1. “There are indeed some lies and inaccuracies in Tweeden’s account” — um? Yeah. Therein lies the problem.

Yeah. And she’s also saying that folks who are unhappy with her position on this are, “trying to silence her.”

Seriously, Kristen?  As a woman it offends me that she is trying to play the victim in this scenario.

I’m not taking a position here on Franken or whether his “case” was handled correctly. I’m here to check one fact: Jane Curtin was no SNL “staffer.” She was a cast member and one of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players.

Due process is the cornerstone of our legal system.  Unbelievable that anyone would throw a concept like due process under the bus just to win an argument.

The definition of due process is not “a careful investigation of the facts.” It’s an open, fair procedure that gives an opportunity to both sides to present their own stories. That’s what was not done here. I wasn’t that bent out of shape about it then, to be honest. I’m not so sure anymore. 

Kirsten Gillibrand’s presidential campaign has to a large degree had the oxygen sucked out of it by the backlash to her call for Franken to resign. Franken however, far from being destroyed, is well on his way to a comeback.

That’s not true. Some of us like that Franken was a strong liberal voice on the hill who didn’t sell himself to corporations to the degree others do. He was good at the job. Screw Biden.

“The venn diagram between those who believe Franken was railroaded and shouldn’t have resigned and those who want Biden to get the nomination is a single overlapping circle.”

“...it is ultimately Franken who made the decision to step down. “
Not that there was any pressure on him to do it, as you indicate in the previous several hundred words.

Democrats seem to be addicted to shooting themselves in the dick.

Sorry, the way he was treated was bullshit. He should regret resigning.

I truly wish we could oust all men from government and replace them with women for ten years. And then watch feminism crumble after they start doing the same awful shit men do.

Oh Geez, not this again.

Safariland also makes rape kits, the holsters for UN peace keeping forces, and the radio equipment for medical NGOs. How disturbing.  

Yeah. I really think we need to get away from the idea that only people who are tangentially connected to a certain group can have anything to do with that group professionally. We need more people of color in academia, the arts, management, etc. we do not need them there so we can ghettoize them into writing/working…

They still don’t present an alternative to where the money will come from.

I have some issues with what this group did at the Whitney, even though I recognize that the Whitney is a institution that needs to be shaken up and increase diversity in all its forms. This group’s protest involved burned herbs to the point that the lobby was filled with smoke, meaning there was enough smoke to…

I am uncomfortable with the idea that a person needs to be from a particular racial, ethnic, social, or other group to successfully curate or otherwise have expertise about the art or history of that group. I find that American historians who are not themselves American, for instance, often have interesting insight…

The “This is MAGA country” portion of the story was what did it for me.
OR was it the two ‘probably’ white masked men gallivanting around a frozen arctic hellscape that was Chicago that night, with a noose and bleach. No, WAIT! It was the fact that the alleged scoundrels RECOGNIZED THIS D-LISTIN’ ASS MOTHERFUCKER FROM…

And a great big Fuck You to Jussie Smollett. And not just him. A great big Fuck You to every woman who has lied about a rape, every ethnicity who has lied about being attacked, every fake gay bashing. You make it so goddamned hard for people who actually do go through this shit. There’s enough of this stuff out there…