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Franken-Pox: Government Lab in Maryland Plans on Blending Monkeypox Strains

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 25, 2022 38 Comments

Franken-Pox: The goal is to swap genes between two currents stains & will attempt to make currently dominant clade more lethal.

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If States are the “Laboratories of Democracy,” Then Young Frankenstein Runs California

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 14, 2019 36 Comments

While California burns, Gov. Newsom signs new bills banning "lunch shaming," ending fur sales, and implementing the nation's broadest gun seizure laws.

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Yet Another Woman Accuses Al Franken of Groping

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on September 30, 2019 20 Comments

This makes 9

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Kirsten Gillibrand defends takedown of Al Franken after New Yorker Mag Tries to Rehabilitate him

Posted by Stacey Matthews on July 23, 2019 22 Comments

Al Franken: I'm a good guy, not a groper. New Yorker Magazine's Jane Mayer: Al Franken has been unjustly accused. Just ask him. Kirsten Gillibrand: I'd do the same thing today. The rest of us: Pass the popcorn.

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Kirsten Gillibrand Campaign Struggling to Raise Cash Due to Backlash Over Franken Resignation

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 17, 2019 12 Comments

"no question that the first quarter was adversely impacted by certain establishment donors"

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Second Biden Accuser Comes Forward: “This is Al Franken all over again”

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 01, 2019 24 Comments

Alleges 2009 incident: "He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth."

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Joe Biden’s biggest problem is Al Franken

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2019 25 Comments

How can Democrats back Joe Biden for president when they jettisoned Al Franken as a Senator?

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Kirsten Gillibrand’s Al Franken Betrayal May Doom Her 2020 Prospects

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 27, 2018 23 Comments

"national donors and bundlers — many of them women — said they would never again donate to or fundraise for Gillibrand"

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Left Tries to Figure Out How to Bring Back Al Franken

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 11, 2018 36 Comments

"Would be a great idea if Al Franken got back in the game"

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Newsweek Retracts Story That Alt-Right Bots Forced Franken to Resign, Not Sexual Harassment

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 21, 2018 7 Comments

Gross.

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Report: Major Democrat Donor Reconsidering Support For Senators Who Ousted Franken

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 07, 2018 3 Comments

"I'm just too upset and discouraged by the way they did this"

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Al Franken Officially Resigns From the Senate

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 02, 2018 35 Comments

He gone.

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Feminist Profs in Minnesota Decline to Condemn Al Franken

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 22, 2017 1 Comment

"None of them responded to multiple emailed queries"

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Sacrificial man Al Franken resignation effective January 2

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2017 18 Comments

Dems like Kirsten Gillibrand threw Franken overboard to score points against Moore and Trump, progressive regrets too little, too late

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Four Democrat Senators Ask Franken to Reconsider Resignation

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 18, 2017 33 Comments

“I think we acted prematurely, before we had all the facts."

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Minnesota Names Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to Replace Franken in Senate

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 13, 2017 26 Comments

Franken now has no choice but to resign as he promised.

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Al Franken, Democrats’ Sacrificial Man

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2017 44 Comments

In order to go after Trump and reinvigorate the War on Women campaign theme, someone needed to be made an example. And that someone was Al Franken.

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