order, refuses health benefits to lesbian partner http://bit.ly/5nLyHN
• After police shot UC students with rubber bullets, some cops in Copenhagen violated protesters http://ow.ly/MN3Q.

The U.S. is going to pay $3.4 billion to settle a Native American suit: http://ow.ly/LEZx

Health Care Reform goes down the shitter, and Lieberman proved his evil genius. As much as I fucking hate the shit out of him, I'm in awe of how much power just one guy can have. Too many links to post. Here's a few:

• Organizing for America volunteers got pissed at the epic CongressFail on health care: http://bit.ly/6zevZ9
• WAHAAA! Wielding Gavel, Franken Shuts Lieberman Up: http://ow.ly/No1N
• Paul Krugman said that we should still try to pass the mangled runt of the health care bill we have left: http://tinyurl.com/yagasyg
• SEIU Union Leader Calls Out Obama On Health Care: http://ow.ly/N3ha
• The Chamber of Commerce started giving out Hooters Gift Certificates to people who agreed to fight health care reform. Could you be more transparent about your target demographic? http://bit.ly/77hXyA
• Abortion was protected when Stupak and Hatch-Nelson amendments were both squashed, thank god: http://bit.ly/lKlOn

LGBTQ rights are way up and way down:

• DC Mayor signs marriage equality bill! http://ow.ly/NwxM
• Uganda plans death penalty for HIV-positive gays. It took the White House almost 2 weeks to say anything about it, and then finally some people joined a facebook group: http://bit.ly/6LKZue
  
• Obama admin violates judge's order, refuses health benefits to lesbian partner: http://bit.ly/5nLyHN
  
• New York rejected gay marriage, but extended protection to trans folk: http://ow.ly/MoyZ
  
• Very interesting article on Gender Identity Disorder: "treating transgendered children as mentally ill creates the problem" http://bit.ly/4SsUcP
• Chicago City Council speaks out for equal rights for LGBT immigrants: http://bit.ly/5JOsAX
• Pelosi to shy away from "controversial" bills in 2010--"controversial" meaning anything about queers: http://bit.ly/4UJRPh
• HOUSTON of all places elected an openly gay mayor! I really didn't think Texas had it in 'em. http://su.pr/346evP.

Generally fucked up shit was abound, especially with immigrants. Some people were still optimistic about reform though:

• Cop Charged w/ Hate Crime Cover-Up Was Also Named In Fatal Beating Of Latino Inmate http://bit.ly/5LIOIL
• Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked offices http://bit.ly/7D4iFo
• Top 10 List of Resources on Immigration Reform http://j.mp/7cMAf3
• Monsanto is definitely in my list of top-5 corporations I want to see destroyed by scandal: "Millions Against Monsanto Campaign - Organic Consumers Association": http://twitthis.com/ao6obl
• UC students kept going nuts and the University lied. A UC Davis professor responded: http://bit.ly/6xTlXU
• Citi got a $38 billion gift for leaving the bailout program: http://bit.ly/7UfesF

Also the House passed some important financial reform things that I won't go into detail about, mostly because I don't totally understand them.


And finally--the overall most important and redeeming development, even more than anything that happened in the world of human rights or climate change:

Hannah Tepper started a blog.
The Happy Pizza Heart Blog.
Praise be to the lord.

Maybe the next time I do this, I'll make it easy to read and add some real analysis.